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§§ 2654-2656. SCHOOL TAXES AND BONDS. Tit. X, Ch. 30.
11 exceeding five dollars for each person of school age for transporting
12 children to and from school; also such additional sum as may be au-
13 thorized in section twenty-six hundred ninety-five of the compiled code.
14 No tax shall be estimated by the board after the third Monday in
15 August in each year.
16 School corporations containing territory in adjoining counties
17 may vote and estimate all taxes for school purposes in mills.
18 The board shall apportion any tax voted by the annual meeting
19 for schoolhouse fund among the several subdistricts in such a manner
20 as justice and equity may require, taking as the basis of such apportion-
21 ment the respective amounts previously levied upon said subdistricts
22 for the use of such fund.
23 The board of directors of any school corporation in which there
24 is no free public library shall have power to contract with any free pub-
25 lie library for the free use of such library by the residents of such
26 school district as provided in section thirty-seven hundred fifty-two
27 of this supplement and to pay such library the amount agreed there-
28 for, and to certify annually a tax not exceeding one mill on the dollar
29 of the taxable property of such district, to be used exclusively there-
30 for ; and during the existence of such contract a tax sufficient to pay
31 such library the consideration agreed upon, not exceeding one mill on
32 the dollar, shall be certified annually by such board. Each school cor-
33 poration making such contract shall, during the existence of such con-
34 tract, be relieved from the requirements of section twenty-six hundred
35 six of the compiled code. This section shall not be construed to apply
36 in townships where a contract is in existence under the provisions of
37 section thirty-four hundred forty-three of the compiled code.
[C, '51, § 1152; R., '60, §§ 2033, 2034, 2037, 2038, 2044,
2088; C, '73, §§ 1738, 1777, 1778; C, .'97, § 2806; S.,
'13, § 2806 ; 37 G. A., ch. 32, § 1 ; 37 G. A., ch. 386, § 9 ;
38 G. A., ch. 77, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 93, § 2.]
SEC. 2654. Treasurer to make monthly payment of taxes.
1 Before the fifteenth day of each month in each year, the county
2 treasurer shall give notice to the president of the board of each school
3 corporation in the county of the amount collected for each fund to the
4 first day of such month, and the president of each board shall draw his
5 draft therefor, countersigned by the secretary, upon the county treas-
6 urer, who shall pay such taxes to the treasurers of the several school
7 boards only on such draft.
8 He shall also keep the amount of tax levied for schoolhouse pur-
9 poses separate in each subdistrict where such levy has been made
10 directly upon the property of the subdistrict, and shall pay over the
11 same monthly to the treasurer of the school township for the benefit
12 of such subdistrict.
[C., '73, §§ 1784,1785 ; C, '97, § 2810; 39 G. A., ch. 46, § 1.]
SEC. 2656. Tax to pay bonds.
1 The board of each school corporation shall, when estimating and
2 certifying the amount of money required for general purposes, esti-
3 mate and certify to the board of supervisors of the proper county the
4 amount required to pay interest due or that may become due for the
5 year beginning January first thereafter, upon lawful bonded indebt-