79-407.

Class I, Class II, or Class III school district; boundaries; body corporate; powers.

(1) The territory within the corporate limits of each incorporated municipality in the State of Nebraska that is not in part within the boundaries of a learning community, together with such additional territory and additions to such municipality as may be added thereto, as declared by ordinances to be boundaries of such municipality, having a population of less than one thousand five hundred inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, including such adjacent territory as now is or hereafter may be attached for school purposes, shall constitute a Class I school district, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to change the boundaries of any school district that is a member of a learning community. The school district shall be a body corporate and possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes and may sue and be sued, purchase, hold, and sell such personal and real property, and control such obligations as are authorized by law.

(2) The territory within the corporate limits of each incorporated municipality in the State of Nebraska that is not in part within the boundaries of a learning community, together with such additional territory and additions to such municipality as may be added thereto, as declared by ordinances to be boundaries of such municipality, having a population of one thousand five hundred or more but fewer than five thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, including such adjacent territory as now is or hereafter may be attached for school purposes, shall constitute a Class II school district, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to change the boundaries of any school district that is a member of a learning community. The school district shall be a body corporate and possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes and may sue and be sued, purchase, hold, and sell such personal and real property, and control such obligations as are authorized by law.

(3) The territory within the corporate limits of each incorporated municipality in the State of Nebraska that is not in part within the boundaries of a learning community, together with such additional territory and additions to such municipality as may be added thereto, as declared by ordinances to be boundaries of such municipality, having a population of five thousand or more but fewer than two hundred thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, including such adjacent territory as now is or hereafter may be attached for school purposes, shall constitute a Class III school district, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to change the boundaries of any school district that is a member of a learning community. The school district shall be a body corporate and possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes and may sue and be sued, purchase, hold, and sell such personal and real property, and control such obligations as are authorized by law.