Legal Documents of Newport

The power and authority to control and manage the public school system is hereby delegated to the Newport Board of Education. The board of education shall have five (5) members, all appointed by the board of mayor and aldermen. Each member shall receive ten dollars ($10.00) per meeting, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per year. The original members of the board of education having been appointed in May of 1905, one (1) for three (3) years; two (2) for two (2) years and two (2) for one (1) year; all subsequent members have been and shall continue to be appointed for three (3) year terms except when appointed to fill a vacancy. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve the unexpired term of the member he replaces. The term of one (1) or two (2) members shall expire each May, but he or they shall continue to serve until his or their successors are appointed. (1973 Code, § 15-2)