H*4351 Session 114 (2001-2002) H*4351(Rat #0192, Act #0469 of 2002) General Bill, By Fleming A BILL TO REVISE THE MANNER IN WHICH MEMBERS OF THE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES SHALL BE ELECTED BEGINNING IN 2002, INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NINE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH ONE MEMBER OF THE BOARD SHALL BE ELECTED ON A PHASED-IN BASIS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE BOARD, AND TO REPEAL ACT 304 OF 1989 RELATING TO THE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES.-amended title 08/27/01 House Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference 01/08/02 House Amended HJ-53 01/08/02 House Read second time HJ-63 01/09/02 House Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-14 01/10/02 Senate Intd. & placed on local & uncontested cal. w/o reference SJ-5 02/07/02 Senate Amended SJ-11 02/07/02 Senate Read second time SJ-11 02/07/02 Senate Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative day SJ-30 02/08/02 Senate Read third time and returned to House with amendments SJ-1 02/13/02 House Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled HJ-26 02/27/02 Ratified R 192 03/06/02 Became law without Governor's signature 10/11/02 Act No. 469 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
August 27, 2001 January 8, 2002 January 9, 2002 January 10, 2002 February 7, 2002 February 11, 2002 (A469, R192, H4351) AN ACT TO REVISE THE MANNER IN WHICH MEMBERS OF THE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES SHALL BE ELECTED BEGINNING IN 2002, INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NINE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH ONE MEMBER OF THE BOARD SHALL BE ELECTED ON A PHASED-IN BASIS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE BOARD, AND TO REPEAL ACT 304 OF 1989 RELATING TO THE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: Election of board members SECTION 1. (A) Beginning with the 2002 election, the Union County Board of School Trustees consists of nine members who must be elected in nonpartisan elections to be held in the manner provided in this act. Each member of the board must be a resident of and elected from one of the nine defined single-member election districts established in Section 2. The members of the board shall elect a chairman and other officers they consider necessary to serve terms of one year each in these capacities. A member may be reelected to an office of the board. The five members of the board whose terms expire in 2002 must be elected to the board in a nonpartisan election to be conducted at the same time as the 2002 general election for terms of office of four years each; however, the five members elected in 2002 from election districts 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 shall serve initial terms of four years each, and the other four members whose terms expire in 2004 from election districts 1, 2, 6, and 7 shall serve until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected. Their successors must be elected in a nonpartisan election to be conducted at the same time as the general election two years thereafter, respectively, as the case may be, for terms of four years each. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify. In the event of a vacancy on the board occurring for any reason other than expiration of a term, the board shall call a special election to fill the unexpired term, so long as the vacancy does not occur within ten months of a regular trustee election. In this case, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term at the next regular election. (B) Each member of the board must be elected by the qualified electors of that district. All persons desiring to qualify as a candidate shall file written notice of candidacy with the county election commission at least sixty days before the date set for the election but not earlier than ninety days before the election. This notice of candidacy must be a sworn statement and must include the candidate's name, age, residence address, voting precinct, period of residence in the election district from which election is sought, and other information as the county election commission requires. (C) The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the elections, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the election ninety days preceding the election in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the election. The costs of the election must be borne by the school district. (D) The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each district in the election must be declared elected. (E) The members of the board elected in these nonpartisan elections shall take office one week following certification of their election as provided in Section 59-19-315 of the 1976 Code. The current members of the board shall continue to serve in office until the terms of the members elected in the 2002 election begin as provided above. (F) If a member of the board moves his residence from the single-member election district from which he was elected, his office becomes immediately vacant. Districts SECTION 2. The nine defined single-member election districts are as follows: District 1 Population Union County VTD 13 Tract 030700 Blocks: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 60 VTD 13 Subtotal 60 VTD 37 Tract 030700 Blocks: 2022, 2023, 2039, 2040, 2043, 2044 3018, 3019, 3025, 3028, 3029, 3030 3031, 3032, 3033, 3034, 3035, 3036 3037, 3038, 3039, 3040, 3041, 3042 3043, 3044, 3045, 3046, 3047, 3048 3049, 3050, 3051, 3052, 3053, 3054 3055, 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 3061, 3062, 3063, 3064, 3065, 3066 3067, 3068, 3069, 3070, 3071, 3072 3113, 3114, 3115, 3999 756 VTD 37 Subtotal 756 VTD 40 Tract 030600 Blocks: 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1024 1025, 1026, 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046 1047, 1048, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052 1053, 1054, 1055, 1056, 1057, 1058 1059, 1060, 1061, 1062, 1063, 1064 1065, 1066, 1067, 1068, 1069, 1070 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076 1077, 1078, 1079, 2014 902 VTD 40 Subtotal 902 VTD 41 635 VTD 42 932 Union County Subtotal 3,285 District 1 Total 3,285 District 2 Population Union County VTD 25 425 VTD 26 623 VTD 27 Tract 030300 Blocks: 4000, 4001, 4002, 4022, 4031, 4032 241 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1014 1015, 1016, 1017, 1020, 1021, 1022 1023, 1024, 1025, 1026, 1027, 1043 1044, 1084 413 Tract 030600 Blocks: 1999 VTD 27 Subtotal 654 VTD 35 Tract 030300 Blocks: 4013, 4014, 4015, 4016, 4020, 4021 4026, 4027, 4028, 4029, 4030 244 VTD 35 Subtotal 244 VTD 36 Tract 030200 Blocks: 5000, 5001, 5002, 5003, 5004, 5005 5008, 5009, 5010, 5011, 5022, 5023 327 VTD 36 Subtotal 327 VTD 39 Tract 030200 Blocks: 5017, 5018, 5019, 5020, 5021, 5024 5025, 5026, 5027, 5028 157 Tract 030300 Blocks: 3034, 3035 0 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1028, 1029, 1030, 1031, 1032, 1033 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039 1040, 1041, 1042, 1045, 1046, 1047 1048, 1056, 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060 715 VTD 39 Subtotal 872 VTD 40 Tract 030600 Blocks: 1005, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017 1018, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1030, 1080 1081, 1082, 1083 207 VTD 40 Subtotal 207 Union County Subtotal 3,352 District 2 Total 3,352 District 3 Population Union County VTD 10 Tract 030900 Blocks: 1055, 1056, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 1062, 1064, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1072 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1078, 1079 1080, 1081, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1998 382 VTD 10 Subtotal 382 VTD 11 Tract 030900 Blocks: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2020 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063 2064, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080 2081, 2998, 2999 540 VTD 11 Subtotal 540 VTD 12 507 VTD 17 1,431 VTD 27 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006 1007, 1008, 1018, 1019 143 Tract 030600 Blocks: 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1006 41 Tract 030900 Blocks: 1082 6 VTD 27 Subtotal 190 VTD 4 Tract 030900 Blocks: 1000, 1038, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044 1045, 1046, 1999 64 VTD 4 Subtotal 64 VTD 9 281 Union County Subtotal 3,395 District 3 Total 3,395 District 4 Population Union County VTD 1 492 VTD 13 Tract 030700 Blocks: 1005, 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022 1023, 1024, 1026, 1027, 1028 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039 1040, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044 1045, 1046, 1047, 1048, 1049 1050, 1051, 1052, 1053, 1054 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 638 VTD 13 Subtotal 638 VTD 16 Tract 030400 Blocks: 4006, 4012, 4013, 4014, 4015 4016, 4017, 4018, 4019 98 Tract 030800 Blocks: 2024, 2025, 2026 14 VTD 16 Subtotal 112 VTD 3 Tract 030800 Blocks: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 2027, 2028 113 VTD 3 