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Opinion No. 21-3181

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 11/07/1921
File Number 1921 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 21-3181

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Opinion No. 21-3181

November 7, 1921

BY: HARRY S. BOWMAN, Attorney General

TO: Mr. L. O. Foster, Clerk, District No. 35, Cedarvale, New Mexico.

Holding of Dances in Public School Houses.

OPINION

{*95} In reply to your letter of the first instant, asking whether dancing may be prohibited in the school auditorium in the district where authority to regulate the matter has been delegated by the County Board of Education to the board of directors of the district, I wish to advise:

The general authority and control over the property of schools in the county is vested with the County Board of Education (Chapter 105, Laws 1917), and as the matter of whether or not dancing shall be permitted in a school house is one which may be considered as somewhat local to the particular district in which the school is located, the County Board of Education may therefore delegate to the board of directors of the district the power to determine whether or not the school building may be used for dancing.

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