Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, which is a part of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the voters…

The people hereby find and declare that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the disbursement of these proceeds is not subject to the limitati…

(a) The 2024 California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury for deposit of funds from the proceeds of bonds, not including the proceeds of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Section 101451, issued and sold for the purp…

(a) From the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 101442), the sum of one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000) shall be deposited in the 2024 California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund for purposes of this ch…

(a) Of the total amount of bonds authorized to be issued and sold pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 101400), bonds in the total amount of one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance w…

(a) The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The provisions of tha…

The Higher Education Facilities Finance Committee established pursuant to Section 67353 shall authorize the issuance of bonds under this chapter only to the extent necessary to fund the related apportionments for the purposes described in this chapter that are expressly authorize…

There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds each year. It is the duty of all …

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that equals the total of the following: (a) The sum annually necessary to pay the principal of, and interest…

The board, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 101443, may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account or any other approved form of interim financing, in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code, for the purp…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this chapter that include a bond counsel opinion to the effect that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income for federal tax p…

(a) For purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds, excluding any refunding bonds authorized pursuant to Section 101451, less any amount loaned and not…

All moneys deposited in the 2024 California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund that are derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this chapter shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to ex…

The bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, which is a part of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the voters…

The proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the California Constitution, and the disbursement of these proceeds is not subject to the limitations imposed by that article.

Notwithstanding any provisions of Section 12020, 12220, and 12300 to 12307, inclusive, whenever by any act of Congress funds are provided as federal aid to education to the several states for apportionment or allocation to school districts or community college districts for the p…

The State Treasurer is designated as the custodian of all funds received by the state from the government of the United States or of any agency or agencies thereof and he is authorized to receive, and provide for the proper custody of, all moneys so received. (Enacted by Stats. 1…

The funds received by the state under Sections 12020, 12220, and 12300 to 12307, inclusive, shall be expended by the officers or agency administering the program to carry out the provisions of the act of the Congress and rules and regulations lawfully adopted thereunder. These fu…

The assent of the state is given to the provisions in the act of Congress entitled “An act to promote the mining of potash on the public domain,” and approved by the President February 7, 1927, and to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize exploration…

All money derived from bonuses, royalties, and rentals under the provisions of the acts of Congress referred to in Section 12303, or either of said acts, and apportioned under the acts, or either of said acts, to the state shall be received by the State Treasurer and by him paid …

The money shall be apportioned among the school districts and community college districts in which potash leases or deposits are situated in the proportion which the total amount of rents, royalties, and other payments made to the United States from potash leases or deposits in e…

If any potash deposit or lease or any part thereof is wholly located within the boundaries of two or more elementary, high or unified school districts, or community college districts, the districts shall share equally in the apportionments made under Section 12305 which are attri…

Notwithstanding any other provision in this article or Section 2795 of the Public Resources Code, the Controller shall apportion money received pursuant to Section 12304 for potash deposits located in the Trona Joint Unified School District and the Kern Community College District…

The payments shall be deposited in the general fund of the districts and shall be in addition to any other moneys paid or credited to the districts. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The assent of the state is given to the provisions in the act of Congress entitled “An act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas and sodium on the public domain,” and approved by the President, February 25, 1920. All money derived from bonuses, royalties, …

The department shall: (a) Upon the request of the governing board of a school district, advise the governing board of the school district on the acquisition of new schoolsites and, after a review of available plots, give the governing board of the school district in writing a lis…

Notwithstanding any law, when using exclusively local funds for acquisition of a potential schoolsite, a school district is not required to receive final approval of a site by the State Department of Education prior to adopting a resolution of necessity in an eminent domain proce…

All money collected by the State Department of Education under the provisions of this article shall be available for the use of the department pursuant to appropriations for any use that may from time to time be made by the Legislature.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) The Department of Water Resources, pursuant to Division 3 (commencing with Section 6000) of the Water Code, exercises regulatory control over dam safety in the State of California. (2) The department approves all plans and…

The Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Division of the State Architect and the Office of Public School Construction within the Department of General Services, recommend best design practic…

The department and the Office of Public School Construction shall each develop regulations that provide local educational agencies with flexibility in the design of instructional facilities under this article and the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (Chapter 12.5 (co…

As used in this article “school buildings” shall have the same meaning as in Section 17283.

The State Allocation Board shall obtain construction plans for school buildings appropriate for school districts in various climates and geographical conditions of the state. The plans shall be composed of plans designed to meet the needs of school districts requiring school buil…

Any school district may request sets of the plans and specifications obtained by the State Allocation Board as appropriate for use in constructing a school building of the type desired by the school district. The plans and specifications shall be furnished to the school district …

The plans and specifications for any school building as defined in Section 17283, together with estimates of cost, shall be submitted by the board to the Department of General Services for approval.

(a) Commencing January 1, 1992, all plans and specifications for the construction of a new or modernized elementary school building shall be designed to provide appropriate space, consistent with the needs of the attendance area of the school, to accommodate before-school and aft…

All provisions of Sections 17280 to 17313, inclusive, are made applicable to school buildings as defined in Section 17283 constructed from plans and specifications furnished under Sections 17260 to 17267, inclusive, except as otherwise provided in the latter sections.

The district shall furnish its own architect or structural engineer, or both, for necessary structural engineering and supervision of construction.

The governing board of a school district shall, before letting any contract for the construction of a school building as defined in Section 17283 according to the plans and specifications, file a set of the plans and specifications with the Department of General Services accompan…

(a) The governing board of a school district that elects not to receive state funds pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10) may not approve a project for the construction of a new school building, as defined in Section 17283, unless the project and its lead ag…

(a) (1) 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 17295, to ensure that plans a…

Written rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article to clarify the application of the California Building Standards Code shall be made available to the public by the State Architect upon request.

(a) The Seismic Safety Commission shall convene an advisory committee that shall include, but not be limited to, the State Architect, the State Fire Marshall, representatives from the major professional associations representing architects, engineers, and school facilities design…

This article, together with Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365), and Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130) of Chapter 1 of Part 49, shall be known and may be cited as the “Field Act.”

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

(a) On or before January 1, 2010, the Division of the State Architect within the Department of General Services shall develop uniform criteria for precheck approval processes for solar design plans, including structural plans and calculations, for a school facility that comply wi…

“School building” as used in this article means and includes any building used, or designed to be used, for elementary or secondary school purposes and constructed, reconstructed, altered, or added to, by the state or by any city or city and county, or by any political subdivisio…

(a) For the purposes of this article, Article 5 (commencing with Section 17350), and Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365), “school building” does not include any building used or intended to be used by a school district as residential housing. (b) As used in this section, “r…

Any school building, as defined in Section 17283, operated by a county official, board, or commission which on the effective date of this section is in violation of this article, if compliance therewith was otherwise required, may be continued in use as a school building after Ju…

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any waiver granted by the State Allocation Board to a school district for use of a nonconforming existing private building acquired for conversion for use as a school building, that had not expired prior to January 1, 2000…