Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
CHAPTER 31-H. +. No. 20.
AN ACT TO amend Laws 1929, chapte

AN ACT to amend Laws 1929, chapter
9, relating to county schuOl dis
tricts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF
the State of Minnesota.
Section /. That Laws 1929, chapter
Q. section /, be amended to read as
follows:
Section /. School districts may
be consolidated-Any county having
less than seven organized school dis
tricts may consolidate such districts
into one county district which shall
be designated as the - county
school district, in the following man
ner.
The board of county commissioners
of such county may by resolution,
and shall upon petition to such board
signed by not less than ten per cent
of the qualified voters of the county
according to the votes of the then
last preceding general election, sub
NIT to the qualified electors of the
county at the next general election
to be held in such county not less
than thirty days thereafter, :he prop
osition of consolidating said districts
into a county district. The ballots
submitting the same shall be read as
follows:
For Consolidation. .........
Against Consolidation. ........
Such ballots shall be voted, can
vassed and the result declared and re-
turned in the same manner as ballots
for elective county officers. If a ma
iority of the votes cast on the prop
osition be for consolidation. the
county auditor shall make proper or
ders to give effect to such vote ana
shall transmit a copy thereof to the
clerk of each district.
The school board Of each district
shall continue to maintain SCHOOLS
therein except that no such board
shall have authority to make any
contract relating to school business
Of the ensuing school year in the
same manner as if no consolidation
had been voted until July first next
following, at which time all records,
moneys. credits and funds Of said dis
tricts, shall be delivered to the coun-
" treasurer to act as CUSTODIAN or
same until such time as the orsaniza-
ton Of the county district shall have
been completed. The county treas
urer shall give a receipt for SUCH rec
ords and funds and shall cause the
financial accounts and statements 10
b. audited by competent authority.
Sec. 2 That ISws 1929, chapter 3,
secticn 8, be amended to read AS FOL
lows:
Section 5. Duties of school board
1t shall be the duty of said board TO
furnish school facilities to every child
of school age residing in any Fart OF
said county district. either by build
ing school houses. leasing school
rooms. transporting said children to
the nearest school. boarding said
children within convenient distance
of school at the expense of said
board or otherwise, and to provide
necessary supplies, texts, and library
books.
The annual meeting as held in ten
or more townships districts need not
he held. but the clerk of said board
shall publish once in a legal newspa-
per published in the county the an
rual report required by law to be
made by the district treasurer.
When not otherwise provided in
this act, the school board of any such
county district shall have and shall
exercise all the powers and be sub
iect to the same laws and regula-
tens as boards of ten or more town
ships districts. and all laws applica-
BILE to ten or more townships districts
and all laws applicable to State AID
fer Equalizing Educational Oppor-
tunities in UnorganiZed Territory
shall apply to said county district in
Guiding chapter 467, General Laws
1921"
Anproyed February IS, 1881.