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EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 10900-10914.5



10900.  The purposes of this chapter are:
   (a) To promote and preserve the health and general welfare of the
people of the state and to cultivate the development of good
citizenship by provision for adequate programs of community
recreation.
   (b) To authorize public corporations or districts having powers to
provide recreation, cities, counties, cities and counties, and
school districts to organize, promote, and conduct programs of
community recreation as will contribute to the attainment of general
educational and recreational objectives for children and adults of
the state.



10900.5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, school
districts which, prior to the effective date of this section, have
interpreted their authority as permitting the use of school buses by
nonprofit organizations for purposes consistent with community
recreation may continue to permit this use under established
practices, policies, and procedures.



10901.  The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this
chapter have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
   (a) "Public authority" means any city of any class, city and
county, county of any class, public corporation or district having
powers to provide recreation, or school district in the state.
   (b) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city, the city
council, municipal council, or common council; in the case of a
county or city and county, the board of supervisors; in the case of a
public corporation or district, the governing board of the public
corporation or district; and in the case of a school district, the
governing board of the school district.
   (c) "Recreation" means any activity, voluntarily engaged in, which
contributes to the physical, mental, or moral development of the
individual or group participating therein, and includes any activity
in the fields of visual and performing arts, handicraft, science,
literature, nature study, nature contacting, aquatic sports, and
athletics, or any of them, and any informal play incorporating any
such activity.
   (d) "Community recreation" and "public recreation" mean the
recreation as may be engaged in under direct control of a public
authority, or any camping or outdoor recreation activity which is (1)
sponsored by a nonprofit organization, (2) for the benefit of
disadvantaged or handicapped schoolage children, and (3) in a county
with a population less than or equal to 45,000 according to the most
recent federal census.
   (e) "Nonprofit organization" means those nonprofit organizations
which, as determined by the governing board of the school district,
are unable to pay for the private transportation of disadvantaged or
handicapped schoolage children to recreation activities.
   (f) "Recreation center" means a place, structure, area, or other
facility under the jurisdiction of a governing body of a public
authority used for community recreation whether or not it may be used
primarily for other purposes, playgrounds, playing fields or courts,
beaches, lakes, rivers, swimming pools, gymnasiums, auditoriums,
libraries, parks adjacent to school sites, recreational community
gardens, rooms for arts and crafts, camps, and meeting places.
   Playgrounds, outdoor playing fields or courts, swimming pools, and
camps, with necessary equipment and appurtenances for their
operation, under the jurisdiction of a governing board of a public
authority used for community recreation shall be considered
recreation centers within the meaning of this chapter whether or not
they may be used primarily for other purposes.



10902.  The governing body of every public authority may do all of
the following:
   (a) Organize, promote, and conduct programs of community
recreation.
   (b) Establish systems of playgrounds and recreation.
   (c) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate recreation
centers within or without the territorial limits of the public
authority.
   No events for which an admission price is charged shall be held
pursuant to this chapter, except amateur athletic contests,
demonstrations, or exhibits and other educational events.



10902.5.  Any individual who willfully, and without just cause,
interferes with or disrupts the recreational activities of
individuals, groups, or entities granted the use of a recreation
center by a governing body is guilty of an infraction, and shall be
punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200).




10903.  Upon the transfer of duties and functions of the county
board of supervisors to the county board of education, the county
board of supervisors may provide by agreement with the county board
of education that the county board of education will perform all or
any portion of the duties and functions of the county under this
chapter.



10904.  A public authority may permit the use of a recreation center
or facility by parent cooperative nursery groups on a nonexclusive
and nondiscriminatory basis when such use does not unreasonably
impair or interfere with the right of the public to use the center or
facility. As used in this section, a "parent cooperative nursery
group" means a group of parents who (1) are licensed by a state
agency; (2) on a nonprofit basis; (3) to provide recreation for their
preschool age children; (4) on a nondiscriminatory basis.



