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FILE: ABC
BOARD MEMBER LEGAL STATUS
NUMBER
The number of trustees for The Portage la Prairie School Division No. 24 is nine.
They are elected on the following basis:
-Five trustees from Ward One. -One trustee from each of Wards Two to Five.
Legal Reference: PSA - Sec. 24
QUALIFICATIONS
A person is qualified to be a trustee of the division if:
a) he/she is a resident elector in the division; and
b) he/she is a Canadian citizen as defined in the Local Authorities Election Act; and
c) he/she is of the full age of eighteen years; and
d) he/she is not disqualified from being a trustee under any other
provision of the Manitoba Public Schools Act.
No employee and no pupil in regular attendance at school shall be a trustee.
Legal Reference: PSA - Sec. 22, 227
NOMINATION
Any person seeking election as a school trustee shall complete and present to the returning officer by the designated closing date a Nomination Paper as prescribed in The Local Authorities Election Act.
Nominations shall be signed by at least twenty-five electors, or not less than 1% of the electors (whichever is the lesser) of the ward, but in all cases by at least two electors.
Legal Reference: PSA - Sec. 23(1)
TERM OF OFFICE AND COMMENCEMENT OF TERM
Each trustee shall be elected and hold office for a term of four years commencing fourteen days after the fourth Wednesday in October of the year of his election, or on the date of the first meeting whichever first occurs.
Legal Reference: PSA - Sec. 25(5), (6)
Cross Reference: File AA, File BBB
Adopted: Oct. 12/78
Revised: June 14/01
