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212 GENERAL LAWS.
RELATING TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES IN CERTAIN
DISTRICTS.
S. B. No. 30.] CHAPTER 66.
An Act providing for the appointment or election and term of office of
school trustees in all independent districts having fewer than 75,000
population by the Federal Census of 1920 and for all consolidated and
rural high school districts; adjusting the term of office of trustees
now in office; providing for filling of all vacancies; providing for the
date of first election under this Act; repealing all laws both general
and special in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Towns and cities which have heretofore chosen
their trustees by appointment of the city council or board of
aldermen, shall be authorized to continue to choose their trustees
in this manner; that is, by the appointment by the board of
aldermen of said city or town; provided, that seven trustees
shall be appointed, three of whom shall serve for one year, and
two for two years and two for three years, and each year thereafter,
three trustees or two trustees shall be appointed for a
term of three years; and further provided, that on a petition of
twenty-five per cent of the voters of any such city or town, to
be ascertained by the ballots cast at the regular city election in
said city or town, the mayor of such city or town shall order an
election to determine whether or not the school affairs of such
city or town shall be directed by a school board elected in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter; and, in case of
any affirmative vote, an election shall at once be ordered by the
said mayor, for the purpose of choosing a school board consisting
of seven trustees, as provided in the succeeding article.
SEC. 2. In all such towns and cities having fewer than seventy-five
thousand population as shown by the Federal Census
of 1920, the board of trustees shall be composed of seven members
and the seven candidates receiving the largest number of
votes at the first election, and the three or two candidates receiving
the largest number of votes at all subsequent elections
shall be entitled to serve as trustees hereunder. Those elected
at the first election shall determine by lot the term for which
they are to serve. The three members drawing numbers one,
two and three shall serve for one year, the two members drawing
four and five shall serve for two years and the two members
drawing numbers six and seven shall serve for three years, or
until their successors are elected and qualified; and regularly
thereafter on the first Saturday in April of each year, three trustees
or two trustees shall be elected for a term of three years
to succeed the trustees whose term shall at that time expire.
The members of the board remaining after a vacancy shall fill
the same for the unexpired term.
SEC. 3. The board of county school trustees at its next meeting
after the consolidation of school districts is declared shall
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/224/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .