As Amended
SEC. 37-9-13. Selection of superintendent of school district; qualifications of superintendent.
(1) Each school district shall have a superintendent of schools, selected in the manner provided by law. No person shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of schools unless such person shall hold a valid Class AA administrator's certificate issued by the State Department of Education and shall have had not less than four (4) years of classroom or administrative experience.
(2) No person shall be eligible to hold the office of administrative superintendent unless he shall have the same qualifications as prescribed for superintendents in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to elected superintendents of schools prior to the expiration of the term for which they were elected in 1987; which term would expire in 1992. Provided, however, that if a vacancy shall occur in the office of county superintendent of education, the qualifications prescribed in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to any person filling such vacancy.
(4) No person who is serving as an administrative superintendent of education on the effective date of this section shall be ineligible for the office of administrative superintendent because of lack of the qualifications prescribed by this section.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 6282-04; Laws, 1953, Ex Sess, ch. 20, Sec. 4; 1960, ch. 300; 1981, ch. 499, Sec. 3; 1986, ch. 492, Sec. 60; 1987, ch. 307, Sec. 7; 1988, ch. 342, Sec. 1, eff from and after August 3, 1988, (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment of this section).
1997 Amendment:
SECTION 7. Section 37-9-13, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-9-13. * * * Each school district shall have a superintendent of schools, selected in the manner provided by law. No person shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of schools unless such person shall hold a valid * * * administrator's license issued by the State Department of Education and shall have had not less than four (4) years of classroom or administrative experience.
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SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 545, Sec. 7, SB2512, Effective April 10, 1997.