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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="3-401" title_number="3" title_name="Establishment of County Boards of Education" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Carroll County">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Carroll County Board consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Five voting members;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to subsection (f) of this section, one nonvoting student representative; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The County Commissioners, who are nonvoting ex officio members.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A candidate elected to the county board shall be a resident and registered voter of Carroll County. Any member who no longer resides in Carroll County may not continue as a member of the board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Voting members of the Carroll County Board shall be elected as follows:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Two members of the board shall be elected in the November general election of 1994 and every 4 years thereafter;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Two members of the county board shall be elected in the November general election of 1996 and every 4 years thereafter; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>One member of the county board shall be elected in the November general election of 1998 and every 4 years thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Voting members of the county board shall be elected:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>At a general election as required by this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>On a general countywide ticket.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each voting member serves for a term of 4 years beginning the first Monday in December immediately following the voting member’s election and until a successor is elected and qualifies. The terms of the voting members are staggered as required for the elections to the county board in subsection (c)(1) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A voting member may not serve for more than two consecutive terms.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Governor shall appoint a new voting member to fill any vacancy on the board for the remainder of that term and until a successor is elected and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A voting member of the county board as of October 1, 1993, and any voting member appointed to fill a vacancy in an unexpired term of such member, shall hold office during his term and until a successor is elected and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Board may remove a voting member of the county board for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Immorality;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Misconduct in office;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Incompetency; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Willful neglect of duty.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Before removing a voting member, the State Board shall send the member a copy of the charges against him and give him an opportunity within 10 days to request a hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the voting member requests a hearing within the 10–day period:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The State Board promptly shall hold a hearing, but a hearing may not be set within 10 days after the State Board sends the member a notice of the hearing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The voting member shall have an opportunity to be heard publicly before the State Board in his own defense, in person or by counsel.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A voting member removed under this subsection has the right to a de novo review of the removal by the Circuit Court for Carroll County.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The student representative shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be an eleventh or twelfth grade student in the Carroll County public school system elected by the high school students of the county in accordance with procedures established by the school system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Be a student government association representative at the student’s high school;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Serve for 1 year beginning on July 1 after the election of the student representative; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Advise the county board on the thoughts and feelings of students in Carroll County public schools.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless invited to attend by an affirmative vote of a majority of the county board, the student representative may not attend an executive session of the county board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
