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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-18a > Section-18a-61a > 18a-61a-418A:61A-4. Organization, operation of board; coordinators
4.The board of trustees shall organize at a meeting to be called by the Commissioner of Education and annually thereafter by election from their number of a chairman and a vice chairman and appointment of a secretary, who may but need not be a member of the board of trustees, and such other officers as the board shall determine. The meeting for the election and appointment of officers shall be held not earlier than July 1 and not later than October 1 of each year. Officers shall serve for terms of one year, and until their successors are selected and qualified. The board of trustees shall be known as "The Trustees of the New Jersey School of the Arts" and shall be a body corporate, with all the powers usually conferred upon such bodies and necessary to enable it to make contracts, and to exercise such other rights and privileges as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions and purposes of this act. The school shall employ northern, central and southern coordinators and hire appropriate professional staff to implement programs in music, dance, visual arts and creative writing in each of the 21 counties of the State.
L.1969,c.95,s.4; amended 1983, c.244; 2000, c.115, s.4.
