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Board may, within the authority of this Constitution and By-laws, sustain, modify or overturn the Executive Director’s decision, or sustain, increase, decrease or otherwise modify any penalty for violation of any by-law or rule or take such other action as it finds appropriate. If a hearing has been conducted by a hearing officer appointed by the Board, the student, parent/guardian, school or individual in whose favor or against whom a decision has been sustained or modified, may request, in writing through the principal of the involved member school, a further hearing to be held before the Board of Directors in accordance with the provisions of this Section, at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board or at a special meeting of the Board convened by the president of the Board. The decision or action of the Board of Directors, pursuant to any hearing held before it, shall in all instances be final.
Illustrations for Section 1.460 of the Constitution
The illustrations and situations it contains are for purposes of assisting in understanding the application of the particular by-law to which they pertain. In the case of any conflict, whether actual or believed, between the illustrations, examples or situations in this publication and the constitution or by-laws of the IHSA, the constitution and by-laws shall control.
5) Q. What is a clerical or administrative error?
A. An inadvertent or unintentional error or omission that results in technical, rather than substantive, noncompliance with
these by-laws. The failure to comply with any affirmative requirement of these by-laws shall not be deemed a clerical or administrative error.
1.470 FILL VACANCIES
In case a vacancy occurs on the Board of Directors, the remaining members shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of a principal of a member school from the Division in which the vacancy occurs.
An appointee to an office must meet the same qualification standards that a person running for the office would be required to meet. Appointees shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
1.480 RETIREMENT SYSTEM
It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to establish a retirement system for its employed administrative officers.
1.500 OFFICERS
1.510 TITLES OF OFFICERS
The officers of the Board of Directors shall be President, Vice President and Secretary who shall be elected by the Board from among its members. These officers shall serve in similar capacities as officers of the Association and shall perform the duties which regularly devolve upon such officers.
1.520 TERM OF OFFICE
Officers shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the meeting during which the ballots from the election of members of the Board of Directors are canvassed and after new members have been seated. Officers shall be eligible to succeed themselves provided they continue to be members of the Board of Directors.
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