Arizona Revised Statutes Title 15 - Education

Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-101 Definitions
  In this title, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Accommodation school" means either: (a) A school that is operated through the county board...
• § 15-102 Parental Involvement In The School; Definition
  A. The governing board, in consultation with parents, teachers and administrators, shall develop and adopt a policy to promote the involvement of parents and...
• § 15-103 School Districts; Financial Mismanagement; Intervention; Definitions
  A. The state board of education shall review allegations of school district insolvency and gross mismanagement. The state board shall give the school district...
• § 15-104 Mental Health Screening; Consent; Form; Exemption
  A. Before it conducts a mental health screening on any pupil, defined as a survey, analysis or evaluation created by a governmental or private...
• § 15-105 Use Of Restraint And Seclusion Techniques; Requirements; Definitions
  A. A school may permit the use of restraint or seclusion techniques on any pupil if both of the following apply: 1. The pupil's...
• § 15-106 Identity Verified Fingerprints
  An applicant who applies for a new teaching certificate in order to teach in a school district, a participant in field experience or student...
• § 15-107 School District Overexpenditures; Fiscal Crisis Teams; Quarterly Progress Reports; Fiscal Management Report; Annual Report; Actions Resulting From Overexpenditures; Professional Development; Definition
  A. A county school superintendent, within two business days, shall provide written notice to the department of education, if, in the county school superintendent's...
• § 15-108 Medical Marijuana; School Campuses; Prohibition; Definition
  (Subsection A was added with a 1998 Prop. 105 clause pursuant to L12, Ch. 159) A. In addition to the limitations prescribed in section...
• § 15-109 Biometric Information; Prohibition; Definition
  A. A school in a school district or a charter school shall not collect biometric information from a pupil unless the pupil's parent or...
• § 15-110 Rights Of Students At Public Educational Institutions; Limitations; Definition
  A. A public educational institution shall not discriminate against students or parents on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. B. If...
• § 15-111 Declaration Of Policy
  The legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught...
• § 15-112 Prohibited Courses And Classes; Enforcement
  A. A school district or charter school in this state shall not include in its program of instruction any courses or classes that include...
• § 15-113 Rights Of Parents; Public Educational Institutions; Definitions
  A. A parent of a student in a public educational institution has the right to review learning materials and activities in advance. A parent...
• § 15-114 Display Of School, Charter School And School District Achievements, Classifications Or Rankings; Expiration; Definition
  A. A school, charter school or school district shall not display any achievement, classification or ranking that was assigned by a public or private...
• § 15-115 Preference For Childbirth And Adoption; Allowable Presentations
  A. In view of the state's strong interest in promoting childbirth and adoption over elective abortion, no school district or charter school in this...
• § 15-116 Public Schools; Fees; Waiver; Prohibition
  A. A school district governing board or charter school governing body that authorizes the assessment of fees pursuant to this title shall ensure that...

Article 2 Employee Annuity and Deferred Compensation Plans

• § 15-121 School Employees; Participation In Federal Retirement Plans And Deferred Compensation Plans; Prohibition Against Use Of Public Monies; Exceptions
  A. Employees of school districts, accommodation school employees, employees of the community college districts, employees of the universities and all other certificated and noncertificated...

Article 3 Teacher Exchange

• § 15-131 Exchange Teacher Agreements
  A. The governing board of any school district in this state or the Arizona board of regents may enter into agreements with any foreign...
• § 15-132 Certification Of Exchange Teachers And Professors
  The state board of education shall issue temporary certificates to exchange teachers and professors of foreign countries and other states whose training and background...
• § 15-133 Terms Of Employment
  No exchange teacher or professor may be employed in this state unless he has been issued proper certification and may not be employed for...
• § 15-134 Payment Of Salaries Of Exchange Teachers
  During the exchange teaching provided for in this article, the salaries of the exchange teachers or professors may be paid by either the school...
• § 15-135 Deductions For Retirement; Preservation Of Rights
  A. All regular deductions for retirement as required by law shall be made from the salary of the local teacher or professor participating in...

Article 4 Educational Records

• § 15-141 Educational Records; Injunction; Special Action
  A. The right to inspect and review educational records and the release of or access to these records, other information or instructional materials is...
• § 15-142 Access To Directory Information Relating To Pupils And To School Property; Violation
  A. If the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school permits the release of directory information relating...

Article 5 Safety Requirements

• § 15-151 Eye Protective Devices; Definition
  A. Every student, teacher and visitor in public and private schools, community colleges, colleges and universities shall wear appropriate eye protective ware while participating...
• § 15-152 Pest Management At Schools; Notice
  A. The governing board of each school district, in consultation with teachers, parents, guardians, administrators, members of the public, a certified applicator, and at...
• § 15-153 School Safety Program Oversight Committee; Membership; Duties; Report; Definition
  A. The school safety program oversight committee is established consisting of the following members: 1. Two members of the senate who are from different...
• § 15-153.01 School Safety Program Guidance Manual; Requirement
  Beginning in the 2012-2013 school year, the school safety program oversight committee, established pursuant to section 15-153, shall include in the school safety program...
• § 15-154 Public School Safety Program Proposal; Requirements; Purpose; Definitions
  A. A public school district or charter school may apply to participate in the school safety program as provided in this section for up...
• § 15-154.01 Character Education Matching Grant Program
  A. Any public or charter school that teaches a character education curriculum pursuant to section 15-719 is eligible for a state matching grant. The...
• § 15-155 School Safety Program; Funding
  A. The department of education shall cooperate with the county school superintendent, the county sheriff and the local chief of police to permit a...
• § 15-156 Liquid Roofing Systems; Violation; Classification; Definition
  A. A person shall not knowingly apply or allow to be applied a liquid roofing system that the person knows or with the exercise...
• § 15-157 Emergency Administration Of Epinephrine By Trained Personnel; Immunity
  Pursuant to a standing order issued by the chief medical officer of the department of health services, the chief medical officer of a county...

Article 6 State Prohibitions

• § 15-161 State Control Over Private Schools
  Nothing in this title shall be construed to provide the state board of education or the governing boards of school districts control or supervision...

Article 8 Charter Schools

• § 15-181 Charter Schools; Purpose; Scope
  A. Charter schools may be established pursuant to this article to provide a learning environment that will improve pupil achievement. Charter schools provide additional...
• § 15-182 State Board For Charter Schools; Membership; Terms; Compensation; Duties
  A. The state board for charter schools is established consisting of the following members: 1. The superintendent of public instruction or the superintendent's designee....
• § 15-183 Charter Schools; Application; Requirements; Immunity; Exemptions; Renewal Of Application; Reprisal; Fee; Funds; Annual Reports
  A. An applicant seeking to establish a charter school shall submit a written application to a proposed sponsor as prescribed in subsection C of...
• § 15-183.01 New Charter Application Processing Fund
  The new charter application processing fund is established consisting of fees collected by the state board for charter schools. The state board for charter...
• § 15-184 Charter Schools; Admissions Requirements
  A. A charter school shall enroll all eligible pupils who submit a timely application, unless the number of applications exceeds the capacity of a...
• § 15-185 Charter Schools; Financing; Civil Penalty; Transportation; Definitions
  A. Financial provisions for a charter school that is sponsored by a school district governing board are as follows: 1. The charter school shall...
• § 15-185.01 Charter School Pupils Attending Joint Technical Education Districts; Average Daily Membership Calculation
  Notwithstanding section 15-185, subsection C, if a pupil is enrolled in both a charter school and a joint technical education district and resides within...
• § 15-187 Charter Schools; Teachers; Employment Benefits
  A. A teacher who is employed by or teaching at a charter school and who was previously employed as a teacher at a school...
• § 15-187.01 Optional Inclusion Of Charter School Employees In State Health And Accident Coverage; Payment Of Premiums; Advance Notice; Minimum Period Of Participation; Definition
  A. If a governing body of a charter school determines that state health and accident insurance coverage is necessary or desirable and in the...
• § 15-188 Charter Schools Stimulus Fund
  A. The charter schools stimulus fund is established for the purpose of providing financial support to charter school applicants and charter schools for start-up...
• § 15-189 Charter Schools; Vacant Buildings; List; Used Equipment
  A. The school facilities board, in conjunction with the department of administration, shall annually publish a list of vacant and unused buildings and vacant...
• § 15-189.01 Charter Schools; Zoning; Development Fees
  A. Charter schools shall be classified the same as public schools that are operated by a school district for the purposes of zoning and...
• § 15-189.02 Charter Schools; Public Bidding Requirements
  A. A charter school's procurement is exempt from public bidding requirements if the aggregate dollar amount of the procurement does not exceed the maximum...
• § 15-189.03 Academic Credits; Transfer
  A. If a pupil who was previously enrolled in a charter school or school district enrolls in a charter school in this state, the...
• § 15-189.04 Policies And Procedures For The Emergency Administration Of Epinephrine
  The governing body of each charter school shall prescribe and enforce policies and procedures for the emergency administration of auto-injectable epinephrine by a trained...

Article 9 Family Literacy Program

• § 15-191 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Eligible parent" means a parent who meets the following requirements: (a) Has a three...

Chapter 2 STATE GOVERNANCE OF SCHOOLS
Article 1 State Board of Education

• § 15-201 State Board Of Education; Members; Appointment; Terms
  A. The state board of education shall be composed of the superintendent of public instruction, the president of a state university or a state...
• § 15-202 Meetings; Majority Required For Validation; Travel Expenses; Immunity
  A. The state board of education shall hold four regular meetings annually at times it directs. Special meetings may be held on the call...
• § 15-203 Powers And Duties
  A. The state board of education shall: 1. Exercise general supervision over and regulate the conduct of the public school system and adopt any...
• § 15-204 Acceptance Of Gifts And Grants; Gifts And Grants Fund; Use; Unexpended Monies
  A. The state board of education may accept gifts or grants of monies or real or personal property from public and private organizations, if...
• § 15-205 Education Of Indians In State Schools; Contracts With Department Of Interior
  A. The state board of education may enter into contracts with the department of the interior for the welfare and education of Indians in...
• § 15-206 Federal Grants For Educational Purposes; Administration
  A. The state board of education may accept on behalf of this state from any federal agency monies which have been appropriated by act...
• § 15-207 Apportionment And Expenditure Of Federal Grants For Educational Purposes
  A. The state board of education shall apportion the monies described in section 15-206 for the aid of the school districts of this state...
• § 15-208 Application By School District For Apportionment Of Federal Monies; Hearing
  A. A school district which, by reason of an emergency, finds it necessary to expend monies in excess of its annual budget for any...
• § 15-209 Disbursement Of Apportioned Federal Funds
  If monies are apportioned to a school district pursuant to section 15-207, the state board of education shall direct the department of administration division...
• § 15-210 Unlawful Expenditure Of Federal Monies
  If a school district expends or attempts to expend monies received pursuant to section 15-207 in a manner other than as directed by the...
• § 15-211 K-3 Reading Program; Receipt And Use Of Monies; Additional Funding; Program Termination
  A. The state board of education, in collaboration with the department of education, shall establish a K-3 reading program to improve the reading proficiency...
• § 15-212 Expenditure Of Private Funds; Exemption
  A. Prior to expenditure of any monies granted to the state board of education by a private organization, the superintendent of public instruction shall...
• § 15-213 Procurement Practices Of School Districts And Charter Schools; Definitions
  A. The state board of education shall adopt rules prescribing procurement practices for all school districts in this state as follows: 1. The state...
• § 15-213.01 Procurement Practices; Guaranteed Energy Cost Savings Contracts; Definitions
  A. Notwithstanding section 15-213, subsection A, a school district may contract for the procurement of a guaranteed energy cost savings contract with a qualified...
• § 15-213.02 Program For School Energy And Water Use Efficiency Programs; Definitions
  A. The program for school energy and water use efficiency is established within the department. The program is voluntary and is designed to facilitate...
• § 15-213.03 Procurement Practices; Guaranteed Energy Production Contracts; Definitions
  A. Notwithstanding section 15-213, subsection A, a school district may contract for the procurement of a guaranteed energy production contract with a qualified provider...
• § 15-214 Braille Literacy; Definition
  A. The state board of education shall adopt rules to promote braille literacy that: 1. Assure that each blind pupil receives an individualized braille...
• § 15-215 Petition Process For Regulatory Exemptions; Annual Report
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, if a school district or charter school has been assigned a letter grade of A pursuant to section 15-241...
• § 15-216 Arizona Critical Language And Economic Development Pilot Program; Rules; Program Termination; Definition
  A. If sufficient funding is provided for this purpose, the state board of education shall establish a six-year Arizona critical language and economic development...
• § 15-217 K-6 Technology-Based Language Development And Literacy Intervention Pilot Program; Educational Technology Provider; Review; Reports; Fund
  (Rpld. 1/1/18) A. The state board of education shall develop a two-year pilot program for K-6 technology-based language development and literacy intervention. The state...
• § 15-218 Suicide Awareness And Prevention Training; Child Abuse And Sexual Abuse Prevention And Training; Continuing Education
  A. The state board of education shall adopt rules to allow certificated teachers and administrators to count suicide awareness and prevention training programs as...
• § 15-219 Dyslexia And Reading Disability Screening, Intervention, Accommodation And Technology; Continuing Education
  The state board of education shall adopt rules to allow certificated teachers and administrators to count training regarding screening, intervention, accommodation, use of technology...

Article 2 Department of Education

• § 15-231 Department Of Education
  A. There is created a department of education. B. The department shall be administered through: 1. The state board of education which shall be...
• § 15-231.03 School Safety Survey Report
  On or before September 15, 2007, and every four years thereafter, the department of education shall conduct a random survey of school districts on...
• § 15-232 Division Of Adult Education; Duties
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. There is established a division of adult education within the department of education, under the jurisdiction of the...
• § 15-233 Night Schools For Teaching English
  The governing board of a school district in which there are fifteen or more persons over sixteen years of age who either do not...
• § 15-234 Appropriations For Adult Education; Eligibility; Supplemental Fees; Definition
  A. Any appropriation made to the state board of education or department of education for the purposes of adult education may be expended for...
• § 15-235 Division Of Special Education; Director; Duties; Qualifications; Advisory Committee; Members
  A. A division of special education is established to carry out this section, section 15-236 and chapter 7, article 4 of this title subject...
• § 15-236 Special Education Programs; Program And Fiscal Audits
  A. The department of education shall conduct program and fiscal audits of selected district special education programs. The audits shall be designed to determine...
• § 15-237 Publications; Production Revolving Fund
  A. The department of education may make available to the public at a reasonable cost publications produced by the department. Each separate production of...
• § 15-237.01 Department Of Education Professional Development Revolving Fund; Exemption
  A. The department of education may make available to educators at a reasonable cost professional development content through the department. Monies obtained from tuition...
• § 15-238 Statewide Student Estimate
  Before February 15 of each year the department of education shall submit to the economic estimates commission the total estimated statewide number of students...
• § 15-239 School Compliance And Recognition; Accreditation; Audits
  A. The department of education may: 1. Monitor school districts to ascertain that laws applying to the school districts are implemented as prescribed by...
• § 15-240 Issuance Of Subpoenas
  A. On the request of any person who is investigating, on behalf of the department of education, a complaint alleging that a certificated person...
• § 15-241 School And School District Accountability; Failing Schools Tutoring Fund; Classification Label For School Districts And Charter School Operators
  A. The department of education shall compile an annual achievement profile for each public school and school district. B. Each school and school district...
• § 15-241.01 School Accountability; Alternative Operation Plans
  A. If a school district has six or more schools and at least one-half of the schools in the district are assigned a letter...
• § 15-242 Nutrition Standards
  A. The department shall develop minimum nutrition standards that meet at least federal guidelines and regulations for foods and beverages sold or served on...
• § 15-243 Golden Rule Special Plate Fund
  A. The golden rule special plate fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to section 28-2424. The department of education shall administer the...
• § 15-244 Office Of Indian Education; Definition
  A. The office of Indian education is established in the department of education. The superintendent of public instruction shall hire appropriate personnel for the...
• § 15-244.01 Tribal College Dual Enrollment Program Fund
  The tribal college dual enrollment program fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 5-568, other monies appropriated by the legislature and...
• § 15-245 American Competitiveness Project Fund; Technical Assistance; Grants
  A. The American competitiveness project fund is established consisting of monies deposited in the fund by the department of education. The department of education...
• § 15-246 Arizona Government Education Fund
  A. THE Arizona government education fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations, gifts, grants and donations. The department of education shall administer the fund....
• § 15-247 Reporting; School District Overexpenditures
  The department of education shall submit a report on or before December 15 of each year that lists each school district that overexpends its...
• § 15-248 Arizona National Rankings; Annual Report
  A. The department of education shall collect, evaluate and assess existing studies and findings conducted by any public or private entity on the national...
• § 15-248.01 Task Force On K‑3 Accountability And Assessments
  (Rpld. 7/1/16) A. The task force on K-3 accountability and assessments is established in the department of education consisting of the superintendent of public...
• § 15-248.02 Teacher Certification Fund
  The teacher certification fund is established consisting of fees collected pursuant to chapter 5, article 3 of this title and legislative appropriations. The department...
• § 15-249 Department Of Education; Education Learning And Accountability System; Reports; Reviews
  A. Subject to appropriation of state monies, or receipt of federal monies, private donations or grants from any lawful public or private source for...
• § 15-249.01 Data Governance Commission; Membership; Terms; Duties; Commission Termination
  A. The data governance commission is established in the department of education consisting of: 1. The chief technology managers, or the managers' designees, of...
• § 15-249.02 Education Learning And Accountability Fund; Appropriation; Subaccounts
  A. The education learning and accountability fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations and fees collected from universities and community college districts in support...
• § 15-249.03 Best Practice Examples Of Reading Intervention And Remedial Reading Strategies; Posting
  The department of education shall prominently post on the website maintained by the department best practice examples of reading intervention and remedial reading strategies...
• § 15-249.04 Report; School District Overrides
  On or before November 30 of each year, the department of education shall electronically submit to the joint legislative budget committee and the governor's...
• § 15-249.05 Federal Monies; State And Local Monies; Separate Accounting
  Monies the department receives from the federal government or from federal programs may not be commingled with state and local monies and shall be...

Article 3 Superintendent of Public Instruction

• § 15-251 Powers And Duties
  The superintendent of public instruction shall: 1. Superintend the schools of this state. 2. Request the auditor general to investigate when necessary the accounts...
• § 15-252 Powers And Duties; Publications; Payment Of Claims For Printing
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall: 1. Print as needed in pamphlet form the laws relating to schools, including model forms of which...
• § 15-253 Legal Opinions Relating To School Matters
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall: 1. Furnish copies of the attorney general opinions, including opinions of the county attorneys which have been...
• § 15-255 Annual Report; Contents; Definition
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall make a report to the governor and the legislature on or before January 15 each year. The...
• § 15-256 Waivers; Federal Education Flexibility Partnership Act
  Consistent with the purposes, intent and eligibility requirements of the education flexibility partnership act (20 United States Code section 5891), the superintendent of public...
• § 15-257 Employee Evaluation System
  The superintendent of public instruction may establish a system to evaluate the performance of employees of the department of education.

