20-6-313. Transactions after approved county high school unification. (1) Whenever a county high school is unified with the elementary district where the county high school building is located, the following transactions shall be completed on or before the July 1 when the unification becomes effective:
     (a) The high school boundary commission, without the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall order the creation of a high school district if the county has not already been divided into high school districts.
     (b) The county high school trustees, who shall not have the capacity to govern the high school district upon unification, shall surrender all minutes, documents, and other records of the county high school to the trustees of the high school district.
     (c) The county superintendent shall order the establishment of additional high school trustee nominating areas in the manner prescribed in 20-3-352 and 20-3-353, if requested to do so by a majority of the outlying elementary districts located in the high school district. When the county superintendent establishes such areas, he shall appoint additional high school district trustees from each area who shall hold office until a successor is elected at the next regular school election and qualified.
     (d) The county treasurer, after allowing for any outstanding or registered warrants, shall transfer all end-of-the-year fund cash balances of the county high school to similar funds established for the high school district. All previous years' taxes levied and collected for the county high school shall be credited to the appropriate fund of the high school district.
     (e) The board of county commissioners shall execute, in the name of the county, all necessary and appropriate deeds, bills of sale, and other instruments for the conveyance of title to all real and personal property of the county high school, including all appurtenances and hereditaments, to the high school district.
     (2) All county high school bonds outstanding at the time of unification shall remain the obligation of the county or that portion of the county against which the bonds were originally issued. The high school district shall be responsible for the maintenance of the debt service fund for such bonds. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners and the trustees of the high school district to perform the duties prescribed in the school budgeting and bond redemption provisions of this title for the redemption and interest payments of the county high school bonds in the same manner and by the same means as though the county high school had not been unified.

     History: En. 75-6539 by Sec. 198, Ch. 5, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6539.