2000-2011
EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 2000-2011
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 district of the adjoining state and may provide for the transportation of the pupils to the school. 2002. The county superintendent of schools shall pay for the tuition of pupils residing in his county and attending school in an adjoining state from the county school tuition fund of his county pursuant to this article. 2003. The county superintendent of schools may provide for the transportation of such pupils to and from their homes and the school in an adjoining state attended by them. For this purpose the county superintendent of schools is authorized to purchase, maintain, and operate one or more schoolbuses and to contract with a responsible party or parties for the providing of such transportation by such party or parties. In lieu of providing such transportation for any such pupil, the county superintendent of schools may pay the parent or guardian of each such pupil five cents ($0.05) per mile for each mile necessarily traveled by such pupil in going to and from his home and school except that if there is more than one such pupil in the household of the parent or guardian the county superintendent of schools may pay two and one-half cents ($0.025) for each such mile for each additional pupil in the household. The total amount paid to any parent or guardian hereunder shall not in any month exceed the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for the one pupil in the household of such parent or guardian and twenty-five dollars ($25) for each additional pupil in the same household. 2004. Any costs incurred by the county superintendent of schools for the transportation of pupils to a school in an adjoining state shall be paid by him by requisition drawn against the county school tuition fund. 2005. The superintendent of schools of any school district, or the principal of any school, in an adjoining state attended by pupils residing in an adjoining county in this state shall certify to the county superintendent of schools of the county not later than July 2nd of each year the average daily attendance of pupils from the county attending the school and the current expenditure, including transportation, incurred for the education of the pupils. 2009. The county superintendent of schools shall pay all costs of transportation and all verified claims for tuition of pupils attending school in adjoining states allowed under this article, by requisition drawn against the county school tuition fund. 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 judgment the surplus will not be needed for the payment of tuition.