Article 4 Uniform System of Financial Records

• § 15-271 Duties Of Auditor General For Uniform Financial Records System; Annual Report
  A. The auditor general shall determine the accounting systems, accounting methods and accounting procedures for utilization by school districts. B. The auditor general in...
• § 15-272 Duties Of Department Of Education For Uniform System Of Financial Records
  A. The department of education shall advise and consult with the auditor general in the preparation and implementation of a uniform system of financial...

Chapter 3 LOCAL GOVERNANCE OF SCHOOLS
Article 1 County School Superintendent

• § 15-301 Office Of County School Superintendent; Qualifications; Travel Expenses
  A. A person is eligible for election as county school superintendent if the person holds a basic or standard certificate to teach in the...
• § 15-302 Powers And Duties
  A. The county school superintendent shall: 1. Distribute all laws, reports, circulars, instructions and forms that he may receive for the use of school...
• § 15-303 Apportionment Of Funds
  The county school superintendent shall apportion the school monies to each school district of the county. He shall give written notification to the county...
• § 15-304 Warrants; Limitations; Definition
  A. The county school superintendent, on the voucher of the governing board of a school district, shall draw the county school superintendent's warrant on...
• § 15-306 Register Of Warrants
  The county school superintendent shall keep a register of warrants showing the funds upon which the warrants have been drawn, the number of warrants,...
• § 15-308 Providing Educational Services Of An Accommodation School
  A. The county school superintendent may provide educational services of an accommodation school to the school districts in the county using the facilities of...

Article 2 Organizational Powers of School District Governing Boards

• § 15-321 Organization; Election Of Officers Of The Board; Meetings; Execution Of Warrants; Exemption
  A. For the purpose of organization of the governing board, the board shall meet at the most convenient public facility in the school district....
• § 15-322 Organization Of The Governing Board Of A Consolidated School District
  A. A meeting of the governing board of the consolidated school district shall be called by the county school superintendent within ten days after...
• § 15-323 Governing Board Member; Voting Eligibility; Purchases From Board Member
  A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a governing board member is eligible to vote on any budgetary, personnel or other question which comes...
• § 15-326 Capacity To Sue And Be Sued And To Hold And Convey Property
  The governing board of a school district shall in the district name, as specified in section 15-441, subsection B: 1. Sue and be sued....
• § 15-327 Advisory Meetings Of School District Electors; Notice; Procedure; Effect
  A. The governing board may call meetings of the qualified school electors of the school district for consultation concerning any litigation in which the...
• § 15-328 Single Administrative Program
  A. Any common school district and any high school district having common governing board membership and coterminous district boundaries may by resolution of each...

Article 3 Powers and Duties of School District Governing Boards

• § 15-341 General Powers And Duties; Immunity; Delegation
  A. The governing board shall: 1. Prescribe and enforce policies and procedures for the governance of the schools, not inconsistent with law or rules...
• § 15-341.01 One Hundred Eighty Day School Year; Definition
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, school instruction shall be conducted in each public school in this state for school sessions that total at least...
• § 15-342 Discretionary Powers
  The governing board may: 1. Expel pupils for misconduct. 2. Exclude from grades one through eight children under six years of age. 3. Make...
• § 15-342.01 School Districts; Roof Inspection Protocol
  A school district shall develop a roof inspection protocol that shall be used prior to any repair or replacement of roof elements or roof...
• § 15-342.02 Dating Abuse Policies
  A school district governing board may prescribe and enforce policies and procedures to address incidents of dating abuse involving students at school that may...
• § 15-342.03 Other Powers And Duties
  A. The governing board shall collaborate with the private organization that is approved by the state board of education pursuant to section 15-792.02 to...
• § 15-343 Employment Of Professional Help
  A. The governing board may employ professional personnel deemed necessary for making surveys and recommendations relating to the curricula, physical plant and other requirements...
• § 15-344 Administration Of Prescription, Patent Or Proprietary Medications By Employees; Civil Immunity; Definition
  A. The school district governing board and the charter school governing body shall establish policies and procedures governing the administration of a prescription medication...
• § 15-344.01 Diabetes Management; Policies And Procedures; Civil Immunity
  A. The school district governing board and the charter school governing body may adopt policies and procedures for pupils who have been diagnosed with...
• § 15-345 Chemical Abuse Prevention Policies And Procedures
  The school district governing board may adopt chemical abuse prevention policies and procedures in consultation with pupils, school district personnel and members of the...
• § 15-346 Policies And Procedures Concerning Pupils With Chronic Health Problems; Definition
  A. The governing board shall adopt policies and procedures concerning pupils with chronic health problems in consultation with parents, teachers and at least one...
• § 15-347 Extracurricular Activities; Cultural Tradition
  A governing board shall consider the cultural traditions of pupils when establishing or enforcing rules related to a pupil's participation in extracurricular school activities....
• § 15-348 Interscholastic Athletics Noncontact Sports
  A governing board or an interscholastic athletic association may permit common school students to participate in practice sessions of noncontact sports with secondary school
• § 15-349 Operation Of Motor Vehicle Fleet; Options To Conventional Fuels
  A. The governing board of a school district with an average daily membership as defined in section 15-901 of more than three thousand that...
• § 15-350 Investigation Of Immoral Or Unprofessional Conduct; Confidentiality
  A. On request of the state board of education, any school or school district that has employed a certificated person during the time in...

Article 3.1 Decentralization Process

• § 15-351 School Councils; Duties; Membership
  A. The purpose of this section is to ensure that individuals who are affected by the outcome of a decision at the school site...
• § 15-352 Exemptions
  A. The governing board is not obligated to reconstitute previously formed school councils pursuant to this section if the existing school councils include representation...
• § 15-353 Responsibilities Of Principals
  The principal of every school offering instruction in preschool programs, kindergarten programs or any combination of grades one through twelve is responsible for: 1....
• § 15-354 Principals; Supplies And Materials Purchases
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district may authorize school principals to sign negotiable instruments on behalf of the...

Article 4 Establishment of Special Services

• § 15-361 Establishment Of Evening And Night Schools; Admission Of Students; Tuition
  The governing board of a school district may establish an evening or night school when in its judgment the school is necessary or convenient....
• § 15-362 Libraries; Powers And Duties; Authority To Contract With A County Free Library Or Other Public Library
  A. The governing board of a school district may establish and maintain libraries. Such libraries shall be under control of the board. The board...
• § 15-363 School Recreation Centers; Authority To Contract With Public Recreation Boards And Agencies
  A. The governing board may operate school buildings and grounds for the purpose of providing a public play and recreation center. The governing board...
• § 15-364 Agreements And Expenditure Of Public Monies For Recreational Facilities On School Properties; Use Of Proceeds Of Bond Issues
  A. The governing board of a school district may enter into agreements with counties, cities, towns or other school district governing boards, providing for...
• § 15-365 Service Programs Operated Through The Office Of A County School Superintendent; Reports; Definitions
  A. The county school superintendent may establish service programs that shall be available to any county free library district, municipal library or local school...

Article 5 Provisions for Insurance Coverage

• § 15-381 Liabilities Of The Governing Board; Payment Of Liabilities; Immunity
  A. The governing board is liable as such, in the name of the school district, for a judgment against the district for salary due...
• § 15-382 Authorization To Self‑insure; Pooling Agreements; Joint Agreements; Trustees; Liability Coverage And Pool Requirements; Definition
  A. The school district governing board may determine that self-insurance is necessary or desirable in the best interest of the district and may provide...
• § 15-383 Insurance On School Bus Operator; Authority Of The Governing Board To Purchase
  A. The governing board may purchase public liability and property damage insurance covering school bus drivers while driving school buses. B. The governing board...
• § 15-384 Authorization For Insurance Coverage For Students
  A. The governing board of any school district, or the county school superintendent concerning accommodation schools, may provide or make available health benefits plan...
• § 15-385 Premiums Of A Bond Or Insurance For Accommodation Schools Or Federally Owned Buildings On Indian Reservation
  A. When by the provisions of an agreement entered into between the state, an officer or agency thereof or a school district of this...
• § 15-386 Insurance Refund Fund
  A. Monies retained for insurance premium payments which are refunded to a school district at the end of a fiscal year by an insurer...
• § 15-387 Procurement Of Insurance; Eligibility Of Governing Board Members, Former Board Members And Surviving Spouse And Dependents; Deposit Of Monies
  A. Notwithstanding section 15-323, the governing board may procure insurance from any insurer authorized by the director of the department of insurance or may...
• § 15-388 Optional Inclusion Of School District Employees In State Health And Accident Coverage; Payment Of Premiums; Advance Notice; Minimum Period Of Participation; Definition
  A. If a governing board of a school district determines that state health and accident insurance coverage is necessary or desirable and in the...

Article 6 Joint Technological Education Districts

• § 15-391 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Joint board" means a joint technical education district governing board. 2. " Joint district"...
• § 15-392 Formation Of District
  A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, districts interested in forming a joint technical education district shall conduct a study to determine the need...
• § 15-393 Joint Technical Education District Governing Board; Report; Definitions
  A. The management and control of the joint district are vested in the joint technical education district governing board, including the content and quality...
• § 15-394 Preservation Of Years Of Employment
  The years of employment of a certificated teacher who has been employed by a school district for more than the major portion of three...
• § 15-395 Enlarging Joint District
  A. To add school districts to a joint district, the joint board shall first publish a copy of a proposed resolution accepting the school...
• § 15-395.01 Reducing The Size Of A Joint District
  A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, to withdraw a school district from a joint district, the governing boards of a...
• § 15-396 Dissolution Of District
  A. On approval of a majority of the full membership of the joint board or on the receipt by the joint board of resolutions...

Chapter 4 SCHOOL ELECTIONS
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-401 Qualifications Of School Electors; School District Registers; Challenge; Tally Lists
  A. A person who is a qualified elector of this state under section 16-121 in the boundaries of the school district twenty-nine days immediately...
• § 15-402 Voting By Early Ballot
  A qualified elector of a school district, who meets the requirements may vote by early ballot.
• § 15-403 Elections; Notice; Bond Election Procedure; Qualifications Of Voters; Closing Of Registrations; Election Precincts; Polling Places
  A. The county school superintendent shall cause notices of a special election except a bond election to be posted at least ninety days previous...
• § 15-404 Election Officers; Compensation
  A. In school district elections held at a time and place other than general elections, at least twenty days before the school district election...
• § 15-405 Opening And Closing Of Polls
  At all school elections the polls shall be open during the same hours as are applicable to general elections. The inspector and two judges...
• § 15-406 Cost Of Elections
  A. The cost of all special elections provided in this title, including the preparation of ballots, shall be charged against the funds of the...
• § 15-407 School District Ballot Option
  The governing body of a school district may choose to use either electromechanical or electronic vote recording and ballot counting equipment, or paper ballots...

Article 2 School District Governing Board Elections

• § 15-421 Governing Board; Members; Qualifications; Statement; Definitions
  A. The governing body of a school district shall be a governing board. There shall be three governing board members, except as otherwise provided...
• § 15-422 Nominating Petitions; Ballots
  A. Nominating petitions shall be filed with the county school superintendent as prescribed by title 16, chapter 3. Nominating petitions shall be signed by...
• § 15-423 School District Precinct Registers; Date Of Preparation; Contents; Copies
  A. By the fifth day preceding the elections for membership on school district governing boards the county recorder shall prepare from the original affidavits...
• § 15-424 Election Of Governing Board Members; Terms; Statement Of Contributions And Expenditures
  A. A regular election shall be held for each school district at the time and place, and in the manner, of general elections as...
• § 15-425 Election To Determine Whether Membership Of Governing Board Shall Increase To Five Members; Form Of Ballot; Reconsideration Procedure If Negative Vote; Appointment Or Election Of New Members
  A. A qualified elector of a school district may submit to the county school superintendent a petition, signed by not less than ten per...
• § 15-426 Tally And Canvass Of Votes; Certificate Of Election; Oath Of Office
  A. The officers of a special election shall, as soon as the polls are closed, tally the votes cast, enclose one list of the...
• § 15-427 Governing Board Of A Union High School District; Qualifications; Terms
  A. The members of the governing board of a union high school district shall be qualified school electors of the district. Members shall be...
• § 15-428 Election Of Governing Board Members Of A Union High School District
  A. Members of the governing board of a union high school district shall be elected at the time and place and in the manner...
• § 15-429 Election Of Governing Board Members Of A Joint Common School District
  A. A joint common school district shall be governed by a board of five members, one of whom shall reside in and be elected...
• § 15-430 Governing Board Members Of Newly Consolidated District; Election Of Members
  A. If school districts are consolidated as provided in section 15-459, the terms of the governing board members of the previously existing school districts...
• § 15-431 Alternative Election Procedure Of Governing Board Members
  A. If, for the prior school year, a school district had an average daily membership of at least one thousand and the total minority...

Article 3 School District Boundary Provisions and Elections

• § 15-441 School Districts; Designation
  A. The bases of the educational organization of the county and state are the school districts as defined in section 15-101. Existing districts shall...
• § 15-442 Record Of School District Boundaries; Limitation On Change; Notice To Governing Board
  A. The county school superintendent, on or before December 1 each year, shall file with the board of supervisors and the county assessor a...
• § 15-443 Formation Of New Common School District
  A. New common school districts may be formed in unorganized territory on presentation to the county school superintendent of a petition which: 1. Is...
• § 15-444 Formation Of Union High School District; Petition For Establishment; Election; Notice
  A. Two or more adjoining school districts jointly having a student count of not less than two hundred pupils and an assessed valuation of...
• § 15-444.01 Common School Districts Within A High School District; Proposed Expansion Or Reduction; Notification
  The governing board of a common school district that is located within a high school district shall notify and obtain permission from the governing...
• § 15-445 Residents Of Unorganized Territory; School District Elections
  A. The county school superintendent, on receiving notification from the state school superintendent pursuant to section 15-825.02, subsection B, shall do all of the...
• § 15-447 Offer Of Instruction In High School Subjects By Common School Districts; Limitations
  The state board of education may grant permission to the governing board of a common school district to offer instruction in high school subjects,...
• § 15-447.01 Common School Districts; Offer Of Instruction In Grade Nine
  A. Before a common school district offers instruction in grade nine pursuant to section 15-901, subsection A, paragraph 4, subdivision (b), the common school...
• § 15-448 Formation Of Unified School District; Board Membership; Budget
  A. One or more common school districts and a high school district with coterminous or overlapping boundaries may establish a unified school district pursuant...
• § 15-449 Formation Of Unified School District By Common School District; Petition For Establishment; Election; Notice
  A. A common school district having a student count of not less than two hundred pupils and an assessed valuation of not less than...
• § 15-450 Formation Of A New Joint Unified School District; Petition; Report; Election; Notice; Ballots; Canvass Of Votes; Appointment Of Governing Board
  A. Notwithstanding any other statute, a new joint unified school district may be formed if the formation is approved by the state board of...
• § 15-451 Appointment Of Governing Board For Joint Unified School Districts
  A. If the election results in the formation of the joint unified school district, the governing board shall contain the same governing board members...
• § 15-453 Authority To Form Joint Common School Districts; Applicability Of Laws Governing Other School Districts
  A. Joint common school districts may be created lying in part in each of two or more counties in the manner set forth in...
• § 15-454 Authority To Form Joint Unified Or Joint High School Districts; Applicability Of Other Laws Governing Other School Districts
  Joint unified school districts or joint high school districts may be created lying in part in each of two or more counties in the...
• § 15-455 Formation Of Joint Common School District; Petition; Election; Notice; Canvass
  A. A petition for the creation of a joint common school district shall include the following: 1. A description of the territory comprising the...
• § 15-456 Jurisdiction Of County Board Of Supervisors And County School Superintendent Over Joint Common School District
  A. The county of jurisdiction of the proposed joint common school district is that county in which the greater portion of the qualified electors...
• § 15-457 Formation Of New Joint Common School District By Subdivision Of Existing School District; Effect On Bonded Indebtedness; Transfer Of Property
  A. Any territory incorporated into a joint common school district which is at the time of the creation of such joint common school district...
• § 15-458 Formation Of New District Or Districts By Subdivision Of Existing District; Division Of Assets
  A. In a school district containing a student count of more than six hundred, a new school district or districts may be formed by...
• § 15-459 Consolidation Of Districts; Petition; Election; Notice; Report; Ballots; Canvass Of Votes; Governing Board
  A. On the request of the governing boards of two or more school districts in the same county or in adjacent counties or on...
• § 15-460 Change Of School District Boundaries
  A. On request of the governing board of a school district or on receipt of a petition bearing the signatures of ten per cent...
• § 15-461 Transporting School Districts; Joining Existing School Districts; Dissolution
  A. If a school district does not offer a full-time instructional program in any grade level to the pupils who reside in that school...
• § 15-461.01 Transporting School District; Conversion; Petition; Election; Notice; Canvass
  (Rpld. 12/31/16) A. A qualified elector of a school district may submit to the county school superintendent a petition signed by not less than...
• § 15-463 Annexation Of Military Reservation To High School District Or Union High School District; Procedure; Notice; Hearing
  A. A high school district, or union high school district, any portion of which is contiguous to a military reservation, may at any time,...
• § 15-464 Withdrawal Of Military Reservation From School District; Petition; Hearing
  When a common school district or a high school district adjacent to or embracing all or a portion of a military reservation has a...
• § 15-465 Accommodation School; Establishment On Military Reservation; Expenses; Abandonment
  A. Upon the withdrawal of a military reservation from any common school district or high school district, as provided in section 15-464, and upon...
• § 15-465.01 Accommodation School; Military Reservation; Governing Board
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of an accommodation school located on a military reservation shall be composed of: 1. Two members...
• § 15-466 Transfer Of Accommodation Schools
  A. Facilities, if possible, and pupils of an existing accommodation school operated pursuant to this section and sections 15-464 and 15-465 may be included...
• § 15-467 Change Of Union High School District To High School District
  A. When all the common school districts comprising a union high school district unite, either by annexation or by consolidation, into one common school...
• § 15-469 Lapsing Of Common School District; Conditions; Procedure; Disposition Of Property Of Lapsed Common School District
  A . If in a common school district there has been a student count of less than eight pupils between the ages of six...

Article 4 School District Budget Override Elections

• § 15-481 Override Election; Budget Increases; Notice; Ballot; Effect
  A. If a proposed budget of a school district exceeds the aggregate budget limit for the budget year, at least ninety days before the...
• § 15-482 Special Five Per Cent Override For Programs Of Pupils In Kindergarten Programs And Grades One Through Twelve
  A. An additional budget increase may be requested and authorized as provided in section 15-481, subsections I and J of up to five per...

