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 PUBLIC LAW 102-494—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3155 "B. OPERATING PROCEDURES OF PLANNING COMMITTEE. —Each interstate school district planning committee shall meet in the first instance at the call of any member, and shall organize by the election of a chairman and clerk-treasurer, each of whom shall be a resident of a different state. Subsequent meetings may be called by either officer of the committee. The members of the committee shall serve without pay. The member districts shall appropriate money on an equal basis at each annual meeting to meet the expenses of the committee, including the cost of publication and distribution of reports and advertising. From time to time the commissioners may add additional members and additional member districts to the committee, and may remove members and member districts from the committee. An interstate school district planning committee shall act by majority vote of its membership present and voting. " C. DUTIES OF INTERSTATE SCHOOL DISTRICT PLANNING COMMITTEE. —It shall be the duty of an interstate school district planning committee, in consultation with the commissioners and the state departments of education: to study the advisability of establishing an interstate school district in accordance with the standards set forth in paragraph A, its organization, operation and control, and the advisability of constructing, maintaining and operating a school or schools to serve the needs of such interstate district; to estimate the construction and operating costs thereof; to investigate the methods of financing such school or schools, and any other matters pertaining to the organization and operation of an interstate school district; and to submit a report or reports Reports, of its findings and recommendations to the several member districts. " D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND PREPARATION OF ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. — An interstate school district planning committee may recommend that an interstate school district composed of all the member districts represented by its membership, or any specified combination of such member districts, be established. If the planning committee does recommend the establishment of an interstate school district, it shall include in its report such recommendation, and shall prepare and include in its report proposed articles of agreement for the proposed interstate school district, which shall be signed by at least a majority of the membership of the planning committee, which set forth the following: "a. The name of the interstate school district, "b. The member districts which shall be combined to form the proposed interstate school district. "c. The number, composition, method of selection and terms of office of the interstate school board, provided that: "(1) The interstate school board shall consist of an odd number of members, not less than 5 nor more than 15; "(2) The terms of office shall not exceed 3 years; "(3) Each member district shall be entitled to elect at least one member of the interstate school board. Each member district shall either vote separately at the interstate school district meeting by the use of a distinctive ballot, or shall choose its member or members at any other election at which school officials may be chosen; "(4) The method of election shall provide for the filing of candidacies in advance of election and for the use of a printed nonpartisan ballot;

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