15-444. Formation of union high school
district; petition for establishment; election; notice
A. Two or more adjoining school districts jointly having a student count of not
less than two hundred pupils and an assessed valuation of not less than two million
dollars may unite and form a union high school district. No union high school district
may be formed of territory already embodied in a union high school district unless the
remaining territory of the original union high school district is contiguous and has an
assessed valuation of not less than five million dollars.
B. If a majority of the governing boards of each of two or more adjoining school
districts unites in a petition to the county school superintendent for establishment of a
union high school district, or if ten per cent of each of two or more adjoining school
districts unite in a petition for establishment of a union high school district, the
county school superintendent shall call an election to be held at the next regular
election of the governing board, if within ninety days after receipt of the petition, to
determine the question, or a special election called for that purpose within sixty days.
C. Public notices of the election, not less than three in each school district
comprising the proposed union high school district, shall be posted, one to be upon the
door of the schoolhouse in each district, at least ten days before the election.
D. The election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in the manner
prescribed in section 15-459. The ballots shall contain the words "union high school
district, yes" and "union high school district, no", and the voter shall signify his
desired choice.
E. If a majority of the persons voting within each school district comprising the
proposed union high school district votes in favor of establishment of a union high
school district, the union high school district shall become effective as provided in
section 15-459, subsection G.
F. If a union high school district is established from a unified school district as
provided in this section, a common school district is established with boundaries
coterminous with the boundaries of the former unified school district.
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