§2004.  Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center; separation from Natchitoches Trades School

A.(1)  The Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center of the Natchitoches Trades School is hereby removed from under the administration, control, and budget of the Natchitoches Trades School and the regional center.  The Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center is hereby established as a separate legal entity and budget unit headed by a director appointed by the board.  The center shall be under the control of the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges.

(2)  The duties of the center shall include but not be limited to developing, printing, and disseminating vocational curriculum material to all the state-operated vocational schools. Further, the center's duties shall include housing a film library and reproducing printed items for the state's vocational schools and other state agencies in the field of career education and any additional duties that the board may assign to the center.

B.(1)  All functions, programs, operations, and responsibilities of the Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center of the Natchitoches Trades School hereafter shall be exercised solely by the Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center.

(2)  All funds, facilities, materials, personnel, books, records, contractual obligations, and any pending or unfinished business of the Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center of the Natchitoches Trades School are hereby transferred to the new and separate Vocational Curriculum Development and Research Center under the control of the board.

(3)  The center shall be domiciled in Natchitoches.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 355, §1; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 151, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.