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NH Rev Stat § 195:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:8 - Reconsideration Procedure.

    195:8 Reconsideration Procedure. –||If a cooperative school district was organized prior to July 1, 1963, the basis for the apportionment of all such costs may be subject to review, pursuant to an article for that purpose duly inserted in the warrant for a district meeting to be held at any time after the expiration of the 5-year period measured from the date of the first annual meeting. If the apportionment formula for a cooperative school district has been duly changed, or if an article to continue the current formula has been passed at a district meeting, the basis for the apportionment of all such costs may be subject to review, pursuant to an article for that purpose duly inserted in the warrant for a district meeting to be held at any time after the expiration of the 5-year period measured from the date of the meeting at which the last change was made to the cost apportionment formula or the last article to continue the current formula was passed. In either case, the cooperative school district may then by majority vote elect to apportion all such costs by the adoption of one of the formulas set forth in RSA 195:7, I(a), (b), or (c). Such apportionment may be reviewed in the same manner at any time in order to permit the enlargement of the territory of a school district or an increase in the number of grades for which the district shall be responsible.|||Source. 1947, 199:8. 1951, 213:1, par. 8. 1953, 226:8. RSA 195:8. 1955, 334:10. 1959, 195:2. 1961, 206:5. 1963, 258:7. 1996, 158:5; 222:16. 2000, 59:1, eff. June 16, 2000. 2021, 80:1, eff. Aug. 17, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:9-a - Property Not Taken Over by District.

    195:9-a Property Not Taken Over by District. –||Whenever a cooperative district is formed and assumes all of the functions of a preexisting school district but does not take over all of the property in a preexisting district, the school board of such preexisting district shall call a special school district meeting prior to the time of establishment of the cooperative district to see what action shall be taken relative to the remaining property. Where such special meeting neglects to dispose of remaining real property, the successor in interest to a preexisting school district that is coextensive with a city or town is the city or town.|||Source. 1955, 334:1. 2001, 35:3, eff. June 8, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:10 - Disposal of Property.

    195:10 Disposal of Property. –||Whenever any property of a cooperative school district is disposed of, the proceeds thereof shall be credited to each pre-existing district in the same proportion as the costs of making capital improvements are credited.|||Source. 1951, 213:1, par. 10, eff. Aug. 13, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:11 - Continuance of Trust Funds.

    195:11 Continuance of Trust Funds. –||All trust funds held or enjoyed by any pre-existing district shall be held and applied as the terms of the trust indicate. If such trust allows, the funds may be applied for the same uses and purposes of the cooperative district.|||Source. 1951, 213:1, par. 11. RSA 195:11. 1955, 334:12, eff. Aug. 5, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:11-a - Capital Reserves and Cash Balances.

    195:11-a Capital Reserves and Cash Balances. –||When all of the functions of a school district are to be assumed by a cooperative district the balance of any capital reserve fund established by a school district and any cash balance in the hands of the treasurer or money due the district at the time of establishment of the cooperative district less any outstanding bills or debts other than long term indebtedness which is to become the obligation of the cooperative district, shall be used as a credit against the cooperative district assessment to be raised by the pre-existing district for the first year of operation or may be spread over a period of not more than 5 years as the voters of the pre-existing school district shall determine at either any annual meeting or a special school district meeting called for that purpose prior to the establishment of the cooperative district.|||Source. 1955, 334:2, eff. Aug. 5, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:12 - Budget.

    195:12 Budget. –||At least 30 days prior to the annual meeting, the cooperative school board shall prepare a budget for the ensuing year, after holding at least one public hearing upon a preliminary budget at some convenient place in the district, of which at least 7 days' notice shall have been given, and said budget, subsequent to its final approval by such board, shall be posted in a public place in each pre-existing district and given such other publication as the cooperative school board may determine. The provisions of RSA 32 shall apply to a cooperative school district.|||Source. 1947, 199:9. 1951, 213:1, par. 12. 1953, 225:7. RSA 195:12. 1963, 258:9. 1996, 158:6, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:12-a - Budget Committee.

