The city and county of Denver shall alone always constitute one school district, to
be known as District No. 1, but its conduct, affairs and business shall be in the
hands of a board of education consisting of such members, elected in such manner as
the general school laws of the state shall provide, and until the first election under
said laws of a full board of education which shall be had at the first election held
after the adoption of this amendment, all the directors of School District No. 1 and
the respective presidents of the school boards of School Districts Nos. 2, 7, 17 and 21, at the time this amendment takes effect, shall act as such board of education, and
all districts or special charters now existing are hereby abolished.
The said board of education shall perform all the acts and duties required to be performed
for said districts by the general laws of the state.
Except as inconsistent with this amendment, the general school laws of the state shall,
unless the context evinces a contrary intent, be held to extend and apply to the said
"District No. 1."
Upon the annexation of any contiguous municipality which shall include a school district
or districts or any part of a district, said school district or districts or parts
shall be merged in said "District No. 1," which shall then own all the property thereof,
real and personal, located within the boundaries of such annexed municipality, and
shall assume and pay all the bonds, obligations and indebtedness of each of the said
included school districts and a proper proportion of those of partially included districts;
Provided, however, That the indebtedness, both principal and interest, which any school
district may be under at the time when it becomes a part, by this amendment or by
annexation, of said "District No. 1," shall be paid by said school district so owing
the same by a special tax to be fixed and certified by the board of education to the
council which shall levy the same upon the property within the boundaries of such
district, respectively, as the same existed at the time such district becomes a part
of said "District No. 1," and in case of partially included districts such tax shall
be equitably apportioned upon the several parts thereof.
