SECTIONS 35540-35545 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 35540-35545

35540. The boundaries of each high school district shall be
coextensive with the boundaries of the component districts included
within it.

35541. When the boundaries of a district which is a component of a
high school district are for any cause changed to include territory
in, or to exclude from, the district, the territory added to, or
removed from, the district shall, at the same time, be included in,
or excluded from, the high school district.

35542. (a) Whenever the boundaries of an elementary school district
and a high school district become coterminous, the districts are
merged into a new unified district.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an elementary school district
that has boundaries that are totally within a high school district
may be excluded from an action to unify those districts if the
governing board receives approval for an exclusion from the county
committee if the conditions of subdivision (b) of Section 35710 are
met or from the state board if those conditions are not met. Any
elementary school district so authorized to be excluded from an
action to unify may continue to feed into the coterminous high school
under the same terms that existed before any action to unify
pursuant to subdivision (a).

35543. On or after January 1, 1981, a school district shall not be
formed or reorganized to include territory which is separated from
other portions of the territory of the district by the territory of
one or more other school districts.

35544. Whenever territory is transferred or added by means of
reorganization to another district in which trustee areas have been
established, the territory being transferred shall become a part of
the trustee areas to which it is contiguous. In the event that the
territory being transferred is contiguous to more than one trustee
area, terms of agreement to the transfer may include provisions for
the division of the transferred territory among the trustee areas to
which it is contiguous.

35545. (a) Prior to the date upon which a newly organized or
reorganized district becomes effective for all purposes, the county
committee may include all, or part of, the territory in plans and
recommendations for further reorganization.
(b) During the first five years after the effective date for all
purposes of the formation of a school district, no territory shall be
removed from the district without the consent of the governing board
of the district.