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1992 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
VALIDATING FORMATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
H. B. No. 142.] CHAPTER 65.
An Act to validate school districts attempted to be established by the
annexation or joining of a part of a county line commopi school district
to a contiguous school district after an election held in said
common school district
to divide it and/or annex or join a part or
parts thereof to a contiguous district or districts whether by order
of a county board of school trustees or of a County Commissioners
Court where said election resulted favorably to division and/or annexation
or joining and said order of annexation or joining was in
accordance with the terms of the order calling said election pertaining
to said division and/or annexation, and where said order was made
by county board or Commissioners Court of a county containing a
part of said county line common school district, and in addition thereto
a part or all of the district to which a, part of said county line common
school district was annexed or joined; providing that a district
established by annexing or joining a part of said county line common
school district to a contiguous county line rural high school district
shall exist and function under the laws. governing county line rural
high school districts; validating elections held in districts validated
herein to issue bonds for a lawful purpose or assuming indebtedness
lawfully chargeable against a part only of such districts; to validate
all bonds' issued pursuant to said elections and now outstanding and
all bonds voted thereat but not yet issued, exempting from this Act
districts, obligations, tax levies, and district acts now involved in litigation,
and likewise exempting from the operation of this Act districts
returned to their original status, and recognized as such by the
proper authorities'; providing that the unconstitutionality or other
invalidity of any part of this Act shall not affect the remainder thereof;
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. All school districts heretofore attempted to be
established by the annexation or joining of a part of a county
line common school district to a contiguous school district after
an election held in said common school district for the purpose of
dividing it and/or annexing or joining a part or parts thereof to
a contiguous district or districts, whether by order of a county
board of school trustees or a County Commissioners Court, are
hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated in all respects, provided,
however, that said election shall have resulted in favor of division
and/or annexation or joining, and provided further that
the order of annexation or joining shall be in accordance with
the terms of the order calling said election respecting a division
and/or annexation or joining; and provided further that such order
shall have been made by a county board of school trustees or
Commissioners Court of a county containing a part of said county
line common school district, and in addition thereto, a part or
all of the district to which a part of said county line common
school district is annexed or joined. Wherever a part of such
county line common school district has been annexed or joined
by such an order to a contiguous county line rural high school
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1937-1939 [Volume 31], book, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18824/m1/270/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .