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2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740b. County Board of Education and Superintendent in Certain Counties, Powers and Duties › Section 15. Equipment and Supplies

Sec. 15. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES.  The County Superintendent shall make all purchases of equipment and supplies for the various Common School Districts where the consideration involves more than $25.00.
Acts 1929, 41st Leg., p. 641, ch. 289.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740c. Exemption of Independent Districts From County Supervision

That from and after the passage of this Act all Independent School Districts in this State located in counties having a population of not less than 8,955 and not more than 8,960, according to the United States Census of 1910, shall be exempt from county supervision and from all assessments for county administration and be subject only to the supervising authority of the State Department of Education and the State Board of Education  as prescribed by General Law in the administration of public schools in this State.
Acts 1929, 41st Leg., p. 663, ch. 295, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 1. Membership; Term

Section 1. MEMBERSHIP;  TERM.  The general management, supervision and control of the public free schools of counties with a population of not less than eighty thousand (80,000) and not more than one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) according to the latest Federal Census, shall be vested in a County Board of Education.  The County Board of Education shall be composed of seven (7) members to be elected at the District School Trustee Election on the 1st Saturday in April, one of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters from each Commissioner's Precinct, and three (3) from the county at large, by the qualified voters of the county.  All of said members shall serve for a term of three (3) years;  provided that in those counties not now having seven (7) trustees, the present County Board shall appoint two (2) trustees at large to serve for a period of three (3) years.  The two (2) members who were elected on the 1st Saturday in April, 1930, shall serve until April 30, 1933, or until their successors are elected and qualified.  On the 1st Saturday in April, 1931, at the District School Trustee Election five (5) County School Trustees shall be elected, two (2) from the Commissioner's Precinct whose terms expire in 1931 to serve until April 30, 1932, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and three (3) from the county at large, to serve for a period of three (3) years.  Annually hereafter on the 1st Saturday in April either two (2) trustees or three (3) trustees, shall be elected for a term of three (3) years.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 2. Organization

Sec. 2. ORGANIZATION.  The County Board of Education of such counties shall, at their first meeting in May of each year organize by electing one member of the Board as president, and one as vice-president to preside in the absence of the president;  and they shall hold such other meetings as are not provided by law and the rules and methods of procedure generally adopted by deliberative bodies for their government shall be observed.  Five members present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum to do business.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 3. Qualification

Sec. 3. QUALIFICATION.  The County Board of Trustees shall be composed of persons of good moral character, high ideals of citizenship, and who are interested in public education.  No person connected with the public schools of any district in such county either as an official or as an employee shall be eligible to serve on said County Board of Trustees.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 4. Vacancies

Sec. 4. VACANCIES.  All vacancies arising from death, resignation, or removal from the county shall be filled by the other members of the Board of Education, and such an appointee shall fill out the unexpired term.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 5. Payment

Sec. 5. PAYMENT.  The members of the County Board of Education shall receive $5.00 per day for the time spent in attending meetings, to be paid in the same manner and from the same funds as is now provided by law;  provided that they may not be allowed pay for more than 20 days in any one year.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 6. County Superintendent

Sec. 6. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.  The County Superintendents of the counties now affected by this Bill shall serve the term for which they have been elected.  Ninety days prior to the term of expiration of the County Superintendent, the County Board of Education shall, at a meeting, appoint his successor, who shall serve at the pleasure of said Board, provided no such appointment shall be made unless at an election to be held on the first Saturday in April, 1930, the qualified voters shall so impower and authorize the County Board to choose the County Superintendent;  if otherwise, then the County Superintendent shall continue to be an elective officer as now provided by the General Laws of Texas.  It shall be the duty of the County Judge to give public notice of the submission of the proposition of the employment of the County Superintendent;  and provision shall be made for the submission of the proposition on the official ballot for county school trustees.  The question shall be submitted on the ballot in the following form:
"For the employment of the County Superintendent of schools by the County Board of Trustees";  and
"Against the employment of the County Superintendent of schools by the County Board of Trustees."
The returns of the election on this question shall be made to the County Judge, to be canvassed by the Commissioners' Court, and such returns shall be duly canvassed and the results certified to the County Board of Trustees within thirty days after the date of said election.  The County Superintendent shall be secretary of the County Board.  The County Board of Education shall designate the salary of the County Superintendent of Education, subject to the provisions of this Act, provided the salary shall not be less than $3,600.00 and not more than $4,800.00.  The County Board of Education shall appoint such assistants and clerical help for the County Superintendent as may be deemed necessary, subject to the provisions of this Act.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 7. Supervision in Lieu of Teachers' Institute

Sec. 7. SUPERVISION IN LIEU OF TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.  The County Board of Education may, upon the recommendation of the County Superintendent, provide for the employment of such professional supervision as may be deemed necessary, this to be in lieu of the teachers' institute as now provided by law.  The County Superintendent shall be exempt after the passage of this Act from such requirements as are now provided by law for the holding of teachers' institute;  and shall be empowered to provide for such meetings of the teachers of the county as may be deemed necessary and to require the attendance of all teachers upon such meetings.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 8. School Apportionment

Sec. 8. SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT.  In making the annual per capita apportionment to the schools, the County Board of Education shall also make an annual allowance out of the State and County Available Funds for the salary and expense of the County Superintendent and such assistants, supervisors and clerical help as he may have, and such expenses shall be pro rated to all of the schools of the county;  provided that in making this allowance for county administration, the per capita assessment against the scholastics of the districts shall not exceed $1.50, provided further that the salary of the County Superintendent for the month of September shall not be paid until he presents a receipt from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction showing that he has made all reports required of him.  The County Superintendent shall nominate the principals and teachers for the various schools of the county under the supervision of the County Boards of Education, but this nomination shall be subject to confirmation by the district trustees.  The district trustees shall have the power and right to refuse to confirm the nomination of the County Superintendent, and when such confirmation is refused, the County Superintendent shall nominate another teacher for such school, provided however, that not more than three nominations of teachers for any one teaching position be made under the provisions of this Section.  In the event the district trustee should refuse to confirm the nomination of the County Superintendent as provided herein, the selection of the principal or teachers shall be by joint action of the district trustees and the County Superintendent in which case a majority vote shall prevail.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 9. Contracts and Purchases

Sec. 9. CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES.  The district trustees shall make all purchases of equipment and supplies for the various school districts and shall contract for all buildings and improvements and repairs and all other expenditures, but where the consideration involved is more than $100.00 such contracts and purchases shall be approved by the County Superintendent.  The County Board of Education may, if so authorized in writing by the district trustees, purchase supplies and equipment for all the school districts in wholesale lots, upon requisitions made by the district trustees of the various schools.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740d. County Board of Education in Certain Counties › Section 10. Equalization Fund

Sec. 10. EQUALIZATION FUND.  The County Board of Education shall at its August meeting set aside such County Available School Funds as may have accrued from investments of the County Permanent School Funds and land notes and leases, and shall supplement this with an amount not exceeding 5% of the State Available School Funds apportioned to all the schools of the county, to be used as an equalization fund to be distributed by the County Board, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the County Board, provided that no district shall participate in this distribution that does not levy and collect a local tax for school purposes of at least seventy-five cents on each One Hundred Dollars property valuation of such district.
Acts 1929, 41st Leg., 2nd C.S., p. 49, ch. 31;  Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 798, ch. 324, Sec. 1.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 1.

Section 1. Any county in this State containing a population of not less than five thousand, six hundred (5,600) nor more than five thousand, seven hundred and fifty (5,750) according to the last preceding Federal Census shall have a county unit system of education to the extent specified in this Act, and for the purpose of levying, assessing, and collecting a school equalization tax, and for such other administrative functions as are herein set forth;  the territory of each of such counties may be created into a county-wide school district in the manner hereinafter provided and may exercise the taxing power as hereinafter provided.  There shall be exercised in and for the entire territory of each of such counties, to the extent in this Act prescribed, the taxing power conferred on school districts by Article 7, Section 3, of the Constitution, but such taxing power shall not be exercised until and unless authorized by a majority of the qualified property taxpaying voters residing therein at an election to be held for that purpose as hereinafter provided.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 2.

Sec. 2. On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified voters of any county coming under the provisions of this Act praying for the formation of such county-wide school district, the County Judge shall, within thirty (30) days, order an election to be held throughout the county.  The County Judge shall give notice of the date of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election, and all legally qualified voters shall be allowed to vote at said election.  The form of ballot shall be substantially as follows:
"For Equalization District"
"Against Equalization District"
The Commissioners Court shall at its next regular meeting canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of votes cast shall favor the formation of such district, the Court shall declare the result thereof and declare the county-wide school equalization district duly and legally created and the provisions of this Act duly adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 3.

Sec. 3. The general management, supervision, and control of the public schools and of the educational interests of each county adopting the provisions of this law shall be vested in the County Board of School Trustees, except as otherwise provided by law, and said Board shall perform such duties as are or may be required of it by existing law and by the provisions of this Act and shall constitute the Board of Trustees for such county-wide district.  Any such county-wide school equalization district formed in the manner hereinabove provided may levy and collect annually on all taxable property in the county an equalization tax not to exceed Twenty (20) Cents on the One Hundred Dollars ($100) valuation of property situated in said county, and the money derived from such tax shall be known as an equalization fund for the support of the public schools of the county, which fund shall be distributed to the school districts of the county as provided herein.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 4.

Sec. 4. On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified property taxpaying voters of any county which shall have adopted the provisions of this Act, praying for the authority to levy and collect said tax, the County Judge shall immediately order an election to be held throughout the county, said election to be held not more than thirty (30) days from the date of such order.  The County Judge shall give notice of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election.  Only legally qualified property taxpaying voters, who own property in the county and who have duly rendered the same for taxation, shall be allowed to vote in said election.  The form of ballot is substantially as follows:
"For County Tax"
"Against County Tax"
The Commissioners Court shall, at its next regular or special meeting, canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of the votes cast shall favor such tax, the Court shall declare the results and certify same to the County Board of School Trustees and to the County Tax Assessor and Collector, and said Board of County School Trustees shall thereupon be authorized to levy said tax and the County Tax Assessor and Collector shall be authorized to assess and collect same.  No election to revoke said tax shall be ordered until the expiration of three (3) years from the date of the election at which said tax was adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 5.

Sec. 5. In the counties adopting the provisions of this law, the County Tax Assessor shall assess all of the taxable property in the county at the same rate of valuation as it is assessed for State and county purposes, and the County Tax Collector shall collect said tax at the same time and in the same manner as other State and county taxes are collected.  The Tax Collector shall deposit the money collected from said tax in a separate fund to be known as the County Equalization Fund for the support of the public schools of the county.  He shall have the same authority, and the same laws shall apply in the collection of said tax as in the collection of county ad valorem taxes.  He shall, on or about the 10th of each month, make a report to the County Board of School Trustees and to the County Superintendent of schools, showing all moneys collected by him during the last month by said tax, and shall each month place such funds in the Equalization Fund.  The County Superintendent shall keep a record, both received and paid out, of all money from said Fund.  The officers assessing and collecting said equalization tax shall receive therefor the same compensation as is paid for assessing and collecting school taxes in common school districts;  however, no part of the moneys realized from said county-wide maintenance tax shall be used to pay any present or future bond issues or interest thereon, and the moneys received and held by independent school districts shall be protected in accordance with the existing depository laws.  And the Tax Collector shall place to the credit of the common school districts in such county such moneys as are apportioned to them, which shall be protected as provided by the existing depository laws.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 6.

Sec. 6. The Tax Collector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond, with two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties, or surety bond, for the protection of said Equalization Fund, said bond to be made payable to the County Board of School Trustees, and to be made in a sum not less than double the amount of money which he may have in his possession of said Fund at any time.  The amount of said bond shall be fixed by the County Board of School Trustees.  The County Board shall require a similar bond of any and all other persons or corporations in whose possession such Funds may be kept.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 7.

