Case Information
*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable K. D. Ball
County Attornsy
R8ruglo county
RcfuSio, Tax88 1940, rrqucs
whloh latter re FTam thr mom- aa for the Siohool
%ahool Dirtrlct $5 18 now ready to tote mar mm8 bond8 the land mmr
who om8 tha 22,000 aores oi land ha8 -.. .___-..-__ _-.- .1^“.._” ^_.._^.. ^_ -*--- .-..*-.U
Honoreb1r.K. D. Eall, page 2
not paid all thb taxer which wa8 a88arad agalmt hlr property dnr to the above ah-a.
What I want know 18 whrthrr or not a tax now can be Lz~ally PeSSSOCd agoinot thr 22,000 aCrC8 of land tsksn frm Eohool
Diatriit 84 an8 put with School Dictrict
#5 during the year 1925 a8 aboya mentlonea.
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mFor your IIUOmetlOn, ander SCHCOE, 37 T. J. F&ye 898, S8ction 38, and the oese8 aboye mentioned, are cftrd 8oae curatlyr rtetutae which 1 bclieyr ~111 make pro- cedure ralld ii tk.6 Sam ~8 illegal or lnyalld the U-6 the ,Dlstriot We8 craetad.w
The rpeolsl act ot the LeglSletUre to whloh you refer 1s Eausc Bill 363, Ch. 119, Special Law8 of Texas. 39th Leglslatare. 1925, 9. 352. Said act vidrs-I6 pert ir followi:
- *sac. 1. Th,t Capon Sohool Dletrlct Ro. 5 18 hereby oreatrd end rstiblirhrb in Erryllo County, Taxea, laeludlng therrln terrltorf de8crIbd brnet88 8ad bound8 as fOiiOW8 . . .
a. It I8 heraby rxprca6ll prO- =seo* 4. tldad that thr outrtandlng bond8d or other yalld Indrbtsdnr88 of said OOrpmon 8OhOol 5 8ha11 bcoom thr yalid and
di8triOt’sO. 8ublli8tIY& obligation8 Of thr OOZEIOI) school dlatrlot &o. 5, as crretrd thlr act, end all current contraotr for the aelntenanoe of the achoo18 of the raid
oo:-imon 8Ohool district MO. 5 and all
&~ocal taxaa heratorors euthorIord bf the 8aId district are hereby yalidated for the raid CopLlpon school district So. 5 in lW&X.Ct8.N
t-3 Honorable F. D. Hall, Pap,*
ns 8CCspt your stetsssnt that ths purpose or l ?f#Ct Of this lSgi8latiOn ~88 t0 add 8038 22,000 earsa of lsnd to 8ahool di8triSt HO. 5. to 1927, when Art1018 7, Esction 3, OS Frlor
thr Tsx88 Conrtltutlon was amndsd, thr Lsglslaturs ~68 authorlz8d to Ors8ts sohool dirtriOt 8ptOial acts, snd In lllm mannsr to attaoh tsrritorf to 8xktlng 8ohool dlrtriats. Thi8 too ~811 SSttlOd to rtqulrs is a cltatlon o? authorItie8.
Ssctlon L o? the act above quotrd, hmever, olsarly uncoastltutlonal se in rloletlon o? Artlels 7 Section 3, In that it sttsnptsd to rprsad the bond.4 lndsbtsdnss8 o? old aoramon sehool blstrlct F?o. 5 ovsr ths antlrs nsw dlstrlot, end ths local.aaIn- t8nanos taxes and taxes to 8srvlcs raid bond8 were attsoptsd to bs applied to th8 sntlrs territory without a tots of ths psopla In ths nswl7 anmxsd portion o?
ths district to determlns whrthrr ths 6lstrlot a8 thsn conatltutsd would consmt to ruch taxatlo% Constltu- tion, Artlals 7, Ssotlon 3; Lo+* te. Rookt:all Inddrpsn- dent School District (T. C. A. 1917, writ rsfursd) 194 5. E. 659: cU!l&l8 vs. Carton (T. C. A. 1908, writ rr?u8sd) 109 E. 'k'. 476; Crabb va. Cslests fnaspsndant aohool Dl8trict, 105 Texas 205,.146 s. F. 528;...Bati8 18. Dllley County Line Indrpsndsnt School Di8trlat (Coa. App. 1927) 295 E. F. 109li Young va. Edns Inds- $;;dsnt sohool Dtatrlot (Co% App. 1931) 34 S. B. (26)
In km8 ~8. Dllls~ COcnty Llna Zndaprndsnt school Dlcrtrlot, 8upre. Coaalsslon o? Apps8lr not onl7 hold a provl8lon In the act, lmllsr to Ssotlon L quotrd &ore, to be unconstltu~lontl, but ?urthrir held ths lnoalldlty o? such rsatlon also rmdersd thr WhOlO 8Ct Void. #a do not ?lnU It ndass8srf~ however, to exprss8 an opinion on thir point In dttsr~lnlng your quastlon.
l?uotrC..8 act8 o? the Ltgirlaturs had bean parssd contalnlng provl8lon8 similar Bsctlon & quctsd above, and ln order to avoid the rtsultr Mloh might follm ?rom ancon8tltutlonality o? all these sctl, ths
69 lionorabls K. D. Hall, psm
La@3~aturs ps88sd rttsrsl ralIdatlng sots dssigasd to St8 Yernon*a Texas CltIl iu8dr thir 4irtiault~.
statutse, Artlalts 28028, 26158-2, 28156-3, 2615g-6, 2815g-7, and 2el5S-8 (bsing~Act8 1929, &let Lagis&- tars, pegs ,666, Ch. 298; Acts 1931, L2nd Lsgl~leturs, ssoond Celled 6888ion, paEs 63, Ch. 39; Act8 1933, L3rd Laglelaturs, page 60, Ch. 31, Act8 193L. 43rd Ltglr- leturt, Third Celled c688100~ Vl3gt 9'0, Ch. 45: Acts 1935, 44th Ltglslaturs, pa&s 530 .Ct. 221; Acts 1535, 44th Ltglrlsturt, First cdl86 &88iO!l, PScS 1555, Ch. 380.) One Of the86 etatut@s, Article 2802a, wae aon8ldsrs~ applied by ths Co&niesIon of Appeals in Young vs. Edna Independent School District, u S.
