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Opinion No. 14-1202

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 04/24/1914
File Number 1914 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 14-1202

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Opinion No. 14-1202

April 24, 1914

BY: IRA L. GRIMSHAW, Assistant Attorney General

TO: R. S. Tipton, Esq., County School Superintendent, Alamogordo, New Mexico.

SCHOOLS.

County superintendent may vote as member of governing board of county high schools.

OPINION

{*63} We have your letter of the 22nd inst., asking us whether or not the county school superintendent has the same right to vote and {*64} may exercise the same privileges as other members of the board of directors of the county high school.

Section 4 of Chapter 57 of the Laws of 1912 provides that the management and government of the high schools shall be under the control of the Board of Education or school directors of the city or district. Section 5 provides that the county superintendent shall be a member of said board. The irresistible conclusion is that the county superintendent has the same right to vote upon matters affecting the school as that had by other members of the governing board.

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