Section 79-102 - School districts; classificationSchool districts in this state are classified as follows:
(1) Class I includes any school district embracing territory having a population of fewer than one thousand five hundred inhabitants that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board;(2) Class II includes any school district embracing territory having a population of one thousand five hundred or more but fewer than five thousand inhabitants that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board;(3) Class III includes any school district embracing territory having a population of five thousand or more but fewer than two hundred thousand inhabitants that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board;(4) Class IV includes any school district embracing territory having a population of two hundred thousand or more inhabitants with a city of the primary class within the territory of the district that maintains both elementary and high school grades under the direction of a single school board; and(5) Class V includes any school district whose employees participate in a retirement system established pursuant to the Class V School Employees Retirement Act and which embraces territory having a city of the metropolitan class within the territory of the district that maintains both elementary grades and high school grades under the direction of a single school board and any school district with territory in a city of the metropolitan class created pursuant to the Learning Community Reorganization Act and designated as a Class V school district in the reorganization plan.Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 79-102
Laws 1949, c. 256, § 2, p. 691; Laws 1959, c. 379, § 1, p. 1320; Laws 1981, LB 16, § 1; R.S.1943, (1994), § 79-102; Laws 1996, LB 900, § 2; Laws 1997, LB 345, § 6; Laws 1998, LB 629, § 1; Laws 2003, LB 394, § 1; Laws 2005, LB 126, § 8; Laws 2006, LB 1024, § 15; Referendum 2006, No. 422; Laws 2018, LB 377, § 10; Laws 2024, LB 1329, § 9.Amended by Laws 2024, LB 1329,§ 9, eff. 7/19/2024.Amended by Laws 2018, LB 377,§ 10, eff. 1/1/2019.