275.3 - MINIMUM SIZE.
275.3 MINIMUM SIZE.
No new school district shall be planned by an area education
agency board nor shall any proposal for creation or enlargement of
any school district be approved by an area education agency board or
submitted to electors unless there reside within the proposed limits
of such district at least three hundred persons of school age who
were enrolled in public schools in the preceding school year.
Provided, however, that the director of the department of education
shall have authority to grant permission to an area education agency
board to approve the formation or enlargement of a school district
containing a lower school enrollment than required in this section on
the written request of such area education agency board if such
request is accompanied by evidence tending to show that sparsity of
population, natural barriers or other good reason makes it
impracticable to meet the school enrollment requirement. Section History: Early Form
[R60, § 2105; C73, § 1800, 1801; C97, § 2794; SS15, § 2794,
2794-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4143, 4161, 4173; C46, 50, §
274.25, 275.3, 276.8, 276.20; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
81, § 275.3] Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 212, §21
Referred to in § 275.1, 275.2, 275.9