SECTIONS 16500-16504 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 16500-16504

16500. This chapter may be cited as the "State Project Area School
Construction Law."

16501. In recognition of the impact which certain major state
construction projects have on local school district building needs in
the areas in which the projects are constructed, the Legislature
declares that it is the policy of the state to bear a proportionate
share of the construction costs of school buildings in the area
affected in the manner and to the extent provided by this chapter.

16502. As used in this chapter:
(a) "State project" means any construction project undertaken by
the state, or the state and federal government jointly, which will
cause a sudden influx of people into the area affected and where
sufficient housing, schools, and other community facilities are not
available. For the purposes of this subdivision, the Governor is
hereby empowered to proclaim any major construction project
undertaken by the state as a "state project" and define the area
affected or likely to be affected thereby if both of the following
conditions are satisfied:
(1) The Governor finds that the construction project will cause a
sudden influx of people into the area.
(2) The Governor is requested to do so by the county board of
supervisors.
The proclamation shall be in writing and shall take effect
immediately. As soon thereafter as possible it shall be filed in the
office of the Secretary of State.
(b) "Board" means the State Allocation Board.
(c) "Director" means the Director of Education for kindergarten
and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(d) "Project" means the purposes for which a school district has
applied for an apportionment.
(e) "Construction project" means the purposes for which a school
district has applied for an apportionment at a given location.
(f) "Grade level maintained by a district" means any of the
following:
(1) The kindergarten, if any, and grades 1 to 6, or grades 1 to 8,
inclusive, maintained by an elementary school district or a unified
school district.
(2) Grades 7 to 12, inclusive, grades 9 to 12, inclusive, or
grades 7 to 10, inclusive, maintained by a high school district or
unified school district, but not more than one grade level shall be
claimed by any district under any one of the paragraphs of this
subdivision.
(g) "Apportionment" means an apportionment made under this chapter
unless the context otherwise requires.
(h) "Project children" means children of parents who have come to
the district subsequent to the start of the state project and who are
employed by the State of California or the federal government in
connection with a state project and children of parents employed by
any contractor or subcontractor of a state project.
(i) "Indirect project children" means children of parents who have
come to the district subsequent to the start of the state project
and who are not employed by a contractor or subcontractor of a state
project but who are children in the area in addition to those which
would be expected as a result of normal development and growth of the
area as determined pursuant to regulations of the director which he
or she is hereby authorized to adopt.
(j) "Parent" includes a legal guardian or other person standing in
loco parentis.
(k) "Department" means the State Department of Education.

16503. The Director of General Services shall administer this
chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may
require.

16504. A fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known
as the State School Construction Fund. All money in the State School
Construction Fund, including any money deposited in the fund from any
source whatsoever after September 11, 1957, is hereby continuously
appropriated without regard to fiscal years for expenditure pursuant
to apportionments made under this chapter.