Alabama § 45-55-101 - Membership; Districts.
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§ 45-55-101. Membership; Districts.
(a) The electorate for the Pike County Board of Education shall include all qualified voters in Pike county, including those residing within the City of Troy.
(b) The Pike County Board of Education shall consist of six members, each elected from a separate single-member district.
(c) Members representing Districts 5 and 6 shall be elected in 1994. Members representing Districts 1 and 2 shall be elected in 1996. Members representing Districts 3 and 4 shall be elected in 1998. All members shall be elected for terms of six years in accordance with Sections 16–8–2 and 17–2–5.
(d) Each board member shall be a resident of the single-member district from which the member is elected. The residency shall have been established at least one year before the general election at which the member is elected.
(e) The six districts shall be the same as those districts used in the 1992 elections for the Pike County Board of Education and the Pike County Commission.
(f) Following the release of any federal decennial census, the board, by majority vote, may change the boundaries of the six single-member districts in order to comply with the one-person one-vote requirement of the federal constitution. Any revised district arrangement to be used, in whole or in part, shall be approved by the board not later than 180 days prior to the election in which it will first be used.
(g) No change to the boundaries of existing districts shall be adopted by the board unless the board first shall have advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in Pike County for at least two consecutive weeks the time and place of the meeting at which the change will be voted upon. The advertisements shall include either (1) a map of the county indicating the proposed district boundaries, or (2) notification that a map indicating the proposed district boundaries is available for inspection at a specific public location, where the map shall be displayed for at least two consecutive weeks preceding the meeting of the board at which the resolution shall be considered, or both.
(h) Any resolution changing district boundaries shall describe the revised district boundaries by reference to standard census units, or county voting precincts, or both.
(i) Upon passage of any resolution effecting changes in district boundaries pursuant to this section, the board shall file with the Pike County Judge of Probate a certified copy of the resolution, together with a map of the county showing the revised district boundaries.
Source: official Alabama text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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