Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) In expending funds for any project under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all sites purchased and improved, all equipment purchased, and all buildings constructed, altered or added to through the expenditure of funds apportioned under this cha…

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, all lease agreements shall terminate 40 years from the date of execution and title to the property covered therein shall revert to the district as though full payment had been made.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any project funded under this chapter that involves only the identification, assessment, or abatement of hazardous asbestos in school facilities shall not be subject to Section 17014 or 17032, nor shall that funding cause the t…

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no funds authorized by any act for the purpose of this chapter may be expended for any purpose without specific authorization from the board or its designated representatives.

From any moneys in the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund, the board shall make available to the Director of General Services such amounts as it determines necessary to provide the assistance, pursuant to this chapter, required by Section 15504 of the Government Code.

The applicant district, acting as agent for the state, shall comply with all laws pertaining to the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to school buildings.

The board shall fix rents for all projects acquired and may change the rents from time to time as may be needed provided the rents shall not in any year exceed the sum of the following: (a) One dollar ($1). (b) Any interest earned on funds in the county school lease-purchase fund…

(a) Any school district for which one or more projects has been funded under this chapter may, pursuant to written agreement with any other public or private person or entity, utilize any school buildings, land, or other real property interest that the governing board determines …

(a) The board shall establish the annual rent and conditions to be met by the lessee of a portable classroom leased pursuant to Section 17717.2 and shall require lessees to undertake all necessary maintenance, repairs, renewals, and replacements to ensure that a project is at all…

Rent, charges, and fees collected in error may be refunded by the board in accordance with regulations prescribed by the board.

A county school lease-purchase fund is hereby created in the county treasury within each county for each school district project in the county.

The board may from time to time authorize the Controller to transfer any funds that the board may deem necessary from the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund established for a given project to the corresponding county school lease-purchase fund in the county treasury.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), funds may be expended from the county school lease-purchase fund by the applicant school district only when specifically authorized by the board for either direct project costs or reimbursements. (b) Upon specific authorization by the bo…

Any remaining funds, including any interest earned on those funds, in a county school lease-purchase fund for a school district that remains in the fund on and after January 1, 2026, shall not be reported or returned to the state and may be used by the school district for capital…

The board shall require school districts to insure at their own expense for the benefit of the state, all sites, equipment and buildings which are, under Section 17030, the property of the state, against such risks and in such amounts as the board may deem necessary to protect th…

(a) Not more than one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) of the moneys authorized by the State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law of 1982 (Sec. 34, Ch. 552, Stats. 1995) shall be reserved for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities within the meaning of t…

Not more than two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) of the moneys authorized by the State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law of 1982 (Sec. 34, Ch. 552, Stats. 1995) shall be reserved for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities within the meaning of this chapte…

Of the moneys reserved for the rehabilitation or modernization of facilities pursuant to Section 17039.1, the board may reserve not more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for apportionments to school districts that the board has determined to be in severe need of the…

Except as provided in Section 17041, no project shall be approved, the building area of which, when added to the area of adequate school construction existing in the applicant school district at the time of application, will provide a total area of school building construction pe…

(a) The allowable building area of any project, as calculated under this article, may be increased by any applicant school district, where the increase is funded exclusively from sources other than any state programs administered by the State Allocation Board. Any increase in bui…

Where 75 percent or more of the total cost of a project approved under this chapter is to be funded by the applicant district from sources other than any state program administered by the board, the area of the allowable new building construction for that project, and the amount …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the estimate of average daily attendance for an applicant school district shall be calculated for up to and including two years longer than the period of time permitted by Section 17040, as requested by the district, where 50 …

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the board may use, for purposes of determining the estimate of average daily attendance for an applicant school district, a master plan that has been prepared by a district that includes the additional pupils due to increases in h…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the board shall exclude the area of enclosed stairs and appropriate landings for each floor level served from the computation of the allowable building area of multistory buildings for any applicant school district.

