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Hon. Wallace T. Barber, Page 2, (V-642)
The Board of Trustee s of San Marcos Independent School District
is desirous of establishing its own tax office where the valuations may
be equalized by a Board of Equalization, the members of which to be
appointed by the School Board and where the property values may be
fixed and raised with a view to producing sufficient revenue to pay the
teachers in accordance with the minimum salary schedule and to pay
the other necessary maintenance expenses of the district.
Question No. 1 Is the San Marcos Independent School District,
same being a rural high school district, classed as a common school
district and governed by the laws relating thereto except as modified
by the rural high school laws, or is said district classed as an inde-
pendent school district, and governed by the laws relating to independ-
ent school districts except as modified by the rural high school laws,
Chapter 19A ?
Question No. 2 : For tax purposes, is the entity known as San
Marcos -independnt School District governed by and. boundto follow
Article 2922L or is it governed by and bound to follow Article 2791?
Article 2922a, Vo C. S, reads, in part, as follows:
"In each organized county in this State and in any county do
which shall hereafter be organized, the county school trus-
tees shall have the authority to form one or more rural
high schooldistricts, by grouping contiguous common
school dist icts having less than four hundred scholastic
population and independent school districts having less
than two hundred and fifty scholastic population for the
purpose of e,~tablishig and ope rating rural high schools,
provided also that the county school trustee s may annex
one or more :ommrn. col dst r 3cts or one or more in-
depender: shrhol d.ict.: haring le s than to hundred
and fifty scholafic population to a common school dis-
trict having for hundred or more scholastic population
or to an indepe e t dit v~hngtwo hundred and fifty
or more scholatirpopulation
Article 2922b, V. C. S., is as follows,
"'Rural high school districts as provided for in the preced-
ing article shall be classed as common school districts,
and all other district, whether common or independent,
composing such ru~a high school district shall be referred
to in this Act as elementary school districts; provided that
all independent school dist 'icts enlarged by the annexation
thereto of one or more common school districts provided
for in Article e91Za shaD retain its status and narmte as an
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-642, text, July 28, 1948; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth265461/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.