ARTICLE 2. The State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947 [90010. - 90083.]

Cal. Education Code - EDC 2.
in effect

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90011. Section 90011.

(a) The following terms wherever used or referred to in this article, or in any indenture entered into pursuant to this article, shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different meaning appears from the context: (1) “Board” means the Trustees of the California State University. (2) “Bonds” or “revenue bonds” means the written evidence of any obligation, other than revenue bond anticipation notes, issued by the board, payment of which is secured by a pledge of revenues or any part of revenues, as provided in this article, in order to obtain funds with which to carry out the purposes of this article, irrespective of the form of the obligations. (3) The “holder of bonds” or “bondholder” or any similar term means any person who shall be the bearer of any outstanding revenue bond or bond registered to bearer or not registered or the registered owner of any outstanding revenue bond or bond that shall at the time be registered other than to the bearer. (4) “Indenture” means an agreement entered into by the board pursuant to which revenue bonds are issued, regardless of whether the agreement is expressed in the form of a resolution of the board or by other instrument. (5) “Notes” and “revenue bond anticipation notes” mean the written evidence of any obligation, including commercial paper notes, issued by the board, pursuant to Section 90013, in anticipation of the sale of revenue bonds, for the purpose of obtaining funds to carry out the purposes of this article. (6) “Person” includes any individual, firm, corporation, association, copartnership, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, or conservator for any thereof, but does not include this state or any public corporation, political subdivision, city, county, district, or any agency thereof or of this state. (7) “Project” means any one or more dormitories or other housing facilities, boarding facilities, student union or activity facilities, vehicle parking facilities, alternative transportation programs, or any other auxiliary or supplementary facilities for individual or group accommodation, owned or operated or authorized to be acquired, constructed, furnished, equipped, and operated by the board for use by students, faculty members, or other employees of any one or more campuses of the California State University, or a combination of those facilities, which may include facilities already completed and facilities authorized for future completion, or any other facilities designated by the board as a project in providing for the issuance of revenue bonds or notes. (8) “Revenues” mean and include any and all fees, rates, rentals, and other charges received or receivable in connection with, and any and all other incomes and receipts of whatever kind and character derived by, the board from the operation of, or arising from, a project, including any revenue that may have been, or may be, impounded or deposited in any fund in the State Treasury created by this article or in any other fund or account pursuant to law for the security of any notes or bonds issued hereunder, or for the purpose of providing for the payment thereof, or the interest thereon. (9) “State university” and “campus of the California State University” means any of the institutions included within the California State University, as listed in Section 89001. (b) As used in this article: (1) The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present tense. (2) The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (3) The singular number includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular. (4) “Shall” is mandatory, and “may” is permissive.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90012. Section 90012.

The board, for the purposes of this article, has power and is hereby authorized, in addition to and amplification of all other powers conferred upon the board by the Constitution of the State of California or by any statute of the State of California: (a) To acquire, subject to the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section 15850) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, and to hold and use, any real or personal property necessary, convenient, or useful for the carrying on of any of its powers pursuant to this article. (b) To construct, operate, and control any project. (c) To fix rates, rents, or other charges for the use of any project acquired, constructed, equipped, furnished, operated or maintained by the board, or for services rendered in connection therewith, and to alter, change, or modify the same at its pleasure, subject to any contractual obligation that may be entered into by the board with respect to the fixing of rates, rents, or charges. (d) To enter into covenants to increase rates or charges from time to time as may be necessary pursuant to any contract or agreement with the holders of any bonds of the board. (e) At any time and from time to time, to issue revenue bonds in order to raise funds for the purpose of establishing any project or of acquiring lands for any project, or of acquiring, constructing, improving, equipping, furnishing, financing, or refinancing any project, including payment of principal and interest on revenue bond anticipation notes, or for any combination of these purposes, which bonds may be secured as provided in this article. (f) At any time, and from time to time, in connection with the financing or refinancing of any project, to loan or advance proceeds of revenue bonds or revenue bond anticipation notes to any person or state or local governmental entity, and to enter into loan agreements, leases, installation purchase agreements, conditional sales contracts, and similar financing instruments with the recipient of that loan or advance, all upon terms and conditions determined by the board. (g) At any time and from time to time, to issue revenue bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 90013. (h) To adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to enable the board to exercise the powers and to perform the duties conferred or imposed upon the board by this article. (i) Nothing contained in this section or elsewhere in this article shall be construed directly or by implication to be in derogation of or in limitation of powers conferred upon or existing in the board by the Constitution or statutes of this state.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90013. Section 90013.

