Section 322. Eligibility; Incompatible Offices.--Any citizen of this Commonwealth, having a good moral character, being eighteen (18) years of age or upwards, and having been a resident of the district for at least one (1) year prior to the date of his election or appointment, shall be eligible to the office of school director therein: Provided, That any person holding any office or position of profit under the government of any city of the first class, or the office of mayor, chief burgess, county commissioner, district attorney, city, borough, or township treasurer, member of council in any municipality, township commissioner, township supervisor, tax collector, assessor, assistant assessor, any comptroller, auditor, constable, executive director or assistant executive director of an intermediate unit, supervisor, principal, teacher, or employe of any school district, shall not be eligible as a school director in this Commonwealth. This section shall not prevent any district superintendent, assistant district superintendent, supervisor, teacher, or employe of any school district, from being a school director in a district other than the one in which he is so employed, and other than in a district with which the district in which he is employed operates a joint school or department. Provided, however, That a joint school or department does not include a career and technical school, intermediate unit or community college: And provided further, That a school director who is a supervisor, principal, teacher or employe of a career and technical school, intermediate unit or community college shall not serve as a member of a board of the career and technical school, intermediate unit or community college in which he is a supervisor, principal, teacher or employe: And provided further, That a school director who is a supervisor, principal, teacher or employe of a career and technical school, intermediate unit or community college, shall not be assigned to a position of employment under the supervision of the district in which he or she serves as a member of the board of school directors. A school director shall not be eligible to the office of member of council in any municipality.
(322 amended Oct. 30, 2019, P.L.460, No.76)
Compiler's Note: Section 4 of Act 2 of 1980, which amended section 3222, provided that the actions of any school director who held an incompatible office or employment at the same time he or she held the office of school director are hereby validated. Any person who is a school director on the effective date of this act and who holds an office or employment that was incompatible therewith prior to this amendatory act but which is not incompatible after passage of this amendatory act may continue to hold the office of school director.
Section 5 of Act 2 of 1980 provided that Act 2 shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to February 1, 1980.