REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; county school superintendent

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

HB 2135

 

Introduced by

Representative Bolick

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 15-456, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school district boundary provisions and elections.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


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

Section 1. Section 15-456, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-456. Jurisdiction of county board of supervisors and county school superintendent over joint common school district

A. The county of jurisdiction of the proposed joint common school district is that county in which the greater portion of the qualified electors of the proposed joint common school district resides, unless all of the existing school buildings located on territory which that will be within the proposed joint common school district are in one county, in which event that county shall be the county of jurisdiction.

B. The jurisdictional county of the joint common school district shall exercise authority as provided for in this section and sections 15-429, 15-453 through 15-455, 15-457, 15-491, subsection B, 15-975 and 15-997 as otherwise provided for the joint common school districts. The county school superintendent of the jurisdictional county shall perform for and in respect to the joint common school district all duties required to be performed by county school superintendents. The board of supervisors of the same county shall have jurisdiction over and perform all duties for and with respect to the joint common school district as required to be performed by boards of supervisors, except that school district taxes to be levied on property in the portion of the joint common school district lying in another county shall be levied by the board of supervisors of such other county. END_STATUTE