Sec. 7. The County Board of School Trustees shall distribute the money collected from any taxes levied by said district to the common and independent districts of the county on a per capita basis according to the number of scholastic pupils shown by the last preceding official scholastic census, and county-line districts shall be eligible to receive such per capita apportionment based upon the number of scholastic pupils residing in the county of such equalization district, as shown by the lastest official scholastic census of such district.  The County Board of School Trustees shall issue warrants against such Equalization Fund to the school district trustees on a per capita basis of scholastic pupils in each district;  provided that the County Board may, from time to time, as the money is collected, issue warrants to the various school districts in proportion to the amount that each is entitled to receive on such per capita basis of scholastic pupils in the respective districts.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 8.

Sec. 8. The several independent school districts and common school districts in such county shall continue to have authority to levy, assess, and collect the maintenance taxes theretofore authorized by the property taxpayers in said respective districts.  This law shall not affect the right and duty of said respective school districts to levy, assess, and collect taxes within their respective districts for the payment of principal and interest on bonded indebtedness of such districts.  The respective districts shall continue to levy, assess, and collect taxes sufficient to pay principal of, and interest on their bonds.  Provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall prevent the proper authorities from collecting and enforcing for the benefit of the respective districts, any maintenance taxes levied before this law becomes effective.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 9.

Sec. 9. This Act shall not have the effect of changing any duties imposed on or powers conferred on the trustees of any common or independent school districts situated in the counties covered by this Act, unless and except as expressly provided herein, it being the intention of this law that said respective Boards of Trustees shall continue to administer their lawful duties and powers as now authorized by law, but the equalization tax authorized shall be levied by the County Board of School Trustees and assessed and collected by the County Tax Assessor and Collector.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-2. County Unit System in Counties of 5,600 to 5,750 › Section 10.

Sec. 10. In case any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Act shall be held unconstitutional or void, then, and in that event, it shall not affect any other clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Act.  All laws, or parts of laws, both general and special, in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Acts 1937, 45th Leg., p. 315, ch. 163.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 1.

Section 1. Any county in this State containing a population of not less then seven thousand, five hundred (7,500) nor more than seven thousand, five hundred and ninety (7,590) according to the last preceding Federal Census, or any future Federal Census, shall have a county unit system of education to the extent specified in this Act, and for the purpose of levying, assessing, and collecting a school equalization tax, and for such other administrative functions as are herein set forth;  the territory of each of such counties may be created into a county-wide school district in the manner hereinafter provided and may exercise the taxing power as hereinafter provided.  There shall be exercised in and for the entire territory of each of such counties, to the extent in this Act prescribed, the taxing power conferred on school districts, by Article 7, Section 3 of the Constitution, but such taxing power shall not be exercised until and unless authorized by a majority of the qualified property taxpaying voters residing therein at an election to be held for that purpose as hereinafter provided.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 2.

Sec. 2. On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified voters of any county coming under the provisions of this Act praying for the formation of such county-wide school district, the County Judge shall, within thirty (30) days, order an election to be held throughout the county.  The County Judge shall give notice of the date of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election, and all legally qualified voters shall be allowed to vote at said election.  The form of ballot shall be substantially as follows:
"For Equalization District."
"Against Equalization District."
The Commissioners Court shall at its next regular meeting canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of votes cast shall favor the formation of such district, the Court shall declare the result thereof and declare the county-wide school equalization district duly and legally created and the provisions of this Act duly adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 3.

Sec. 3. The general management, supervision, and control of the public schools and of the educational interests of each county adopting the provisions of this law shall be vested in the County Board of School Trustees for such county-wide district.  Any such county-wide school equalization district formed in the manner hereinabove provided may levy and collect annually on all taxable property in the county an equalization tax not to exceed twenty (20) cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property situated in said county and the money derived from such tax shall be known as an Equalization Fund for the support of the public schools of the county, which Fund shall be distributed to the school districts of the county as provided herein.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 4.

