Title EDC — California Educ. Code

Any public hearing required, or allowed to be held, in an action referred to in Section 35520 may be conducted in each county, or jointly in either county, as it appears most convenient and practical to the county officers or agencies conducting the hearing.

Any decision in an action referred to in Section 35520 to recommend reorganization or to recommend approval or disapproval of a petition for reorganization may be taken at, or following, a joint public hearing. If separate hearings are conducted in each county, a decision to gran…

An action to reorganize districts is complete when the board of supervisors makes the order required pursuant to Section 35765.

An action to form a unified school district pursuant to Section 35542 is complete upon the date of completion of the action by which the boundaries of the school districts comprising the unified school district become coterminous.

Except as otherwise provided in this article, in any school district which is created or whose boundaries or status is changed by an action to reorganize districts, the changes shall be effective on the date when all of the following are completed: (a) The determination of the as…

Any district which is reorganized so as to be wholly absorbed into one or more other districts shall, after the date the action is complete and until the action is effective for all purposes, continue to have all of the powers and duties vested in governing boards of the same kin…

Except as provided in Sections 35536 and 35786 and subject to compliance with Section 54900 of the Government Code, any action to reorganize a school district shall be effective for all purposes on July 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the action is com…

At any time after the appointment or election of the governing board of a school district and the naming of the school district, the board may secure an option to purchase land for school purposes for which school district bonds may be issued. The board may proceed, thereafter, i…

Notwithstanding Section 35534, where a petition for reorganization and change of boundaries of one or more school districts involves a transfer of territory and the territory is uninhabited land and all districts involved consent to the transfer of territory, the effective date o…

The boundaries of each high school district and unified school district shall be coextensive with the boundaries of the component districts, as defined in Section 35515, included within it.

When the boundaries of a district which is a component of a high school district or a unified school district, as defined in Section 35515, are for any cause changed to include territory in, or to exclude from, the district, the territory added to, or removed from, the district s…

(a) Whenever the boundaries of an elementary school district and a high school district become coterminous, the districts are merged into a new unified district. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an elementary school district that has boundaries that are totally within a high …

On or after January 1, 1981, a school district shall not be formed or reorganized to include territory which is separated from other portions of the territory of the district by the territory of one or more other school districts.

Whenever territory is transferred or added by means of reorganization to another district in which trustee areas have been established, the territory being transferred shall become a part of the trustee areas to which it is contiguous. In the event that the territory being transf…

(a) Before the date upon which a reorganized district becomes effective for all purposes, the county committee may include all, or part of, the territory in plans and recommendations for further reorganization. (b) During the first five years after the effective date for all purp…

(a) The reorganization of any school district or school districts shall not affect the classification of certificated employees already employed by any school district affected. Those employees have the same status with respect to their classification by the school district, incl…

(a) The reorganization of any school district, or school districts, shall not affect the rights of persons employed in positions not requiring certification qualifications to retain the salary, leaves, and other benefits that they would have had if the reorganization had not occu…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 5000, whenever, in a district that has been wholly absorbed into one or more other districts and continues in existence as a district until the reorganization in which it has been included is effective for all purposes and a governing board member elec…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 35105 and 5000, in the case of a unified school district formed in an even-numbered year, where in connection with the formation of which the first governing board was elected in that even-numbered year, all of the members of the first elected governi…

Notwithstanding Sections 5000 and 35105, when the first elected board of any new district is elected on the same date that the election is held for adopting the proposal for the formation of the new district and when the terms of several members of the first governing board would…

When a school district is reorganized, both of the following shall apply: (a) When the allocation of funds, property, and obligations is not fixed by terms, conditions, or recommendations as provided by law, the funds, property, and obligations of a former district, except for bo…

Any funds derived from the sale of the school bonds issued by the original district shall be used for the acquisition, construction, or improvement of school property only in the territory that comprised the original district or to discharge bonded indebtedness of the original di…

If all the territory of a school district becomes part of two or more school districts of any type, and the inclusion in the two or more new or acquiring districts of the several portions of territory comprising the whole of the former district is effective for all purposes on th…

(a) If all of the territory of a school district becomes part of two or more school districts of any type, and the inclusion in the two or more new school districts of the several portions of territory comprising the former district is effective for all purposes on the same date,…

If the reorganization of a school district under this chapter results in the relocation of district boundaries so that a portion of the pupils will not be residents of the district thereafter maintaining a school previously attended by the pupils, and if there is in the school an…