    195:12-a Budget Committee. –||I. A cooperative school district at an annual meeting, under a proper article in the warrant, may vote to establish a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14 and may rescind such action in a like manner. The budget committee shall have the same number of members as the cooperative district school board plus one additional member from the school board as provided in this paragraph. The terms of office and manner of election of members shall be determined in the same manner as for the cooperative school board. Whenever it is voted to establish a budget committee, the moderator in the first instance shall appoint the members of the budget committee, except for the additional member appointed from the school board, within 15 days of the vote establishing the committee. The members appointed by the moderator shall serve until the next annual meeting when the meeting shall elect their successors. No member of the cooperative school board shall be appointed or elected to the budget committee except that the chairperson of the cooperative school board shall appoint a member of the board to serve on the budget committee with all the powers and duties of any other member of the committee. After appointment or election the budget committee shall promptly organize and choose a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and secretary. The secretary shall keep records of the proceedings of the budget committee, which shall be public records open to public inspection.||II. Such cooperative school budget committee shall have the powers and duties of the municipal budget committee under the provisions of RSA 32 insofar as the budget for the cooperative school district is concerned and insofar as RSA 32 is applicable to the cooperative school budget.||III. Such committee shall seasonably provide the cooperative school board with a sufficient number of copies of the budget prepared by it, and the same shall be posted with each copy of the warrant in the manner provided by RSA 195:13.|||Source. 1961, 206:6. 1963, 258:10, 10-a. 1967, 136:1, 2. 1971, 252:3. 1979, 321:4. 1996, 158:6, eff. July 1, 1996; 222:17, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:13 - Meetings, Annual, Special.

    195:13 Meetings, Annual, Special. –||A meeting of every cooperative school district shall be held annually between the dates set forth in RSA 197:1 for the choice of district officers, raising and appropriating money for the support of its schools for the fiscal year beginning the next July, and for the transaction of other district business. Special meetings may be called by majority vote of the school board. A special meeting shall be held within 30 days following the receipt by the school board of a petition calling for such a meeting and setting forth the subject matter upon which action is desired signed by at least 5 percent of the voters who are duly registered on the checklists of the district on the date the petition is submitted. The provisions of RSA 197, excepting the provisions of RSA 197:2, shall apply to cooperative school district meetings, except that a copy of the warrant shall be posted in a public place in each pre-existing district as well as at the place of meeting.|||Source. 1942, 199:10. 1951, 213:1, par. 13. RSA 195:13. 1969, 211:1. 1971, 562:5. 1973, 427:1. 1981, 250:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:13-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:13-a - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, I, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    195:13-a Repealed by 1979, 321:2, I, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 195:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:14-a - Alternative Method of Apportioning Operating Costs.

    195:14-a Alternative Method of Apportioning Operating Costs. –||I. As an alternative to the apportionment of operating costs set forth in RSA 195:14, the cooperative school board may fix a specific percentage of the state adequate education grant amount received in a given year to be applied to the operating costs of the cooperative school district, before the apportionment of remaining cooperative school district operating costs. Such percentage shall not be less than zero percent and not more than 100 percent and shall be the same in each city or town in the cooperative school district.||II. The question on the adoption of an alternative method of apportioning operating costs shall be proposed as an article in the warrant of the next cooperative school district annual or special meeting pursuant to RSA 195:13. A majority of voters present and voting on the question in each city or town in the cooperative school district shall be required to approve the alternative method of apportioning operating costs. Upon approval, the clerk of the cooperative school district shall send to the state board of education a certified copy of the warrant.||III. The procedure for modification or rescission of an alternative method of apportioning operating costs shall be as set forth in the alternative method of apportioning operating costs and shall not be subject to the provisions of RSA 195:18, III(i). A majority of voters present and voting on the question in each city or town in the cooperative school district shall be required to approve the modification or rescission.|||Source. 2004, 244:1. 2006, 6:6. 2007, 270:3, eff. June 29, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:15 - State Aid.

    195:15 State Aid. –||The state aid to which a cooperative elementary and/or secondary district shall be entitled shall be the total of those shares of the aid to which the pupils attending the cooperative district would have entitled the pre-existing districts, had they remained in the pre-existing districts. For the purposes of crediting the cooperative district's adequate education cost to the pre-existing districts, each such pre-existing district shall have its adequate education cost under RSA 198:38, VII credited against its share of the cooperative school district budget. However, cooperative school districts formed by 2 or more pre-existing districts whose boundaries approximate those of a single township in which they are located shall be treated as a single school district for the purposes of this section.|||Source. 1947, 199:12. 1951, 213:1, par. 15. RSA 195:15. 1955, 334:13. 1996, 158:8. 1999, 281:9. 2004, 200:11, eff. June 9, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:15-a - Building Aid.

    195:15-a Building Aid. –||Except as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of receiving state building aid, or other similar aid toward school buildings, which may hereafter be provided, the amount of such aid for cooperative school districts shall apply only to those cooperative or union school districts which were formed from 2 or more districts from 2 or more towns. A cooperative school district formed as a result of a conversion from an authorized regional enrollment area plan shall not be eligible for school building aid for the purchase of property in a pre-existing district which had received building aid for the construction of said building or buildings, provided, however, that any aid for which the pre-existing district is currently eligible shall be continued and shall be paid to the cooperative school district. A cooperative school district formed from 2 or more school districts within one town shall be deemed to be a school district and not a cooperative school district insofar as receipt of state building or other similar aid toward school buildings is concerned. The limitations of this section relative to cooperative school districts formed from districts within one town shall apply only to those which are so organized after July 1, 1955. Such cooperative school district organized prior to July 1, 1955, shall be deemed a cooperative school district for the purpose of receiving such building aid.|||Source. 1955, 334:14. 1997, 320:1, eff. July 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:16-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:16-a - Increase or Decrease in Grades.

    195:16-a Increase or Decrease in Grades. –||Any cooperative school district may amend its existing arrangement or articles of agreement to increase or decrease the grades for which the cooperative school district provides education. If the cooperative district was organized pursuant to RSA 195:18, it shall proceed by amendment of its articles of agreement. The cooperative school board shall cease responsibility for the excluded school grades as of the date specified in the amended articles of agreement or the existing arrangement.|||Source. 1963, 258:13. 1996, 158:9. 1997, 320:3, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:16-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:16-b - Power of Eminent Domain.

    195:16-b Power of Eminent Domain. –||Whenever a cooperative school district cannot acquire by purchase a good title to any real estate or interest therein needed by it for its purposes either because of the unwillingness of the owner to sell at a reasonable price, the owner's inability to convey a good title, or for other reason, the cooperative school district may apply by petition to the superior court for the county in which such real estate or interest therein is located to acquire such real estate or interest therein in the name of such district and to have assessed the damages occasioned by the taking. Thereafter the procedure shall follow that prescribed in RSA 498-A.|||Source. 1963, 258:13. 1996, 222:9, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:16-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:16-c - Powers of Superior Court as to Pre-existing Districts.

    195:16-c Powers of Superior Court as to Pre-existing Districts. –||If there shall arise any occasion which shall require the doing of any act or thing by or in behalf of a pre-existing district which has ceased to exist by reason of its inclusion in a cooperative school district, the superior court shall have the power, upon application of 3 registered voters domiciled in the territory of the pre-existing school district, to appoint an agent who, subject to the approval of the superior court, shall have the power on behalf of and in the name of the pre-existing school district to do any act or thing that may be just under the circumstances.|||Source. 1963, 258:13. 2003, 289:19, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:17 - Repealed by 1996, 158:19, eff. July 1, 1996.

    195:17 Repealed by 1996, 158:19, eff. July 1, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 195:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:19 - Statement of Policy.

