Title EDC — California Educ. Code

Subject to Section 66904, a community college may build campus facilities on school, local government, or other public property not owned by the community college, if the community college obtains permission from the owner of the public property to do so.

(a) A community college may develop a public-private partnership for the purpose of constructing education buildings or education centers. The facilities may be constructed on a site donated through the public-private partnership agreement between the community college and the pr…

(a) State funds provided for the capital outlay financing needs of the California Community Colleges may be used to acquire an existing government-owned or privately-owned building and for the necessary costs of converting that building to community college use. A community colle…

The board of governors shall establish standards for community college sites.

(a) The governing board of a community college district, prior to acquiring any site on which it proposes to construct any school building as defined in Section 81130.5, shall have the site, or sites, under consideration investigated by competent personnel to ensure that the fina…

“School building,” as used in this article, means any building used, or designed to be used, for community college purposes and constructed by the state, by any city, county, or city and county, by any district of any kind within the state, by any regional occupational center or …

(a) (1) For the purposes of this article, Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130), and Article 8 (commencing with Section 81160), “school building” does not include any building used or intended to be used by a community college district as residential housing. (2) The Departme…

(a) Each school building that has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and to be used for community college purposes, shall be renovated according to the Field Act, as defined in Section 81130.3. If subdivision (b) applies, that building may be renovated accor…

Each school building constructed, reconstructed, modified, or expanded after July 1, 2006, on a community college campus shall be built according to the Field Act, as defined in Section 81130.3, or according to the California Building Standards Code, as adopted by the California …

(a) To ensure that community college districts are able to effectively exercise the option of utilizing the Field Act or the California Building Standards Code, as provided in Section 81052, and construct buildings safely, cost effectively, and in a timely manner, the Department …

(a) The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) shall undertake a fact-based analysis of the length of time the Department of General Services and the community colleges take to perform their respective functions to complete community college construction and alteration projects. This…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Affordable rent” means an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. (2) “Extremely low income faculty or staff” means an employee of the California …

(a) The Department of General Services under the police power of the state shall supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of, or addition to, any school building, if not exempted under Section 81133, to ensure that plans and…

This article, together with Article 3 (commencing with Section 17280) and Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365) of Chapter 3 of Part 10.5 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 81050), shall be known and may be cited as the “Field Act.”

(a) This article does not apply to an offsite building during the time the building is used wholly or in part for community college purposes, if the building is neither owned by a community college district nor leased by a community college district under a lease containing an op…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to expedite the repair, alteration, and reconstruction of community college facilities that have been damaged or destroyed by fire, earthquake, flood, or other manmade or natural disasters, to return those community college facilities to a …

(a) The Department of General Services shall pass upon, and approve or reject, all plans for the construction or, if the estimated cost exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the alteration of any school building. To enable it to do so, the governing board of each commu…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The purpose of the collaborative process for project development and review is to ensure the public safety of community college facilities through a collaborative, consistent and timely project development and revie…

(a) The Department of General Services shall provide training, on an ongoing basis, to its employees and to the employees of architectural and structural engineering firms that contract with the department for the purposes of this chapter. The training shall address all phases of…

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, Title 3 (commencing with Section 9000) of Part 6 of Division 4 of the Civil Code, the Department of General Services may issue a stop work order when construction work on a community college …

(a) The Department of General Services shall establish one or more methods to ensure that each application has been completed sufficiently by the applicant to enable the plan review to be performed. (b) Upon receipt of a complete application, the Department of General Services sh…

(a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this article. (1) “Prequalified list” means a list of qualified firms established by the Department of General Services to perform specific types of plan review service…

(a) Upon submitting a complete application for review under this article, the applicant may request that the Department of General Services refer the documents necessary for the review of that application to a qualified plan review firm operating under contract with the departmen…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all plans, specifications, and estimates shall be prepared by a licensed architect holding a valid certificate under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code or by a structural engineer …

From time to time, as the work of construction or alteration progresses and whenever the Department of General Services requires, the licensed architect or structural engineer in charge of observation of construction or registered engineer in charge of observation of other work, …

Except as provided in Section 18930 of the Health and Safety Code, the Department of General Services may from time to time make such rules and regulations as it deems necessary, proper, or suitable to carry out the provisions of this article. The Department of General Services s…

The State Department of General Services shall make such inspection of the school buildings and of the work of construction or alteration as in its judgment is necessary or proper for the enforcement of this article and the protection of the safety of the students, the instructor…

Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this article or fraudulently makes any false statement in any verified report or affidavit required pursuant to this article, is guilty of a felony.

Any public school building which has been approved by the Department of General Services for occupancy shall be deemed to meet the local building requirements for use as a private school. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) When a school building constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Department of General Services is completed, the notice of completion is filed, and all final verified reports and all testing and inspection documents, as required by this article …

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law, a community college district may acquire for use any facility previously used by the United States military and closed as a result of action by the federal Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, or purchase any offsite building …

(a) The provisions of this article do not apply to an offsite building during the time the building is used wholly or in part for community college purposes if the building is neither owned by a community college district nor leased by a community college district under a lease c…

It is the intent of the Legislature to re-examine the progress under this article from time to time. To enable it to do so, and to expedite the provision of safe educational facilities for California community college students, the Legislature intends that the governing board of …

Whenever an examination of the structural condition of any school building of a community college district has been made by the Department of General Services, by any licensed structural engineer or licensed architect for the governing board of the district, or under the authoriz…

(a) No member of the governing board of a community college district shall be held personally liable for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from the fact that a school building was not constructed under the requirements of Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130),…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 81800), whenever a community college district does not have funds available to repair, reconstruct, or replace the school buildings referred to in this article or Section 16320, the communit…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 81360) of Chapter 2 of this part and in addition to the requirements placed upon community college districts pursuant to Section 54222 of the Government Code, the governing board of any community college distric…

The sale or transfer may be made for cash and other valuable consideration, or for other valuable consideration, as deemed appropriate by the governing board of the community college district. The sale or transfer may be made without first taking a vote of the electors of the dis…

A community college district’s offer to sell or transfer the land shall be made to all park districts, cities, and counties in which the community college district is wholly or partially situated pursuant to this article and shall remain open for not less than 60 days. The sale o…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall be responsible for allocating funds for apprenticeship programs in good standing and approved pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3070) of Division 3 of the Labor Code for the secondary education system. (b)…

Attendance of apprentices enrolled in any class maintained by a local educational agency, pursuant to Section 3074 of the Labor Code, shall be reimbursed pursuant to Section 8152 only if reported separately to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Attendance report…

An apprentice or preapprentice attending a local educational agency in classes of instruction pursuant to approved standards, as provided under Section 3074 of the Labor Code and in accordance with the requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 3078 of the Labor Code, or as autho…

(a) The reimbursement rate for related and supplemental instruction reimbursed pursuant to this article shall be established in the annual Budget Act and the rate shall be commonly applied to all providers of instruction specified in subdivision (d). (b) For purposes of this sect…

The Controller shall include instructions necessary to enforce this article in the audit guide required by Section 14502.1. The instructions shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, procedures for verifying if the hours for related and supplemental instruction reported t…

For purposes of the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program, classes of related and supplemental instruction that qualify for funding pursuant to Section 8152 include, but are not limited to, classes that meet both of the following requirements: (a) The classes are co…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, the California Apprenticeship Council, and the Superintendent, shall annually review the amount of state funding neces…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, in consultation with the Superintendent, shall jointly develop a model format for agreements between apprenticeship programs and local e…

“Joint union school district” means a district composed of two or more school districts situated wholly or in part in different counties. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

A unified school district means a district maintaining grades kindergarten or 1 through 12. A unified district may comprise territory in more than one county. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“City school district” includes a school district lying wholly or partly within a city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)