Section 89304 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) Upon the favorable vote of two-thirds of the students
voting in an election held for the purpose at a state university, in
the manner the trustees shall prescribe, and open to all regular
students enrolled in the state university, the trustees are
authorized to establish, in addition to any other student fee the
trustees are authorized to establish, a building and operating fee,
not to exceed forty dollars ($40) per student per academic year,
which shall be required of all students attending the state
university. All unexpended funds and money collected by any state
university under this section shall be available for financing,
operating, and constructing a student body center. All unexpended
funds collected by any state university under this section shall be
deposited or invested in trust by the chief fiscal officer of that
state university in any one or more of the following ways:
(1) Deposits in trust accounts of the centralized treasury system
pursuant to Sections 16305 to 16305.7, inclusive, of the Government
Code or in the California State University Trust Fund or in a bank or
banks whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
(2) Investment certificates or withdrawable shares in
state-chartered savings and loan associations and savings accounts of
federal savings and loan associations, if the associations are doing
business in this state and have their accounts insured by the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
(3) Purchase of any of the securities authorized for investment by
Section 16430 of the Government Code or investment by the Treasurer
in those securities.
(4) Participation in funds that are exempt from federal income tax
pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code
and that are open exclusively to nonprofit colleges, universities,
and independent schools.
(5) Investment certificates or withdrawable shares in federal or
state credit unions, if the credit unions are doing business in this
state and have their accounts insured by the National Credit Union
Administration and if any money so invested or deposited is invested
or deposited in certificates, shares, or accounts fully covered by
that insurance.
(b) All revenues received by the trustees under this section may
be pledged for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of
student body center projects pursuant to the State University Revenue
Bond Act of 1947 (Article 2 (commencing with Section 90010) of
Chapter 8), and may also be pledged to supplement other revenue
funded projects relating to debt obligations issued by the trustees
pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947. Nothing in
this section shall be construed as altering or permitting a change
in the pledge of student body center fee revenues established in
connection with debt obligations issued prior to the enactment of
this section and pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of
1947.
(c) The chief fiscal officer of each state university shall be
custodian funds collected by a state university under this section,
and shall provide the necessary accounting records and controls
thereof.
The state university shall be reimbursed from these funds in an
amount to cover the cost of the custodial and accounting services
provided by the state university in connection with these funds.
(d) The funds collected by a state university under this section
may be expended by the custodian only upon the submission of an
appropriate claim schedule by an elected representative of the
student body or his or her appointee.