OFFlCE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Xay 25, 1939
Honorable T. P. Walker, Auditor Departmentof Education Austin, Texas Dear Sir:
we are in rroel wherein you nqgest our iag question: Wherein an eleot
airied rot023 or ammoa eohool dis- peadeat @ho01 dla- ror the conreridrtlonor suOh ohool purpoeee, the County
County Judge shell give notiee of the date of suoh electionsby publioatlonsor the order In eonm newspaper published ia the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date on which such elections are ordered, or by posting a notioe of euoh eleetione in saoh or Honorable T. E. ealker, My 25, 1939, page 2
the districts, or by both such publication and posted notices . . . "C~LUQ~~school districtsmay in like man- ner be consolidatedwith contiguouslndepen- dent school districts,and thedistrict so created shall be known by the nane of the in- dependentschool district Included therein, and the mnageffientof the new district shall be under the existing board of trusteesof the independentsohool district,and all the rights and privilegesgranted to independent distrlatsby,the lam oi,th$s State #hall he given to the aonsolldato~:i0&pen6ont~6ls- triat areated un&ew3&e.~j)Mrr?Ltiexm or t&l@ law; . . . . prodded furpi&! that whim it Su proposed to consolldate~i$&~oue comtT~'l%e districtsthe :.' .~.I "$; preeoribedin i
We have no et&ate requiring that aajr..pcirt~. period or time ahall-interveaabetween +ay 6uoh:eleFc Article ,2806provldea.~ior the iesuanee ot cle .upon.the present+tlonof petlti+qneJ -signal .by majority or the 1egal.l.rqualS%e&we+ersiot 0 terested dlatriots. wben.auoh ~titiens'as greperfir::~m- seated, such eleatlonsmay be !%U.ed~uH+otttreiexe&iei'te the lath or time that has pasaad31ino~a prev+a s-ax? eleotl63i. .~. , .Yourt3very truly
Assistant
TEXAS
APPROVED OPINION.COLZIT!lXE N Rm Ch%lrlWUI