Case Information
*1 February 3, 1939 HOROrebl~ L. h. v&od
State Superintendent of tibllo
Instruction
.custln, Texas
In reiplJrtberst0, we nish tu sdtiss.
&rtlalo BQZEa or Rerl#d airil 5tatutea, lms, Me& ln pert aa follmar "Ill eaoh 0rgmma OoLulty tnthits stdata aad
lnanyaounty mhiohrhall bereafterba organized, the aauntysahooltruJBtee8 nbellblawthe atathor- or-ore ruralh%ighsahwLdla- ltytofo.mone by groupiag aontlgprow aamon aohool die- trleta, having lose than iour huatlred 8oholiu5tio triot6 ption and independw~t nohool dlmtrlota bav- 1~ less than two hundred and fifty saholastio pQpulat1on for the purpose 0r wtablishing and opemting rural high aohoola.* iartiole 89eea, Revised Civil StatulW; 19&S, reada in part a8 iolloaii
"So rumilhhighsohoo1Q%striot, asproridti for herein, shall oontofa a greatu are0 than one handrsd equare ml&s, or more than 8evwi criemnt- alrg sabaol dietrlots except that the oouaty 8obeol hi@ a&ool boardof sohooltrua~eeepaytonurural *2 Hon. I.. A. Plood, P'ebrunry 3, 1939, Pace 2
dlstriats, as nrovidsd in Artiale 2922a, oon- tainlng more than one hundred square miles, upon a vote of ii majority of the qualified eleotors in t3e said proposed zural high sohool district vot- ing at an election called for suoh purpose." 29~~ approv~,l of dfstriot trustees is not neoessarj* when a rural hi?3 sohool distrlot is foxmed by wgroupingw districts.
Bell vs. Kirkland, 41 S.K. (Zd) 443.
Approval of trustees of.dlstrlots arrected in annexing dls- tricts to r0m a NNl higbsohool,dlstriot is not neoessary where an eleotlon is required and held under provision of Article 29220.
Cox vs. Beard, 87 SiPi.. (2d) 883.
Tharefore, we hold that when, the dlstriat is loaatad whol- ly within one oountg and the area of tha proposed diatrlot is more than ona hundred square miles, and not more than seven sohool dia- trlots are involved, that the oounty sahool trustsea OS tha prtlau- lar county may aall an aleotlon for the purpoee o? fonnlng a rural high sohool distriot of more than one hundred square miles, and not to exceed aeven elementary distrlota wlthout the oozment or the trustees or the IIUO~~~S distriots Involved; aid if a majority of’ all or tha ale&ore votin at the aleotion held ror that purpose, and the whole of the terr tory lnvokved, vote in favor OS such formatlon f OS a rural high school Uistriot, it 1s tha duty or the oounty aahool tNStOeS to (I) Or&JaniZS the 88mr).
Yours very truly GSB:FG
AlT.ORNEYGE3ERAL OF TEXAS