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GROVER SEERS , TX A
ATIroINY GCNerAtl.
Honorable Tom R. Mears
County Attorney
Coryell County
Gatesville, Texas
Dear Sir: Opinion No. 0-6178
Re: Right to withhold transpor-
tation aid under the Rural
Aid Act, and related question.
We have your letter of recent date to which you
attached a letter from the Trustees of the Evant Independent
School District setting out the circumstances of a disagree-
ment between the Evant Trustees and the County Board over
the most economical routing of a bus to the Evant School.
By reason of this disagreement the Trustees of the Evant
School have requested an opinion on the following questions:
"1. If the Ireland-Evant bus goes ahead and
runs over the public county roads through
Purmela and picks up no pupils in Purmela could
the county board lawfully withhold the Evant
District's transportation money?
"2. If the Ireland-Evant bus went through
Purmela against County Board's approval and
picked up only legal approved transfers to Evant
could the County Board lawfully withhold Evant
District's transportation money?"
In Article 5, Chapter 373, Acts of the Forty-
eighth Legislature, which is the Rural Aid Act, it is pro-
vided:
"The County Superintendent and the County
School Board of the several counties of this
State subject to the approval of the State Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction are hereby
authorized to annually set up the most econom-
ical system of transportation possible for the
purpose of transporting both grade and high
school pupils from their districts, and within
their districts. The County shall be regarded
as the unit and the warrant made payable to the
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6178, text, October 4, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth263456/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.