Title EDC — California Educ. Code

In every county with six or more school districts or community college districts in the territory under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of the county, the county committee on school district organization shall have 11 members.

(a) If the number of school districts or community college districts in a county with six or more districts decreases to fewer than six, Section 4001 or 4002 shall apply, as appropriate. (b) If the number of school districts or community college districts in a county with fewer t…

(a) The county superintendent of schools shall call an annual meeting of the representatives of the governing board of each school district, elected pursuant to Section 35023, and the representatives of the governing board of each community college district, elected pursuant to S…

(a) Any vacancy created by the expiration of the term of office of a member of the county committee on school district organization shall be filled by the majority vote of the representatives of the governing boards at the annual meeting called and held pursuant to subdivision (a…

No county superintendent of schools, employee of the office of a county superintendent of schools, employee of a school district, or employee of a community college district shall be a member of the county committee. Any member of the governing board of a school district or commu…

(a) At least two members of every county committee shall be elected from among the registered voters residing within each county supervisorial district in the county. (b) If any change in the boundaries of a county supervisorial district in the county affects an incumbent member …

The term of each member of the county committee shall begin upon election pursuant to Section 4006 or upon appointment pursuant to Section 4002, as appropriate, and shall be for four years.

The members of the county committee shall serve without compensation. However, they shall receive reimbursement for any actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

(a) The county counsel, or if there is no county counsel, the district attorney, may provide legal services to the county committee. (b) In any county in which the board of supervisors has transferred functions and duties to the county board of education pursuant to Section 1080 …

Within 30 days after the election or appointment of the county committee, the county superintendent of schools shall call the first meeting of the county committee, for purposes of electing a committee chairperson and a committee vice chairperson from among the members of the com…

Meetings of the county committee may be called by the chairperson, or by a quorum of the committee.

For purposes of this article, a majority of the members of county committee shall constitute a quorum.

(a) Upon the petition of the county committee on school district organization of a county, or of the county board of education of that county, the State Board of Education may order the county board of education to act as the county committee on school district organization for t…

Upon the order of the State Board of Education issued pursuant to Section 4020, the county board of education of a county succeeds to and is vested with all duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction formerly vested in the county committee on school district org…

(a) The State Board of Education may, upon its own motion or upon petition of the county board of education or a majority of districts in the county, reestablish a county committee on school district organization whose duties and powers have been previously transferred pursuant t…

Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 4005, the first annual meeting following the reestablishment of a county committee on school district organization shall occur within 30 days of the State Board of Education’s action to reestablish the committee.

A county committee on school district organization reestablished pursuant to Section 4022 succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction previously transferred to the county board of education pursuant to Section 4021.

No assessor, tax collector, city, city and county, or county treasurer shall charge or receive any fees or compensation for assessing, collecting, receiving, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys, but the whole moneys collected shall be paid to the city, city and county, or co…

The governing board of every school district shall pay all moneys received or collected by it from any source and all moneys apportioned to it from taxes levied and collected under the authority of city councils for school purposes, into the county treasury to be placed to the cr…

All moneys received by any school district or paid into the county or city and county treasury to the credit of the district from state apportionments, county, district or municipal taxes, other than moneys required to be placed in a separate fund of the school district, shall be…

Notwithstanding Sections 41001 and 41002, money received from the sources, or for the purposes listed in subdivisions (a) to (h), inclusive, may be deposited in a bank or other financial institution whose accounts are federally insured. Any money so deposited shall be in an accou…

The governing board of a school district may, by resolution, specify the particular fund or funds maintained for the district into which shall be deposited moneys received for the rental or lease of real property. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The accounting system used to record the financial affairs of any school district shall be in accordance with the definitions, instructions, and procedures published in the California School Accounting Manual as approved by the State Board of Education and furnished by the Superi…

The accounting system used to record the financial affairs of any school district shall be designed to provide separate recording and clear distinction between expenditures for salaries of classroom teachers employed by the district and expenditures for other purposes of the dist…

(a) The accounting system used to record the financial affairs of any local educational agency shall be designed to provide a separate accounting of expenditures related to actual payments of legal settlements, judgments, or special assessments by a joint pooling arrangement, as …

For purposes of determining allowances pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 52200) of Part 28, and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 56500) and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 56600) of Part 30, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall require the use of a uni…

