SEC. 7.

porate.

Each and every school district described in section Body corone of this act shall be a body corporate, under the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued in its own name, may acquire and take property, both real and personal, for educational purposes, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or bequest, may hold and use the same for such purposes, and may sell and convey the same as the interests of the said school district may require, subject to the conditions herein contained and to the general school law of this State. As such body corporate each and every said school district shall be the successor of any school district corporation heretofore existing within the same territorial limits, and shall be vested with the title to all property, real or personal, now or hereafter vested in the corporation of which it is the successor, and the indebtedness and obligations of the corporation superseded shall become and be the indebtedness and obligations of the succeeding corporation under this act.

districts.

SEC. 8. In each respect and matter not hereinbefore pro- Law governvided for, every school district of the fourth class hereunder ing 4th class shall be subject to and governed by the provisions of the law for graded school districts.

class districts.

tinuation in office.

SEC. 9. In each school district of the third class hereunder Board of edthe board of education shall consist of six members, two of us those elected at the first election held under this act shall serve for two years, two for four years and two for six years; thereafter at the next school election immediately preceding the expiration of the respective terms of these officers their successors shall be elected to serve for terms of six years and until their successors are elected and qualify: Provided, Proviso, conThat the members of the board of education elected prior to the adoption of this act in any such school district shall continue in office until the expiration of the respective terms for which they were elected, or until their respective offices shall become vacant in the manner hereinafter provided in section twenty, and with the six new members elected at the first election under this act shall constitute the first board of education hereunder. The term of office of each member shall Term of commence on the second Monday in July following his or her election, and the school and fiscal year shall begin on that date.

office.

election.

SEC. 10. The regular annual school election in each school Annual school district of the third class shall be held at the time specified by the law in force in said district, when this law shall go into effect, but the time for holding such election may be changed to the first Monday in June of each year in any such school district, if a majority of the qualified school electors voting in said district voting thereon vote in favor of such change at a regular or special election at which the question of such change is properly submitted to the voters of said district.

The members of the board of education in all school Members

elected at.

Special elections.

Qualified school elector defined.

of board members.

districts of the third class hereunder shall be elected at the regular annual school election.

SEC. 11. Special elections may be called by the board of education in any school district of the third class hereunder at such times and places in such district as they shall desig nate, and it shall be the duty of such board to call such an election on receipt of the written request of not less than twenty-five of the legal school voters of the district, by giving the notice hereinafter prescribed. No special election shall be called unless the question to be voted on and decided thereat may lawfully be submitted at such election, and all questions to be submitted at such election shall be stated briefly in the notice thereof.

SEC. 12. At any regular or special election in any district of the third class hereunder, every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years or over, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in such district, or who is the parent or legal guardian of any child of school age included in the school census of such district, and who has resided in said district at least three months next preceding such election, shall be a qualified school elector. Qualifications Any qualified school elector of any such district who is the owner in his or her own right of property assessed for school taxes in said district and whose name appears on the assessment roll of said district at the time of a school election shall be eligible to be chosen as a member of the board of education for that district at said election: Provided, That where a husband and wife own property jointly, which appears on the assessment roll in the name of one of them only, each shall be eligible to be chosen as a member of the board of edu cation for the district where they are voters and their property is situated.

Proviso,

husband and wife.

When school and municipal elections

held at same time.

Registration and poll books.

When held at other times.

Precincts,

when divided; notice given.

SEC. 13. In any school district of the third class hereunder where the annual school election is held at the same time as the city, village or township election, the board of registration, the election commissioners and inspectors and other election officials provided by law for such city, village or township election shall act in their respective capacities for said school election, but the registration and poll books of the school electors shall be kept separate and apart from all others and separate ballot boxes shall be used for the school election.

SEC. 14. In any school district of the third class hereunder where the school election is held at another time than the time for holding the city, village or township election, the board of education shall divide said district into such voting precincts as in its judgment shall be necessary for the school registration and election. Such divisions shall be made at least twenty days prior to the first election held under this act, and a notice containing a diagram of the boundaries of each precinct, with a plain description and the number thereof, shall be posted and published with the notice of registra

and supplies.

missioners.

registration.

inspectors.

when made.

