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Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-61-518. Reconstituted district formation--Election

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) When it is proposed that a county or city join an existing community college district, an election may be held in the proposed city or county to be added to determine whether the proposed reconstituted district shall be established after a petition requesting that the county or city be permitted to join the district has been signed by a committee broadly representative of the county or city to be added and approved by the local board of the existing district.

(b) The procedures for an election to be held in the petitioning county or city to determine whether the proposed reconstituted district shall be formed, including the adoption of the millage tax for support of the community college in effect in the existing district, shall be the same as required in establishing an original community college district.

(c)(1) Within sixty (60) days of a successful election to reconstitute an existing community college district under this section, the local board of a community college district as it existed before the reconstitution of the community college district may vote by a majority vote to establish additional zones within the reconstituted community college district.

(2) If a local board of a community college district votes to establish additional zones under subdivision (c)(1) of this section, the:

(A) Additional zones shall be substantially equal in population to the existing local community college board zones;

(B) Existing local community college board shall notify the county board of election commissioners of each county in which a portion of the county is a part of the reconstituted community college district that an election shall be held at the next general election in the portion of the county in which the additional zones are included; and

(C) Candidates for election from the additional zones shall be elected at the next general election.

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