Any county now or hereafter maintaining and operating an agricultural high school outside of said county, pursuant to the authority of Section 37-27-35, is hereby authorized to establish, maintain, and operate a junior college in connection with such agricultural high school. All laws of the state governing the establishment, maintenance, and operation of junior colleges shall apply to the establishment, operation, eligibility for support funds, management, and control of such junior college as if it were situated within the county operating it. Such junior college may be established outside of, but adjoining, the territorial boundaries of the junior college district for which it is established.This section is additional and cumulative to all existing laws relating to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of junior colleges and shall be entitled to a liberal construction for the accomplishment of its remedial purposes.Codes, 1942, § 6473-02; Laws, 1954, Ex Sess, ch. 26, §§ 1, 2.
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