CHAPTER 8. Urban School Construction Aid Law of 1968

Chapter 8 added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2.

§§ 16700–16734 · 34 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 16700–16734 · 34 sections

   • § 16700 This chapter may be cited as the “Urban School Construction Aid Law of 1968.”
   • § 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 districts of the state in…
   • § 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…
   • § 16703 The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.
   • § 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 meeting with…
   • § 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 from…
   • § 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…
   • § 16707 The board shall prescribe instructions specifying the manner in which property, real or personal, being replaced through the apportionment, shall be disposed…
   • § 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 purpose…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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 sites…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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 the amount…
   • § 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 area of…
   • § 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, or…
   • § 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…
   • § 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 to…
   • § 16719 No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements…
   • § 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 such…
   • § 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 the…
   • § 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 chapter.…
   • § 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 fiscal…
   • § 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…
   • § 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 to…
   • § 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 of each…
   • § 16727 Interest earned on those portions of deposits in an urban school construction fund representing allocations from the proceeds of state school reconstruction…
   • § 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 Construction Aid Fund,…
   • § 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 construction…
   • § 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 apportionments under…
   • § 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…
   • § 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”…
   • § 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 acquiring…