Chapter 10. Specific Provisions Relating To Particular Campuses of California Education Code >> Division 8. >> Title 3. >> Part 55. >> Chapter 10.

(a) The California Polytechnic State University included within the California State University is comprised of a campus or complex of buildings, facilities, and land situated within the County of San Luis Obispo.
  (b) The California State Polytechnic University included within the California State University is comprised of a campus or complex of buildings, facilities, and land situated within the County of Los Angeles and within or near the City of Pomona and the City of San Dimas.

The trustees may provide for the establishment of a separate California State Polytechnic University at the campus or complex situated in the County of Los Angeles, more particularly described in subdivision (b) of Section 90400, and may execute any necessary agreements and receive, on behalf of the state, any property or interest in property which may be conveyed to the state in connection therewith or for any purposes of this section. From and after the date upon which final action for the establishment of such separate university has been taken by the trustees, there shall be, within the California State University, two separate California state polytechnic universities, comprised of the respective campuses or complexes described in Section 90400. The provisions of Section 89067, the provisions of Sections 90404 to 90406, inclusive, and any provisions of law limited in applicability specifically to the California State Polytechnic University, unless otherwise therein specified, shall be deemed applicable to either or both of such California state polytechnic universities.

It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature, in authorizing the establishment of the separate California State Polytechnic University in the County of Los Angeles at the campus or complex described in subdivision (b) of Section 90400, that the educational program there provided continue to be conducted in accordance with the essential aims and policies expressed in Section 90404, and in that certain grant deed dated November 22, 1949, as amended or modified by subsequent agreements and conveyances, whereby the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a Michigan corporation, has granted to the State of California, for the use and benefit of the California State Polytechnic University, certain real property situated in the County of Los Angeles, which will form a part of such separate California State Polytechnic University.

In addition to the functions set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 66010.4, the California State Polytechnic University and the California Polytechnic State University shall be authorized to emphasize the applied fields of agriculture, engineering, business, home economics and other occupational and professional fields. This article shall be liberally construed.

The California State Polytechnic University and the California Polytechnic State University Agricultural Project Revolving Fund in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is continued in existence. The fund shall be used for loans to needy and deserving students for the purchase of livestock, poultry, seed, feed, and such other materials as are necessary for the conducting of projects by students under supervision of instructors in the school. All sums borrowed shall be returned to the revolving fund as soon as projects are completed.

The trustees, with the consent of the Director of Finance, may sell or trade such of the property belonging to the state and used for the California State Polytechnic University or the California Polytechnic State University as may in the judgment of the trustees be disposed of advantageously. The proceeds of the sale shall be used for the purchase of such other land for the use of the California State Polytechnic University or the California Polytechnic State University as the trustees and the Director of Finance may deem necessary.

(a) Commencing July 1, 1992, the trustees shall succeed to the powers, duties, and functions of the Department of Food and Agriculture with respect to a Dairy Products Technology Center at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, which was authorized by Section 2 of Chapter 1514 of the Statutes of 1986.
  (b) No funds appropriated by any act from the General Fund for expenditure during any fiscal year on behalf of the Dairy Products Technology Center may be encumbered unless and until the trustees determine that at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or an amount equal to the General Fund appropriation, whichever is greater, has been received from nonstate sources by California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, for the operation of the Dairy Products Technology Center for that fiscal year.