56212. An eligible special education local plan area, which submits a local plan under the provisions of Section 56211, may request designation as a necessary small special education local plan area if its total reported units of average daily attendance in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, is less than 15,000, and if it includes all of the school districts located in the county or counties participating in the local plan, except those districts participating in a countywide special education local plan area located in an adjacent county that also meets the criteria of this section.
This section shall become operative on July 1, 1998.
(Amended (as added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 854, Sec. 20) by Stats. 1998, Ch. 89, Sec. 34. Effective June 30, 1998. Operative July 1, 1998, by Sec. 62 of Ch. 89.)