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County board of examiners.

SEC. 13. The county superintendent, together with two other persons, who shall be practically experienced educators, shall constitute the county board of examiners. The county superintendent shall be the chairman of the board. The associate examiners shall be residents of the county in which they are to serve, and shall be appointed by the county superintendent, by and with the consent of the board of county commissioners, for a term of one year. The county commissioners shall have power to remove either of the associate examiners upon the recommendation of the county superintendent, for misconduct or incapacity, and to fill any vacancies occurring in the office of either of the said two appointees. Compensation of associate examiners.

The two appointees shall be paid for their services from the county school funds upon the warrant of the county auditor approved by the board of county commissioners.

Examiners to hold teachers' examinations,

SEC. 14. The county board of examiners shall hold teachers' examinations during each year, at such times and under such rules as the State Board of

Education may direct. If from the percentage of correct answers required by the rules and other evidences disclosed by the examination, including particularly the superintendent's knowledge and information of the candidate's experience and ability as a teacher, the applicant is found to be a person of good moral character and to possess such knowledge and understanding, together with aptness to teach and govern, as will enable the applicant to teach successfully in the district schools of the State the various branches required by law, said board of ex

aminers shall grant such applicant a certificate of qualification.

Certificates of qualification for teachers.

SEC. 15. The certificates issued by the county board of examiners shall be of two grades, county grammar and county primary, and shall be valid for one year, but may be renewed year by year without examination under such regulations as the board may provide. All certificates heretofore granted shall be valid for the full term for which they were issued. No certificate shall be granted unless the applicant be found proficient in pedagogy, and qualified to teach the following branches of common English education, namely: reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, United States history, arithmetic, physiology and hygiene, nature studies, and drawing.

Percentage to pass.

The percentage required to pass in any branch shall be prescribed by the board of examiners.

Temporary certificates.

In addition to the regular grades of certificates, the county superintendent may grant a temporary certificate, valid until the next regular meeting of the board, but in no case shall such certificate be granted to the same person more than once; Provided, that special certificates may be issued for one year by the board of examiners to teachers of special branches.

Age of persons to whom certificate may issue.

SEC. 16. No county certificate to teach shall be granted to any person under eighteen years of age. The certificates issued by county boards shall be valid only in the county where issued.

Teacher to hold certificate.

SEC. 17. No person shall be employed or permitted to teach in any of the district schools of the State who is not the holder of a lawful certificate of qualification. Any contract made in violation of this section shall be void.

Revocation of certificate.

All boards of examiners are authorized and required to revoke, for immoral or unprofessional conduct or evident unfitness for teaching, any certificate granted by them.

CHAPTER V.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

Each school district a corporation,

SECTION 1. Every school district or high school district now or hereafter created shall be and is hereby constituted a public corporation to be designated as

-school district (or high school district as the case may be,) of-county, State of Utah, with its proper name inserted in the blank before the word school, and the proper name of the county inserted in the blank before the word county; and in its own proper name as such corporation may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and it may acquire, purchase, convey, and hold real and personal property for school purposes.

Extent of school district.

SEC. 2. Each county and each city, unless divided by proper authority, shall form a school district.

May create school districts.

SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of any county may create into a school district any

territory not already so created, or may create a district out of a part or parts of one or more districts upon being petitioned so to do by as may residents of such territory as have the care and custody of not less than twenty school children of school age residing therein, or upon the recommendation of the county superintendent.

May divide or consolidate school districts.

The board of county commissioners may change the boundaries of, divide and consolidate existing school districts. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall divide, consolidate, or change the boundaries of existing school districts, such board shall have the power, as an incident to the division, consolidation, or change, equitably to adjust the property rights and burdens of the several districts affected thereby, by apportioning existing school property and debts, and by modifying cr reapportioning taxes already voted, in such manner as the justice of the case shall, in the opinion of the board, demand.

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Levy special taxes.

To accomplish the adjustment, the board of county. commissioners may from time to time direct neces sary special taxes to be levied and collected on particular areas of districts so changed.

Division of county into school districts.

SEC. 4. In any county hereafter created the board of county commissioners thereof shall so divide the county, or any part thereof which has residing therein not less than twenty children of school age, into school districts as will best promote the permanent interests of the district schools in the county, upon the same petitions and subject to the conditions. and restrictions provided in the last preceding section.

Trustees for new district.

SEC. 5. Whenever any new district shall be created by the board of county commisioners, said board shall forthwith appoint three trustees of said district, who shall be qualified electors therein, to serve until the next ensuing regular election for trustees.

CHAPTER VI.

ELECTION OF TRUSTEES.

Election of trustees and term of office.

SECTION 1. Except in cities of the first and of the second class, there shall be held an annual election on the second Monday in July, in each school district. At such election there shall be elected by the registered voters residing in such school district, one school trustee to serve for the term of three years and until his successor is elected and qualified. In each newly organized district, at the first annual school election occurring after such organization, there shall be elected three trustees, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and annually thereafter there shall be elected, at such annual election, one trustee to hold office for three years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Trustees shall qualify by taking and subscribing the oath of office and giving bonds to the district in which they reside in such sums and with such sureties as the county clerk of the county wherein said school district is situated, may approve, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their office; the oath of office and bonds to be filed with said clerk.

Ballot to state term.

The ballots used at such election shall state the

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