Arizona Revised Statutes

Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 15-321 (2026)

Organization; election of officers of the board; meetings; execution of warrants; exemption

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15-321. Organization; election of officers of the board; meetings; execution of warrants; exemption

A. For the purpose of organizing the governing board, the board shall meet at the most convenient public facility in the school district. If a public facility is not available within the district, the governing board may meet at any available public facility that is convenient to all governing board members, regardless of the county or school district in which the facility is located. The governing board shall meet in January next following the election.

B. At the organization meeting the governing board shall elect from among the membership of the board a president.

C. For the purposes of regular meetings of the governing board, the board shall meet at the most convenient public facility in the school district. If a public facility is not available within the district, the governing board may meet at any available public facility that is convenient to all governing board members, regardless of the county or school district in which the facility is located.

D. The board shall prescribe rules for its own government. It shall hold a regular meeting at least once each month during the regular school year and may hold other meetings as often as called. If action has been taken and documents approved at a meeting, they may be signed subsequently by individual board members.

E. Business shall be conducted at regular or special meetings. Notice of a special meeting, and of the hour for a regular meeting if no hour is fixed by a rule of the board, shall be delivered personally or by telephone.

F. Notwithstanding section 1-216, if there is a vacancy or vacancies on the governing board, a majority of the remaining members of the governing board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except that a single member of the governing board does not constitute a quorum.

G. An order on a county school superintendent for a salary or other expense shall be signed by the governing board. An order for a salary or other expense may be signed between board meetings if a resolution to that effect has been passed before the signing at a regular or special meeting of the governing board and the order is ratified by the board at the next regular or special meeting of the governing board.

H. This section does not apply to county school superintendents in the conduct of an accommodation school.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1957–2018 · leading case: Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972).

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Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972). · cites it 2× “See Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 15-321 (B) (4) (1956); Ark.”

LeRoy v. Odgers, 503 P.2d 975 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1972). · cites it 8× “Whether this mode of education had been approved by the appropriate school authorities pursuant to A.R.S. § 15-321, subsec. B so as to excuse the children’s attendance in public schools as mandated by A.”

Berry v. Foster, 883 P.2d 470 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 4× “A.R.S. §§ 15-321(C), 15-323, 15-341(A)(1), 38-531 et.”

Pendley v. Mingus Union High Sch. Dist. No. 4, 498 P.2d 586 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1972). · cites it 2× “” “A.R.S. § 15-321. A. Every person who has custody of a child between the ages of eight and sixteen years shall send the child to a public school for the full- time school is in session within the district in which the child resides.”

Holmes v. Nester, 306 P.2d 290 (Ariz. 1957). · cites it 2× “…with instructions for a new trial. UDALL, C. J., and PHELPS, STRUCK-MEYER and LA PRADE, JJ., concurring. 1 . Now A.R.S. § 15-321 et seq.”

East Valley v. Mahoney (Ariz. Ct. App. 2018). “401 for the 2014 calendar year and through, and including, the date on which the first meeting of the Governing Board is held in 2015, pursuant to A.R.S. 15-321 and A.R.S. 15-341. (Emphasis added.”

— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 15-321(C) — 1 case

Berry v. Foster, 883 P.2d 470 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1994). “A.R.S. §§ 15-321(C), 15-323, 15-341(A)(1), 38-531 et.”

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