141 Ky. 474 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1911
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
■ The first question made by appellant is that the act does not confer upon the board power to disturb him during his term. Section 12 of the act provides:
“When the members of the board of education shall have been elected, shall have qualified, and shall have organized as hereinbefore provided, thereupon it shall become the duty, of the existing school board and all officers, agents and employes thereof to surrender their places, and to deliver to said board of education all the common school property, both real and personal, of every kind whatsoever, and the control and management of the common school affairs of such .city. * * *
“Provided, further, That the first board of education may continue the employment and service of any existing officers, teachers, agents or other employes, in their several capacities in connection with the administration of school affairs, until such time as they effect the change of administrative system applicable to the common schools as contemplated in this act.”
Section 14 also provides:
“It shall be the duty of said board of education, as soon as practicable after its organization to appoint a superintendent of schools, a business director, a secretary and treasurer, and such other officers, employes and agents as it may deem proper; provided, that no such officer, employe or agent shall be a member of said board.”
It is also insisted that the act is bad under section 51 of the Constitution:
“No-law enacted by the General Assembly shall relate to more than one subject and that shall be expressed in the title and-no law shall be revised, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revised, amended, extended or -conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length.”
The title of the act is in these words:
- “An act to amend the school laws and to create boards of education, and to define their duties in cities of the first class.”
The purpose of the act is to create a board of education and to define its duties. All its provisions are ger
It is earnestly insisted that the act amends an old law and that so much of it as is amended is not re-enacted and published at length. The act deals with a subject, the creation of a board of education, and the defining of its duties. The Legislature may select a subject of this sort, and deal with it in one act without incorporating into the act, all the existing laws touching the subject. Were the rule otherwise, legislation would be practically imposible. In Purnell v. Mann, 105 Ky. 87, we had this precise question before us, and so held. That case was followed in Herndon v. Farmer, 114 Ky., 200, Murphy v. City of Louisville, 114 Ky. 768, Weimer v. Commissioners, 124 Ky., 383.
The repealing clause of the act is in these words:
“The general school laws of this State, and all laws and parts of laws applicable to the general system of common schools in a city of the first class and not inconsistent herewith, shall be in full force and effect in such city.”
When it is provided that laws not inconsistent shall remain in force, it necessarily follows that laws inconsistent with the act are repealed. The effect of the repealing clause is not different from what it would have been if it had read that all laws inconsistent with the act are repealed. •
Judgment affirmed. ■