California Education Code ARTICLE 1 - Reorganization of School Districts by the Electorate

• Section 35700.
  An action to reorganize one or more districts is initiated upon the filing, with the county superintendent of schools, of a petition to reorganize one...
• Section 35700.1.
  (a) A county superintendent of schools may do any of the following, as necessary, with respect to the reorganization of school districts within the jurisdiction of...
• Section 35700.3.
  A petition filed under Section 35700 shall be required to reasonably identify the territory to be reorganized, which identification may include references to streets or...
• Section 35700.5.
  Before initiating proceedings to consider any reorganization plan, the county committee on school district organization shall provide written notice of the proposed action to the...
• Section 35701.
  In any petition to reorganize school districts there shall be designated no more than three of the petitioners as chief petitioners for the purpose of...
• Section 35702.
  The persons securing the signatures to a petition of electors to reorganize school districts shall attach thereto an affidavit that all persons who signed the...
• Section 35703.
  Any petition filed under this article may include any of the appropriate provisions specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 35730).(Repealed and added by Stats....
• Section 35704.
  The county superintendent of schools, within 30 days after any petition for reorganization is filed, shall examine the petition and, if he or she finds...
• Section 35705.
  Within 60 days after receipt of the petition, the county committee shall hold one or more public hearings thereon at a regular or special meeting...
• Section 35705.5.
  (a) The county committee may add to the petition any of the appropriate provisions specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 35730) that were not included...
• Section 35706.
  (a) Within 120 days of the commencement of the first public hearing on the petition, the county committee shall recommend approval or disapproval of a petition...
• Section 35706.5.
  (a) No action to reorganize a school district shall be initiated or completed without the consent of a majority of all of the members of the...
• Section 35707.
  (a) Except for petitions for the transfer of territory, the county committee shall expeditiously transmit the petition to the State Board of Education together with its...
• Section 35708.
  Except for a petition to form one or more new districts approved pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 35710, a petition transmitted pursuant to Section...
• Section 35709.
  If the following conditions are met, the county committee may approve the petition and order that the petition be granted, and shall so notify the...
• Section 35710.
  (a) For all other petitions to transfer territory, if the county committee finds that the conditions enumerated in paragraphs (1) to (10), inclusive, of subdivision (a)...
• Section 35710.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an election may not be called to vote on a petition to transfer territory if the election area for...
• Section 35710.3.
  A county committee shall be the lead agency, as defined in Section 21067 of the Public Resources Code, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality...
• Section 35710.5.
  (a) An action by the county committee approving or disapproving a petition pursuant to Section 35709, 35710, or 35710.1 may be appealed to the State Board...
• Section 35710.51.
  (a) The county superintendent of schools, within 35 days after receiving the notification provided by Section 35710, shall call an election, in the manner prescribed in...
• Section 35711.
  (a) A person questioning the finding of the county committee pursuant to Section 35709 or 35710 that the action to transfer territory or form one or...
• Section 35712.
  The State Board of Education may adopt rules and regulations for the implementation of this article, as it deems necessary.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1658,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018