2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 79-102 — School districts; classification.

Section 79-102
School districts; classification.
Section 79-102

School districts in this state are classified as follows:

(1) Class II includes any school district embracing territory having a population of one thousand inhabitants or less that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board;

(2) Class III includes any school district embracing territory having a population of more than one thousand and less than one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board;

(3) Class IV includes any school district embracing territory having a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants with a city of the primary class within the territory of the district that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board; and

(4) Class V includes any school district whose employees participate in a retirement system established pursuant to the Class V School Employees Retirement Act and which embraces territory having a city of the metropolitan class within the territory of the district that maintains both elementary grades and high school grades under the direction of a single school board and any school district with territory in a city of the metropolitan class created pursuant to the Learning Community Reorganization Act and designated as a Class V school district in the reorganization plan.

Cross References:

City of the metropolitan class, population, see section 14-101.

City of the primary class, population, see section 15-101.

Class V School Employees Retirement Act, see section 79-978.01.

Commissioner of Education, assign number to each district, see

section 79-307.Learning Community Reorganization Act, see section 79-4,117.

Source:

Laws 1949, c. 256, § 2, p. 691

Laws 1959, c. 379, § 1, p. 1320

Laws 1981, LB 16, § 1

R.S.1943, (1994), § 79-102

Laws 1996, LB 900, § 2

Laws 1997, LB 345, § 6

Laws 1998, LB 629, § 1

Laws 2003, LB 394, § 1

Laws 2005, LB 126, § 8

Laws 2006, LB 1024, § 15.

~ Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2006