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Title and sections amended.

Section repealed.

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Rural agricultural school, how established.

[No. 97.]

AN ACT to amend the title and sections two, three, four, eight, nine, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty of act number two hundred twentysix of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of rural agricultural schools by consolidating three or more rural schools in any school or township district; for the organization of school districts in certain cases; for teaching agriculture, manual training and home economics therein, and providing state aid for the maintenance thereof," and to repeal section thirteen thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The title and sections two, three, four, eight, nine, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty of act number two hundred twenty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of rural agricultural schools by consolidating three or more rural schools in any school or township district; for the organization of school districts in certain cases; for teaching agriculture, manual training and home economics therein, and providing state aid for the maintenance thereof," are hereby amended, and section thirteen thereof is hereby repealed, said amended title and sections to read as follows:

TITLE.

An Act to provide for the establishment of rural agricul tural schools by consolidating three or more rural school districts, and for the consolidating of three or more schools in any township district; for the organization of school districts in certain cases; for teaching agriculture, manual training and home economics therein, and providing state aid for the maintenance thereof.

SEC. 2. Such rural agricultural schools shall have a site of not less than five acres of ground except where the obtaining of such site is not feasible, in which case the Superintendent of Public Instruction may approve a smaller site, and shall have a corps of teachers consisting of one principal, or superintendent, and two or more teachers who are engaged to teach during not less than nine months in any one year.

SEC. 3. Whenever the county commissioner of schools shall be presented with petitions signed by twenty-five per cent of the legal school electors of each of three or more contiguous rural school districts to establish a rural agricultural school by consolidating the territory of said districts, the county commissioner of schools shall cause to be submitted the ques

rural districts.

submitted.

lished.

tion of consolidating said territory to form a rural agricultural school by the consolidating of the territory of said rural school districts, or whenever the district board of any township school district deems it advisable to establish a rural agricultural school within said township school district, it may establish such school in said township school district by complying with the provisions of this act. Contiguous Contiguous rural school districts shall be any group of rural school districts having continuous territory, but shall not be construed to include only those districts with one common point of contact. The question of establishing a rural agricultural school When question shall be submitted to the qualified school electors at a special meeting held for such purpose, notice thereof being given not less than twenty days prior to the time of holding such meeting by posting three or more notices in each district affected. The polls shall be open at least seven hours, and the voting shall be by ballot. The county commissioner of schools in the consolidating of rural school districts shall determine the form of ballot to be used and the hour at which the polls shall be open, which hour shall be stated in the notice. If When estaba majority of the qualified school electors present and voting at a special meeting shall vote in favor of the establishing of a rural agricultural school, it shall be established by the county commissioner of schools as herein provided. When Petition for. the school board of any township school district shall be presented with a petition or petitions signed by a majority of the legal school electors of said township school district, it shall establish a rural agricultural school. A township school district as used in this act shall mean any township school district operating under a special act, or the graded law as well as those operating under the general law: Provided, That if Proviso. the school districts to be consolidated are located in more than one county, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of schools of these counties to designate one of their number to call the elections provided for in sections three and four of this act. In case the county commissioners of schools cannot agree as to which one of them shall call the said elections, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall designate the county commissioner whose duty it shall be to call the elections herein designated. The consolidation of the rural When condistricts shall become effective whenever the county commis- fective. sioner of schools shall receive notice of the affirmative vote of three or more contiguous rural school districts as herein provided. Whenever the county commissioner of schools shall Special elecbe presented with petitions requiring the submission of the called. question of the establishing of a rural agricultural school as provided is this section, he shall within twenty days cause to be called a special election for all the school districts represented by such petitions for such purpose. He shall designate the place where the election shall be held for all the districts voting as a unit and prepare and have printed the necessary ballots. He shall designate one of the township

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Result, how certified.

paid.

boards of the township in which the territory is situated to conduct said election, and it shall be the duty of said township board to conduct such election. The conducting of the election and the canvass of the votes except as herein provided shall be in the same manner as at township elections, or as far as the laws governing the same are applicable, and when said laws are not applicable the township board shall prescribe the manner in which such election shall be conducted and the canvass made. The result of said election shall be certified by said election board to the county commissioner of schools herein designated. The township board designated to conduct said election and such other inspectors of election and members thereof as would be required under the general election laws shall receive the same compensation for conducting said election as it would if it were conExpense, how ducting a township election. The expense of conducting such election shall be determined by the township board according to the provisions hereof and apportioned equally among the several school districts voting upon the question of consolidation. It shall be the duty of the director or secretary of the school board of said districts to draw an order upon the treasurer of his district in favor of the person or persons designated by said township board for the amount to be paid by his school district as determined by said township board, and it shall be the duty of the moderator to sign such order and the treasurer to pay the same. A majority vote of the qualified school electors present and voting as a unit of all the districts that filed petitions signed by at least twenty-five per centum of the legal voters shall be necessary to authorize the establishment of a rural agricultural school. Whenever the county commissioner of schools is presented with a petition or petitions requesting him to submit to the legal school electors the question of establishing a rural agricultural school, he shall refer to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for his opinion as to the advisability of uniting all of said territory into one rural agricultural school district. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have authority to confirm the action of the several contiguous rural districts in forming the proposed rural agricultural school, or he may require that one or more of such districts be not included in the group to form a rural agricultural school. His action in the matter shall be final: Provided, That in voting to form a rural agricultural school district in which one or more graded school districts of twelve grades is to be included as a part of the unit, the rural school district or districts, which includes said graded school district or districts, shall vote separately and all other territory to be included in the rural agricultural school district shall vote Election, who separately but as one unit. The school board shall conduct the election in the school district containing the graded school district; and the township board designated by the county school commissioner, as herein provided, shall con

