California Education Code ARTICLE 7 - Definitions

• Section 70.
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• Section 71.
  “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 72.
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 73.
  The masculine gender includes the feminine.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 73.2.
  “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 27. (SB 1005) Effective January...
• Section 74.
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 75.
  “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 76.
  “Oath” includes affirmation.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 77.
  “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• Section 78.
  “Governing board” means board of school trustees, community college board of trustees, and city, and city and county board of education.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch.
• Section 79.
  “City superintendent of schools” includes the superintendent of schools of a district lying wholly or partly within a city and county.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch.
• Section 80.
  “Any school district” and “all school districts” mean school districts of every kind or class, except a community college district.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 81.
  “Union school district” means a district composed of two or more school districts situated in the same county.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 82.
  “Joint union school district” means a district composed of two or more school districts situated wholly or in part in different counties.(Enacted by Stats. 1976,...
• Section 83.
  A unified school district means a district maintaining grades kindergarten or 1 through 12. A unified district may comprise territory in more than one county.(Enacted...
• Section 84.
  “City school district” includes a school district lying wholly or partly within a city and county.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 85.
  Whenever “high school district” is used in this code, unless a contrary intent appears, it includes union high school districts, joint union high school districts,...
• Section 86.
  A high school district, other than a city high school district, comprising two or more elementary school districts lying wholly in the same county is...
• Section 87.
  A school district lying in more than one county is a joint school district.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 88.
  “State Board” or “state board” whenever used in this code means the State Board of Education, unless the context requires otherwise.(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch....
• Section 89.
  The word “department” whenever used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires, means the State Department of Education.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1059, Sec....
• Section 90.
  With respect to the personnel of school districts and other educational agencies, the terms “certificated” and “certified” have the same meaning.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch.
• Section 92.
  “County” or “counties” as used in Sections 2300, 12300 to 12307, inclusive, 41000 to 41964, inclusive, 42100 to 42128, inclusive, 46000 to 46392, inclusive, 84000...
• Section 93.
  Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations...
• Section 95.
  “Superintendent” or “superintendent” whenever used in this code means the Superintendent of Public Instruction, unless the context requires otherwise.(Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 896, Sec....

Last modified: October 22, 2018