If a dispute arises between the governing boards of the districts concerning the division of funds, property, or obligations, a board of arbitrators shall be appointed which shall resolve the dispute. The board shall consist of one person selected by each district from which terr…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, exchanges of property tax revenues between school districts as a result of an action to reorganize shall be determined pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 99 of the Revenue and Taxation Code if one or more affected districts…

This article applies only to the reallocation of bonded indebtedness of a school district on general obligation bonds under one of the following conditions: (a) The bonded indebtedness was approved by the voters prior to July 1, 1978. (b) The bonded indebtedness was incurred for …

When a school district is created, annexed, or abolished, or the boundaries thereof changed, the liability to taxation for the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the district or the territory affected thereby is as provided in this article. The authorities whose duty it is to lev…

No territory shall be taken from any school district having any outstanding bonded indebtedness and made a part of another school district where the action, if taken, would so reduce the last equalized assessed valuation of the divided district so that the outstanding bonded inde…

When any school district is in any manner merged with one or more school districts so as to form a single district by any procedure, the district so formed is liable for all of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the districts united or merged.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, for the purposes of applying the State School Building Aid Law of 1952 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 16000) of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1), the amount of outstanding bonded indebtedness, exclusive of interest, of the f…

When territory is taken from one school district and annexed to another school district and the area transferred contains no public school property or buildings, the territory shall drop any liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness in the district of which it was formerly a …

(a) If territory is taken from one school district and annexed to, or included in, a new or acquiring district by any procedure, and the area transferred contains real property, the new or acquiring district shall take possession of the real property, pursuant to paragraph (1) of…

Whenever a school district having authorized but unsold bonds is completely divided between two or more new or acquiring districts so that the original district ceases to exist, pursuant to any provision of this chapter, the board of supervisors shall, before the date the action …

Any unsold bonds of an elementary, high, or unified school district that is included as a whole in a new or acquiring district through any kind of reorganization may be issued by the board of supervisors in the name of the new or acquiring district and the proceeds derived upon t…

Any unsold bonds of an elementary, high, or unified school district that is included as a whole in a new or acquiring district through any kind of reorganization, if issued by the board of supervisors in the names of the former districts shall be considered a liability of the new…

Notwithstanding Article 8 (commencing with Section 35570), this article shall apply to the reorganization of the Wiseburn School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District by the formation of the Wiseburn Unified School District and the termination of the Wisebu…

(a) Any tax for repayment of bonds of the Wiseburn School District shall be levied on all taxable property of the Wiseburn Unified School District. (b) Any tax for repayment of bonds issued by the Wiseburn Unified School District, including bonds authorized by the Wiseburn School…

(a) The bonding limit applicable to the Wiseburn Unified School District shall be equal to the sum of both of the following: (1) The limit specified in Section 15106, as applied to all taxable real property within the Wiseburn Unified School District zoned for residential purpose…

A pupil residing in the Wiseburn Unified School District who is eligible to attend any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, may attend the Centinela Valley Union High School District without an interdistrict attendance agreement if the Centinela Valley Union High School District accepts…

Notwithstanding any other law, the election to approve the reorganization plan for the Wiseburn Unified School District shall be conducted within the territory of the Wiseburn School District, and shall be approved upon a favorable vote of a majority of all votes cast on the reor…

The governing board of the Local Public Schools Funding Authority formed by the Wiseburn School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District or the two surviving school districts, acting together pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing …

The term “cafeteria” as used in this code is considered synonymous with the term “food service.”

The governing board of any school district may establish cafeterias in the schools under its jurisdiction whenever in its judgment it is advisable to do so.

Food shall not be sold at any cafeteria operated by a school district to anyone except pupils and employees of any school district, members of the governing board thereof, and members or employees of the fund or association maintaining the cafeteria; provided, however, that nothi…

Perishable foodstuffs and seasonal commodities needed in the operation of cafeterias may be purchased by the school district in accordance with rules and regulations for such purchase adopted by the governing board of said district notwithstanding any provisions of this code in c…

The food served shall be sold to the patrons of the cafeterias at such a price as will pay the cost of maintaining the cafeterias, exclusive of the costs made a charge against the funds of the school district by this chapter, and items made a charge against the funds of the schoo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), by July 1, 2011, a school district shall provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in the food service areas of the schools under its jurisdiction, including, but not necessarily limited to, areas where reimbursable …

(a) The department may receive funds transferred from any available state and federal source, to be allocated by the department to school districts for the purpose of complying with the requirements of Section 38086. (b) Subject to all laws, guidelines, policies, and criteria app…