GA Code § 20-2-14 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 1 - State Board of Education|§ 20-2-14. Acceptance of Donations, Grants, and Federal Aid for Vocational or Other Educational Purposes; Matching Funds; Authorization to Make Transfers

  The State Board of Education is authorized to receive, accept, hold, and operate, on behalf of the state, donations, grants, gifts, devises, and bequests of real, personal, and mixed property of every kind and character; to lease, manage, and otherwise administer such property for the use, benefit, and behalf of the public school system of Georgia; and to accept on behalf of the state any funds which may be now or hereafter provided for, or be, or hereafter become available or allotted to the state by virtue of any appropriation by Congress or under any governmental regulation, order, or declaration of policy for either vocational or other educational purposes conducted either in or out of school, in connection with, or as an incident of, any program of vocational education now or hereafter established as essential to national defense either for industrial or agricultural occupations, and whether as part of a federal or a state program or a combination of both, in furtherance of vocational educational objectives generally. The state board is authorized to acquire and hold title for and on behalf of the state for the benefit of the public school system thereof any equipment or supplies, both permanent and expendable, that may be necessary for such purposes; to act as the contracting agent therefor and the custodian thereof; to delegate, in whole or in part, any function or activity enumerated or contemplated under this Code section; to contract with and cooperate with any department, agency, or instrumentality, either of the state or of the United States in any manner which shall be requisite or incident to this Code section and which in the judgment of the state board may be deemed proper for the carrying into effect of the purposes of this article; and to use so much of the public school fund or other funds appropriated by the General Assembly as may be necessary to match any such federal aid or to meet the terms of any past, present, or future grant to the state or any local school unit whereby the state or any local school unit, respectively, may be enabled to derive full advantage of the benefits thereof to the state as contemplated under the terms and provisions of any such grant for educational purposes.   The State Board of Education is authorized to transfer any donation, gift, devise, or bequest of real, personal, or mixed property of any kind and character held in trust by the state board to the Georgia Foundation for Public Education to be managed and otherwise administered by such foundation. This subsection shall apply to any donation, gift, devise, or bequest of real, personal, or mixed property of any kind and character held in trust by the state board pursuant to Paragraph I(c), Section II, Article VIII of the Georgia Constitution, subsection (a) of this Code section, or Code Section 20-2-18.    (Ga. L. 1937, p. 864, § 4; Ga. L. 1941, p. 568, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 769, § 1/HB 116.)   Cross references.   - Acceptance of bequests, donations, by State Board of Education, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VIII, Sec. II, Para. I.   Acceptance of bequests, donations, by local boards of education, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VIII, Sec. V, Para. VI.   Administrative Rules and Regulations.   - Grant programs, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Education, Chapter 160-1-4.   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Contract with Veterans Administration to use federal funds for veterans program.   - State Board of Education may contract with the Veterans Administration to use federal funds to carry on the Veterans Farm Training Program in the high schools of the state and may authorize the State School Superintendent to execute the contract on behalf of the board. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 197.   Delegation to state surplus agency of power to enter into agreement with federal department.   - State Board of Education can delegate by resolution to the state agency for surplus property to enter into a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Department of Health and Human Services) in order to utilize surplus property. 1963-65 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 105.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 91.   C.J.S.   - 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 508, 509.   ALR.    - Gift for public school as a valid charitable gift, 48 A.L.R. 1126.    Gift for lectures as a valid charitable gift, 48 A.L.R. 1142.