Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1947
Section 1 of Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1947 provides as follows:
"The school trustees, of any two or more school corporations, whether towns, cities, or
townships situated in the same or adjoining counties are hereby authorized and empowered
to consolidate the elementary schools or the high schools, or both, of such corporations or to
furnish consolidated school facilties for the children of school ages of such school corporations
in the manner and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed in this act."
Section 2 of said act provides in part:
"Whenever the school trustees of any two or more school corporations, whether towns, cities
or townships situated in the same or adjoining counties, desire to consolidate the elementary
schools or high schools, or both, of their respective corporations, or to furnish consolidated school
facilties for the children of school age of such corporations, they may meet together with the
township advisory board, or boards, if one or more townships so desire, and adopt a joint resolution
declaring their intention to consolidate such school city or cities, town or towns and township or
townships.
Section 6 of said act provides for a board of trustees to be composed of from three to seven
members as determined by the provisions of the resolution adopted when such consolidated
plan was voted upon;
Section 7 provides on such consolidation that the old school corporation is deemed abandoned
and all property of such old school corporations are merged in the new consolidated school
corporation, and all indebtedness of said old school corporations are assumed by said new school
corporation;
Section 8 provides that the board of trustees of such consolidated school is vested with all the
powers and duties pertaining to school corporations of their class and that the assessment of
taxes for operating the schools and bonds for the building of school buildings, shall be made as
a single taxing unit throughout the boundaries of such new consolidated school corporation.