California

Education Code

11,521 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 19664 — Every library district shall be designated by the name and style of ____ Library District, (using the name of the district), of ____ County, (using the name of the county in which the district is situ
• § 19670 — The board of library trustees may vote to establish a public museum in the library district and to constitute the board of library trustees as the board of museum trustees for the purposes of managing
• § 19671 — The board of museum trustees shall meet at least once a month, at such time and place as it may fix by resolution.
• § 19672 — Special meetings may be called at any time by three trustees, by written notices served upon each member at least 12 hours before the time specified for the meeting.
• § 19673 — Three members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
• § 19674 — At its first meeting held after being constituted, the board shall organize by electing one of its number president, and another one of its number secretary.
• § 19675 — The board shall cause a proper record of its proceedings to be kept, and at the first meeting of the board of trustees, it shall immediately cause to be made out and filed with the Department of Educa
• § 19676 — The board of museum trustees shall make and enforce all rules, regulations, and bylaws necessary for the administration, government, and protection of the museum under its management, and all property
• § 19677 — The board of museum trustees shall administer any trust declared or created for the museum, and receive by gift, devise, or bequest, and hold in trust or otherwise, property situated in this state or
• § 19678 — The board of museum trustees shall prescribe the duties and powers of the curator, secretary, and other officers and employees of the museum, determine the number of and appoint all officers and emplo
• § 19679 — The board of museum trustees shall purchase necessary objects of artistic, scientific, or historical interest, and other personal property.
• § 19680 — The board of museum trustees shall also purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip, such building or rooms, as in its judgment is necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this c
• § 19681 — The board of museum trustees shall do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 19682 — The board of museum trustees shall designate the hours during which the museum is open for the use of the public.
• § 19683 — In any library district formed under the provisions of this chapter, which maintains a public museum, in accordance with this chapter, the board of museum trustees shall furnish to the board of superv
• § 19684 — The title to all property acquired for the purposes of the museum, when not inconsistent with the terms of its acquisition, or not otherwise designated, vests in the district in which museums are, or
• § 19685 — It is the intent of the Legislature that public museums established pursuant to this chapter shall be funded primarily by private funds.
• § 19690 — All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 19700 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code) shall govern and control the conduct o
• § 19701 — The number of library trustees for any library district established under the provisions of this chapter is five.
• § 19702 — Every person who is registered to vote in the library district where the election is held at least 29 days before the election, may vote at the election.
• § 19720 — The board of trustees of any library district may, when in their judgment it is deemed advisable, and shall upon a petition of 50 or more taxpayers and residents of the library district, call an elect
• § 19721 — The election shall be called by posting notices, signed by the board, in three of the most public places in the district, for not less than 20 days before the election, and by publishing the notice no
• § 19722 — The notice shall contain: (a) Time and place of holding the election.
• § 19723 — The election shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions relating to the election of trustees, insofar as they are applicable to the election for bonds.
• § 19724 — Voting shall be by ballot, without reference to the general election law in regard to form of ballot, or manner of voting.
• § 19725 — On the seventh day after the election, at 8 o'clock p.
• § 19726 — The money shall be raised by taxation upon the taxable property in the district, for the redemption of the bonds and the payment of the interest thereon.
• § 19727 — The total amount of bonds issued shall not exceed 5 percent of the taxable property of the district, as shown by the last equalized assessment book of the county.
• § 19728 — The board of supervisors by an order entered upon its minutes shall prescribe the form of the bonds and of the interest coupons attached thereto, and shall fix the time when the whole or any part of t
• § 19729 — The bonds shall not bear a greater amount of interest than 6 percent, to be payable annually or semiannually.
• § 19730 — The board of supervisors, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, shall levy a tax for that year upon the taxable property in the district, at the equalized assessed value thereof
• § 19731 — All money levied, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the library district, and shall be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds, and for no oth
• § 19732 — Whenever any bonds issued under this article remain unsold for the period of six months after having been offered for sale in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, the board of trustees o
• § 19733 — Upon receiving the petition, signed by a majority of the members of the board of trustees, the supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the petition, which shall be not more than 30 days thereafter, a
• § 19734 — At the time and place designated in the notice for hearing the petition, or at any subsequent time to which the hearing is postponed, the supervisors shall hear any reasons that are submitted for or a
• § 1980 — A county board of education may establish and maintain one or more community schools.
• § 19800 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Freedom to Read Act.
• § 19801 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Libraries are essential for information, education, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.
