Opinion No.

The Honorable David Beatty State Representative Drawer 640 Lewisville, AR 71845

Dear Representative Beatty:

This is in response to your request for an opinion with regard to a petition that has been filed with the Miller County Board of Education ("Board") requesting the Board's annexation of a portion of the Garland School District to the Texarkana School District. You state that the petition was signed by eight persons alleging to be "a majority of the qualified electors of the lands to be transferred or annexed." The land requested to be annexed is, according to your correspondence,…