RS 17:84.2: School boards; requirement to employ a business manager or chief financial officer; minimum standards

A. Each city, parish, and other local public school board shall employ a business manager or chief financial officer who shall have the qualifications established by rules promulgated by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The state board shall establish such qualifications not later than January 1, 2007.

B. Any business manager or chief financial officer employed prior to the final adoption of rules providing for such qualification by a city, parish, or, other local public school board who does not meet the qualifications provided by such rules shall have seven years from the date the final rules are published in the Louisiana Register to meet the required qualifications.

C. City, parish, and other local public school boards may enter into an agreement to share business services, including the employment of a single business manager or chief financial officer. However, the business manager or chief financial officer employed to serve as the school business manager or chief financial officer for more than one school system pursuant to such agreement shall meet the qualifications established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.