| Show HIGH SCHOOL TAX TAXIS TAXIS TAX I IS HELD ILLEGAL I A A. R. R Barnes attorney general e of i ithe the he State of Utah Thursday replied d to o a a question asked by L L. L G. G Kelly I I state auditor a and d Fuller Fuller- S. S Broadbent Broad- Broad i bent county count clerk of Kanab with regard regard re re- s gard and to maximum levies for or school sand and county purposes I The question was whether the school chool boards could make mate a lev levy r of off f 2 mills for high school purposes as ash asi I provided for by a provision of the thelast thelast last ast Legislature The decision says that all revenues for or school purposes must be begotten gotten out of the gener general l levy for or schools and that there c cannot nn t be any special high ugh school tax The consolidation law law law- says Mr Barnes expressly does away with and ud repeals all laws having to do with common school districts The Legislature amended sections of f the law it had already repealed by enactment of the consolidated school chool district bill The attorney general decided that tax ax levies allowed school districts under under un un- un der the old law lav including the special special spec- spec ial al ial 2 mill mm tax for high schools were were ere canceled by the Legislature and that the lie consolidated school districts must secure all of their revenue revenue for school chool purposes purposes from the general school school chool levy levy which which is from 6 mills where the assessed valuation of the consolidated district is or oress orless orless less ess to 42 mills on a valuation of or over The attorney general says that there here are two exceptions to this ruing ruling ruling rul- rul ing ng under the amended laws One permits cons consolidated districts when u i d y ri l-ri n lel tit ter mx e a J. J I special levy of 1 per per cent cent of of off the total valuation for the p purchase of school- school I sites ites and the maintenance ef of Cf school I property 1 I Il The other exception permits such uch l vies levies as may be necessary to pay the he interest upon the bonded indebtedness inor in- in or to maintain the the sinking sink sink- J Jing ing ng fund sink I 1 The special 2 mill rom tax for high schools I was swept away with all other I laws aws when the consolidated school I f act ct went into effect last May I IThe The Legislature in passing the revenue revenue rev- rev nue law amended some of the la laws ws affecting taxes and missed the point that hat these laws had been repeated |
