20-6-210. Joint elementary district abandonment. (1) Any joint elementary district shall be abandoned for the reasons prescribed in 20-6-209 or when the taxable value of the taxable property of the portion of the joint district that is located within any one of the counties is of so little value that the continued inclusion of such portion in the joint district is not justified. The boards of trustees designated by 20-9-151 for school budgeting purposes shall be responsible for ordering the abandonment of the joint district and shall immediately send a copy of such order to the county superintendent of each county with territory in the joint district.
     (2) After the issuance or receipt of the abandonment order, each county superintendent shall attach the territory within his county to a contiguous elementary district within his county; except when the district is abandoned because of the lack of taxable property in one county's territory of the district and a school is operated in another county's territory of the district which territory has a taxable value of $75,000 or more, the county superintendent of the county where such territory is located shall not attach it to another district. Such territory shall continue to operate as an elementary district within the county.
     (3) Any abandonment of a joint elementary district shall become effective on the date of the abandonment order except that district abandonments under the provisions of 20-6-209(1)(a) shall become effective on July 1.

     History: En. 75-6513 by Sec. 172, Ch. 5, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 277, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6513.