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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) If the commissioner determines that a school district has failed to operate a school for a full school year, the commissioner shall report to each appropriate commissioners court that the district is dormant.
(b) The commissioners court of a county shall by order annex each dormant school district within the county with an adjoining district or districts. If the dormant district is a county-line district, the commissioners court of each county in which the district is located shall annex the territory of the dormant district that is within that county. The commissioners court may annex territory to a school district only if the board of trustees of that district approves the annexation.
(c) The governing board of the district to which a dormant school district is annexed is the governing board for the new district.
(d) The order of the commissioners court shall define by legal boundary description the territory of the new district as enlarged and shall be recorded in the minutes of the commissioners court.
(e) Title to the real property of the dormant district vests in the district to which the property is annexed. Each district to which territory is annexed assumes and is liable for any portion of the dormant district's indebtedness that is allocated to the receiving district under Section 13.004.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Texas Education Code - EDUC § 13.052. Dormant School Districts - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/education-code/educ-sect-13-052/
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