§ 52-10-10 — Identification of enlarged or reorganized public school district - Liability of surviving district

surviving district.
1. As used in this section, "most populous district" means the public school district
involved in annexation or reorganization of school districts:
a. Which maintained an elementary school;
b. More than one-half of which is included in the enlarged or reorganized public
school district; and
c. Which had a larger number of children of school age at the school census next
preceding the inclusion of such district in the enlarged or reorganized public
school district than any other public school district of the type described in

subdivisions a and b which is included in the enlarged or reorganized public
school district.
2. For the purposes of this chapter when an enlarged or reorganized school district is
formed:
a. The most populous district must be deemed to be the surviving district for social
security purposes.
b. The enlarged or reorganized public school district shall retain the same
identification number which was previously assigned to the most populous
district, as defined in subsection 1.
c. The school districts, or parts thereof, included in the enlarged or reorganized
district must be deemed to be annexed to the most populous district, or the part
of the most populous district included in the enlarged or reorganized district, and
to become identified with it, and the employees of the public school districts
included in the enlarged or reorganized district, or if only part of a district is
included in the enlarged or reorganized district, the employees who were
employed in schools included within the enlarged or reorganized district must be
deemed to be employees of the most populous district, which shall succeed the
other districts in such enlarged district as a party to their respective contracts of
employment.