(a) The board may issue revenue bond anticipation notes, in anticipation of the sale of revenue bonds. Before issuing any of these notes, the board shall, by resolution, authorize their issuance, declare the purpose for which the proceeds of the notes shall be expended, and specify the maximum amount of notes to be issued for that purpose. (b) Revenue bond anticipation notes shall bear interest at the fixed or variable rate or rates determined by the board, not exceeding 12 percent per annum, payable in the time, form, and manner set forth in the indenture for the notes, and shall mature on the date or dates determined by the board and set forth in the resolution or indenture authorizing their issuance. (c) The proceeds from the sale of notes shall be used only for the purposes for which the proceeds of the sale of bonds may be used in anticipation whereof the notes are issued. (d) All notes issued, including renewal notes, and the interest thereon shall be payable from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds, the revenues of the project, any appropriations made for that purpose or all of these sources, and not otherwise, except that if the sale of the bonds has not occurred prior to the maturity of the notes issued in anticipation thereof, the board may issue renewal notes to pay the notes then maturing. No renewal notes shall be issued after the sale of the bonds in anticipation of which the original note was issued. (e) Revenue bond anticipation notes may be secured by a pledge of, and lien upon, the proceeds of the sale of bonds, the revenues of the project, and any other legally available funds. (f) A resolution or indenture authorizing the issuance of revenue bond anticipation notes may include provisions deemed necessary or advisable by the board for the security of the notes issued thereunder, and may include any and all provisions authorized to be included in indentures by this article.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90014. Section 90014.

Notes authorized to be issued under this article shall be sold by the Treasurer, for cash, in the manner that the Treasurer shall be directed by a resolution requesting the sale adopted by the board. Notes in the form of commercial paper notes shall be sold in the manner specified in the indenture for the notes.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90015. Section 90015.

The validity of the authorization and issuance of any revenue bonds or revenue bond anticipation notes by the board is not dependent on nor affected in any way by: (a) Proceedings taken by the board for the acquisition, construction or completion of any project or any part thereof. (b) Any contracts made by the board in connection with the acquisition, construction or completion of any project. (c) The failure to complete any project for which bonds or notes are authorized to be issued.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90016. Section 90016.

The board shall issue revenue bonds and revenue bond anticipation notes in its name and as its obligation, but no bond or note issued or sold pursuant to this article shall be or become a lien, charge, or liability against the State of California or against the board or against the property or funds of either, except, in the case of revenue bonds, to the extent of the pledge of revenues or part of revenues of the project, as may be provided by the indenture pursuant to which revenue bonds are issued, and, in the case of notes, to the extent of the pledge of revenues of the project and proceeds of the sale of bonds, as may be provided in the resolution or indenture authorizing the issuance of the notes. Each of these bonds and notes issued by the board shall contain a recital on the face thereof, stating that neither the payment of the principal nor any part thereof, nor any interest thereon, constitutes a debt, liability, or obligation of the State of California.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90018. Section 90018.

The board may enter into indentures providing for the aggregate principal amount, date or dates, maturities, interest rates, denominations, form, registration, transfer and interchange of any revenue bonds and coupons issued pursuant to this article, and the terms and conditions on which the same shall be executed, issued, secured, sold, paid, redeemed, funded, and refunded. Reference on the face of the bonds to the indenture by its date of adoption, or the apparent date on the face thereof, is sufficient to incorporate all of the provisions thereof and of this article into the body of the bonds and their appurtenant coupons. Each taker and subsequent holder of the bonds or coupons, whether the coupons are attached to or detached from the bonds, has recourse to all of the provisions of the indenture and of this article, and is bound thereby.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90019. Section 90019.

