Section 1836.

The governing board of any school district, or the county superintendent of schools acting with its permission and on behalf of such a board, or boards, may enter into contracts, either alone or in cooperation with other districts, for the purpose of participating in or the procuring of television broadcasts for use in the educational program of the schools.

The governing board of any school district, or the county superintendent of schools, either alone or in cooperation with other districts or other county superintendents of schools, or with nonprofit corporations operating educational television stations as defined in Section 225.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, may purchase broadcast time over, and may own, lease, and operate, television transmitting facilities for use in providing instructional services, teachers' in-service educational services, which the governing board or the county superintendent of schools is otherwise authorized to provide, and may provide necessary services in connection therewith. The governing board of a school district or the county superintendent of schools, or a nonprofit corporation with a district or with a county superintendent of schools, which is the owner or lessee of television transmitting facilities may sell broadcast time, on a reimbursement basis, to any other school districts or county superintendent of schools for instructional services and teachers' in-service educational services upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon.

The governing board of a school district and a county superintendent of schools may accept grants-in-aid from any public or private source in carrying out the purposes of this section.

When television transmitting facilities owned, leased or operated by the governing board of a school district or county superintendent of schools, either alone or in cooperation with other districts or other county superintendents of schools pursuant to this section or a nonprofit corporation operating an educational television station, are not in use for providing instructional services or teachers' in-service educational services, such facilities may be used for transmitting community educational television programs if such use does not require the expenditure of any additional public funds of a school district or a county superintendent of schools.

For purposes of this section, the term "school district" shall include any school district library district formed under the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 18300) of Part 11 of this division.

(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 471, Sec. 9.)