    195:19 Statement of Policy. –||It is the purpose of this subdivision to provide a means for cooperative school districts now existing or hereafter formed to meet the constitutional mandate of one-man one-vote as annunciated by the United States supreme court. It is the intention of the legislature to provide flexibility to the cooperative school district in meeting the requirements of the one-man one-vote doctrine within the limitations of this chapter.|||Source. 1971, 252:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:19-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:19-a - Composition of Cooperative School Boards.

    195:19-a Composition of Cooperative School Boards. –||The number, composition, method of selection, and terms of members of cooperative school boards shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement of the cooperative school district, as the case may be; provided, however, that such bylaws and articles of agreement shall be limited to the alternatives contained herein where applicable; and provided further that no cooperative school district in existence on August 22, 1971 shall be required to conform hereto unless it is so voted pursuant to RSA 671:9.||I. All members of the cooperative school board shall be elected at large; or||II. The cooperative school district shall be divided into single board member districts according to population with as nearly equal population in each district as possible; or||III. The cooperative school district shall be divided into multiboard member districts or a combination of single member or multimember districts so that proportional representation will be most nearly achieved; or||IV. The members of the cooperative school board shall each be domiciled in and represent a pre-existing district with each pre-existing district having at least one such resident representative but all members of the cooperative school board shall be elected at large; or||V. Such other method of selection of cooperative school board members compatible with proportional representation, one-man one-vote principle as may be approved by the state board of education.||VI. The terms of the members of the cooperative school board shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement provided that in no case shall such terms exceed 3 years.||VII. Whenever the bylaws or articles of agreement provide for the election of cooperative school board members pursuant to this chapter, said election shall be with the use of the non-partisan ballot system under RSA 669.|||Source. 1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:19-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:19-b - Reapportionment.

    195:19-b Reapportionment. –||Any cooperative school district organized under any of the provisions of RSA 195 or pursuant to any special act may at any regular or special meeting vote to change the number, composition, method of selection, and terms of office of members on the board of the district, provided that in no event shall the board exceed 15 members nor terms exceed 3 years; and may change the apportionment of the board in relation to the pre-existing school districts.|||Source. 1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:19-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:19-c - Special Provisions for Cooperative School Districts.

    195:19-c Special Provisions for Cooperative School Districts. –||I. At the organizational meeting of the cooperative school district, the checklists for each pre-existing district shall be used. The school board of any pre-existing district which does not have a checklist shall make a list of the legal voters in the district for use at such meeting as supervisors are required to do in towns as provided in RSA 654:25-654:31. Thereafter, the cooperative school board shall make, correct and post a list of the legal voters of the cooperative school district acting as supervisors are required to do; except that such list shall indicate with respect to each voter the pre-existing district in which he is domiciled. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, whenever each of the pre-existing school districts is coextensive with the town in which it is located, the cooperative school district may, at an annual cooperative school district meeting, under an article in the warrant for such meeting, vote that the supervisors of each town, acting as the supervisors of the cooperative school district, shall make, correct and post in each pre-existing district a checklist of the voters in each pre-existing district and shall certify to the same acting as supervisors of the cooperative school district and shall attend the cooperative school district meeting. At each cooperative school district election, the checklists prepared by the supervisors in each pre-existing district in accordance with this section shall be used.||II. An updated checklist shall be used at all cooperative school district elections and meetings for the same purposes as checklists are used by towns as provided in RSA 669:5.||III. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any registered voter on a town or city checklist, who has his domicile within a cooperative school district, shall be eligible to vote at any cooperative school district election or meeting in the district where he has his domicile. The supervisors of the checklists for the various cities and towns within a cooperative school district shall make an appropriate notation on their respective checklists with respect to which school district a registered voter is entitled to vote in.||IV. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any cooperative school district, which uses the checklists of the cities and towns within the district for an election or meeting pursuant to paragraph III, shall not be required to maintain a separate school district checklist or conduct sessions of the supervisors of the checklist.|||Source. 1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 195:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:20 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, II, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    195:20 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, II, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 195:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 195 - Cooperative School Districts|Section 195:21 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, III, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    195:21 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, III, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|