For the purpose of achieving clarity and uniformity in the budgeting and reporting of school district expenditures by funds, whenever certain expenditures for the children’s center program, the development center for handicapped minors program, or any similar program, except the …

Excepting only as provided in Article 1 (commencing with Section 41000) and this article, all constitutional and statutory limitations on the purposes for which moneys derived from particular specified sources may be expended, and all statutory provisions relative to the establis…

The governing board of any school district or any county office of education which has funds in a special reserve fund of the district or county office of education or any surplus moneys not required for the immediate necessities of the district or county office of education, is …

The governing board of a school district which has made an investment pursuant to the authority of Section 41015 may deposit such security for safekeeping with a state or national bank or trust company located within this state or with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or…

The governing board of any school district or any county office of education may authorize any school district governed by it, or any school under its jurisdiction to deposit in one or more bank accounts as clearing accounts any miscellaneous receipts, including receipts from the…

The governing board of any school district or any county office of education having an average daily attendance of 100,000 or more may deposit in one or more bank accounts moneys received from the temporary rental of property acquired by a school district or county office of educ…

The governing board of any school district which maintains clearing accounts, cafeteria accounts, and other accounts in a bank or banks, pursuant to Section 41017 or 39892, or pursuant to any other provisions of law, may contract and pay for the expenses of transporting money to …

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage sound fiscal management practices among local educational agencies for the most efficient and effective use of public funds for the education of children in California by strengthening fiscal accountability at the school distri…

Reports of audits previously filed with the county clerk pursuant to Section 41020 shall be disposed of by the county clerk or returned to the respective superintendent of schools.

(a) If a school district governing board has entered into a contract for an independent audit of its financial statements in accordance with Section 41020 and the audited financial statements have not been filed with the county superintendent of schools on or before the due date …

(a) By January 31 of each year, the governing body of each local educational agency shall review, at a public meeting, the annual audit of the local educational agency for the prior year, any audit exceptions identified in that audit, the recommendations or findings of any manage…

(a) If the Controller determines by two consecutive quality control reviews pursuant to Section 14504.2, or if a county superintendent of schools determines, that audits performed by a certified public accountant or public accountant under Section 41020 were not performed in subs…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the auditor conducting the annual audit pursuant to Section 41020 shall, upon request, provide the county superintendent or the Superintendent of Public Instruction with fiscal information on a school district within his or her jurisdic…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 41020, for the 2019–20 fiscal year, a local educational agency shall provide for an audit by July 15, 2020, and if a local educational agency fails to provide for an audit by July 15, 2020, the county office of education having jurisdiction over the lo…

The governing board of every school district shall require each employee of the district, whose duty it is to handle funds of the district, and may, in its discretion, require employees of the district, whose duty it is to handle property of the district, to be bonded under a sui…

Except as provided in this section, any election held for the purpose permitting a school district to exceed the expenditure of school district funds fixed by the Constitution or by the statutes of the state shall be called, held, and conducted as nearly as possible as are electi…

(a) Any agency organized pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the parties of which consist solely of school districts and county offices of education, shall be subject to the same restrictions as are ap…

(a) (1) Commencing April 1, 2017, a local educational agency that receives any funds pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10) of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1) shall annually report a detailed list of all ex…

Any school district which receives bequests or gifts of money which is surplus money not required for the immediate necessities of the district may invest it pursuant to the provisions of this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Any gift or bequest of money which is to be invested pursuant to this article shall be placed in a district special fund in the county treasury, to be designated as a Foundation Fund. If the gift or bequest of money is required to be used for specific purposes according to the te…

(a) The governing board of any school district may accept on behalf of, and in the name of, the district, gifts, donations, bequests, and devises that are made to the district or to or for the benefit of any school or college administered by the district. The gifts, donations, be…

The governing board of a school district which has placed funds in the Foundation Fund is hereby authorized to invest all or any part of those funds as it deems wise and expedient as follows: (a) In the securities, warrants, or instruments of indebtedness specified by Section 536…

The governing board of a school district may deposit such securities, warrants, or instruments purchased under Section 41033 for safekeeping pursuant to Section 41016. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of a school district that invests money of the Foundation Fund pursuant to this article shall appoint an advisory committee equal in number to the number of members of the governing board. The committee shall be composed of qualified electors of the district a…