CHAPTER 1. School Districts [35000. - 35046.]

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.

§§ 35000–35046 · 34 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Naming §§ 35000–35001.1 · 3 sections

   • § 35000 (a) The first governing board of any new school district shall, at the first meeting of the governing board or as soon as practicable thereafter, name the…
   • § 35001 (a) Whenever a petition is presented to the governing board of a school district, signed by at least 15 qualified electors of that school district, asking that…
   • § 35001.1 Notwithstanding Section 35001, the Richmond Unified School District is hereby renamed and shall be known as the “West Contra Costa Unified School District.”
2. ARTICLE 2. General Provisions §§ 35010–35012 · 2 sections

   • § 35010 (a) Every school district shall be under the control of a board of school trustees or a board of education. (b) The governing board of each school district…
   • § 35012 (a) Except as otherwise provided, the governing board of a school district shall consist of five regular members elected at large by the qualified voters of…
3. ARTICLE 3. Officers and Agents §§ 35020–35046 · 29 sections

   • § 35020 The governing board of each school district shall fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in public school service in the school district.
   • § 35021 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any person, except a person required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code, may be…
   • § 35021.1 A school district or county office of education may request that a local law enforcement agency conduct an automated records check of a prospective nonteaching…
   • § 35021.2 (a) When a school district or county office of education pursuant to Section 11105.3 of the Penal Code requests from the Department of Justice records…
   • § 35021.3 (a) A school district or a county office of education may establish a registry of volunteer after school physical recreation instructors and other before and…
   • § 35021.5 (a) The governing board of a school district may establish a school police reserve officer corps to supplement a police department established pursuant to…
   • § 35022 Every school district governing board consisting of five or more members shall, at its initial meeting and at each annual meeting, elect a president from among…
   • § 35023 The governing board of each school district of every kind or class shall annually at its initial meeting select one of its members as its representative who…
   • § 35024 The governing board of any school district may appoint an executive committee. In the case of a governing board which has appointed a clerk, the committee…
   • § 35025 The governing board of any school district may employ a person not a member of the board to act as secretary and bookkeeper for the board, and may delegate to…
   • § 35026 The governing board of any school district employing eight or more teachers may employ a district superintendent for one or more schools and may delegate to…
   • § 35028 A person shall not be eligible to hold a position as city superintendent, district superintendent, deputy superintendent, associate superintendent, or…
   • § 35029 A local governing board may waive any credential requirement for the chief administrative officer of the school district under its jurisdiction. Any individual…
   • § 35029.1 Notwithstanding Section 35029, a local governing board shall not hire an individual for the position of chief administrative officer of the school district…
   • § 35030 No governing board or county superintendent of schools shall affix the title of deputy, associate or assistant superintendent to any position not defined by…
   • § 35031 Any district superintendent of schools, or deputy, associate, or assistant superintendent of schools, may be elected for a term of no more than four years. The…
   • § 35032 Notwithstanding Section 35031, the governing board of a school district may at any time during any school year increase the salaries of any district…
   • § 35033 If a unified school district is formed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4200) of Part 3, of Division 1 of Title 1 to include all the territory of…
   • § 35034 (a) Where the entire area of a county is included within one unified school district or where the entire area of a county is included within one unified school…
   • § 35035 The superintendent of each school district shall, in addition to other powers and duties granted to or imposed upon him or her: (a) Be the chief executive…
   • § 35036 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 35035, the superintendent of a school district may not transfer a teacher who requests to be transferred to a…
   • § 35038 In any district the governing board of which is required to elect a clerk, the superintendent of schools of the county shall appoint one of the members of the…
   • § 35039 If the clerk of the district refuses to perform the duties prescribed in Section 35250 or by the governing board, the board may at a regular meeting dismiss…
   • § 35041 Anything in a city, county, or city and county charter to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing board or boards of any school district may appoint an…
   • § 35041.3 (a) A governing board of a school district should, but is not required to, make every reasonable effort to appoint a selective service registrar for each high…
   • § 35041.5 Anything in a city, county, or city and county charter to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing board or boards of any school district may, in lieu of…
   • § 35044 The governing board of each school district shall provide for the payment of the traveling expenses of any representatives of the board when performing…
   • § 35045 The governing board of any school district having an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more may appoint a director of school building planning, who shall…
   • § 35046 (a) The governing board of a school district may award consultancy contracts to retired certificated employees of the school district or of the county…