449. When all the school boards which are members of a regional board apply for the union of their school municipalities into a new school municipality, the Government may, if such boards then apply for it, order that the regional board cease to exist; it may also, upon the resolution of a school board which is the only member of a regional board, order that the regional board cease to exist. The resolutions passed for that purpose shall come into force only thirty days after their publication.
In such case, the new school board or that which subsists, as the case may be, shall succeed to the rights and obligations of the regional board.
The secretaries-general of the united school municipalities or, as the case may be, the secretary-general of the sole school board shall proceed to the election of the chairman and the representatives of the parents’ committee of the school board within thirty days before the effective date of the changes. They shall remain in office until the date on which they are replaced by persons elected according to section 52.1.
The secretaries-general of the united school municipalities shall act jointly.
The order of the Government shall have effect on 1 July following its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on any other date fixed by the Government, except for elections provided for in this section and in section 47.3.
1971, c. 67, s. 86; 1987, c. 7, s. 15.