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OFFICEOFTHEATTORNEYGENERALOFTEXAS
AUSTIN
GROVER SELLERS
A7rORNc-v
OCNLRAL
Hunurable T. 3. TriaBl8
#iret n*si*tant
;tsta supsriateabent of Pub110 ~Inrtrootlon
&attln, Teraa
We are in ret
reading a8 ioUon8r
know whfoh law 8hoold
OS alderzen or a olty
lo h o o tr
l u8tee85
bore quertion ha8 b8en r&mad ~JI
lntinent of trumtee8 for the Oater-
Johool Distrlot, rhloh ir 8 dirtriot
8taaoe rho5 the olty la8um% oontml
:i" it8 8ObaOl8 on August Lb, 18m.
“Your urual proqt attention to thlr opinion
r8qurat will bo gently appraoiatr%.*
iionorrble T. Al. Triable, page 2
The pertinent part of hrtiolr g774a is 3ootion
1, which provider a8 f01lUW81
%~w118 and oitlar which b0T8 heretofore
Oh0885 tnefr trUStee8 by apQOintSSnt Of th8 Oity
0~~5011 or board cf aldsrirm, shall be authorlxed to
005ti5U8 to OhOOSO their tSU8t8.8 l0
thi8 ma55er;
that la, by the appointnunt by tha board or aldar-
aen of said olty or town; provided, that seven trur-
t808 shall ba 4$pOi5t8d, thror Of Whom *ha11 8erT8
for one year, and two for two year8 and two for threr
J8W8, and raah year th8r@lSft8r, t&88 trUBt8.8 OT
two trueteem *hall bo appointed for a term or three
yoora; an& rurther provided, that 05 a petition of
twonty-Sive per cant 0r the voter8 or any such city
or town, to bo asoertalned by the ballot8 aast at
the regular city eleotlon ln said oltp or town, the
sryor of 8uOh olty or town shall order an el8otfon
to determine whother or not th8 school affair8 of
suoh olty or town shall be directed by a aohool
board lloated 15 aooordaooa wlth th8 provfeionr of
this ohagter; and, I5 caaa or a5y affir;aatlvevote,
an eleotioo shall at onoo be ordered by the said
myor, ror the purpose 0r OhOOaine(a school board
oonslrtlng or %eren trusteoa, am provided in the
auooeeding art iola. *
abition 7, Chapter 68, Aota or the Birth Called
iiessfun, 4lst hglslsture, whlon is the rapziallngolauso of mtl-
018 8774a, provide8 a4 r0il0w48
“All hW8 Or hW8,
and &UAEtll both general
and apeolal, in oonfllct with the pr~vleions of thlr
AOt *fe hereby r8p8a18d.*
Thl8 Opinion is bared Up05
the a88UJSQtlO5that
th4 City of &ate8Yilla 18 5Ot 4 ha4 rule Oity
and 18 5ot operated
under a lpe~lal charter. we l88U1DIthat it :4 opersted under the
general law*.
Eonorablr T. U. Trl&b~a, gaga 3
Con4ldrrinsgtb strtutee abow quoted, yoa
are advlsod that th4 ,iot of 19;36warnrrpealrd by Choptrr 64,
quoted, in part, above, snd that th* Sotrrd o? Aldrr.:un or
City COUnOi1.ObcU1d OpQrst8 under m%rt101827744 48 it QOW a&+
pear8 ia Vemoat8 Amtotutsd Civil 4atute8, said artlala gro-
tiding ror t three year t8rm for 8ohoo1truatos4.