Vernon School Disrict v. Board of Education of Los Angeles

Citations

• 125 Cal. 593
• 58 P. 175
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 908

Syllabus

<p>Annexation of Territory to City—Constitutional Law—Special Legislation.—The act of 1889, “to provide for the alteration of the boundaries of, and for the annexation of territory to, incorporated towns and cities, and for the incorporation of such annexed territory in and as part of such municipalities, and for the districting, government, and municipal control of annexed territory,” is constitutional, and is not special legislation because conferring upon the electors of any municipality alone the privilege of petitioning the municipal authorities to make the proposed annexation, to the exclusion of the electors of the annexed territory-, the residents of which are fully protected by requiring a majority of the voters thereof to authorize the annexation.</p> <p>Id.—Title of Act.—The title of the act providing for such annexation is broad enough to include a provision that the “annexed territory shall he to all intents and purposes a part of such municipal corporation, except only that no part of such annexed territory shall ever be taxed to pay any portion of any indebtedness or liability of such municipal corporation contracted prior to or existing at the time of such annexation.”</p> <p>Id.—Annexation of Part of School District.—School property forming part of annexed territory belongs to the city to- which the territory is annexed, and is under the control of its board of education; and the fact that it formed part of a school district, which still maintains the organization and name of the original school district, is immaterial.</p> <p>Id.—Division of Property.—In the absence of statutory provisions governing the ownership of municipal property, or of a school district, upon the division thereof, property consisting of real estate belongs to the municipality within which it is located as the result of the division.</p>