ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

Article 1 added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2.

§§ 15700–15754 · 52 sections

§ 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 of the state in…
§ 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,…
§ 15702 The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.
§ 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 meeting with…
§ 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 additional…
§ 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 qualifications…
§ 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 in…
§ 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…
§ 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 sites…
§ 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 property of…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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, authorize the…
§ 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 the amount…
§ 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…
§ 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 of the…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 15722 Immediately after the result of the election has been determined, the county superintendent of schools shall make a certificate in duplicate stating whether…
§ 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…
§ 15724 Whenever a conditional apportionment has been made, and the county auditor has inadvertently and erroneously included in his certification of the outstanding…
§ 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 of General Services,…
§ 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 one-eighth of 1…
§ 15727 No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 to the Controller…
§ 15731 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a school district otherwise eligible to receive a conditional apportionment under Chapter 8 (commencing…
§ 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 grade level an…
§ 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 each district during the…
§ 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…
§ 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 amount…
§ 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 Taxation Code,…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 a district…
§ 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 fiscal…
§ 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…
§ 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 to…
§ 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…
§ 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 of each…
§ 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 school…
§ 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 Building Loan Fund,…
§ 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…
§ 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 building…
§ 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 apportionments under…
§ 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…
§ 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 than one…
§ 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 five…