• § 19802 — (a) (1) Every public library jurisdiction that directly receives any state funding, including, but not limited to, state funding pursuant to this part, shall establish, adopt, and maintain a written a
• § 1981 — The county board of education may enroll pupils in a county community school who are any of the following: (a) Expelled from a school district for any reason other than those specified in subdivision
• § 1981.5 — (a) A pupil who is involuntarily enrolled in a county community school pursuant to subdivision (a) of, or subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of, Section 1981 shall h
• § 1983 — (a) Pupils enrolled in county community schools shall be assigned to classes or programs deemed most appropriate for reinforcing or reestablishing educational development.
• § 1984 — For the purposes of establishing and maintaining a county community school, a county board of education shall be deemed to be a school district.
• § 1986 — (a) The Legislature hereby recognizes that community schools are a permissive educational program.
• § 19900 — The board of supervisors of any county may authorize the county recorder to deposit with any free public library maintained at the county seat, or with the State Library, such newspaper files, or port
• § 19901 — Before making the deposit, the board of supervisors shall obtain from the board of trustees or authorities in charge of the free public library, or the State Librarian, as the case may be, an agreemen
• § 19902 — The board of supervisors of any county may authorize the boards of trustees or other authorities in charge of any free public library with which newspaper files have been deposited in accordance with
• § 19910 — Any person who maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, breaks, or injures any book, map, chart, picture, engraving, statue, coin, model, apparatus, or other work of literature, art, mechanics, or object of
• § 19911 — Any person who willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading room, museum, or other educational inst
• § 19950 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 1988.
• § 19951 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The public library is a supplement to the formal system of free public education, a source of information and inspiration to persons of all
• § 19952 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Committee” means the California Library Construction and Renovation Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 19972.
• § 19955 — The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the California Library Construction and Renovation Fund, which is hereby created.
• § 19956 — All moneys deposited in the fund shall be available for grants to any city, county, city and county, or district that is empowered at the time of the project application to own and maintain a facility
• § 19957 — The grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19956 and the matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19962 shall be used by the recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition or cons
• § 19957.5 — (a) An applicant for a grant for the acquisition, construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of public library facilities under this chapter, as opposed to an application for a grant to acquire land
• § 19958 — No grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19956 or matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19962 shall be used by a recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Books and other library mat
• § 19959 — All construction contracts for projects funded in part through grants awarded pursuant to this chapter shall be awarded through competitive bidding pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) o
• § 19960 — This chapter shall be administered by the State Librarian, who shall adopt rules, regulations, and policies for the implementation of this chapter.
• § 19961 — A city, county, city and county, or district may apply to the State Librarian for a grant pursuant to this chapter, as follows: (a) Each application shall be for a project for a purpose authorized by
• § 19962 — (a) Each grant recipient shall provide matching funds from any available source in an amount equal to 35 percent of the costs of the project.
• § 19963 — An amount not to exceed 1 percent of the cost of construction of the project may be used for appropriate works of art to enhance the facility.
• § 19964 — (a) The estimated costs of a project for which an application is submitted shall be consistent with normal public construction costs in the applicant’s area.
• § 19965 — Once an application has been approved by the board and included in the State Librarian’s request to the committee, the amount of funding to be provided to the applicant shall not be increased.
• § 19966 — In reviewing applications, the board shall consider all of the following factors: (a) Needs of urban and rural areas.
• § 19967 — (a) A facility, or the part thereof, acquired, constructed, remodeled, or rehabilitated with grants received pursuant to this chapter shall be dedicated to public library direct service use for a peri
• § 19970 — Bonds in the total amount of seventy-two million four hundred five thousand dollars ($72,405,000) (exclusive of refunding bonds), or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide
• § 19971 — The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Pa
• § 19972 — (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this chapter, the California Library Construction and Ren
• § 19973 — The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out the actions specified in Article 2 (commencing with S
• § 19974 — There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pa
• § 19975 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will equal the total of
• § 19976 — For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which hav
• § 19976.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code),
• § 19977 — The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code, for the purposes of carrying o
• § 19978 — Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 2
• § 19979 — All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to ex
• § 19980 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the Cal
• § 19981 — An amount not to exceed 1 percent of the fund may be used by the State Librarian for costs of administering this chapter.
• § 19985 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2000.
• § 19985.5 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Reading and literacy skills are fundamental to success in our economy and our society.
• § 19986 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Committee” means the California Library Construction and Renovation Finance Committee established pursuant to Section 199
• § 19987 — The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the California Public Library Construction and Renovation Fund, which is hereby established.
• § 19988 — All moneys deposited in the fund, except as provided in Section 20011, are continuously appropriated to the State Librarian, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, and shall be availabl
• § 19989 — The grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19988, and the matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19995, shall be used by the recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition or co
• § 19990 — Any grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19988, or matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19995, may not be used by a recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Books and other librar
• § 19991 — All construction contracts for projects funded in part through grants awarded pursuant to this chapter shall be awarded through competitive bidding pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) o
• § 19992 — This chapter shall be administered by the State Librarian.
• § 19993 — A city, county, city and county, or district may apply to the State Librarian for a grant pursuant to this chapter, as follows: (a) Each application shall be for a project for a purpose authorized by
• § 19994 — (a) The State Librarian shall consider applications for construction of new public library facilities submitted pursuant to Section 19993 in the following priority order: (1) First priority shall be g
• § 19995 — (a) Each grant recipient shall provide matching funds from any available source in an amount equal to 35 percent of the costs of the project.
• § 19996 — (a) The estimated costs of a project for which an application is submitted shall be consistent with normal public construction costs in the applicant’s area.
• § 19997 — Once an application has been approved by the board and included in the State Librarian’s request to the committee, the amount of the funding to be provided to the applicant may not be increased.
• § 19998 — (a) In reviewing applications, as part of establishing the priorities set forth in Section 19994 the board shall consider all of the following factors: (1) Needs of urban and rural areas.
• § 19999 — (a) A facility, or the part thereof, acquired, constructed, or remodeled, or rehabilitated with grants received pursuant to this chapter shall be dedicated to public library direct service use for a p
• § 2 — The code establishes the law of this state respecting the subjects to which it relates, and its provisions and all proceedings under it are to be liberally construed, with a view to effect its objects
• § 20 — All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code shall continue to hold them according to thei
• § 200 — It is the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religio
• § 2000 — The county superintendent of schools of any county contiguous to an adjoining state may grant permission to pupils residing in the county to attend elementary school or high school in a school distric
• § 20000 — Bonds in the amount of three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold for deposit in the fund to be used i
• § 20001 — The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Pa
• § 20002 — (a) For purposes of this chapter, the California Library Construction and Renovation Finance Committee established pursuant to Section 19972 is the “committee” as that term is used in the State Genera
• § 20003 — The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out the actions specified in this chapter, including all
• § 20004 — There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pa
• § 20005 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will equal the total of
• § 20006 — For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds that have
• § 20007 — The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code, for the purposes of carrying o
• § 20008 — Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 2
• § 20009 — All money deposited in the fund that is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this chapter shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the Genera
• § 20010 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the Cal
• § 20011 — Amounts deposited in the fund pursuant to this chapter may be appropriated in the annual Budget Act to the State Librarian for the actual amount of office, personnel, and other customary and usual exp
• § 2005 — The superintendent of schools of a school district, or the principal of a school, in an adjoining state attended by pupils residing in an adjoining county in this state shall certify to the county sup
• § 20050 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Act.
• § 20051 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Every civilization defines itself in part by its past, and an understanding of its past helps determine its basic values and future aspirations.
• § 20052 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Development” includes, but is not limited to, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, preservation, protec
• § 20052.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature that consideration be given to the transferring and fully integrating the Office of Historic Preservation with the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, whi
• § 20053 — (a) There is in the Natural Resources Agency the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, consisting of the following 10 members: (1) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, who shall serv
• § 20054 — (a) Appointments to the endowment made pursuant to paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of subdivision (a) of Section 20053 shall be persons with distinguished achievements in the fields of California history
• § 20056 — If any member of the endowment is an employee, director, or officer of any organization that has applied to the endowment for a grant, that member shall not communicate with any other member of the en
• § 20057 — (a) A majority of the total authorized membership of the endowment shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business under this chapter.
• § 20058 — The endowment shall determine the qualifications of, and it shall appoint and fix the salary of, the executive officer of the endowment, who shall be exempt from civil service, and shall appoint such
• § 20059 — The endowment may appoint one or more advisory committees as it determines to be useful to its work.
• § 20060 — The endowment may apply for and accept federal grants.
• § 20070 — (a) The endowment may award grants and loans on a competitive basis to public agencies and nonprofit organizations, including museums, to encourage development of a systematic and coordinated assembla
• § 20071 — The endowment shall require that public agencies requesting a grant provide a matching amount of resources for the completion of the project.
• § 20072 — (a) The endowment shall require grant recipients to report on the progress and completion of any project for which they have received a grant, and on public acceptance or criticism of the project.
• § 20073 — (a) Funds may be granted or loaned to a nonprofit organization under this chapter if the nonprofit organization enters into an agreement with the endowment, on such terms and conditions as the endowme
• § 20074 — The endowment may provide technical and other assistance to applicants and prospective applicants as it determines to be useful or necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
• § 20080 — The endowment shall undertake a comprehensive survey of the state of cultural and historical preservation, accessibility, and interpretation in California.
• § 20090 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Museums help Californians understand the past, the present, and potential futures.
• § 20091 — To the extent that funding is available for such purposes, the endowment shall establish a competitive grant program to assist and enhance the services of museums in the state that undertake programs
• § 20092 — (a) The endowment may create a competitive grant program to support capital projects, exhibits, educational programs, outreach programs, public programs, curriculum, publications, marketing, and colle
• § 201 — (a) All pupils have the right to participate fully in the educational process, free from discrimination and harassment.
• § 2010 — All requisitions drawn by the county superintendent of schools under this article shall be approved by the county auditor and paid by the county treasurer.
• § 2011 — The county superintendent of schools may with the approval of the county auditor transfer any unnecessary surplus in the county school tuition fund to the county school service fund whenever in his ju
• § 202 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California reaffirms that its laws and public policy support accurate and inclusive education in all of California’s schools, including in
• § 21 — No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the provi
• § 210 — The definitions in this article shall govern the use of the terms defined for purposes of this chapter.
• § 210.1 — “Disability” includes mental and physical disability as defined in Section 12926 of the Government Code.
• § 210.2 — “Disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes se
• § 210.3 — “Educational institution” means a public or private preschool, elementary, or secondary school or institution; the governing board of a school district; or any combination of school districts or count
• § 210.7 — “Gender” means sex, and includes a person’s gender identity and gender expression.
• § 211 — “Governing board” means the governing board of a school district.
• § 21100 — Any person desiring in his or her lifetime to promote the public welfare by founding, endowing, and maintaining within this state a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical instit
• § 21101 — The grantor may designate in the grant: (a) The nature, object, and purposes of the institution to be founded, endowed, and maintained.
• § 21102 — The grantor may also provide for all other things necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of the grant, and especially may provide for the trades and professions which shall be taught in the in
• § 21103 — The grantor may also provide for maintaining free scholarships for children of persons who have rendered service to or who have died in the service of the state and for maintaining free scholarships f
• § 21104 — The grantor may also provide the terms and conditions upon which students in the public and private schools, and other deserving persons, may, without cost to themselves, attend the lectures of any un
• § 21105 — The trustee or trustees named in the grant, and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, as designated in the grant, sue and defend, in relation to the trust property, and in relation to
• § 21106 — The grantor, by a provision in the grant, may elect, in relation to the property conveyed, and in relation to the erection, maintenance, and management of the institution, to perform, during his life,
• § 21107 — A grantor who is a married person may further provide that his or her surviving spouse during his or her life, may, in relation to the property conveyed, and in relation to the election, maintenance,
• § 21108 — In the cases referred to in Sections 21106 and 21107, the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the trustee or trustees shall be exercised and performed by the grantor, or by his or her spouse,
• § 21109 — The grantor may reserve the right to alter, amend, or modify the terms and conditions of the grant, and the trusts created, in respect to any of the matters mentioned or referred to in Sections 21101
• § 21110 — The grantor may also reserve, during his or her life, the right of absolute dominion over the personal property conveyed, and also over the rents, issues, and profits of the real property conveyed, wi
• § 21111 — A grantor who is a married person may further provide that his or her spouse, during his or her life, may have the same absolute dominion, over the personal property, and the rents, issues, and profit
• § 21112 — The founder or founders, surviving founder, or spouse or surviving spouse of any founder, of a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical institute, museum, gallery of art, library
• § 21113 — The grantor may provide in the grant that the trustees and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, become the custodian of the person of minors.
• § 21114 — The grant shall be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the same manner as is provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of grants of real property.
• § 21115 — No suit, action, or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul, or affect the conveyance, or to affect the title to the property conveyed, or the right to the posses
• § 21116 — The property conveyed by the grant shall not, after a lapse of two years from the date of the filing for record of the grant, be subject to forced sale, under execution, or judicial proceedings of any
• § 21117 — Any person making the grant may, at any time thereafter, by last will or testament, devise and bequeath to the state all or any of the property, real and personal, mentioned in the grant, or in any su
• § 21118 — No wish, direction, act, or condition expressed, made, or given by any grantor, under this article, as to religious instruction to be given in any school, college, seminary, mechanical institute, muse
• § 21119 — The provisions of this article shall be liberally construed with a view to effect its objects and promote its purposes.
• § 21140 — Any person intending in his lifetime or by will or trust deed, to operate after his death, to found, maintain, and perpetuate in this state a public library, museum, gallery of art, or any or all ther
• § 21141 — The gift or grant may also express and shall be construed to be a conveyance of the future additions and accretions thereof.
• § 21142 — The grantor may also in like manner, convey by grant to the trustee or trustees any real property within this state belonging to him, which may be necessary or proper for the erection and maintenance
• § 21143 — Any contributions or gifts by any other person than the founder, of any property suitable to the general plan or support of any institution mentioned in this article, shall immediately vest in the tru
• § 21144 — The person making the gift, grant, or conveyance, as founder may therein designate: (a) The name by which the institution shall be known.
• § 21145 — The trustees named in the gift or grant, and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, sue and defend in relation to the trust property, and to all matters affecting the institution.
• § 21146 — By a provision in the gift or grant, the founder may elect, in respect to the personal and real property conveyed, and the additions and increase thereof, and in respect to the erection, maintenance,
• § 21147 — If he elects to veto, annul, or modify any act of the trustees, he shall, within 30 days after notice of the performance of the act, file in the office of the trustees, or deliver to their president o
• § 21148 — Upon a like notice, in conformity with a provision in the gift or grant, he may elect to perform during his life all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, are vested in or enjoined upon the tru
• § 21149 — The founder may also reserve the right to alter, amend, or modify, at any time during his life, or by his last will and testament, the terms and conditions of the grant, and the trust created in respe
• § 21150 — The founder may in the deed of trust name and describe the character and personality of any one or more of the immediate or future trustees, the librarian, and other officers, and name and impose any
• § 21151 — The gift or grant shall be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the manner provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of grants of real property.
• § 21152 — No suit, action, or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul, or affect any gift, grant, or conveyance, or to affect the title to the property conveyed, or the rig
• § 21153 — Any founder, making a gift or grant for any of the purposes mentioned in this article, may, at any time thereafter, by last will or testament, devise or bequeath to the state all or any of the propert
• § 21154 — The provisions of this article shall be liberally construed, with a view to effect its objects and purposes.
• § 21180 — The trustee or trustees of any trust or trusts created for the founding, endowment, and maintenance of a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical institute, museum, gallery of art
• § 21181 — The special proceeding may also be commenced to determine all questions of law and fact affecting the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the validity and legal effect, of any gift or grant
• § 21182 — The special proceeding may also be commenced to determine all questions bearing upon the passing to the trustee or trustees of the legal title to the properties, real and personal, conveyed or attempt
• § 21183 — The special proceeding may also be commenced to determine all questions of law and fact affecting the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the validity and legal effect, of any grant or surre
• § 21184 — The trustee or trustees of any trust created pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 21100) and Article 2 (commencing with Section 21140) of this chapter, in the name of the institution or inst
• § 21185 — The petition shall contain copies of all grants, amendments, attempted amendments, supplemental grants, instruments of gift, confirmatory conveyances, and grants and instruments of surrender, relinqui
• § 21186 — The petition shall allege in general terms the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the validity, of any and all instruments, copies of which are set out in the petition, and shall describe a
• § 21187 — The petition shall allege in general terms the estate or interest which the trustee or trustees have or claim in or to the property described.
• § 21188 — The petition shall pray, in effect, that the court: (a) Examine and determine all questions of law and fact affecting the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the terms, validity, and legal e
• § 21189 — The court or judge shall fix the time for hearing the petition, and shall order the clerk of the court to post in at least three public places in the county a notice of the filing of the petition, att
• § 21190 — If the court or judge finds upon the hearing that due and proper notice has not been given as provided in Section 21189, it shall reset the hearing and cause due and proper notice to be given.
• § 21191 — The notice and petition shall be entitled substantially in the following form: In the Superior Court of the ____ County of ____, State of California.
• § 21192 — The notice shall state the time and place fixed for the hearing of the petition and shall be addressed to the founder or founders, if living, and to the spouse or surviving spouse of any deceased foun
• § 21193 — Any person required to be served, or any other person interested may waive notice by written waiver filed with the clerk of the court.
• § 21194 — Any person interested in the determination of any of the questions presented by the petition may demur to or answer the petition and may set up any new matter affecting the determination of the questi
• § 21195 — Any allegation of the petition or answer may be made upon information and belief.
• § 21196 — The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure respecting the demurrer and the answer to a verified complaint, shall be applicable to a demurrer or answer to the petition.
• § 21197 — The persons demurring to or answering the petition shall be the defendants to the special proceeding and the petitioners shall be the plaintiffs.
• § 21198 — Every material statement of the petition not specifically controverted by the answer shall, for the purposes of the special proceeding, be taken as true, and each person failing to answer the petition
• § 21199 — The rules of pleading and practice provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure, which are not inconsistent with this article, are applicable to the special proceeding provided for.
• § 212 — “Nationality” includes citizenship, country of origin, and national origin.