Indiana Code 20-26-9-12. Authority to operate school kitchens and lunchrooms; appropriations; state aid contingent on federal aid
(1) establish, equip, operate, and maintain school kitchens and school lunchrooms for the improvement of the health of students and for the advancement of the educational work of their respective schools;
Terms Used In Indiana Code 20-26-9-12
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- school: means the following:
Indiana Code 20-26-9-3
- school lunch program: means a program under which lunches are served by a school in Indiana on a nonprofit basis to children in attendance, including any program under which a school receives assistance out of funds appropriated by the Congress of the United States. See Indiana Code 20-26-9-6
(3) appropriate funds for the school lunch program.
Participation in a school lunch program under this chapter is discretionary with the governing board of a school corporation.
(b) If federal funds are not available to operate a school lunch program:
(1) the state may not participate in a school lunch program; and
(2) money appropriated by the state for that purpose and not expended shall immediately revert to the state general fund.
(c) Failure on the part of the state to participate in the school lunch program does not invalidate any appropriation made or school lunch program carried on by a school corporation by means of gifts or money appropriated from state tuition support distributions received by the school corporation.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-13-9.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.146-2008, SEC.468; P.L.233-2015, SEC.134.