Notwithstanding Article 4 (commencing with Section 17455) of Chapter 4 of this part, Article 8 (commencing with Section 54220) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, any unimproved real property that was acquired by a school district pursuant to Section 35270.5, which property the governing board of the school district has deemed to be surplus property of the district, may not be sold to any person or entity within 20 years of its acquisition by the district unless the district has first made a bona fide offer to sell the property to the person or entity that owned the property at the time of its acquisition by the district or, if applicable, offered to that person or entity a right of first refusal of any bona fide offer acceptable to the district made by another to purchase the property.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)