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Opinion No. 23-3661

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 01/18/1923
File Number 1923 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 23-3661

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Opinion No. 23-3661

January 18, 1923

BY: MILTON J. HELMICK, Attorney General

TO: Requested by: Isabel L. Eckles, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

No Law for Reimbursement of Parents for Lodging of Child Attending School at Distance from Home.

OPINION

{*6} It is stated that in a certain school district of one of the counties, a patron of the school is sending his boy to school at the county seat because he lives too far away from the school house in his own district. The parents of this boy have been paying his lodging while he has been attending school at the county seat and claim they are entitled to receive reimbursement from the county, or state, equal to the amount of all expenses paid by them for such lodging.

Inquiry is made whether there is any law to sustain the contention of the parents of this boy.

There is no law which either directly, or indirectly, permits such a reimbursement to the parents and the claim of the parents must be refused.

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