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<div class="ocr">THe ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF TEXAS

AUSTin, TEXAS

Gerald C. Mann
RYE Pas

ATTORNEY (iN MEAL

Hote Ae 4. Sutton Opinion Hos On 3436

County .uditer Rei Consolidation or annexation of
anderson County school diatricts which have bonded

Palestine, Texas indebtedness

Dear sir: .

We have received your ietter of recent date which
we quote in part as follows:

"Flease advise ma whether or not the fact
that a school district has « bonded indaebted-
ness against it would prevent ite consolidation
with or annexation to another school district."

We assume frou your question that are interest-
ea in the situation where an entire scheol district is te be
consolidated with ancther school district. You wish te know
whether the fact that ths echool district has a bonded in-
debtedness would prevent such conesclidation. Your Los
fis general. in nature, and it will be anevered .

article 2806» Yernon‘s annotated Civil Statutes, is
a general lew which au the consolidation of school
districtea and eet out the procedure to be followed. Article
2807 provides fer the assuaption of cutestanding bonds. Arti-
cle reada as follows:

“If at the tine of such propesed consolida-
tion there are outstanding bonds of any of such
districts, then at an election held for that pur~
pose on sone future day, there shell de, or at
the election held for the purposes of consolida~
tion, there aay be, subsitted to the qualified
tax paying votera of such proposed consolidated
district the question ag to her or not the
said consolidated district shall assume and
off said outstanding bonds and whether or no
a tax shall be levied therefor. If said sleetion
on t..e question of easuumin: said cut standing
bends ie held on the day upon which the election
on the question of consolidation is held, there
ahail be separate notices, ballots, and ballot
boxes and tally sheets for the two separate elec-
tions. If a erity of said voters should vote
at either of said elections to assume and pay off
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said bonded indebtedness, then said bonded
indebtedness shall becoze valid and subsist-
ing oblivations of said consclidated dis-
trict, and the er oer officers therecf shall
_apnueily thereafter levy sufficient texes to
pay the interest thereon as it accrues and to
pepate a sinking fund whieh in addition te
the sinking funds already accumilated in the
original bonded district will pay off and re-
tire the said outstanding bonda when they
shall becone due.”

In view of irticles 2806 and 2807 you are respect-
folly advised that the fact that a school diatrict has cute
standing a bonded indebtedness would not in itself prevent
tee district froa dDeing consolidated with another school dfise-

et. ;

; with respeet to the grouping of districts inte or
consolidation of rural high school districts we refer you to
Title 43, Chapter dinateen 4, and especially 4rticles yg22n4
2922h, and 2$922aa, Yernscn s tated Civil Statutes.

APPROVED APR 9, 1942 | Very truly yours
/a/ Grover Sellers . ASTORREY GENSRAL OF TREAS
FIRST —Anststant ATTORNEY By /a/ Geerge W. Sperks |

. George Ws Sparks, Assistant
APPROVEDs OPINION COMMITT ER a
BY: BWE, CHATRMAN

GuSsdbewb
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