Title 15 — Education

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Accredited" means accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States department of education or by the council on postsecondary accreditation. 2. "Additional short-term classes" means those class…

A. Community college districts may be organized under this chapter for a single county, two or more contiguous counties or an existing community college district and contiguous counties not part of any community college district if the proposed district has a net assessed valuati…

A. A county that does not meet the requirements prescribed in section 15-1402 may organize a community college district under this chapter if all of the following requirements are met: 1. A provisional community college district that began operations before January 1, 2015 has be…

A. For the purpose of forming a district, not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors in the territory included in the proposed district, or where a district consists of more than one county not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors in each county, shall petit…

A. Upon approval of the proposed district, the county board of supervisors shall return the petition with its approval to the county school superintendent, or if the proposed district consists of more than one county, to the county school superintendent of the county with the lar…

The county board of supervisors shall present a plan to the legislature for formation and establishment of a community college district no later than January 15 subsequent to the election held as provided in section 15-1404.

A. Sections 38-608, 38-609, 38-610 and 38-613 relating to all public officers and employees apply to district board members and district officers and employees. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B, the other provisions of title 38, chapter 4 relating to public officers a…

A. If two or more contiguous counties have formed a community college district, a new district may be formed in one or more of the counties by dissolution of the existing district if each county in which a new district is formed meets the requirements prescribed in section 15-140…

A. A person acting on behalf of a community college district or a person who aids another person acting on behalf of a community college district shall not spend or use community college district, resources, including the use or expenditure of monies, accounts, credit, facilities…

A. A community college tuition financing district shall contract with an existing community college district to provide instructional and student services within the community college tuition financing district. B. The minimum assessed valuation and population requirements prescr…

1. Satisfy one or more of the following purposes: (a) Qualify students for a community college certificate or degree. (b) Be acceptable for transfer to a regionally accredited public or private college or university. (c) Prepare students with skills to seek entry-level jobs in th…

A. By December 1 of each year, each community college district shall make a report for the preceding fiscal year to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the joint legislative budget committee and shall provide a copy of this r…

A. The board of supervisors shall establish in the same manner as provided in section 16-411 five precincts in a community college district for the election of a district board member from each precinct. A precinct in a community college district shall be composed of the number o…

A. Candidates for the district board must file nominating petitions, conforming to section 16-314, with the appropriate county officer. B. Members of the district board shall be elected at the time and place, and in the manner, of general elections as provided in title 16. C. If …

A. Within twenty days after appointment of the first district board, the county school superintendent, or county school superintendents by joint action where the district consists of more than one county, shall call a meeting of the district board by giving at least ten days' not…

A. Except as otherwise provided, each district board shall: 1. Maintain each community college under its jurisdiction for a period of at least eight months in each year and, if the monies of the district are sufficient, maintain each community college for a longer period. 2. Adop…

1. All applicable regional accreditation requirements. 2. All applicable state licensure requirements. B. When determining whether to offer a baccalaureate degree program pursuant to section 15-1444, subsection B, paragraph 16 or 17, the district board shall make its determinatio…

A district board shall: 1. Adopt policies for the government of the community colleges under its jurisdiction. 2. In conjunction with other district boards, set standards for the establishment, development, administration, operation and accreditation of community colleges in the …

A. A district board may enter into lease or lease-purchase agreements for real property, including buildings and improvements to the property. B. Lease or lease-purchase agreements authorized by subsection A of this section or section 15-1444, subsection A, paragraph 11 shall not…

A. A community college district with a full-time equivalent student enrollment pursuant to section 15-1466.01 of more than five hundred students shall establish a community college district collegiate special plate fund consisting of monies received pursuant to section 28-2412. T…

A. If a district lies in two or more counties, the county attorney of the largest county in which the district lies as determined by the last federal decennial census is the attorney for the district. B. A district board may employ an attorney to represent the district if the cou…

A. The district board may adopt policies for the control of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices on property of the institutions under the district board's jurisdiction with respect to the following only: 1. Maximum speed of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices. 2. Direction of trave…

A. A community college district board may allow its members and spouses and dependents of members to participate in the plan providing health, accident, life and disability benefits for employees of the district and their dependents. A district board member is eligible to partici…

A. Pursuant to section 15-1444, subsection B, paragraph 7, a community college district board may establish an optional retirement program under which contracts providing retirement and death benefits may be purchased for employees of the institutions under its jurisdiction as de…

A district board shall provide for the evaluation of vocational and technological education programs once every five years. The assessment shall be conducted in cooperation with and with assistance from business, industry and labor representatives. The district board may conduct …

A district board may establish an energy and water savings account in the same manner as a school district pursuant to section 15-910.02 and may fund and use monies for guaranteed energy savings contracts pursuant to section 34-105.

