SECTIONS 1200-1209 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 1200-1209

1200. Each county superintendent shall receive his actual and
necessary traveling expenses. The expenses shall be allowed by the
board of supervisors, and be paid out of the county general fund.

1201. Each county superintendent shall also receive his actual and
necessary traveling expenses, when, with the approval of the board of
supervisors, he attends any convention or conference to which he is
called by the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, or the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, and when the board of supervisors delegates the power to
perform services outside of his county either within or without the
state.

1202. The expenses of the office of superintendent of schools for
its stationery, blank books, postage, expressage, freight, telephone,
telegraphing, and other necessary office expenses shall be allowed
by the supervisors of the county and paid out of the general fund of
the county in the same manner as other claims against the county are
paid.

1203. The expense of providing housing for all the services of the
county superintendent of schools shall be allowed by the board of
supervisors of the county and paid out of the general fund of the
county.

1204. For the purposes of the retirement system of which a county
superintendent of schools is a member, all contributions by or on
account of the county superintendent and all benefits to him shall be
based, insofar as, and to the extent that, such contributions and
benefits are based upon the compensation received by him as county
superintendent of schools, upon the whole of his annual salary as
county superintendent of schools regardless of the fund or funds from
which paid, subject only to the maximum amount of salary on which
contributions can be paid the system. If such contributions are
required to be paid to the system from any fund from which any part
of the annual salary of the county superintendent of schools is paid,
then contributions shall be paid from each of the funds from which
his annual salary is actually paid in the same proportion of the
total contribution as that part of his annual salary paid from such
fund is of the whole of his annual salary. Contributions which would
have been made by any county superintendent of schools, or by an
employer on account of said superintendent, if this section had been
in effect on and after September 19, 1947, shall be made in
accordance with the provisions of this section.

1205. For the purposes of prescribing the qualifications required
of county superintendents of schools the counties are classified on
the basis of the average daily attendance in the public schools as
follows:
Class one (1) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of seven hundred fifty thousand (750,000) and over.
Class two (2) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of one hundred forty thousand (140,000) to seven hundred
forty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine (749,999), inclusive.
Class three (3) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of sixty thousand (60,000) to one hundred thirty-nine
thousand nine hundred ninety-nine (139,999), inclusive.
Class four (4) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of thirty thousand (30,000) to fifty-nine thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine (59,999), inclusive.
Class five (5) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of fifteen thousand (15,000) to twenty-nine thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine (29,999), inclusive.
Class six (6) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of seven thousand (7,000) to fourteen thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine (14,999), inclusive.
Class seven (7) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of one thousand (1,000) to six thousand nine hundred
ninety-nine (6,999), inclusive.
Class eight (8) includes all counties with an average daily
attendance of under one thousand (1,000).

1206. Except as provided in this section no person shall hereafter
be elected or appointed to office as county superintendent of schools
of any county who does not possess a valid credential issued by the
State Board of Education of the type designated in Sections 1205 to
1212, inclusive, for each class.
Where a county changes from one class to another because of an
increase in the average daily attendance in the public schools of
such county, the incumbent county superintendent of schools in that
county shall not be prohibited from continuing in office and shall be
eligible for reelection to the same office regardless of whether he
possesses a valid credential otherwise required in a county of that
class.

1207. The qualifications of the county superintendent of schools in
each county shall be as set forth in Sections 1205 to 1212,
inclusive, for that class into which the county falls. The class into
which each county falls shall be determined on October 1st of each
year based upon the average daily attendance in the public schools of
such county for the preceding school year as reported to the State
Department of Education. In no case will the salary of the county
superintendent be lowered during his term of office.
The salaries set forth in Section 1213 are payable to incumbent
county superintendents of schools; provided, however, that the salary
of an incumbent shall not be reduced during the term for which he
was elected or appointed or for any consecutive new term to which he
is elected or appointed.

1208. (a) All county superintendents of schools in counties within
classes (1) to (8), inclusive, shall possess a valid certification
document authorizing administrative services.
(b) For purposes of this section, the possession of a valid
elementary administrative credential and a valid secondary
administrative credential are equivalent to the possession of a valid
general administrative credential.

1209. A county superintendent of schools shall not increase his or
her salary, financial remuneration, benefits, or pension in any
manner or for any reason without bringing the matter to the attention
of the county board of education for its discussion at a regularly
scheduled public meeting of the board and without the approval of the
county board of education.