1.    A school board by resolution may change the terms of office for its members from three to four years. The resolution must provide that upon the expiration of each member’s current three-year term, the term of office for that position on the board will become four years. The resolution may provide for the conversion of one position to a two-year term and, thereafter, to a four-year term. If the resolution so provides, the term must be chosen by lot. If as a result of an extension to four years a term would conclude in an odd-numbered year, the resolution must provide for one transitional three-year term before the four-year term commences.

2.    If a school board changes its terms of office as provided for in this section:

a.    References in this title to annual elections mean biennial elections when applied to the board; and

b.    The election held pursuant to section 15.1-09-31 must be held in even-numbered years.

3.    A school board that has converted the terms of its members to four years may revert to three-year terms by passing a resolution providing for the reversion. When the four-year term of each board member holding office on the date of the resolution’s passage expires, the term of office for that position becomes three years.