[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR222.2]



[Page 500-503]

 

                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

                  CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND

              SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

PART 222_IMPACT AID PROGRAMS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec.  222.2  What definitions apply to this part?



    (a)(1) The following terms defined in section 8013 of the Act apply 

to this part:



Armed forces

Average per-pupil expenditure

Construction

Current expenditures

Indian lands

Local contribution percentage

Low-rent housing

School facilities



    (2) The following term defined in Sec.  222.30 applies to this part:



Free public education



    (b) The following terms defined in section 14101 of the ESEA 

(General Provisions) also apply to this part:



Average daily attendance (ADA)

Child

County

Department

Outlying area

Parent



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Secretary

State

State educational agency (SEA)



    (c) In addition, the following definitions apply to this part:

    Act means title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 

of 1965 (ESEA), as amended.

    Applicant means any LEA that files an application for financial 

assistance under section 8002, 8003, or 8006 of the Act and the 

regulations in this part implementing those provisions. Except as 

provided in section 8005(d)(4) of the Act, an SEA may be an applicant 

for assistance under section 8003 only if the SEA directly operates and 

maintains facilities for providing free public education for the 

children it claims in its application.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7705 and 7713(9))



    Application means a complete and signed application in the form 

approved by the Secretary, filed by an applicant.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7705)



    Federally connected children means children described in sections 

8003(a)(1) and 8010(c)(2) of the Act.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7703(a)(1) and 7710(c)(2))



    Federal property. (1) The term means--

    (i) Federal property described in section 8013; and

    (ii) Ships that are owned by the United States and whose home ports 

are located upon Federal property described in this definition.

    (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this definition, for the 

purpose of section 8002 the term does not include--

    (i) Any real property that the United States does not own in fee 

simple, except for Indian lands described in section 8013(7), and 

transferred property described in section 8002(d); and

    (ii) Real property described in section 8002(c) (real property with 

respect to which payments are being made under section 13 of the 

Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933).



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7702(c) and (d), and 7713(5) and (7))



    Fiscally dependent LEA means an LEA that does not have the final 

authority to determine the amount of revenue to be raised from local 

sources for current expenditure purposes.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7702(b)(2) and 7703(f))



    Fiscally independent LEA means an LEA that has the final authority 

to determine the amount of revenue to be raised from local sources for 

current expenditure purposes within the limits established by State law.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7702(b)(2) and 7703(f))



    Local educational agency (LEA) is defined in section 8013(9). Except 

for an SEA qualifying under section 8005(d)(4), the term includes an SEA 

only so long as--

    (1) The SEA directly operates and maintains the facilities for 

providing free public education for the children it claims in its 

application;

    (2) The children claimed by the SEA actually are attending those 

State-operated facilities; and

    (3) The SEA does not, through a tuition arrangement, contract, or by 

any other means, pay another entity to operate and maintain facilities 

for those children.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7705(d)(4) and 7713(9))



    Local real property tax rate for current expenditure purposes. (1) 

For a fiscally independent LEA, the term means the entire tax levied on 

real property within the LEA, if all but a de minimus amount of the 

total proceeds from the tax levy are available to that LEA for current 

expenditures (as defined in section 8013).

    (2) For a fiscally dependent LEA, the term means the following:

    (i) The entire tax levied by the general government on real property 

if all but a de minimus amount of the total proceeds from that tax levy 

are available to the LEA for current expenditures (as defined in section 

8013);

    (ii) That portion of a local real property tax rate designated by 

the general government for current expenditure purposes (as defined in 

section 8013); or

    (iii) If no real property tax levied by the general government meets 

the criteria in paragraphs (2)(i) or (ii) of this definition, an imputed 

tax rate that the Secretary determines by--

    (A) Dividing the total local real property tax revenue available for 

current



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expenditures of the general government by the total revenue from all 

local sources available for current expenditures of the general 

government;

    (B) Multiplying the figure obtained in paragraph (2)(iii)(A) of this 

definition by the revenue received by the LEA for current expenditures 

(as defined in section 8013) from the general government; and

    (C) Dividing the figure obtained in paragraph (2)(iii)(B) of this 

definition by the total current actual assessed value of all real 

property in the district.

