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Opinion No. 22-3431

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Date 05/19/1922
File Number 1922 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 22-3431

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Opinion No. 22-3431

May 19, 1922

BY: HARRY S. BOWMAN, Attorney General

TO: Mr. E. D. Bartmess, Southview Ranch, Mills, New Mexico.

Cost of Construction of County High School Must Be Borne by School District.

OPINION

{*152} In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, asking upon whom is imposed the expense of the construction of a county high school, whether upon the entire county or upon the community wherein the high school is located, I wish to advise you:

{*153} Section 4970, Code 1915, specifically provides that the cost of the site, location of building and erection and cost thereof for any county high school shall be entirely borne by the district where such high school is established.

This statute answers your inquiry.

The cost of the maintaining of the high school is imposed upon the entire county, for which purpose a county levy is provided for by Section 4968, Code 1915, as amended by Section 12 of Chapter 54, Session Laws of 1915.

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.