Article 3. Leasing Of Equipment of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 10.5. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 3.

Any school district or any county superintendent of schools may, as lessee, enter into a lease or lease-purchase agreement for equipment or service systems with any persons, firm, corporation or public agency. As used in this article "equipment" includes all of the following:
  (1) Schoolbuses.
  (2) Other motor vehicles.
  (3) Test materials, educational films, and audiovisual materials.
  (4) All other items defined as equipment or service systems in the California School Accounting Manual.

Before a lease or lease-purchase agreement may be entered into the lessee shall comply with all applicable provisions for bids and contracts prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with Section 17595) of Chapter 5 of this part. Each contract shall show the total price for an outright purchase of any item and also its total cost for the entire specified term of the contract.

The term of any lease or lease-purchase agreement shall not exceed the estimated useful life of the item but in no event shall the term exceed 10 years. A lease, but not a lease-purchase agreement, may be renewable at the option of the lessee and the lessor, jointly, at the end of each term at a rate not more than 12 percent annually above the rate set pursuant to the existing agreement. In no event shall the combined period of the original lease and renewals or extensions exceed 10 years. Any contract for the lease or lease-purchase of equipment or service systems which was in existence prior to April 22, 1975, shall remain in effect and such terms are hereby ratified.

As a lessor, a school district governing board is authorized to let, or let with option to purchase, any land, buildings, or equipment it determines is not needed for school purposes for a term extending to the end of the expected nonuse of the land, buildings, or equipment and under any conditions it deems reasonable. All of these leases and leases with options to purchase to nonpublic agencies or individuals shall comply with the provisions of Sections 17545, 17546, 17547, and 17548.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district may sell or lease Internet appliances or personal computers to parents of pupils within the school district, for the purpose of providing access to the school district's educational computer network, at a standard price, not to exceed the cost incurred by the school district in purchasing the Internet appliance or personal computer. A school district that elects to sell or lease Internet appliances or personal computers, as authorized by this section, shall provide access to the school district's educational network for those families that cannot afford access to the school district's educational network. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in conducting a sale or lease pursuant to this section a school district shall not be required to call for bids or to sell or lease Internet appliances or personal computers to the highest bidder. For purposes of this section, an "Internet appliance" is a technological product that allows a person to connect to, or access, an online educational network.
  (b) The Legislature finds and declares that the Internet appliances or personal computers that are sold or leased pursuant to this section are not an essential part of the school district's educational program, but are supplemental to that program.