Title EDC — California Educ. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature that public museums established pursuant to this chapter shall be funded primarily by private funds. The board of supervisors of the county in which such a public museum is located is authorized, but not required, to allocate county funds for t…

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicabl…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code) shall govern and control the conduct of elections pursuant to this chapter. Elections shall be held biennially in the …

The number of library trustees for any library district established under the provisions of this chapter is five. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Every person who is registered to vote in the library district where the election is held at least 29 days before the election, may vote at the election.

The board of trustees of any library district may, when in their judgment it is deemed advisable, and shall upon a petition of 50 or more taxpayers and residents of the library district, call an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds…

The election shall be called by posting notices, signed by the board, in three of the most public places in the district, for not less than 20 days before the election, and by publishing the notice not less than once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in t…

The notice shall contain: (a) Time and place of holding the election. (b) The names of inspectors and judges to conduct the election. (c) The hours during the day in which the polls will be open. (d) The amount and denomination of the bonds, the rate of interest, and the number o…

The election shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions relating to the election of trustees, insofar as they are applicable to the election for bonds. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Voting shall be by ballot, without reference to the general election law in regard to form of ballot, or manner of voting. The ballots shall have printed on them the words “Shall the measure (stating the nature thereof) be adopted?” To the right or below the statement of the meas…

On the seventh day after the election, at 8 o'clock p.m., the returns having been made to the board of trustees, the board shall meet and canvass the returns, and if it appears that more than one-half of the votes cast at the election are in favor of issuing the bonds, then the b…

The money shall be raised by taxation upon the taxable property in the district, for the redemption of the bonds and the payment of the interest thereon. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The total amount of bonds issued shall not exceed 5 percent of the taxable property of the district, as shown by the last equalized assessment book of the county. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The board of supervisors by an order entered upon its minutes shall prescribe the form of the bonds and of the interest coupons attached thereto, and shall fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal of the bonds shall be payable, which shall not be more than 40 year…

The bonds shall not bear a greater amount of interest than 6 percent, to be payable annually or semiannually. The bonds shall be sold in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, but for not less than par, and the proceeds of the sale thereof shall be deposited in the co…

The board of supervisors, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, shall levy a tax for that year upon the taxable property in the district, at the equalized assessed value thereof for that year, for the interest and redemption of the bonds. The tax shall not …

All money levied, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the library district, and shall be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds, and for no other purpose. The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the county …

Whenever any bonds issued under this article remain unsold for the period of six months after having been offered for sale in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, the board of trustees of the library district for or on account of which the bonds were issued, or of a…

Upon receiving the petition, signed by a majority of the members of the board of trustees, the supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the petition, which shall be not more than 30 days thereafter, and shall cause a notice, stating the time and place of hearing, and the object o…

At the time and place designated in the notice for hearing the petition, or at any subsequent time to which the hearing is postponed, the supervisors shall hear any reasons that are submitted for or against the granting of the petition, and if they deem it for the best interests …

The total amount budgeted as the proposed expenditure of the school district for each major classification of school district expenditures listed in the school district budget forms prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be the maximum amount which may be ex…

At the close of any school year a school district may, with the approval of the governing board, identify and request the county superintendent of schools to make the transfers between the designated fund balance or the unappropriated fund balance and any expenditure classificati…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 42600 and 42610 or any provision of this code to the contrary, the governing board of any school district may, by a majority vote of its membership, and with the approval of the county superintendent of schools, budget and use any unbudg…

The governing board of any school district may direct that moneys held in any fund or account may be temporarily transferred to another fund or account of the district for payment of obligations. The transfer shall be accounted for as temporary borrowing between funds or accounts…

Any amounts added to the general reserve of the school district in excess of the amount already budgeted shall not be available for appropriation by the school district for the current fiscal year except by the following procedure. The governing board of the school district shall…

Whenever prior to the receipt by any school district or county school service fund of its state, county, city and county, or district funds, any school district or county school service fund of a county or city and county does not have sufficient money to its credit to meet curre…

(a) Whenever a charter school of a county or city and county does not have sufficient money to its credit, before the charter school receives its state, county, city and county, or district funds, to meet current expenses of maintenance, the board of supervisors of the county or …

The county superintendent of schools of each county, with the approval of the county board of education, may make temporary transfers to a school district or charter school that does not have sufficient money to its credit to meet current operating expenses from the county school…

The county superintendent of schools, with the approval of the county board of education, may make an apportionment to a school district or charter school from the county school service fund conditional upon the repayment to the fund during the next succeeding fiscal year of the …

(a) Upon the request of the county board of education on behalf of a newly organized school district, and upon the order of the county board of supervisors of the county or city and county, the auditor and treasurer of the county or city and county shall make a temporary transfer…

Except as otherwise provided in this code, money shall be paid from the funds of any school district for the payment of the expenses of the district, only as provided in this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

All payments from the funds of a school district shall be made by written order of the governing board of the district. Orders shall be on forms prescribed by the county superintendent of schools unless the warrants are processed by an on-line data processing system. Forms may be…

Each order drawn on the funds of a school district shall be signed by at least a majority of the members of the governing board of the district, or by a person or persons authorized by the governing board to sign orders in its name. No person other than an officer or employee of …

The governing board of each school district shall be responsible for filing or causing to be filed with the county superintendent of schools the verified signature of each person, including members of the governing board, authorized to sign orders in its name. Except for district…

Each order drawn against the funds of a school district shall be numbered and shall state: (a) the particular fund or funds of the district against which it is drawn, (b) the amount of the payment to be made from each fund, and (c) the rate of salary and the period of service of …

Each order drawn against the funds of a school district shall be transmitted to the county superintendent of schools, and, if approved and signed by him shall become a requisition on the county auditor. The county superintendent may prescribe alternative procedures for districts …

(a) The county superintendent of schools may examine each order on school district funds transmitted to him or her, in the order in which it is received in his or her office. If it appears that the order is properly drawn for the payment of legally authorized expenses against the…

If at any time during a fiscal year the county superintendent of schools concludes that the budget of any school district within his or her jurisdiction does not comply with the standards and criteria for fiscal stability developed pursuant to Section 33127 for that fiscal year, …

(a) If the order is disapproved by the county superintendent of schools, it shall be returned to the governing board of the school district, except as otherwise provided in this code for the registration of warrants, with a statement of his or her reasons for disapproving the ord…

(a) The county auditor may examine each order and requisition on school district funds transmitted to the auditor by the county superintendent of schools. If the auditor allows the order and requisition, the auditor shall endorse thereon “examined and allowed,” and shall date, nu…

The county auditor may authorize the destruction of any bill or supporting document received from a school district for purposes of Section 42639 if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The record, paper, or document is photographed, microphotographed, or reproduced on fi…

In lieu of drawing his warrant as provided in Section 42639, the county auditor may, with the approval of the governing board of the school district, endorse, date, and number the order and requisition and may prepare a separate warrant on the county treasurer for the same amount…

The governing board of any school district may, with the approval of the county auditor and county treasurer, in lieu of issuing single orders for the payment of the salary or wages of each employee, issue payroll orders, on forms prescribed by the county superintendent of school…

Each payroll order drawn pursuant to this article shall be drawn, approved, and issued in the same manner and shall contain the same minimum content as prescribed for single orders. Each payroll order shall list the names of all employees in whose favor the order is drawn and sha…

The superintendent of schools of each county shall keep, open to the inspection of the public, a register of warrants, showing the fund upon which the requisitions have been drawn, the number, in whose favor, and for what purpose they were drawn. The county superintendent shall p…

Orders for the payment of wages and payroll orders for the payment of wages of employees employed full time in positions not requiring certification qualifications shall be drawn twice during each calendar month on days designated in advance by the governing board of each school …

In any unified school district with 100,000 or more average daily attendance as an alternative to the payment procedures prescribed by Section 42644, orders for the payment of wages, and payroll orders for the payment of wages and warrants for the payment of wages of employees em…

In any county, the county superintendent of schools, with the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the county board of education, and the county auditor, may prescribe a payroll procedure, to be followed by designated districts in the county, under which the scho…

A payroll clearance fund, for the purpose of consolidating and balancing payroll deductions and other payroll accounting purposes for one or more school district employees whose salary is paid from one or more funds, may be established by the governing board of the school distric…

With the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the governing board of a unified school district, or district with over 10,000 average daily attendance, may cause to be drawn all warrants on the county treasurer against all the funds, except debt service, of the di…