OF. (24) under feats 8Isoet ldentlcal to those prsssntsd in your latter.
In that case the 39th Ltglslatarr had attach$rd tsrrltor~ to the Edna &dspsndsnt School District, and the plalntl?r had brotlght an action to rtrtimln the col- lsctlon OS any taxes alleging the act? attsxptsd to pl808 upon the newly added territory both bialntsnanos rmd bond tSXS8 0s old Edna DletrlCt without a tots fin rlolatlon of Section 3, Article a? the new dlrtrlct, 7 o? the Stats Canstltutl~, and that the 081s dist?iat was 8ttsspting to 1st~ and aollaat raid~taxe8 Fjthout bsting held 8.D Sl8OtiOn for 8uOh pUZ’pO8s. ft xb8 al80 Sllsgrd that the nsw dl8triot was about to issue bond8 in the 8\ta 0s @65,000 and leery e tax on the property 0s 8sld dlstrlot to par the lntrrs8t and crtats a proper 8bklug ?und thers?or, '8atd bond8 aud thXS8 having bran duly authorl8sd br an slsatlon held in 8ald nap dl8trlCt the $m8ags o? the.1925 act.- The court did Ku4 8ftsr pas8 upon tha qucstlon of *mether the uucon8tltatlonal pcrtioq.or the act destroyed the ralldlty of that part ortatl%g dIstrict,.but held 88 tollow8:
nUnder authority of Lyford Indspsn-..
dsqqt School District 18. 1Clllaaer Intlapsn-
dent $ohool District, 34 S. a. (26) 854, this d#l dscldsd by thi8~ csctlon 0s tlIr
eomaieslon, we hold that the vslidatlu& act parsed the regular s68sion of ths Clst Lcgl8lsturs or Texas, being 6. P. 3%. ch.
298, p. 666 (vtmOn'8 kmOtSt@d ClTu
Statutes, Artlcli 2802a) iullf 8et out
In ths abota asntlonod opinion, has .effact *5 Eatwrabla K. D. Bell, pa&a 5 and meka legal thr now Edna
to valldata ind~D.Dd~t school dietriot. tORdthW rlth-e&1 tsxaa and bond8 roiad 6 the
new district, l la that ragar YIAi?-
rhrtbrr l uoh district wee valid tha tlinr of lta crtrtloa or not, l quaatlon
wo do not now pas8 on. (UnCcraaoring
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*it follw?e iron what ws here l ald or TOUGHS pation the t ell of t pnrt the leeuaocs and to enJoin mLloh arsks . . -. .m eel8 ot the bon88 of tn6 neu EQ~ lnarprn-
dent aohool, dletrlct in the aus of $65.000. l~rylne end oall.ootion of ttiiax -
an4 the duly rotod for euoh mmowae, atataa - (Undaraoorlng owe)
no caaaa of ectlon.* Tha oourt than held that although the orsatloE or tha dsstrlct hcd bean rall4ated and ,that bonds and .tarea tbuaafttr rotad mldht be lrvld and oollectod; bond and malnteneaoa tares or the old dletrlct whloh bed mtor haan aaaumod or authorins en alootion hold for porpoao after ttaohmuit of tarrltory to thr old OOPld not be larlaa end oollaoted WithOKt a dlatrlot, rota aa required br Ssctlon 3, Article 7 of thr state Conatltutlon. It nrcrsaary to set out
Ea do not conalder Art1010 2802e at langth, but not.0 that by lta cxpraaa torma, it elao appllra to eomon aehool dlatrlcta.
hour oitatlon of thr io ragolng l ota of the Laglelatara and the application of Artlclr 2802a aa the orcatlol: 0r thla dlatrlot ~4th validating ita addrd trrrltory, the laauanc6 of bond8 and prnalttlrrg 14~7 of taxer properly eubmlttrd .to a rota or the poop10 thareaftsr, ahould h& be conatruad aaggsat- lng that ruoh prorlalona es err contelned in Seotlon 2 or Artlolo 2815g-7 are themkslrea conetitutlonel, elncr th8 Ltdlaleturus does not hate thi ralidet8 poier la ulthoat oonatltutlonel that whlah power to uathorlze. it *6 Ronorablo K. D. Ball, pado 6
Johnson Y. Lln&ay (T. C. A. writ dl8mfaaed) 30 s. w. (24) 655; Olobr Indcmlt~ Co. vs. Barnes (T. C. A. 1926) 280 8. V. 275.
It la our opinion that aohool district No. 5 ot Rrftiglo Count7 mar now lsgelly lr+y an4 oolleot taxer on tba 22,000 aorea of land to raid 4latrlot by &use fill1 363, Ch, 219, Acts 39th Leglalaturr, Radular Saaalon,.for thr purpose or aanlolng bonds whloh it now propoata to 16~0; prorldad, howmar, that auoh bonds and tnrra ara prop6rly authorlmd an elaotion held fir that porpoar.
Yours itr~ truly AT’ERREY CERZRAL OF TEKM haelatant