Technical and vocational institute districts may be dissolved in the following manner:

A. a plan for the dissolution of the technical and vocational institute district shall be submitted to the state board of education by a petition signed by ten percent of the qualified electors residing in the district. Upon approval of the plan, the state board of education shall call a special election for the purpose of referring to the voters residing in the district the question of dissolution. Plans for the dissolution of a technical and vocational institute district shall provide for the payment of all district debts and liabilities and for the equitable distribution of all remaining assets to the school districts within the technical and vocational institute district;

B. if a majority of the qualified electors voting at the special election authorizes the dissolution, the board shall proceed with the approved plan. Upon completion of the plan, the board shall submit a full report to the state board of education and the commission on higher education [higher education department]; and

C. upon receipt of the final report of the board, the state board of education, in conjunction with the commission on higher education [higher education department], shall examine the report to determine whether any outstanding obligations exist and whether the terms of the approved plan have been accomplished. If upon determination by the state board of education no obligations are outstanding and the provisions of the plan have been fulfilled, the state board of education shall formally declare the technical and vocational institute district dissolved.

History: 1953 Comp., § 73-34-12, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 108, § 12; 1999, ch. 219, § 18.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2005, ch. 289, § 29 provided that all references to the commission on higher education be construed to be references to the higher education department.

The 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, in Subsection B, deleted "technical and vocational institute district" preceding "board shall" in the first sentence and added "and the commission on higher education" at the end; and, in Subsection C, inserted "in conjunction with the commission on higher education" near the beginning.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 68 Am. Jur. 2d Schools §§ 29 to 43.

78 C.J.S. Schools and School Districts § 18 et seq.