    (3) The term does not include any portion of a tax or revenue that 

is restricted to or dedicated for any specific purpose other than 

current expenditures (as defined in section 8013).



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7702(b)(2) and 7703(f))



    Membership means the following:

    (1)(i) The definition given to the term by State law; or

    (ii) If State law does not define the term, the number of children 

listed on an LEA's current enrollment records on its survey date(s).

    (2) The term includes children for whom the applicant is responsible 

for providing a free public education, but who are attending schools 

other than those operated by the applicant under a tuition arrangement 

described in paragraph (4) of the definition of ``free public 

education'' in Sec.  222.30.

    (3) The term does not include children who--

    (i) Have never attended classes in schools of the LEA or of another 

educational entity with which the LEA has a tuition arrangement;

    (ii) Have permanently left the LEA;

    (iii) Otherwise have become ineligible to attend classes there; or

    (iv) Attend the schools of the applicant LEA under a tuition 

arrangement with another LEA that is responsible for providing them a 

free public education.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7703 and 8801(1))



    Parent employed on Federal property. (1) The term means the 

following:

    (i) An employee of the Federal Government who reports to work on, or 

whose place of work is located on, Federal property.

    (ii) A person not employed by the Federal Government but who spends 

more than 50 percent of his or her working time on Federal property 

(whether as an employee or self-employed) when engaged in farming, 

grazing, lumbering, mining, or other operations that are authorized by 

the Federal Government, through a lease or other arrangement, to be 

carried out entirely or partly on Federal property.

    (iii) A proportion, to be determined by the Secretary, based on 

persons working on commingled Federal and non-Federal properties other 

than those persons covered under paragraph (1)(ii) of this definition.

    (2) The term does not include a person who reports to work at a work 

station not on Federal property but spends more than 50 percent of his 

working time on Federal property providing services to operations or 

activities authorized to be carried out on Federal property.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7701 and 7703)



    Real property. (1) The term means--

    (i) Land; and

    (ii) Improvements (such as buildings and appurtenances to those 

buildings, railroad lines, utility lines, pipelines, and other permanent 

fixtures), except as provided in paragraph (2).

    (2) The term does not include--

    (i) Improvements that are classified as personal property under 

State law; or

    (ii) Equipment and movable machinery, such as motor vehicles, 

movable house trailers, farm machinery, rolling railroad stock, and 

floating dry docks, unless that equipment or movable machinery is 

classified as real property or subject to local real property taxation 

under State law.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7702 and 7713(5))



    Revenues derived from local sources. (1) The term means--

    (i) Tax funds derived from real estate; and

    (ii) Other taxes or receipts that are received from the county, and 

any other local tax or miscellaneous receipts.

    (2)(i) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(i) of this definition, the 

term tax funds derived from real estate means--



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    (A) Locally received funds that are derived from local taxation of 

real property;

    (B) Tax funds that are received on account of Wherry-Spence housing 

projects (12 U.S.C. 1702 et seq.) located on private property; and

    (C) All local real property tax funds that are received from either 

the county or the State, serving as a collecting agency, and that are 

returned to the LEA for expenditure by that agency.

    (ii) The term does not include--

    (A) Any payments under this Act or the Johnson-O'Malley Act (25 

U.S.C. 452);

    (B) Tax payments that are received on account of Wherry-Spence 

housing projects located on federally owned property; or

    (C) Local real property tax funds that are received by the State and 

distributed to LEAs on a per-pupil or formula basis.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7713(11))



    State aid means any contribution, no repayment of which is expected, 

made by a State to or on behalf of an LEA within the State for the 

support of free public education.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7703)



    Uniformed services means the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, 

Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, and Public Health Service.



(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 

1810-0036)



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7703(a)(1); 37 U.S.C. 101)