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Article 1. Moneys Received By School Districts of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.

No assessor, tax collector, city, city and county, or county treasurer shall charge or receive any fees or compensation for assessing, collecting, receiving, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys, but the whole moneys collected shall be paid to the city, city and county, or county treasurer.
The governing board of every school district shall pay all moneys received or collected by it from any source and all moneys apportioned to it from taxes levied and collected under the authority of city councils for school purposes, into the county treasury to be placed to the credit of the proper fund of its district. All money collected by the city council or other governing body of any municipality from taxes levied for school purposes when received shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the school district for the schools of which the taxes were levied. All deposits and payments required by this section shall be made daily, unless the county superintendent of schools authorizes them to be made weekly or otherwise, but in no event less frequently than monthly.
All moneys received by any school district or paid into the county or city and county treasury to the credit of the district from state apportionments, county, district or municipal taxes, other than moneys required to be placed in a separate fund of the school district, shall be deposited in the general fund of the district, which fund shall be in existence in each county and city and county treasury. Nothing in this section shall be construed as discontinuing, nor as affecting the disposition of moneys in any of the separate funds of the school districts legally created or established in law.
Notwithstanding Sections 41001 and 41002, money received from the sources, or for the purposes listed in subdivisions (a) to (h), inclusive, may be deposited in a bank or other financial institution whose accounts are federally insured. Any money so deposited shall be in an account or accounts fully covered by that insurance:
  (a) Funds received for the purpose of making loans, scholarships, or grants to students in, or graduates of, a school under the jurisdiction of the governing board of the district.
  (b) Funds received for the sale of food or other services performed by one or more cafeterias established in the schools of the district.
  (c) Funds received from the sale of produce, livestock, and other products of one or more school farms established in the district.
  (d) Clearing accounts established pursuant to Section 41017.
  (e) Funds of a student body organization.
  (f) Funds in a revolving cash fund established pursuant to Section 42820.
  (g) Funds for community recreation programs established pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 10900) of Part 7.
  (h) Funds that, pursuant to any other law or provision of the California School Accounting Manual, may be deposited in a bank or other federally insured financial institution in lieu of the county treasury.
The governing board of a school district may, by resolution, specify the particular fund or funds maintained for the district into which shall be deposited moneys received for the rental or lease of real property.
(a) Consistent with the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 17455) of Chapter 4 of Part 10.5 of Division 1 of Title 1, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2010, inclusive, the Dixon Unified School District may sell surplus real property previously used as the school farm on Sievers Road, located five miles outside of the city and which is not feasible for future school construction, together with any personal property located thereon, purchased entirely with local funds. The proceeds of the sale shall be deposited into the general fund of the school district in order to reestablish a 3-percent reserve. The remainder of the proceeds from the sale of the property that are not used to reestablish the 3-percent reserve shall be deposited into the capital outlay fund of the school district.
  (b) In order to expend funds pursuant to subdivision (a), the school district shall meet all of the following conditions:
  (1) The school district shall not be eligible for new construction funding for 10 years from the date that funds are deposited into the general fund of the school district pursuant to subdivision (a), except that the school district may apply for new construction funds if both of the following conditions are met:
  (A) At least five years have elapsed since the date upon which the sale was executed pursuant to subdivision (a).
  (B) The State Allocation Board determines that the school district has demonstrated enrollment growth or a need for additional sites or building construction that the school district could not have easily anticipated at the time the sale was executed pursuant to subdivision (a).
  (2) The governing board of the school district shall complete a governance training program focusing on fiscal management provided by the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team.
  (3) Any remaining funds from the sale of the property shall be exhausted for capital outlay purposes before a request for modernization funding.
  (4) Notwithstanding any other law, the Dixon Unified School District, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2010, inclusive, shall not be eligible to receive financial hardship assistance pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 17075.10) of Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1.
  (5) The governing board of the school district shall certify all of the following to the State Allocation Board:
  (A) The school district has no major deferred maintenance requirements that cannot be completed with existing capital outlay resources.
  (B) The sale of the real property pursuant to this section does not violate any provisions of a local general obligation bond act.
  (C) The real property sold pursuant to this section is not suitable to meet any projected school construction need for the next 10 years.
  (6) Before exercising the authority granted by this section, the governing board of the school district, at a regularly scheduled meeting, shall present a plan for expending one-time resources pursuant to this section. The plan shall identify the source and use of the funds, and describe how the proposed use of funds, in combination with budget reductions, will address the school district' s deficit spending and restore the ongoing fiscal solvency of the school district.
  (7) No later than 10 years after the date of the sale of surplus property pursuant to subdivision (a), the school district shall deposit into its capital outlay fund an amount equal to the amount of the proceeds from the sale of the property that is deposited into the school district's general fund as needed to establish the 3-percent reserve in accordance with subdivision (a).
  (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2021, deletes or extends that date.