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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Hon. Ray Lackey
County Auditor
Yoakum county
Plains, Texas
Dear Sir: opinion moo. O-7009
a Rural High SC
carefully conside
request as follovsa
three hundred
n's huotated Texas Clvll
county in this State
all hereaitep be organized,
Statutes, reads as follgrsr
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“No rural high school district, a8 provided
for herein, shall contain a greater area than
one hundred square miles, or mom than seven
elementary school districts, exoept t&t the
county school board of school trustees may form
rural high school districts, aa Provided in
Artiole 2922a, containing more than one hundred
square miles, upon a vote of a majority of the
quallfled eleotors In the aald proposed rural
high school district voting at an election
called for such purpose; and provided further,
that the said board of oountp school trustee8
may form a rurnl high rchool dlstrlot containing
more than seven elementary districts upon a
vote of a msjoritg of the qualified voters in each.
of the elementary districts vlthin such proposed
rural high school district.”
Your letter does not state hov the rural high school
district was created, hovever, for the purpoaea of thla opinion
ve will assume that it vas lawfully established.
Article 2922b, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil
Statutes, rends aa follows:
“Rural high school districts as provided
for In the preceding article shall be classed
as common school districts, and all other dia-
trlots, vhether commonor independent, composing
such rural high sohool dlatrlct shall be re-
ferred to Ln this Act as elementary school
dlstriots; provided that all Independent school
districts enlarged by the annexation thereto of
one or more common school districts es pr6vlded
for in Artlole 29228 shall retain Its status
nnd name as an Independent sohool district, and
shall continue to operate as an independent
school district under the provision8 of the ex-
isting lavs and the lavs hereafter enacted
governing other independent school dlst+cts, ex-
cept as otherwise provided for herein.
Article 2922k. Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil
Stetutes, reads as follovsr
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“All ruNi1 high schoola vlthin a rural
high school district hereln providad for shall
be under the immediate control of the board of
school truetess for such rural high achoola,
and such board of school trustees shall be under
the control and supervision of the counts
superintendent and county board of sohool true-
tees, and shall be subject to the same provi-
sions of lav and restriction8 that WOmpOzI SChOOl
districts are nov subject to. except where
otherwise provided herein.” (UnderscorIng ours)
Article 2750, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil SW-
tutes (applicable to common school districts) reads in part as
f ollovsr
“Tmstees of a district shall make con-
tracts vlth teachers to teaoh the public schools
of their district, but the oompensation to a
teacher, under a written contract so mde,
shall be approved by the county superintendent
before the school la taught, stat- that the
teacher vi11 teach such school for the time and
money specified in the COntrOct. .~ . .*
It is our opinion that your question should be
ansvered in Lhe affirmative, and it is SO an8vwered.
Very truly yours
ATTORHEYOENERALOFTEXAS
BY Wm. J. Penning
Assistant
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