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20-25-4-12. Board of school commissioners; powers; prohibited land acquisitions

IN Code § 20-25-4-12 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 12. (a) The board may:

(1) except as provided in subsection (b), acquire by purchase, devise, gift, lease, or condemnation grounds needed by the school city;

(2) construct or lease buildings for school, school administration, or school office purposes;

(3) employ and pay all employees needed in any branch of the work committed to the board;

(4) disburse, according to law, all money of the school city for lawful school city purposes;

(5) have and exercise in the school city full and exclusive:

(A) authority concerning the conduct and management of all common schools, including elementary schools and high schools; and

(B) power to establish and enforce all regulations for the:

(i) grading of; and

(ii) courses of;

instruction in all schools and for the government and discipline of the schools;

(6) divide the city into districts for school attendance purposes;

(7) maintain special day or night schools to which the board may admit adults and children at least fifteen (15) years of age; and

(8) maintain playgrounds and vacation schools.

(b) The board may not acquire the following real property:

Lots 693-719, inclusive, and 7 1/2 feet west of and adjacent to such lots, in Norcliffe Addition, an addition to the city of Indianapolis, as per plat thereof, recorded in plat book 18 at pages 165 and 166, in the office of the recorder of Marion County, Indiana.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3-11-24.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.9.

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20-25-4-12. Board of school commissioners; powers; prohibited land acquisitions