The powers and duties of a center board are as follows:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 15-20.2-07

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

1.    To supervise, manage, and control an area career and technology center established by the cooperating school districts pursuant to this chapter.

2.    To provide career and technical education programs approved by the state board.

3.    To contract with, employ, or pay personnel to administer the affairs and to teach in the area career and technology center, and to remove for cause any personnel when the interests of the area career and technology center may require it; provided, that personnel employed by a center board shall have the same statutory rights as provided by law for personnel employed by public school districts.

     4.    To lease, acquire, or purchase career and technical education equipment for an area career and technology center.

5.    To lease, acquire, purchase, or sell career and technical education facilities, including real property, for an area career and technology center; provided, that any purchase or sale of real property must first be approved by two-thirds of the school boards of the participating school districts.

6.    To receive and administer any private, local, state, or federal funds provided for the operation and maintenance of an area career and technology center.

7.    To enter into contracts consistent with the other powers and duties provided for by this chapter.

8.    To accept real or personal property available for distribution by the United States or any of its departments or agencies and also to accept federal grants that may be made available in the field of career and technical education.