may vote money not exceeding one hundred dollars in any one year, for any of these purposes in addition to any amount which may be raised by the sale of district school property, and the insurance of property destroyed by fire; provided, that the proceeds of the insurance of the library and apparatus shall be paid into the library fund. All funds raised by the sale of school property may be disposed of by direction of a district meeting. District meetings may be adjourned from time to time, as found necessary, and all votes instructing the board of trustees shall be taken by ballot, or by ayes and noes vote, as the meeting may determine. The board of trustees shall, in all cases, be bound by the instructions of the district meeting in regard to the subjects mentioned in this section; provided that the vote in favor of changing the location of the schoolhouse be two-thirds of all the electors voting at said meeting upon the proposition to change the location. [Amendment approved May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 740.]

§ 1612. Contracts. Bids. Estimates. Boards of school trustees and eity boards of education shall have power and it shall be their duty to let all contracts involving an expenditure of more than two hundred dollars for work to be done or for material or supplies to be furnished, to the lowest responsible bidder who will give such security as the board may require, or else to reject all bids; provided, that continuing contracts for materials and supplies may be made with an accepted bidder for a period of one year; and provided, further, that the board may repair old buildings by day's labor. For the purpose of securing bids the board must publish a notice calling for bids, stating the work to be done or materials or supplies to be furnished, and the time when and the place where bids will be opened, at least once a week for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county, or if there is no such paper, then in some newspaper of general circulation, eirculated in such county; provided, that in school districts having an average daily attendance of one thousand or more pupils, as shown by the annual report of the county superintendent of schools for the preceding school year, the board may secure from responsible bidders at least three estimates of the cost of such work to be done, or materials or supplies to be furnished, such estimates to be secured from bona fide dealers or craftsmen engaged in the business or in handling the goods specified. Said estimates must be submitted in writing and must be filed with the clerk or secretary of the board, and if any of such estimates of cost is less than five hundred dollars, the board may let a contract for such work, material or supplies, to the lowest responsible bidder without publishing such notice calling for bids. [New section added May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 741.]

§1613. Grant use of school buildings. Boards of school trustees and city boards of education are hereby authorized to grant the use of school buildings or grounds for public, literary, scientific, recreational or educational meetings, or for the discussion of matters of general or public interest upon such terms and conditions as said board may deem proper; provided, however, that said use shall not be inconsistent with the use of said buildings or grounds for school purposes, nor interfere with the regular conduct of school work, nor be granted in such a manner as to constitute a monopoly for the benefit of any person or organ

ization; and provided, further, that no privilege of using said buildings or grounds shall be granted for a period exceeding one year, such privilege being renewable and revocable in the discretion of the board at any time. [Amendment approved May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 741.]

§ 1614. Display of United States flag. Boards of school trustees in all school districts throughout the state and boards of education in all cities and cities and counties throughout the state shall provide for each schoolhouse under their control, a suitable flag of the United States, which shall be hoisted above each schoolhouse during all school sessions, weather permitting. It shall be the duty of boards of school trustees and boards of education to enforce this provision. It shall also be the duty of such boards of school trustees and boards of education to provide smaller and suitable United States flags to be displayed in each schoolroom at all times during the school sessions. It shall be the duty of such boards of trustees and boards of education to enforce this provision. [Amendment approved May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 742.]

§ 1615. "Home teachers." Duties. Qualifications. Boards of school trustees or city boards of education of any school district, may employ teachers to be known as "home teachers," not exceeding one such home teacher for every five hundred units of average daily attendance in the common schools of said district as shown by the report of the county superintendent of schools for the next preceding school year. It shall be the duty of the home teacher to work in the homes of the pupils, instructing children and adults in matters relating to school attendance and preparation therefor; also in sanitation, in the English language, in household duties such as purchase, preparation and use of food and of clothing and in the fundamental principles of the American system of government and the rights and duties of citizenship. The qualifications of such teachers shall be a regular kindergarten primary, elementary or secondary certificate to teach in the schools of California and special fitness to perform the duties of a home teacher; provided, that the salaries of such teachers shall be paid from the city or district special school funds. [Amendment approved May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 742.]

§ 1616. Kindergarten. Estimate for maintenance. Tax levy. Discontinuance. Funds revert. Rate of taxation. The board of education of every city, city and county, or the board of school trustees of every school district in this state, must, upon petition of the parents or guardians of twenty-five or more children between the ages of four and one-half and six years, residing within one mile of any elementary school building situate in such city, city and county, or school district, establish and maintain a kindergarten or kindergartens; provided, that the order of the board establishing such kindergarten or kindergartens shall be made only between the first day of June and the first day of August in any year; and provided, further, that after the first year in which any kindergarten or kindergartens shall have been established and maintained, that the number of kindergartens which shall be maintained in any city, or city and county, or school district, during any particular school year, shall be determined by the governing body of the schools of such city, city and county or school district.

The board of education of every city, city and county, or the board of school trustees of every school district in which a kindergarten is

established under the provisions of this act, must at least fifteen days before the first day of the month in which the board of supervisors is required by law to levy the taxes required for county purposes, submit to the county superintendent of schools an estimate of the amount of money which will be required for the maintenance of any kindergarten or kindergartens in their several school districts for the ensuing school year.

The county superintendent of schools shall thereupon examine said estimate and submit copies of the same, with his approval or disapproval indorsed thereon, to the board of supervisors and to the county auditor at the time he submits to them his estimate for the county setool tax for the current year. If the county superintendent of schools approves such estimate, the board of supervisors shall, at the time and in the manner of levying other taxes, levy and cause to be collected in the several school districts for which estimates have been submitted and approved as herein provided, the amount so estimated and approved. The fund so levied shall be known as the kindergarten fund of school district, as the case may be, and shall be available for the maintenance of the kindergarten or kindergartens established under the provisions of this section, and the moneys drawn from such fund shall be paid out in the same manner as the moneys from state and county school funds for the maintenance of the elementary schools are drawn and paid out. If the average daily attendance in any kindergarten in any city, city and county, or school district, shall be ten or less for the school year, the governing body of such city, city and county, or school district, shall, at the close of such school year, discontinue such kindergarten. In case a city, city and county, or school district maintains but one kindergarten, should such kindergarten be discontinued as provided by this section, the funds of such kindergarten shall immediately revert to the elementary schools of the city, city and county, or school district, in which said kindergarten has been located; and in case any city, city and county, or school district maintains two or more kindergartens, the property and funds of a kindergarten which has been discontinued shall revert to the kindergarten or kindergartens which are still in operation in said city, city and county, or school distriet. The rate of taxation which may be levied for the support of kindergartens in any one year shall not exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars of the taxable property of such city, city and county, or school district; and such tax for the support of the kindergarten or kindergartens, shall be in addition to any other tax which may be levied for the support of the public schools. [Amendment approved May 8, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 389.]

This section was also amended in 1917. See Stats. 1917, p. 742.

§ 1617. Intermediate school course. The board of education of any city, or of any city and county, or the board of school trustees of any school district situated within a high school district maintaining an intermediate school course, shall permit pupils who have completed the sixth year of the elementary school to attend an intermediate school course established as provided by section one thousand seven hundred fifty a, of the Political Code, and shall pay to such high school district for the education of such pupils, a tuition charge which shall be agreed upon

by said board of education, or board of school trustees, and the high school board maintaining such intermediate school course; provided, that such board of education or board of school trustees shall not pay to any such high school board for educating a pupil, residing in such elementary school district and attending such intermediate school course, a tuition charge greater than the average net cost per pupil for educating pupils in the first six years of the elementary school in said elementary school district; and provided, further, that such tuition charge shall cease to be paid after the pupil has completed two years of work in such intermediate school course. [Amendment approved May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 742.]

§ 1617a. United States flag over schoolhouses. Also in schoolrooms. [Repealed May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 744.]

