New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

SOOANAA OHAAND "
ING THEIR POWERS N DUTIES. AND
N REPEATING CERTAIN
SCHOOL LAWS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CON-
FORMING TIC THE SYSTEM ADOPTED HERE
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of the State of NeV Mexico
Section /. For the purpose of centralizing control over
the rural schools and more economically administering the
funds thereof, there is + hereby created in each and every coun-
ty in the state. and in each and every county hereafter Great
ed in this state, a County Board of Education, which shall
be a public corporation capable of suing and being sued, con-
tracing and being contracted with, and acquiring, holding,
possessing, and disposing of both real and personal property
including the power to hold in trust all property and funds
for the use of any rural district, together with such other
powers as are hereinafter described. Such corporation shall
be styled "~~~~---~-~~~---- County Board OF Education, in
which name it shall sue and be sued, contract and be con-
tracted with, acquire, hold, possess, and dispose of all real
and personal property.
Sec. Z. Immediately after the provisions of this act
shall become effective each of the district judges in the
state, for each county in his respective district, shall appoint
from the electors of the county, no more than two of whom
shall belong to the same political party, four persons as
members of the County Board of Education, at least one
Of whom shall be appointed from each County Commits
sioner's district and not more than one of whom shall bel
resident of an incorporated city, town, or village in the
county. Two of such appointees shall be designated by said
judge to hold office for a term OF four years and two for al
term of two years from and after their appointment and
qualification. Every two years thereafter each of such judges
shall appoint two members to each of said boards to hold Of
flee for a term of four years and until their successors are
appointed and qualified, but in no event shall more than
two members of said board be appointed from among the
residents of any one County Commissioners district nor
more than one from among the residents of an incorporate
ed city town or village: The County School Superinten-
dent of each county shall be a member of said board and the
president and presiding officer thereof, but shall receive mol
additional compensation therefor.
Sec. 3. For the purpose of this act incorporated
cities, towns, and villages and territory attached thereto for
school purposes shall be known as municipal school dis
trcts or referred to herein as municipal schools and all
others as rural school districts or referred to herein as rural
schools. "
Sec. a. The members of said board shall annually
elect one of their members as vice president and one as
secretary, the former to preside at all meetings which the
president thereof does not attend, the latter to record and.
keep in a book furnished for that purpose, all the official
proceedings of said board. All meetings shall be called and
attended by the county school superintendent, but in no
case shall any official business be transacted by said board
in the absence of the president thereof, except where the
waiver in writing of his presence has been filed with tfe|
said board. The board shall hold a meeting at least once
in every two months and shall have power to call such
special meetings as the president shall deem necessary
All the members of the said board except the county school
superintendent shall be reimbursed from the school funds
upon the warrant of the president of said board for money by|
them expended for actual cost of transportation to and|
from the place of meeting, at the rate of five cents perl
mile for every mile actually and necessarily Travelled and shal,|
also, receive two dollars and fifty cents ($2 5o) per day forI
every day actually consumed in holding meetings, but no.
member shall receive in any one calendar year more THANH
the total sum OF twenty-five dollars as per diem fees nor
be reimbursed for said travelling expenses for more than
ten meetings i'll any one calendar year. The majority of;
the board shall constitute a quorum The books and papers,
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school superintendent.
Sec. 8. The said board shall have full power andi
control over all rural schools and districts and the fundsc
thereof, including high schools in rural districts and theIf
funds thereof, except as such power is now conferred uponII
the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction. Said boards shall, also, have power
to contract for and purchase all sites, buildings, equipment
or other property for schools. All rural school moneys im
the respective county treasures and all such money credit
ed or to be credited to said schools shall be expended andlS
disbursed upon warrant of the county board of educationla
only, signed by the president thereof, and countersigned bya
the secretary thereof, and no contract of expenditure of saidD
funds or any part thereof hereafter made, except in the man
ner herein specified, shall be valid. No expenditures shant
be made by said board involving more than two hundredlh
dollars except upon written contract of said board and noIu
contract involving an expenditure of more than five hun
dred dollars shall be made by said board, except upon seal-
ed proposals and to the lowest responsible bidder. All equipIt
ment and supplies for rural schools, whenever feasible, SHALL
be purchased by said board in quantities and at wholesaler
prices. Teachers shall be employed by the Board of Schoolo
Directors with the approval of the County Board of Educa11
tion. III
Sec. 6. The title to all property, both real and pertt
sonal, of schools in rural districts shall be vested, and iTn
hereby vested, in the County Board of Education, but no-Er
thing herein shall be construed as inlparing the security ofts
any bonds of any district heretofore issued or now in pro1f
cess of being issued. The right to acquire real estate forb
purposes for rural districts is hereby vested in said
Board, by way of eminent domain, to be exercised in theh
same manner as the power is or shall be exercised underEs
the law by railroads la