Montana Attorney General Opinion 15-468

Opinion No. 468. Schools-High Schools-Budget-Cash Reserve. HELD: High schools in counties. hoth where there is a connty high school and where there is not a count~· high school, may budget for a cash re- serve to run the high school from July 1 to December 1. February 17, 11)34. You ask whether or not high schools in counties, both where there is a coun- ty high school and where there is not It county high school, can budget for It resen-e, (a cash balance at the end of the school year July 1, 1934, to run the high school from July 1 to December 10.) Chapter 178 of the Laws of Montana 11)33 provides: "This Act shall apply to all districts maintaining district high schools and to all county high schools." In Section 2 thereof, it provides for budget forms to be furnished by the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, which form provides for "CASH RESERVE HEQUJRED TO MAIN- TAIN HIGH SCHOOL J<'ROM JULY] TO DECEMBER 1 OF FOLLOWING YEAR." As the law e,'Xpressly sta tes that it applies to high schools of hoth classes, a Imdget for reserve may be set up in counties where there is a county high school and in county high school dis- tricts.