10905.  The governing body of any public authority may cooperate
with the federal government or any department thereof, and the
governing bodies of any two or more public authorities may cooperate
with each other or with the federal government or any department
thereof to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and to that end
may enter into agreements with each other, and may do any and all
things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in carrying out
the purposes of this chapter, or to establish, improve or maintain
campgrounds or other recreation facilities under the control of the
federal government or any department thereof.
   The governing bodies of any two or more public authorities having
jurisdiction over any of the same territory or over contiguous
territories may jointly establish a system or systems of recreation,
and may jointly do any act which either is authorized to do under
Section 10903. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit
any joint or cooperative action authorized by this section.




10906.  The governing board of any union high school district
located in a county of the third class which had an average daily
attendance during the 1971-72 school year of between 17,500 and
18,500, and which, during the 1971-72 school year, had a modified
assessed valuation per pupil of between twenty-one thousand dollars
($21,000) and twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000), may cooperate
with community nonprofit associations and corporations to carry out
the purposes of this chapter including the acquisition, construction,
improvement, maintenance, and operation of recreation centers within
the territorial limits of and under the control of the governing
board, and may enter into agreements with such nonprofit associations
and corporations to share the costs of acquiring, constructing,
improving, maintaining, and operating such recreation centers located
on the property of the school district, provided that the board does
not agree to contribute more than one-half the total cost of any one
project.


10907.  The governing body of any public authority other than a
school district may designate any already existing board, officer, or
employee of the public authority to exercise the powers granted by
this chapter to carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may
provide for the appointment of a board of recreation commissioners to
exercise these powers. A school district may appoint one or more
members of the board of trustees, officers or employees, to represent
the district on a board of recreation commissioners.



10908.  The board of recreation commissioners shall consist of
either five members or seven members, as determined by the governing
body or bodies providing for its appointment, who shall serve with or
without compensation at the discretion of the governing body. If
compensation is authorized by the governing body it shall not exceed
twenty-five dollars ($25) per meeting for not more than one meeting
of the commission in any one calendar month. The governing body may
provide that the members of the commission shall receive their actual
and necessary traveling expenses to and from the place of meeting of
the commission and while traveling in connection with the business
of the commission.


10909.  The board of recreation commissioners in each public
authority, or the board, officer, or employee of the authority
designated to exercise the powers, shall exercise such powers and
perform such duties, pursuant to this chapter, as the governing body
of the public authority may prescribe.



10910.  The governing body of any school district may use the
buildings, grounds, and equipment of the district, or any of them, to
carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may grant the use of any
building, grounds, or equipment of the district to any other public
authority for the purposes, whenever the use of the buildings,
grounds, or equipment for community recreational purposes will not
interfere with use of the buildings, grounds, and equipment for any
other purpose of the public school system. Nothing in this section is
intended to repeal any provision of, or to restrict or otherwise
affect the use of school buildings under Sections 40040 to 40058,
inclusive.



10911.  Every public authority may appoint, prescribe the duties of,
and provide for the compensation and necessary expenses of such
recreational directors, supervisors, custodians, assistants,
deputies, and other employees as it deems reasonably necessary for
carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. Only
persons employed in positions requiring certification qualifications
shall be paid out of funds set aside for the payment of teachers'
salaries.


10911.5.  (a) Commencing with January 1, 1993, every public
recreation program employer shall require each employee having direct
contact with minors to immediately submit, or in the case of a new
employee, to submit on or before the first day of his or her
employment, one set of fingerprints to the Department of Justice.
This requirement is a condition of employment.
   (b) For the purposes of this section "public recreation program
employer" means a public recreation program that is exempt from
licensure pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 1596.792 of the
Health and Safety Code.
   (c) The Department of Justice shall furnish a criminal record
summary to the public recreation program employer designated by an
employee submitting fingerprints pursuant to subdivision (a). The
criminal record summary shall contain only arrests resulting in a
conviction and arrests pending final adjudication. The criminal
record summary furnished to the public recreation program employer
shall be maintained by the public recreation program employer in a
secured file separate from personnel files.
   (d) The Department of Justice may charge each applicant for a
criminal record summary a reasonable fee to cover costs associated
with the processing of the criminal record summary. In no event shall
the fee exceed the actual costs incurred by the department. Nothing
in this section prohibits the public recreation employer from paying
the applicant charge or reimbursing the charge to the employee.



10912.  The governing body of a school district may require persons,
other than students, or organizations desiring to use the
recreational facilities on school grounds or belonging to a school or
the facilities provided by the district at a community recreation
center maintained solely by the district to pay fees for the use as
the governing body may prescribe.



10913.  The governing body of a school district may require persons
or organizations desiring to use schoolbuses belonging to a school to
pay fees for the use as the governing body may prescribe.



10914.  All necessary expenses incurred by the governing body of any
school district in carrying out the purposes of this chapter are a
charge against the funds of the district from whatever source the
funds have been received. All the expenditures shall be made in the
same manner as funds are expended for other school purposes.
   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to change in any way
existing laws regarding the use of school grounds or school buildings
by governing boards of school districts, except as specifically
provided in this chapter.


10914.5.  The governing board of any school district may establish
accounts for community recreation programs established in the schools
of the district, in one or more banks. There shall be no more than
one account established by a district for any one school in the
district. If one account is established for all of the schools in the
district which have community recreation programs, the account shall
be known as "The Community Recreation Program Account of (insert
name of district) District."
   All funds for the community recreation programs, from whatever
source such funds are received, shall be placed in the appropriate
Community Recreation Program Account established pursuant to this
section, and all authorized community recreation expenses shall be
paid therefrom. The governing board of the district shall designate
an employee or employees of the district to have custody of the
account or accounts, who shall be responsible for the payment into
the account or accounts of all moneys required to be paid into the
account or accounts, and for all expenditures therefrom, subject to
such regulations as the governing board prescribes.


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Statutes > California > Edc > 10900-10914.5

EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 10900-10914.5



10900.  The purposes of this chapter are:
   (a) To promote and preserve the health and general welfare of the
people of the state and to cultivate the development of good
citizenship by provision for adequate programs of community
recreation.
   (b) To authorize public corporations or districts having powers to
provide recreation, cities, counties, cities and counties, and
school districts to organize, promote, and conduct programs of
community recreation as will contribute to the attainment of general
educational and recreational objectives for children and adults of
the state.



10900.5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, school
districts which, prior to the effective date of this section, have
interpreted their authority as permitting the use of school buses by
nonprofit organizations for purposes consistent with community
recreation may continue to permit this use under established
practices, policies, and procedures.



10901.  The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this
chapter have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
   (a) "Public authority" means any city of any class, city and
county, county of any class, public corporation or district having
powers to provide recreation, or school district in the state.
   (b) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city, the city
council, municipal council, or common council; in the case of a
county or city and county, the board of supervisors; in the case of a
public corporation or district, the governing board of the public
corporation or district; and in the case of a school district, the
governing board of the school district.
   (c) "Recreation" means any activity, voluntarily engaged in, which
contributes to the physical, mental, or moral development of the
individual or group participating therein, and includes any activity
in the fields of visual and performing arts, handicraft, science,
literature, nature study, nature contacting, aquatic sports, and
athletics, or any of them, and any informal play incorporating any
such activity.
   (d) "Community recreation" and "public recreation" mean the
recreation as may be engaged in under direct control of a public
authority, or any camping or outdoor recreation activity which is (1)
sponsored by a nonprofit organization, (2) for the benefit of
disadvantaged or handicapped schoolage children, and (3) in a county
with a population less than or equal to 45,000 according to the most
recent federal census.
   (e) "Nonprofit organization" means those nonprofit organizations
which, as determined by the governing board of the school district,
are unable to pay for the private transportation of disadvantaged or
handicapped schoolage children to recreation activities.
   (f) "Recreation center" means a place, structure, area, or other
facility under the jurisdiction of a governing body of a public
authority used for community recreation whether or not it may be used
primarily for other purposes, playgrounds, playing fields or courts,
beaches, lakes, rivers, swimming pools, gymnasiums, auditoriums,
libraries, parks adjacent to school sites, recreational community
gardens, rooms for arts and crafts, camps, and meeting places.
   Playgrounds, outdoor playing fields or courts, swimming pools, and
camps, with necessary equipment and appurtenances for their
operation, under the jurisdiction of a governing board of a public
authority used for community recreation shall be considered
recreation centers within the meaning of this chapter whether or not
they may be used primarily for other purposes.



10902.  The governing body of every public authority may do all of
the following:
   (a) Organize, promote, and conduct programs of community
recreation.
   (b) Establish systems of playgrounds and recreation.
   (c) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate recreation
centers within or without the territorial limits of the public
authority.
   No events for which an admission price is charged shall be held
pursuant to this chapter, except amateur athletic contests,
demonstrations, or exhibits and other educational events.



10902.5.  Any individual who willfully, and without just cause,
interferes with or disrupts the recreational activities of
individuals, groups, or entities granted the use of a recreation
center by a governing body is guilty of an infraction, and shall be
punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200).




10903.  Upon the transfer of duties and functions of the county
board of supervisors to the county board of education, the county
board of supervisors may provide by agreement with the county board
of education that the county board of education will perform all or
any portion of the duties and functions of the county under this
chapter.



10904.  A public authority may permit the use of a recreation center
or facility by parent cooperative nursery groups on a nonexclusive
and nondiscriminatory basis when such use does not unreasonably
impair or interfere with the right of the public to use the center or
facility. As used in this section, a "parent cooperative nursery
group" means a group of parents who (1) are licensed by a state
agency; (2) on a nonprofit basis; (3) to provide recreation for their
preschool age children; (4) on a nondiscriminatory basis.



10905.  The governing body of any public authority may cooperate
with the federal government or any department thereof, and the
governing bodies of any two or more public authorities may cooperate
with each other or with the federal government or any department
thereof to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and to that end
may enter into agreements with each other, and may do any and all
things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in carrying out
the purposes of this chapter, or to establish, improve or maintain
campgrounds or other recreation facilities under the control of the
federal government or any department thereof.
   The governing bodies of any two or more public authorities having
jurisdiction over any of the same territory or over contiguous
territories may jointly establish a system or systems of recreation,
and may jointly do any act which either is authorized to do under
Section 10903. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit
any joint or cooperative action authorized by this section.




10906.  The governing board of any union high school district
located in a county of the third class which had an average daily
attendance during the 1971-72 school year of between 17,500 and
18,500, and which, during the 1971-72 school year, had a modified
assessed valuation per pupil of between twenty-one thousand dollars
($21,000) and twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000), may cooperate
with community nonprofit associations and corporations to carry out
the purposes of this chapter including the acquisition, construction,
improvement, maintenance, and operation of recreation centers within
the territorial limits of and under the control of the governing
board, and may enter into agreements with such nonprofit associations
and corporations to share the costs of acquiring, constructing,
improving, maintaining, and operating such recreation centers located
on the property of the school district, provided that the board does
not agree to contribute more than one-half the total cost of any one
project.


10907.  The governing body of any public authority other than a
school district may designate any already existing board, officer, or
employee of the public authority to exercise the powers granted by
this chapter to carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may
provide for the appointment of a board of recreation commissioners to
exercise these powers. A school district may appoint one or more
members of the board of trustees, officers or employees, to represent
the district on a board of recreation commissioners.



10908.  The board of recreation commissioners shall consist of
either five members or seven members, as determined by the governing
body or bodies providing for its appointment, who shall serve with or
without compensation at the discretion of the governing body. If
compensation is authorized by the governing body it shall not exceed
twenty-five dollars ($25) per meeting for not more than one meeting
of the commission in any one calendar month. The governing body may
provide that the members of the commission shall receive their actual
and necessary traveling expenses to and from the place of meeting of
the commission and while traveling in connection with the business
of the commission.


10909.  The board of recreation commissioners in each public
authority, or the board, officer, or employee of the authority
designated to exercise the powers, shall exercise such powers and
perform such duties, pursuant to this chapter, as the governing body
of the public authority may prescribe.



10910.  The governing body of any school district may use the
buildings, grounds, and equipment of the district, or any of them, to
carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may grant the use of any
building, grounds, or equipment of the district to any other public
authority for the purposes, whenever the use of the buildings,
grounds, or equipment for community recreational purposes will not
interfere with use of the buildings, grounds, and equipment for any
other purpose of the public school system. Nothing in this section is
intended to repeal any provision of, or to restrict or otherwise
affect the use of school buildings under Sections 40040 to 40058,
inclusive.



10911.  Every public authority may appoint, prescribe the duties of,
and provide for the compensation and necessary expenses of such
recreational directors, supervisors, custodians, assistants,
deputies, and other employees as it deems reasonably necessary for
carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. Only
persons employed in positions requiring certification qualifications
shall be paid out of funds set aside for the payment of teachers'
salaries.


10911.5.  (a) Commencing with January 1, 1993, every public
recreation program employer shall require each employee having direct
contact with minors to immediately submit, or in the case of a new
employee, to submit on or before the first day of his or her
employment, one set of fingerprints to the Department of Justice.
This requirement is a condition of employment.
   (b) For the purposes of this section "public recreation program
employer" means a public recreation program that is exempt from
licensure pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 1596.792 of the
Health and Safety Code.
   (c) The Department of Justice shall furnish a criminal record
summary to the public recreation program employer designated by an
employee submitting fingerprints pursuant to subdivision (a). The
criminal record summary shall contain only arrests resulting in a
conviction and arrests pending final adjudication. The criminal
record summary furnished to the public recreation program employer
shall be maintained by the public recreation program employer in a
secured file separate from personnel files.
   (d) The Department of Justice may charge each applicant for a
criminal record summary a reasonable fee to cover costs associated
with the processing of the criminal record summary. In no event shall
the fee exceed the actual costs incurred by the department. Nothing
in this section prohibits the public recreation employer from paying
the applicant charge or reimbursing the charge to the employee.



10912.  The governing body of a school district may require persons,
other than students, or organizations desiring to use the
recreational facilities on school grounds or belonging to a school or
the facilities provided by the district at a community recreation
center maintained solely by the district to pay fees for the use as
the governing body may prescribe.



10913.  The governing body of a school district may require persons
or organizations desiring to use schoolbuses belonging to a school to
pay fees for the use as the governing body may prescribe.



10914.  All necessary expenses incurred by the governing body of any
school district in carrying out the purposes of this chapter are a
charge against the funds of the district from whatever source the
funds have been received. All the expenditures shall be made in the
same manner as funds are expended for other school purposes.
   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to change in any way
existing laws regarding the use of school grounds or school buildings
by governing boards of school districts, except as specifically
provided in this chapter.


10914.5.  The governing board of any school district may establish
accounts for community recreation programs established in the schools
of the district, in one or more banks. There shall be no more than
one account established by a district for any one school in the
district. If one account is established for all of the schools in the
district which have community recreation programs, the account shall
be known as "The Community Recreation Program Account of (insert
name of district) District."
   All funds for the community recreation programs, from whatever
source such funds are received, shall be placed in the appropriate
Community Recreation Program Account established pursuant to this
section, and all authorized community recreation expenses shall be
paid therefrom. The governing board of the district shall designate
an employee or employees of the district to have custody of the
account or accounts, who shall be responsible for the payment into
the account or accounts of all moneys required to be paid into the
account or accounts, and for all expenditures therefrom, subject to
such regulations as the governing board prescribes.



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Statutes > California > Edc > 10900-10914.5

EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 10900-10914.5



10900.  The purposes of this chapter are:
   (a) To promote and preserve the health and general welfare of the
people of the state and to cultivate the development of good
citizenship by provision for adequate programs of community
recreation.
   (b) To authorize public corporations or districts having powers to
provide recreation, cities, counties, cities and counties, and
school districts to organize, promote, and conduct programs of
community recreation as will contribute to the attainment of general
educational and recreational objectives for children and adults of
the state.



10900.5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, school
districts which, prior to the effective date of this section, have
interpreted their authority as permitting the use of school buses by
nonprofit organizations for purposes consistent with community
recreation may continue to permit this use under established
practices, policies, and procedures.



10901.  The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this
chapter have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
   (a) "Public authority" means any city of any class, city and
county, county of any class, public corporation or district having
powers to provide recreation, or school district in the state.
   (b) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city, the city
council, municipal council, or common council; in the case of a
county or city and county, the board of supervisors; in the case of a
public corporation or district, the governing board of the public
corporation or district; and in the case of a school district, the
governing board of the school district.
   (c) "Recreation" means any activity, voluntarily engaged in, which
contributes to the physical, mental, or moral development of the
individual or group participating therein, and includes any activity
in the fields of visual and performing arts, handicraft, science,
literature, nature study, nature contacting, aquatic sports, and
athletics, or any of them, and any informal play incorporating any
such activity.
   (d) "Community recreation" and "public recreation" mean the
recreation as may be engaged in under direct control of a public
authority, or any camping or outdoor recreation activity which is (1)
sponsored by a nonprofit organization, (2) for the benefit of
disadvantaged or handicapped schoolage children, and (3) in a county
with a population less than or equal to 45,000 according to the most
recent federal census.
   (e) "Nonprofit organization" means those nonprofit organizations
which, as determined by the governing board of the school district,
are unable to pay for the private transportation of disadvantaged or
handicapped schoolage children to recreation activities.
   (f) "Recreation center" means a place, structure, area, or other
facility under the jurisdiction of a governing body of a public
authority used for community recreation whether or not it may be used
primarily for other purposes, playgrounds, playing fields or courts,
beaches, lakes, rivers, swimming pools, gymnasiums, auditoriums,
libraries, parks adjacent to school sites, recreational community
gardens, rooms for arts and crafts, camps, and meeting places.
   Playgrounds, outdoor playing fields or courts, swimming pools, and
camps, with necessary equipment and appurtenances for their
operation, under the jurisdiction of a governing board of a public
authority used for community recreation shall be considered
recreation centers within the meaning of this chapter whether or not
they may be used primarily for other purposes.



10902.  The governing body of every public authority may do all of
the following:
   (a) Organize, promote, and conduct programs of community
recreation.
   (b) Establish systems of playgrounds and recreation.
   (c) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate recreation
centers within or without the territorial limits of the public
authority.
   No events for which an admission price is charged shall be held
pursuant to this chapter, except amateur athletic contests,
demonstrations, or exhibits and other educational events.



10902.5.  Any individual who willfully, and without just cause,
interferes with or disrupts the recreational activities of
individuals, groups, or entities granted the use of a recreation
center by a governing body is guilty of an infraction, and shall be
punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200).




10903.  Upon the transfer of duties and functions of the county
board of supervisors to the county board of education, the county
board of supervisors may provide by agreement with the county board
of education that the county board of education will perform all or
any portion of the duties and functions of the county under this
chapter.



10904.  A public authority may permit the use of a recreation center
or facility by parent cooperative nursery groups on a nonexclusive
and nondiscriminatory basis when such use does not unreasonably
impair or interfere with the right of the public to use the center or
facility. As used in this section, a "parent cooperative nursery
group" means a group of parents who (1) are licensed by a state
agency; (2) on a nonprofit basis; (3) to provide recreation for their
preschool age children; (4) on a nondiscriminatory basis.



10905.  The governing body of any public authority may cooperate
with the federal government or any department thereof, and the
governing bodies of any two or more public authorities may cooperate
with each other or with the federal government or any department
thereof to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and to that end
may enter into agreements with each other, and may do any and all
things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in carrying out
the purposes of this chapter, or to establish, improve or maintain
campgrounds or other recreation facilities under the control of the
federal government or any department thereof.
   The governing bodies of any two or more public authorities having
jurisdiction over any of the same territory or over contiguous
territories may jointly establish a system or systems of recreation,
and may jointly do any act which either is authorized to do under
Section 10903. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit
any joint or cooperative action authorized by this section.




10906.  The governing board of any union high school district
located in a county of the third class which had an average daily
attendance during the 1971-72 school year of between 17,500 and
18,500, and which, during the 1971-72 school year, had a modified
assessed valuation per pupil of between twenty-one thousand dollars
($21,000) and twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000), may cooperate
with community nonprofit associations and corporations to carry out
the purposes of this chapter including the acquisition, construction,
improvement, maintenance, and operation of recreation centers within
the territorial limits of and under the control of the governing
board, and may enter into agreements with such nonprofit associations
and corporations to share the costs of acquiring, constructing,
improving, maintaining, and operating such recreation centers located
on the property of the school district, provided that the board does
not agree to contribute more than one-half the total cost of any one
project.


10907.  The governing body of any public authority other than a
school district may designate any already existing board, officer, or
employee of the public authority to exercise the powers granted by
this chapter to carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may
provide for the appointment of a board of recreation commissioners to
exercise these powers. A school district may appoint one or more
members of the board of trustees, officers or employees, to represent
the district on a board of recreation commissioners.



10908.  The board of recreation commissioners shall consist of
either five members or seven members, as determined by the governing
body or bodies providing for its appointment, who shall serve with or
without compensation at the discretion of the governing body. If
compensation is authorized by the governing body it shall not exceed
twenty-five dollars ($25) per meeting for not more than one meeting
of the commission in any one calendar month. The governing body may
provide that the members of the commission shall receive their actual
and necessary traveling expenses to and from the place of meeting of
the commission and while traveling in connection with the business
of the commission.


10909.  The board of recreation commissioners in each public
authority, or the board, officer, or employee of the authority
designated to exercise the powers, shall exercise such powers and
perform such duties, pursuant to this chapter, as the governing body
of the public authority may prescribe.



10910.  The governing body of any school district may use the
buildings, grounds, and equipment of the district, or any of them, to
carry out the purposes of this chapter, or may grant the use of any
building, grounds, or equipment of the district to any other public
authority for the purposes, whenever the use of the buildings,
grounds, or equipment for community recreational purposes will not
interfere with use of the buildings, grounds, and equipment for any
other purpose of the public school system. Nothing in this section is
intended to repeal any provision of, or to restrict or otherwise
affect the use of school buildings under Sections 40040 to 40058,
inclusive.



10911.  Every public authority may appoint, prescribe the duties of,
and provide for the compensation and necessary expenses of such
recreational directors, supervisors, custodians, assistants,
deputies, and other employees as it deems reasonably necessary for
carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. Only
persons employed in positions requiring certification qualifications
shall be paid out of funds set aside for the payment of teachers'
salaries.


10911.5.  (a) Commencing with January 1, 1993, every public
recreation program employer shall require each employee having direct
contact with minors to immediately submit, or in the case of a new
employee, to submit on or before the first day of his or her
employment, one set of fingerprints to the Department of Justice.
This requirement is a condition of employment.
   (b) For the purposes of this section "public recreation program
employer" means a public recreation program that is exempt from
licensure pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 1596.792 of the
Health and Safety Code.
   (c) The Department of Justice shall furnish a criminal record
summary to the public recreation program employer designated by an
employee submitting fingerprints pursuant to subdivision (a). The
criminal record summary shall contain only arrests resulting in a
conviction and arrests pending final adjudication. The criminal
record summary furnished to the public recreation program employer
shall be maintained by the public recreation program employer in a
secured file separate from personnel files.
   (d) The Department of Justice may charge each applicant for a
criminal record summary a reasonable fee to cover costs associated
with the processing of the criminal record summary. In no event shall
the fee exceed the actual costs incurred by the department. Nothing
in this section prohibits the public recreation employer from paying
the applicant charge or reimbursing the charge to the employee.



10912.  The governing body of a school district may require persons,
other than students, or organizations desiring to use the
recreational facilities on school grounds or belonging to a school or
the facilities provided by the district at a community recreation
center maintained solely by the district to pay fees for the use as
the governing body may prescribe.



10913.  The governing body of a school district may require persons
or organizations desiring to use schoolbuses belonging to a school to
pay fees for the use as the governing body may prescribe.



10914.  All necessary expenses incurred by the governing body of any
school district in carrying out the purposes of this chapter are a
charge against the funds of the district from whatever source the
funds have been received. All the expenditures shall be made in the
same manner as funds are expended for other school purposes.
   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to change in any way
existing laws regarding the use of school grounds or school buildings
by governing boards of school districts, except as specifically
provided in this chapter.


10914.5.  The governing board of any school district may establish
accounts for community recreation programs established in the schools
of the district, in one or more banks. There shall be no more than
one account established by a district for any one school in the
district. If one account is established for all of the schools in the
district which have community recreation programs, the account shall
be known as "The Community Recreation Program Account of (insert
name of district) District."
   All funds for the community recreation programs, from whatever
source such funds are received, shall be placed in the appropriate
Community Recreation Program Account established pursuant to this
section, and all authorized community recreation expenses shall be
paid therefrom. The governing board of the district shall designate
an employee or employees of the district to have custody of the
account or accounts, who shall be responsible for the payment into
the account or accounts of all moneys required to be paid into the
account or accounts, and for all expenditures therefrom, subject to
such regulations as the governing board prescribes.