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Nebraska Revised Statute 79-413
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View Statute79-414 Chapter 79 Section 413
79-413.
School districts; creation from other
school districts; change of boundaries; affiliation; conditions; petition
method; procedure.
(1) The State Committee for the Reorganization
of School Districts created under section 79-435 may create a new school district
from other districts, change the boundaries of any district that is not a
member of a learning community, or affiliate a Class I district or portion
thereof with one or more existing Class II, III, IV, or V districts upon receipt
of petitions signed by sixty percent of the legal voters of each district
affected. If the petitions contain signatures of at least sixty-five percent
of the legal voters of each district affected, the state committee shall approve
the petitions. When area is added to a Class VI district or when a Class I
district which is entirely or partially within a Class VI district is taken
from the Class VI district, the Class VI district shall be deemed to be an
Any petition of the legal voters of a Class I district in which no city
or village is situated which is commenced after January 1, 1996, and proposes
the dissolution of the Class I district and the attachment of a portion of
it to two or more districts shall require signatures of more than fifty percent
of the legal voters of such Class I district. If the state committee determines
that such petition contains valid signatures of more than fifty percent of
the legal voters of such Class I district, the state committee shall grant
(2)(a) Petitions proposing to change the boundaries of existing school
districts that are not members of a learning community through the transfer
of a parcel of land, not to exceed six hundred forty acres, shall be approved
by the state committee when the petitions involve the transfer of land between
Class I, II, III, or IV school districts or when there would be an exchange
of parcels of land between Class I, II, III, or IV school districts and the
petitions have the approval of at least sixty-five percent of the school board
of each affected district. If the transfer of the parcel of land is from a
Class I school district to one or more Class II, III, IV, V, or VI school
districts of which the parcel is not a part or with which the parcel is not
affiliated, any Class II, III, IV, V, or VI school district of which the parcel
is not a part or with which the parcel is affiliated shall be deemed an affected
(b) The state committee shall not approve a change of boundaries pursuant
to this section relating to affiliation of school districts if twenty percent
or more of any tract of land under common ownership which is proposing to
affiliate is not contiguous to the high school district with which affiliation
is proposed unless (i) one or more resident students of the tract of land
under common ownership has attended the high school program of the high school
district within the immediately preceding ten-year period or (ii) approval
of the petition or plan would allow siblings of such resident students to
attend the same school as the resident students attended.
(3)(a) Petitions proposing to create a new school district, to change
the boundary lines of existing school districts that are not members of a
learning community, to create an affiliated school system, or to affiliate
a Class I district in part and to join such district in part with a Class
VI district, any of which involves the transfer of more than six hundred forty
acres, shall, when signed by at least sixty percent of the legal voters in
each district affected, be submitted to the state committee. In the case of
a petition for affiliation or a petition to affiliate in part and in part
to join a Class VI district, the state committee shall review the proposed
affiliation subject to sections 79-425 and 79-426. The state committee shall,
within forty days after receipt of the petition, hold one or more public hearings
and review and approve or disapprove such proposal.
(b) If there is a bond election
to be held in conjunction with the petition, the state committee shall hold
the petition until the bond election has been held, during which time names
may be added to or withdrawn from the petitions. The results of the bond election
shall be certified to the state committee.
(c) If the bond election held
in conjunction with the petition is unsuccessful, no further action on the
petition is required. If the bond election is successful, within fifteen days
after receipt of the certification of the bond election results, the state
committee shall approve the petition and notify the county clerk to effect
the changes in district boundary lines as set forth in the petitions.
(4) Any person adversely affected by the changes made by the state committee
may appeal to the district court of any county in which the real estate or
any part thereof involved in the dispute is located. If the real estate is
located in more than one county, the court in which an appeal is first perfected
shall obtain jurisdiction to the exclusion of any subsequent appeal.
(5) A signing petitioner may withdraw his or her name from a petition
and a legal voter may add his or her name to a petition at any time prior
to the end of the period when the petition is held by the state committee.
Additions and withdrawals of signatures shall be by notarized affidavit filed
with the state committee.
Laws 1881, c. 78, subdivision I, § 4, p. 332; Laws 1883, c. 72, § 1, p. 288; Laws 1885, c. 79, § 1, p. 319; Laws 1889, c. 78, § 1, p. 539; Laws 1895, c. 58, § 1, p. 221; Laws 1901, c. 59, § 1, p. 429; Laws 1909, c. 117, § 1, p. 451; R.S.1913, § 6703; C.S.1922, § 6241; Laws 1923, c. 63, § 1, p. 190; Laws 1925, c. 177, § 1, p. 461; C.S.1929, § 79-104; Laws 1931, c. 145, § 1, p. 396; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 79-104; Laws 1943, c. 197, § 1(2), p. 659; R.S.1943, § 79-105; Laws 1949, c. 256, § 41, p. 706; Laws 1951, c. 276, § 2, p. 928; Laws 1953, c. 295, § 1, p. 999; Laws 1955, c. 315, § 3, p. 973; Laws 1957, c. 342, § 1, p. 1181; Laws 1959, c. 385, § 1, p. 1334; Laws 1963, c. 471, § 1, p. 1511; Laws 1963, c. 473, § 1, p. 1519; Laws 1963, c. 474, § 1, p. 1522; Laws 1963, c. 475, § 1, p. 1525; Laws 1963, c. 472, § 1, p. 1514; Laws 1967, c. 529, § 1, p. 1757; Laws 1971, LB 468, § 1; Laws 1984, LB 1098, § 1; Laws 1990, LB 259, § 5; Laws 1991, LB 511, § 11; Laws 1992, LB 245, § 16; Laws 1992, LB 719, § 1; Laws 1996, LB 604, § 4; R.S.1943, (1994), § 79-402; Laws 1996, LB 900, § 162; Laws 1996, LB 1050, § 2; Laws 1997, LB 806, § 6; Laws 1999, LB 272, § 30; Laws 2001, LB 302, § 1; Laws 2005, LB 126, § 17; Laws 2006, LB 1024, § 24; Referendum 2006, No. 422; Laws 2011, LB8, § 1; Laws 2011, LB235, § 2.
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