2016 Delaware Code
Title 14 - Education
CHAPTER 51. CHARTER
§ 5108. Board of Trustees — Quorum and failure to attend meetings or accept appointment.

14 DE Code § 5108 (2016) What's This?

(a) Nine members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn. Officers may be appointed for the occasion in the absence of the regular officers.

(b) The place of a trustee, who shall be absent from 3 successive stated meetings, shall be vacated unless the Board shall otherwise specially direct, and a vacancy thus created shall be filled as in other cases. A trustee appointed and not accepting at or before the next stated meeting shall be considered as declining and a new appointment shall be made.

Code 1852, §§ 778, 779; 13 Del. Laws, c. 513, § 5; Code 1915, § 2336; Code 1935, § 2778; 14 Del. C. 1953, § 5108.;

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