§ 5.06. Powers of the board.

The Cartersville School Board shall be vested with the authority to administer the existing public school system of the city and shall have and possess the power to modify and change such system from time to time in order to make it conform to educational needs and progress; the right and power to prescribe the plan of instruction and organization of the public schools; the exclusive power to employ superintendents, principals, teachers, janitors and other persons necessary for the execution of its purposes and fix the salaries and compensation; shall have the exclusive power to prescribe the mode of furnishing, hygienic arrangement, repairing, cleaning, lighting and heating of all public school buildings; shall have the power to provide examinations and make such other suitable regulations governing the efficiency of the superintendents and teachers in scholarship. They shall have authority to delegate to the superintendents and the teachers such disciplinary authority as they may think best. They shall exercise general supervision of the schools; and shall do all such other acts required by the laws of the State of Georgia and such other acts not inconsistent therewith as will promote the efficiency of the school system under their charge.

The board shall not elect or employ any person as superintendent or principal who is related to any member of said board by blood or marriage in the sixth degree according to the rules of canon law; provided, that this provision shall not prevent the reelection or reemployment of any superintendent, principal, in said schools who was elected or employed as such, prior to the time the member of the board so related became such member, and provided that the reelection or reemployment of such superintendent, principal, is accomplished by a majority vote of the board exclusive of the related member.