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Official CaliforniaLegislative Information[] CALIFORNIA CODES** EDUCATION ** ** CODE **SECTION 48900-48927 ** From: **** [] ** ** 48904 **. (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 1714.1 of the Civil ** Code **,the parent or guardian of any minor whose willful misconduct resultsin injury or death to any pupil or any person employed by, orperforming volunteer services for, a school district or privateschool or who willfully cuts, defaces, or otherwise injures in anyway any property, real or personal, belonging to a school district orprivate school, or personal property of any school employee, shallbe liable for all damages so caused by the minor. The liability ofthe parent or guardian shall not exceed ten thousand dollars($10,000). The parent or guardian shall also be liable for theamount of any reward not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000)paid pursuant to Section 53069.5 of the Government ** Code **. The parentor guardian of a minor shall be liable to a school district orprivate school for all property belonging to the school district orprivate school loaned to the minor and not returned upon demand of anemployee of the district or private school authorized to make thedemand. (2) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall compute anadjustment of the liability limits prescribed by this subdivision ata rate equivalent to the percentage change in the Implicit PriceDeflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods andServices for the United States, as published by the United StatesDepartment of Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the thirdquarter of the prior fiscal year. **(b) (1) Any school district or private school whose real or****personal property has been willfully cut, defaced, or otherwise****injured, or whose property is loaned to a pupil and willfully not****returned upon demand of an employee of the district or private school****authorized to make the demand may, after affording the pupil his or****her due process rights, withhold the grades, diploma, and transcripts****of the pupil responsible for the damage until the pupil or the pupil'****s parent or guardian has paid for the damages thereto, as provided in****subdivision (a).** (2) The school district or private school shall notify the parentor guardian of the pupil in writing of the pupil's alleged misconductbefore withholding the pupil's grades, diploma, or transcriptspursuant to this subdivision. **When the minor and parent are unable****to pay for the damages, or to return the property, the school****district or private school shall provide a program of voluntary work****for the minor in lieu of the payment of monetary damages. Upon****completion of the voluntary work, the grades, diploma, and****transcripts of the pupil shall be released.** (3) The governing board of each school district or governing bodyof each private school shall establish rules and regulationsgoverning procedures for the implementation of this subdivision. Theprocedures shall conform to, but are not necessarily limited to,those procedures established in this ** code ** for the expulsion ofpupils. ** 48904 **.3. (a) Upon receiving notice that a school district haswithheld the grades, diploma, or transcripts of any pupil pursuant toSection ** 48904 **, any school district to which the pupil hastransferred shall likewise withhold the grades, diploma, ortranscripts of the pupil as authorized by that section, until thetime that it receives notice, from the district that initiated thedecision to withhold, that the decision has been rescinded under theterms of that section. (b) Any school district that has decided to withhold a pupil'sgrades, diploma, or transcripts pursuant to Section ** 48904 ** shall, uponreceiving notice that the pupil has transferred to any schooldistrict in this state, notify the parent or guardian of the pupil inwriting that the decision to withhold will be enforced as specifiedin subdivision (a). (c) For purposes of this section and Section ** 48904 **, "schooldistrict" is defined to include any county superintendent of schools. (d) This section and Section ** 48904 ** shall also apply to the statespecial schools, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 48927.