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1554 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
RELATING TO ELECTIONS FOR TAXATION IN INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN CERTAIN
COUNTIES.
S. B. No. 51.] CHAPTER 379.
An Act providing that in all independent school districts having 150
scholastics or more, whether created by general law or by Special Act
of the Legislature, situated within any county having not less than
350,000 population according to the last preceding Federal Census, if
an election shall have been called and held by the trustees or other
governing board of any such school district authorized to call such
an election or any such election shall hereafter be ca.lledf by the trustees
or other governing board of any such school district for the purpose
or purposes of determining whether a maintenance tax shall be
levied in any such district or bonds of such district shall be issued and
if at any such election the vote shall have resulted contrary to the
proposed tax or bonds, the trustees or other governing board of any
such school district shall be authorized to call and cause to be held
another election at any time thereafter at which there may again be
submitted either the proposition to levy a maintenance tax or to issue
bonds of such district, or both; repealing all laws, both general and
special, in conflict herewith which provide a definite time which shall
elapse between such elections within any such school districts; and
declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That in all independent school districts having 150
scholastics or more, whether created by general law or Special
Acts of the Legislature, situated within any county having not
less than 350,000 population according to the last preceding Federal
Census, if an election shall have been called and held by the
trustees or other governing board of any such school district, or
any such election shall hereafter be called by the trustees or
other governing board of any such school district, for the purpose
or purposes of determining whether a maintenance tax shall
be levied within said district or bonds of said district shall be
issued and if, at any such election, the vote shall have resulted
contrary to the proposed tax or bonds the board of trustees or
other governing board of any such school district shall be and it
is hereby authorized to call and cause to be held another election
at any time thereafter at which there may again be submitted
either the proposition to levy a maintenance tax or to issue bonds
of such district, or both.
SEC. 2. All laws, both general and special, providing a definite
time which shall elapse between any such elections within
any such school districts covered by this Act are hereby expressly
repealed, insofar as they conflict with the provisions of
this Act.
SEC. 3. The fact that, due to certain restrictions now existing
respecting time within which elections may be called in certain
school districts for the purpose of providing maintenance
taxes and the issuance of bonds, certain school districts may lose
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1935-1937 [Volume 30], book, 1937; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18825/m1/40/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .