Title 16

(a) In order to provide for the funding of a financing loan by the authority to a state charter educational institution, the state charter educational institution shall establish a dedicated source of revenue to secure the repayment of monies received from the authority. (b) The …

Any bonds issued by the authority may from time to time be refunded by the issuance, by sale or exchange of refunding bonds or obligations payable from the same or different sources for the purpose of paying all or any part of the principal of the bonds to be refunded, any redemp…

There is hereby created an agency to be known as the Alabama Educational Television Commission, hereinafter called the commission. (Acts 1953, No. 81, p. 124, §1.)

The commission shall consist of seven members, one from each of the congressional districts in the state as they are constituted on the 15th day of January, 1980. The members shall be residents and qualified electors of the State of Alabama. No member of the commission shall hold…

(a) No member of the commission shall have any financial interest in any facilities such as the commission is authorized to deal with. (b) Members of the commission may be removed from office upon impeachment on the grounds and in the manner prescribed in Section 173 of the Const…

Promptly after their appointment the commissioners shall meet to organize. At such meeting they shall choose from their number a president, a secretary and such other officers as they deem necessary. Thereafter officers shall be elected annually. The commission shall adopt rules …

The commission is organized for the purpose of making the benefits of educational television available to and promoting its use by inhabitants of Alabama, and to this end it is hereby empowered and directed to survey, study and appraise the need for an overall plan for the use of…

The commission is hereby authorized to execute all contracts and other instruments necessary and convenient to carry out the mandates of this chapter. It may accept gifts or grants of money or property, real or personal, and voluntary and uncompensated services from any person, f…

There is hereby created the Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority which shall be a public non-profit corporation consisting of 13 members who shall be appointed by the Alabama Educational Television Commission. Such authority members shall include: one member from e…

Members of the authority shall be appointed for four-year terms. Commencing on August 1, 2009, members appointed to the authority who are also members of the Alabama Educational Television Commission shall be appointed to a term on the authority that is concurrent in duration wit…

The members of the authority shall elect officers from among themselves and shall meet at the call of the president or upon the call of four or more members. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-786, p. 289, §3.)

(a) The authority shall receive, invest, and expend donated moneys for educational and eleemosynary purposes, related to the promotion, development, and growth of educational and public broadcasting and television in Alabama. The authority, through its director, may expend a reas…

The activities of the authority shall not include, directly or indirectly, the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation or engaging in political campaigns. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-786, p. 289, §5.)

In the event of dissolution, the residual assets of the authority shall be turned over to another public corporation or organization which is itself exempt from federal income tax as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) and Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of…

It is the express intent of the Alabama Legislature that the Alabama Educational Television Commission shall continue as the governing body of the Alabama public network. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-786, p. 289, §7.)

The provisions of this chapter are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal or supersede any laws not directly in conflict or inconsistent herewith. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-786, p. 289, §8.)

(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 boards of education unless otherwise provided by law may use the provisions of this subsection to establish single member election distric…

The county boards of education shall maintain a uniform and effective system of public schools throughout their respective counties. (School Code 1927, §96; Code 1940, T. 52, §72.)

(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 for the benefit of the public schools of any county are hereby transferred and vested in the county board of education, and the…

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, and may take such other actions as they deem necessary and appropriate for the proper management of the …

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 and from such consolidated schools, subject to the provisions of this title. (School Code 1927, §100; Code 1940, T. 52…

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 in the counties so adjoining, to form a consolidated school to be composed of the territory bounded by the limits set out for each co…

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 be vested in the county board of education of the county in which the school building is located or is to be located, unle…

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 the consolidated school or schools in the same manner as to any other school in the county. The funds apportioned …

(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 administration of their respective systems under the county board of education and shall reach an agreement to that effect through resolutio…

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 dividing line of such counties on the basis of the enrollment in such school from the counties represented. Each pupil who lives within five mi…

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 adjoining county in another state, said board shall ascertain what agreement with the authority having power to bind the county in the other state may…

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 or members whose term or terms of office expire at that time. The members of the county board of education shall hold office until their success…

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 having a city board of education by extension of the corporate limits of such city, the county board of education shall retain supervision and…

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 of less than 400,000 according to the last or any succeeding federal census, or within three years after the annexation, if …

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 every contention to be presented by both evidence and argument and determine all matters relative to the transfer of the control, e…

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 board. The county board may suspend or dismiss for immorality, misconduct in office, insubor…

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 that actually devoted to teaching or the conduct of the schools while actually in session. But no teacher or employee shall be …

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, to provide for leaves of absence and vacations by the employees of the boards and for the payment from public funds to the employ…

(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 Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services Board in its capacity as the Board of Educa…

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 pupils on established pupil transportation route schedules where such transportation can be provided without extra mileage or …

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 jurisdiction, and a printed copy of these courses of study shall be supplied to every teacher and to every interested…

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, subject to the provisions of this title. (School Code 1927, §119; Code 1940, T. 52, §88.)

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 matters relating to the allotment of public school funds or any other matter relating to the administration of the public schools of the cou…

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 each year for the opening of all schools in the county under its jurisdiction, and all schools as far as in the opinion of th…

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 of the county superintendent of education, a quadrennial school census of the children in the county between the ages of six and 19, i…

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 of the county during the month of July or at such other time as the State Superintendent of Education shall cause …

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 compulsory school attendance districts, shall keep full and complete records of the boundaries thereof and shall …

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, limited to the first six grades of elementary instruction, may be admitted to junior high schools, and also …

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 nine, inclusive; and senior high schools, that is, grades 10 to 12, inclusive, except as otherwise authorized by the State Board…

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 full and complete statement of the receipts by source and disbursements by function of the county for the 12 months’ period ending September 30…