Title EDC, California Educ. Code

In computing the limitation of indebtedness of a school district, community college district, or school facilities improvement district of any kind or class up to this time or in the future formed or organized, hereinafter in this section referred to as the “bonding district,” th…

For the purpose of determining the limitation of indebtedness of a school district, community college district, or school facilities improvement district of any kind or class under Section 15102 or 15106, that portion of the bonded indebtedness of the district for which another d…

Where an elementary school district and a high school district with a combined average daily attendance of 300,000 or more are governed by the same governing board, and the pupils in grades seven and eight in the districts are in attendance at high schools maintained by the high …

An action to determine the validity of bonds and of the ordering of the improvement or acquisition may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. In such action, all findings, conclusions and determinations…

The governing board of each school district or community college district shall, within 30 days after the end of each fiscal year, submit to the county superintendent of schools who has jurisdiction over the school district or community college district a report containing the fo…

As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Administering agency” means any agency designated pursuant to Section 25502 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) “Environmental assessor” means an environmental professional as defined in Section 312.10 …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (1) For sites addressed by this article for which school districts elect to receive state funds pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10) of Part 10, the state act applies to schoolsites where naturally occurring h…

Prior to commencing the acquisition of real property for a new schoolsite or an addition to an existing schoolsite, the governing board of a school district shall evaluate the property at a public hearing using the site selection standards established by the State Department of E…

The governing board of a school district, prior to acquiring any site on which it proposes to construct any school building as defined in Section 17283 shall have the site, or sites, under consideration investigated by competent personnel to ensure that the final site selection i…

It is the intent of the Legislature that corporations, public utilities, local publicly owned utilities, governmental agencies, and school districts work collaboratively in assessing the safety of a proposed schoolsite or addition to an existing schoolsite. (Added by Stats. 2004,…

(a) The governing board of a school district may make a written request upon a person, corporation, public utility, local publicly owned utility, or governmental agency for information necessary or useful to assess and determine the safety of a proposed schoolsite or an addition …

Geological and soil engineering studies as described in Section 17212 shall be made, within the boundaries of any special studies zone, for the construction of any school building as defined in Section 17283, or if the estimated cost exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000)…

The governing board of a school district shall not approve a project involving the acquisition of a schoolsite by a school district, unless all of the following occur: (a) The school district, as the lead agency, as defined in Section 21067 of the Public Resources Code, determine…

As a condition of receiving state funding pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10), the governing board of a school district shall comply with subdivision (a), and is not required to comply with subdivision (a) of Section 17213, prior to the acquisition of a sc…

As a condition of receiving state funds pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10), all of the following apply: (a) If a preliminary endangerment assessment prepared pursuant to Section 17213.1 discloses the presence of a hazardous materials release, or threatene…

(a) In order to promote the safety of pupils, comprehensive community planning, and greater educational usefulness of schoolsites, before acquiring title to or leasing property for a new schoolsite, the governing board of each school district, including any district governed by a…

(a) Prior to commencing the acquisition of real property for a new schoolsite in an area designated in a city, county, or city and county general plan for agricultural use and zoned for agricultural production, the governing board of a school district shall make all of the follow…

No action undertaken by the State Department of Education or by any other state agency or by any political subdivision pursuant to this chapter, or in compliance with this chapter, shall be construed to affect any rights arising under the provisions of Section 19 of Article 1 of …

(a) The governing board of a school district may acquire a site for a school building contiguous to the boundaries of the district and upon the acquisition of the site it shall become a part of the district. (b) The site may not be acquired until all of the following conditions a…

The governing board of a school district which has been included in a school district unification proposal approved by the electors of the territory involved pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4206) of Part 3, may, prior to the time the new unified school district bec…

(a) Whenever a school district acquires or has acquired a site for school purposes, as determined by the State Allocation Board, and does not use the site within (1) five years of the date of acquisition for the kindergarten, if any, and any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, maintaine…

If the State Allocation Board determines a school district to be exempt from the requirement to make nonuse payments for any year as to any schoolsite on any basis authorized under subdivision (e) or (f) of Section 17219, that exemption shall continue to apply to that schoolsite …

The amount of any nonuse payments required of any school district under Section 17219 shall be reduced, without regard to fiscal year, by the amount of the proceeds, resulting from the lease of district property that is subject to that section, that are expended by the district t…

