Current StatusView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.Bill Number: 1207 Ratification Number: 372 Act Number 777 Introducing Body: Senate Subject: To establish the Lancaster County School District
(A777, R372, S1207)
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE LANCASTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO ESTABLISH SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FOR THE ELECTION OF TRUSTEES, TO ABOLISH THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION AND DEVOLVE THEIR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES UPON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES; AND TO REPEAL ACT 848 OF 1976 RELATING TO THE ELECTION AND COMPOSITION OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE AREA BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
School district created
SECTION 1. There is created the Lancaster County School District, a body politic and corporate with a governing body known as the Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees. The district is vested with all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities as other school districts possess under the provisions of the general law of South Carolina. The area and boundaries of the district are the same as the area and boundaries of the county.
Composition of board
SECTION 2. Beginning with the certification of the members of the board of trustees elected at the time of the general election of 1988, the Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees shall consist of nine members who must be elected from single-member election districts as provided in Section 3. The terms of all present at-large members expire at that time. However, the four members of the current Lancaster County School Board of Education who represent Andrew Jackson, Buford, Indian Land, and Lancaster area boards of trustees shall holdover and be members of the Lancaster County School District until the successors to the members elected from Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 are elected in the general election of 1990 as provided in this section. An election of the trustees must be held at the time of the general election in 1988. The members first elected after the effective date of this act from Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 shall serve until their successors are elected in the general election of 1990. The members first elected after the effective date of this act from Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 shall serve until their successors are elected in the general election of 1992. At the 1990 general election, the members must be elected for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualify. The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each district in the general election must be declared elected. Vacancies on the board must be filled by special election if the vacancy occurs ninety days or more prior to the general election. If the vacancy occurs less than ninety days prior to the general election, the vacancy may not be filled.
Single member districts
SECTION 3. The Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees must be elected from each of the following single-member election districts:
District No. Population of Variance
and Composition Districts
District No. 1
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 968 0
ED 969 0
ED 970 235
ED 928 606
ED 971 124
Lancaster City (Pt)
T. 107 4,806
5,771 -2.66
District No. 2
Van Wyck Div. 4,080
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 952 1,136
ED 953 276
ED 960 258
5,750 -3.02
District No. 3
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 943 2,057
ED 945 464
ED 946 536
ED 944 0
ED 966 1,596
ED 939 442
ED 954 703
5,798 -2.21
District No. 4
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 951 1,972
ED 955 54
ED 957(A) 22
ED 956 30
ED 958 0
T. 109 Pt:
BG 1 777
BG 2 1,205
BG 3 420
T. 108 Pt:
BG 1 742
BG 2 Pt: 696
Less B. 214-218 (237)
BG 3 Pt:
B. 301-305,
309-314 282
5,963 + .57
District No. 5
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 929 875
ED 930(A) 269
ED 931 389
ED 1018(C) 0
ED 932 7
ED 933 1,308
ED 964 391
ED 965 2,006
ED 1003 0
ED 963 19
T. 108 Pt: 2,117
Less BG 1 (742)
Less BG 2 Pt: (696)
(Less B.
214-218) 237
Less BG 3 Pt:
B. 301-305,
309-314 (282)
Lancaster City Pt:
T. 105 278
Rest-of-Division:
T. 105 303
Less ED 960 (258)
6,221 +4.92
District No. 6
Tradesville Div. Pt: 2,355
Less ED 975 (380)
Less ED 976 (398)
Lancaster Div.
ED 937 552
ED 938 477
ED 950 452
ED 940 1,071
ED 941 302
ED 942 527
ED 947 1,094
6,052 +2.07
District No. 7
Lancaster Div.
ED 961 1,694
ED 962 462
ED 935 1,373
ED 934 892
ED 935 363
Heath Springs Div.
ED 999 334
ED 1000 753
5,871 - .98
District No. 8
Kershaw Div. Pt: 7,211
Less District VIII (6,192)
Heath Springs Div. Pt: 4,754
Less ED 999 (334)
Less ED 1000 (753)
Lancaster Div.
ED 948 127
ED 949 142
Tradesville Div. Pt:
ED 975 380
ED 976 398
5,743 -3.14
District No. 9
Kershaw Div.
ED 989 674
ED 988 60
ED 990(A) 0
ED 987 1,015
ED 983 265
ED 984 582
ED 985 184
Kershaw Town 1,993
Spring Mills CDP 1,419
6,192 +4.44
Superintendent and board abolished
SECTION 4. Effective with the certification of the board of trustees elected at the general election of 1988, the office of the County Superintendent of Education for Lancaster County and the Lancaster County Board of Education are abolished and all powers and duties exercised previously by the superintendent and the board of education are devolved upon the Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees. The Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees has the power to appoint a district superintendent of education.
Office to be declared vacant
SECTION 5. If a member of the board moves his residence from the election area from which he was elected, his office becomes vacant automatically and his successor must be chosen in the manner prescribed in Section 2.
Candidates
SECTION 6. All persons desiring to qualify as a candidate for election to the board of trustees shall file with the county election commission a statement of candidacy at least forty-five days before the general election. The county election commission shall conduct and supervise all elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandi. The commission shall prepare a nonpartisan ballot to be used for the election of all members of the board which shall comply substantially with the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 13, Title 7 of the 1976 Code, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the election, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commission shall advertise the date of the election sixty days preceding the election in a newspaper of general circulation published in Lancaster County and shall publish a second notice two weeks thereafter. The members of the board of trustees shall take office upon the certification of their election.
Title to property
SECTION 7. Title to all school property in Lancaster County, real or personal, which is used for school purposes, as well as that which may be acquired after the effective date of this act, is vested in the school district of Lancaster County.
Repealed
SECTION 8. Act 848 of 1976 is repealed.
Time effective
SECTION 9. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.