Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) Because school science laboratories pose a potentially serious threat to the health and safety of school pupils and school personnel due to the use and storage of hazardous materials in these laboratories, educational effo…

The Legislature hereby declares its intent in enacting this article to require that specified persons, including school teachers, school administrators, school aides, school playground workers, and school bus drivers, report missing children to a law enforcement agency in a timel…

(a) A school district is encouraged to collaborate with outside consultants, including law enforcement, with expertise in sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education in order to create a school safety plan to address the threat of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. (b) A…

(a) The governing board of a school district and the governing body of a charter school shall work with their schools that maintain any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to identify the most appropriate methods of informing parents and guardians of pupils in those grades of human tra…

For purposes of this article, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply: (a) “Law enforcement” means any of the following: (1) A peace officer employed or contracted by a school, school district, or local educational agency for school safety purposes.…

(a) (1) On or before July 1, 2023, the department shall develop model content, in consultation with relevant local educational agencies, civil rights groups, and the Department of Justice. (2) The model content developed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include, at a minimum, cont…

(a) Commencing with the 2023–24 school year, and each school year thereafter, a local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall, informed by the model content developed by the department pursuant to Section 49391, include in the …

(a) A school official who is alerted to or observes any threat or perceived threat, as described in subdivision (e) of Section 49390, shall immediately report the threat or perceived threat to law enforcement. The report shall include copies of any documentary or other evidence a…

(a) Upon the notification described in Section 49393, the local law enforcement agency or the schoolsite police, as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 49390, as appropriate, with the support of the local educational agency, shall immediately conduct…

A local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and a school of a local educational agency, is immune from civil liability for any damages allegedly caused by, arising out of, or relating to the requirements of this article.

Except as otherwise provided, the community colleges shall continue in session or close on specified holidays as follows: (a) The community colleges shall close on January 1, the third Monday in January, commencing in the 1989–90 fiscal year, known as “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, whenever the Governor appoints any other day as a holiday and does not provide for the closing of the community colleges, but the community colleges do close, the closing shall be deemed a closing for a holiday declared by the …

Whenever climatic conditions of a community college district are such as to render it necessary that the colleges be closed as early in the year as possible or opened as late in the year as possible, the governing board of the community college district may maintain classes on an…

(a) There is a civic center at each and every community college within the state and the governing board of a community college district may authorize the use, by the community and organizations, of any civic center or other properties under their control, pursuant to this articl…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the governing board of a community college district may grant without charge the use of any college facilities or grounds under its control, pursuant to the requirements of this article, when an alternative location is not available, to …

Notwithstanding any other law, if the governing board of a community college district authorizes the use of any of the community college district’s facilities or grounds pursuant to this article, the community college district shall give priority access to the use of those facili…

Lighting, heating, janitor service, and the services of the person when needed, and other necessary expenses, in connection with the use of community college buildings and grounds pursuant to this article, shall be provided for out of the county or special school funds of the res…

The governing board of a community college district may require a person, group, or organization granted the use of community college district property pursuant to this article to obtain a certificate of insurance from a liability insurance carrier and to submit that certificate …

Whenever prior to the receipt by a community college district of its state, county, city and county, or district funds, any district does not have sufficient money to its credit to meet current expenses of maintenance, the board of supervisors of the county or city and county sha…

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

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

Upon the request of the board of governors, the auditor and treasurer of a county or city and county shall make a temporary transfer from any funds of the county or city and county not immediately needed to pay claims against them to the general fund of the newly organized commun…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this code, money shall be paid from the funds of any community college district for the payment of the expenses of the district, only as provided in this article. (b) The Legislature reaffirms the status of the California Community Colleges as …

All payments from the funds of a community college 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. Forms may be printed and furnished by the board of supervisors or the co…

Each order drawn on the funds of a community college 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 e…

The governing board of each community college 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…

Each order drawn against the funds of a community college 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 …

Each order drawn against the funds of a community college district shall be transmitted to the county superintendent of schools, and, if approved and signed by him or her, shall become a requisition on the county auditor. The county superintendent may prescribe alternative proced…

The county superintendent of schools may examine each order on community college 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 agai…

(a) If, at any time during a fiscal year, the county superintendent of schools concludes that the expenditures of a community college district in the territory within his or her jurisdiction are likely to exceed the anticipated income of the district for that fiscal year, he or s…

(a) At any time during a fiscal year, the county superintendent may audit the expenditures and internal controls of community college districts he or she determines to be fiscally accountable. The county superintendent shall report his or her findings and recommendation to the go…

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

(a) The county auditor may examine each order and requisition on community college district funds transmitted by the county superintendent of schools. If the county auditor allows the order and requisition, he or she shall endorse thereon “examined and allowed,” and shall date, n…

The county auditor may authorize the destruction of any bill or supporting document received from a school district for purposes of Section 85239 if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The record, paper, or document is photographed, microphotographed, or reproduced on fi…

(a) In lieu of drawing a warrant as provided in Section 85239, the county auditor may, with the approval of the governing board of the community college district, endorse, date, and number the order and requisition, and may prepare a separate warrant on the county treasurer for t…

The governing board of any community college 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 superintenden…

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…

(a) The county superintendent of schools 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. (b) The county superintendent of scho…

(a) Orders for the payment of wages and payroll orders for the payment of wages of employees employed full time in positions that are not academic positions shall be drawn twice during each calendar month on days designated in advance by the governing board of each community coll…

In any county, the county superintendent of schools, the county board of education and the county auditor, may prescribe a payroll procedure, to be followed by designated community college districts in the county, under which the community college district governing boards, by us…

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

(a) In a county in which the board of supervisors has transferred educational functions to the county board of education pursuant to Section 1080, and a single budget has been authorized for the purposes of the county school service fund, county board of education, county committ…

With the approval of the county superintendent of schools, the governing board of a community college district may cause warrants to be drawn on the county treasury against designated funds, except debt service, of the district in the county treasury in the payment of expenses of…

(a) With the approval of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the governing board of a community college district may cause to be drawn all warrants on the county treasurer against all the funds, except debt service, of the district in the county treasury …

Article 3 (commencing with Section 29850) of Chapter 5 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the Government Code shall be applicable to any community college district authorized to issue warrants pursuant to Section 85266 or 85266.5; except that whenever any reference is made in that Artic…

Unless otherwise provided by county ordinance, any school warrant not presented to the county treasurer within six months after it was issued is void and any order issued by the governing board of a community college district, but not approved by the county superintendent of scho…

Any warrant drawn on the funds of a district retirement system and issued to the claimant thereof but not presented for payment to the county treasurer within two years after it was issued is void and the proceeds of such warrants shall revert to and become a part of the contribu…

The county superintendent of schools shall keep a record of all orders, or warrants which have become void. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

When any order against the funds of a community college district is presented to the county superintendent of schools, and the order constitutes a valid claim against the funds of the district, and moneys are not available in the funds of the district from which to pay the order,…

The county superintendent of schools shall number and date the registered order, and shall transmit the registered order to the governing board of the community college district that drew the order. The governing board shall deliver the registered order to the payee or to the ord…