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

Houorablo1).

Y. Trlmble,Pirat Aaristant ;$ytiSur&.tendent of Public Instruotl

, Dear Stir

MS, you epolosed a letter **PubUe Schools,**  **nnd JOU**  ttere oontained in aald

**to 08k**  **the city**  **of wuc30**  **to r**  **the raising**  **of the**  **tes rate**  operationof ths aohoola,**We** whiohwouldbe rlO$mtm L3. The aity ~LlthO~ftieS d not be f+afeIn asking for 8mre1 as the ainking hula may possibly in.the distant fduz'8. Only la+ is being used now.*1 92. Is there anything to hinder the **Woo0** .schoo~e, from &etting next year the rural iii&haohool. tuuitbn on all junior and senior ai& echo01 pupils who uome **under t&s**  arwnded Rural Aid law? We **have** 80108 who

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!Ionor&ble

T. P. Trimble,page #8

vi13 some under the clauee 'rttendiagthe publio mhoolr from en orphans'honm within the city.' PJ
The Wsoo sahools uere ifrat provided Sor in 1889, $8 8lrt Legislature, Ohapter 17, House Bill Ho. 368, page

. This ma8 an A& inoorpontlng the city or W800.
6eotlon 42 of mid Howe Bill Ho. 368 provided aa r0ii0w8 t

esear ML.The oorpomtton &eated **by this**  **act** ehall be P rreparate nohool dlutrlotupon it8 complianoe with the statute8 of this state In such eaae1), and hall have full power to take charge or, govern, oontrol# and pP*tnln free echools within eaid oity eubjeat to the constitution and law OS this state and In oompllenos timrerith, and until altered ohaqed, amended, or repealed all rulea, resolu lone,

4 reguzl8tioM,and ordluanoeb in ref%menee to rrald scheole now in effect in eald alty ahal& remalnmdkmve fullforoe and effeot over all tsrritoryinoluded in the OOX3?OF8- tion hereby oreoted.".

Pt'ovi8i0n 18 tie0 made in the prseent &t'rtex' of the City of Woo (Charter, adopted Deoember 89, 10X5, and amn& mente thereto). See Articles 309 to 53.8, lnoluusive.

Art&ale 832, whloh l

uthorl.ses

a-tax for the support and malntenanoeOS the pub&z free sohoole,read es follorat

"Art. 212. In additioa to Mount levied for nrunioiprlpurpoaea vhiohehaU not 8zOeedtti SUEI of on0 end eighty4Lve one-m&the of one per oent, said Board &all, by ordlnanoe,annually levy and collect for the support and maintenance of publio free schools In the City of Waco an nmount not axoesding the emounta hereinaftere,et forth for the reepeativeyeem, to-witt Sixty-elx

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HonorableT. Y. Tvable, pwe #S

one-hundredths

of one per oent t&d valora~Ataxes of the aaaeaaedvalue of all property aubjeot to t8x8tion for tba year 1es1: sixty-aevenouehundredthsOS one per oexlt8dv8loPem taxes Of the oaaeaaedv8lue of all property subject to tax8tIonSor the yeax 19S8J Sixty-eightonohuudredthaof one per oent 8d w8ba taxes of the raaeaaed value of all property subject to taxation for the year 1993; Seventy one-hun- &e&ha OS one par oent ad valoram tuea of the aaeeaaedvalue of all propert aubjeot to taxltlo nf or

tha ye8.r 19% awl L l aubaequent

pears; provided the levy for the aqj~3rt md nuintcmanoe oi publlo free schools 8halX ~tatcenatloallymduoe the levy Soc Blrrtolpal plarpoma a0 that tot4 taxes shallnever erased two and SiSty one-bundredthsperoentforany one year.
.Itla seen that the maximum tar authorizedby the above-quoted

p~~viaion for the year 1934 and subsequent years la !seve.nty

one-hundredtha

of one per oent ad vrloriu~ taxes OS the saaaaaed value of all praperty aubjeot to taxation **it", rhioh la, we understan& the present rate vhioh la levied.

You axe, therefore,advised that under the aharter, of the City of Wtaoo

the maxiuuta

tax uhioh aan be levied for the support ami amintenanooof the Waoe Ipdependeut&boo1 Diatriot la 70/ per one hundred dollars of the saaeaaedvaluationof the property aubjeot to taxation,.

