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§§ 2649-2649-a2. SCHOOLHOUSES AND SCHOOLHOUSE SITES. • Tit. X, Gh. 29.
3 thereon of schoolhouses, and the convenient use thereof, but not to
4 exceed two acres exclusive of public highway, except in a city, town
5 or village or cities under special charters it may include two blocks
6 or area equal thereto exclusive of the street or highway as the case
7 may be, for any one site, and may also take and hold such additional
8 real estate, not exceeding five acres, as may be required for school
9 playground or other purposes for each such site or districts consoli-
10 dated under the provisions of chapter nineteen of this title, may take
11 and hold not to exceed ten acres, for any one site, unless such addi-
12 tional ground may be acquired by donation, which site must be upon
13 some public road already established or procured by the board of
14 directors, and shall, except in cities,, towns or villages, be at least thirty
15 rods from the residence of any owner who objects to its being placed
16 nearer, and not in any public park.
17 The directors in any independent district whose territory is com-
18 posed wholly or in part of territory occupied by any city of the first
19 and second class, city under the manager plan, or city under special
20 charter may, at their regular meeting in July, or at a special meeting
21 called for that purpose, between the time designated for such regular
22 meeting and the third Monday in August, certify an amount not ex-
23 ceeding four mills to the board of supervisors, and they shall levy the
24 amount so certified, and the tax so levied shall be placed in the school-
25 house fund and used only for the purchase of sites in and for said
26 school district. Anything contained in section twenty-five hundred
27 thirty-seven of the compiled code to the contrary notwithstanding.
[C, '73, §§ 1825,1826; C, '97, § 2814; S., '13, § 2814; 37 G.
A., ch. 26, § 1 ; 37 G. A., ch. 400, § 1 ; 38 G. A., ch. 125,
§ 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 67, § 1.]
NOTE: This section in the compiled code refers to "section twenty-live hundred
twenty-four". This reference has been stricken out and in lieu thereof has
been inserted "chapter nineteen of this title". This change was necessary because
section 2524 was repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 175 and some forty sections enacted in
lieu thereof.
SBC. 2649. Reversion.
[Repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 183, §§ 1 and 3, and the three following
sections enacted in lieu thereof.]
SEC. 2649-al. Reversion of schoolhouse site from nonuser.
1 Any real estate owned by a school corporation, situated wholly
2 outside of a city or town, and not adjacent thereto, and heretofore used
3 as a schoolhouse site, and which, for a period of two years continuously
4 has not been used for any school purpose, shall revert to the then owner
5 of the tract from which the same was taken, provided that said owner
6 of the tract last aforesaid shall, within the time hereinafter prescribed,
7 pay the value thereof to such school corporation.
[C, '73 § 1828; C, '97, § 2816; S., '13, § 2816; 38 G. A., ch.
342, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 183, § 1.]
SEC. 2649-a2. Appraisement of site—notice—public sale.
1 In case the school corporation and said owner of the tract from
2 which such school site was taken, do not agree as to the value of such
3 site, the county superintendent of the county in which the greater part
4 of such school corporation is situated, shall on the written application