§ 15.1-09-50 — Board of education of city of Fargo - Powers

In addition to the powers granted to all school boards by section 15.1-09-33, the board of
education of the city of Fargo has the power and duty:
1. To organize, establish, and maintain schools within the boundaries of the Fargo public
school district; to change and discontinue the schools; and to liquidate the assets of
the discontinued schools, as authorized by the state board of public school education.
2. To lease houses or rooms for school purposes, lease lots or sites for schools, and
fence real property.
3. To build, enlarge, alter, improve, and repair schools and appurtenances upon lots or
sites now owned or leased for school purposes.

4. To provide, sell, exchange, improve, and repair school apparati, books for indigent
students, and appendages.
5. To provide fuel and other supplies for the schools.
6. To have the custody and safekeeping of the schools, books, furniture, and
appurtenances and to see that local ordinances regarding schools are observed.
7. To compensate teachers out of the money appropriated and provided by law for the
support of the public schools within the boundaries of the district so far as the same is
sufficient, and to pay any remainder due from the money raised as authorized by this
chapter.
8. To have the control and management of the public schools within the boundaries of the
district and from time to time to adopt rules for their good order, prosperity, and utility.
9. To prepare and report to the mayor and the city council ordinances and regulations
necessary for the protection, safekeeping, and care of the schools, lots, sites, and
appurtenances and all the property belonging to the city, connected with and
appertaining to the schools, and to suggest proper penalties for the violation of
ordinances and regulations.