In your aooond questionyou aalc whether t&e 'Naco

Independent School Districtis ollglble for hi&h school tuition aid under the tems of the rural aid bill for 1943-1945 (Acts 194S, 48th Leg., RI S., Il. B. 176) for pupils from an orpha-mne! home in the diatrlotwho attend the diatrlot schools.

Qn July Sl* 1942, the State Superintendent asked us the aaate

questionwith reapeat to the 1941-1945Aot (Acts 1941,

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47th Leg., R. so, Ch. S49, B. 8. 884). and in Opinion 80. 04785, rendered August l9, 1949, we l dvfaed Hm that the m-0 Independent Sohool Dlatrlot8aa not eligible for suohoidbeosuaeoi twomonsr

1. Artlalo I of the 19U &at 8et forth wh8t 

### dlatrlota wers 0 blo to reoelve the rural rid **bsrufita.** Sootion 

### 1 Y o f h r tfo l I #eto ut the so h o l88tl o pcp uhtlo n b r wketa o f the aohool dlatrlota entitled to receive auoh benefits.Under that reotlon cmly those dicltrlcta which hnd not fewot than 8onorwreth8nBooonlglnuuwwr8 ted acholaatlcaweeuglblu tar al&# With thaws oortqln uaoptions, none OS 

### tiah wes?b

8pplioable

bo the k&o Uatrlot. The Wcoo dtrtr fo t lmd l so h o lo~tio pop ulo t.%o n ef wr e th 4 n ll,OOO, r h ish fi atn~ pseedudthe SOON wd thl8 hator rendendtha dbtrlo ixyugibk.

8. That part of Artiole XV (Hia Boheol Tuition)which 8fresteapqplls from an orphatnu' lmw m8du 8u follow:


### "It la fkrthw provided thattulfl(on

rid

ft uaa our opinion that %rumSerred into a districta meant tumsferrsd iKtm one biatriot into mother dinerlot; 

### therefore, 88 pupl.la from the 0 u in Wwo reslds in W800 and 8re resident roholastioiof o I dependentschool Dietriot,mmh pup%ls mre not ntranaSerre%into" the Uiatrlot. 

### &moo, theprovlaioP8ae LtmpplloaMe.
l?ha oorrsoimesaof this conaluaion man borne out by tha phrase *ae above set out.* Buch phrase imcesaarilyreSewed t0 that p8rt of Artisle IV which ma& *EL&i achoef tuition &all be pa%& aooardlng to the prev%aionaof Rouse Bill No. 288, OanamA Zaws, &egular Eeaalen, Forty-Fourth 

### Legla&ture,

8s wqxdod, sad aubjeet to the liaitationa prol vlded in this AaLa

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Rouse BZll **NO.** 158 authoriBe8 the tr~for of a high school student from his home distriot to another dietrict when hlr grade is not f&z&t in Us &nne bistrlct. see opinion No. 0-4753 **for** a full disou68ionof this pint.

The 1943 **Aot** ohangss the provlrlonrelating to the pupils rrom an orphans hame. It is'~rOYided hi the 1943 Aot aa followsr

E-cran assunri~ that Ws ohsnge.dooe way rith the seoand objsotionUsted above, we still have the f%.rst **objsction** confronts us, for the X948 **Aot.** in Attlole .I ($ll&ibilltj for Aid),stilla?ntains the W-h500 aoholaatic pojmlstlonll.mLtation.

An 6xtondeddisouseionof tha first objeotionw%ll not be neoessaryhere, for th8 aam 8as fully discussed in *inion l3h O-4763, a uopy of vildohi6 herswith enolo84U.

It is our opinion Gat the fact that the Waoo Indepsndent School Xetrlct ihas Fn exoer46

of SO0 soiaoluetlo

population renders it lnel¶.glble to reosiva rural nid benefitsunder the 1943 Act. It aill, thert?fare, be unnecessary for ua to **de** terminewhether there are other provisions L-ItimAirt srhich render the Waco dietrint lnellglble to,receivo aid (SeeArtiole I, Section 3, LAstrace betveen &ahools).

You are, the&fore, advisea that We WBoo Independent Schm1 Mstriat is **not** entitled to sigh school tuftian aid forpupils Sraa an orphans* horn in the distriat who attend

tim tiatriot aohools*

APPROVED **OPINION WUYll7LL** 

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