Subtotal 113 VTD 5 420 VTD 6 860 VTD 7 677 Union County Subtotal 3,312 District 4 Total 3,312 District 5 Population Union County VTD 10 Tract 030900 Blocks: 1048, 1049, 1050, 1057 120 VTD 10 Subtotal 120 VTD 11 Tract 030900 Blocks: 2004, 2005, 2007 52 VTD 11 Subtotal 52 VTD 16 Tract 030400 Blocks: 4005, 4007, 4008, 4009, 4010, 4011 4021, 4022, 4025, 4026 406 VTD 16 Subtotal 406 VTD 2 693 VTD 3 Tract 030800 Blocks: 1000, 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1044 1045, 1046, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2017, 2018, 2021, 2031, 2035, 2036 2037, 2038 666 VTD 3 Subtotal 666 VTD 4 Tract 030400 Blocks: 4001 0 Tract 030900 Blocks: 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1030 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1036 1037, 1039, 1040, 1047 678 VTD 4 Subtotal 678 VTD 8 634 Union County Subtotal 3,249 District 5 Total 3,249 District 6 Population Union County VTD 14 753 VTD 15 336 VTD 16 Tract 030400 Blocks: 3000, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004 3005, 3006, 3007, 3008, 3009 3010, 3011, 3012, 3013, 3014 3015, 3016, 3017, 3018, 3019 3020, 3021, 3022, 3023, 3024 3025, 3026, 3027, 3030, 3999 4020, 4023, 4024, 4027, 4028 4029, 4030, 4031, 4032, 4033 4034, 4035, 5005 1,037 VTD 16 Subtotal 1,037 VTD 19 Tract 030100 Blocks: 1005, 1006, 1020, 1025, 1026 115 Tract 030400 Blocks: 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009 1011, 1012, 1036, 1037, 1038 1998, 1999, 2018, 2019, 2022 2023, 2024, 2025, 2033 2034, 2035 549 VTD 19 Subtotal 664 VTD 22 Tract 030100 Blocks: 1000, 1001, 1002 57 Tract 030400 Blocks: 3028, 3029, 3031, 3032, 3033 3034, 3035, 3036, 3037, 3038 3039, 3040 444 VTD 22 Subtotal 501 Union County Subtotal 3,291 District 6 Total 3,291 District 7 Population Union County VTD 23 Tract 030100 Blocks: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2019 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 230 VTD 23 Subtotal 230 VTD 28 647 VTD 29 149 VTD 30 394 VTD 32 Tract 030200 Blocks: 3000 14 VTD 32 Subtotal 14 VTD 33 850 VTD 34 Tract 030300 Blocks: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040 694 VTD 34 Subtotal 694 VTD 35 Tract 030300 Blocks: 3029, 3030, 3031, 3032, 3033 3036 319 VTD 35 Subtotal 319 Union County Subtotal 3,297 District 7 Total 3,297 District 8 Population Union County VTD 13 Tract 030700 Blocks: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 302 VTD 13 Subtotal 302 VTD 18 762 VTD 19 Tract 030400 Blocks: 1010, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016 1017, 1018, 1045, 1046 22 VTD 19 Subtotal 22 VTD 20 245 VTD 21 173 VTD 32 Tract 030200 Blocks: 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3005 3006, 3007, 3008, 3009, 3010 3011, 3012, 3013, 3014, 3015 3016, 3017 453 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1062, 1063, 1064, 1065, 1066 12 VTD 32 Subtotal 465 VTD 36 Tract 030200 Blocks: 5006, 5007, 5012, 5013, 5014, 5015 149 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1061, 1067, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1072 339 VTD 36 Subtotal 488 VTD 37 Tract 030700 Blocks: 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038 2041, 2042 498 VTD 37 Subtotal 498 VTD 38 217 VTD 39 Tract 030500 Blocks: 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052, 1074 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083 229 Tract 030700 Blocks: 3005 VTD 39 Subtotal 229 Union County Subtotal 3,401 District 8 Total 3,401 District 9 Population Union County VTD 22 Tract 030100 Blocks: 1003, 1004, 1007, 1008, 1009 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1018 1019 455 VTD 22 Subtotal 455 VTD 23 Tract 030100 Blocks: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2025, 2026, 2027 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037 2038, 2039, 2040, 2044 826 VTD 23 Subtotal 826 VTD 24 957 VTD 31 248 VTD 34 Tract 030300 Blocks: 3002, 3003, 3004, 3005, 3006, 3017 170 VTD 34 Subtotal 170 VTD 35 Tract 030300 Blocks: 3000, 3001, 3007, 3008, 3009 3010, 3011, 3012, 3013, 3014 3015, 3016, 3018, 3019, 3020 3021, 3022, 3023, 3024, 3025 3026, 3027, 3028, 4011, 4012 643 VTD 35 Subtotal 643 Union County Subtotal 3,299 District 9 Total 3,299 Repeal SECTION 3. Act 304 of 1989 is repealed. Time effective SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and first applies to the election conducted at the time of the general election of 2002 to elect members of the Union County Board of School Trustees. Ratified the 27th day of February, 2002. Became law without the signature of the Governor -- 3/6/02.
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