OFFICE OFTHE ATTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Eonorable %.L‘, ii. ~rimble 

FiT8t ;rs8$8tAAt 

Stat8 ihlpCriAt0AdeAt 

Cepartment of Eduaation 

a8tlA, Texas 

April 10, les9 
i:on. '2. I;. iM.uhle, April 10, 1939,.Psge 2 

Xat3onal Bank in bandarn, the depository ct Bander8 Cotity, or 

whether the mme Ghould be deposited in the Ssblnal %%te Bank, 

the depository,ror the Independent School filstriot. 

..e aGsuwe that under the statutes Utopia Independent 

Sohool ifi such h district 88 18 4ntitled t0 b4Ve it8 trUSlt44a 

designate a de~os$tory bank for the fUGd8 OS the district aad that 

such depository bank has. been properly saleated. 

follows: 

Article 2806, Revlaed Civil Statutes, provides In part as 

0 i Cemmoa mhoolbimtrlot.8 map in like manner h. 

4QA80&&8& With OO&i&lOtl# i&hQWihlt 6OhOQl di6triOt8~ 

aad the dlstrlot aa arut. aball ba knoun by the MY or 

the independent aahool dirtriot lnoluded therein, and 

the management of the aq* d3etrl:iot 8haU be under the 

existing board of trwtew or the lndopendeut-aahool timtriet, and all the right* 8n4 Prlvil~ea (Irantad+ Mepandax+ dlatrfota by the law8 of thf6 &ak, *hall be &VOX& 

to the aonrollQte& in(lape&mnt fIi&rla$ o-ted un&r $im 

pro~lsions of this Jaw; . . ." 

ma010 eaw, swt80d crrii .%ktut+ pr0rid~ the it at. 

an wmaaption eleotlon l a a Jo r lty of the votera iota to U#UBO':& 

pay off the bonded iodebtedneu or any of the dietriots ocpoolr3ag 

the oon8olfdated d&&riot, thsn #mid boa&g ln6ebtdmm 8hd.l 

bea? the obllgtion.oi tba aonaoU&at~ &i&riot. 

Artiole.ti, kb~isad Civil Statuteo, prwldea for the 

.aP$&.ntment of a treaaurar by lndopaa4at l ahool dirtriot kartag 

aoskthan one hundre&anQ ftfty soholaatiaa. Provision ia thenin 

meukror the treamrer to be bond& 

Arti e791, s&ND84 MVllEH&Ptss, provlber for @%.in- 

.depea&mt school dlstrlot~aes~wor-eo~&ator o? taxes. Aytltie 

8798, &wised Civil Statthus, prorid that rb4n a mjorlty of ~a8 

board or truth48 0s w ia40ptta44nt .aiattiot prerer to hqa th8 tam8 

6f that distrlot aroesw4 and oelleutied by the omnty atMfOmw=edleeteor or oolleotsd only by the ooftaty tax oolleator, s&uue almllbe 

assowed alla aolleoted b* raid 44unty ~offiosn and turnetl ov4r to 

the t~aeumr of the inde~sndsnt ~lohool dlstriot.for whfoh l -h 

taxes hwe been aolleutsd. 
'Bon. T. hi. Trimble, i,pril 10, 1939, Page 3 

The former bond obligation of the Taylor Fonimon :%hool 

iriatrict is non the obligation of Utopia Ind8pOAd8At School District. 

That dlstrlot ha8 a treasurer or depository bank of It8 own. It Is 

the duty 01 the tax collector of Bandera County to deliver to that 

depository all taxes which he colleots iu behalf of said Utopia 

Independent Sohool Di8triCt. Sot only 18 the depository bank of 

Utopla independent 2chool ~letrlct entltled to have the money depo8lted with it for eafekeeping, but the Independent School ~lstrlat 

Itself Is entitled to have the fund8 there deposited to be proteated 

by the bond put up by that particular depository. Sabinal State 

Bank being the depository of the L'topia In~e@enUent Sahool Diatrlct,' 

all aueh runde belonging to the dla‘trlct which bar4 been thu4 d4- 

posited tn the ?irst Flatioaal Bank OS Banden shotild be trawfmrd 

toth~SabUal8tatoBaak. 

YQUM vary truly 

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