AGO 1949-51 No. 157.
Case Date | November 17, 1949 |
Court | Washington |
Washington Attorney General Opinions
1949.
AGO 1949-51 No. 157.
November 17,
1949[Orig. Op. Page 1]PRIVATEWASHINGTON STATE
SCHOOL DIRECTORS' ASSOCIATION - DUES.Where a
member of the Washington State School Directors' Association is a member of a
Union High School District Board and an Elementary School District Board, the
Association may by action of its governing body adopt a rule whereby both
districts or but one district are liable for his dues.Washington State School
Directors' Association Box 748 Olympia,
WashingtonCite as: AGO
1949-51 No. 157Attention: !ttWalter A. Seaman
Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Gentlemen:
We have your letter of June 1, 1949, in which you ask the
following question:
Where a person is a member of the Washington State School
Directors' Association by virtue of his being a director of a union high school
district as well as by virtue of his being a director of an elementary school
district which is a component part of the union high school district; which
board of directors, the component district board or the union high school
district board, under the Washington State School Directors' law [chapter 169,
Laws of 1947], is to pay his membership dues in the State Directors'
Association, or should both school district boards pay dues?
The conclusions reached may be summarized as follows:
The Washington State School District Association, being empowered
to adopt a constitution and by-laws for its own organization, and being further
empowered to establish a schedule of dues for its members, the problem above
stated is an administrative one which must be resolved by the adoption by the
membership or the governing body of the association of a ruling consistent with
its constitution and by-laws.
[Orig. Op. Page 2]
ANALYSIS
In a union high school district consisting of three or more
school districts, the board of directors of said union district shall be
composed of the chairmen of the several boards of directors of the districts
comprised in such union high school district; section 36, chapter 266, Laws of
1947. By virtue of this provision the chairmen of boards of the component
districts automatically become members of the board of the union high school
district.
The legislature, in enacting chapter 169, Laws of 1947, created
an agency of the state to be known as the Washington State School Directors'...
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