72-5537. Federal fund applications by school districts and community junior colleges; use of federal funds. The board of education of any school district or the board of trustees of any community junior college may make and file applications for federal funds appropriated and made available for school purposes by federal law. Any school district or any community junior college may receive from the federal government, or any of its agencies, any funds made available under existing law, rules or regulations, or that may hereafter be made available, for any and all school purposes. Any such board may expend the same for said purposes in accordance with the law, and the rules, regulations and requirements under which such funds are made available and such expenditures may be made even though the same were not included in the budget for the period in which such expenditures are made.
History: L. 1951, ch. 423, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 387, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 410, §42; L. 1969, ch. 310, § 36; July 1.