YXIHEA~%OPNEY GENERAL.
OX? TEXAS
PRICEDANIEL
ATTORNEY
GENERAL
biay 24, 1948
Hon, Graham BPuce Opinion No. V-585
County AttoPneg
Omnge County Rae: Tire llmitatlon, ii
Orange p Texas any9 befoPe an elec-
tion to incoPpoPate a
school a~stPic?t My
follow an dlection
which abolished an
fndependent school
aistpict *
Dear Sips
We pefep to youp le%teP which peade In sub-
stance as follows “,
On MaPch 20, 1948, fn the Brfdge
city Independent School Dfstaict-of
Wang8 r;ountg an election wa8 h8Pd w-
dsr Article 2767, Pesultfng in a uJoP-
ltg favoring the abolishmen% of the In-
dependent DfstPict, A petftion has been
presented to the Cotq~ty Yudge 0% OPange
County in pPoper POP8 requesting an elee-
tion to i&ooP)oPate said distP%ot aondep
Article 2757 0
Questions After ,an independent
school distpiot has been aboU:shed un-
d8P ktlcle 2767, 9s there any time Ii-
aitation befoP an election can be had
to IncoPpoPate under k%fole 2757?
Ue assu8e for puPposes of this opinion that
the teppitopy forae~ly compPi3ing the B~Ulge Gftq &x&e-
pendent School Dlat~fet fa now cOn%ain8d in an 6xi~tlq
xomon school Metrlct and, as suohl fe a aonoa Us-
tPlct authopiebd to IncixpoPate m~dep ktfcle 27579
APticle 2767, Ve~non”o CIvIp Itrtute,, )Po-
vides for the call wad holding of eleQ%ions Sor the
abolishment or an 12 spended% school distPiet. APtic1e
2757 pPovldes.foP the calling and holding of elections
Hon. GPahm Bruce, page 2 b-585)
for the incorporation of a comon school district oen-
taining aeven hundred inhabitants or mom. fkithsr of
thoss statutes, mer sag otlw, attempts %a fix any p8r-
iod of time to lmterv6ne between elections to abolish,
eleotions to Incorporate, op elections to lncorpqrlte
after a nllectlon to abolish has suaoessfully carfled
O)lrlen O-2572,
Thbrefere, after an iBdep6RdeB% sohoel dis*
trlct has been abeliahed under &ticle. 2767$ tbme his
no tine Limitation before an election oati be kad %e i8-
oeqorrte under the provisioxw of Article 2757.
After an independent 8chool cLis%rict
had been abolished un&@ Aptiale 2767, Vb
cl? se, there IB DO tire liti%a%lOn bsfwe
an electlen can be hrd to incorperate um-
p the p~ovlsiona of &Mole 27579 V, ,C.
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