Board of Education v. DeTray
Board of Education v. DeTray
Opinion of the Court
On September 25, 1915, the county board of education of Seneca county school district, in conjunction with the county board of education of Wyandot county, acting under authority conferred by Section 4696, General Code, detached a strip of territory from the district theretofore known 'as the Seneca township rural school district and attached the same to the Wyandot county school district, and at the same
A majority of the electors living in the transferred territory, within thirty days after the passage of the resolution making such transfer, filed a remonstrance with the board of education of Seneca county, Ohio, against the proposed transfer. The board of education of the Seneca township rural school district, as formerly constituted, instituted action in the court of common pleas and
The case was submitted on appeal to the court of appeals of Seneca county upon an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which is as above stated. The court of appeals also found for the defendants and refused the injunction sought by plaintiff.
The plaintiff in error challenges the constitutionality of the legislation commonly known as the “New School Code,” enacted in 1914, which creates a county board of education in every county of the state and empowers such board to establish and change school district boundaries and transfer territory from one district to another and perform other- duties, and rests its claim for relief chiefly upon that contention.
Since this case was filed here, this court has passed upon the question of the constitutionality of the school code, in the case of Cline v. Martin et al., 94 Ohio St., 420, holding that the same does not in any way contravene any provision of the constitution.
The contention that the remonstrance filed was effective to prevent a consummation of the transfer of territory is not well founded. The action of the boards of education of the two counties is
A county board of education may transfer territory to another county district upon the petition of fifty per cent, of the qualified electors of the territory to be ■ so transferred, and must make such transfer upon the petition of seventy-five per cent, of such electors. If the provision of Section 4692, with reference to remonstrances, applied to proceedings under Section 4696, then it would be possible for a bare majority of the electors to recall the action of the board of education initiated by the petition of fifty per cent, of the electors of such territory; and such remonstrance would have a like effect even if the proceedings to transfer such territory had been initiated by at least seventy-five per cent, of' the electors of the territory, and the board of education had acted pursuant to the mandatory provisions of Section 4696.
It is, therefore, quite apparent that although these two sections of the General Code were enacted at the same time and as a part of the same general legislation, the provision for a remonstrance has to do only with the proceeding provided for in Section 4692, and has no application whatever to a proceeding pursuant to the provisions of Section 4696.
Judgment affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- The Board of Education of Seneca Township Rural School District v. DeTray, Clerk
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- Syllabus
- Schools — Transfer of territory — Remonstrance — Section 4692, General Code (106 O. L., 397) — Inapplicable to transfers to adjoining county ■ districts, when — Section 4696, General Code (106 O. L., 397)• The provision of Section 4692, General Code (106 O. L., 397), rendering ineffective the order of a county board of education, transferring territory from one district to another, upon the filing of a remonstrance by a majority of the qualified electors residing in the territory to be transferred, has reference only to transfers within the county school district and has no application to a proceeding to transfer territory to an adjoining county district under the provisions of Section 4696, General Code (106 O. L., 397).