Case Information
*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
Houorablo 1). Y. Trlmble, Pirat Aaristant
;$ytiSur&.tendent of Public Instruotl
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Dear Stir
MS, you epolosed a letter PubUe Schools, nnd JOU ttere oontained in aald to 08k the city of wuc30 to r the raising of the tes rate operation of ths aohoola, We whiohwouldbe rlO$mtm L3. The aity ~LlthO~ftieS
d not be f+afe In asking for 8mre1 as the ainking hula may possibly in. the distant fduz'8. Only la+ is being used now.*1
92. Is there anything to hinder the Woo0 .schoo~e, from &etting next year the rural iii&h aohool. tuuitbn on all junior and senior ai& echo01 pupils who uome under t&s arwnded Rural Aid law? We have 80108 who
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vi13 some under the clauee 'rttendiag the publio mhoolr from en orphans' honm within the city.' PJ
The Wsoo sahools uere ifrat provided Sor in 1889, $8 8lrt Legislature, Ohapter 17, House Bill Ho. 368, page
. This ma8 an A& inoorpontlng the city or W800.
6eotlon 42 of mid Howe Bill Ho. 368 provided aa r0ii0w8 t
esear ML.The oorpomtton &eated by this act ehall be P rreparate nohool dlutrlot upon it8 com- plianoe with the statute8 of this state In such eaae1), and hall have full power to take charge or, govern, oontrol# and pP*tnln free echools within eaid oity eubjeat to the constitution and law OS this state and In oompllenos timrerith, and until altered
ohaqed, amended, or repealed all rulea, resolu lone, reguzl8tioM, and ordl- uanoeb in ref%menee to rrald scheole now in effect in eald alty ahal& remalnmdkmve fullforoe and effeot over all tsrritory inoluded in the OOX3?OF8- tion hereby oreoted.".
Pt'ovi8i0n 18 tie0 made in the prseent &t'rtex' of the City of Woo (Charter, adopted Deoember 89, 10X5, and amn& mente thereto). See Articles 309 to 53.8, lnoluusive. Art&ale 832, whloh l uthorl.ses a- tax for the support and malntenanoe OS the pub&z free sohoole, read es follorat
"Art. 212. In additioa to Mount levied for nrunioiprlpurpoaea vhiohehaU not 8zOeedtti SUEI of on0 end eighty4Lve one-m&the of one per oent, said Board &all, by ordlnanoe, annually levy and collect for the support and maintenance of publio free schools In the City of Waco an nmount not axoesding the emounta hereinafter e,et forth for the reepeative yeem, to-witt Sixty-elx *3 Honorable T. Y. Tvable, pwe #S
one-hundredths of one per oent t&d valora~Ataxes of the aaaeaaed value of all property aubjeot to t8x8tion for tba year 1es1: sixty-aeven oue-
hundredths OS one per oexlt8dv8loPem taxes Of the oaaeaaed v8lue of all property subject to tax8tIon Sor the yeax 19S8J Sixty-eight ono- huudredtha of one per oent 8d w8ba taxes of the raaeaaed value of all property subject to taxation for the year 1993; Seventy one-hun- &e&ha OS one par oent ad valoram tuea of the aaeeaaed value of all propert aubjeot to tax- l tlon fo r tha ye8.r 19% awl L l aubaequent pears; provided the levy for the aqj~3rt md nuintcmanoe oi publlo free schools 8halX ~tatcenatloallymduoe the levy Soc Blrrtolpal plarpoma a0 that tot4
taxes shall never erased two and SiSty one-bun- dredthsperoentforany one year.
.It la seen that the maximum tar authorized by the above-quoted p~~viaion for the year 1934 and subsequent years la !seve.nty one-hundredtha of one per oent ad vrloriu~ taxes OS the saaaaaed value of all praperty aubjeot to taxation **it", rhioh la, we understan& the present rate vhioh la levied.
You axe, therefore, advised that under the aharter, of the City of Wtaoo the maxiuuta tax uhioh aan be levied for the support ami amintenanoo of the Waoe Ipdependeut &boo1 Diatriot la 70/ per one hundred dollars of the saaeaaed valuation of the property aubjeot to taxation,.
