(a) The governing board of a community college district may require students in attendance and employees at a campus of the district to pay a fee for purposes of partially or fully recovering transportation costs incurred by the district or of reducing fares for services provided by common carriers or municipally owned transit systems to these students and employees. (b) Fees authorized by subdivision (a) for transportation services may be required to be paid only by students and employees using the services, or, in the alternative, by any of the following groups of people: (1) Upon the favorable vote of a majority of the students and a majority of the employees of a campus of the district, who voted at an election on the question of whether or not the governing board should require all students and employees at the campus to pay a fee for transportation services for a period of time to be determined by the governing board of the district, the fees may be required to be paid by all students, other than those students who are exempt from the fees pursuant to subdivision (c), and all employees of the campus of the community college district. (2) Upon the favorable vote of a majority of the students at a campus of the district, who voted at an election on the question of whether or not the governing board should require all students to pay a fee for transportation services for a period of time to be determined by the governing board of the district, the fees may be required to be paid by all students, other than those students who are exempt from the fees pursuant to subdivision (c), at the campus of the community college district. However, the employees shall not be entitled to use the services. (3) Upon the favorable vote of a majority of the students at a campus of the district taking a specified number of course credits for a specified duration, to be determined by the governing board, who voted at an election on the question of whether or not the governing board should require all students taking that prescribed number of course credits to pay a fee for transportation services for a period of time to be determined by the governing board of the district, the fees may be required to be paid by those students taking the prescribed number of course credits, except those students who are exempt from the fees pursuant to subdivision (c), at the campus of the community college district. However, the employees shall not be entitled to use the services. (c) If a fee is required of students for transportation services pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (b), the fee required of a part-time student shall be a pro rata lesser amount than the fee charged to full-time students, depending on the number of units for which the part-time student is enrolled. Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a community college district that provides for transportation services may adopt rules and regulations to exempt low-income students from this fee, or to require low-income students to pay all or part of this fee. (d) Notwithstanding any other law: (1) The governing board of a community college district to which this section applies shall not enter into, or extend, a contract for transportation services provided by a common carrier or a municipally owned transit system, funded by the proceeds of a fee authorized under this section, unless and until a majority of the students of that district, or campus of that district, as appropriate, who vote in an election, held no more than 10 years prior to the date of the expiration of the contract proposed to be entered into or no more than 10 years prior to the date to which it is proposed that an existing contract be extended, have approved the payment of the fee for this purpose. (2) An election held pursuant to this section shall be held in accordance with regulations adopted by the board of governors to ensure that the election is publicly noticed and that all students of that d
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