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<p>OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 
AUSTIN 
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<div class="ocr">Honorable T. # Teisblie, First desietant, Page 2

The basis for distribution of the money appropriated
under Senate Bill No. 163 is provided in Sestion 3 whieh reads
ia part as folicwre:

; “Provided that eaekh of the abcve Publis
denier 6613 shall qualify within the re-
quirenenta of this Aes; and provided further
that the funds here appropriated ehall be ais-
bursed to and distributed enoag the Publie
sunier Colleges which err te reseive it
on the basis of Pitty ($56.00) Dollere per capita
for each full time student yer achoiastic year,
end providing that ‘full tine stodent’ as herein
used is defined ae a student deing fifteen (15)
senester hours of work, and that the sunber of
full time stuéents enrolled in any school to te
benefited by this Act shail beymin a
hividing the sotel Aumber OF semegtes: Rov

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The Legislature has adopted the above quoted nethod
of alloeation or distribution of the funde appropriated. It
has based the allegation of $50.00 per capite for seah full
time student for each soholastia year and has deternined the
number of full time students enrolled by dividing the total
nunver of senester hours that were carried by atadenta
of the achool by fifteen. It ia apperent that the Legisla-
ture has nade no distinstion between the reguiarly enrolled
atudents which are non-residents of this State as well as the
atudenta which are residents of Texas. We believe 1% to be
plain thet the 950.00 per capita beais should be based on all
atudents of the sehool regularly enrolled whieh woulé include
out of State students,

Yu your seeond question you inquire whether or not
4t will be necessary for Junior College te establish
a Junior College Distriet and levy a special tax to support
the college defore it will be entiticeé to the benefits pro-
vided in said Senate Biil No. 163.

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<div class="ocr">Honorable T. %, Trimble, First Assistant, Fage 3

t ‘late In Seetion inet paid Senate Biil Fo. 163 the
egialatare provid he eppropris one mde shall be
apportioned exong eertain Junior Colleges. One of the cole

leges #0 named ie Texarkana Junior College at Texarxena.
Tne Leyisleture alno provided innediately below the listing
Of the Sunior eolisges sligibie to receive the appropriation
made in eald Act that each of the Publis Junior Colleges
named must qualify within the requirements of the Act.

. The requiresents for partietpation ia the appro-~
feations made in sald Senate Bill are set out in Section
of eald Act which reads as follave:

"To be eligible for and to reseive a pro-
portionate share of this appropriation, a Publie
sunior College aust be acoredited as a first
Glass Junior College by the State Department af
Bducation,.and the State Departaent of Education
is hereby authorized to set up rules and provi-
sions Dy which Public Junior Colleges oay be ine
epeoted and acoredited, And provided further

at to be eligible to perticl se in any biennial
appropriation, eeaeh Publie Junier College shail
offer a miniann of twenty-four (21) sesestex hours
of vocational and/or terwinal eourses., And pro-
‘wided further that in order to be sligible to
partiolpate in any biennial appropriation each
Public Junior College shall have complied witn all
existing laws, rules and reguiaticns governing tho
eabablishment and maintenance of Fublis Junior
Colleges, It shall be sandatory thet seach iastitu-
tien participating in the funda herein provided shall
ecllect fron each pupil enrolled, matriculation and
other session fees not less than the azounte pro-
vided for by law and by cthear state supported in-
atitutions of higher learnings as provided in Arti-
oles 26544, 26548, and 26546 Revised Civil statutes
of Texas."

Nowhere in fection 2 la it provided that the Junior
Colleges nemed must form Junior College Distriote and levy
maintenance taxer to support aane before they will be antitied

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<div class="ocr">Honorable fT, H. Trimble, First Asaistant, Page 4

te the benefits provided by sald Act. It is made nandatery
that sach inetitution in erler to be cligible must cherge

the snrollment, matriculation and other seasion fess required
by Articles 2554A, 26543 and 26546 of the Revised Civil
Statutes of Texas. 4 is pointed out in this sonaestian that
Article 26546 above mentioned sets out not only the fee for
resident etudsnts but alao the fees for noa-resident students.

Xt ia our opinion t:08 1% 1s not necassavy for
Texerzana Junior College to establish a Junior Coliege Distriet
ant levy a speeial tax to support the eolleges before it will
be aligibie bo she benefits provided in Sanate 9111 163. all
that is neeessery for Texarkana Junior College to be eligible
to recesive its share of the above appropriation is far it to
eoaply with the provisions of Seation 2, supra.

VED JUL 16, 1 Yours vory truly

ATIOVNEY GENMAAL OF. PEXAS

FIRST ASSISTANT By /
ATTORNEY UE
EY GENERAL BiVly Colaberg
Assistant

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