Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2534 Page: 2 of 5
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Honorable Walter M. Hilliard, Page 2
"SECTION 1. In any independent school district
having and including within its limits a city or town
which, according to the then latest Federal Census, had
a population of not fewer than seventeen hundred twenty-
one (1,721) and not more than seventeen hundred fifty-
one (1,751 inhabitants, and in all independent school
districts having territory located in as many as three
(3) counties and containing a county seat town with a
population of not less than four thousand two hundred
(4,200) and not more than four thousand two hundred
seventy-five (4,275) as shown by the last preceding
or any future Federal Census, the governing body thereof
shall have the power to levy and cause to be collected
the annual taxes herein authorized, subject to the follow-
in provisions:
"(1) For the maintenance of the public schools therein
an ad valorem tax not to exceed Ninety One-hundredths
($0.90) of a Dollar on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars
valuation of taxable property in the district;
"(2) For the purchase, construction, repair or -equip-
ment of public .free school buildings within the limits of-
such district arid the purchase of necessary s sites therefor-
an ad valorem tax not to exceed Sixty One-hundredths ($0.60)
of a Dollar on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars valuation
of taxable property in the district; such tax to be for the
payment of the current interest on and to provide a sink-
ing fund sufficient to pay the principal of the outstanding
bonds of such district and any bonds hereafter lawfully
issued ;
"(3) The amount of maintenance tax together with the
amount of bond tax of any such district shall never exceed
One and 50/100 ($1.50) Dollars on the One Hundred ($100.00)
Dollars valuation of taxable property within such d district;
and if the rate of bond tax together with the rate of main-
tenance tax voted or levied in any year in the district
shall at any time exceed One and 50/100 ($l.50) Dollars on
the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars valuation, such bond tax
shall operate to reduce the maintenance tax to the differ-
ence between the rate of the bond tax and One and 50/100
($1.50) Dollars."
Section 56, Article 3, of the State Constitution reads
in part as follows:
"The Legislature shall not, except as otherwise
provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special
laws, authorizing . . . regulating the affairs of coun-0-2534
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2534, text, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth259744/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.