An indenture pursuant to which bonds are issued may include any and all of the covenants and agreements on the part of the board as the board deems necessary or advisable for the better security of the bonds issued thereunder.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90021. Section 90021.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to pay or cause to be paid punctually the principal of all such bonds and the interest thereon on the date or dates, or at the place or places, and in the manner mentioned in such bonds and in the coupons appertaining thereto in accordance with such indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90022. Section 90022.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder, requiring the board to operate the project continuously, to the extent practicable under conditions as they may from time to time exist, in an efficient and economical manner.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90023. Section 90023.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to make all necessary repairs, renewals and replacements to any project, and to keep the project at all times in good repair, working order and condition.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90024. Section 90024.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to preserve and protect the security of the bonds and the rights of the holders thereof and to warrant and defend such rights.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90025. Section 90025.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to pay and discharge or cause to be paid and discharged all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies or other charges which, if unpaid, might become a lien or charge upon the revenues, or any part thereof, of any project acquired, constructed or completed from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds, or upon any physical properties, or which might impair the security of the bonds.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90026. Section 90026.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder which limits, restricts, or prohibits any right, power or privilege of the board to mortgage or otherwise encumber, sell, lease or dispose of any improvements constructed from the proceeds of the bonds, or to enter into any lease or agreement which impairs or impedes the operation of a project, or any part thereof, necessary to secure adequate revenues or which otherwise impairs or impedes the rights of the holders of the bonds with respect to such revenues.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90027. Section 90027.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to fix, prescribe, and collect rates, rentals, or other charges in connection with the services and facilities furnished from the project acquired, constructed, or purchased from part or all of the proceeds of the bonds, or from the revenues securing the bonds, sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as they become due and payable, together with additional sums that may be required for any fund created by this article, for the further security of the bonds or as a depreciation charge or other charge in connection with the project.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90028. Section 90028.

An indenture may include a clause relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the board to hold or cause to be held in trust the revenues or any part of revenues pledged to the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, or to any reserve or other fund created by this article for the further protection of the bonds, and to apply such revenues or any part of revenues or cause them to be applied only as provided in the indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90029. Section 90029.

An indenture may include a clause defining the power of the board in applying the proceeds of the sale of any issue of bonds for the acquiring, constructing, or completing of any project or any part thereof.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90030. Section 90030.

An indenture may include a clause limiting the power of the board to issue additional bonds for the purpose of acquiring, constructing or completing any project or any part thereof.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90031. Section 90031.

An indenture may include a clause requiring, specifying or limiting the kind, amount and character of insurance to be maintained by the board on any project, or any part thereof, and the use and disposition of the proceeds of any such insurance thereafter collected.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90032. Section 90032.

An indenture may include a clause providing the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds of the board then or thereafter issued may become or be declared due and payable prior to maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90033. Section 90033.

An indenture may include a clause designating the rights, limitations, powers and duties arising upon breach by the board of any of the covenants, conditions, or obligations contained in any indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90034. Section 90034.

An indenture may include a clause prescribing a procedure by which the terms and conditions of the indenture may be subsequently amended or modified with the consent of the board and the vote or written assent of the holders of a specified principal amount or specified proportion of the bonds issued and outstanding. The clause may provide for meetings of bondholders and for the manner in which the consent of the bondholders may be given. The clause shall specifically state the effect of the amendment or modification upon the rights of the holders of all of the bonds and interest coupons appertaining thereto, whether attached thereto or detached therefrom. With respect to any clause providing for the modification or amendment of an indenture, the board may agree that bonds held by the Treasurer, the United States or any instrumentality thereof, or the State of California or any political subdivision thereof (including every municipal corporation, district, public corporation, board or agency of any kind or class) shall not be counted as outstanding bonds, or be entitled to vote or assent, but shall, nevertheless, be subject to any modification or amendment of this type.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90035. Section 90035.

An indenture may include a clause or clauses providing for such other acts and matters as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order better to secure the bonds or to make the bonds more marketable.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90036. Section 90036.

