California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Proceedings to Create a Community Facilities District

• Section 53318.
  Proceedings for the establishment of a community facilities district may be instituted by the legislative body on its own initiative and shall be instituted by...
• Section 53318.5.
  Notwithstanding any provision of Part 1 (commencing with Section 56000) of Division 3, a local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to...
• Section 53319.
  A petition requesting the institution of proceedings for the establishment of a community facilities district shall do all of the following:(a) Request the legislative body to...
• Section 53320.
  Within 90 days after either a written request by two members of the legislative body or a petition requesting the institution of proceedings for the...
• Section 53321.
  Proceedings for the establishment of a community facilities district shall be instituted by the adoption of a resolution of intention to establish the district which...
• Section 53321.5.
  At the time of the adoption of the resolution of intention to establish a community facilities district, the legislative body shall direct each of its...
• Section 53322.
  (a) The clerk of the legislative body shall publish a notice of the hearing pursuant to Section 6061 in a newspaper of general circulation published in...
• Section 53322.4.
  The clerk of the legislative body may also give notice of the hearing by first-class mail to each registered voter and to each landowner within...
• Section 53323.
  At the hearing, protests against the establishment of the district, the extent of the district, or the furnishing of specified types of public facilities or...
• Section 53324.
  (a) If 50 percent or more of the registered voters, or six registered voters, whichever is more, residing within the territory proposed to be included in...
• Section 53325.
  The hearing may be continued from time to time, but shall be completed within 30 days, except that if the legislative body finds that the...
• Section 53325.1.
  (a) If the legislative body determines to establish the district, it shall adopt a resolution of formation establishing the district. The resolution of formation shall contain...
• Section 53325.3.
  A tax imposed pursuant to this chapter is a special tax and not a special assessment, and there is no requirement that the tax be...
• Section 53325.5.
  (a) A community facilities district may include areas of territory that are not contiguous.(b) In establishing the boundaries of the district, the legislative body may alter the...
• Section 53325.6.
  Land devoted primarily to agricultural, timber, or livestock uses and being used for the commercial production of agricultural, timber, or livestock products may be included...
• Section 53325.7.
  The legislative body may submit a proposition to establish or change the appropriations limit, as defined by subdivision (h) of Section 8 of Article XIII B...
• Section 53326.
  (a) The legislative body shall then submit the levy of any special taxes to the qualified electors of the proposed community facilities district or to the...
• Section 53327.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of law regulating elections of the local agency that calls an election pursuant to this chapter,...
• Section 53327.5.
  (a) If the election is to be conducted by mail ballot, the election official conducting the election shall provide ballots and election materials pursuant to subdivision...
• Section 53328.
  After the canvass of returns of any election pursuant to Section 53326, the legislative body may, pursuant to Section 53340, levy any special tax as...
• Section 53328.1.
  (a) As an alternate and independent procedure for forming a community facilities district, the legislative body may form a community facilities district that initially consists solely...
• Section 53328.3.
  Upon a determination by the legislative body that the requisite two-thirds of votes cast in an election held pursuant to Section 53326 are in favor...
• Section 53328.5.
  Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 3100) of the Streets and Highways Code applies with respect to any proceedings undertaken pursuant to this chapter. This chapter...
• Section 53329.
  After the canvass of returns of any election conducted pursuant to Section 53326, the legislative body shall take no further action with respect to authorizing...
• Section 53329.5.
  (a) The owners of three-fourths of the area of lands taxed or liable to be taxed, or their agents (who shall declare under penalty of perjury...
• Section 53329.6.
  In order to reduce the procedural burdens on local agencies, this chapter establishes certain procedures by which one or more property owners may vote in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018