Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 25, June 21, 2024
Section 127-1-6 - Officers and Duties6.1. There shall be five elected officer-members of the WVSSAC, each of whom shall be a principal of a secondary school in West Virginia. 6.1.a. The elected officer-members shall constitute the Board of Directors of the WVSSAC.6.1.b. One officer-member shall be elected to a regular term each year at the annual meeting of the Commission. The runner-up candidate in each election shall be declared the alternate-officer-member and shall serve any portion of the officer-member's unexpired term which may occur. If the alternate-officer-member is not thus determined, then a separate election shall be held to do so. Both the officer-member and alternate-officer-member shall be from the same administrative district.6.1.c. The regular term of an elected officer-member shall be a period of five years and the term shall begin on Monday of Week 40 of the NFHS Calendar, following the member's election.6.1.d. An elected officer-member shall be eligible to serve two regular five year terms in succession. Upon completion of the two successive terms, a former officer-member shall not be appointed to, nor elected to fill, a vacancy of an unexpired term during the five year period immediately following the expiration of a regular term. Serving more than one half of an unexpired five year term shall constitute one of the two permitted successive terms.6.1.e. The election shall be by ballot when more than one candidate from the same administrative district is nominated for officer-member. When more than two candidates from the same administrative district are nominated for officer-member, the balloting shall continue until one candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. The candidate with the least number of votes on each ballot shall be dropped from each subsequent ballot.6.1.f. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the close of the annual meeting of the Commission, the Board of Directors shall elect one of its officer members to serve as president and one to serve as vice president.6.2. Two or more members serving as principals of secondary schools located in the same administrative district shall be ineligible to serve as officer-members simultaneously.6.3. The term of an officer-member shall end immediately upon their agreement to accept a position that would make them ineligible to hold office in this Commission. However, in the event that a director ceases to meet the qualifications for their position but remains in good standing in the last year of their term, such director shall be given the option to remain in their position for the remainder of the assigned term. The vacancy would then be filled at the next annual Board of Control meeting.6.4. The annual honorarium of each of the officer-members shall be $1,000.00.6.5. The Executive Director shall act as treasurer and shall pay out monies from the funds belonging to this Commission in payment of bills only upon order of the president.6.6. The president shall furnish bond in the amount of $20,000. The Executive Director shall furnish bond in the amount of $100,000. The premium for both of these bonds shall be paid by the Commission.6.7. The Board of Directors may submit questions for discussion and ascertain sentiment of the schools by means of questionnaires. No vote to alter these regulations shall be taken except at the annual meeting of the Commission, except that the Board of Directors may, in case of emergency, with the consent of the Board of Directors, enact and adopt all necessary rules and regulations, whether by deletion, amendment, revision, or addition, and which emergency rules and regulations shall be filed with the Secretary of State and thereafter submitted at the next annual meeting of the Commission for formal adoption or rejection.