City of Moorpark v. Moorpark Unified School District

Opinion

LUCAS, C. J.

In this case we construe for the first time the Naylor Act (Ed. Code, §§ 39390-39404; 1 hereafter the Act), which governs the disposal of certain kinds of surplus school property. The City of Moorpark (hereafter City) petitioned the superior court for a writ of mandate to compel the Moorpark Unified School District (hereafter District) to transfer school property, pursuant to the Act. After the court granted the petition, District appealed. The Court of Appeal, affirming the superior court, concluded that the Act’s provisions regarding surplus school property displaced the…