California Education Code

§ 72031

EDC § 72031 Effective Jan 1, 2018Div. 7 · Title 3 · Part 45 · Ch. 1 · Art. 3

Statute text

The provisions of this section shall apply only to the Los Angeles Community College District.

(a)Whenever in this code a section refers to a district, or to two or more districts, governed by a single governing board, or by governing boards of identical personnel, or to a district or districts in which the average daily attendance is in excess of 400,000, or makes a similar reference, all provisions of the section shall apply with equal force to both the city school district and community college district.

(b)Commencing with the 2019 election for the governing board of the Los Angeles Community College District, and each election thereafter, the governing board may adopt a resolution by majority vote to enact an alternative method by which members of the governing board of the Los Angeles Community College District may be elected by trustee area. The trustee shall be required to reside and be registered to vote in the trustee area he or she seeks to represent, and the trustee shall be elected by only the registered electors of the same trustee area. Upon certification of the election, the candidate with the highest number of votes for a trustee area shall be deemed the candidate elected for that trustee area.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 243, Sec. 4. (SB 628) Effective January 1, 2018.