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• California Public Utilities Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Public Utilities Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions, rules of construction, and other general provisions contained in Sections 1 to 22, inclusive, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is required or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 19
  "City" includes city and county and "incorporated town," but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 20
  (a) "Commission" means the Public Utilities Commission created by Section 1 of Article XII of the California Constitution, and "commissioner" means a member of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 20.5
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22
  No corporation formed or existing before 12 o'clock m. of January 1, 1873, is affected by the provisions of Division 4 of this code unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 201
  This part may be cited as the "Public Utilities Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 202
  Neither this part nor any provision thereof, except when specifically so stated, shall apply to commerce with foreign nations or to interstate commerce, except insofar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 203
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 204
  "Corporation" includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 205
  "Person" includes an individual, a firm, and a copartnership.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 206
  As used in this chapter "person" and "corporation" include the lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, of the person or corporation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 207
  "Public or any portion thereof" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person, private corporation, municipality, or other political...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 208
  "Transportation of persons" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the safety, comfort, or convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 209
  "Transportation of property" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the transportation of property, including in particular its receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer, switching,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 210
  "Rates" includes rates, fares, tolls, rentals, and charges, unless the context indicates otherwise.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 211
  "Common carrier" means every person and corporation providing transportation for compensation to or for the public or any portion thereof, except as otherwise provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 212
  "Common carrier" shall not include: (a) Any corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any vessel, by reason of the furnishing of water transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 214.5
  With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for compensation by a passenger stage corporation, "owner" means the corporation or person...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215
  "Between fixed termini or over a regular route" means the termini or route between which, or over which any passenger stage corporation usually or ordinarily...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215.6
  "Food products for human consumption" means articles used for human food or drink and articles used as components of any of those articles.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215.7
  "Nonfood product" means any article, material, substance, or product which is not food.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216
  (a) "Public utility" includes every common carrier, toll bridge corporation, pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewer system corporation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.2
  Notwithstanding Section 216, "public utility" does not include a motor carrier of property.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.4
  "Cable television corporation" shall mean any corporation or firm which transmits television programs by cable to subscribers for a fee.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.6
  "Cogeneration" means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.8
  "Commercial mobile radio service" means "commercial mobile service," as defined in subsection (d) of Section 332 of Title 47 of the United States Code and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 217
  "Electric plant" includes all real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 218
  (a) "Electrical corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except where electricity is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 218.3
  (a) "Electric service provider" means an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation and includes the unregulated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 218.5
  (a) The following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Exempt wholesale generator" has the same meaning as defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 219
  "Express corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged in or transacting the business of transporting any freight, merchandise, or other property for compensation on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 220
  "Freight forwarder" means any corporation or person who for compensation undertakes the collection and shipment of property of others, and as consignor or otherwise ships...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 221
  "Gas plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 222
  "Gas corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any gas plant for compensation within this state, except where gas is made...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 223
  "Heating plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224
  "Heat corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any heating plant for compensation within this state, except where heat is generated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.2
  "Landfill gas technology" means the process of extraction of gas or gaseous compounds from sanitary landfill areas which gas or compound was generated as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.3
  "Local publicly owned electric utility" means a municipality or municipal corporation operating as a "public utility" furnishing electric service as provided in Section 10001, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.4
  (a) "Mobile data service" means the delivery of nonvoice information to a mobile device and includes nonvoice information communicated to a mobile telephony services handset,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.6
  "Motor carrier of property" means a motor carrier of property as defined in Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.8
  "Network railroad transportation" means railroad transportation that is subject to the jurisdiction of the federal Surface Transportation Board pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 225
  "Passenger stage" includes every stage, auto stage, or other motor vehicle used in the transportation of persons, or persons and their baggage or express, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 226
  (a) "Passenger stage corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged as a common carrier, for compensation, in the ownership, control, operation, or management of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 227
  "Pipe line" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the transmission, storage, distribution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 228
  "Pipeline corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any pipeline for compensation within this state. "Pipeline corporation" shall not include a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 229
  "Railroad" includes every commercial, interurban, and other railway, other than a street railroad, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, together with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230
  "Railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any railroad for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.3
  "Service area," for purposes of the operations of a telephone corporation, means a local access and transport area as defined and approved by the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.5
  "Sewer system" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate sewage collection, treatment, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.6
  "Sewer system corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any sewer system for compensation within this state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 231
