The boards must be empowered to operate, govern, supervise, manage, control, direct, acquire, construct, maintain, improve, and extend the facilities of the schools. The boards shall have the powers to:

(1) have perpetual succession;

(2) sue and be sued;

(3) adopt, use, and alter an institutional seal;

(4) define a quorum for meetings;

(5) establish a principal office;

(6) make bylaws for the management and regulation of their affairs;

(7) acquire, build, construct, equip, maintain, and operate a career and technology school or schools;

(8) select a career and technology school director or directors;

(9) accept gifts or grants of services, properties, or monies from private individuals or entities, from the State of South Carolina, the United States, or its agencies;

(10) make contracts and execute and deliver all instruments necessary or convenient for the carrying on of the business of the career and technology school;

(11) acquire in the name of the cooperating districts, as tenants in common, by purchase or gift, all land and interest in it which the boards shall consider necessary to enable them to fully and adequately discharge their responsibilities;

(12) appoint officers, agents, and employees and prescribe their duties, fix their compensation, and determine if and to what extent they must be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties; and to make contracts for construction, architectural, engineering, legal, and other services and materials;

(13) determine each school year the student capacity of the career and technology school, with the capacity to be apportioned by agreement among the cooperating districts. If a board fails to fulfill its quota, the other boards must be permitted to fill the unused allocation with students from their county. The boards utilizing the unused allocation shall pay for each student on a pro rata part of the year's current operating expenses based upon the budget. This amount must be paid at the beginning of the fiscal year, except that the actual cost must not be computed until the end of the current school year or the end of each semester and adjustments must be made at that time. Nothing in this section must be construed to limit the cost of maintenance, support, and operations of the career and technology schools jointly;

(14) perform other actions necessary or convenient to carry out a responsibility, function, or power committed or granted to the boards.

HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.

Effect of Amendment

The 2005 amendment, in items (7), (8), (10) and (13), substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.