Sec. 4. On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified property taxpaying voters of any county which shall have adopted the provisions of this Act, praying for the authority to levy and collect said tax, the County Judge shall immediately order an election to be held throughout the county, said election to be held not more than thirty (30) days from the date of such order.  The County Judge shall give notice of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election.  Only legally qualified property taxpaying voters, who own property in the county and who have duly rendered the same for taxation, shall be allowed to vote in said election.  The form of ballot is substantially as follows:
"For County Tax."
"Against County Tax."
The Commissioners Court shall, at its next regular or special meeting, canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of the votes cast shall favor such tax, the Court shall declare the results and certify same to the County Board of School Trustees and the County Tax Assessor and Collector shall be authorized to assess and collect same.  No election to revoke said tax shall be ordered until the expiration of three (3) years from the date of the election at which said tax was adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 5.

Sec. 5. In the counties adopting the provisions of this law, the County Tax Assessor shall assess all of the taxable property in the county at the same rate of valuation as it is assessed for State and county purposes, and the County Tax Collector shall collect said tax at the same time and in the same manner as other State and county taxes are collected.  The Tax Collector shall deposit the money collected from said tax in a separate fund to be known as the County Equalization Fund for the support of the public schools of the county.  He shall have the same authority, and the same laws shall apply in the collection of said tax as in the collection of county ad valorem taxes.  He shall, on or about the 10th of each month, make a report to the County Board of School Trustees and to the County Superintendent of Schools, showing all moneys collected by him during the last month by said tax, and shall each month place such funds in the Equalization Fund.  The County Superintendent shall keep a record, both received and paid out, of all moneys from said Fund.  The officers assessing and collecting said equalization tax shall receive therefor the same compensation as is paid for assessing and collecting school taxes in common school districts;  however, no part of the moneys realized from said county-wide maintenance tax shall be used to pay any present or future bond issues or interest thereon, and the moneys received and held by independent school districts shall be protected in accordance with the existing depository laws.  And the Tax Collector shall place to the credit of the common school districts in such county such moneys as are apportioned to them, which shall be protected as provided by the existing depository laws.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 6.

Sec. 6. The Tax Collector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond, with two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties, or surety bond, for the protection of said Equalization Fund, said bond to be made payable to the County Board of School Trustees.  The County Board shall require a similar bond of any and all other persons or corporations in whose possession such funds may be kept.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 7.

Sec. 7. The County Board of School Trustees shall distribute the money collected from any taxes levied by said district to the common and independent districts of the county on a per capita basis according to the number of scholastic pupils shown by the last preceding official scholastic census, and county line districts shall be eligible to receive such per capita apportionment based upon the number of scholastic pupils residing in the county of such equalization district, as shown by the latest official scholastic census of such district.  The County Board of School Trustees shall issue warrants against such Equalization Fund to the school district trustees on a per capita basis of scholastic pupils in each district;  provided that the County Board may, from time to time, as the money is collected, issue warrants to the various school districts in proportion to the amount that each is entitled to receive on such per capita basis of scholastic pupils in the respective districts.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 8.

Sec. 8. The several independent school districts and common school districts in such county shall continue to have authority to levy, assess, and collect the maintenance taxes theretofore authorized by the property taxpayers in said respective districts.  This law shall not affect the right and duty of said respective school districts to levy, assess, and collect taxes within their respective districts for the payment of principal and interest on bonded indebtedness of such districts.  The respective districts shall continue to levy, assess, and collect taxes sufficient to pay principal of and interest on their bonds.  Provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall prevent the proper authorities from collecting and enforcing, for the benefit of the respective districts, any maintenance taxes levied before this law becomes effective.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 9.

Sec. 9. This Act shall not have the effect of changing any duties imposed on or powers conferred on the trustees of any common or independent school districts situated in the counties covered by this Act, unless and except as expressly provided herein, it being the intention of this law that said respective Boards of Trustees shall continue to administer their lawful duties and powers as now authorized by law, but the equalization tax authorized shall be levied by the County Board of School Trustees and assessed and collected by the County Tax Assessor and Collector.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-3. County Unit System in Counties of 7,500 to 7,590 › Section 10.

Sec. 10. In case any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Act shall be held unconstitutional or void, then, and in that event, it shall not affect any other clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Act.  All laws or parts of laws, both general and special, in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 121, ch. 95.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 2.

Sec. 2. In event said maintenance tax is adopted at such election, after the result of the election has been certified to the County Superintendent, he shall make a permanent record of such certificate and shall send a certified copy of same to the State Department of Education at Austin, Texas, for its information and guidance.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 3.

Sec. 3. As soon as the Commissioners Court of such county has determined the total of the assessed value of taxable property according to the value fixed by the Board of Equalization, which values shall be the same as those fixed for State and county taxation purposes, subject thereafter to ordinary corrections, it shall then perform the following duties:
(a) determine the estimated total receipts from the levying and collecting of said Twenty-five (25) Cents tax on the property in the county-wide district according to such valuation;
(b) to determine the estimated amount of money apportionable to each scholastic on the basis of equal per capita distribution according to the then current census of scholastics for the several districts;
(c) to determine the estimated amount of such money available for each common and independent school district according to such per capita distribution;
(d) to cause the ex officio Clerk of such Court to communicate a copy of the order fixing the estimated amount for each independent school district to the president thereof and for each common school district to the County Superintendent or ex officio County Superintendent of such county.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 4.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners Court at the time other taxes are levied in the county to levy a tax under this law of Twenty-five (25) Cents on the one hundred dollars valuation in said county for that year.  Such taxes shall be assessed by the Tax Assessor and collected by the Tax Collector as other taxes are assessed and collected.  The money collected from said Twenty-five (25) Cents tax shall be distributed to the various school districts in such county as follows:
All districts in the county shall receive the same amount of money for each scholastic, for the maintenance of schools in such district.  No part of the moneys realized from said county-wide maintenance tax shall be used to pay any present or future bond issues or interest thereon.  The Tax Collector shall, each month, apportion to each district the pro rata part of the taxes collected and dispose of same as hereinafter provided.  The valuations fixed by the County Board of Equalization for State and county taxation purposes shall be used in computing said taxes and in levying and collecting the same.  The budget officer of each school district in said county as provided by Statute, and the trustees of each of said districts, after receiving the notice of the estimate of the Commissioners Court as herein provided for, and the notice of the State apportionment of public school funds to said district, shall proceed to make and approve the budget for their respective districts as provided by Acts 1931, Forty-second Legislature, Regular Session, page 339, Chapter 206.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 5.

Sec. 5. As and when said taxes are collected by the Tax Collector of the county, he shall make monthly settlements with the independent school districts situated in such county, said moneys to be received and held by said independent school districts and protected in accordance with the existing depository laws.  And the Tax Collector shall place to the credit of the common school districts in such county such moneys as are apportioned to them, which shall be protected as provided by the existing depository laws.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 6.

Sec. 6. The several independent school districts and common school districts in such county shall continue to have authority to levy, assess, and collect the maintenance taxes theretofore authorized by the property taxpayers in said respective districts, subject to the restrictions that after said county-wide maintenance tax election has been carried and while said tax is in full force and operation, said respective independent school districts and common school districts shall not thereafter levy, assess, and collect any special tax for maintenance of schools, except in instances wherein the apportionment made by the Commissioners Court, together with the apportionment made by the State of Texas, produces an amount inadequate to meet the approved budget of such district, and in that event, such tax shall be levied in an amount to meet such deficit, due allowance to be made for delinquencies and for costs of collection.  This law shall not affect the right and duty of said respective school districts to levy, assess, and collect taxes within their respective districts for the payment of principal and interest on bonded indebtedness of such districts.  The respective districts shall continue to levy, assess, and collect taxes sufficient to pay principal of and interest on their bonds.  Provided however, that nothing in this Act shall prevent the proper authorities from collecting and enforcing, for the benefit of the respective districts, any maintenance taxes levied before this law becomes effective.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 7.

Sec. 7. Until and unless said county-wide maintenance tax has been authorized at an election held in such county, the duties and powers of the Commissioners Court shall not be considered as having been changed, altered, or enlarged by this Act.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 8.

Sec. 8. This Act shall not have the effect of changing any duties imposed on or powers conferred on the trustees of school districts situated in the counties covered by this Act, unless and except as expressly provided herein, it being the intention of this law that said respective Boards of Trustees shall continue to administer their lawful duties and powers except as to the levying, assessing, and collecting of maintenance taxes, and the powers and duties as to levying, assessing, and collecting maintenance taxes shall remain unaffected except as modified as provided herein.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 9.

Sec. 9. This Act shall be considered as cumulative of other laws applicable to the counties affected, but in event any provision of this law is inconsistent with any other applicable law, the provisions of this Act shall prevail as to the counties affected.  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, in so far as they apply to the counties affected, are hereby repealed.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 10.

Sec. 10. The Commissioners Court shall have advisory superivision over the schools in the county to the extent that it shall be the duty of the Court to render its advice on all administrative matters submitted by the several Boards of Trustees.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-4. County Unit System in Counties of 10,339 to 10,540; Powers and Duties of Commissioners' Court › Section 11.

Sec. 11. In event any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Act shall be held to be unconstitutional, such holding shall not affect the other provisions of the Act no so invalidated.
Acts 1941, 47th Leg., p. 400, ch. 233.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 1. Taxing Power

Section 1. TAXING POWER.  Any county in this state, having a population of not less than twenty-seven thousand (27,000) and not more than thirty thousand (30,000) according to the last preceding Federal Census and having an assessed valuation for ad valorem tax purposes of not less than Seventy Million ($70,000,000.00) Dollars according to the tax rolls of said county for the preceding year, shall have a county unit system of education to the extent specified in this Act, and for the purpose of levying, assessing and collecting a school equalization tax, and for such other administrative functions as are herein set forth;  the territory of each of such counties may be created into a county-wide school district in the manner hereinafter provided and may exercise the taxing power as hereinafter provided.  There shall be exercised in and for the entire territory of each of such counties, to the extent in this Act prescribed, the taxing power conferred on school districts by Article 7, Section 3, of the constitution, but such taxing power shall not be exercised until and unless authorized by a majority of the qualified property taxpaying voters residing therein at an election to be held for that purpose as hereinafter provided.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 2. Election on Adoption

Sec. 2. ELECTION ON ADOPTION.  On the petition of as many as one hundred (100) legally qualified voters of any county coming under the provisions of this Act praying for the formation of such county-wide school district, the County Judge, shall, within thirty (30) days, order an election to be held throughout the county.  The County Judge shall give notice of the date of such election by publication of the order in some newspaper published in the county for twenty (20) days prior to the date of such election, and all legally qualified voters shall be allowed to vote at said election.  The form of ballot shall be substantially as follows:
"For Equalization District";  or
"Against Equalization District".
The Commissioners Court shall at its next regular meeting canvass the returns of said election, and if a majority of votes cast shall favor the formation of such district, the court shall declare the result thereof and declare the county-wide school equalization district duly and legally created and the provisions of this Act duly adopted.
2023 Texas Statutes › Vernon's Civil Statutes › Title 49 - Education--Public › Chapter 12 - County Unit System › Article 2740f-5. County Unit System in Counties of 27,000 to 30,000 › Section 3. Management; Equalization Tax

Sec. 3. MANAGEMENT;  EQUALIZATION TAX.  The general management, supervision and control of the public schools and of the educational interests of each county adopting the provisions of this law shall be vested in the County Board of School Trustees, except as otherwise provided by law, and said Board shall perform such duties as are or may be required of it by existing law and by the provisions of this Act and shall constitute the Board of Trustees for such county-wide district.  Any such county-wide school equalization district formed in the manner hereinabove provided may levy and collect annually on all taxable property in the county an equalization tax not to exceed Ten (10¢) cents on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars valuation of property situated in said county, and the money derived from such tax shall be known as an equalization fund for the support of the public schools of the county, which fund shall be distributed to the school districts of the county as provided herein.