HonorableRalph Logan
CountyAttorney
Ton Oreen County
San Angelo,Texan
Dear Sir: OpinionNo. O-3446
Re: Qual.iflcatlonr
of perronm
entitledto vote for
county schooltrusteea.
We receivedyour letter dated April 23, 1941, requestingour opin-
ion on the followingquestion:
Are the qualifiedvoters of the San Angelo Independent
SchoolDistrictproper electorsto vote for a member of the
CountyBoard electedfrom PrecinctOne a? Tom Green County?
We appreciateyour opinionand analysisof the questioninvolved
which you submittedwith your request.
You state in your letterthat the City of San Angelo lien wholly
within PrecinctOne.
Article2676, Vernon'sAnnotatedCivil Statutes,reads, in part,
a* follows:
"The generalmanagementand controlof the public free
schoolsand high schoolsin each county,unless otherwisepro-
vided by law shallbe vested in five (5) county echo01trustees
electedfrom the county,one of whom shallbe electedfrom the
countyat large by the qualifiedvoters of the cormton and con-
solidatedindependentschooldistrictsof the county,and one
from each Commissioners'Precinctby the qual.iffed voters of
Commissioners' Precinct,who shall hold offfce for a term of
two years. . -" (Underscoring ours)
We held in our opinionNo. O-3235 "that all qualifiedvoters of the
Commissioners' Precinctsof the countymay vote for the countyschooltrustee
from their respectiveprecinctswithoutreferenceto whether such votersre-
side in commonor independentschooldistrictsof whatsoevernature." We wish
to point out, however,that this rule is not applicableto the trueteewho
is electedby the countyat large.
HonorableRalph Logan,Page 2 (0-3446)
You are advisedthat all of the qualifiedvoters of Commissioners~
PrecinctEo. One, which includesthe San Angelo IndependentSchoolDistrict,
are proper electorsto vote for a member of the County SchoolBoard elected
from PrecinctOne of Tom Green County.
We enclosecopieeof our opinionsHoe. O-3235 and 0-2066wherein
the questionla more fully diecursed.
Yourn very truly
APPROVEDMAY 7, 1941 ATiXBEEYGEEEBALOFTEEAS
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