Title 33 — EDUCATION

33-2101. Junior college districts, approvals, boundaries of junior college areas. Junior college districts may be formed and organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and junior colleges maintained therein shall be intermediate institutions of higher education …

33-2101A. Junior college shall mean community college. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in sections 21-805, 21-806, 21-809, 23-404, 33-101, 33-107, 33-107B, 33-601, 33-1252, 33-2101, 33-2102, 33-2103, 33-2104, 33-2105, 33-2106, 33-2107, 33-2107A, 33-2107B, 33-2107C, 33…

33-2102. Courses of study. A community college established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall give instruction in academic subjects, and in such nonacademic subjects as shall be authorized by its board of trustees. The academic courses given and the instruction ther…

33-2103. Minimum requirements for the formation of a junior college district. A junior college district shall include (a) the area, or any part thereof, of four (4) or more school districts and the area or any part thereof, of one (1) or more counties having an aggregate enrollme…

33-2104. Formation of community college districts. A community college district may be organized by the vote of the school district electors of the proposed district, voting at an election called and held as herein provided: a. A petition or petitions, signed by not less than one…

33-2104A. community college trustee zones. (1) Each existing community college district shall be divided into five (5) trustee zones. Each trustee position on the board shall be designated to a zone so that each trustee zone contains one (1) designated trustee position. (2) The b…

33-2105. Addition of territory to community college districts. Any territory not in an existing community college district may become a part of a community college district by a vote of the school district electors resident of said territory, voting at an election called and held…

33-2106. Trustees of community college districts. (1) The board of trustees of each community college district shall consist of five (5) electors who shall reside in a different trustee zone from each other and who shall be appointed or elected as provided in this section. (a) Im…

33-2107. General powers of the board of trustees. The board of trustees of each community college district shall have the power: (1) To adopt policies and regulations for its own government and the government of the college; (2) To employ legal counsel and other professional and …

33-2107A. Establishment and operation of third and fourth year college curriculum in community college districts. (1) The board of trustees of a community college district of an urban area, upon filing with the state board of education a notice of intent to exercise the powers he…

33-2107B. Powers granted by preceding section in addition to other powers. The provisions of this act shall be in addition to all powers and authorities heretofore vested by law or by regulation of the state board of education in the board of trustees of a community college distr…

33-2107C. Definition of urban area districts empowered to create upper divisions. The powers provided herein for instruction of the third and fourth year college curriculum shall be exercisable only by community college districts which at the date of the filing of notice of estab…

33-2108. Junior college districts public corporations — Sue and be sued — Corporate seal. Each junior college district shall be a public corporation, may sue and be sued in its corporate name, and shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed.

33-2109. President — Instructors and other employees — Requirements for admission and graduation — Certificates and diplomas — Textbooks and equipment. The board of trustees shall elect a president of the college and, upon his recommendation, appoint such officers, instructors, s…

33-2109A. Use of unused sick leave. Upon separation from employment with the community college district by retirement, in accordance with chapter 13, title 59, Idaho Code, or with chapter 1, title 33, Idaho Code, an employee shall be accorded credit for unused sick leave as provi…

33-2110. Tuition. (1) All students of a community college shall pay tuition that shall be fixed annually by the board of trustees no later than August 1 of each year. The tuition for full-time students taking normal academic courses provided by the college, who are residents of t…

33-2110A. Tuition of out-of-district Idaho students, county taxes and other financial support. (1) Any student residing in the area of a county outside of a community college district or in a county without a community college district, who has been a resident of the county and s…

33-2110B. Residency — Rules — Appeal — Standards for in-district, out-of-district and out-of-state students. (1) For purposes of this chapter, an "in-district student" is: (a) Any student whose parents or court-appointed guardians are domiciled in the community college district a…

33-2111. Taxes and other financial support for community colleges. For the maintenance and operation of each community college, in addition to the income from tuition paid by students as hereinbefore provided, the board of trustees may levy upon the taxable property within the di…

33-2112. Additional tax levy for gymnasium and grounds. The board of trustees of any community college district may levy a tax not exceeding one one-hundredth percent (.01%) on each dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property within the district for the maintenance and c…

33-2113. Capital funds. (1) The board of trustees of each junior college district may issue general obligation bonds in the manner and form, and for the same purposes, as prescribed for public school districts, the maximum amount of general obligation bonds outstanding, computed …

33-2114. Reports of junior college districts. The board of trustees of each junior college district shall cause to be made, annually, a full and complete audit of the financial transactions of the district. Such audit shall be made by and under the direction of the board of trust…

33-2115. Counties, cities, school districts and boards to cooperate. (1) The county commissioners of the county in which any community college is located, the mayor and council of the city in or adjacent to which a community college is located, and the board of trustees of the sc…