  "Street railroad" includes every railway, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, being mainly upon, along, above or below any street, avenue,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 232
  "Street railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any street railroad for compensation within this State, or owning, controlling, operating,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 233
  "Telephone line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 234
  (a) "Telephone corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telephone line for compensation within this state. (b) "Telephone corporation" does...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 235
  "Telegraph line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 236
  "Telegraph corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 237
  "Toll-bridge corporation" includes every private corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any bridge or appurtenance thereto, used for the transportation of persons or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 238
  (a) "Vessel" includes every species of watercraft, by whatsoever power operated, which is owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240
  "Water system" includes all reservoirs, tunnels, shafts, dams, dikes, headgates, pipes, flumes, canals, structures, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 241
  "Water corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 243
  This part shall not release or waive any right of action by the State, the commission, or any person or corporation for any right, penalty,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 244
  No transit district, common carrier, or publicly owned transit system shall require any person to waive, limit, or qualify any right to recover damages for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 246
  A person or corporation shall not be a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the commission and the provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 247
  Any provision of this part that is in conflict with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, (47 U.S.C. Sec. 332(c)(3)) shall not apply to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 247.1
  (a) The Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act (P.L. 106-252) was enacted for the purpose of establishing nationwide uniform sourcing rules for the imposition of state and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 248
  Any provision of the Public Utilities Act that is in conflict with the railroad provisions of Part A of Subtitle 4 of Title 49 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 270
  (a) The following funds are hereby created in the State Treasury: (1) The California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund. (2) The California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 270.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may authorize the trustee of the California High-Cost Fund-B Trust to transfer to the Deaf Equipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 271
  For each advisory board created pursuant to this chapter all of the following are applicable: (a) The commission shall establish the number of, and qualifications...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 273
  Each advisory board created pursuant to this chapter shall do both of the following: (a) Submit an annual budget to the commission. Within 90 calendar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 274
  The commission may on its own order, whenever it determines it to be necessary, conduct financial audits of the revenues required to be collected and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 275
  (a) There is hereby created the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 275.6
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and maintain a suitable program to establish a fair and equitable local rate structure aided by universal service rate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 276
  (a) There is hereby created the California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 276.5
  (a) The commission shall establish the Rural Telecommunications Infrastructure Grant Program to aid in the establishment of telecommunications service in areas not currently served by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 277
  (a) There is hereby created the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Trust Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 278
  (a) (1) Commencing on July 1, 2003, there is hereby created the Telecommunications Access for Deaf and Disabled Administrative Committee, formerly the Deaf and Disabled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 278.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that existing members of the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee should serve out their current...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 279
  (a) There is hereby created the Payphone Service Providers Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and administration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 280
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and administer a program to advance universal service by providing discounted rates to qualifying schools maintaining kindergarten or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 280.5
  (a) Of the revenues from fees collected pursuant to Section 14666.8 of the Government Code after the operative date of this section, except for revenues...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 281
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 282
  Any revenues that are deposited in funds created pursuant to this chapter shall not be used by the state for any purpose other than as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 285
  (a) As used in this section, "interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service" has the same meaning as in Section 9.3 of Title 47 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 301
  The membership of the Public Utilities Commission, and the qualifications and tenure of the members of the commission are as provided in Section 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 302
  Each commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 303
  (a) A public utilities commissioner may not hold an official relation to, nor have a financial interest in, a person or corporation subject to regulation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 304
  The annual salary of each commissioner is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 305
  The Governor shall designate a president of the commission from among the members of the commission. The president shall direct the executive director, the attorney,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 306
  (a) The office of the commission shall be in the City and County of San Francisco. The office shall always be open, legal holidays and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 307
  (a) The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office during the pleasure of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 308
  (a) The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall hold office during its pleasure. The executive director shall be responsible for the commission's executive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 308.5
  Persons employed as investigators and investigator supervisors of the Consumer Services Division or the Rail Safety and Carrier Division of the commission who are designated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309
  The executive director may employ such officers, administrative law judges, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and employees as the executive director deems necessary to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.1
  (a) The Governor may appoint one adviser for each member of the commission upon the request of the commission member. Each adviser shall receive a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.5
  (a) There is within the commission a Division of Ratepayer Advocates to represent and advocate on behalf of the interests of public utility customers and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.6
  (a) The commission shall adopt procedures on the disqualification of administrative law judges due to bias or prejudice similar to those of other state agencies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.7
  (a) The division of the commission responsible for consumer protection and safety shall be responsible for inspection, surveillance, and investigation of the rights-of-way, facilities, equipment,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 310
  No vacancy in the commission impairs the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. A majority of the commissioners...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311
