Education Code section 42601

At the close of any school year a school district may, with the approval of the governing board, identify and request the county superintendent of schools to make the transfers between the designated fund balance or the unappropriated fund balance and any expenditure classification or classifications, or balance any expenditure classifications of the budget of the district for that school year as necessary to permit the payment of obligations of the district incurred during that school year. For each elementary, high school, and unified school district that, during the preceding school year, had an average daily attendance less than the level, as appropriate, specified in subdivision (a) of Section 41301, the county superintendent of schools, with the consent of the governing board of the school district, may identify and make the transfers, and shall so notify the districts.

Source: Section 42601, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=EDC§ionNum=42601.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1988; accessed Jun. 23, 2025).

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