Section 32220 Of Article 3. Insurance For Athletic Teams From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 19. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.
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. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Educational institution" means a school district, a community
college district, a state university, the University of California,
and the State Department of Education special schools.
(b) "Governing board" means the governing board of a school
district or community college district, the Trustees of the
California State University, and the Regents of the University of
California.
(c) "Member of an athletic team" means member of any extramural
athletic team engaged in athletic events on or outside the school
grounds, maintained or sponsored by the educational institution or a
student body organization thereof. "Member of an athletic team" also
includes members of school bands or orchestras, cheerleaders and
their assistants, pompon girls, team managers and their assistants,
and any student or pupil selected by the school or student body
organization to directly assist in the conduct of the athletic event,
including activities incidental thereto, but only while such members
are being transported by or under the sponsorship or arrangements of
the educational institution or a student body organization thereof
to or from a school or other place of instruction and the place at
which the athletic event is being conducted.
Organized rooting sections, student body members who are
spectators, and other spectator students, who are not actually
participating in the conduct of the athletic event, are not members
of an athletic team. Participants in a playday or field day activity
occurring occasionally during a school year, in which students of one
or more particular grade levels from two or more schools of a school
district or community college district participate in athletic
contests, are not members of an athletic team. Nothing in this
subdivision shall be construed as prohibiting a governing board from
extending the applicability of the provisions of this article to any
of those persons, should the governing board elect so to do.
(d) "Student body organization" means any student organization
under supervision of the educational institution or its officers.