33-2116. Dormitory housing projects — Student union buildings — Finding and declaration of necessity. It is hereby declared: That in certain communities within the state wherein junior college districts have been created there are and will be insufficient housing and other facili…

33-2117. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Junior college housing commission" or "commission" shall mean any public corporatio…

33-2118. Creation of dormitory housing commissions. In each junior college district of the state there is hereby created an independent public body corporate and politic to be known as a dormitory housing commission which shall not be an agency of the junior college district; pro…

33-2119. Appointment, qualifications and tenure of commissioners. When the board of trustees of a junior college district adopts a resolution as set forth in the preceding section, the clerk of said board shall promptly transmit a certified copy of said resolution to the governor…

33-2120. Interested commissioners or employees. No commissioner or employee shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any dormitory project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest, direct or indirect, in any co…

33-2121. Removal of commissioners. For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner may be removed by the governor of Idaho upon receiving a resolution therefor by junior college trustees requesting such removal and setting out the grounds and reasons f…

33-2122. Powers and duties of dormitory housing commissions. A dormitory housing commission shall constitute an independent public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out an…

33-2123. Operation not for profit. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that each dormitory housing commission shall manage and operate or contract for the operation or management of its dormitory housing project in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix th…

33-2124. Planning, zoning and building laws. All dormitory housing projects of a commission shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and buildings laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the dormitory is situated. In the planning and locatio…

33-2125. Bonds. A dormitory housing commission shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. A commission shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. …

33-2126. Form and sale of bonds. When the commission shall find the proposed dormitory project or projects to be necessary for the proper operation of the junior college and economically feasible and such finding is recorded in the minutes of the commission, the commission shall …

33-2127. Provisions of bonds and trust indentures. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the commission, in addition to its other powers, shall have power: (a) To pled…

33-2128. Remedies of an obligee of commission. An obligee of a commission shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee; (a) By mandamus, suit, action or proceedi…

33-2129. Additional remedies conferrable by commission. The commission shall have power by its resolution, trust indenture, lease or other contract, to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the right (in addition to all r…

33-2130. Construction of powers conferred. Nothing in this act or any other law shall be construed as authorizing a dormitory housing commission to levy or collect taxes or assessments, to create any indebtedness payable out of taxes or assessments, or in any manner to pledge the…

33-2131. Exemption of property from execution sale. All real property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same, nor shall any judgment against a dormitory housing commissi…

33-2132. Aid from federal government. In addition to the powers conferred upon a dormitory housing commission by other provisions of this act, a dormitory housing commission is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, grants or other financial assistance from the federa…

33-2133. Tax exemption. The property of a dormitory housing commission is declared to be public property used for essential public and educational purposes, and such property and a dormitory housing commission shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the city, th…

33-2134. Reports. At least once a year, the dormitory housing commission shall file with the clerk a report of its activities for the preceding year together with an accounting of its operations, and shall make recommendations with reference to such additional legislation or othe…

33-2135. Termination — Reactivation. Upon the full payment of all its obligations, including bonds, notes, debentures or debts of any kind, the commissioners of a dormitory housing commission shall convey all properties held or owned by said authority to the junior college distri…

33-2136. Student centers and student union buildings. In addition to the powers conferred upon dormitory housing commissions by the other provisions of this chapter, a dormitory housing commission is empowered to acquire, construct, improve, add to, reconstruct, repair, maintain,…

33-2137. Imposition and collection of student fees and charges. In each junior college district in which there shall now or hereafter exist a student union building or student center, there is hereby imposed upon each student in attendance at the college of such district a studen…

33-2138. Housing commissions validated. All junior college housing commissions heretofore created or activated under the provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be validly organized and legally created public bodies and all acts and proceedings heretofore taken in conne…

33-2139. State community college account created. There is hereby created a state community college account in the state operating fund in the state treasurer’s office to which shall be credited all moneys that may be transferred pursuant to section 23-404(1)(b)(iii), Idaho Code.…

33-2141. Disbursement of funds — Method — Funds disbursed not considered in fixing tuition. Funds transferred to the state community college account shall be disbursed quarterly to the qualifying community college districts. Funds disbursed under this act shall not be considered …

33-2142. Direct payment to board — Utilization. Disbursement shall be by direct payment to the governing board of such Junior College District which board shall utilize and disburse such funds in the furtherance of the academic program which such board is authorized by law to adm…

33-2143. Disposition of funds when junior college ceases to operate. Should any Junior College cease to operate as a Junior College existing under and by reason of Chapter 21 of Title 33, Idaho Code, during the biennium for which this Act is effective, the Board of Education of t…