California Education Code ARTICLE 3 - Approvals

  • Section 17280.
    (a) (1) The Department of General Services under the police power of the state shall supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction...
  • Section 17280.1.
    Written rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article to clarify the application of the California Building Standards Code shall be made available to the...
  • Section 17280.5.
    (a) The Seismic Safety Commission shall convene an advisory committee that shall include, but not be limited to, the State Architect, the State Fire Marshall, representatives...
  • Section 17281.
    This article, together with Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365), and Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130) of Chapter 1 of Part 49, shall be...
  • Section 17282.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to expedite the repair, alteration, and reconstruction of school facilities that have been damaged or destroyed by fire,...
  • Section 17282.5.
    (a) On or before January 1, 2010, the Division of the State Architect within the Department of General Services shall develop uniform criteria for precheck approval...
  • Section 17283.
    “School building” as used in this article means and includes any building used, or designed to be used, for elementary or secondary school purposes and...
  • Section 17284.
    Any school building, as defined in Section 17283, operated by a county official, board, or commission which on the effective date of this section is...
  • Section 17284.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any waiver granted by the State Allocation Board to a school district for use of a nonconforming...
  • Section 17285.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law except Sections 17286, 17287, 17405, and this section, a leased building that does not meet the requirements of Section 17280...
  • Section 17286.
    Where the primary use of either a building or complex within which the building is situated, operated by an official or board of a city,...
  • Section 17287.
    For the purposes of this article and Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365), “school building” does not include (a) any building of a school district...
  • Section 17288.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 17285, any high school pupil who attends a class or classes on a campus of the University of California or the California State...
  • Section 17289.
    In order to provide alternative, community-based educational opportunities through independent study, any school district or county office of education may request an exemption from the...
  • Section 17291.
    (a) An owned relocatable building or structure that is to be used for school purposes shall be subject to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with...
  • Section 17292.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law, an owned or leased relocatable building that does not meet the requirements of Section 17280 may be used until September...
  • Section 17292.5.
    (a) If the governing board of a school district operates a program for expelled pupils, the governing board shall do one or more of the following:(1) Utilize...
  • Section 17293.
    (a) On or after January 1, 1993, if a county superintendent or school district elects to operate a new or expanded pregnant and parenting teen program...
  • Section 17294.
    “Construction or alteration” as used in this article includes any construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, any school building.(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch....
  • Section 17295.
    (a) (1) The Department of General Services shall pass upon and approve or reject all plans for the construction or, if the estimated cost exceeds one hundred...
  • Section 17296.
    Notwithstanding any other law, a school-based facility providing social services or support services, or health care, that is established through agreements with local governments and...
  • Section 17297.
    Except as provided in Section 17298, before letting any contract for any construction or alteration of any school building, the written approval of the plans,...
  • Section 17298.
    Before the commencement of any fabrication, construction, or alteration of a relocatable school building of a type previously approved by the Department of General Services,...
  • Section 17299.
    In each case the application for approval of the plans shall be accompanied by the plans and full, complete, and accurate specifications, and structural design...
  • Section 17300.
    (a) The application shall be accompanied by a filing fee in amounts as determined by the Department of General Services based on the estimated cost of...
  • Section 17301.
    (a) (1)  All fees received by the Department of General Services pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the...
  • Section 17302.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all plans, specifications, and estimates shall be prepared by a licensed architect holding a valid certificate under Chapter 3...
  • Section 17303.
    (a) The Department of General Services shall establish one or more methods to ensure that each application has been completed sufficiently by the applicant to enable...
  • Section 17304.
    (a) Upon approving the plans submitted by an applicant pursuant to this article, the Department of General Services shall cause a final record set of the...
  • Section 17305.
    (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this article. (1) “Prequalified list” means a list of qualified...
  • Section 17306.
    (a) Upon submitting a complete application for review under this article, the applicant may request that the Department of General Services refer the documents necessary for...
  • Section 17307.
    No contract for the construction or alteration of any school building, made or executed by the governing board of any school district or other public...
  • Section 17307.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, Title 3 (commencing with Section 9000) of Part 6 of Division 4...
  • Section 17308.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a number of serious discrepancies in the interpretation of the structural standards and architectural barrier requirements that apply to...
  • Section 17309.
    From time to time, as the work of construction or alteration progresses and whenever the Department of General Services requires, the licensed architect or structural...
  • Section 17310.
    Except as provided in Section 18930 of the Health and Safety Code, the Department of General Services may from time to time make such rules...
  • Section 17311.
    (a) The Department of General Services shall make such inspection of the school buildings and of the work of construction or alteration as in its judgment...
  • Section 17312.
    Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article or makes any false statement in any verified report or affidavit required pursuant to...
  • Section 17313.
    Upon written request by the governing board of any school district or upon written request by at least 10 percent of the parents having children...
  • Section 17314.
    Any public school building which has been approved by the Department of General Services (formerly Division of Architecture) for occupancy shall be deemed to meet...
  • Section 17315.
    (a) When a school building constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Department of General Services is completed, the notice of completion is...
  • Section 17316.
    (a) Any contract entered into by and between the governing board of any school district and any certified architect or structural engineer pursuant to Section 17302...
  • Section 17317.
    (a) The Department of General Services shall, in consultation with the Seismic Safety Commission, conduct an inventory of public school buildings that are concrete tilt-up school...

Last modified: October 22, 2018