California Public Utilities Code CHAPTER 12 - Special Benefit Assessment Districts

• Section 33000.
  The Legislature finds and declares that:(a) It is necessary and in the best interest of the citizens of the state to authorize the Southern California Rapid...
• Section 33001.
  (a) Whenever the board finds that property adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, one or more rail transit stations, or proposed rail transit stations, of...
• Section 33001.5.
  (a) At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the establishment of the benefit district, or at any time and place to which the...
• Section 33002.
  (a) In determining the amount of a special benefit assessment, the board may measure the benefit to real property in the benefit district or zones therein...
• Section 33002.1.
  The board may order benefit assessment without an election, except as otherwise provided in Section 33002.2.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1322, Sec. 4.)
• Section 33002.2.
  An election shall be held if the board finds that a petition requesting that the proposal be submitted to confirmation by the voters has been...
• Section 33002.3.
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, “voter” means an owner of real property which is assessed or proposed to be assessed under this chapter and which...
• Section 33002.4.
  (a) Where land in the benefit district is owned in joint tenancy, tenancy in common, or any other multiple ownership, the owners of that land shall...
• Section 33002.5.
  The petition for confirmation by the voters shall be filed with the board within 30 days after the conclusion of the public hearing required by...
• Section 33002.6.
  After the board has adopted a resolution approving the proposal to form a benefit district under Section 33002.5, but before the board may levy any...
• Section 33002.7.
  The board shall submit the proposition of levying an assessment to the voters of the benefit district in a special election to be held within...
• Section 33002.8.
  If a majority of the votes cast at the election conducted under this chapter approve the proposition, the board may levy the assessment pursuant to...
• Section 33002.9.
  (a) Any owner or owners of real property, which is, in whole or in part, within the benefit district, or their legal representatives, may jointly or...
• Section 33002.10.a.
  Notice of each hearing upon the petition for exclusion or reduction shall be given in accordance with subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 33001.(Added by...
• Section 33002.11.
  At the time and place provided in the notice or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board or its...
• Section 33002.12.
  The expenses of giving the notice provided for herein and of the hearing on the exclusion or reduction petition shall be paid by the persons...
• Section 33002.13.
  Upon the hearing on an exclusion or reduction petition by the board, or upon the record of hearing by a hearing officer, the board shall...
• Section 33002.14.
  The board, after the hearing on an exclusion or reduction petition, shall order one of the following by resolution:(a) In the case of an exclusion petition,...
• Section 33003.
  (a) Following formation of the benefit district or concurrently therewith, if the board deems it necessary to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, development,...
• Section 33004.
  At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the issuance of bonds payable from special benefit assessments levied under this chapter, or at...
• Section 33005.
  Special benefit assessments for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, bonds issued for a benefit district shall be levied in the benefit...
• Section 33006.
  The bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 12 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that...
• Section 33007.
  The bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be sold as the board determines by resolution. The board may sell the bonds at a price...
• Section 33008.
  Delivery of any bonds issued under this chapter may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may...
• Section 33009.
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds issued by the district pursuant to this chapter shall be placed in the fund...
• Section 33010.
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district under this...
• Section 33011.
  Any bonds issued under this chapter are legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks, and trust...
• Section 33012.
  The board may change the purposes for which any proposed debt is to be incurred, the estimated cost, the amount of bonded debt to be...
• Section 33013.
  (a) The board shall not change the purposes, the estimated cost, the boundaries of the benefit district or zones, if any, therein, or the amount of...
• Section 33014.
  At the time and place fixed for a hearing on changes, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board...
• Section 33015.
  All decisions and determinations of the board, upon notice and hearing, are final and conclusive upon all persons entitled to appeal to the board as...
• Section 33016.
  Any action or proceeding, other than a petition for election pursuant to Section 33002.2, which contests, questions, or denies the validity or legality of the...
• Section 33017.
  When the board has imposed a special benefit assessment, the secretary shall so certify to the assessor of the county in which the territory of...
• Section 33019.
  In the event of conflict with any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail with respect to benefit districts within the district.(Added by...
• Section 33020.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the district shall not pledge any portion of its general fund revenues to pay any part of any...
• Section 33021.
  Notwithstanding Section 5097 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, any petition or claim for refund seeking an exclusion of real property or the reduction of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018