A. Not later than June 5, each district established pursuant to this chapter, and any other community college established prior to the enactment of this chapter, shall prepare a proposed budget for the budget year on a form which the auditor general prescribes to be transmitted t…

A. On or before February 10 of the tax year, the county assessor shall transmit and certify to the property tax oversight commission and to the district governing board the total net assessed values that are required to compute the levy limit prescribed by section 42-17051. If th…

A. The board of supervisors in each district may supply funds from other designated sources or, in lieu thereof, shall annually, at the time of levying other taxes, levy a special community college tax on property to be determined by each county comprising the district for the pu…

A. This state, by legislative appropriation, shall pay to the district a sum equal to fifty per cent of the total cost for capital outlay for an initial campus in a newly formed district or in a county entering into an intergovernmental agreement for providing courses pursuant to…

A. In addition to the appropriation prescribed in section 15-1463, subsection A, this state shall pay to each community college district state aid for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and workforce programs in the following manner: 1. For fiscal year 1992-1993 for…

A. A district may conduct an election to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued and sold for the purpose of paying its share of the expenditures incurred for capital outlay. The election shall be originated and conducted, the bonds issued, sold and redeemed and a tax levy…

A. Subject to legislative appropriation, the legislature shall determine and appropriate the amount of state aid each fiscal year to each district possessing the qualifications as prescribed in this chapter. B. The state shall determine the amount of state aid, as prescribed in s…

A. In determining state aid under sections 15-1464 and 15-1466, the number of full-time equivalent students shall be calculated in the following manner: 1. For the basic actual full-time equivalent student enrollment, add the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled as of…

A. On or before July 21 each year, each community college district shall: 1. Provide a certified report to the auditor general of the number of full-time equivalent students calculated by the district pursuant to section 15-1466.01. 2. Separately calculate and report to the audit…

A. Appropriations for state aid to districts shall be distributed to each community college district in accordance with section 15-1466. B. The state treasurer shall disburse one-fourth of the annual amount of the monies to each district in the first month of each quarter for the…

A. Subject to legislative appropriation, any district that is organized pursuant to section 15-1402 and that has less than the amount of primary assessed valuation prescribed in section 15-1402 shall be paid by this state an amount equal to the following: 1. The difference betwee…

A. The district may admit students from any part of this state that is not a part of an established community college district on the same conditions as residents. B. The county of the student's residence and this state shall reimburse the district as provided in this subsection …

A. Any county which is not a part of an established community college district and whose share of transaction privilege taxes, apportioned pursuant to section 42-5029, subsection D, totals less than one per cent of the total distribution base apportioned to all counties shall hav…

A. A district may offer credit and noncredit courses and services outside of the district in other districts within this state. B. A district may offer credit and noncredit courses and services outside of the district in counties within this state without an organized district. C…

A. A district board, on the approval of a majority of the qualified electors in the district voting at a regularly scheduled election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, may authorize expenditures in excess of the district expenditure limitation prescribed pu…

B. Monies received pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be expended for workforce development and job training purposes. These expenditures may include: 1. Partnerships with businesses and educational institutions. 2. Additional faculty for improved and expanded classro…

A. The auditor general shall determine the accounting systems, accounting methods and accounting procedures for use by the community college districts. B. The auditor general, in conjunction with the community college districts, shall prescribe a uniform system of accounting as p…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Acquire" includes purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, extend, better, furnish, equip, develop, improve and embellish. 2. "Board" means the governing board of a community college district or i…

The board shall have power, for and in behalf of the institution, to: 1. Acquire any project or projects and own, operate and maintain the same. 2. Accept grants or loans of monies from a federal agency. 3. Borrow monies and issue bonds and provide for the payment of the same and…

A. The board for and on behalf of an institution is authorized from time to time to issue negotiable bonds for the purpose of acquiring a project or projects. The bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the board. The bonds may be issued in one or more series, bear such date o…

A. In connection with the issuance of the bonds authorized by section 15-1483, or in order to secure the payment of such bonds and interest thereon, the board shall have power by resolution to: 1. Fix and maintain tuitions, fees, rentals and other charges from students, faculty m…

No monies derived from the sale of bonds under the provisions of this article shall be required to be paid into the state treasury but shall be deposited by the treasurer of the board in a separate bank account or accounts in such bank or banks or trust company or trust companies…

The bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all of the persons whose signatures appear thereon shall have ceased to b…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the board to contract a debt on behalf of, or in any way to obligate, the state of Arizona, or to pledge, assign or encumber in any way or to permit the pledging, assigning or encumbering in any way of appropriations made by…