Code of Alabama - Title 16: Education - Chapter 8 - County Boards of Education

• Section 16-8-1 Composition; election; single member election districts; qualifications
  (a) The county board of education shall be composed of five members, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county. (b) County...
• Section 16-8-2 When members elected; terms of office; oath of office
  At the general election of state and county officers, a member or members shall be elected for terms of six years to succeed the member...
• Section 16-8-3 Special annual public meeting; notice
  The county board of education shall hold a meeting each year for the purpose of giving the public an opportunity of presenting to the board...
• Section 16-8-4 Organizational, regular and special meetings; rules of procedure; majority vote
  The county board of education shall hold an annual meeting each year in November. At this meeting the board shall elect each year one of...
• Section 16-8-5 Compensation
  The members of the county board of education shall receive from the public school funds of the county $7.50 a day and their actual traveling...
• Section 16-8-6 Vacancies
  In the event a vacancy occurs in the office of members of the county board of education, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by...
• Section 16-8-7 Appointment, duties and bond of superintendent as secretary of board
  The county board of education shall appoint as its executive officer a county superintendent of education who shall also be the secretary of the county...
• Section 16-8-8 Administration and supervision of schools generally
  The general administration and supervision of the public schools of the educational interests of each county, with the exception of cities having a city board...
• Section 16-8-9 Exercise of supervision of schools
  The county board of education shall exercise through its executive officer, the county superintendent of education and his professional assistants control and supervision of the...
• Section 16-8-11 Uniform system of schools maintained
  The county boards of education shall maintain a uniform and effective system of public schools throughout their respective counties.
• Section 16-8-12 Property vested in county board; permissible conveyance
  (a) All the property, estate, effects, money, funds, claims, and donations now or hereafter vested by law in the public school authorities of any county...
• Section 16-8-12.1 Authority to enter into cooperative agreements, programs, etc
  In addition to all authority previously granted by statute, county boards of education may enter into cooperative agreements, projects and programs with the county commission,...
• Section 16-8-13 Consolidation of schools - Authority
  The county board of education shall consolidate schools wherever in its judgment it is practicable and arrange, if necessary, for the transportation of pupils to...
• Section 16-8-14 Consolidation of schools - In two counties - Authority
  The county boards of two or more adjoining counties shall have the power, by resolution spread upon the minutes of such county boards of education...
• Section 16-8-15 Consolidation of schools - In two counties - Control
  The government and control of any school in the consolidated territory lying within two counties formed in accordance with the resolution of the boards shall...
• Section 16-8-16 Consolidation of schools - In two counties - Apportionment of funds
  The county boards of education of the counties which have formed a consolidated school composed of territory lying within different counties shall apportion funds to...
• Section 16-8-17 Consolidation of schools - County and city systems
  (a) Whenever a county board of education and the city board or boards of education in the county shall deem it advisable to consolidate the...
• Section 16-8-18 Joint maintenance of schools - Between counties; attendance by pupils near county lines
  The county boards of education of two or more counties shall have power to provide jointly for the maintenance of schools in or near the...
• Section 16-8-19 Joint maintenance of schools - State-line schools
  When a county board of education desires to provide for the joint maintenance of a public school by a county in this state and an...
• Section 16-8-20 Annexing to city territory embracing schools - Retention of control pending agreements
  When any part of the territory embracing a school under the supervision and control of the county board of education is annexed to a city...
• Section 16-8-21 Annexing to city territory embracing schools - When arbitration of agreement required; appointment of Board of Arbitration
  If an agreement under Section 16-8-20 is not reached within 30 days after the annexation, wherever such annexation occurs in any county having a population...
• Section 16-8-22 Annexing to city territory embracing schools - Hearing by Board of Arbitration
  The Board of Arbitration shall secure all facts available relative to the matter, hold a public hearing for the purpose of giving an opportunity for...
• Section 16-8-23 Appointment and removal of teachers
  The county board of education shall appoint, upon the written recommendation of the county superintendent, all principals, teachers, clerical and professional assistants authorized by the...
• Section 16-8-24 Full-time employment of teachers by county board
  Nothing shall be construed as preventing a county board of education from contracting with teachers and other employees for a longer period of time than...
• Section 16-8-25 Vacations and leaves of absence
  The county board of education shall have the authority, under the rules and regulations promulgated from time to time by the State Board of Education,...
• Section 16-8-26 Definitions; personal leave for teachers during time schools are in session; reimbursement for unused personal leave
  (a) When used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. Any public city or county board of education; the...
• Section 16-8-26.1 Personal leave for support personnel; funding
  Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 97-444, p. 751, §2, effective August 1, 1997.
• Section 16-8-27 Transportation of employees
  County boards of education may at their discretion provide for the transportation of employees of such boards of education to and from schools along with...
• Section 16-8-28 Courses of study
  The county board of education shall prescribe, on the written recommendation of the county superintendent of education, courses of study for the schools under its...
• Section 16-8-29 Schools graded and standardized
  The county board of education shall, upon the written recommendation of the county superintendent of education, grade and standardize all the schools under its jurisdiction,...
• Section 16-8-30 Uniform opening date of schools
  The county board of education, in order to expedite the payment of teachers' salaries and to make possible efficient supervision, shall fix a uniform date...
• Section 16-8-31 Quadrennial school census
  The county board of education, subject to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, shall cause to be taken, under the direction...
• Section 16-8-32 Census enumerators
  The county board of education, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, shall appoint a sufficient number of enumerators to take the census...
• Section 16-8-33 Custodian of county school funds
  Repealed by Act 2006-196, p. 275, §5, effective June 1, 2006.
• Section 16-8-34 Compulsory school attendance districts
  The county board of education shall, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, arrange the county into one or more appropriate and convenient...
• Section 16-8-35 Conditions of promotion of pupils
  The county board of education, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, shall prescribe the conditions on which pupils in the elementary schools,...
• Section 16-8-36 Grades included in public schools
  The public schools of the county shall include elementary schools, that is, grades one to six, inclusive; junior high schools, that is, grades seven to...
• Section 16-8-37 Annual report published
  The county board of education shall publish annually in the month of October in the county newspaper at the county seat of each county a...
• Section 16-8-38 Forms of reports may be prescribed
  The county board of education shall prescribe, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, forms and blanks on which school trustees, supervisors, attendance...
• Section 16-8-39 Reports by county board to state board
  The county board of education shall make all the reports required to the State Board of Education at such time, upon such items and in...
• Section 16-8-40 Acquisition of property; right to sue and contract; execution of process
  (a) The county board of education shall have the right to acquire, purchase by the institution of condemnation proceedings if necessary, lease, receive, hold, transmit...
• Section 16-8-41 Establishment and maintenance of kindergartens and playgrounds; age limits of children admitted to kindergarten
  The county boards of education shall have power to establish and maintain within their systems of public schools kindergartens and playgrounds for the children who...
• Section 16-8-42 Insurance on schools
  The county board of education is charged with the duty of seeing that every school building whose title is vested in the state, county or...
• Section 16-8-42.1 Authority for risk management cooperative
  (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings subscribed to them by this section: (1) RISK MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE....
• Section 16-8-43 Sanitary rest rooms
  The county board of education shall provide sanitary, hygienic, suitable and convenient rest rooms for the children of the public schools under its jurisdiction, not...

Last modified: May 3, 2021