In your aooond question you aalc whether t&e 'Naco Inde- pendent School District is ollglble for hi&h school tuition aid under the tems of the rural aid bill for 1943-1945 (Acts 194S, 48th Leg., RI S., Il. B. 176) for pupils from an orpha-mne! home in the diatrlot who attend the diatrlot schools.
Qn July Sl* 1942, the State Superintendent asked us the aaate question with reapeat to the 1941-1945 Aot (Acts 1941,
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47th Leg., R. so, Ch. S49, B. 8. 884). and in Opinion 80. 04785, rendered August l9, 1949, we l dvfaed Hm that the m-0 Independent Sohool Dlatrlot 8aa not eligible for suohoidbeosuaeoi twomonsr
1. Artlalo I of the 19U &at 8et forth wh8t dlatrlota Sootion wers 0 blo to reoelve the rural rid bsrufita. Y of hrtfo l I #et out th e sohol88tlo p c pu htlon b rwketa of the aohool dlatrlota entitled to receive auoh benefits. Under that reotlon cmly those dicltrlcta which hnd not fewot than 8onorwreth8nBooonlglnuuwwr8 ted acholaatlca we- euglblu tar al&# With thaws oortqln uaoptions, none OS tiah wes?b 8pplioable bo the k&o Uatrlot. The Wcoo dtr- trfot lmd l soholo~tio p o pulot.%on ef wre th4n ll,OOO, rhish fiatn~ pseedudthe SOON wd thl8 hator rendendtha dbtrlo ixyugibk.
8. That part of Artiole XV (Hia Boheol Tuition) which 8frestea pqplls from an orphatnu' lmw m8du 8u follow:
"It la fkrthw provided that tulfl(on rid ft uaa our opinion that %rumSerred into a districta meant tumsferrsd iKtm one biatriot into mother dinerlot; therefore, 88 pupl.la from the 0 u in Wwo reslds in W800 and 8re resident roholastioi of o I dependent school Dietriot, mmh pup%ls mre not ntranaSerre% into" the Uiatrlot. &moo, the provlaioP8ae LtmpplloaMe.
l?ha oorrsoimesa of this conaluaion man borne out by tha phrase *ae above set out.* Buch phrase imcesaarily re- *EL&i achoef Sewed t0 that p8rt of Artisle IV which ma& tuition &all be pa%& aooardlng to the prev%aiona of Rouse Bill No. 288, OanamA Zaws, &egular Eeaalen, Forty-Fourth Legla&ture, 8s wqxdod, sad aubjeet to the liaitationa prol vlded in this AaLa
1.64 Rouse BZll NO. 158 authoriBe8 the tr~for of a high school student from his home distriot to another die- trict when hlr grade is not f&z&t in Us &nne bistrlct.
see opinion No. 0-4753 for a full disou68ion of this pint.
The 1943 Aot ohangss the provlrlon relating to the It is'~rOYided hi the 1943 Aot pupils rrom an orphans hame. aa followsr E-cran assunri~ that Ws ohsnge.dooe way rith the seo- and objsotion Usted above, we still have the f%.rst objsction confronts us, for the X948 Aot. in Attlole .I ($ll&ibilltj for Aid),still a?ntains the W-h500 aoholaatic pojmlstlon ll.mLt- ation.
An 6xtonded disouseion of tha first objeotion w%ll not be neoessary here, for th8 aam 8as fully discussed in *inion l3h O-4763, a uopy of vildoh i6 herswith enolo84U.
It is our opinion Gat the fact that the Waoo Indepsnd- ent School Xetrlct ihas Fn exoer46 of SO0 soiaoluetlo population renders it lnel¶.glble to reosiva rural nid benefits under the 1943 Act. It aill, thert?fare, be unnecessary for ua to de- termine whether there are other provisions L-I tim Airt srhich render the Waco dietrint lnellglble to,receivo aid (See Artiole I, Section 3, LAstrace betveen &ahools).
You are, the&fore, advisea that We WBoo Independent Schm1 Mstriat is not entitled to sigh school tuftian aid for *6 pupils Sraa an orphans* horn in the distriat who attend tim tiatriot aohools*
APPROVED OPINION WUYll7LL T&%3 c,