California Education Code ARTICLE 5 - Surplus School Playground, Playing Field, and Recreational Property

• Section 17485.
  The Legislature is concerned that school playgrounds, playing fields, and recreational real property will be lost for those uses by the surrounding communities even if...
• Section 17486.
  This article shall apply to any schoolsite owned by a school district, which the governing board determines to sell or lease, and with respect to...
• Section 17487.
  As used in this article, “schoolsite” means a parcel of land, or two or more contiguous parcels, which is owned by a school district. “Governing...
• Section 17488.
  The governing board of any school district may sell or lease any schoolsite containing land described in Section 17486, and, if the governing board decides...
• Section 17489.
  (a) (1) Other than as specified in paragraph (2), and notwithstanding Section 54222 of the Government Code, the governing board of a school district, before selling or...
• Section 17490.
  In determining what portion of a schoolsite shall be offered for sale or lease pursuant to this article, the governing board may retain any part...
• Section 17491.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (e), the price at which land described in Section 17486, excluding that portion of a schoolsite retained...
• Section 17492.
  The governing body of a public agency which proposes to purchase or lease land from a school district pursuant to this article shall first make...
• Section 17493.
  (a) No public agency may purchase surplus school property from a school district pursuant to this article unless it has first adopted a plan for the...
• Section 17494.
  Any land purchased or leased by a public agency pursuant to this article shall thereafter be maintained by such agency for playground, playing field, or...
• Section 17495.
  The sale or lease of land by a school district pursuant to this article shall be subject to, and governed by, the provisions of Article...
• Section 17496.
  Failure by the school district to comply with the provisions of this article shall not invalidate the transfer or conveyance of real property to a...
• Section 17497.
  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this article, any school district governing board may designate not more than two surplus schoolsites as exempt from the provisions...
• Section 17498.
  A school district having a schoolsite described in Section 17486 may, as an alternative to sale or lease of the land pursuant to the foregoing...
• Section 17499.
  (a)No more than 30 percent of the total surplus school acreage owned by a school district may be purchased or leased by public agencies pursuant...
• Section 17500.
  This article shall not apply to any school district having more than 400,000 pupils in average daily attendance.(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 3....

Last modified: October 22, 2018