Title 15 — Education

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…

All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be obligations issued by the board for and on behalf of the institution payable only in accordance with the terms thereof, and shall not be obligations general, special or otherwise of the state of Arizona. Such bonds shall not cons…

The board may submit to the attorney general of the state of Arizona any bonds to be issued under this article after all proceedings for the issuance of such bonds have been taken. Upon the submission of such proceedings to the attorney general, it shall be his duty to examine in…

It is declared that the sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this article are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement and any of them may be excised by any court of competent jurisdiction if this article would otherwise be unconstitutional or ineffective. I…

The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, general or special, and bonds may be issued under the provisions of this article notwithstanding the provisions of and without regard to the procedure required …

A. The Arizona board of regents shall maintain state universities at Flagstaff in Coconino county, at Tempe in Maricopa county and at Tucson in Pima county, and the universities are respectively designated northern Arizona university, Arizona state university and the university o…

The universities may offer extension courses at places within the state other than the city where the institution is located, and correspondence courses may be given.

A. The Arizona board of regents consists of ten appointive members, including two student members, and the governor and the superintendent of public instruction as ex officio members. B. Appointive members, except the student members, shall be appointed by the governor pursuant t…

A. The board shall select from its membership a president, secretary, treasurer and such other officers it deems necessary. The same person shall not hold the offices of secretary and treasurer. The board may require the treasurer to give additional bond. B. A majority of the mem…

A. The secretary of the Arizona board of regents shall receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38-611. B. Appointed members shall receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38-611 for each day of attendance at board meetings, except the compensation of …

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 38-431.01, subsection A, meetings of advisory committees to the board involving student records may be held in executive session. A student whose records are to be considered may request that the meeting be held as a public meeting in whi…

A. The Arizona board of regents is a body corporate with perpetual succession. The board has jurisdiction and control over the universities. B. The board may: 1. Adopt a corporate seal. 2. Contract. 3. Sue and be sued. 4. Purchase, receive, hold, make and take leases and long-ter…

A. The Arizona board of regents shall: 1. Have and exercise the powers necessary for the effective governance and administration of the institutions under the board's control. To that end, the board may adopt, and authorize each university to adopt, regulations, policies, rules o…

A. A university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall not transfer any portion of the tuition or fees collected from students pursuant to section 15-1626 or use any university student billing process to collect monies on behalf of an organization that is no…

A. Each university may adopt rules for the control of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices on its property with respect to the following only: maximum speed of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices, direction of travel, authorized hours of travel, required stops in traffic, place of p…

A. The Arizona board of regents may establish optional retirement programs under which contracts providing retirement and death benefits may be purchased for members of the faculty and administrative officers of the institutions under its jurisdiction. The benefits to be provided…

Within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year the Arizona board of regents shall make a report for the fiscal year to the governor. The report shall set forth the state of progress of the universities in their several colleges, schools and departments, the courses of stu…

No abortion shall be performed at any facility under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents unless such abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman having the abortion.

A. There shall be a state museum for the collection and preservation of the archaeological resources, specimens of the mineral wealth and the flora and fauna of this state. B. The Arizona board of regents shall direct and manage the museum and shall set apart sufficient space to …

A. A student who is expelled by a university shall surrender all university property. The university shall refund the deposit for any property to the student. B. An expelled student who fails or refuses to return university property is guilty of a petty offense.

A. A person acting on behalf of a university or a person who aids another person acting on behalf of a university shall not spend or use university resources, including the use or expenditure of monies, accounts, credit, facilities, vehicles, postage, telecommunications, computer…

A. Pursuant to section 48-582 or 48-920 or in conjunction with any street improvement made pursuant to any other statute, the board on behalf of this state or any university may enter into and shall be bound by intergovernmental agreements with one or more cities, counties or imp…

A. In order to stimulate the flow of capital into the development of specific products which have advanced beyond the theoretical stage and are capable of being reduced to practice on a commercial scale, the board may by resolution organize one or more corporations under the prov…