(a)
(1) The State Board of Education shall consider a petition from a local board of directors of any school district seeking an adjustment or change of boundary lines between its school district and an adjoining school district.
(2) The local board of directors must file the petition with the state board at least thirty (30) days before the next regularly scheduled state board meeting, at which time the petition will be presented for hearing before the state board.
(b) Upon proof to the state board of public notice issued in the local newspapers of general circulation in each affected district no less than one (1) time a week for two (2) consecutive weeks, the state board may, by approval of a majority of the members of a quorum present of the state board, issue an order changing or adjusting the boundary lines between the adjoining school districts.
(c) If the local board of directors of each of the affected districts is unable to agree on the proposed change in boundary lines, the state board shall adjust and change the boundary lines in accordance with its best judgment subject to the requirement of subsection (f) of this section or shall rule that the boundaries remain unchanged.
(d) Upon an order from the state board to change or adjust boundary lines, it shall be the duty of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office to immediately make changes in the maps of the school districts to show the changes of boundaries.
(e)
(1) The state board shall:
(A) Issue an order establishing the changed boundaries; and
(B) File the order with the:
(i) County clerk in each county in which every affected district lies;
(ii) Secretary of State; and
(iii) Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office.
(2) The county clerk shall make a permanent record of the order.
(3) The boundaries established under this subsection shall be the boundaries of the affected districts until changes are made according to the provisions of law.
(f) The state board shall not order any change in school district boundaries which hampers, delays, or in any manner negatively affects the desegregation efforts of the public school districts in the State of Arkansas.