21-06-12. Use of public funds or property for nonprofit education foundations - Public purposes

21-06-12. Use of public funds or property for nonprofit education foundations - Public purposes. Any school district may provide use of public property or in-kind services of personnel to participate in the creation and administration of nonprofit public school education foundations, subject to an annual audit, to receive, manage, invest, and distribute funds or property provided to the foundation by private or nonschool district governmental entities, if such foundations are established to enhance the mission of the school district by providing facilities or services for recognition of staff and students that are not normally available through the funding of the school district, to administer funds received for education scholarships or endowments established by other entities, to encourage elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, and to assist in raising, adding, investing, and distributing funds and earnings according to guidelines established by the foundation. The records of a foundation are not subject to audit under section 54-10-14.