Article 5 Bond Elections

• § 15-491 Elections On School Property; Exceptions
  A. The governing board of a school district may, and on petition of fifteen per cent of the school electors as shown by the...
• § 15-492 Bond Election; Pamphlet
  Notice and procedures for an election upon the question of bond issues shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in title 35, chapter 3,...
• § 15-493 Canvass Of Votes; Certification Of Result
  The official returns shall be delivered to the county board of supervisors or the appropriate county elections officer. Within thirty days after the election,...

Chapter 5 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-501 Definitions
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Administrator" means any school district administrator except a school principal devoting not less than...
• § 15-502 Employment Of School District Personnel; Payment Of Wages Of Discharged Employee
  A. The governing board at any time may employ and fix the salaries and benefits of employees necessary for the succeeding year. The contracts...
• § 15-503 Superintendents, Principals, Head Teachers And School Psychologists; Term Of Employment; Evaluation; Contract Delivery; Nonretention Notice
  A. The governing board may: 1. Employ a superintendent or principal, or both. If the governing board employs a superintendent, the governing board shall...
• § 15-504 Contract Days For Professional Association Activities; Prohibition
  School district employment contracts shall not include compensated days for professional association activities. For the purposes of this section, professional association activities do not...
• § 15-505 Examination Of Persons Displaying Symptoms Of Pulmonary Disease
  A school district employee shall not be required to submit to annual or other regular periodic examinations for tuberculosis, except that in instances where...
• § 15-506 Flag, Constitution And The Bill Of Rights Display; Recitation Of The Pledge Of Allegiance; Exemption
  A. School districts and charter schools shall: 1. Acquire United States flags that are manufactured in the United States and that are at least...
• § 15-507 Abuse Of Teacher Or School Employee In School; Classification
  A person who knowingly abuses a teacher or other school employee on school grounds or while the teacher or employee is engaged in the...
• § 15-508 Dismissal For Failure To Comply With Certain Laws
  Wilful neglect or failure on the part of a school superintendent, principal, teacher or other officer of a school to observe and carry out...
• § 15-510 Authorization Of Leaves Of Absence; Application; Preservation Of Rights
  A. The governing board may authorize leaves of absence for school district personnel when it deems such leaves of absence to be reasonable and...
• § 15-511 Use Of School District Or Charter School Resources Or Employees To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalty; Definitions
  A. A person acting on behalf of a school district or a person who aids another person acting on behalf of a school district...
• § 15-512 Noncertificated Personnel; Fingerprinting Personnel; Background Investigations; Affidavit; Civil Immunity; Violation; Classification; Definition
  A. Noncertificated personnel and personnel who are not paid employees of the school district and who are not either the parent or the guardian...
• § 15-513 Transportation Employees; Chemical Abuse Education; Drug Tests; Costs; Termination From Employment; Appeal; Definition
  A. Beginning on January 1, 1991, a transportation employee shall submit to drug and alcohol testing if the supervisor of the employee, or the...
• § 15-514 Reports Of Immoral Or Unprofessional Conduct; Immunity
  A. Any certificated person or governing board member who reasonably suspects or receives a reasonable allegation that a person certificated by the state board...
• § 15-515 Duty To Report Violations Occurring On School Premises
  All school personnel who observe a violation of section 13-3102, subsection A, paragraph 12 or section 13-3111 on school premises shall immediately report the...
• § 15-516 Teacher Immunity
  A full-time teacher who is employed by a school district or a charter school is immune from personal liability for all acts done and...

Article 2 Duties of Teachers

• § 15-521 Duties Of Teachers
  Every teacher shall: 1. Make student learning the primary focus of the teacher's professional time. 2. Hold pupils to strict account for disorderly conduct....

Article 3 Certification and Employment of Teachers

• § 15-531 Fees
  A. The state board of education may fix and collect fees for: 1. Issuance and evaluation, singly or both, including provisional, basic or standard...
• § 15-531.01 Certification Expiration; Military Service; One Year Extension
  A. A certificate issued pursuant to this article to any member of the Arizona national guard or the United States armed forces reserves shall...
• § 15-532 Examination On State And United States Constitutions; Exemption; Intergovernmental Agreement Or Contract For Administration And Evaluation
  A. A person applying for a certificate authorizing the person to become superintendent, principal or teacher in a school, in addition to fingerprinting and...
• § 15-533 Reciprocity; Proficiency Examination
  A. To qualify for either a basic or standard teaching certificate, or equivalent certificate later adopted by the state board of education, a person...
• § 15-534 Fingerprinting; Review And Disciplinary Action; Violation; Classification
  A. A person who applies for a certificate as prescribed in section 15-203 shall have a valid fingerprint clearance card that is issued pursuant...
• § 15-534.01 Withdrawal Of Applications For Administrative Deficiencies; Denial Of Applications For Substantive Deficiencies; Certification Time Frames
  A. If an application for certification is administratively incomplete, as prescribed in title 41, chapter 6, article 7.1, the department of education or the...
• § 15-534.02 Restrictions On Applications For Certification After The Surrender, Revocation Or Denial Of Certificate
  A. A person shall not submit an application for certification with the state board of education for a period of five years if any...
• § 15-534.03 Service Of Documents; Change Of Address Notice Requirement
  A. Every notice or decision issued by the state board of education pertaining to the denial of an application for initial certification or renewal...
• § 15-535 Sectarian Instruction Prohibited
  A teacher who uses sectarian or denominational books or teaches any sectarian doctrine or conducts any religious exercises in school is guilty of unprofessional...
• § 15-536 Offer Of Contract To Probationary Teacher; Acceptance; Notice To Teacher Of Intention Not To Reemploy; Definition
  A. The governing board shall offer a teaching contract for the next ensuing school year to each probationary teacher, unless the governing board, a...
• § 15-537 Performance Of Certificated Teachers; Evaluation System; Confidentiality
  A. The governing board of a school district shall establish a system for the evaluation of the performance of certificated teachers in the school...
• § 15-537.01 Posting Of Best Practices For Teacher And Principal Evaluation Systems
  A. On or before September 15, 2012, the department of education shall identify and prominently post on the website maintained by the department the...
• § 15-538 Preliminary Notice Of Inadequacy Of Classroom Performance; Performance Improvement Plan; Adoption Of Definition
  A. The governing board of any school district shall give any certificated teacher notice of intention to dismiss or not to reemploy if such...
• § 15-538.01 Offer Of Contract To Continuing Teacher; Definition
  A. The governing board shall offer to each continuing teacher a contract renewal for the next ensuing school year unless the governing board, a...
• § 15-539 Dismissal Of Certificated Teacher; Due Process; Written Charges; Notice; Hearing On Request
  A. On a written statement of charges presented by the superintendent, charging that there exists cause for the suspension without pay for a period...
• § 15-540 Suspension Prior To Dismissal Of A Certificated Teacher; Written Charges; Salary
  A. Upon a written statement of charges adopted by the governing board charging a certificated teacher of the school district with cause for suspension...
• § 15-541 Hearing On Dismissal
  A. The governing board shall decide whether to hold a hearing on the dismissal or suspension without pay for a period of time longer...
• § 15-542 Hearing Costs; Counsel; Limitations On Evidence; Reinstatement
  A. The governing board shall pay all expenses of the hearing. The certificated teacher and the governing board shall pay their own attorney and...
• § 15-543 Appeal From Decision Of Board
  A. The decision of the governing board is final unless the certificated teacher files, within thirty days after the date of the decision, an...
• § 15-544 Limitations On Reduction Of Salaries Or Personnel
  A. A governing board may reduce salaries or eliminate certificated teachers in a school district in order to effectuate economies in the operation of...
• § 15-545 Resignation Restrictions; Unprofessional Act; Penalty
  A certificated teacher shall not resign after signing and returning his contract, unless the resignation is first approved by the governing board. A teacher...
• § 15-546 Rights In Employment Not Vested
  The provisions of this article may be modified, amended or repealed at any time and no person shall be deemed to have acquired any...
• § 15-547 Preservation Of Years Of Employment
  The years of employment of a certificated teacher who has been employed by a school district for more than the major portion of three...
• § 15-549 Compulsory Leaves Of Absence For Criminal Charges; Continued Salary
  A. If any certificated teacher is charged by criminal complaint, information or indictment with any criminal offense which would be deemed cause for dismissal,...
• § 15-550 Unprofessional Conduct; Penalty
  A. A teacher who has been convicted of a dangerous crime against children as defined in section 13-705 or has been convicted of a...
• § 15-551 Confidentiality Of Pupil's Name; Disciplinary Hearing; Civil Penalty
  A. The governing board and the state board of education shall keep confidential the name of a pupil involved in a hearing before either...
• § 15-552 Alternative Teacher Development Program; Report; Program Termination
  A. The state board of education shall establish an alternative teacher development program for the purpose of accelerating the process of identifying, training and...

Chapter 7 INSTRUCTION
Article 1 Curriculum

• § 15-701 Common School; Promotions; Requirements; Certificate; Supervision Of Eighth Grades By Superintendent Of High School District; High School Admissions; Academic Credit; Definition
  A. The state board of education shall: 1. Prescribe a minimum course of study, as defined in section 15-101 and incorporating the academic standards...
• § 15-701.01 High School; Graduation; Requirements; Community College Or University Courses; Transfer From Private Schools; Academic Credit
  A. The state board of education shall: 1. Prescribe a minimum course of study, as defined in section 15-101 and incorporating the academic standards...
• § 15-702 High School Equivalency Diploma; Fees; Rules
  A. Any person who is sixteen years of age or older and who passes an equivalency test adopted by the state board of education...
• § 15-703 Kindergarten Programs And Special Departments; Special Teachers
  A. The governing board may: 1. Establish departments of industrial arts and consumer education and homemaking. 2. Employ special teachers in special subjects. B....
• § 15-704 Reading Proficiency; Definitions
  A. Each school district or charter school that provides instruction in kindergarten programs and grades one through three shall select and administer screening, ongoing...
• § 15-705 Extracurricular Activities; Requirements
  A. Each governing board after consultation with parents and teachers shall adopt policies and procedures governing requirements for pupils' participation in extracurricular activities for...
• § 15-706 Instruction In Environmental Education; Definition
  A. The department of education shall establish and maintain an environmental education information resource system to assist school districts that choose to develop and...
• § 15-707 High Schools; Education About Organ Donation
  Each high school in this state that provides a driver education program may educate the students who are enrolled in the program about the...
• § 15-708 Remedial Education Programs; Powers Of The Governing Board; Definition
  A. Beginning July 1, 1980 school districts with an estimated student count of five thousand or less for the 1980-1981 school year may provide...
• § 15-709 Review Of Students In Remedial Education Programs
  A. The educational development of a child in a remedial education program as provided in this section and section 15-708 shall be reviewed each...
• § 15-710 Instruction In State And Federal Constitutions, American Institutions And History Of Arizona
  All schools shall give instruction in the essentials, sources and history of the Constitutions of the United States and Arizona and instruction in American...
• § 15-711 Sex Education Curricula; Sexual Conduct With A Minor
  All school districts with existing sex education curricula shall include instruction on the laws relating to sexual conduct with a minor for pupils in...
• § 15-711.01 Instruction On Stranger Danger
  All school districts and charter schools may incorporate instruction into the existing curricula in the common school grades on the dangers of unsupervised interaction...
• § 15-712 Instruction On Alcohol, Tobacco, Narcotic Drugs, Marijuana, Date Rape Drugs And Other Dangerous Drugs; Chemical Abuse Prevention Programs; Definitions
  A. Instruction on the nature and harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, narcotic drugs, marijuana, date rape drugs and other dangerous drugs on the human...
• § 15-712.01 Instruction On Dating Abuse; Definitions
  A. A school district that provides instruction in grades seven through twelve may incorporate dating abuse information that is age appropriate into the school...
• § 15-713 Training In Use Of Bows Or Firearms; Instruction Materials; Certification Of Instructors; Cooperating Agencies
  A. The Arizona game and fish department may provide training in the safe handling and use of bows or firearms and safe hunting practices,...
• § 15-714 Eligibility For Training In Use Of Bows Or Firearms
  A. Training courses may be offered on a voluntary basis pursuant to section 17-245. B. The courses held for students in the common schools...
• § 15-714.01 Arizona Gun Safety Program Course
  A. In addition to the voluntary training in the use of bows and firearms prescribed in sections 15-713 and 15-714, any school district or...
• § 15-715 Special Academic Assistance To Pupils In Kindergarten Programs And Grades One Through Three
  A. Each common and unified school district shall develop a plan to supplement the regular education program by providing special academic assistance to pupils...
• § 15-716 Instruction On Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Department Assistance
  A. Each common, high and unified school district may provide instruction to kindergarten programs through the twelfth grade on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and...
• § 15-717 American History And Heritage
  A teacher or administrator in any school in this state may read or post in any school building copies or excerpts of the following...
• § 15-717.01 Bible Influence; Elective Course; Requirements; Immunity
  A. The state board of education shall include in history or English arts standards, or both, concepts that include: 1. The history and literature...
• § 15-718 Instruction On Skin Cancer Prevention
  All public schools shall incorporate instruction into the existing curricula in the common school grades on skin cancer prevention if the United States environmental...
• § 15-718.01 Instruction On Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Exemptions; Definition
  (Eff. 7/1/15) A. School districts and charter schools may provide public school pupils with one or more training sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, through the...
• § 15-719 Character Education Program Instruction; Fund
  A. Each common, high and unified school district and charter school may provide instruction to kindergarten programs through the twelfth grade on character development....
• § 15-720 Noncurriculum Related Clubs For Grades Seven And Eight; Definitions
  A. It is unlawful for any public school that offers instruction in grades seven and eight to deny equal access to pupils, to deny...
• § 15-720.01 Mathematics Or Science Achievement Grant Program; Criteria; Report; Fund; Program Termination
  A. The mathematics or science achievement grant program is established in the state board of education and shall be administered by the state board...
• § 15-720.02 Instruction On Personal Finance In High Schools
  A. A school district governing board or charter school may prescribe a separate personal finance course for the graduation of pupils from high school...

Article 2 Courses of Study and Textbooks

• § 15-721 Common Schools; Course Of Study; Textbooks; Definition
  A. The governing board shall approve for common schools the course of study, the basic textbook for each course and all units recommended for...
• § 15-722 High Schools; Course Of Study; Textbooks; Definition
  A. The governing board shall approve for high schools the course of study, the basic textbook for each course and all units that are...
• § 15-723 Furnishing Of Free Textbooks; Subject Matter Materials And Supplementary Books
  A. Free textbooks, subject matter materials and supplementary books shall be furnished in common schools and all state welfare institutions maintaining educational facilities, subject...
• § 15-724 Purchase Of High School Textbooks, Subject Matter Materials And Supplementary Books; Budget; Rental
  A. The governing board may include in its proposed school district budget finances required for the purchase of textbooks, subject matter materials and supplementary...
• § 15-726 Purchase Of Textbooks And Instructional Computer Software By Schools Having Four Or Fewer Teachers; Welfare Institutions
  A. In all schools having four or fewer teachers, the county school superintendent may have advisory authority to assist the governing board in the...
• § 15-727 Care And Issue Of Textbooks, Subject Matter Materials, Supplementary Books And Instructional Computer Software
  All textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books and instructional computer software in the possession of the school districts and those textbooks, subject matter materials,...
• § 15-728 Purchase Of Books By Pupils Or Parent
  A pupil or parent may purchase from the governing board such books as necessary for high school pupils at the price the governing board...
• § 15-729 Use Of Monies Received For Lost Or Damaged Textbooks, Subject Matter Materials, Supplementary Books Or Instructional Computer Software
  A school district may hold and use all monies obtained for lost or damaged school textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books or instructional computer...
• § 15-730 Access To Instructional Material By Parents And Guardians
  On written request, school personnel designated by the governing board shall permit parents or guardians access to instructional materials currently used by or being...

Article 2.1 Accessibility to Textbooks and Instructional Material

• § 15-731 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Accessible electronic file" means, until a national file format is adopted by the United...
• § 15-732 Powers And Duties; State Board Of Education; Governing Boards
  A. The state board of education shall adopt rules on or before August 1, 2005 that require all school districts and other public schools...

Article 3 Assessment and Accountability

• § 15-741 Assessment Of Pupils
  A. The state board of education shall: 1. Adopt rules for purposes of this article pursuant to title 41, chapter 6. 2. Adopt and...
• § 15-741.01 Goals For Excellence
  A. Based on the data reported on the report cards as prescribed in this article, the state board shall adopt specific state level objectives...
• § 15-742 Contract For Purchase Of Tests
  A. The state board of education shall enter into contracts with contractors for the purchase of the tests adopted by the state board. Notwithstanding...
• § 15-743 Test Results; Annual Report
  A. The state board of education shall provide annual reports for every school and district and the state as a whole. The state board...
• § 15-745 Homeschooled Children; Testing; Prohibition
  A. This article shall not be construed to require the testing of children who are instructed in a homeschool program while they are receiving...
• § 15-746 School Report Cards
  A. Each school shall distribute an annual report card that contains at least the following information: 1. A description of the school's regular, magnet...

