California Education Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 16700.
  This chapter may be cited as the “Urban School Construction Aid Law of 1968.”(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997....
• Section 16701.
  The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the interest of the state and of the people thereof for the state to aid urban school...
• Section 16702.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Board” means the State Allocation Board.(b) “Director” means the Director of Education.(c) “Project” means the purpose or purposes for which a school district...
• Section 16703.
  The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch....
• Section 16704.
  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 16705.
  The board by the adoption of rules shall give priority in allocating funds to urban districts to those districts where the children will benefit most...
• Section 16706.
  In addition to any other powers and duties that are granted the board by this chapter, the board shall:(a) Establish any qualifications not in conflict with...
• Section 16707.
  The board shall prescribe instructions specifying the manner in which property, real or personal, being replaced through the apportionment, shall be disposed of, and compliance...
• Section 16708.
  Apportionments from the Urban School Construction Aid Fund created by Section 16728 shall be limited to urban districts and shall be made for the sole...
• Section 16709.
  The board shall not make any apportionment with respect to an application for replacing inadequate school facilities unless it has first investigated and made a...
• Section 16710.
  In addition to the purposes for which apportionments may be made to school districts under Section 16708, apportionments may also be made to school districts...
• Section 16711.
  (a) In making applications for, and in expending apportionments of funds under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all...
• Section 16712.
  A school district shall not expend money apportioned under this chapter unless the contracts under which the funds are expended have been let after competitive...
• Section 16713.
  Each school district which desires an apportionment shall submit through its governing board to the board an application therefor in the form and number of...
• Section 16714.
  The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 19263 and in any amount, not exceeding...
• Section 16715.
  No apportionment shall be made for new construction, the area of which exceeds the area of the unsafe buildings being replaced under Section 16708. The...
• Section 16716.
  Payment shall be made in accordance with the terms of an apportionment, either directly or by way of reimbursement, to a school district for expenditures,...
• Section 16717.
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the board, with the approval of the Director of General Services, shall, pursuant to this section, fix the rate...
• Section 16718.
  Apportionments may be made irrespective of whether there is on deposit at the time thereof a sufficient amount in the Urban School Construction Aid Fund...
• Section 16719.
  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 16720.
  Each district to which an apportionment or apportionments has been made under this chapter shall repay a portion or all of the principal amount of...
• Section 16721.
  The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following that in which he determines the annual repayment as herein provided, deduct the total amount of...
• Section 16722.
  The Controller shall determine and maintain a record of the amount due the state in connection with each apportionment made to a district under this...
• Section 16723.
  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 16724.
  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 16725.
  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 16726.
  An urban school construction fund is hereby created in the county treasury in each county for each school district in the county. The county treasurer...
• Section 16727.
  Interest earned on those portions of deposits in an urban school construction fund representing allocations from the proceeds of state school reconstruction and replacement bonds...
• Section 16728.
  A fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the Urban School Construction Aid Fund. All money in the Urban School...
• Section 16729.
  The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall expend the moneys in the urban school...
• Section 16731.
  It shall be the duty of the Controller to make any audit or audits of the books and records of counties and school districts receiving...
• Section 16732.
  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 16733.
  (a) As used in this chapter:(1) “State-aided district” means a district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter.(2) “Acquiring district” means a district in which...
• Section 16734.
  Whenever, subsequent to the date of an apportionment to a district, the state-aided district is included in whole or in part in another district, the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018