PRINTER'S NO. 558
No. 503 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY SANTONI, BIANCUCCI, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, DALEY,
DENLINGER, FREEMAN, GERGELY, HENNESSEY, KOTIK, O'NEILL,
PALLONE, SOLOBAY, WANSACZ AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for eligibility and
6 incompatible offices for school directors.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 322 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
10 No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, amended May 11,
11 1982 (P.L.396, No.115) and repealed in part June 26, 1989
12 (P.L.47, No.10), is amended to read:
13 Section 322. Eligibility; Incompatible Offices.--Any citizen
14 of this Commonwealth, having a good moral character, being
15 eighteen (18) years of age or upwards, and having been a
16 resident of the district for at least one (1) year prior to the
17 date of his election or appointment, shall be eligible to the
18 office of school director therein: Provided, That any person
19 holding any office or position of profit under the government of
1 any city of the first class, or the office of mayor, chief
2 burgess, county commissioner, district attorney, city, borough,
3 or township treasurer, member of council in any municipality,
4 township commissioner, township supervisor, tax collector,
5 assessor, assistant assessor, any comptroller, auditor,
6 [constable,] executive director or assistant executive director
7 of an intermediate unit, supervisor, principal, teacher, or
8 employe of any school district, shall not be eligible as a
9 school director in this Commonwealth. This section shall not
10 prevent any district superintendent, assistant district
11 superintendent, supervisor, teacher, or employe of any school
12 district, from being a school director in a district other than
13 the one in which he is so employed, and other than in a district
14 with which the district in which he is employed operates a joint
15 school or department. Provided, however, That a joint school or
16 department does not include a vocational school, intermediate
17 unit or community college: And provided further, That a school
18 director who is a supervisor, principal, teacher or employe of a
19 vocational school, intermediate unit or community college shall
20 not serve as a member of a board of the vocational school,
21 intermediate unit or community college in which he is a
22 supervisor, principal, teacher or employe: And provided further,
23 That a school director who is a supervisor, principal, teacher
24 or employe of a vocational school, intermediate unit or
25 community college, shall not be assigned to a position of
26 employment under the supervision of the district in which he or
27 she serves as a member of the board of school directors. A
28 school director shall not be eligible to the office of member of
29 council in any municipality.
30 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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