1997 Minnesota Statutes

   122.32 Remaining districts, action of county board; 
  election. 

    Subdivision 1.  If there be any organized school district 
 not maintaining a classified school within the district, except 
 those districts which have a contract with a state university or 
 with the board of regents of the University of Minnesota for the 
 education of all the children of the district, such district 
 shall hereby be dissolved as of the date the district ceases to 
 maintain a classified school.  Any such district not maintaining 
 a classified school shall forthwith be attached by order of the 
 county board to such district maintaining classified elementary 
 or secondary schools upon notice and hearing as provided in 
 section 122.22 for the attachment of dissolved districts. 

    Subd. 2.  Prior to the order of the county board, the board 
 may direct the county auditor to call a special election in the 
 manner and form in which district elections are held.  The 
 purpose of the election shall be to determine to which district 
 or districts the dissolved district shall be attached.  The 
 county board after hearing shall determine the form of question 
 as it should appear on the ballot.  The results of the election 
 shall be advisory in nature only. 

    Subd. 3.  The results of the election shall be certified by 
 the county auditor to the county board and within 45 days after 
 such election the county board shall issue its order dissolving 
 the district.  The order shall also attach the dissolved 
 district to a proper district as determined by the county board, 
 and a copy of such order shall be filed with the commissioner of 
 children, families, and learning.  Title to all the property, 
 real and personal, of the district dissolved passes to the 
 district to which such dissolved district is attached.  If a 
 district is divided by virtue of the proceedings the county 
 board shall issue its order providing for the division of the 
 current assets and liabilities according to such terms as it may 
 deem just and equitable.  If the order of the county board 
 attaches any land area to a district with bonded debt, the 
 taxable property in such area assumes its proportionate share of 
 the authorized and outstanding debt of the district to which it 
 is attached. 

    HIST: 1963 c 547 s 2; 1965 c 280 s 1; 1975 c 162 s 14; 1975 c 
 321 s 2; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 13 s 9