The State Treasurer shall act as trustee for the board and the holders of bonds issued hereunder, and the board may authorize the trustee to act on behalf of the holders of the bonds, or any stated percentage thereof, and to exercise and prosecute on behalf of the holders of the bonds such rights and remedies as may be available to the holders. The board may provide in the indenture for the deposit of all revenues received from the project with the trustee to be held in a separate account in the California State University Dormitory Revenue Fund created by this article. The money in the fund shall be disbursed only as provided in the indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90037. Section 90037.

The board shall prescribe the duties and powers of the trustee with respect to the issuance, authentication, sale and delivery of the bonds and the payment of principal and interest thereof, the redemption of the bonds, the registration and discharge from registration of the bonds, and the management of any sinking fund or other funds provided as security for the bonds.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90038. Section 90038.

The board may provide for one or several issues of bonds and may issue bonds in series or may divide any issue into one or more divisions and fix different maturities or dates of those bonds, different rates of interest, or prescribe different terms and conditions for the bonds of the several series or divisions. It is not necessary that all bonds of the same authorized issue be of the same kind or character, have the same security, or be of the same interest rate, but the terms thereof shall in each case be provided for by the board, at or prior to the issue thereof.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90039. Section 90039.

Bonds may be issued as coupon bonds or as registered bonds. The board may provide for the interchange of coupon bonds for registered bonds and registered bonds for coupon bonds, and may provide that the bonds shall be registered as to principal only, or as to both principal and interest, or otherwise as the board may determine.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90040. Section 90040.

Bonds shall bear interest at a fixed or variable rate of not to exceed 12 percent per annum, payable in the time, form, and manner set forth in the indenture for the bonds.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90041. Section 90041.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 90013, 90040, and 90048, the rate of interest which bonds or notes may bear and the yield resulting to the purchaser thereof may exceed the maximum rates specified in said sections to the extent of any debt service grant applicable to such interest which the United States of America has agreed, pursuant to any federal statute, to pay with respect to the bonds or notes.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90042. Section 90042.

Bonds may be callable upon any terms, conditions, and upon any notice as the board may determine, and upon the payment of the premium as may be fixed by the board in the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds. No bond is subject to call or redemption prior to its fixed maturity date unless the right to exercise the call is expressly stated on the face of the bond.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90043. Section 90043.

The board may provide for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds at any place within or without the State of California, and in specified coin or currency of the United States.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90044. Section 90044.

The board may provide for the execution and authentication of bonds and notes by the manual, lithographed or printed facsimile signature of officers of the board and, in the case of bonds, by additional authentication by the Treasurer as trustee. If any of the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear upon the notes, bonds or coupons cease to be officers before the delivery of the notes, bonds or coupons, their signatures or countersignatures are nevertheless valid and of the same force and effect as if the officers had remained in office until the delivery of the notes, bonds or coupons.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90045. Section 90045.

Bonds shall bear dates prescribed by the board. Bonds may be serial bonds or sinking fund bonds with those maturities as the board may determine. No bond by its terms shall mature in more than 50 years from its own date and, in the event any authorized issue is divided into two or more series or divisions, the maximum maturity date herein authorized shall be calculated from the date on the face of each bond separately, irrespective of the fact that different dates may be prescribed for the bonds of each separate series or division of any authorized issue.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90046. Section 90046.

Immediately after the adoption of a resolution by the board directing the preparation of any bonds or notes authorized under this article, the Treasurer shall prepare the requisite number of suitable bonds or notes of the denominations, and in accordance with the specifications contained in such resolution.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90047. Section 90047.

When the bonds authorized to be issued under this article are duly executed, they shall be sold by the Treasurer, for cash, in those parcels and numbers as the Treasurer shall be directed by a resolution adopted by the board. Before offering any of the bonds for sale, the Treasurer shall detach therefrom all coupons, if any, that have matured or will mature before the day fixed for the sale. Bonds in the form of commercial paper notes shall be sold in the manner specified in the indenture for the bonds.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90048. Section 90048.

Bonds and notes may be sold at either public or private sale. The board may fix terms and conditions for the sale or other disposition of any authorized issue of bonds or notes. The Treasurer, when authorized by resolution of the board may sell bonds and notes at less than their par or face value, but no bond or note may be sold at a price below the par or face value thereof which would result in a sale price yielding to the purchaser an average of more than 12 percent per annum, payable semiannually, according to standard tables of bond values.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90049. Section 90049.

