Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.

The State Allocation Board is continued in existence for the purposes of this chapter. The members of the board and the Members of the Legislature meeting with the board in an advisory capacity shall receive no compensation for their services under this chapter but shall be reimb…

The board by the adoption of rules shall give priority in allocating funds to districts to those districts where the children will benefit most from additional schoolhouse facilities. This priority shall be based on acuteness of overcrowding, on sudden growth in attendance, on am…

In addition to any other powers and duties as are granted the board by this chapter, the board shall do each of the following: (1) Establish any qualifications not in conflict with other provisions of this chapter that it deems will best serve the purposes of this chapter for det…

Apportionment from the Public School Building Loan Fund to school districts shall be made in the manner and subject to the conditions herein provided and in accordance with policies adopted by the board, for all of the following purposes: (a) The purchase and improvement of schoo…

In addition to the purposes for which apportionments may be made to school districts under Section 15706, apportionments may also be made to school districts for the construction, repair, attachment or development of offsite facilities, utilities or improvements which the board d…

In making application for, and in expending, apportionments of funds 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, reconstructed, altered, or added to through the e…

The board may require school districts to insure for the benefit of the state all sites, equipment, and buildings which are under Section 15708 the property of the state, against any risks and in any amounts that the board may deem necessary to protect the interests of the state.…

Where a district is required by a contract entered into between itself and a general construction contractor to obtain, at its own expense, insurance covering risks incurred during any construction for which an apportionment has been made, the cost thereof may be paid directly to…

Funds apportioned to a school district under this chapter for a project, remaining unencumbered or unexpended one year from the date the application of the district for the apportionment was approved, shall not be encumbered or expended except as provided in this section. The gov…

Each school district which desires an apportionment for a grade level maintained by it, shall submit through its governing board to the board an application therefor in any form and number of copies that the board shall prescribe. Each copy of the application shall be accompanied…

When an apportionment has been made by the board to a school district the board may, upon application of the governing board of the district, authorize the governing board to transfer funds from other authorized purposes if more than one purpose has been authorized in the distric…

The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 15713 and in the amount, not exceeding the amount applied for, that the board may deem appropriate. The board may, upon approval of the application, in whole or in part, and su…

If, after a conditional apportionment has been made to a school district, legal proceedings initiated prior or subsequent to the making of the conditional apportionment prevent the taking, within the period during which the conditional apportionment remains effective under Sectio…

With respect to any apportionment made to a school district prior to December 26, 1950, the board may, on the application of the governing board of the district make additional apportionments to the school district for the purchase of the furniture authorized by Section 15706. An…

The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) was by Chapter 13 of the Statutes of 1952 (First Extraordinary Session) made available from the Public School Building Loan Fund for apportionment by the board pursuant to this chapter, except as otherwise provided by this section and t…

No apportionment shall be made for new construction 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 per pupil of the estimated enrollment i…

No apportionment to a school district shall become final unless one of the following is satisfied: (a) The total amount of outstanding bonds of the district exceeds 95 percent of the maximum amount of bonds which the district could have had outstanding under any law on the date t…

Immediately after the result of the election has been determined, the county superintendent of schools shall make a certificate in duplicate stating whether the bonds have been authorized in the amount prescribed by the board and whether the school district has authorized the acc…

The election by a school district upon the acceptance, expenditure, and repayment of an apportionment prescribed by Section 15721 may be called and held either before or after the making of an apportionment. All elections held prior to October 13, 1950, whether before or after th…

Whenever a conditional apportionment has been made, and the county auditor has inadvertently and erroneously included in his certification of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the school district the bonded indebtedness of another school district having the same, or substant…

No apportionment shall be made to a school district for any grade level if the estimated cost of the project, as approved by the Director of General Services, is (1) an amount which would result in an apportionment to the district exceeding the amount authorized at the district e…

As used in Section 15725 of the Education Code, the phrase “adjusted to the next highest one-eighth of 1 percent” means “increased by a full one-eighth of 1 percent.” It is hereby declared that this construction is not intended as a change in the present law, but as a declaration…

No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements prescribed by this code for the construction of school buildings are not met by the plans for the entire building program of t…

Each district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall repay the principal amount of the apportionment and the accrued interest thereon in the amount and in the manner hereinafter provided in this chapter.

