**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 



### Mar05 77, 1999

**Deer sir:** servlnij the remainder or the term tar vMoh **he was**  **elected** or appointed prior to the paesage **0r** tois aat.' jhrticle 2774~3,

Sectfoa 2, 

### Civil statutem,ulaotedIn 19s3, rdatlng to boards of trustees In aitlee and tovm vcheretba schools had not been removed r~m~~~ic-ipal contml. mada ss r0ii0w:

"In all such tovms and &ties having fewer *Aan seventy-five thousand population -)as shorn by the Federal Census of 192.0, tbs board of 

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### tow.& three yu&ra tp macaw6 thti tmeteee vthose turn shallet that **tlU** 

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### dietriet**ueder authority**  or **Se&ion S,**  

### or **Artt)le** 

### 7, or the Oorutltuflon, es amade& 

### aoa/or seotion10, **or** 

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### ~1%. of the Con8Ututlon. the 

### bounbariemof the 8ahool,wrporetlonbdngthe same sathe **boumhuieo of**  

### the city **or** 

### town and wh$oh,aia olty b*a a population 

### or thirty theuaend (96,000)or lees; aooordingto the lest preoodlngwt0a **Statss Cenaw** 
.”Section 2 pro-cities for a p3ttitloa the aeparatloo 0r t‘n9 sch00l rr0s munioipal. _- 

### sod electionlookingto control. seotloos preaorlbes the rorz cf ballot, Zectlon 4 lbr tbe aanrass 0r returns and deoleratIon of result and coqmrate name. Section **5** relates ta tin powers conferred, Section 

### 7 to the as8esaakent and oollaotion0r taxes, SeatIon 8 tc property rights, 5eotIon 9 to 

### bonds and outetandlng‘obllgatlons.

Seotlor 0, and Sections 10 **and** 11, of Artiole **27SSb** 

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: "That the nePsla,ers of 

### tbs Board or Bluoatlon orths 

### boerd of trustwe of sunhWtnIeipal

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### eftormeperatIonrtolammIalpel controluatIl fhelr tums 

### rorwhiah theybare boon elmkd or 

### ~appolatad, as Umoese my **bo,** shall have 

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### or until**t&lr** 

### au8aessor8**Ban bo6n**  

### eleotod upd: ~ualiflea~ 

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### theta gwurale@ation shall

### be held onthe rirst **Sattudq** 

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### the board oooar, 

### 0 purposeof sleotlag

### tmrt*ea for 

### aal4 vaaano~es **far 6**  tom 0r r0ur **(4) parag**  **pro** 

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### ai a 

### T~~IUOJ or rseI&eetIon

oi a member at the

### boardoftruatya, the raaaauy shellbe filledforth8 

### uno*pIrd tern bp qppointt~~t art60 b tae b0ua or tmt~k~?.:

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### any wution, untame, oleuee or phreao or this **Aat** 16 held to 

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### shall natefreotthevalidity0r 

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### h4t. HpaidA4t shallnot rapml eey1.a elree~~ in wlstenee, ard 

### eepd.elly 

### this**Aot** 

### ehellnot repeal **Chapter 302**  **(Art. 278Sa**  **1,** 

### 0r thr **Qu~eral** 

### tarr: passed **by** 

### thu Party-flrat Legislature,et fte Rsmlar 

### Se~sloa In 19.29, but seia law, as 

### abreoed id said Chapter,shellend **d-6** rwsin **in ruu**  

### for00anc.arreOtot, **pad**

If that part 0r 8*4ti0a ii ?qling that *this ii4t 8htm not %qmal any lava 8lroaQ -in uiatmme, 

### eat3 espa4lallysballnot rep061 Artlole P78?ie*.be

Interpretebso literallye8 ta mean thet aef Jew~oonoreblc Ralph Logan, Xaarch?7, 1939, Page 4

any city or tow continuing tooperate ~itbout taklne epventage or said hrtiole P763b.

krtiole 2774a, Section P, 

### et111 governs the length of' term of trustees in those alties and towns hsoing a population of lass than 73,CiQO

end riarethe aoimob are at111 mnIoI~slly oontrolled. ItwouldlIkewiss detenaine the length of term of trustees of a1044 districtswhioh have been divoroed fnxsmunIoIpe1 oontxvl undu krtlole 27836. However, Section 10 or 27831, makes speoIfI4 pmvision as to tbs length 0rt4m 0r the trustees in those ladependmt school Gistriots forrmd unaer the euthodty 

### of that ArtIdle. 

### The team rixed is dour pars end It 18 p33md0ethat 

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### held 6s Apti 1st of 

### eaoh year $n whIoh *rewsls8 

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