The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following that in which the Executive Officer of the State Allocation Board certifies to him or her the amount of payment, deduct the total amount of the payment of each district in equal amounts from each of the February, March, …

(a) Whenever a school district has either begun to use an unused site or has sold that site within two years of the date the Controller, pursuant to Section 17222, has deducted a certified nonuse payment from the district’s State School Fund apportionment, the State Allocation Bo…

(a) Any funds in the State School Site Utilization Fund, including interest, that are not subject to return to a school district pursuant to Section 17223 shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for purposes of administering the Leroy F. Greene School Facilitie…

The code establishes the law of this state respecting the subjects to which it relates, and its provisions and all proceedings under it are to be liberally construed, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Any person desiring in his or her lifetime to promote the public welfare by founding, endowing, and maintaining within this state a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical institute, museum, botanic garden, public park, or gallery of art, or any or all there…

The grantor may designate in the grant: (a) The nature, object, and purposes of the institution to be founded, endowed, and maintained. (b) The name by which it shall be known. (c) The powers and duties of the trustees, and the manner in which they shall account, and to whom, if …

The grantor may also provide for all other things necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of the grant, and especially may provide for the trades and professions which shall be taught in the institution, and the terms upon which deserving scholars of the public and private…

The grantor may also provide for maintaining free scholarships for children of persons who have rendered service to or who have died in the service of the state and for maintaining free scholarships for children of mechanics, tradesmen, and laborers, who have died without leaving…

The grantor may also provide the terms and conditions upon which students in the public and private schools, and other deserving persons, may, without cost to themselves, attend the lectures of any university established, and also the terms and conditions upon which the museums, …

The trustee or trustees named in the grant, and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, as designated in the grant, sue and defend, in relation to the trust property, and in relation to all matters affecting the institution. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The grantor, by a provision in the grant, may elect, in relation to the property conveyed, and in relation to the erection, maintenance, and management of the institution, to perform, during his life, all the duties and exercise all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, ar…

A grantor who is a married person may further provide that his or her surviving spouse during his or her life, may, in relation to the property conveyed, and in relation to the election, maintenance, and management of the institution, perform all the duties and exercise all the p…

In the cases referred to in Sections 21106 and 21107, the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the trustee or trustees shall be exercised and performed by the grantor, or by his or her spouse, during his or her life, as the case may be. Upon the death of the grantor, or t…

The grantor may reserve the right to alter, amend, or modify the terms and conditions of the grant, and the trusts created, in respect to any of the matters mentioned or referred to in Sections 21101 to 21104, inclusive. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The grantor may also reserve, during his or her life, the right of absolute dominion over the personal property conveyed, and also over the rents, issues, and profits of the real property conveyed, without liability to account therefor in any manner whatever, and without any liab…

A grantor who is a married person may further provide that his or her spouse, during his or her life, may have the same absolute dominion, over the personal property, and the rents, issues, and profits, without liability to account therefor in any manner whatever, and without lia…

The founder or founders, surviving founder, or spouse or surviving spouse of any founder, of a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical institute, museum, gallery of art, library or any other institution, or any or all thereof, founded pursuant to this articl…

The grantor may provide in the grant that the trustees and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, become the custodian of the person of minors. When any such provision is made in a grant, the trustees and their successors may take the custody and control in the ma…

The grant shall be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the same manner as is provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of grants of real property. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

No suit, action, or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul, or affect the conveyance, or to affect the title to the property conveyed, or the right to the possession, or to the rents, issues, and profits thereof, unless the action is commenc…

The property conveyed by the grant shall not, after a lapse of two years from the date of the filing for record of the grant, be subject to forced sale, under execution, or judicial proceedings of any kind, against the grantor or his privies, unless the action under which the exe…

Any person making the grant may, at any time thereafter, by last will or testament, devise and bequeath to the state all or any of the property, real and personal, mentioned in the grant, or in any supplemental grant, and the devise or bequest shall only take effect if, from any …

No wish, direction, act, or condition expressed, made, or given by any grantor, under this article, as to religious instruction to be given in any school, college, seminary, mechanical institute, museum, or gallery of art, or in respect to the exercise of religious belief, on the…