Bond of Estimates of school expenses. Special district when to be levied, and how collected. SEC. 1844. The Collector must execute an official bond, in an amount to be fixed by the Board of Trustees. SEC. 1845. The School Superintendent in each county must, on or before the first day of March in each year, furnish to the Board of Supervisors and Tax Collector, respectively, an estimate in writing of the cost of maintaining a free school for eight months in each school district in the county, together with the cost of incidental expenses and necessary repairs; and also an estimate of the amount of public money, both State and county, to which each district will be entitled during the year, and the amount necessary to be raised in each school district to support a school eight months. SEC. 1816. The Board of Supervisors in each county school tax, must, after receiving the assessment roll from the County Assessor and before the first Monday in September in each year, levy a special school tax upon the property in each school district in which there is a deficiency, for an amount which, together with the State and county money to be received, is sufficient to maintain the school (or schools) for eight months during the year; and such tax must be equalized and collected in the manner provided for equalizing and collecting State and county taxes. The Collector must pay over the money so collected to the County Treasurer, who must place it to the credit of the respective districts from which it is collected, as a special deposit, and pay it out on the warrant of the School Superintendent, in the manner provided for the payment of State and county school moneys. Certain districts exempted from. SEC. 1847. Any school district whose taxable property does not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, and which does not contain more than twenty-five children between the ages of five and fifteen years, must on a proper showing of the facts be exempted from the special taxation provided for in the two preceding sections. ARTICLE XXI. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO SCHOOL FUNDS AND TAXES. SECTION 1857. No compensation allowed to certain officer for collect- 1858. Apportionment of State and County School Fund, how 1859. Same. 1860. Same. 1861. What State School Fund may be used for. SEC. 1857. No Tax Collector or County Treasurer must charge or receive any fees or compensation whatever for collecting, receiving, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys; but the whole moneys collected must be paid to the County Treasurer, and by him must be paid. to the State Treasurer at the same time other moneys are paid over. ment of State and School how made. County Fund, SEC. 1858. All State school moneys apportioned by Apportionthe Superintendent of Public Instruction, and all county school moneys apportioned by School Superintendents, must be apportioned to the several school districts and cities in proportion to the number of school children between five and fifteen years of age, as shown by the returns of the School Census Marshals for the next preceding school year; but Indian children who are living not under the guardianship of white persons, and Mongolian children, must not be included in the apportionment. SEC. 1859. No school district is entitled to receive any Same. apportionment of State or county school money's which has not maintained a free public school for at least three months during the then next preceding school year; but any new district formed by the division of an old one is entitled to its apportionment when the time that school was maintained in the old district before division, and in the new district after division, is equal to at least three months. Any school district which neglects or refuses to adopt and use the State series of text books required in pursuance of law, is not a school district within the meaning of this Article. Apportionment of State and County School Fund, how made. What State School inay be SEC. 1860. No school district is entitled to receive any apportionment of State or county school moneys unless the teachers employed in the schools of such district hold legal certificates of fitness for teaching, in full force and effect. SEC. 1861. The State School Fund, excepting as otherwise provided in this Chapter, must be used for no other purpose than the payment of teachers. Applicants for diplo mas or certificates must ARTICLE XXII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SECTION 1871. Applicants for diplomas or certificates must present evidence of character. 1872. Appeals from orders revoking certificates or diplomas. 1873. Reports to be made of certificates issued. 1874. School officers may administer oaths. 1875. Books once adopted must be continued four years. 1876. Penalties for neglect to use books adopted. 1877. What school officers are to be elected. 1878. Certain persons not to be interested in contracts. 1880. Printing and binding, by whom to be done. SEC. 1871. Applicants for diplomas or certificates must evidence of produce satisfactory evidence of good moral character. present character. Appeals from orders rovoking certificates or diplomas. Reports to be made of issued. SEC. 1872. When a State certificate or diploma is revoked, the holder may appeal to the State Board of Education; and when any other certificate is revoked he may appeal to the State Board of Examination. SEC. 1873. Every School Superintendent and each certificates City Superintendent of public schools must annually report, at the time of making his other report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the number of certificates granted by the Board of Examination of his county or city, the names of persons to whom granted, and date of each certificate, the number of all applicants rejected, and the number of certificates revoked, the cause of their revocation, and the names of the holders. The School Superintendent must also report to the State Superintendent the amount of money received from examination fees, and the manner in which it was expended. officers may administer oaths. SEC. 1874. Every officer charged with the perform- School ance of duties under the provisions of this Chapter may administer and certify oaths relating to offices or official matters concerning public schools. SEC. 1875. Any books once adopted as part of a uniform series must be continued in use for not less than four years. SEC. 1876. If any city or district refuse or neglect to use the books that may be prescribed, or use any other text books in any of the prescribed studies, the Superintendent of Public Instruction must withhold from such city, town, or district twenty-five per cent of all State school moneys to which it may be entitled until it comply; and any moneys so withheld must be apportioned by the Superintendent at the next annual apportionment in the same manner as other school moneys in the Treasury. Books ones adopted must be continued four years. Penalties for neglect to use books adopted. school officers are to be SEC. 1877. Members of Boards of Education, and What School Superintendents in incorporated cities having special school laws, must hereafter be elected by the elected. elector's of such cities; and in any city in which such school officers have heretofore been appointed the Common Council or Board of Supervisors must make provision by ordinance for the election of school officers at the general election or at special elections. persons not to be SEC. 1878. No School Trustee or member of any Board Certain of Education must be interested in any contract made by the Board of which he is a member; and any contract in conmade in violation of this provision is void. SEC. 1879. All incorporated literary institutions and all institutions having educational departments to which State appropriations are made, must report biennially to interested tracts. Certain in stitutions to report biennially. Printing and whom to the Superintendent of Public Instruction such statistics as he may require. SEC. 1880. All printing or binding required under this binding, by Chapter must be executed by the State Printer in the form and manner and at the prices of other State printing, and be paid, for in like manner. be done. School year, com SEC. 1881. The school year begins on the first day of mencement July, and ends on the last day of June. of. NOTE. This Chapter is founded upon the statute of 1870, p. 824. Slight changes have been made in the subject matter of that statute, but it has been pruned of redundant matter and logically arranged. SECTION 1895. Who are subject to military duty. 1896. Who are exempt from military duty. 1897. Assessor to enroll persons subject to military duty. 1902. Muster roll to be made by Brigadier General. |