California Education Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

  • Section 15700.
    The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the interest of the state and of the people thereof for the state to aid school districts...
  • Section 15701.
    As used in this chapter:(a) “Board” means the State Allocation Board.(b) “Director” means the Director of Education for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.(c) “Project” means the...
  • Section 15702.
    The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.(Repealed and added by Stats....
  • Section 15703.
    The State Allocation Board is continued in existence for the purposes of this chapter. The members of the board and the Members of the Legislature...
  • Section 15704.
    The board by the adoption of rules shall give priority in allocating funds to districts to those districts where the children will benefit most from...
  • Section 15705.
    In addition to any other powers and duties as are granted the board by this chapter, the board shall do each of the following:(1) Establish any...
  • Section 15706.
    Apportionment from the Public School Building Loan Fund to school districts shall be made in the manner and subject to the conditions herein provided and...
  • Section 15707.
    In addition to the purposes for which apportionments may be made to school districts under Section 15706, apportionments may also be made to school districts...
  • Section 15708.
    In making application for, and in expending, apportionments of funds under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all...
  • Section 15709.
    The board may require school districts to insure for the benefit of the state all sites, equipment, and buildings which are under Section 15708 the...
  • Section 15710.
    Where a district is required by a contract entered into between itself and a general construction contractor to obtain, at its own expense, insurance covering...
  • Section 15712.
    Funds apportioned to a school district under this chapter for a project, remaining unencumbered or unexpended one year from the date the application of the...
  • Section 15713.
    Each school district which desires an apportionment for a grade level maintained by it, shall submit through its governing board to the board an application...
  • Section 15714.
    When an apportionment has been made by the board to a school district the board may, upon application of the governing board of the district,...
  • Section 15715.
    The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 15713 and in the amount, not exceeding...
  • Section 15716.
    If, after a conditional apportionment has been made to a school district, legal proceedings initiated prior or subsequent to the making of the conditional apportionment...
  • Section 15717.
    With respect to any apportionment made to a school district prior to December 26, 1950, the board may, on the application of the governing board...
  • Section 15718.
    The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) was by Chapter 13 of the Statutes of 1952 (First Extraordinary Session) made available from the Public School...
  • Section 15719.
    No apportionment shall be made for new construction which when added to the area of adequate school construction existing in the applicant school district at...
  • Section 15721.
    No apportionment to a school district shall become final unless one of the following is satisfied:(a) The total amount of outstanding bonds of the district exceeds...
  • Section 15722.
    Immediately after the result of the election has been determined, the county superintendent of schools shall make a certificate in duplicate stating whether the bonds...
  • Section 15723.
    The election by a school district upon the acceptance, expenditure, and repayment of an apportionment prescribed by Section 15721 may be called and held either...
  • Section 15724.
    Whenever a conditional apportionment has been made, and the county auditor has inadvertently and erroneously included in his certification of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of...
  • Section 15725.
    No apportionment shall be made to a school district for any grade level if the estimated cost of the project, as approved by the Director...
  • Section 15726.
    As used in Section 15725 of the Education Code, the phrase “adjusted to the next highest one-eighth of 1 percent” means “increased by a full...
  • Section 15727.
    No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements prescribed by...
  • Section 15728.
    Each district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall repay the principal amount of the apportionment and the accrued interest thereon...
  • Section 15729.
    The following definitions apply to the computations and determinations required to be made under Sections 15730, 15732, and 15733, and they apply with respect to...
  • Section 15730.
    On or before the first day of December of each fiscal year, the Director of General Services shall determine for each grade level and certify...
  • Section 15731.
    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a school district otherwise eligible to receive a conditional apportionment under Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 16000) of...
  • Section 15732.
    On or before the first day of January of each fiscal year, the Controller shall compute for each grade level of a district for which...
  • Section 15733.
    On or before the first day of January of each fiscal year the Controller shall determine the annual repayment, if any, to be due from...
  • Section 15734.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and regardless of how many apportionments are made to a grade level of a school district under the...
  • Section 15735.
    The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following that in which he or she determines the annual repayment as herein provided, deduct the total...
  • Section 15736.
    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, whenever in any fiscal year, pursuant to Chapter 5, Part 9, Division 1 of the Revenue and...
  • Section 15737.
    (a) Upon request of the district, the Controller shall use in computing the “40-cent, 30-cent, and 10-cent tax amounts” under Section 15732 the difference between the...
  • Section 15738.
    The Controller shall make the deduction provided by Section 15735 during each fiscal year, as herein provided, until the principal amount of the apportionment made...
  • Section 15739.
    The Controller shall certify to the board the cancellation of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the apportionment. Upon receipt of the certification,...
  • Section 15740.
    The Controller shall determine and maintain a record of the amount due the state in connection with each apportionment made to each grade level of...
  • Section 15741.
    Upon computing in any fiscal year the amount to be deducted from the apportionments to the district from the State School Fund during the succeeding...
  • Section 15742.
    The board of supervisors of the county, the county superintendent of which has jurisdiction over any district which under this chapter will have moneys withheld...
  • Section 15743.
    The board shall prescribe in the detail that it deems necessary, the purposes for which moneys apportioned by it or which it requires the district...
  • Section 15744.
    Unless the board has received the certificates of the county superintendent of schools required by Section 15722 within nine months from the date of the...
  • Section 15745.
    A public school building fund is hereby created in the county treasury in each county for each school district in the county. The county treasurer...
  • Section 15746.
    The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment is made under this chapter is authorized to, and shall, transfer to the public...
  • Section 15747.
    A fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the Public School Building Loan Fund. All money in the Public School...
  • Section 15748.
    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State Allocation Board may from time to time by appropriate resolution order the transfer from the...
  • Section 15749.
    The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall expend the moneys in the public school...
  • Section 15751.
    It shall be the duty of the Controller to make the audit or audits of the books and records of counties and school districts receiving...
  • Section 15752.
    Whenever the Controller determines that any money apportioned to a school district has been expended by the school district for purposes not authorized by this...
  • Section 15753.
    Any portion of an apportionment paid to a school district under this chapter shall be available for expenditure by its governing board for not less...
  • Section 15754.
    Whenever a school district receives an apportionment under this chapter for the purchase or improvement of a school building site and within a period of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018