Section 89300 Of Article 1. Student Body Organizations From California Education Code >> Division 8. >> Title 3. >> Part 55. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 1.
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. (a) A student body organization may be established at any
state university under the supervision of the university officials
for the purpose of providing essential activities closely related to,
but not normally included as a part of, the regular instructional
program of the university. The organization may also operate a campus
store, a cafeteria, and other projects not inconsistent with the
purposes of the university, and property of the university may be
leased to the organization for those purposes.
(b) (1) The trustees may fix fees for voluntary membership in the
organization established at a state university.
(2) (A) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a student body
organization is established at any state university, upon the
favorable vote of two-thirds of the students voting in an election
held for this purpose, in a manner that the trustees shall prescribe,
and open to all regular students enrolled in the university, the
trustees shall fix a membership fee which shall be required of all
regular, limited, and special session students attending the
university. No fees shall be charged to students registering solely
in extension classes.
(B) The trustees may approve an increase or decrease in the
student body fee only after the fee increase or decrease has been
approved by a majority of students voting in a referendum established
for that purpose.
(C) The required fee shall be subject to referendum at any time
upon the presentation of a petition to the president of the
university containing the signatures of 10 percent of the regularly
enrolled students at the university. A successful referendum shall
take effect with the beginning of the academic year following that in
which the election was held.
(D) Payment of membership fees pursuant to this section shall be a
prerequisite to enrollment in the university, except that if
sufficient funds are available, any state university student, subject
to the regulations of the trustees establishing standards in that
regard, may agree to work off the amount of the fee at the prevailing
rate of the university for student assistants. The trustees may
adopt regulations setting standards for determining which students
shall be eligible to work off the amount of the fee.
(c) The revenues raised pursuant to this section may, in addition
to expenditures for other lawful purposes involved in the operations
of the student body organization, be expended to provide for the
support of governmental affairs representatives who may be attending
upon the State Legislature or upon offices and agencies in the
executive branch of the state government.
(d) The trustees may fix a fee for voluntary membership in a
statewide student organization that represents the students of the
California State University and the student body organizations of the
campuses of the California State University. The trustees shall
provide students either the ability to affirmatively elect to pay
this fee, or a clear and unambiguous means to decline the payment of
this fee, each time the fee is assessed.