The Regents have authority to impose fees for any university purpose. Campus-based student fees may be compulsory or voluntary. All campus-based student fees must be approved by the chancellors, except that no compulsory campus-based fees shall be effective until approved by the Regents or the president of the University. The Campus Election Policy addressing the imposition, change or discontinuance of campus-based fees may be found at http://elections.ucsc.edu.

Compulsory campus-based fees include fees levied at individual campuses which must be paid by all registered students to which the fee applies to fund student-related services and programs, including, but not limited to, student governments, construction and renovation of student facilities such as student centers and recreation facilities, and student health insurance.

91.10 This Policy does not apply to university wide fees, fees related to instruction, or other fees requiring presidential approval or campus-based miscellaneous fees requiring chancellor's approval.

92.10 To establish or increase a compulsory campus-based fee, chancellors shall establish in campus regulations, prior to any referendum:

a. procedures for student consultation, and in the case of student fee-funded facilities, procedures for continuing student consultation once the facility is constructed;

b. voting pool requirements, in which a substantial number of students, as specified by the chancellor in advance of the referendum, participate; and

c. requirements for at least a majority vote approval.

92.20 All referendum results are advisory to the chancellor and subject to final decision by the chancellor and approval by the Regents or the president of the University.

An increase in compulsory campus-based fees does not require a student referendum when any of the following circumstances apply:

93.10 A student referendum was not specifically required for increases in a campus-based fee, as established in the original referendum document.

93.20 The chancellor determines that an increase is necessary for the health and safety of students such as the maintenance of the safety of a building or facility that is funded wholly or in part by student fees. Safety issues are those which are potentially dangerous such as risk of fire, asbestos, earthquakes, or structural deficits. For buildings or facilities with multiple uses, the costs to students for funding safety-related or health-related maintenance should be used, whenever possible, on the proportion of current student use of the facility

93.30 The increase is necessary to meet legal requirements, such as new code requirements, or contractual obligations, such as income projections, specified in the funding covenants of a building or facility that is funded wholly or in part by student fees. For buildings or facilities with multiple uses, the costs to students for such increases should be based, whenever possible, on the proportion of current student use of the facility.

Chancellors shall establish in campus regulations procedures for reducing or eliminating a compulsory campus-based student fee.

95.10 Chancellors may establish procedures permitting the use of the registration process or other means to collect voluntary fees from students in support of registered campus organizations when:

a. the registered campus organization serves the interests of students enrolled at the university;

b. the voluntary fee is collected following a referendum in which a substantial number of students participate, as specified by the chancellor in advance of the referendum, and in which at least a majority of those voting vote in favor of the collection of the fee; and

c. the voluntary fee is collected using procedures that ensure that each student is not assessed a fee unless he or she elects by means of a positive check off to pay the fee to the designated registered campus organization.

95.20 Such procedures shall provide that collection of such a fee does not constitute sponsorship or endorsement by the university of the registered campus organization.

95.30 The costs of collecting the fee must be borne by the registered campus organization.