Article 3.1 English Language Education for Children in Public Schools

• § 15-751 Definitions
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 Applies) In this article, 1. " Bilingual education/native language instruction" means a language acquisition process for students in which much...
• § 15-752 English Language Education
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 Applies) Subject to the exceptions provided in section 15-753, all children in Arizona public schools shall be taught English by...
• § 15-753 Parental Waivers
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 Applies) A. The requirements of section 15-752 may be waived with the prior written informed consent, to be provided annually,...
• § 15-754 Legal Standing And Parental Enforcement
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 Applies) As detailed in sections 15-752 and 15-753, all Arizona school children have the right to be provided at their...
• § 15-755 Standardized Testing For Monitoring Education Progress
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) In order to ensure that the educational progress of all Arizona students in academic subjects and in learning English...
• § 15-756 Identification Of English Language Learners
  A. The primary or home language for all new pupils who enroll in a school district or charter school shall be identified in a...
• § 15-756.01 State Board Of Education; Research Based Models Of Structured English Immersion For English Language Learners; Budget Requests; Definitions
  A. The state board of education shall either use research based models of structured English immersion programs that were previously developed and adopted by...
• § 15-756.02 School Districts And Charter Schools; English Language Learner Models; Adoption And Implementation
  A. Each school district governing board and each governing body of a charter school shall select one or more of the state board of...
• § 15-756.03 Structured English Immersion; Budget Request
  A. If a school district or charter school qualifies to submit a budget request based on the form prescribed in section 15-756.01, subsection G,...
• § 15-756.04 Arizona Structured English Immersion Fund
  A. The Arizona structured English immersion fund is established. The department of education shall administer the fund. B. The department shall submit an annual...
• § 15-756.05 Reassessment And Reclassification Of English Language Learners
  A. The process of reassessment of English language learners for the purpose of determining English language proficiency shall be conducted at least annually at...
• § 15-756.06 Reevaluation Of Former English Language Learners
  The English language proficiency of each pupil previously classified as an English language learner within the last two years shall be tested annually at...
• § 15-756.07 Office Of English Language Acquisition Services; Duties
  The office of English language acquisition services is established in the department of education. The department of education, office of English language acquisition services,...
• § 15-756.08 Monitoring; Corrective Action Plan
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall direct the office of English language acquisition services in the department of education to: 1. Monitor each...
• § 15-756.09 Teacher Training
  A. The state board of education shall determine the qualifications necessary for a provisional and full structured English immersion endorsement. B. Training may be...
• § 15-756.10 Reporting
  The office of English language acquisition services in the department of education shall: 1. Require each school district and charter school to annually submit...
• § 15-756.11 Statewide Compensatory Instruction Fund; Reporting; Definition
  A. The statewide compensatory instruction fund is established. The department of education shall administer the fund. B. To be eligible for monies appropriated pursuant...
• § 15-756.12 Auditor General; Duties
  The auditor general shall: 1. Modify the annual financial report prescribed in section 15-904 in order to carry out this article. 2. Biennially audit...
• § 15-756.13 School District And Charter Schools; Responsibility To Comply With State And Federal Law
  Nothing in sections 15-756 and 15-756.01 through 15-756.12 relieves a school district or charter school of its responsibility to comply with all state and...
• § 15-757 Contracts With Private Vendors
  School districts and charter schools may enter into contracts with private vendors that provide literacy services that are designed to make participating pupils who...

Article 4 Special Education for Exceptional Children

• § 15-761 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Autism" means a developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social...
• § 15-761.01 Child With A Disability; Reclassification
  A child previously classified as a child with a disability as defined in section 15-761 shall not be removed from that classification unless the...
• § 15-762 Division Of Special Education
  The division of special education as provided in chapter 2, article 2 of this title shall carry out the provisions of this article subject...
• § 15-763 Plan For Providing Special Education; Definition
  A. All school districts and charter schools shall develop policies and procedures for providing special education to all children with disabilities within the district...
• § 15-763.01 Surrogate Parent; Notification; Appointment
  A. A petition for the appointment of a surrogate parent for a child with a disability shall be made to the department of education...
• § 15-764 Powers And Duties Of The School District Governing Board Or County School Superintendent
  A. The governing board of each school district or the county school superintendent shall: 1. Provide special education and related services for all children...
• § 15-765 Special Education In Rehabilitation, Corrective Or Other State And County Supported Institutions, Facilities Or Homes
  (L14, 2SS, Ch. 1, sec. 93. Eff. until 7/1/16) A. For the purposes of this section and section 15-764, children with disabilities who are...
• § 15-765; Version 2 Special Education In Rehabilitation, Corrective Or Other State And County Supported Institutions, Facilities Or Homes
  (L15, Ch. 195, sec. 3. Eff. 7/1/16) A. For the purposes of this section and section 15-764, children with disabilities who are being provided...
• § 15-766 Evaluation Of Child For Placement In Special Education Program; Due Process Hearing Procedures
  A. A special education referral shall be made under the direction of the chief administrative official of the school district or county, or such...
• § 15-767 Annual Goals; Notification
  In accordance with 20 United States Code section 1414, the parents of a child with a disability shall be notified regarding the progress that...
• § 15-769 Appropriation And Apportionment; Approval Of Program
  A. Except as provided in this section, any pupil who is a child with a disability shall be included in the entitlement to state...
• § 15-771 Preschool Programs For Children With Disabilities; Definition
  A. Each school district shall make available an educational program for preschool children with disabilities who reside in the school district and who are...
• § 15-773 Transfer Of Parental Rights At Age Of Majority
  A. When a pupil with a disability reaches eighteen years of age, all rights previously accorded to the pupil's parent under part B of...
• § 15-774 Extraordinary Special Education Needs Fund; Grant Application; Criteria
  A. The extraordinary special education needs fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations, gifts, grants and donations. Monies in the fund are subject to...

Article 4.1 Gifted Education for Gifted Children

• § 15-779 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Gifted education" means appropriate academic course offerings and services that are required to provide...
• § 15-779.01 Powers And Duties Of The School District Governing Board
  A. Because it is in the public interest to support unique opportunities for high-achieving and underachieving pupils who are identified as gifted, the governing...
• § 15-779.02 Gifted Pupils; Scope And Sequence; Annual Financial Report
  A. The governing board of each school district shall develop a scope and sequence for the identification process of and curriculum modifications for gifted...
• § 15-779.03 Additional Assistance For Gifted Programs
  A. School districts that comply with section 15-779.01 and that submit evidence that all district teachers who have primary responsibility for teaching gifted pupils...
• § 15-779.04 Powers And Duties Of The Superintendent Of Public Instruction
  The superintendent of public instruction shall: 1. Apportion monies to each school district for which an application to offer programs for gifted pupils has...

Article 5 Career and Technical Education and Vocational Education

• § 15-781 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Career and technical education and vocational education" means vocational and technical preparation programs for...
• § 15-781.02 Meetings; Majority Required For Validation; Travel Expenses; Immunity
  A. The state board of education shall hold four regular meetings annually at times it directs under the provisions of section 15-784 for the...
• § 15-782 Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education
  A. A school having satisfactory facilities and equipment and which is fit to provide career and technical education and vocational education, such as agriculture,...
• § 15-782.02 Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education Programs; Fingerprint Clearance Card; Expanded Hours; Tuition
  A. School districts with career and technical education and vocational education programs may offer vocational educational services without regard to students' age or high...
• § 15-783 Evaluation Of Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education Programs
  The governing board of a school district shall provide for a self-evaluation of its career and technical education and vocational education programs annually. The...
• § 15-784 Vocational Education; Acceptance Of Congressional Acts; Appropriation; Distribution Of Federal Monies
  A. The state assents to the provisions and accepts the benefits of the vocational education act of 1917, as amended, and the Carl D....
• § 15-785 Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education Schools; Expenses; Allocations From Federal Funds
  Any school district may organize schools or classes in accordance with the provisions of the federal law accepted by section 15-784 and the rules...
• § 15-786 Acceptance Of Gifts Or Grants; Fund; Unexpended Monies
  A. The state board of education may accept gifts or grants of monies or property from public or private sources. The state board shall...
• § 15-787 Eligibility; Allocation; Plan
  A. A school district or a district formed for the purposes of this article as prescribed by the terms of this article may be...
• § 15-788 Exemption From Certain Requirements; Exception
  A. Any building, structure, addition or alteration constructed by vocational education students shall be exempt from section 34-201 and title 41, chapter 23 and...
• § 15-789 Contracting And Cooperative Arrangements For Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education; Advisory Committee
  A. The governing board of a school district may contract with any public body or with any private person for the purpose of providing...
• § 15-790 Primary Responsibility Of School Districts, Joint Technical Education Districts, Community College Districts And Universities
  A. School district governing boards have the primary responsibility for providing career exploration and entry level career and technical education and vocational education. B....
• § 15-791 Arizona Agricultural Youth Organization Special Plate Fund
  A. The Arizona agricultural youth organization special plate fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to section 28-2436. The state board of education...

Article 6 Board Examination System

• § 15-792 Declaration Of Purpose And Policy
  The legislature declares and finds that: 1. It is in the interest of this state to greatly increase the proportion of students who enter...
• § 15-792.01 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Approved board examination system" means a board examination system that has been approved by...
• § 15-792.02 Board Examination System; Private Contractor; Duties
  A. The state board of education shall select and enter into a five-year agreement with a private organization to operate and administer the board...
• § 15-792.03 Grand Canyon Diploma
  A. The private organization selected pursuant to section 15-792.02 shall develop the Grand Canyon diploma to be approved and adopted by the state board...

Article 6.1 Competency-Based College-Ready Educational Pathways

• § 15-795 Declaration Of Purpose And Policy
  The legislature finds and declares that: 1. The purpose of this article is to enable all students to progress toward clearly defined learning outcomes...
• § 15-795.01 Competency-Based College-Ready Educational Pathways
  In accordance with the rules adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 15-203, subsection A, paragraph 39, students who are eligible...

Article 7 Alternative Education Programs

• § 15-796 Alternative Education Programs; Contract With Public Body Or Private Persons; Definition
  A. The governing board of a school district may contract with any public body or private person for the purpose of providing alternative education...
• § 15-797 Financial Provisions For Pupils In Alternative Education Programs
  A. School districts may count pupils for daily attendance as provided in section 15-901 who are not actually and physically in attendance in a...
• § 15-798 Governing Board Responsibility
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, governing boards retain the responsibility for the education of the pupils under their jurisdiction.

Chapter 8 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Article 1 School Year and Attendance Requirements

• § 15-801 School Year; School Month; Holidays
  A. Except as may be otherwise authorized by the superintendent of public instruction to accommodate a year-round school operation, an educational program offered on...
• § 15-802 School Instruction; Exceptions; Violations; Classification; Definitions
  A. Every child between the ages of six and sixteen years shall attend a school and shall be provided instruction in at least the...
• § 15-802.01 Homeschooled Children; Eligibility To Participate In Interscholastic Activities
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, a child who resides within the attendance area of a public school and who is homeschooled shall be allowed...
• § 15-803 School Attendance; Exemptions; Definitions
  A. It is unlawful for any child who is between six and sixteen years of age to fail to attend school during the hours...
• § 15-804 Attendance Officer; Appointment; Salary
  A. The governing board of a school district may appoint an attendance officer for the school district. The salary of the attendance officer shall...
• § 15-805 Attendance Officer; Powers And Duties
  A. The attendance officer may enforce the law relating to: 1. School attendance of children between the ages of six and sixteen years. 2....
• § 15-806 Excuse From School Attendance
  A. The governing board of each school district and the governing body of each charter school shall adopt a policy governing the excuse of...
• § 15-807 Absence From School; Notification Of Parent Or Person Having Custody Of Pupil; Immunity
  A. If a pupil in a kindergarten program or grades one through eight is absent from school without excuse as provided in this article...
• § 15-808 Arizona Online Instruction; Reports; Definitions
  A. Arizona online instruction shall be instituted to meet the needs of pupils in the information age. The state board of education shall select...

Article 1.1 Open School Enrollment

• § 15-816 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Nonresident pupil" means a pupil who resides in this state and who is enrolled...
• § 15-816.01 Enrollment Policies
  A. School district governing boards shall establish policies and shall implement an open enrollment policy without charging tuition. Tuition may be charged to nonresident...
• § 15-816.02 Desegregation Provisions
  A school shall admit pupils who reside in the attendance area of a school that is under a court order of desegregation or that...
• § 15-816.07 District And School Immunity
  A school district and its employees are immune from civil liability for decisions that concern the acceptance or rejection of a nonresident pupil for...

Article 2 Admission Requirements

• § 15-821 Admission Of Children; Required Age
  A. Unless otherwise provided by article 1.1 of this chapter or by any other law, all schools shall admit children who are between the...
• § 15-823 Admission; Residents Of Other School Districts; Nonresidents Of This State; Tuition
  A. Except as provided in subsections B, C, D, E, F and G of this section, children of nonresidents of this state may be...
• § 15-824 Admission Of Pupils Of Other School Districts; Homeless Children; Tuition Charges; Definitions
  A. The governing board of a school district shall admit pupils from another school district or area as follows: 1. Upon the presentation of...
• § 15-825 Certificate Of Educational Convenience; Issuance; Effect On Enrollment Records
  A. A pupil who is precluded by distance or lack of adequate transportation facilities from attending a school in the school district or county...
• § 15-825.01 Certificates Of Educational Convenience; Pupils Attending Out‑of‑state Schools
  A. A school district is eligible to receive payment from state school monies for excess tuition if the following conditions are met: 1. The...
• § 15-825.02 Certificates Of Educational Convenience; Unorganized Territory
  A. If the annual number of certificates of educational convenience or students attending through open enrollment into any adjacent school district from a single...
• § 15-826 Education Of Children To Whom School Inaccessible
  The county school superintendent, with the consent of the board of supervisors, may allow on his warrant an amount not to exceed ten dollars...
• § 15-827 Presentation Of Withdrawal Form
  A. A pupil who enters a school shall present to the principal of the school a properly executed withdrawal form if such pupil previously...
• § 15-828 Birth Certificate; School Records; Exception
  A. On enrollment of a pupil for the first time in a particular school district or private school offering instruction to pupils in any...
• § 15-829 Missing Child; Notification Of School; Flagging Records; Definitions
  A. When a child is reported missing by a parent or guardian, the law enforcement agency receiving the report shall notify as soon as...

Article 3 Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils

• § 15-840 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Expulsion" means the permanent withdrawal of the privilege of attending a school unless the...
• § 15-841 Responsibilities Of Pupils; Expulsion; Alternative Education Programs; Community Service; Placement Review Committee
  A. Pupils shall comply with the rules, pursue the required course of study and submit to the authority of the teachers, the administrators and...
• § 15-842 Damage To School Property; Suspension Or Expulsion Of Pupil; Liability Of Parent
  A. A pupil who cuts, defaces or otherwise injures any school property may be suspended or expelled. B. Upon complaint of the governing board,...
• § 15-843 Pupil Disciplinary Proceedings
  A. An action concerning discipline, suspension or expulsion of a pupil is not subject to title 38, chapter 3, article 3.1, except that the...
• § 15-844 Suspension And Expulsion Proceedings For Children With Disabilities
  Notwithstanding sections 15-841 and 15-842, the suspension or expulsion of children with disabilities, as defined in section 15-761, shall be in accordance with the...

Article 4 Part-Time Schools and Year-Round School Year Operation

• § 15-854 Year-Round School Year Operation; Powers And Duties Of Superintendent Of Public Instruction
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall: 1. Prepare and distribute all necessary forms for application by any school district for state authorization for...
• § 15-855 School Or School District Operation On A Year‑round School Year Basis; Separate Budget
  A. Any school district which is qualified may operate on a four quarter, three semester or other year-round school year operation basis in cooperation...

Article 5 Four Day School Week and Alternative Kindergarten Programs

• § 15-861 Four Day School Week And Alternative Kindergarten Programs
  A. A governing board, after at least two public hearings in the school district, may offer an educational program on the basis of a...

Article 6 School Immunization

• § 15-871 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Documentary proof" means written evidence that a pupil has been immunized or has laboratory...
• § 15-872 Proof Of Immunization; Noncompliance; Notice To Parents; Civil Immunity
  A. The director of the department of health services, in consultation with the superintendent of public instruction, shall develop by rule standards for documentary...
• § 15-873 Exemptions; Nonattendance During Outbreak
  A. Documentary proof is not required for a pupil to be admitted to school if one of the following occurs: 1. The parent or...
• § 15-874 Records; Reporting Requirements
  A. Each pupil's immunizations shall be recorded on the school immunization record. The school immunization record shall be a standardized form developed by the...

Article 7 Extended School Year for Handicapped Pupils

• § 15-881 Extended School Year Services For Pupils With Disabilities; Eligibility And Service Structure; Definition
  A. Each school district shall make extended school year services available to all pupils with disabilities for whom such services are necessary. Extended school...

Article 8 Arizona Scholarships for Pupils with Disabilities

• § 15-891 Arizona Scholarships For Pupils With Disabilities Program; Definitions
  A. The Arizona scholarships for pupils with disabilities program is established to provide pupils with disabilities with the option of attending any public school...
• § 15-891.01 Obligations Of School Districts And Department Of Education
  A. A school district shall timely notify the parent of each pupil with a disability of all options available pursuant to this article and...
• § 15-891.02 Qualified School Eligibility
  To be eligible to participate in the Arizona scholarships for pupils with disabilities program, a qualified school shall be located in this state and...
• § 15-891.03 Obligations Of Program Participants
  A. Parents who apply for Arizona scholarships pursuant to this article are exercising their parental option to place their children in a qualified school....
• § 15-891.04 Scholarship Funding And Payment; Fund; Liability; Rules
  A. The maximum scholarship granted for a pupil with a disability shall be equivalent to the base support level prescribed in section 15-943 for...
• § 15-891.05 Limitation Of Regulation On Qualified Schools
  A. In any legal proceeding challenging the application of this article to a qualified school, this state bears the burden of establishing that the...
• § 15-891.06 Program Termination
  The program established by this article ends on July 1, 2016 pursuant to section 41-3102.

Chapter 9 SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Article 1 General Provisions for School District Budgets

• § 15-901 Definitions
  A. In this title, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Average daily membership" means the total enrollment of fractional students and full-time students,...
• § 15-901.01 Inflation Adjustments
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) If approved by the qualified electors voting at a statewide general election, for fiscal years 2001-2002 through 2005-2006, the...
• § 15-901.02 Voluntary Full-Day Kindergarten Instruction
  A school district or charter school may offer full-day kindergarten instruction to pupils who meet the enrollment requirements for kindergarten programs. Parents of pupils...
• § 15-901.03 Transfers; Review
  Notwithstanding section 35-173, subsection C, any transfer to or from the amount appropriated for basic state aid entitlement, additional state aid to schools, the...
• § 15-901.05 Application Of School Finance Changes
  To the extent permitted by the Constitution of Arizona, unless otherwise specified by law, the department shall apply any change to state law that...
• § 15-901.06 Dropout Recovery Programs; Written Learning Plan; Requirements; Definitions
  A. Each school district and charter school that provides instruction to high school pupils may offer a dropout recovery program for eligible pupils. B....
• § 15-902.01 Student Revenue Loss Phasedown
  A. A school district that loses at least five hundred students from its student count as a result of the formation of a joint...
• § 15-902.03 Procedures For Determining Average Daily Membership
  A. The department of education shall recompute and aggregate average daily membership for the previous fiscal year no later than August 30. The department...
• § 15-902.04 Optional Two Hundred Days Of Instruction
  A school district or charter holder that elects to provide two hundred days of instruction may increase its base level by five per cent....
• § 15-903 Budget Format; Prohibited Expenditures
  A. The superintendent of public instruction in conjunction with the auditor general shall prepare and prescribe a budget format to be utilized by all...
• § 15-904 School District Annual Financial Report; Publication; Summary
  A. The governing board of each school district shall publish an annual financial report for the prior fiscal year by November 15. The auditor...
• § 15-905 School District Budgets; Notice; Adoption; Aggregate Budget Limit; Summary; Adjustments; Impact Aid Fund; Definition
  A. Not later than July 5 of each year or no later than the publication of notice of the public hearing and board meeting...
• § 15-905.01 Truth In Taxation; Calculation; Notice And Hearing; Vote On Tax Increase
  A. Each school district shall determine its truth in taxation base limit for expenditures as follows: 1. Determine the amounts budgeted in fiscal year...
• § 15-906 Procedure For Payment Of Levy Fund Liabilities Payable On June 30; Lapsing Of Levy Funds With Balance For Reduction Of Taxes
  A. Annually on or before June 30, each school district shall prepare for all levy funds a list of liabilities for goods received or...
• § 15-907 Incurring Liabilities In Excess Of School District Budget; Petition; Approval; Procedure For Expenditures
  A. In the event of excessive and unexpected legal expenses or for an emergency for which the school district did not receive funding from...
• § 15-908 Revenue Control Limit For School District After Consolidation
  A resulting school district after consolidation of a school district and unorganized territory or areas within another school district as provided in section 15-459,...
• § 15-909 Financial Provisions For Accommodation Schools; Definition
  A. An accommodation school shall compute a revenue control limit, a district support level and a district additional assistance allocation limit for each fiscal...
• § 15-910 School District Budgets; Excess Utility Costs; Desegregation Costs; Tuition Costs For Bond Issues; Costs For Registering Warrants; Report
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. The governing board may budget for the district's excess utility costs which are specifically exempt from the district's...
• § 15-910.01 School District Budgets; Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education Center Expenses
  A. The governing board of a school district which has entered into an intergovernmental agreement or other written contract to establish a jointly owned...
• § 15-910.02 Energy And Water Savings Accounts
  A. Each school district may establish an energy and water savings account that consists of a designated pool of capital investment monies to fund...
• § 15-911 Aggregate Expenditure Limitation; Aggregate Expenditures Of Local Revenues; Adjustments
  A. The legislature shall on or before June 1 of each year transmit to the state board of education the aggregate expenditure limitation for...
• § 15-912 Consolidation Assistance
  A. A resulting school district after merger of school districts may budget for consolidation assistance as provided in subsection B of this section if...
• § 15-912.01 Unification Assistance
  A. New unified school districts formed after a subdivision and unification as provided in section 15-458, subsection G or section 15-459, subsection B, paragraph...
• § 15-913 Education Program; Juvenile Detention Centers
  A. Each county that operates a juvenile detention center shall offer an education program to serve all school-age children in its juvenile detention center....
• § 15-913.01 Education Program; County Jails
  A. Each county that operates a county jail shall offer an education program to serve all prisoners who are under eighteen years of age...
• § 15-914 Financial And Compliance Audits
  A. The governing board of a school district that is required to comply with the single audit act amendments of 1996 (P.L. 104-156; 110...
• § 15-914.01 Accounting Responsibility; Definition
  A. School districts may apply to the state board of education to assume accounting responsibility. B. A school district applying to the state board...
• § 15-914.02 School District Audit
  A school district that is subject to audit pursuant to section 41-1279.03 shall comply with the reporting, follow-up and hearing participation requirements of that
• § 15-915 Correction Of State Aid Or Budget Limit Errors; Definition
  A. If the superintendent of public instruction determines that the calculation of state aid for a school district or charter school or the calculation...
• § 15-916 Expenditure Of State Grant Monies Not Included In Budget
  If the governing board of a school district receives a grant from this state for a specific program and did not include the grant...

Article 1.1 Career Ladder and Other Performance Incentive Programs

• § 15-920 Performance Pay; Budget Balance Carryforward; Definitions
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, a school district that uses a performance pay component in its salary schedule may budget any budget balance in...
• § 15-920.01 Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force; Members; Evaluation; Reporting
  A. The Arizona performance based compensation system task force is established within the state board of education. The task force shall consist of the...

Article 2 Pupil Transportation

• § 15-921 Duties Of Superintendent Of Public Instruction
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall supervise the provision of pupil transportation services. B. The superintendent of public instruction shall evaluate the transportation...
• § 15-922 Duties Of The School District; Definition
  A. Each school district shall within twelve days after the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, certify to...
• § 15-923 Contracts For Transportation
  A. As an alternative to maintaining and operating a transportation program or in conjunction with a transportation program, a school district may, if it...

Article 3 School District Revenue Limitation for Maintenance and Operation

• § 15-941 Teacher Experience Index; Computation; Definition
  A. The teacher experience index for each school district shall be computed as follows: 1. For the school district: Number of FTE years of...
• § 15-943 Base Support Level
  The base support level for each school district shall be computed as follows: 1. The following support level weights shall be used in paragraph...
• § 15-943.01 Maintenance And Operation Budget Balance; Definition
  A. The governing board of a school district may budget any budget balance in the maintenance and operation section of the budget, as provided...
• § 15-943.02 Base Support Level For Joint Technical Education Districts
  A. The base support level for each joint technical education district shall be computed as follows: Grade/ Support Student Weighted Category Level Count Student...
• § 15-943.03 Budget Balance Exemption
  Charter schools are exempt from the budget balance carry forward limitation prescribed in section 15-943.01, subsection A.
• § 15-943.04 English Learner Classroom Personnel Bonus Fund; Payment Of English Language Classroom Personnel Bonuses
  The English learner classroom personnel bonus fund is established consisting of monies appropriated for this purpose. The department of education shall administer the fund....
• § 15-944 Base Revenue Control Limit
  A. The base revenue control limit for each school district for fiscal year 1980-1981 is computed as follows: 1. Add the amounts in the...
• § 15-944.01 Additional Expenditures Exempt In Whole Or In Part From Revenue Control Limit
  Beginning January 1, 1990, no school district is permitted to budget for items that are exempt either in whole or in part from the...
• § 15-945 Transportation Support Level
  A. The support level for to and from school for each school district for the current year shall be computed as follows: 1. Determine...
• § 15-946 Transportation Revenue Control Limit
  A. The transportation revenue control limit for each school district for the fiscal years 1985-1986, 1986-1987 and 1987-1988 is computed as follows: 1. Determine...
• § 15-947 Revenue Control Limit; District Support Level; General Budget Limit; Unrestricted Total Capital Budget Limit; District Additional Assistance Limit
  A. The revenue control limit for a school district is equal to the sum of the base revenue control limit determined in section 15-944...
• § 15-947.01 Revenue Control Limit; General Budget Limit; Total Capital Budget Limit For Joint Technical Education Districts
  A. The revenue control limit for a joint technical education district is equal to the base support level determined in section 15-943.02. B. The...
• § 15-948 Adjustment For Growth In Student Count
  A. Any school district, after the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, of the current year, may determine...
• § 15-949 Small School Districts; Exemption From General Budget Limit; Budget Revision
  A. The governing board of a common school district with a student count in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight of one hundred...
• § 15-950 Revenue Control Limits For New School Districts
  A resulting common, high or unified school district after consolidation of school districts as provided in section 15-459, subsection B, paragraph 2 or 3...
• § 15-951 District Additional Assistance, District Support Level And Student Count For A Common School District Not Within A High School District
  A. Notwithstanding section 15-947, the revenue control limit for a common school district not within a high school district is the sum of the...
• § 15-952 Additional Monies For Teacher Compensation; Definitions
  A. The governing board of a school district may calculate its revenue control limit and district support level for the budget year using the...
• § 15-953 Increases In The Base Level
  If a school district receives approval to calculate its budget using an increase in the base level as provided in section 15-918 or 15-952...
• § 15-954 Adjustment For Tuition Loss
  A. The district may increase its base support level for tuition loss as prescribed in subsection B of this section if all of the...

Article 4 Provisions for Capital Outlay and Capital Levy

• § 15-961 District Additional Assistance; Growth Rate
  A. District additional assistance per student count is established as follows: 1. For school districts with a student count of less than one hundred...
• § 15-962.01 District Additional Assistance Allocation For Joint Technical Education Districts
  The district additional assistance for a joint technical education district shall be the amount for students in grades nine through twelve for districts with...
• § 15-963 Capital Transportation Adjustment For Small School Districts
  A. A school district may apply to the state board of education for a capital transportation adjustment for the purchase of a transportation vehicle...
• § 15-964 Federal Impact Adjustment
  A. The governing board of a school district may compute a federal impact adjustment to the unrestricted capital budget limit. The maximum amount of...
• § 15-965 Schools; Impact Aid; Teacher Housing
  Notwithstanding any other law, a school district that receives federal impact aid may use those monies for maintenance and renovation of teacher housing and...

Article 5 State and Local Assistance to School Districts and Accommodation Schools

• § 15-971 Determination Of Equalization Assistance Payments From County And State Funds For School Districts
  A. Equalization assistance for education is computed by determining the total of the following: 1. The lesser of a school district's revenue control limit...
• § 15-972 State Limitation On Homeowner Property Taxes; Additional State Aid To School Districts; Definitions
  A. Notwithstanding section 15-971, there shall be additional state aid for education computed for school districts as provided in subsection B of this section....
• § 15-973 Apportionment Of Funds; Expenditure Limitation
  A. The state board of education shall apportion state aid from appropriations made for such purpose to the several counties on the basis of...
• § 15-973.01 Assistance For Education Fund
  A. The assistance for education fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to section 43-617. B. The state board of education shall administer...
• § 15-974 Equalization Assistance For Education For Accommodation Schools
  A. Equalization assistance for education for accommodation schools shall be paid from appropriations for that purpose to the school districts as provided in section...
• § 15-975 Method Of Determining Funds Payable To A Joint Common School District
  In determining the amount of state, county and federal monies or school aid payable to a joint common school district, the portion of the...
• § 15-976 Assistance For School Districts For Children Whose Parents Are Employed By Certain State Institutions; Expenditure Limitation
  A. The superintendent of public instruction shall assist school districts in educating children whose parents or legal guardians are employed by and domiciled at...
• § 15-977 Classroom Site Fund; Definitions
  A. The classroom site fund is established consisting of monies transferred to the fund pursuant to section 37-521, subsection B and section 42-5029, subsection...
• § 15-978 Classroom Site Fund Budget Limit; School District
  The classroom site fund budget limit for each school district is the sum of the following: 1. The allocation that is computed for the...
• § 15-979 Instructional Improvement Fund
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies.) A. The instructional improvement fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to sections 5-601.02(H)(3)(a)(i) and 5-601.02(H)(3)(b)(i), and interest...
• § 15-980 Uncollected Property Tax; Property Tax Loss; Supplemental State Aid
  A. A school district is eligible for supplemental state aid pursuant to this section if a county treasurer certifies to a school district after...

Article 6 County Finance Responsibilities for School Districts

• § 15-991 Annual Estimate By County School Superintendent Of Monies For Ensuing Year; Review And Approval By Property Tax Oversight Commission
  A. The county school superintendent shall recompute the equalization assistance for education for each school district pursuant to section 15-971, subsection A and compute...
• § 15-991.01 Tax Levy For Property Not Located In A School District
  A. The board of supervisors of each county, at the time of levying other taxes, shall annually levy a tax on property not located...
• § 15-992 School District Tax Levy; Additional Tax In Districts Ineligible For Equalization Assistance; Definition
  A. The board of supervisors of each county shall annually, at the time of levying other taxes, levy school district taxes on the property...
• § 15-993 Tax Levy For High Schools
  In the school district or union high school district which determines to establish a high school, an annual tax shall be levied, the amount...
• § 15-994 State Equalization Assistance Property Tax Levy
  A. The board of supervisors of each county shall annually, at the time of levying other taxes, levy a state equalization assistance property tax...
• § 15-995 Special District Assessment For Adjacent Ways By School District
  A. The governing board of a school district may contract for constructing, maintaining or otherwise improving any public way adjacent to any parcel of...
• § 15-996 Duties Of County Treasurer Relating To School District's Monies
  The county treasurer shall: 1. Receive and hold all school district monies and keep a separate account for each school district and for the...
• § 15-997 Authority Of County Officers As To Funds, Taxes And Boundaries Of Joint Common School District
  A. The county treasurer of the jurisdictional county shall have custody of the funds of a joint common school district and shall perform all...
• § 15-998 Liability Of Treasurer For Failure To Keep Separate Account Or Give Notice; Enforcement
  If the county treasurer fails to keep a separate account for each school district and for the special county school reserve fund or give...
• § 15-999 Preference Of Payment Of Warrants; Use Of Balance Of School Fund Remaining At Close Of Fiscal Year
  A. All warrants registered after January 1, 1936 and drawn on the county treasurer against the school fund of the school district by the...
• § 15-1000 County School Fund
  The county school fund of each county shall consist of all revenues accruing to the credit of each county from: 1. That portion of...
• § 15-1001 Special County School Reserve Fund
  A. The board of supervisors of each county shall annually budget for the special county school reserve fund an amount to meet the requirements...
• § 15-1002 Administration Of County School Reserve Fund; Uses
  A. The special county school reserve fund may be used only for: 1. Transportation of children to and from one-room and two-room rural schools...

Article 7 Bond Issues and Bonded Indebtedness

• § 15-1021 Limitation On Bonded Indebtedness; Limitation On Authorization And Issuance Of Bonds
  A. Until December 31, 1999, a school district may issue class A bonds for the purposes specified in this section and chapter 4, article...
• § 15-1022 Tax Levy For Bonds; Administration And Disposition Of Tax; Cancellation Of Paid Bonds
  A. The board of supervisors, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, shall levy a tax for the year...
• § 15-1023 Issuance Of Bonds
  A. Upon receipt of the certificate of the appropriate election officer as provided in section 15-493 that a majority of votes cast at the...
• § 15-1023.01 Municipal Property Corporation Financing Prohibited; Definition
  A. Except as provided in subsection C, a school district shall not directly or indirectly pledge its full faith and credit nor incur any...
• § 15-1024 Interest On Bonds; Sale; Disposition Of Proceeds; Definition
  A. The bonds shall bear interest, payable semiannually at the rate or rates set by the accepted bid, which shall not exceed the maximum...
• § 15-1025 Investment And Reinvestment Of Debt Service Fund
  A. The governing board of a school district may invest and reinvest all monies belonging or credited to the school district as a debt...
• § 15-1027 Administration Of School District Debt Service Funds By County Treasurer
  The county treasurer shall keep an account of all school district debt service funds, showing the school district to which each fund belongs. On...
• § 15-1028 Disposition Of Surplus Tax Monies
  A. If a bond issue and interest thereon have been fully paid and a balance remains in the debt service fund from taxes collected...
• § 15-1029 Rights Of Bondholder; Additional State Tax
  A. If the board of supervisors fails to make the levy necessary to pay school district bonds or interest coupons at maturity and such...
• § 15-1030 Cancellation Of Unsold Bonds; Notice; Hearing
  A. If a bond issue remains unsold for six months after being offered for sale, the governing board of the school district or any...
• § 15-1031 Power To Use Outstanding Bond Authorizations Of Common School Districts Or High School Districts
  A. All outstanding authorizations permitting the issuance of bonds, as provided in this section and sections 15-1022 through 15-1030, or the incurring of debt...
• § 15-1032 Capital Facilities; Bonded Indebtedness Liability For Unified School Districts
  A. All school buildings of established school districts which are located within any unified school district shall, together with all equipment and furnishings, become...
• § 15-1033 Certification Of School District Bonds By Attorney General
  A. Any school district may submit to the attorney general bonds to be issued under this article after the school district has authorized their...

Article 8 Student Accountability Information System

• § 15-1041 Student Accountability Information System
  The student accountability information system is established to enable school districts, joint technical education districts and charter schools to transmit student level data and...
• § 15-1042 Timeline; Student Level Data; Definition
  A. The department of education shall notify school districts, joint technical education districts and charter schools of electronic data submission procedures and shall distribute...
• § 15-1043 Student Level Data; Confidentiality
  A. Any disclosure of educational records compiled by the department of education pursuant to this article shall comply with the family educational rights and...
• § 15-1044 Arizona E-Learning Task Force; Duties
  A. The Arizona e-learning task force is established. The task force shall consist of the following members: 1. Two representatives of the business community...
• § 15-1045 Education Database; Pupil Privacy
  A. Any collection, maintenance or disclosure of pupil educational records compiled by the department of education in an education database of pupil records shall...

Chapter 10 SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS AND RELATED OPERATIONS
Article 1 Revolving Funds; School Plant, Insurance Proceeds, Unemployment Compensation, Civic Center School and Permanent Teacherage Funds

• § 15-1101 Revolving Funds; Purpose And Manner Of Procuring
  A. If the activities of a school district require immediate cash outlays for items including postage, freight, express, fuel taxes, parcel post, travel or...
• § 15-1102 Disposition Of Proceeds From Sale Or Lease Of School Property; School Plant Monies; Payment Of Bonded Indebtedness; Definition
  A. The governing board, or the superintendent or chief administrative officer with the approval of the governing board, may expend the proceeds from the...
• § 15-1103 Insurance Proceeds Fund; Disposition Of Proceeds
  A. Monies received for and derived from insurance losses shall be deposited with the county treasurer who shall credit the deposits to the insurance...
• § 15-1104 Unemployment Compensation Fund
  Unemployment compensation monies shall be deposited with the county treasurer who shall credit the deposits to the unemployment compensation fund of the respective school...
• § 15-1105 Lease Of School Property; Immunity; Civic Center School Fund; Reversion To School Plant Fund; Definitions
  A. The governing board, or the superintendent or chief administrative officer with the approval of the governing board, may lease school property, including school...
• § 15-1106 Permanent Teacherage Fund; Uses; Definition
  A. A school district governing board, or the superintendent or chief administrative officer with the approval of the governing board, may establish a permanent...
• § 15-1107 Litigation Recovery Fund; Disposition Of Proceeds
  A. Monies received for and derived from settlement of legal controversies or from recovery of costs, attorney fees or damages by a school district...
• § 15-1108 District Services Fund
  A. A school district governing board may establish district services programs to provide goods or services, excluding services provided pursuant to section 15-213, to...

Article 2 Student Activities and Auxiliary Operations Funds

• § 15-1121 Student Activities Monies Defined
  All monies raised with the approval of the governing board of a school district by the efforts of students in pursuance of or in...
• § 15-1122 Student Activities Treasurer; Assistant Student Activities Treasurer; Administration Of Student Activities Monies
  A. The governing board of any school district having student activities monies shall establish a student activities fund and appoint a student activities treasurer....
• § 15-1123 Record Of Revenues And Expenditures
  A. The student activities treasurer or assistant student activities treasurer shall maintain an accurate detailed record of all revenues and expenditures of the student...
• § 15-1124 Student Activities Revolving Fund For Expenses
  The governing board of a school district may, by resolution entered upon its minutes, establish a revolving fund for the purpose of meeting necessary...
• § 15-1125 Auxiliary Operations Fund Defined
  The auxiliary operations fund shall consist of all monies raised with the approval of the school district governing board in pursuance of and in...
• § 15-1126 Accounting; Deposit; Disposition Of Monies
  A. Auxiliary operations fund monies shall be accounted for in accordance with the requirements of the uniform system of financial records. B. Auxiliary operations...

Article 3 Community School Program Fund

• § 15-1141 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Community school" means any school engaged in a community school program. 2. " Community...
• § 15-1142 Powers Of The Governing Board
  The governing board of any school district may: 1. Establish and operate a community school program in any school in its school district. 2....
• § 15-1143 Community School Program Fund
  Monies deposited in a community school fund of a school district may be used for community school programs only and are not subject to...

Article 4 School Lunch Program Fund

• § 15-1151 Definition Of School Meal Programs
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, " school meal programs" means programs under which meals are served by a public or private...
• § 15-1152 School Meal Programs; Nonschool Meal Programs; Powers Of State Board Of Education
  The state board of education may enter into agreements with an agency of the federal government, a governing board or another agency or person,...
• § 15-1153 Federal Funds; Acceptance; Disbursement
  A. The state board of education may accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by act of Congress and apportioned to the state...
• § 15-1154 Operation Of School Meal Programs By Governing Boards; School Meal Program Fund; Revolving Fund
  A. A governing board may operate school meal programs, and for that purpose may employ personnel, purchase equipment and food and incur other necessary...
• § 15-1155 Records, Reports, Regulations, Audits And Inspections By State Board Of Education
  The state board of education shall prescribe regulations for keeping accounts and records and making reports, under the supervision of governing boards. The accounts...
• § 15-1157 Inclusion Of Expenses In Budget Of Superintendent Of Public Instruction
  There shall be included in the budget of the superintendent of public instruction, for presentation to the legislature, such amounts as required by the...
• § 15-1158 Agreements For Meals For Persons Sixty Years Of Age Or Older
  A. The governing board of any school district may enter into an agreement with any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or public agency whereby...

Article 5 Arizona Youth Farm Loan Fund

• § 15-1171 Trust Assets Of Arizona Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; Transfer To State Board Of Education
  The state board of education is designated as the state agency empowered to make application to the secretary of agriculture of the United States,...
• § 15-1172 Arizona Youth Farm Loan Fund
  Notwithstanding any other law, funds and the proceeds of the trust assets shall be received by the state board of education and shall be...
• § 15-1173 Use Of Funds
  A. Except as provided in subsection C of this section, monies in the Arizona youth farm loan fund may be used only for such...
• § 15-1174 Powers And Duties
  The state board of education on behalf of the state of Arizona is authorized and empowered to: 1. Collect, compromise, adjust or cancel claims...
• § 15-1175 Liability
  The United States, and the secretary of agriculture thereof, shall be held free from liability by virtue of the transfer of the assets to...

Article 6 Education Voucher Fund for Private Placement

• § 15-1181 Definitions
  (L14, 2SS, Ch. 1, sec. 95. Eff. until 7/1/16) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Child" means a person who...
• § 15-1181; Version 2 Definitions
  (L15, Ch. 195, sec. 4. Eff. 7/1/16) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Child" means a person who is at...
• § 15-1182 Special Education Fund; Administration
  A. There is established a special education fund, which shall consist of legislative appropriations made to the fund for purposes of this section and...
• § 15-1183 Placement; Voucher Application Requirements
  A. A voucher may not be issued pursuant to this article and a residential special education placement may not be made in a private...
• § 15-1184 Vouchers; Requirements; Budgets; Prohibited Uses
  A. The director of the division of special education shall develop requirements for the approval of vouchers, as provided in this section, including the...
• § 15-1185 School District Responsibility; Integration Into A School
  A. For a child who is placed in a private residential facility pursuant to this article, the home school district is responsible for reviewing...

Article 7 Special Education Voucher Fund for State Institutional Placement

• § 15-1201 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Fund" means the special education fund established by section 15-1182. 2. " Institution" means...
• § 15-1202 Special Education Fund Account; Administration; Expenditure Limitation
  A. There is established a separate account within the fund which shall consist of legislative appropriations to the account for special education institutional vouchers....
• § 15-1203 Placement; Requirements
  A. No child may be placed for the purpose of special education in an institution unless the institution has applied for and had issued...
• § 15-1204 Voucher; Application; Approval; Requirements; Budgets; Prohibited Uses; Advances
  A. When an institution decides to place a person in an institutional special education program, the institution, upon application to and approval by the...
• § 15-1205 Voucher; Evaluation; Placement; Definition
  A. An application for a voucher pursuant to this article shall not be approved unless the child has been educationally evaluated and recommended for...

Article 8 Governing Board Bank Accounts

• § 15-1221 Bank Account; Federal Savings Bonds; Withholdings; Vendor Electronic Payments; Payroll Direct Deposit
  A. The governing board may establish a bank account for the purpose of depositing the monies it withholds for each employee for payments under...
• § 15-1222 Bank Account; Employee Income Tax; Withholdings
  A. The governing board of a school district may establish a bank account for the purpose of depositing the monies it withholds for each...
• § 15-1223 Bank Accounts; Employee Insurance; Interest; Accounting Procedures
  A. The governing board of a school district may establish bank accounts in which to deposit the monies it withholds for employee insurance programs,...
• § 15-1224 Grants To Teachers For Instruction
  A. The governing board shall deposit in a separate bank account grants or gifts that are less than one thousand five hundred dollars and...
• § 15-1225 Postemployment Benefits; Trust Accounts; Actuarial Report
  A. If the governing board offers postemployment benefits to school district employees or to spouses and dependents of school district employees, or both, monies...

Article 9 Career and Technical Education and Vocational Education Projects Fund

• § 15-1231 Career And Technical Education And Vocational Education Projects Fund
  A. The governing board of a school district may establish a permanent career and technical education and vocational education projects fund in an amount...

Article 10 Academic Contests Fund

• § 15-1241 Academic Contests Fund; State Board Of Education Powers And Duties; Distribution Of Monies
  A. The state board of education shall establish an academic contests fund consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature or received by the state...

Article 11 State Block Grant for Early Childhood Education Program

• § 15-1251 State Block Grant For Early Childhood Education; Evaluation
  A. The state block grant for early childhood education program is established in the state board of education. The purpose of the program is...

Article 12 E-rate

• § 15-1261 E-Rate Application; Fund
  A. All school districts and charter schools that are eligible for e-rate priority one funding as authorized by the telecommunications act of 1996 may...

Chapter 11 ARIZONA STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-1301 Definitions
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Employee classifications" means one of the following: (a) Management and supervisory staff on a...
• § 15-1302 Arizona State Schools For The Deaf And The Blind; Provision Of Services
  A. There shall be Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind which provide schools and regional programs in appropriate locations in this...
• § 15-1303 School For The Deaf And The Blind As Public Corporation; Tax Exemption
  A. The school shall be a body corporate under the name of " the Arizona state school for the deaf and the blind" ....
• § 15-1304 Land Reserved For Use And Benefit Of School; Schools For The Deaf And Blind Fund
  A. The grant of one hundred thousand acres of land for schools for the deaf, dumb and blind made by the enabling act approved...
• § 15-1305 Arizona State Schools For The Deaf And The Blind; Classroom Site Fund
  The Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind classroom site fund is established consisting of monies received from the department of education...

Article 2 Administration and Employment of Personnel

• § 15-1321 Board Of Directors; Members; Appointment; Term; Compensation
  A. The school for the deaf and the blind shall be governed by a board of directors. The board shall consist of the governor,...
• § 15-1322 Board Organization; Meetings; Quorum
  A. The board shall select from its membership a president, a treasurer and a secretary or a president and a secretary-treasurer. B. A meeting...
• § 15-1323 Board Of Directors; Fund; Powers And Duties
  A. The board may bring actions and proceedings necessary to protect the interests of the schools. Such proceedings shall be instituted in the name...
• § 15-1324 Reports Of Board Of Directors
  The board shall prepare and file: 1. An annual report to the governor with a detailed statement of the cost of maintaining the school...
• § 15-1325 Superintendent And Other Personnel; Appointment; Compensation; Term Of Employment; Qualifications; Nonretention Notice
  A. There shall be a superintendent of the schools who shall be the executive officer. The superintendent shall be appointed by the board of...
• § 15-1326 Employment And Discharge Of Personnel
  A. The superintendent, acting on behalf of the board of directors, shall employ all personnel needed for the operation of the schools. The superintendent,...
• § 15-1327 Limitations On Reduction Of Salaries Or Personnel
  A. The board of directors may direct the superintendent to reduce salaries or eliminate permanent employee positions in the Arizona state schools for the...
• § 15-1329 Salaries And Subsistence Of Employees; Payrolls
  A. The board shall determine the salaries and assign an employee classification of persons it employs, except for the superintendent as provided in section...
• § 15-1330 Fingerprinting Personnel; Affidavit
  A. Certificated personnel employed by the schools shall have valid fingerprint clearance cards issued pursuant to title 41, chapter 12, article 3.1 or shall...

Article 3 Instruction and Students

• § 15-1341 Instruction Of Pupils
  A. The board of directors shall see that all persons admitted to the school are taught and trained by methods which are to their...
• § 15-1342 Admissions
  A. Chapter 7, article 4 of this title governs admissions to the school except as provided in this section. The evaluation and consideration of...
• § 15-1343 Persons Entitled To Education
  A. A person is entitled to an education in the schools for the deaf and the blind without charge if the person is a...
• § 15-1344 Authority For Enrollment Of Children Under Three Years Of Age; Definition
  A. The board of directors may enroll a child under the age of three years in the schools for the deaf and the blind...
• § 15-1345 Overage And Nonresident Students; Deposit
  A. Persons older than the age specified in section 15-1343 and persons who are not residents of this state may be admitted to the...
• § 15-1346 Payment For Personal Expenses
  A. It is the responsibility of parents or persons having legal custody of a pupil to provide sufficient monies for that pupil enrolled in...

Chapter 11 STATE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR COMMITTED YOUTH FUNDING
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-1371 Equalization Assistance For State Educational System For Committed Youth; State Education Fund For Committed Youth
  A. The superintendent of the state educational system for committed youth shall calculate a base support level as prescribed in section 15-943 and district...
• § 15-1372 Equalization Assistance For State Educational System For Persons In The State Department Of Corrections; Fund
  A. The state department of corrections shall provide educational services for pupils who are under the age of eighteen years and pupils with disabilities...
• § 15-1373 State Education System For Committed Youth; Classroom Site Fund
  The state education system for committed youth classroom site fund is established consisting of monies received from the department of education pursuant to section...

Chapter 12 COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Article 1 General Provisions for and Establishment of Community College Districts

• § 15-1401 Definitions
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Accredited" means accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States department...
• § 15-1402 Community College Districts; Requirements; Exception
  A. Community college districts may be organized under this chapter for a single county, two or more contiguous counties or an existing community college...
• § 15-1402.01 Alternative Organization For Community College Districts
  A. A county that does not meet the requirements prescribed in section 15-1402 may organize a community college district under this chapter if all...
• § 15-1403 Procedure To Form A District; Exception
  A. For the purpose of forming a district, not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors in the territory included in the...
• § 15-1404 Election To Determine Formation Of District; Notice; Canvass
  A. Upon approval of the proposed district, the county board of supervisors shall return the petition with its approval to the county school superintendent,...
• § 15-1405 Presentation Of Plan To Legislature By County Board Of Supervisors
  The county board of supervisors shall present a plan to the legislature for formation and establishment of a community college district no later than...
• § 15-1406 District Board Members And Employees; Compensation; Payment Of Expenses For Employment Candidates
  A. Sections 38-608, 38-609, 38-610 and 38-613 relating to all public officers and employees apply to district board members and district officers and employees....
• § 15-1407 Formation Of New District By Subdivision Of Existing District; Division Of Assets
  A. If two or more contiguous counties have formed a community college district, a new district may be formed in one or more of...
• § 15-1408 Use Of Community College District Resources Or Employees To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalty; Definitions
  A. A person acting on behalf of a community college district or a person who aids another person acting on behalf of a community...
• § 15-1409 Community College Tuition Financing Districts; Formation; Powers And Duties; Issuance And Sale Of Bonds For Capital Outlay
  A. A community college tuition financing district shall contract with an existing community college district to provide instructional and student services within the community...
• § 15-1410 Credit And Noncredit Courses
  A. Courses offered for credit shall satisfy at least one of the following purposes and requirements: 1. Credit courses shall satisfy one or more...

Article 2 State Board of Directors for Community Colleges

• § 15-1427 Annual Report
  A. By December 1 of each year, each community college district shall make a report for the preceding fiscal year to the governor, the...

Article 3 Community College District Boards

• § 15-1441 Selection Of Precincts; District Board Members; Terms; Qualifications; Vacancies
  A. The board of supervisors shall establish in the same manner as provided in section 16-411 five precincts in a community college district for...
• § 15-1442 Nominating Petitions; Election; Returns; Results; Certificate Of Election; Statement Of Contributions And Expenditures
  A. Candidates for the district board must file nominating petitions, conforming to section 16-314, with the appropriate county officer. B. Members of the district...
• § 15-1443 Meetings; Officers; Immunity
  A. Within twenty days after appointment of the first district board, the county school superintendent, or county school superintendents by joint action where the...
• § 15-1444 General Powers And Duties Of District Governing Boards
  A. Except as otherwise provided, the district board shall: 1. Maintain each community college for a period of not less than eight months in...
• § 15-1445 Administrative Powers Of District Governing Boards
  A district board shall: 1. Adopt policies for the government of the community colleges under its jurisdiction. 2. In conjunction with other district boards,...
• § 15-1446 Lease‑purchase Agreements
  A. A district board may enter into lease or lease-purchase agreements for real property, including buildings and improvements to the property. B. Lease or...
• § 15-1447 Community College District Collegiate Special Plate Funds; Purpose
  A. A community college district with a full-time equivalent student enrollment pursuant to section 15-1466.01 of more than fifty thousand students shall establish a...
• § 15-1448 Employment Of Legal Counsel; Opinions Of Counsel
  A. If a district lies in two or more counties, the county attorney of the largest county in which the district lies as determined...
• § 15-1449 Control Of Vehicles And Nonpedestrian Devices On Community College Property By District Board; Sanctions; Compliance With Emissions Inspection; Definition
  A. The district board may adopt policies for the control of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices on property of the institutions under the district board's...
• § 15-1450 District Board Members; Participation In Employee Benefit Plan
  A. A community college district board may allow its members and spouses and dependents of members to participate in the plan providing health, accident,...
• § 15-1451 Optional Retirement Plans
  A. Pursuant to section 15-1444, subsection B, paragraph 7, a community college district board may establish an optional retirement program under which contracts providing...
• § 15-1452 Evaluation Of Vocational And Technological Education Programs
  A district board shall provide for the evaluation of vocational and technological education programs once every five years. The assessment shall be conducted in...
• § 15-1453 Energy And Water Savings Accounts
  A district board may establish an energy and water savings account in the same manner as a school district pursuant to section 15-910.02 and...

Article 4 Community College District Finance

• § 15-1461 District Budget; Annual Estimate; Computation; Notice; Hearing; Adoption
  A. Not later than June 5, each district established pursuant to this chapter, and any other community college established prior to the enactment of...
• § 15-1461.01 Truth In Taxation Notice And Hearing; Roll Call Vote On Tax Increase; Definition
  A. On or before February 10 of the tax year, the county assessor shall transmit and certify to the property tax oversight commission and...
• § 15-1462 Special Tax Levy For Maintenance Or Capital Outlay Of District; Proration Of Monies
  A. The board of supervisors in each district may supply funds from other designated sources or, in lieu thereof, shall annually, at the time...
• § 15-1463 State Contribution For Capital Outlay For Initial Or Additional Campus
  A. This state, by legislative appropriation, shall pay to the district a sum equal to fifty per cent of the total cost for capital...
• § 15-1464 State Aid Per Capita Distribution For Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics And Workforce Programs; Fund; Appropriation; Report; Exception
  A. In addition to the appropriation prescribed in section 15-1463, subsection A, this state shall pay to each community college district state aid for...
• § 15-1465 Election; Issuance And Sale Of Bonds For Capital Outlay; Disposition Of Proceeds; Proration Of Expenditures By Counties
  A. A district may conduct an election to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued and sold for the purpose of paying its...
• § 15-1466 State Aid; Eligibility; Limitations
  A. Subject to legislative appropriation, the legislature shall determine and appropriate the amount of state aid each fiscal year to each district possessing the...
• § 15-1466.01 Calculation Of Full‑time Equivalent Student Enrollment
  In determining state aid under sections 15-1464 and 15-1466 the number of full-time equivalent students shall be calculated in the following manner: 1. For...
• § 15-1466.02 Record Keeping Requirements For Full‑time Equivalent Student Enrollment
  A. On or before July 21 each year, each community college district shall: 1. Provide a certified report to the auditor general of the...
• § 15-1467 State Aid Appropriations; Disbursement Procedure; District Fund
  A. Appropriations for state aid to districts shall be distributed to each community college district in accordance with section 15-1466. B. The state treasurer...
• § 15-1468 Equalization Aid For Community College Districts
  A. Subject to legislative appropriation, any district that is organized pursuant to section 15-1402 and that has less than the amount of primary assessed...
• § 15-1469 Attendance Of Nonresident State Students; Payment Of Cost By County Of Residence
  A. The district may admit students from any part of this state that is not a part of an established community college district on...
• § 15-1469.01 Payment Of Community College Nonresident State Student Cost
  A. Any county which is not a part of an established community college district and whose share of transaction privilege taxes, apportioned pursuant to...
• § 15-1470 Community College Courses; Intergovernmental Agreement
  A. A district may offer credit and noncredit courses and services outside of the district in other districts within this state. B. A district...
• § 15-1471 Expenditure Limitations; Overrides
  A. A district board, on the approval of a majority of the qualified electors in the district voting at a regularly scheduled election on...
• § 15-1472 Community College District Workforce Development Accounts; Reports
  A. Each community college district shall establish a separate workforce development account to receive only tax revenues authorized pursuant to section 42-5029, subsection E,...
• § 15-1473 Uniform System Of Accounting For Community College Districts; Duties Of Auditor General; Posting; Budget
  A. The auditor general shall determine the accounting systems, accounting methods and accounting procedures for use by the community college districts. B. The auditor...
• § 15-1474 Community College Bookstore Revenue; Expenditure Limitation; Penalty
  (Rpld. 7/1/19) Notwithstanding section 41-1279.07, if a community college district exceeds its expenditure limitation prescribed in article IX, section 21, Constitution of Arizona, due...

Article 5 Issuance of Bonds for Revenue Producing Buildings

• § 15-1481 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Acquire" includes purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, extend, better, furnish, equip, develop,...
• § 15-1482 Powers
  The board shall have power, for and in behalf of the institution, to: 1. Acquire any project or projects and own, operate and maintain...
• § 15-1483 Issuance Of Bonds
  A. The board for and on behalf of an institution is authorized from time to time to issue negotiable bonds for the purpose of...
• § 15-1484 Powers To Secure Bonds
  A. In connection with the issuance of the bonds authorized by section 15-1483, or in order to secure the payment of such bonds and...
• § 15-1485 Monies Of Institution
  No monies derived from the sale of bonds under the provisions of this article shall be required to be paid into the state treasury...
• § 15-1486 Validity Of Bonds
  The bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that...
• § 15-1487 Prohibitions Against Obligating The State Of Arizona
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the board to contract a debt on behalf of, or in any way to obligate,...
• § 15-1488 Bonds Obligations Issued For And On Behalf Of Institutions
  All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be obligations issued by the board for and on behalf of the institution payable only in...
• § 15-1489 Certification Of Bonds By Attorney General
  The board may submit to the attorney general of the state of Arizona any bonds to be issued under this article after all proceedings...
• § 15-1490 Excision Of Unconstitutional Or Ineffective Parts Of Article
  It is declared that the sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this article are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement and any...
• § 15-1491 Supplemental Nature Of Article; Construction And Purpose
  The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, general or special,...

Chapter 13 UNIVERSITIES AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS
Article 1 Universities and Colleges

• § 15-1601 State Universities; Location; Faculty Powers
  A. The Arizona board of regents shall maintain state universities at Flagstaff in Coconino county, at Tempe in Maricopa county and at Tucson in...
• § 15-1606 Correspondence And Extension Courses
  The universities may offer extension courses at places within the state other than the city where the institution is located, and correspondence courses may...

Article 2 Arizona Board of Regents

• § 15-1621 Members; Appointment; Terms; Oath; Immunity
  A. The Arizona board of regents consists of ten appointive members, including two student members, and the governor and the superintendent of public instruction...
• § 15-1622 Officers; Organization; Quorum
  A. The board shall select from its membership a president, secretary, treasurer and such other officers it deems necessary. The same person shall not...
• § 15-1623 Compensation Of Members
  A. The secretary of the Arizona board of regents shall receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38-611. B. Appointed members shall receive compensation...
• § 15-1624 Meetings Of Board Advisory Committees; Student Records; Executive Session
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 38-431.01, subsection A, meetings of advisory committees to the board involving student records may be held in executive session....
• § 15-1625 General Powers Of Board As Body Corporate
  A. The Arizona board of regents is a body corporate with perpetual succession. The board has jurisdiction and control over the universities. B. The...
• § 15-1626 General Administrative Powers And Duties Of Board; Definition
  A. The board shall: 1. Have and exercise the powers necessary for the effective governance and administration of the institutions under its control. To...
• § 15-1626.01 Transfer Of Fees For Student Organizations; Prohibition; Support
  A. A university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall not transfer any portion of the tuition or fees collected from...
• § 15-1627 Control Of Vehicles And Nonpedestrian Devices On University Property; Sanctions; Compliance With Emissions Inspection; Definition
  A. Each university may adopt rules for the control of vehicles and nonpedestrian devices on its property with respect to the following only: maximum...
• § 15-1628 Powers And Procedures Pertaining To Optional Retirement Programs
  A. The Arizona board of regents may establish optional retirement programs under which contracts providing retirement and death benefits may be purchased for members...
• § 15-1629 Annual Report
  Within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year the Arizona board of regents shall make a report for the fiscal year to...
• § 15-1630 Abortion At Educational Facility Prohibited; Exception
  No abortion shall be performed at any facility under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents unless such abortion is necessary to save...
• § 15-1631 State Museum
  A. There shall be a state museum for the collection and preservation of the archaeological resources, specimens of the mineral wealth and the flora...
• § 15-1632 University Property Of Expelled Students; Classification
  A. A student who is expelled by a university shall surrender all university property. The university shall refund the deposit for any property to...
• § 15-1633 Use Of University Resources Or Employees To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalty; Definitions
  A. A person acting on behalf of a university or a person who aids another person acting on behalf of a university shall not...
• § 15-1634 Intergovernmental Agreements; Special Assessments
  A. Pursuant to section 48-582 or 48-920 or in conjunction with any street improvement made pursuant to any other statute, the board on behalf...
• § 15-1635 University Research Development Purposes; Product Development; Corporations
  A. In order to stimulate the flow of capital into the development of specific products which have advanced beyond the theoretical stage and are...
• § 15-1635.01 Transfer Of Technology Developed By Universities; Intellectual Property Policies; Officer Or Employee Interest In Private Entity
  A. To encourage the exchange of technological expertise, new research development and other valuable information between private enterprise and the university system in this...
• § 15-1636 Lease Of Real Property And Improvements In Research Park; Prohibited And Permitted Uses
  A. The board shall not lease real property located in an area defined as a research park pursuant to section 35-701 unless the lease...
• § 15-1637 Lease Of Property For Health Care Institution; Requirements; Conditions; Reports; Directors, Members And Officers Of Nonprofit Corporation; Definition
  A. The Arizona board of regents may lease real property, improvements or personal property owned by the board to a nonprofit corporation as lessee...
• § 15-1638 Disclosure Of Records And Other Matters; Exception; Definition
  A. A nonprofit corporation that is a lessee pursuant to section 15-1637, subsection A shall disclose and make available records and other matters in...
• § 15-1639 University Recruitment And Retention Program For Economically Disadvantaged, Minority And Underrepresented Student Populations
  A. The three universities under the jurisdiction of the board of regents shall each establish a comprehensive plan to initiate new programs and expand...
• § 15-1640 Public Records Exemptions; Confidential Information; Historical Records; Donor Records
  A. The following records of a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents are exempt from title 39, chapter 1, article...
• § 15-1641 University Collegiate Special Plate Funds; Purpose
  A. The Arizona board of regents shall establish a separate university collegiate special plate fund for each university, as described in section 15-1601, consisting...
• § 15-1642 Financial Aid Trust Fund; Aid To Students With Verifiable Financial Need; Endowment
  A. The Arizona board of regents may establish a financial aid trust fund for the purposes of providing immediate aid to students with verifiable...
• § 15-1643 Arizona Area Health Education System; Centers; Governing Boards; Duties
  A. The Arizona board of regents shall establish the Arizona area health education system in the college of medicine of the university of Arizona....
• § 15-1644 Statewide Commission; Membership; Qualifications; Duties; Compensation; Staffing
  A. The Arizona board of regents shall appoint a statewide area health education centers commission consisting of not fewer than ten members and not...
• § 15-1645 Health Professions Field Scholarships; Purpose; Amount; Repayment; Definition
  A. Each area health education center located in this state may grant and administer a scholarship in an amount of not more than eight...
• § 15-1646 Board Of Regents And University Scholarships; Notification Requirements
  The universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall establish policies that ensure fair and equitable access by Arizona students from...
• § 15-1647 Distribution Of Licensing And Patent Income; Arizona State University; Report
  A. Notwithstanding any other law, Arizona state university shall distribute the gross or net income derived from the licensing and other revenues derived from...
• § 15-1648 Technology And Research Initiative Fund; Purpose
  A. The technology and research initiative fund is established consisting of revenues transferred to the fund pursuant to section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 2....
• § 15-1649 Fingerprinting Academic And Nonacademic Personnel; Civil Immunity; Definitions
  A. The finalist for a security or safety-sensitive position at a university that is under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall...
• § 15-1650 Annual Financial Aid Report
  A. On or before December 1 of each year, the Arizona board of regents shall submit to the governor, the president of the senate,...
• § 15-1650.02 Energy And Water Savings Accounts
  The Arizona board of regents may establish an energy and water savings account in the same manner as a school district pursuant to section...

Article 3 Teacher Training Schools

• § 15-1651 Teacher Training Schools
  A. Every teacher training school established in connection with the state universities shall be a part of the school system and a branch of...
• § 15-1652 Management And Expenses
  A. Every teacher training school shall be under the supervision and management of the Arizona board of regents. All teachers in the school, except...
• § 15-1653 Authority To Prescribe Rules Governing Admission And Attendance
  The Arizona board of regents and the governing board of the school district in which a teacher training school is located shall jointly prescribe...
• § 15-1654 Qualifications For Admission To Teacher Training Program
  On or before January 1, 1993, each university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall establish qualifications for entrance into the...

Article 4 Financial Provisions

• § 15-1661 Annual Appropriation; Enrollment Audit; Expenditure; Balance; Salaries
  A. There shall be appropriated in the general appropriation bill for each fiscal year a sum of monies not less than eighty-five one-hundredths of...
• § 15-1662 Universities; Funds And Accounts
  A. The state treasurer shall maintain the following separate permanent funds and accounts: 1. Universities land fund established by section 37-522. Distributions from the...
• § 15-1663 Expenditure Of Land Funds; Eminent Scholars Matching Grant Fund
  A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the Arizona board of regents may expend, as it deems expedient and as is...
• § 15-1664 Expenditure Of Monies
  All monies for the use and benefit of an institution under its jurisdiction shall be expended under the direction and control of the Arizona...
• § 15-1665 Acceptance Of Federal And Other Monies
  The Arizona board of regents may accept grants of monies from the United States or any of its officers or agencies designated or created...
• § 15-1666 Federal Monies; Deposit And Expenditure
  Monies obtained by the universities from the United States under special acts of Congress for specific purposes shall be deposited in a special fund...
• § 15-1667 Federal Aid To Experiment Stations
  The state assents to the provisions and accepts the benefits of the act of Congress entitled " an act to authorize the more complete...
• § 15-1668 Deposits Of Universities Monies To Be Secured; Exception
  A. Monies deposited by the universities shall be secured by regularly issued and interest-bearing bonds of the United States government or state, county, municipal...
• § 15-1669 Payment Of Salaries; Sick Leave
  A. The Arizona board of regents may provide for payment of annual salaries of any person appointed or employed as provided in section 15-1626,...
• § 15-1670 Appropriation For University Research Infrastructure Facilities; Definition
  A. In fiscal years 2007-2008 through 2030-2031, the following sums are appropriated each year from the state general fund to the respective universities for...

Article 5 Issuance of Bonds

• § 15-1681 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Acquire" includes to purchase, lease, lease-purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, raze, remodel, repair, replace,...
• § 15-1682 Powers
  The board shall have power for each institution, as defined in this article, to: 1. Acquire, if authorized by the legislature, any project or...
• § 15-1682.01 Lease-Purchase Agreements
  A. Any lease-purchase agreement executed by the board relating to land acquisition, capital projects, energy systems or energy management systems shall provide that: 1....
• § 15-1682.02 Indirect And Third Party Financing; Review; Reporting
  A. The board may secure indirect or third party financing for any project if the following conditions are met: 1. The term of the...
• § 15-1682.03 University Capital Improvement Lease-To-own And Bond Fund; Lease-To-own And Bond Capital Improvement Agreements
  A. The university capital improvement lease-to-own and bond fund is established consisting of the monies provided by the Arizona board of regents pursuant to...
• § 15-1683 Issuance Of Bonds
  A. The board shall have power, and is hereby authorized from time to time, to issue bonds: 1. To acquire any one project, or...
• § 15-1684 Refunding Bonds
  The board shall have power, and is hereby authorized from time to time, to issue refunding bonds: 1. To refund unpaid matured bonds. 2....
• § 15-1685 Security Of Bonds
  In connection with the issuance of any bonds under this article, and in order to secure the payment of any such bonds and the...
• § 15-1686 Effect On Bonds Authorized But Unissued
  All acts granting authority to the board to construct or acquire any buildings, projects or facilities and to issue bonds therefor shall be kept...
• § 15-1687 Enforcement Of Contract
  The provisions of this article and of any resolution or other proceeding authorizing the issuance of bonds shall constitute a contract with the holders...
• § 15-1688 Monies Of The Board
  No monies derived from the sale of bonds issued under the provisions of this article or pledged or assigned to or in trust for...
• § 15-1689 Validity Of Bonds
  The bonds bearing the signatures of officers of the board in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding...
• § 15-1690 Prohibitions Against Obligating State Of Arizona
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the board to contract a debt on behalf of, or in any way to obligate,...
• § 15-1691 Bonds; Obligations Of Board
  All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be obligations of the board issuing such bonds, payable only in accordance with the terms thereof,...
• § 15-1692 Certification Of Bonds By Attorney General
  The board may submit to the attorney general of the state of Arizona any bonds to be issued hereunder after all proceedings for the...
• § 15-1693 Bonds As Legal Investments
  The state and all counties, cities, towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public officers of any thereof, all banks,...
• § 15-1694 Excision Of Unconstitutional And Ineffective Parts Of Article
  It is hereby declared that the sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this article are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement and...
• § 15-1695 Supplemental Nature Of Article; Construction And Purpose
  The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, general or special,...

Article 7 Medical Student Loans

• § 15-1721 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Board" means the board of medical student loans. 2. " GDP price deflator" means...
• § 15-1722 Board Of Medical Student Loans; Members; Terms; Officers; Compensation
  A. The board of medical student loans is established and consists of the following eight members: 1. Two members who are appointed by the...
• § 15-1723 Medical Student Loans; Amount; Qualifications; Requirements
  A. The board may grant loans from the medical student loan fund established by section 15-1725 to defray the expenses of the medical education...
• § 15-1724 Medical Student Loans; Interest; Obligations; Penalty; Authority Of Attorney General
  A. Each applicant who is approved for a loan by the board may be granted a loan for a period of up to five...
• § 15-1725 Medical Student Loan Fund
  A. The medical student loan fund is established. The department of health services shall administer the fund. All payments of principal and interest shall...

Article 8 Compact for Western Regional Cooperation in Higher Education

• § 15-1741 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Board" means the Arizona board of regents or its successor. 2. " Commission" means...
• § 15-1742 Authority Of Governor To Enter Compact; Terms Of Compact
  The governor, for and in behalf of the state, may enter into compacts for western regional cooperation in higher education with the states of...
• § 15-1743 Authorizing Agreements For Education Of Arizona Students Outside Compact Area; Limitations
  A. The western interstate commission for higher education is authorized to act on behalf of this state in making arrangements for the placement of...
• § 15-1744 Processing And Certification Of Students
  A. The board shall, within the limitations and on the terms fixed by the commission and by this article, determine the number of students...
• § 15-1745 Contract With Student Certified By Board
  A. Before certifying a student to the commission the board, on behalf of this state, shall enter into a written contract with the student....
• § 15-1746 Collections Revolving Fund; Expenditures; Employment Of Legal Counsel; Exemption From Lapsing
  A. A collections revolving fund is established which consists of: 1. Monies repaid to the board as provided in section 15-1745. 2. Monies which...
• § 15-1747 Reciprocity Agreement For Distance Education; Definition
  A. The Arizona board of regents, community college districts and the state board for private postsecondary education, through intergovernmental agreement, may enter into an...

Article 9 Medical Programs

• § 15-1751 Positions At The University Of Arizona
  The university of Arizona school of medicine shall give priority consideration to applicants who demonstrate a willingness to practice in medically underserved areas of...
• § 15-1753 Primary Care Disciplines; Definition
  A. The university of Arizona school of medicine shall prepare a plan with the goal of encouraging students to enter the primary care disciplines....
• § 15-1754 Rural Health Professions Program; Definition
  A. The three universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall select ten nurse practitioner students, fifteen medical students and four...
• § 15-1755 Clinical Rotations
  A public or private medical school in this state shall not prohibit a hospital from entering into an agreement to provide student clinical rotations...

Article 10 Uniform Athlete Agents Act

• § 15-1761 Short Title
  This article may be cited as the uniform athlete agents act.
• § 15-1762 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Agency contract" means an agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to...
• § 15-1763 Service Of Process; Subpoenas
  A. By acting as an athlete agent in this state, a nonresident individual constructively appoints the secretary of state as the individual's agent for...
• § 15-1764 Athlete Agents; Registration; Void Contracts
  A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, an individual may not act as an athlete agent in this state without...
• § 15-1765 Registration As Athlete Agent; Form; Requirements
  A. An applicant for registration as an athlete agent shall submit an application for registration to the secretary of state in a form prescribed...
• § 15-1766 Certificate Of Registration; Issuance Or Denial; Renewal
  A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, the secretary of state shall issue a certificate of registration to an individual...
• § 15-1767 Suspension, Revocation Or Refusal To Renew Registration
  A. The secretary of state may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a registration for conduct that would have justified denial of registration under...
• § 15-1768 Temporary Registration
  The secretary of state may issue a temporary certificate of registration while an application for registration or renewal of registration pursuant to this article...
• § 15-1769 Registration And Renewal Fees
  An application for registration or renewal of registration shall be accompanied by the payment to the secretary of state of a fee in the...
• § 15-1770 Required Form Of Contract
  A. An agency contract shall be a record that is signed or otherwise authenticated by the parties. B. An agency contract shall state or...
• § 15-1771 Notice To Educational Institution
  A. Within seventy-two hours after entering into an agency contract or before the next scheduled athletic event in which the student athlete may participate,...
• § 15-1772 Student Athlete's Right To Cancel Contract
  A. A student athlete may cancel an agency contract by giving notice of the cancellation to the athlete agent in a record within fourteen...
• § 15-1773 Required Records
  A. An athlete agent shall retain all of the following records for a period of five years: 1. The name and address of each...
• § 15-1774 Prohibited Conduct; Violation; Classification
  A. It is unlawful for an athlete agent, with the intent to induce a student athlete to enter into an agency contract, to engage...
• § 15-1775 Civil Remedies
  A. An educational institution may bring a cause of action against an athlete agent or a former student athlete for damages caused by a...
• § 15-1776 Administrative Penalties
  The secretary of state may assess a civil penalty against an athlete agent in an amount of not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for...

Article 11 Mathematics, Science and Special Education Teacher Student Loan Program

• § 15-1781 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Commission" means the commission for postsecondary education. 2. " Qualified applicant" or " qualified...
• § 15-1782 Mathematics, Science, Special Education And Elementary Education Teacher Student Loans; Requirements; Report
  A. The commission may grant loans from the mathematics, science and special education teacher student loan fund established by section 15-1784 to defray tuition,...
• § 15-1783 Mathematics, Science, Special Education And Elementary Education Teacher Student Loans; Interest; Obligations; Repayment; Authority Of Attorney General
  A. Each applicant who is approved for a loan by the commission may be granted a loan for a period of up to five...
• § 15-1784 Mathematics, Science And Special Education Teacher Student Loan Fund
  A. The mathematics, science and special education teacher student loan fund is established. All monies appropriated to carry out the purposes of sections 15-1782...
• § 15-1785 Program Termination
  The program established by this article ends on July 1, 2017 pursuant to section 41-3102.

Chapter 14 PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND PRIVATE POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS
Article 1 Classification of Students for Tuition Purposes

• § 15-1801 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Armed forces of the United States" means the army, the navy, the air force,...
• § 15-1802 In‑state Student Status
  A. Except as otherwise provided in this article, no person having a domicile elsewhere than in this state is eligible for classification as an...
• § 15-1802.01 County Residency Status; Community College Districts
  A. Each community college district shall adopt policies regarding domicile requirements that include, at a minimum, the following: 1. Each student shall have the...
• § 15-1803 Alien In‑state Student Status
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. An alien is entitled to classification as an in-state refugee student if such person has been granted refugee...
• § 15-1804 Presumptions Relating To Student Status; Definition
  A. Unless the contrary appears to the satisfaction of the registering authority of the community college or university at which a student is registering,...
• § 15-1805 Student Status Guidelines
  A. The Arizona board of regents shall adopt guidelines applicable to all institutions under their jurisdiction that will ensure uniform criteria to aid the...
• § 15-1805.01 Admissions; Enrollments; Community Colleges
  A. Admissions to the community colleges in this state may be granted to any person who meets any one of the following criteria: 1....
• § 15-1806 Testimony Concerning Student Status; Designation Of Persons To Administer Oaths
  The Arizona board of regents and each community college district shall designate a person employed at each institution under their respective jurisdictions to administer...
• § 15-1807 Concurrent Enrollment; Nonresident Tuition
  A. It is unlawful for any nonresident student to register concurrently in two or more public institutions of higher education in this state including...
• § 15-1808 Tuition Waiver For Child Or Spouse Of Peace Officer, Correctional Officer, Firefighter, Emergency Paramedic, National Guard Member Or Member Of The United States Armed Forces Killed In The Line Of Duty; National Guard Members With Disabilities; United States Armed Forces Members With Disabilities; Definitions
  A. The board of regents, after verification by the Arizona peace officers memorial board, by the Arizona fire fighters and emergency paramedics memorial board,...
• § 15-1809 Tuition Waiver For Persons Formerly In Foster Care; Pilot Program; Report; Definition
  (Rpld. 7/1/18) A. The Arizona board of regents shall develop a five-year pilot program to provide a tuition waiver scholarship at any university under...

Article 2 Admission of Students

• § 15-1821 Special Admission Of Students Under Age Eighteen; Enrollment Information; Reports
  A. Each community college district board shall adopt policies that require community colleges under its jurisdiction to admit students under age eighteen who have...
• § 15-1821.01 Dual Enrollment Information
  On a determination by a community college district governing board that it is in the best interest of the citizens of a district, the...
• § 15-1822 Report; Academic Performance Of High School Graduates
  A. On or before October 31, each community college district and the Arizona board of regents shall submit a report to the president of...
• § 15-1823 Identification Numbers; Social Security Numbers
  A. From and after June 30, 2002, if a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents assigns an individual identification number...
• § 15-1824 Transfer Articulation; Course Numbering; Reports
  A. The community college districts and universities shall cooperate in operating a statewide articulation and transfer system, including the process for transfer of lower...
• § 15-1825 Prohibited Financial Assistance; Report
  (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. A person who is not a citizen of the United States, who is without lawful immigration status and...

Article 3 Vocational Programs

• § 15-1831 Information On Persons Who Have Completed Vocational Programs; Definitions
  A. The center for vocational education shall: 1. By the end of each calendar year publish and distribute a report of the placement rates...

Article 4 Selective Service Registration and Student Loan Repayment

• § 15-1841 Selective Service Registration; Applicability
  A. Except as provided in subsection B, a person is not eligible for any financial aid by the state from the expenditure of public...

Article 5 Commission for Postsecondary Education

• § 15-1851 Commission For Postsecondary Education; Purpose; Report; Members; Terms; Powers And Duties; Compensation; Quorum; Immunity; Definition
  A. The commission for postsecondary education is established and shall administer the applicable programs identified under section 1203 of the higher education act amendments...
• § 15-1852 Additional Powers And Duties
  A. In addition to the powers and duties prescribed in section 15-1851, the commission for postsecondary education shall: 1. Meet at least four times...
• § 15-1853 Funding; Federal Monies; Postsecondary Education Fund
  A. The postsecondary education fund is established consisting of: 1. Monies appropriated by the legislature. 2. Monies received from state agencies and political subdivisions...
• § 15-1854 Private Postsecondary Education Student Financial Assistance Program; Fund; Definition
  A. A private postsecondary education student financial assistance program is established. The commission shall develop, implement and administer the program. A student who obtains...
• § 15-1855 Postsecondary Education Grant Program; Fund; Program Termination; Definition
  A. The commission for postsecondary education shall develop, implement and administer a postsecondary education grant program. The commission shall develop application forms, procedures and...
• § 15-1856 Leveraging Educational Assistance Program; Criteria
  A student in this state is not eligible to participate in the leveraging educational assistance program established by section 1203 of the higher education...

Article 6 Students' Rights

• § 15-1861 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Community college" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15-1401. 2. " Public forum"...
• § 15-1862 Rights Of Students At Universities And Community Colleges
  A. A university or community college shall not discriminate against a student on the basis of the student's religious viewpoint, expression or belief. B....
• § 15-1863 Student Organizations; Recognition; Rights
  A. A university or community college that grants recognition to any student organization or group may not discriminate against or deny recognition, equal access...
• § 15-1864 Students' Right To Speak In A Public Forum
  A. A university or community college shall not restrict a student's right to speak, including verbal speech, holding a sign or distributing fliers or...

Article 7 College Savings Plan

• § 15-1871 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Account" means an individual trust account in the fund established as prescribed in this...
• § 15-1872 Family College Savings Program Oversight Committee; Membership; Powers And Duties
  A. The family college savings program oversight committee is established in the commission for postsecondary education. The committee consists of the following members: 1....
• § 15-1873 Commission For Postsecondary Education; Powers And Duties; Family College Savings Program Trust Fund
  A. The commission shall: 1. Develop and implement the program in a manner consistent with this article through the adoption of rules, guidelines and...
• § 15-1874 Use Of Contractor As Account Depository And Manager
  A. The commission shall implement the operation of the program through the use of one or more financial institutions to act as the depositories...
• § 15-1875 Program Requirements
  A. The program shall be operated through the use of accounts in the fund established by account owners. Payments to the fund for participation...
• § 15-1876 Higher Education Expenses; Exemption From Taxation
  Notwithstanding any other law, the amount of any distribution to a designated beneficiary, as defined in section 529(e)(1) of the internal revenue code, from...
• § 15-1877 Scholarships And Financial Aid Provisions
  A. Any student loan program, student grant program or other financial assistance program established or administered by this state shall treat the balance in...
• § 15-1878 Limitations Of Article
  A. Nothing in this article shall be construed to: 1. Give any designated beneficiary any rights or legal interest with respect to an account...
• § 15-1879 Annual Report
  The commission shall submit an annual report to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate and the governor by...

Article 8 Fingerprinting of Students

• § 15-1881 Postsecondary Health Sciences Programs; Definitions
  A. A program in a public or private postsecondary institution that requires clinical training in hospitals or other health care facilities as part of...

Article 9 College Course Materials Information

• § 15-1891 College Course Materials; Information; Definitions
  A. The publisher of course materials shall provide the following written information in accordance with the policies adopted by the Arizona board of regents...

Article 10 Voting Information for Postsecondary Students

• § 15-1895 Voting Information; Postsecondary Students
  The Arizona board of regents in consultation with the recognized student government of the universities under its jurisdiction and each community college district governing...

Article 11 Faculty Employment Decisions

• § 15-1896 Faculty Employment Decisions; Religious And Political Beliefs; Definitions
  A. In making employment decisions, a university or community college shall take into account a faculty member's competence and appropriate knowledge in the field...

Chapter 15 INTERSTATE COMPACTS
Article 1 Compact for Education

• § 15-1901 Authority Of Governor To Enter Compact; Terms Of Compact For Education; Termination Of State's Participation
  The governor is authorized in the name of this state to join with other states legally joining in the compact for education, which compact...

Article 2 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children

• § 15-1911 Authority To Enter Compact; Terms Of Interstate Compact On Educational Opportunity For Military Children
  ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of...

Chapter 16 SCHOOL CAPITAL FINANCE
Article 1 School Facilities Board

• § 15-2001 School Facilities Board; Conflict Of Interest
  A. The school facilities board is established consisting of the following members who shall be appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38-211 in...
• § 15-2002 Powers And Duties; Executive Director; Staffing; Report
  A. The school facilities board shall: 1. Make assessments of school facilities and equipment deficiencies and approve the distribution of grants as appropriate. 2....
• § 15-2003 Capital Reserve Fund
  A. A capital reserve fund is established consisting of monies that are credited to the fund from the new school facilities fund established by...
• § 15-2004 School Facilities Board Lease‑to‑own; Fund; Expiration
  A. In order to fulfill the requirements of section 15-2041, the school facilities board may acquire school facilities for the use of one or...
• § 15-2005 Local Lease‑to‑own By School Districts; Expiration
  A. In order to fulfill the requirements of section 15-2041, with the approval of the school facilities board, a school district may acquire school...
• § 15-2006 Lease‑to‑own Amount; Expiration
  A. In order to fulfill the requirements of section 15-2041, the school facilities board may enter into lease-to-own transactions for up to a maximum...

Article 2 Building Adequacy Standards

• § 15-2011 Minimum School Facility Adequacy Requirements; Definition
  A. The school facilities board, as determined and prescribed in this chapter, shall provide funding to school districts for new construction as the number...

Article 3 Deficiencies Correction

• § 15-2022 Emergency Deficiencies Correction Fund; Definition
  A. An emergency deficiencies correction fund is established consisting of monies transferred from the new school facilities fund established by section 15-2041. The school...

Article 4 Building Renewal

• § 15-2032 School Facilities Board Building Renewal Grant Fund; Definitions
  A. The building renewal grant fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund by the legislature. The school facilities board shall administer...

Article 5 New School Facilities

• § 15-2041 New School Facilities Fund; Capital Plan; Report
  A. A new school facilities fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature and monies credited to the fund pursuant to section...
• § 15-2042 Access Our Best Public Schools Fund
  The access our best public schools fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature and grants, gifts, devises and donations from any...

Article 6 State School Facilities Revenue Bonds

• § 15-2051 Authorization Of State School Facilities Revenue Bonds
  A. The school facilities board may issue negotiable revenue bonds pursuant to this article. If authorized by the legislature, bonds may be issued under...
• § 15-2052 Issuance And Sale Of Revenue Bonds
  A. The school facilities board shall issue the bonds in the number and amount provided in the resolution. B. The bonds shall be sold...
• § 15-2053 School Facilities Revenue Bond Proceeds Fund; Use For New School Facilities
  A. If the school facilities board issues revenue bonds under this article, the board shall establish a school facilities revenue bond proceeds fund consisting...
• § 15-2054 School Facilities Revenue Bond Debt Service Fund
  A. The school facilities board shall establish a school facilities revenue bond debt service fund consisting of monies transferred to the fund pursuant to...
• § 15-2055 Securing Principal And Interest
  A. In connection with issuing bonds authorized by this article and to secure the principal and interest on the bonds, the school facilities board...
• § 15-2056 Lien Of Pledge
  A. Any pledge made under this article is valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. B. The monies so pledged...
• § 15-2057 Bond Purchase; Cancellation
  The school facilities board may purchase bonds for cancellation out of any monies available for the purchase, at a price of not more than...
• § 15-2059 Payment Of Revenue Bonds
  A. The revenue bonds shall be paid solely from monies from the school facilities revenue bond debt service fund established by section 15-2054 and...
• § 15-2060 Investment Of Monies In School Facilities Revenue Bond Proceeds Fund
  A. As provided by section 15-2062, the school facilities board may authorize the state treasurer or bond trustee to invest monies in the school...
• § 15-2061 Investment Of Monies In The School Facilities Revenue Bond Debt Service Fund
  A. The school facilities board may authorize the state treasurer or bond trustee to invest and reinvest any monies in the school facilities revenue...
• § 15-2062 Authorized Investments Of Fund Monies
  A. On notice from the school facilities board, the state treasurer or bond trustee shall invest and divest monies in either the school facilities...
• § 15-2064 Characteristics Of Bonds; Negotiable; Exemption From Taxation; Obligation; Legal Investments
  A. Bonds issued under this article are fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the uniform commercial code, subject only to...
• § 15-2065 Effect Of Changing Circumstances On Bonds; Agreement Of State
  A. Bonds issued under this article remain valid and binding obligations of the board notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds any of...
• § 15-2066 Validity Of Bonds; Certification By Attorney General
  A. This article constitutes full authority for authorizing and issuing bonds without reference to any other law of this state. No other law with...

Article 7 State School Improvement Revenue Bonds

• § 15-2081 Authorization Of State School Improvement Revenue Bonds; Expiration
  A. The school facilities board may issue revenue bonds in a principal amount not to exceed eight hundred million dollars pursuant to this article....
• § 15-2082 Issuance And Sale Of School Improvement Revenue Bonds
  A. The school facilities board shall issue the school improvement revenue bonds in the number and amount provided in the resolution. B. The bonds...
• § 15-2083 School Improvement Revenue Bond Proceeds Fund; Use For School Improvements
  A. If the school facilities board issues revenue bonds under this article, the board shall establish a school improvement revenue bond proceeds fund consisting...
• § 15-2084 School Improvement Revenue Bond Debt Service Fund
  A. The school facilities board shall establish a school improvement revenue bond debt service fund consisting of monies received by the school facilities board...
• § 15-2085 Securing Principal And Interest
  A. In connection with issuing bonds authorized by this article and to secure the principal and interest on the bonds, the school facilities board...
• § 15-2086 Lien Of Pledge
  A. Any pledge made under this article is valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. B. The monies so pledged...
• § 15-2087 Bond Purchase; Cancellation
  The school facilities board may purchase bonds for cancellation out of any monies available for the purchase at a price of not more than...
• § 15-2088 Payment Of Revenue Bonds
  A. The revenue bonds shall be paid solely from monies from the school improvement revenue bond debt service fund established pursuant to section 15-2084...
• § 15-2089 Investment Of Monies In School Improvement Revenue Bond Proceeds Fund
  A. As provided by section 15-2091, the school facilities board may authorize the state treasurer or bond trustee to invest monies in the school...
• § 15-2090 Investment Of Monies In The School Improvement Revenue Bond Debt Service Fund
  A. The school facilities board may authorize the state treasurer or bond trustee to invest and reinvest any monies in the school improvement revenue...
• § 15-2091 Authorized Investments Of Fund Monies
  A. On notice from the school facilities board, the state treasurer or bond trustee shall invest and divest monies in either the school improvement...
• § 15-2093 Characteristics Of Bonds; Negotiable; Exemption From Taxation; Obligation; Legal Investments
  A. Bonds issued under this article are fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the uniform commercial code, subject only to...
• § 15-2094 Effect Of Changing Circumstances On Bonds; Agreement Of State
  A. Bonds issued under this article remain valid and binding obligations of the board notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds any of...
• § 15-2095 Validity Of Bonds; Certification By Attorney General
  A. This article constitutes full authority for authorizing and issuing bonds without reference to any other law of this state. No other law with...

Article 8 Impact Aid Revenue Bonds

• § 15-2101 Definition
  For the purposes of this article, " impact and revenues" means the revenues received by the school district pursuant to 20 United States Code...
• § 15-2102 Authorization Of School District Impact Aid Revenue Bonds
  A. On voter approval pursuant to section 15-491, a school district governing board may issue negotiable impact aid revenue bonds pursuant to this article....
• § 15-2103 Issuance And Sale Of Impact Aid Revenue Bonds
  A. The governing board shall issue the bonds in the number and amount provided in the resolution. B. The bonds shall be sold at...
• § 15-2104 Impact Aid Revenue Bond Building And Debt Service Funds
  A. If a school district issues impact aid revenue bonds under this article, the governing board shall establish: 1. An impact aid revenue bond...
• § 15-2105 Securing Principal And Interest
  To secure the principal and interest on the impact aid revenue bonds, the governing board by resolution may: 1. Segregate the impact aid revenue...
• § 15-2106 Cancellation Of Unsold Impact Aid Revenue Bonds
  A. If an impact aid revenue bond issue remains unsold for six months after being offered for sale, the governing board of the school...
• § 15-2107 Payment Of Impact Aid Revenue Bonds; Use Of Surplus Monies
  A. The impact aid revenue bonds shall be paid solely from monies distributed to the school district from impact aid revenues and other monies...
• § 15-2108 Investment Of Monies In Impact Aid Revenue Bond Building Fund
  A. If monies in the impact aid revenue bond building fund are not required to be used for a period of ten days or...
• § 15-2109 Investment Of Monies In Impact Aid Revenue Bond Debt Service Fund
  A. The governing board may authorize the investment and reinvestment of any monies in the school district's impact aid revenue bond debt service fund....
• § 15-2110 Authorized Investments Of Fund Monies
  A. The monies in either the impact aid revenue bond building fund or debt service fund may be invested and reinvested at the direction...
• § 15-2111 Audit
  A. The governing board shall cause an annual audit to be made of the impact aid revenue bond building fund and the impact aid...
• § 15-2112 Lien Of Pledge
  A. Any pledge made under this article is valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. B. The monies so pledged...
• § 15-2113 Characteristics Of Bonds; Negotiable; Exemption From Taxation; Obligation; Legal Investments
  A. Bonds issued under this article are fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the uniform commercial code, subject only to...
• § 15-2114 Effect Of Changing Circumstances On Bonds; Agreement Of State
  A. Bonds issued under this article remain valid and binding obligations of the school district notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds any...
• § 15-2115 Validity Of Bonds; Certification By Attorney General
  A. This article constitutes full authority for authorizing and issuing bonds without reference to any other law of this state. No other law with...

Article 9 Indoor Air Quality in Schools

• § 15-2131 Definitions
  In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " HVAC system" means the equipment, distribution network and terminals that provide, either collectively or...
• § 15-2132 Indoor Air Quality Requirements
  A. When the school facilities board approves the construction of a school building, the school facilities board shall conduct an environmental site assessment. The...

Chapter 18 HAZING PREVENTION POLICIES
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-2301 Hazing Prevention Policies; Definitions
  A. Every public educational institution in this state shall adopt, post and enforce a hazing prevention policy. The hazing prevention policy shall be printed...

Chapter 19 ARIZONA EMPOWERMENT SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNTS
Article 1 General Provisions

• § 15-2401 Definitions
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Curriculum" means a complete course of study for a particular content area or grade...
• § 15-2402 Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts; Funds
  A. Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts are established to provide options for the education of students in this state. B. To enroll a qualified student...
• § 15-2403 Empowerment Scholarship Accounts; Administration; Audit; Rules
  A. The treasurer may contract with private financial management firms to manage Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts with the supervision of the treasurer. B. The...
• § 15-2404 State Control Over Nonpublic Schools; Prohibition; Application
  A. This chapter does not permit any government agency to exercise control or supervision over any nonpublic school or homeschool. B. A qualified school...

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