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The 1998 Florida Statutes

Title XVI
EDUCATION
Chapter 230
District School System
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230.21  School board to constitute a corporation.--The governing body of each school district shall be a school board. Each school board is constituted a body corporate by the name of "The School Board of _____ County, Florida." In all suits against school boards, service of process shall be had on the chair of the school board or, if he or she cannot be found, on the superintendent as executive officer of the school board or, in the absence of the chair and the superintendent, on another member of the school board.

History.--s. 421, ch. 19355, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(84); s. 1, ch. 69-300; s. 3, ch. 70-401; s. 1229, ch. 95-147.