The board may provide for the security of bonds. The board may use and expend all or any part of any funds or proceeds of any property owned by it, whether received by gift, appropriation or otherwise, if not restricted as to the use of such funds or proceeds of property by the terms of any gift or trust or provision of law for the redemption of bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this article and the payment of interest due thereon.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90050. Section 90050.

All costs and expenses incident to the issuance and sale of notes may be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the notes. All costs and expenses incident to the issuance and sales of bonds and all costs and expenses incident to the redemption of revenue bond anticipation notes retired with proceeds from the sale of the bonds may be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds. Interest on bonds may be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds during the actual construction of any project for the acquisition, construction or completion of which the bonds have been issued, and for a period of not to exceed two (2) years thereafter as provided for in the indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90051. Section 90051.

The board may provide that notes or bonds and the interest thereon shall be secured by all or by part of revenues of a project upon the basis of which the notes or bonds are issued or authorized to be issued, and shall constitute a lien upon the revenues of the project as may be provided for in the notes or in any indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90052. Section 90052.

Pending the actual issuance or delivery of revenue bonds, the board may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates or receipts of any denomination whatsoever, and with or without coupons, to be exchanged for definitive bonds when ready for delivery.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90054. Section 90054.

Bonds and notes issued pursuant to the provisions of this article and the interest or income therefrom are exempt from all taxation in this state other than gift, inheritance and estate taxes.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90055. Section 90055.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all notes and bonds hereafter sold and delivered pursuant to the provisions of this article are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, trust companies, and the state school funds, and may also be used as security for the deposit of public moneys in banks in this state. Such bonds are also legal investments for any public or private funds which may be invested in county, municipal or school district bonds, and may be deposited as security for the performance of any act whenever the bonds of any county, municipality or school district may be so deposited.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90056. Section 90056.

The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this article. All provisions of this article applicable to the issuance of revenue bonds are applicable to the funding or refunding bonds and to the issuance, sale or exchange thereof.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90057. Section 90057.

Funding or refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of all bonds to be funded or refunded thereby, and in addition for the payment of all expenses incident to the calling, retiring or paying of such outstanding bonds, and the issuance of such funding or refunding bonds. These expenses include the difference in amount between the par value of the funding or refunding bonds and any amount less than par for which the funding or refunding bonds are sold, any amount necessary to be made available for the payment of interest upon such funding or refunding bonds from the date of sale thereof to the date of payment of the bonds to be funded or refunded or to the date upon which the bonds to be funded or refunded will be paid pursuant to the call thereof or agreement with the holders thereof, and the premium, if any, necessary to be paid in order to call or retire the outstanding bonds and the interest accruing thereon to the date of the call or retirement.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90058. Section 90058.

All bonds and notes issued under the provisions of this article are negotiable instruments, except when registered in the name of a registered owner.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90059. Section 90059.

Before issuing any bond or bonds pursuant to the provisions of this article, the board shall by resolution declare the purpose for which the proceeds of the bonds proposed to be issued shall be expended and shall specify the maximum amount of bonds to be issued or sold for this purpose, and bonds shall not be issued or sold for this purpose in an amount exceeding that specified maximum except with the consent of bondholders, pursuant to amendment or modification of an indenture, as provided in Section 90034 of this article. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the board from amending any resolution of this type prior to the issuance of bonds authorized thereby to increase or decrease the maximum amount of bonds to be issued or sold. The issuance of bonds for one or more projects may be included in a single resolution of authorization.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90060. Section 90060.

The board has full charge of the acquisition, construction and completion of all projects authorized by them and may proceed with such work forthwith.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90061. Section 90061.

The board may construct any project and acquire all property necessary therefor on such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable. When any part of the work is to be done or performed by any public body or by the United States jointly or in conjunction with the board, the portion of the cost thereof to be borne by the board may be turned over to the government of the United States or to any other public body to be expended by it in the acquisition, construction or completion of the project.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90062. Section 90062.

