Section 22-4-4 - [Consolidation of district without junior or senior high schools; governing board.]

NM Stat § 22-4-4 (2019) (N/A)
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Where consolidation is ordered under Subsection B hereof [22-4-3B NMSA 1978], the governing board of the district maintaining the junior and senior high school programs shall become the governing board of the consolidated district, the board of the district consolidated shall be dissolved, and the provisions of Sections 22-4-10 through 22-4-14 NMSA 1978 relating to appointment of an interim board and the holding of special elections shall not be applicable.

History: 1953 Comp., § 77-3-3.1, enacted by Laws 1970, ch. 4, § 2.

Where school consolidation was ordered pursuant to Subsection B of Section 22-4-3 NMSA 1978, the provisions of this section were controlling as to the board which should govern the consolidated district, and the provisions of Sections 22-4-10 to 22-4-14 NMSA 1978 were inapplicable. State ex rel. Apodaca v. N.M. State Bd. of Educ., 1971-NMSC-058, 82 N.M. 558, 484 P.2d 1268.