Article 7. Leasing For Production Of Gas of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 10.5. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 7.

The governing board of a school district may, upon complying with this article, enter into and be a party to a community lease to which a city or other public agency and one or more private persons or private agencies are also parties for the leasing of the parcels of lands owned by the district and the other parties for the extraction and taking of gas not associated with oil, on the terms and conditions that the governing board of the district may prescribe. The lease may be entered into without complying with any provisions of this code except as provided in this article.

The board shall not enter into and be a party to any lease unless the following conditions have been met:
  (a) A resolution authorizing that action and prescribing the terms of the lease has been adopted by the unanimous vote of all the members elected or appointed to the board.
  (b) The resolution has been published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or if there be no newspaper, in a newspaper having a general circulation in the district, once a week for three weeks prior to the execution of the lease by the board.

No well for the production of gas shall be drilled on any land owned by the district and leased pursuant to this article.