Title to all property acquired by the board and the revenues and income therefrom is in the State of California. The title to any moneys, revenues, sinking funds, reserve funds and other funds created by this article and the income thereof pledged to the payment of the principal or interest or any bonds issued thereunder is subject to trusts declared in favor of the bondholders. All such property, and the income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation by the State of California or by any county, city and county, city, district, political subdivision or public corporation thereof.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90063. Section 90063.

At all times the operation, maintenance, control, repair, construction, reconstruction, alteration and improvement of any project are vested in the board subject to such authorized leases as may be permitted by any indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90064. Section 90064.

The board may use for the payment of the costs of acquisition, construction or completion of any project any funds made available to the board by the State of California or any other funds provided by the board from any source, to be expended for the accomplishing of the purposes set forth in this article, together with the proceeds of revenue bonds and revenue bond anticipation notes issued and sold by the board.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90065. Section 90065.

The board may insure against loss of revenues from any cause whatsoever and the proceeds of any insurance shall be used for the payment of bonds or notes and the interest thereon, or for other purposes as may be provided in an indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90066. Section 90066.

The board may insure against public liability or property damage. The board may provide in an indenture for the carrying of this or any other insurance in the amount and of the character as it shall determine, and for the payment of the premiums thereon.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90067. Section 90067.

When authorized by resolution of the board, as provided in this article, the State Treasurer shall prepare and procure the printing or engrossing of notes, bonds, coupons, indentures or other instruments and contracts or agreements of every kind required or convenient for or pertaining to the issuance or sale of notes or bonds.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90068. Section 90068.

The board shall fix rents, charges and fees for all projects acquired, constructed or completed under the terms of this article for the use thereof by any persons utilizing the facilities thereof, subject to such contractual obligations as may be entered into by the board and the holders of notes and bonds issued under this article. The board is authorized to change rents, charges and fees from time to time, as conditions warrant. To the extent and in the manner provided in the indenture, all rents, charges and fees shall at all times be fixed to yield annual revenue equal to annual operating and maintenance expenses, including repairs and insurance costs and all redemption payments and interest charges and reserve fund requirements on revenue bonds at any time issued and outstanding hereunder, as the same become due.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90069. Section 90069.

Rent, charges, and fees collected in error may be refunded by the board in accordance with regulations prescribed by the board. Refunds of rent, charges, and fees collected for facilities requested by students and not utilized by them may be made for good cause by the board in such amounts and under such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations adopted by the board.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90070. Section 90070.

The board may include in an indenture those limitations as to competitive projects, both as to location and comparative rentals, as may be deemed necessary or desirable for the security of revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90071. Section 90071.

The board may also include in an indenture a covenant that no project acquired, constructed or completed from the proceeds of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall be used without charge therefor or any facilities thereof be furnished free of charge to any person.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90072. Section 90072.

The holder of any bond or note issued pursuant to this article may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding require and compel the performance of any of the duties imposed upon the board or upon any official or employee or assumed by any thereof, in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, reconstruction or insurance of any project, or the collection, deposit, investment, application and disbursement of rents, rates, charges, fees and all other revenues derived from the operation and use of any project or in connection with the deposit, investment and disbursement of the proceeds received from the sale of bonds and notes under this article. The enumeration of such rights and remedies does not, however, exclude the exercise or prosecution of any other rights or remedies available to the holders of bonds and notes issued pursuant to this article.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90073. Section 90073.

The proceeds from the sale of all bonds and notes authorized under this article, except those proceeds used to redeem outstanding bonds or notes, shall be deposited forthwith by the Treasurer, on order of the Controller, in the State Treasury to the credit of a fund to be designated as the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund, which is hereby created. The money in the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund shall be expended, pursuant to claims filed by the board with the Controller, for the purposes authorized by this article, or as provided in the indenture or notes, and for any other purposes, subject to the restrictions provided by law, by the notes, or by the indenture, as may be authorized by resolution of the board. In carrying out these purposes, the money may be used to make loans to builders and developers for the establishment, acquisition, or construction of projects, to acquire leasehold interests in projects, or otherwise to provide funds for projects in any manner that the board may authorize by resolution. Moneys required to meet the costs of acquisition, construction, improvement, equipment, furnishing, financing, or refinancing of any project authorized by this article, and all costs incident thereto, shall be paid from the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund as provided in this article upon claim filed by the board and after audit by the Controller in the manner provided by law and upon warrants drawn by the Controller.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90074. Section 90074.

