North Dakota Century Code Title 15. Education § 15-20.2-07. Powers and duties of center boards

1. To supervise, manage, and control an area career and technology center established by the cooperating school districts pursuant to this chapter.

2. To provide career and technical education programs approved by the state board.

3. To contract with, employ, or pay personnel to administer the affairs and to teach in the area career and technology center, and to remove for cause any personnel when the interests of the area career and technology center may require it; provided, that personnel employed by a center board shall have the same statutory rights as provided by law for personnel employed by public school districts.

4. To lease, acquire, or purchase career and technical education equipment for an area career and technology center.

5. To lease, acquire, purchase, or sell career and technical education facilities, including real property, for an area career and technology center; provided, that any purchase or sale of real property must first be approved by two-thirds of the school boards of the participating school districts.

6. To receive and administer any private, local, state, or federal funds provided for the operation and maintenance of an area career and technology center.

7. To enter into contracts consistent with the other powers and duties provided for by this chapter.

8. To accept real or personal property available for distribution by the United States or any of its departments or agencies and also to accept federal grants that may be made available in the field of career and technical education.

9. To offer a first-year signing bonus to an individual who is licensed or approved by the education standards and practices board, has signed a contract of employment with the center board, and was not a classroom teacher in the state during the previous school year. A bonus paid under this subsection: