In the name by which the district is designated the governing board may sue and be sued, and hold and convey property for the use and benefit of the school district.
Cal. Educ. Code § 35162
Powers and Duties
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Belanger v. Madera Unified School District (1992)
Most recently applied in Michael Sato v. Orange Cty. Dept. of Education (June 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.