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to conduct.

duct the election for the portion of the territory outside of the rural district or districts which include said graded school district. The election in the school district including the graded school district or districts and the election. in that portion of the territory outside of the rural district including said graded school district shall be held on the same day and during the same hours. The result of said elec- Result, how tions shall be certified by the election boards conducting the certified. same to the county commissioner of schools herein designated. The affirmative vote of a majority of the legal school electors present and voting of each election unit shall be necessary to authorize the establishment of the rural agricultural school: Provided, Whenever the township school board of a Proviso. township school district shall proceed to establish a rural agricultural school as provided in this act, the rural agricultural school so established in a township school district shall be a part of the school system of said township district: Provided, Any rural school district adjoining a rural agri- Proviso, cultural school district by a majority vote of the qualified annexation. school electors present and voting in each district affected at any annual or special meeting called for the purpose may be annexed to the said rural agricultural district by the township board or township boards of the township or townships in which said territory lies. Such annexation shall not operate to affect the legal organization of said rural agricultural school district. It shall be the duty of the school board of each district concerned to file within ten days a certified statement of the affirmative vote for annexation with the township clerk of the township in which the schoolhouse of said rural school district is located. The said township clerk shall, within twenty days after receiving the certified statements from both districts, call a meeting of the township board or boards in the same manner as is provided under the general school laws for the changing of boundary lines of school districts. At said meeting the township board or boards shall annex the territory of said rural district to the territory of said rural agricultural district: Provided, That Proviso. the question of establishing a township unit district embracing all or a part of the territory in a rural agricultural school district shall not be submitted until the rural agricultural school district has elected its board of education and the board has qualified and elected its officers: Provided further, That Further prowhenever any rural agricultural school district has been or bandment. ganized as provided in this act and said rural agricultural school district has complied with the provisions of this act for a period of five years, or longer, the qualified school electors of said school district shall have the right, by presenting the trustees with a petition signed by a majority of the legal school electors, to disband such school district in the same manner as that provided in section six of chapter ten of act number one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, being section five thousand

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District election, when held.

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Trustees elected.

Term of office.

seven hundred thirty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen: Provided, That school electors as mentioned in this act shall include every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, who are residents of the district, and who shall possess the qualifications required of school electors under the general school laws.

SEC. 4. Whenever the consolidation of three or more contiguous rural school districts becomes effective as provided in section three, the county commissioner of schools designated in section three shall call a district election for the second Monday in July following by posting notices at least ten days prior thereto, and at least one notice in each district affected, in three of the most public places in the territory which is consolidated: Provided, That the county commissioner of schools may if he deems advisable call such election at any time previous to the annual meeting. The electors at the election called by the county commissioner of schools shall have authority to do all those things that may now be done by the legal school electors at the first meeting of a school district except such as may be inconsistent with this act. At such election a board of education of five trustees for the rural agricultural school district shall be elected by ballot by the qualified school electors of such rural agricultural district, one trustee for one year, two for two years, and two for three years and annually thereafter a successor or successors to the member or members whose term of office shall expire. The term of office of trustee after the first election shall be three years. The qualifications for office holding shall be the same as those provided in the general school laws for members of the board of primary districts. Within ten days after his election each member shall file with the county commissioner of schools calling the election an acceptance of the office to which he has been elected, accompanied by an affidavit setting forth the fact of eligibility as prescribed in the general school laws. The county commissioner of schools shall file these affidavits and acceptances with the secretary of the board after the organization of the board and its election of a secretary. Thereafter the affidavits and acceptances of office shall be filed with the secretary of the board. The board of education shall annually, and within fifteen days after the annual meeting, or within fifteen days after the organization under this act, elect from its own number a president, a secretary and a treasurer, and for cause may remove the same from such offices and may appoint others of their number in such places, and these officers shall perform the duties prescribed by the general school law for the moderator, director, and treasurer of the district, except as is inconsistent with the provisions of the graded Vacancy, how school act and with the provisions of this act. The board of education shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in its number until the next annual meeting, and if three vacancies occur at the same time a special meeting of

Affidavit,

etc., members to file.

President, etc., election of.

filled.

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