SECTIONS 41980-41983 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 41980-41983

41980. (a) Any separate joint powers entity formed pursuant to
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of
the Government Code that has as its sole function the provision of
school transportation services may, subject to prior approval by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, be designated a single school
district for purposes of receiving state apportionments or allowances
in support of those services or programs. Those school
transportation apportionments or allowances shall be allocated to a
separate joint powers entity under this section in any fiscal year
only to the extent that the governing board of the school district or
districts that would otherwise receive those state apportionments or
allowances expressly approves that allocation under a resolution
adopted on or before June 30 preceding that fiscal year.
(b) Any separate joint powers entity formed pursuant to Chapter 5
(commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the
Government Code that has as its sole function the provision of school
food services may, subject to prior approval by the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, be designated a single school district for
purposes of receiving state apportionments or allowances in support
of those services or programs. Those school food apportionments or
allowances shall be allocated to a separate joint powers entity under
this section in any fiscal year only to the extent that the
governing board of the school district or districts that would
otherwise receive those state apportionments or allowances expressly
approves that allocation under a resolution adopted on or before June
30 preceding that fiscal year.

41981. For purposes of this chapter, and notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 6505.5 of the Government Code, the fiscal
officer of the joint powers entity shall be the county superintendent
of schools. If the joint powers entity is situated partly within two
or more counties, in terms of its participating school districts,
the fiscal officer shall be the county superintendent of schools of
the county in which the greatest area of the joint powers entity
lies.

41982. The joint powers entity shall be subject to the same budget,
expenditure, appropriation, accounting, auditing, and program
requirements as school districts and county superintendents of
schools generally with respect to school transportation programs and
food services programs. Employees of the Newhall School District, the
William S. Hart Union High School District, the Sulphur Springs
Union School District, the Saugus Union School District, or the
Castaic Union School District who become employees of a joint powers
entity that has as its sole function the provision of school food
services, pursuant to the participation of their respective schools
in the joint powers entity, shall be entitled to carry over their
seniority upon transfer to the joint powers entity.

41983. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may adopt
regulations for the implementation of this chapter, including, but
not limited to, standards and requirements relating to applications,
approvals, reports, apportionments, and allowances, and changes in
membership of the joint powers entity.