The following definitions apply to the computations and determinations required to be made under Sections 15730, 15732, and 15733, and they apply with respect to each grade level of a district for which grade level an apportionment has become final during any preceding fiscal yea…

On or before the first day of December of each fiscal year, the Director of General Services shall determine for each grade level and certify to the Controller the eligible bonded debt service for the district, as follows: (a) He or she shall determine the amount of the bonded in…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a school district otherwise eligible to receive a conditional apportionment under Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 16000) of this part may apply for an adjustment of annual repayment obligations under this chapter. The board…

On or before the first day of January of each fiscal year, the Controller shall compute for each grade level of a district for which grade level an apportionment has become final during any preceding fiscal year the 40-cent tax amount, the 30-cent tax amount and the 10-cent tax a…

On or before the first day of January of each fiscal year the Controller shall determine the annual repayment, if any, to be due from each district during the next succeeding fiscal year, as follows: (a) If, for any grade level of a district, the amount of the eligible bonded deb…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and regardless of how many apportionments are made to a grade level of a school district under the provisions of this chapter, the total annual repayment for the grade level during any fiscal year, covering all the apportionmen…

The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following that in which he or she determines the annual repayment as herein provided, deduct the total amount of the annual repayment of each district in equal amounts from each of the February, March, April, and May installments …

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, whenever in any fiscal year, pursuant to Chapter 5, Part 9, Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, a refund is made or a judgment rendered, as the case may be, for the return of an amount collected as school district tax…

(a) Upon request of the district, the Controller shall use in computing the “40-cent, 30-cent, and 10-cent tax amounts” under Section 15732 the difference between the total assessed valuation of property in a district as shown on the equalized assessment roll for the current fisc…

The Controller shall make the deduction provided by Section 15735 during each fiscal year, as herein provided, until the principal amount of the apportionment made to the district for the grade level, and all accrued interest due thereon, has been withheld; but no interest shall …

The Controller shall certify to the board the cancellation of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the apportionment. Upon receipt of the certification, the board shall, in the name of the state, convey to the district all sites purchased and improved, all equipment purc…

The Controller shall determine and maintain a record of the amount due the state in connection with each apportionment made to each grade level of a district under this chapter. He or she shall compute interest on the original amount of the apportionment at the rate fixed by the …

Upon computing in any fiscal year the amount to be deducted from the apportionments to the district from the State School Fund during the succeeding fiscal year, the Controller shall notify the governing board of the district and the county auditor of the county, the county super…

The board of supervisors of the county, the county superintendent of which has jurisdiction over any district which under this chapter will have moneys withheld by the Controller from the apportionments to be made to it from the State School Fund during any fiscal year, shall ann…

The board shall prescribe in the detail that it deems necessary, the purposes for which moneys apportioned by it or which it requires the district to contribute toward, or in reduction of the cost of a project, may be expended, and the prescription shall be binding upon the gover…

Unless the board has received the certificates of the county superintendent of schools required by Section 15722 within nine months from the date of the conditional apportionment, it shall, at the expiration of the nine-month period, void the conditional apportionment and shall c…

A public school building fund is hereby created in the county treasury in each county for each school district in the county. The county treasurer of each county shall pay into the public school building fund of each district, exactly as apportioned by the board, all moneys recei…

The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment is made under this chapter is authorized to, and shall, transfer to the public school building fund of the district from all other funds of the district in which the moneys may be, all moneys of the district wh…

A fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the Public School Building Loan Fund. All money in the Public School Building Loan Fund, including any money deposited in the fund from any source whatsoever after July 29, 1949, is hereby continuously appropriated wi…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State Allocation Board may from time to time by appropriate resolution order the transfer from the Public School Building Loan Fund to the State School Building Aid Fund of any amounts therein which it deems no longer desi…

The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall expend the moneys in the public school building fund of the district exactly as apportioned by the board and only for the purposes for which the moneys were apportioned to…

It shall be the duty of the Controller to make the audit or audits of the books and records of counties and school districts receiving apportionments under this chapter, as he or she may deem necessary from time to time, for the purpose of determining that the money received by s…

Whenever the Controller determines that any money apportioned to a school district has been expended by the school district for purposes not authorized by this chapter, or exceeds the final cost of the project which is authorized by this chapter to be paid therefrom, the Controll…

Any portion of an apportionment paid to a school district under this chapter shall be available for expenditure by its governing board for not less than one year nor more than three years, as the board shall determine, after the date on which the warrant covering the portion of t…

Whenever a school district receives an apportionment under this chapter for the purchase or improvement of a school building site and within a period of five years after the date on which the warrant covering the appropriate portion or portions of the apportionment was drawn on t…