tion hereinafter provided for. In any such district the board Ballot boxes of education shall also provide such ballot boxes, poll lists and other supplies or equipment as may be necessary or proper for conducting the school registrations and elections in said district, shall act themselves as a board of elec- Election comtion commissioners for such district, and shall appoint three qualified school electors in each voting precinct of said district to compose a board of registration and three qualified Board of school electors in each such precinct to compose a board of election inspectors therefor, and such other officers, if any, as Election may be necessary to carry on the school registration and election in such district. Such appointments shall be made at least Appointments, ten days prior to the time for conducting the registration or election, as the case may be, and the secretary of the board of education shall notify each person so appointed of his appointment. No person shall serve on such boards or as an election officer at a school election, unless he or she is a qualified school elector and resides in the precinct for which he or she is appointed, but the same person may be appointed as a member of both boards. In the event that an appointee is unable or Vacancies. refuses to act, the board of education before the time set for the registration or election may appoint another elector to take his or her place on the board or boards or as such officer. If any of the persons so appointed, for any reason, do not Idem. appear at the time and place designated for such registration or election, the member or members of the said board of registration or election inspectors present, or if no such member be present, the electors who are present at the place of registration or election, may choose a sufficient number of electors to take the place or places on the board of the member or members who do not appear. Each member of such board Oath. of registration or election and any other election officer appointed, before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, to be administered by any member of the board of education. The members of either of said boards of registration or election inspectors may administer oaths in proper cases to persons applying for registration or offering to vote. Each member of the board Per diem for of registration or election inspectors and each other election services. officer appointed by the board of education of any district shall receive two dollars per day for his services, the same to be audited, passed and paid in the same manner as other claims against said board of education, but in any district where the registration or election officers for the city, village or township election act at the same time as officers for the school registration or election they shall receive no pay for such services in addition to the pay which they receive for acting at the city, village or township election or registration. When the school registration is completed the registration books shall be turned over to the proper officials for use by them on

Polls, time open.

Votes sworn in.

election day. In any district of the third class hereunder where the school registration or election is not held at the same time as the city, village or township registration or election the polls shall be open for registration and voting for such length of time as the board of education may prescribe.

SEC. 15. No elector of any school district of the third class hereunder not registered as herein provided shall be entitled or permitted to vote at any annual or special election of said school district unless his or her vote be sworn in subRegistration, stantially as is provided by the general election law.

conduct of.

able.

registration of the qualified electors in every such district shall be made in each voting precinct thereof, and the name, sex and address of each person registering and whether he or she is the owner of property assessed for school taxes and a parent or legal guardian of a child or children of school age shall be specified in the book or books used for school registration. Such registration shall in all respects not herein specified be conducted as near as may be in the same manner as the registration prescribed by the general election laws. Laws applic- All laws of this State for preserving the purity of elections and for preventing fraud and corruption in registrations or elections and, in all matters not covered by the provisions of this act, the general election laws, shall apply in so far as they are applicable to registrations and elections under First registra this aet. The first registration of school electors in any district of the third class hereunder shall be made in each voting precinct of said district on the last Saturday previous to the date of the annual school election as fixed by the law in force in such district when this act shall go into effect and thereafter on the last Saturday preceding each annual school election in each precinct of every such district necessary changes shall be made in the registration lists by the board of registration of each precinct: Provided, That the general regis- board of education of any such school district, whenever it deems it advisable, may provide for a general registration of school electors in each precinct of said district, but this registration shall not be earlier than ten days next preceding the annual school election in such district.

tion.

Subsequent registration.

Proviso,

tration.

Notice of registration or election.

When given.

SEC. 16. Notice of the time and place of holding any registration or annual or special election in any school district of the third class hereunder shall be given by the city, village or township clerk, where such registration or election is held at the same time as the city, village or township registration or election, and by the secretary of the board of education, if such registration or election is held at another time than that at which the city, village or township registration or election is held. Such notice of election shall be given at least ten days before the election is to be held, and shall contain besides the time and place of the election, the offices to be filled and the names of the candidates for such

publication.

offices, together with a brief statement of the substance of any questions to be submitted to the school electors at such election. Notice of the holding of a meeting of the board of Idem. registration shall be given at least fifteen days previous to the time of holding same, and shall contain, beside the time and place of holding it, a statement of the object of such meeting. Notices of registration or of election in any such Posting and district shall be written or printed and posted in at least three public places in each voting precinct of said district, and shall be published in one or more of the daily papers of general circulation in said district, if any there be, at least six times within the ten days next preceding the registration or election, and if there is no daily paper of general circulation in said district, the notice shall be published at least once within said period in all of the weekly newspapers of general circulation in said district.

of board of

of.

SEC. 17. Nominations for members of the board of educa- Nomination tion of any school district of the third class hereunder shall education. be made by petition signed by not less than fifty qualified school electors of said district and this petition shall be filed, at least fifteen days before the election at which the nominee is a candidate, with the clerk of the city, village or township, if the school election is held at the same time as the election in the city, village or township in which said district is lo cated, and with the secretary of the board of education for said district, if the election is held at another time than that at which the city, village or township election is held. Said petition shall be substantially in the following form: Petition, form "We, the undersigned, resident school electors of the school district of....... (here insert the name of the district) hereby nominate. ... (here insert the name of the candidate) as member of the board of education for the school district of............(here insert the name of the district)." No elector shall sign petitions for more candidates than there are members of the board to be elected. Upon the filing of such petition the city, village or township Filing and clerk or the secretary of the board of education, as the case may be, shall place the same in the public files of his office and within five days preceding the election shall certify the names of all nominees to be voted on at said election to the election commissioners for said district.

certification.

SEC. 18. The election commissioners for any school dis- Ballot, pretrict of the third class hereunder shall prepare and have paration of. printed an official ballot for such district, which shall be substantially in the same form as provided in the general election law, on which shall be placed the names of all those who have been duly certified to them as nominees for the office of member of the board of education of said school district. In the printing of such ballots the names shall be arranged first alphabetically and the first one hundred ballots printed accordingly, then the name at the top shall be put