§ 1617b. Contract with state normal school for education of children. Revocation. The trustees of an elementary school district with an average daily attendance of thirty-five or less, as shown by the last teacher's report on file in the office of the county superintendent of schools, when authorized by a majority vote of their district at a district meeting called for that purpose, may contract with a state normal school for the education of the children of their district; provided:

1. That the elementary school so contracting shall be housed by the normal school on the normal school campus or in the schoolhouse in the district and shall be used as a rural model practice school.

2. That the trustees of the elementary school district shall contribute to the support of the school all of the money apportioned to their district from the state and county funds. Said funds to be handled and expended by the trustees of the elementary school district in the same manner as provided by law.

Such contract may be revoked by a majority vote of the board of trustees of the normal school or by the trustees of the elementary school district, when authorized to do so by a majority vote of their district at a special district meeting called for that purpose. Such contract shall be in effect from July first following date of contract and shall remain in effect until the end of the school year in which the contract is revoked. [New section added May 31, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1516.]

NOTE. The old section 1617b, relating to home teachers and their qualifications, was repealed May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 744.

§ 1617c. Establishment of kindergartens. Discontinuance for small attendance. [Repealed May 18, 1917; Stats 1917, p. 744.]

§ 1617d. Pupils who may attend. Tuition. [Repealed May 18, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 744.]

§ 1617. Sale or lease of school property. Conditions. Effect of act. Boards of education, or other governing boards, in cities and having jurisdiction over both the elementary and high school districts embracing such cities, and boards of trustees of any school district and boards of trustees of union high school or joint union high school districts, are hereby authorized to sell or lease for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years, any real property belonging to their respective school districts,

or high school districts upon which no public school is being maintained upon the following conditions:

Before ordering the sale or lease of any such property such board of education, or other governing boards, shall, in open meeting, by a two-thirds vote of all of its members, adopt a resolution declaring its intention to sell the same, or a resolution declaring its intention to lease the same, as the case may be, which said resolution shall describe the property proposed to be sold, or leased, in such manner as to identify it and shall specify the minimum price, or rental, and terms for which it will be sold, or leased, and fixing a time, not less than three weeks thereafter, and place for a public meeting of said board of education, or other governing board, at which sealed proposals to purchase or lease, as the case may be, will be received and considered. Said resolution shall, before the date of such meeting, be published once a week for three successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general eirculation published in the district. At the time and place fixed in said resolution for the meeting of said board of education or other governing board, all sealed proposals which have been received shall, in public session, be opened, examined, and declared by said board, or other governing board, and the property be sold, or leased, as the case may be, to the highest responsible bidder among those who have submitted sealed proposals and who offer to comply with all terms and conditions specified in the resolution of intention to sell or lease; provided, however, that if any responsible person shall at said meeting offer to purchase such property, or to lease such property as the case may be, for a price or rental exceeding the highest other proposal or offer before the board by not less than five per cent, the property shall be sold, or shall be leased as the case may be, to such person; and provided, further, that said board or other governing board may, should it deem such action for the best public interest, at any time, reject any and all bids, and withdraw such property from sale. Any order of sale or lease made hereunder by said board, or other governing board, shall authorize and direct the execution and delivery by the chairman, or other presiding officer, or said board, or other governing board, of the deed or lease of said district to the purchaser or lessee. This section shall not be taken to authorize action upon proposals for sale and proposals for lease at the same meeting.

The provisions of this section shall be deemed to supersede any other provision of law relating to powers and duties of boards of trustees, and boards of education, only in so far as its terms are in conflict therewith, and shall not be deemed as repealing any such other provision of law not conflicting with the terms of this section. [Amendment approved May 8, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 399.]

This section was added in 1917.

See Stats. 1917, p. 1645.

§ 1618a Health supervision of schools. Physical inspectors. FirstBoards of school trustees, city and city and county boards of education are hereby authorized and empowered to provide for proper health supervision of the school buildings and pupils enrolled in the public schools under their jurisdiction. For this purpose, said boards may appoint a physical inspector or physical inspectors as the board may determine to consist of a physician, teacher, nurse, oculist, or dentist or any one or more of said persons; provided, that in case of the ap