17. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, when a limited purpose regional district is proposing to add additional purposes that will convert the limited purpose regional district to an all purpose regional district, the constituent districts may by resolution frame and adopt a proposal to calculate and apportion the membership of the board of education of the newly formed all purpose regional district among the constituent districts as nearly as may be according to the number of their inhabitants, except that each constituent district shall have at least one member.

The new members of the board of education of the newly created all purpose regional district, who shall serve until the election of the first elected members of the newly formed regional district pursuant to the provisions of subsection b. of this section, shall be selected as follows:

(1) two-thirds shall be selected from among the members of the boards of education or governing bodies of the constituent districts constituting the limited purpose regional district; and

(2) one-third shall be selected from among the members of the board of education of the limited purpose regional district proposing to add additional purposes, with such members selected according to the number of each constituent districts’ inhabitants.

b. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the first elected members of the board of education of the newly formed regional district shall be elected in accordance with the proposal to calculate and apportion the membership of the board of education adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section at the annual election to be held in the calendar year first succeeding the year in which the election for the creation of the district was held.

L.2021, c.402, s.17.