Current StatusView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.Bill Number: 4050 Ratification Number: 728 Act Number 741 Introducing Body: House Subject: Manner of election of board members revised
(A741, R728, H4050)
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING IN 1992 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT 17 MUST BE ELECTED IN NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS FROM SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE TERMS AND MANNER OF ELECTION OF THESE MEMBERS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Manner of election of board members revised
SECTION 1. Beginning with the 1992 election, the Board of School Trustees of Sumter County School District 17 consists of seven members who must be elected in nonpartisan elections to be held in the manner hereinafter provided. One member of the board must be a resident of and elected from each of the seven defined single-member election districts established in Section 2. The members of the board shall elect a chairman and other officers they consider necessary to serve terms of one year each in these capacities. Any member may be reelected to an office of the board. The seven members of the board must be elected to the board in a nonpartisan election to be conducted at the same time as the 1992 general election for terms of office of four years each; however, the four members elected in 1992 who receive the highest number of the votes cast shall serve initial terms of four years each, and the other three members elected in 1992 shall serve initial terms of two years each. Their successors must be elected in a nonpartisan election to be conducted at the same time as the general election four or two years thereafter, respectively, as the case may be, for terms of four years each. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify. In the event of a vacancy on the board occurring for any reason other than expiration of a term, the board shall call a special election to fill the unexpired term, so long as the vacancy does not occur within ten months of a regular trustee election. In this case, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term or for a full term as appropriate at the next regular election.
Each member of the board must be elected by the qualified electors of that district. All persons desiring to qualify as a candidate shall file written notice of candidacy with the county election commission at least sixty days before the date set for the election but not earlier than ninety days before the election. This notice of candidacy must be a sworn statement and must include the candidate's name, age, residence address, voting precinct, period of residence in the election district from which election is sought, and other information as the county election commission requires.
The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the elections, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the election ninety days preceding the election in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the election. The costs of the election must be borne by the school district.
The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each district in the election must be declared elected.
The members of the board elected in these nonpartisan elections shall take office one week following certification of their election as provided in Section 59-19-315 of the 1976 Code.
The current members of the board shall continue to be selected and serve as now provided by law until the members elected in the 1992 election qualify and take office, at which time the then current terms of the present members of the board shall expire.
Election districts
SECTION 2. The seven defined single-member election districts are as follows:
District and Population Variance
Composition of District
District 1
Sumter City,
Tract 8,
BG 1 0
BG 2 2,130
BG 3 2,222
Tract 9
BG 1 707
Mulberry CDP,
Tract 7,
BG 2 597
BG 3 235
Tract 8,
BG 1 856
6,747 +4.17%
District 2
South Sumter CDP,
Tract 11,
BG 4 207
Tract 16,
BG 1 701
BG 2 475
BG 3 1,263
BG 4 712
BG 5 1,598
Sumter Div.,
Tract 11,
BG 5 848
BG 6 258
Sumter Southeast Div.,
Tract 6,
BG 1 141
6,203 -4.23%
District 3
Sumter City,
Tract 10,
BG 2 601
Tract 11,
BG 2 18
BG 3 318
BG 4 68
BG 5 519
Tract 12
BG 1 68
BG 2 56
BG 3 169
Tract 13
BG 3 747
Tract 14
BG 1 102
Tract 15
BG 1 624
BG 2 864
South Sumter CDP,
Tract 13,
BG 3 105
Tract 14,
BG 1 329
BG 2 158
Tract 15,
BG 1 126
BG 2 818
BG 3 570
6,260 -3.35%
District 4
Sumter City,
Tract 17.01,
BG 2 513
Tract 17.02,
BG 1 180
Millwood CDP,
Tract 17.01,
BG 2 1,439
Sumter Southwest CDP,
Tract 17.02,
BG 1 4,075
6,207 -4.17%
District 5
Sumter City,
Tract 7,
BG 3 1,502
BG 4 1,681
Tract 10,
BG 1 596
East Sumter CDP,
Tract 11,
BG 1 830
BG 2 960
Sumter Div.,
Tract 7,
BG 1 695
BG 2 191
BG 3 29
BG 4 36
Tract 11,
BG 1 278
ED 450 16
6,814 +5.20%
District 6
Sumter City,
Tract 9,
BG 2 1,114
BG 3 739
BG 8 210
Tract 10,
BG 3 1,499
BG 4 928
Tract 13,
BG 1 1,503
BG 2 765
Sumter Div.,
Tract 9,
BG 3 0
6,758 +4.34%
District 7
Sumter City,
Tract 9,
BG 4 2,892
BG 5 581
BG 6 586
BG 7 0
Tract 17.01,
BG 1 388
Shaw-Horatio Div.,
Tract 18.02,
BG 1 87
Sumter North Div.,
Tract 4,
BG 2 36
Sumter Div.,
Tract 9,
BG 4 580
BG 5 285
BG 6 0
BG 7 71
Tract 17.01,
BG 1 515
Tract 17.02,
BG 1 332
6,353 -1.91%
Vacancy upon moving residency
SECTION 3. After the members elected in 1992 qualify and take office, if a member of the board moves his residence from the single-member election district from which he was elected, his office becomes vacant automatically.
Time effective
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 12th day of June, 1990.