I. The school districts comprising an authorized regional enrollment area plan may convert the plan to a cooperative school district as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 195:18 upon the expiration of 5 years after date of operating responsibility, and thereafter. Provided, however, that, if such area plan then includes a city school district or the dependent school department of a city, such conversion may only be accomplished by special act of the legislature upon petition of the cooperative school district planning board. In proceedings for conversion, the school boards of the several school districts in the area plan, acting jointly, shall constitute the cooperative school district planning board. The articles of agreement for such conversion shall provide for assumption by the cooperative school district of all outstanding debt of each receiving district incurred for its area schools, and shall provide for termination of tuition payments on date of operating responsibility of the new cooperative district.
II. [Repealed.]

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-A:15

  • Date of operating responsibility: shall mean the date on which the area school shall officially open and shall relieve the schools of the sending districts, serving the corresponding grades, of their obligation to operate. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-A:1
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
  • Receiving district: shall mean a school district in which an area school is located. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-A:1
  • School district: shall mean a town school district, a special school district, a cooperative school district, an incorporated school district operating within a city, and a city operating a dependent school department. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-A:1
  • Tuition: shall mean the sum of money which each sending district is obligated to pay to the receiving district to defray the cost of education of each of its resident pupils, for a school year, at the area school in the receiving district to which such pupils are assigned and it may be subdivided into elementary school tuition, junior high school tuition, high school tuition, or any other reasonable combination of grades, and shall be fixed as provided in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-A:1