Cooperative educational service units shall serve the public purpose of providing services to member districts and any other public or private entities deemed appropriate by a majority vote of the cooperative’s governing board.

Each cooperative educational service unit shall be established pursuant to an agreement among participating districts, which entitles each to appoint at least one of its school board members to the governing board of the cooperative educational service unit and establishes that control of the cooperative educational service unit is vested in the participating districts through such appointments.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 13-5-32.1

  • 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
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Each cooperative educational service unit may acquire, lease, and sell real and personal property as provided in the agreement establishing the unit.

The agreement which established a cooperative educational service unit shall provide for the applicable procedures for dissolution of the unit. Whether or not included in any such agreement, the procedures shall be subject to the statutory requirements that no earnings of the cooperative educational service unit may inure to the benefit of any private person and upon dissolution of any such unit, title to all property shall revert to one or more participating districts.

Source: SL 1991, ch 124, § 3; SL 1995, ch 87, § 12.

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