(a) For any school of two or more stories, the project funding provided under this chapter shall include, at the request of the applicant district, the costs of any or all of the following: (1) Compliance with applicable requirements of law for fire safety, and for handicapped ac…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the board shall provide that building area for enclosed hallways in the second or higher story of any building shall be counted as two-thirds of the actual area. For purposes of this section “enclosed hallways” includes, but is…

Where an applicant district that is eligible under this chapter for project funding of new construction of school facilities on an existing schoolsite, which site has less than 50 percent of the land recommended under State Department of Education guidelines, as published in the …

(a) (1) The board shall allocate the amount calculated under subdivision (b), in addition to any other project funding authorized under this chapter, to each project funded under this chapter for which the resulting pupil density will exceed the following: (A) For a project for k…

Whenever the area of adequate school construction existing in any attendance area is such as to prevent another attendance area from receiving the maximum area of school construction for each unit of attendance as specified for the district as a whole, the allowable building area…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following determinations shall be made by a self-certifying district, in the manner specified in this chapter and in accordance with the standards governing those determinations that are adopted by the board, for the pu…

(a) The State Allocation Board shall conduct random audits of the information certified by self-certifying districts pursuant to this chapter, except as to any determinations that are made under subdivision (d) of Section 17041.1 or that are subject to audit by the State Departme…

For the purposes of Sections 17041 and 17041.5, allowable building area may be computed, in the alternative to the methods prescribed by Section 17041, for any combination of two or more adjacent high school attendance areas pursuant to the following conditions: (a) The project t…

(a) Whenever the area of adequate school construction existing in an attendance area is less than the maximum area computed for that attendance area, any portion of the remaining computed allowable building area may be used for the construction of district administration and main…

The board shall, in allocating funds for school facilities construction pursuant to this chapter, give first priority to applicant districts proposing additional classrooms within their maximum allowable building area before allocating funds to applicant districts proposing admin…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any applicant school district that receives supplemental project funding under Sections 17040.6, 17040.7, 17040.8, and 17041.8 shall apply that funding to the purposes of the project funded, in compliance with any requirements set f…

(a) The board, by the adoption of rules, shall provide for the manner of determining the area of adequate school construction existing in an applicant school district at the time of application. Those rules shall define and provide for the method of determining building areas tha…

(a) For purposes of determining the area of adequate school construction existing in an applicant school district pursuant to Section 17042.7, all portable classrooms, whether owned or leased, shall be included, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive. (1…

(a) For any project application filed or amended on or after January 1, 1993, the area of adequate school construction existing in the applicant school district or, where appropriate, in the attendance area, at the time of application shall be calculated pursuant to the following…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district that complies with the requirements of subdivision (b) may replace a portable classroom, as defined in Section 17742.5, that has been leased or owned by the district for 20 years or more, with a permanent building …

(a) There shall be allowed to each district with attendance units of 300 or more in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, a maximum area of 55 square feet for each attendance unit of the district in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive. (b) The maximum total building ar…

There shall be allowed to each district a maximum area of 75 square feet for each attendance unit of the district in grades 7 and 8.

The maximum area allowed to a district for attendance units in junior high schools composed of grades 7 to 9, inclusive, or 7 to 10, inclusive, as the case may be, shall be determined pursuant to this section, rather than Sections 17044 and 17046. This section shall not apply to …

There shall be allowed to each district a maximum area for the attendance units of the district in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, determined by computing, for the attendance units in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, at each attendance center of the district, a number of square feet for the…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the determination of the area of allowable new building construction for any project for an applicant school district for which original construction commenced on or after January 1, 1987, shall be made on the basis of 107 percent of th…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the maximum allowable building area for each applicant district shall be reduced by the product of the maximum area per attendance unit calculated for each appropriate grade level and the number of pupils reported by the Superintendent…

(a) The allowable new building area for the purpose of providing special day class and Resource Specialist Program facilities for special education pupils shall be negotiated and approved by the board, with any necessary assistance to be provided by the Special Education Division…

(a) All school facilities purchased or newly constructed pursuant to this chapter for use, in whole or in part, by pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, as defined in Section 56026, shall be designed and located on the schoolsite so as to maximize interaction between…

The board, with the advice of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, may determine the eligibility of county superintendents of schools to lease portable classrooms provided that a county superintendent of schools is eligible to receive one portable classroom pursuant to this …

Whenever an existing building is to be reconstructed, rather than replaced, under an application pursuant to this chapter, there shall be allowed, for those attendance units to be housed in such reconstructed building, an additional five square feet of building area beyond the am…

(a) The board shall require, as a condition of providing funding for any project under this chapter, that, for any facilities for kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or for any facilities for special education or continuation high school purposes, at least 30 percen…