| 18 | 18 | | (c) The employees in either unit defined in this section may designate any organization of certified professional employees to represent them in negotiations with respect to salaries, hours and other conditions of employment with the local or regional board of education which employs them by filing, during the period between March first and March thirty-first of any school year, with the local or regional board of education, or in the case of a state charter school, as defined in section 10-66aa, the State Board of Education, a petition which requests recognition of such organization for purposes of negotiation under this section and sections 10-153c to 10-153n, inclusive, and is signed by a majority of the employees in such unit. Where a new school district is formed as the result of the creation of a regional school district, a petition for designation shall also be considered timely if it is filed at any time from the date when such regional school district is approved pursuant to section 10-45 through the first school year of operation of any such school district. Where a new school district is formed as a result of the dissolution of a regional school district, a petition for designation shall also be considered timely if it is filed at any time from the date of the election of a board of education for such school district through the first year of operation of any such school district. Within three school days next following the receipt of such petition, such [board] local or regional board of education shall post a notice of such request for recognition and mail a copy thereof to the commissioner, except that if such petition is filed by the employees of a state charter school, the State Board of Education shall post a notice of such request for recognition and mail a copy thereof to the commissioner and the governing council of such charter school. Such notice shall state the name of the organization designated by the petitioners, the unit to be represented and the date of receipt of such petition by the [board] local or regional board of education or the State Board of Education. If no petition which requests a representation election and is signed by twenty per cent of the employees in such unit is filed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, with the commissioner within the thirty days next following the date on which the local or regional board of education or the State Board of Education posts notice of the designation petition, such [board] local or regional board of education, or in the case of a state charter school, the governing council of such school, shall recognize the designated organization as the exclusive representative of the employees in such unit for a period of one year or until a representation election has been held for such unit pursuant to this section and section 10-153c, whichever occurs later. If a petition complying with the provisions of subsection (d) of this section is filed within such period of thirty days, the local or regional board of education, or in the case of a state charter school, the governing council of such school, shall not recognize any organization so designated until an election has been held pursuant to said sections to determine which organization shall represent such unit. |
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