The State Board of Education is vested with all necessary power and authority to perform all acts necessary to authorize governing boards of districts maintaining community colleges to receive the benefits and to expend the funds provided by any acts of Congress under which districts maintaining community colleges may be eligible to receive benefits, including, but not limited to, Title VII of the Housing Act of 1961 (Public Law 87-70), as amended, and any of the acts of Congress referred to in this chapter. The board is vested with all necessary power and authority to authorize districts maintaining community colleges to cooperate with the government of the United States, or any agency or agencies thereof, for the purpose of receiving the benefits and expending the funds provided by said acts of Congress, or any rules or regulations adopted thereunder, or any state plan or rules or regulations of the California Postsecondary Education Commission adopted in accordance with any of said acts of Congress under which the California Postsecondary Education Commission is designated in this chapter as the state educational agency. Whenever necessary to secure the full benefits of said acts of Congress, the governing board may give such security as may be required and may comply with such conditions as may be imposed by the federal government. The funds received by the district under the provisions of said acts of Congress shall be deposited in the county treasury as provided for in Section 84001.
This section shall be applicable to only those acts of Congress which have been enacted prior to January 1, 1967.
(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)