To the extent and in the manner provided in the indenture or in a resolution authorizing the issuance of notes, all revenues received from the operation of any project acquired or constructed by the board under the provisions of this article shall be transmitted by the board at least once in every calendar month, to the Treasurer. On order of the Controller, the Treasurer shall deposit the revenues in the State Treasury to the credit of the California State University Dormitory Revenue Fund, which fund is hereby created. Moneys in the California State University Dormitory Revenue Fund shall be used to pay the costs of operation and maintenance of the projects authorized by this article, including refunds authorized by Section 90069, to provide the amounts required for interest and redemption of notes and bonds as provided in this article, and for any other purposes authorized by resolution of the board, subject to any restrictions provided by law, a resolution authorizing the issuance of notes, or the indenture.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90075. Section 90075.

For the payment of the principal and interest of the notes and bonds authorized to be issued under this article, an interest and redemption fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be designated the California State University Dormitory Interest and Redemption Fund. From the money deposited in the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund, the Treasurer, on order of the Controller, shall transfer to the California State University Dormitory Interest and Redemption Fund the sums required to pay the interest as it becomes due on all notes and bonds sold and outstanding for the construction or acquisition of a particular project authorized under this article during the period of actual construction or acquisition thereof and during the period thereafter as may be provided in the indenture or authorized by resolution of the board. The Treasurer, on order of the Controller, shall thereafter transfer from the California State University Dormitory Revenue Fund to the California State University Dormitory Interest and Redemption Fund the sums required to pay the interest on the notes and bonds and redeem the principal thereof as the interest payments and note and bond redemptions fall due for all notes and bonds issued under the provisions of this article.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90076. Section 90076.

Any balance remaining in any of the funds created by this article after payment of all costs, expenses, and charges authorized to be expended therefrom, may be allocated and used for other purposes incidental to the acquisition, construction, furnishing, equipping, operation and maintenance of such projects authorized under the provisions of this article as the board may determine.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90077. Section 90077.

Moneys in the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund may be invested by the board subject only to limitations which may be provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bond anticipation notes or in any indenture providing for the issuance of revenue bonds. All securities or other investments made under the provisions of this article shall be held by the Treasurer as custodian thereof. All interest or other earnings received pursuant to the investments shall be collected by the Treasurer, and, on order of the Controller, shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the fund from which interest or other earnings are derived.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90078. Section 90078.

After all of the notes and revenue bonds shall have been fully paid and discharged, or provision for their payment and discharge irrevocably made, any surplus moneys in the California State University Dormitory Construction Fund shall, subject to the limitations and restrictions in any resolution authorizing the issuance of the notes or in any indenture providing for the issuance of the revenue bonds, remain available for the acquisition of sites for, and for the construction, equipping and furnishing of, buildings for the California State University.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90079. Section 90079.

All money in the funds created by the provisions of this article is hereby appropriated for expenditure in carrying out the purposes herein provided.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90080. Section 90080.

The article shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes and the declared policy of the State of California as in this article set forth.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90081. Section 90081.

An action may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validity of bonds issued, or any financing contract entered into, by the board for the purposes of this article.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90082. Section 90082.

Notwithstanding any other law, the Controller may use the moneys in the State College Dormitory Building Maintenance and Equipment Reserve Fund for loans to the General Fund as provided in Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code. However, interest shall be paid on all moneys loaned to the General Fund from the State College Dormitory Building Maintenance and Equipment Reserve Fund. Interest payable shall be computed at a rate determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board to be the current earning rate of the fund from which loaned. This section does not authorize any transfer that will interfere with the carrying out of the object for which the State College Dormitory Building Maintenance and Equipment Reserve Fund was created.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 90083. Section 90083.

The board may pledge revenues received in accordance with Section 89770 to secure bonds issued in accordance with this article for capital expenditures, as defined in Section 89770, or for projects, as defined in Section 90011, and may pay all costs and expenses incident to the issuance and sale of the bonds, including, but not limited to, capitalized interested on bonds, from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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