REFERENCE TITLE: school districts; lapsing

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

HB 2279

Introduced by

Representative Fillmore

AN ACT

amending section 15-469, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school district boundaries.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 15-469, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-469. Lapsing of school district; conditions; procedure; disposition of property and monies

A. If in a common school district there has been had a student count of less than eight one hundred fifty pupils between the ages of six and twenty-one years for one school year, the county school superintendent may suspend recommend suspension of the common school district and report the recommendation of suspension and reasons to the common school district and the county board of supervisors at its next meeting.  The county board of supervisors may declare the school district lapsed and attach the territory of the lapsed school district to one or more adjoining school districts, dispose of the property of the lapsed school district and apply the proceeds to the credit of the lapsed school district. The county school superintendent shall determine all unbonded indebtedness of the lapsed school district and draw a warrant, on proper vouchers, on the county treasurer in payment of the unbonded indebtedness. any balance remaining after such a payment shall be transferred to the county school fund.

B. The county school superintendent may provide the common school district additional time to recruit more pupils. If the common school district has a student count of less than eight one hundred fifty pupils at the end of the additional time, the county board of supervisors may declare the common school district lapsed and attach the territory to one or more of the adjoining school districts, dispose of the property of the lapsed common school district and apply the proceeds to the credit of the lapsed common school district. The county school superintendent shall determine all unbonded indebtedness of the lapsed common school district and draw his warrant, on proper vouchers, on the county treasurer in payment of the unbonded indebtedness. Any balance remaining after such a payment shall be transferred to the county school fund in accordance with subsection A of this section. END_STATUTE