“Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
Cal. Educ. Code § 75
Definitions
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 16 Cal. 4th 90 - People v. Ledesma (1997)
Most recently applied in 139 Cal. App. 4th 1356 - San Lorenzo Valley Community Advocates for Responsible Education v. San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District (May 2006)
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.