  (a) The commission, each commissioner, the executive director, and the assistant executive directors may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall not consider or require, in determining qualified bidders for, or in awarding contracts, that any facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.4
  (a) On or after July 1, 2001, the commission shall establish procedures to permit the submission of informal complaints through electronic means in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.5
  (a) (1) Prior to commencement of any meeting at which commissioners vote on items on the public agenda the commission shall make available to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 312
  The commission and each commissioner may issue writs of summons, subpenas, warrants of attachment, warrants of commitment, and all necessary process in proceedings for contempt,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 313
  The commission may require, by order served on any public utility, the production within this State at such time and place as it designates, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 314
  (a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the accounts, books, papers, and documents...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 314.5
  The commission shall inspect and audit the books and records for regulatory and tax purposes (a) at least once in every three years in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 315
  The commission shall investigate the cause of all accidents occurring within this State upon the property of any public utility or directly or indirectly arising...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 317
  The commission may request the local agency formation commission to advise it as to any special districts as defined in Section 54775 of the Government...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 320
  The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state to achieve, whenever feasible and not inconsistent with sound environmental planning, the undergrounding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321
  (a) The commission shall establish an office of the public advisor and shall appoint a public advisor, including a separate office in the Los Angeles...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission assess the economic effects or consequences of its decisions as part of each ratemaking, rulemaking,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321.6
  (a) The commission shall do all of the following: (1) Develop, publish, and annually update an annual workplan that describes in clear detail the scheduled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321.7
  (a) On or before January 1, 2010, and biennially thereafter, the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator and the State Energy Resources Conservation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 322
  (a) The commission shall periodically, at least once each year, compile its rules of procedure together with every order and decision of the commission relating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 322.5
  The commission shall determine, as part of the proceeding in Rulemaking 98-07-038 (Rulemaking for purposes of Revising General Order 96-A Regarding Informal Filings at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 323
  (a) Commencing January 1, 1989, the commission shall cause the complete text of each of its orders and decisions to be published within a reasonable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 324
  The executive director of the commission may release to the Director of Industrial Relations any information concerning any person, corporation, or other entity under the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 324.5
  (a) The Public Utilities Commission shall publish any data it collects for its clearinghouse minority and women business data base that it deems to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 325
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the commission should have the authority to act swiftly to expedite planning for the long-term recovery in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 326
  (a) By January 10, 2012, and by January 10 of each year thereafter, the commission shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 326.5
  By January 10, 2009, and by January 10 of each year thereafter, the commission shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate fiscal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 327
  (a) The electrical corporations and gas corporations that participate in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program, as established pursuant to Section 739.1, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328
  The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (a) In order to ensure that all core customers of a gas corporation continue to receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328.1
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Basic gas service" includes transmission, storage for reliability of service, and distribution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328.2
  The commission shall require each gas corporation to provide bundled basic gas service to all core customers in its service territory unless the customer chooses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 330
  In order to provide guidance in carrying out this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the intent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 331
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Aggregator" means any marketer, broker, public agency, city, county, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 331.1
  For purposes of this chapter, "community choice aggregator" means any of the following entities, if that entity is not within the jurisdiction of a local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.1
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact Item 1 (revised) on the commission's August 21, 2000 agenda, entitled "Opinion Modifying Decision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.2
  Rates set by the commission that are subject to subdivision (f) of Section 332.1 may not result in any retroactive recovery of undercollections by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.2
  Rates set by the commission that are subject to subdivision (f) of Section 332.1 may not result in any retroactive recovery of undercollections by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 334
  The Legislature finds and declares that in order to ensure the success of electric industry restructuring, in the transition to a new market structure it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 335
  In order to ensure that the interests of the people of California are served, a five-member Electricity Oversight Board is hereby created as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 336
  (a) The five-member Oversight Board shall be comprised as follows: (1) Three members, who are California residents and electricity ratepayers, appointed by the Governor from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 337
  (a) The Independent System Operator governing board shall be composed of a five-member independent governing board of directors appointed by the Governor and subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 338
  The Oversight Board shall have the exclusive right to approve procedures and the qualifications for Power Exchange governing board members specified in subdivision (d) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 339
  (a) The Oversight Board is the appeal board for majority decisions of the Independent System Operator governing board relating to matters that are identified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 340
  The Oversight Board shall take the steps that are necessary to ensure the earliest possible incorporation of the Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341
  The Oversight Board may do all of the following: (a) Meet at the times and places it may deem proper. (b) Accept appropriations, grants, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.1
  Regulations adopted within 120 days of the effective date of this section may be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.2
  The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.3
  Voting members of the Oversight Board shall be required to file financial disclosure statements with the Fair Political Practices Commission. The appointing authority for voting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.4
  The Oversight Board shall appoint, and fix the salary of, an executive director who shall have charge of administering the affairs of the Oversight Board,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator and Power Exchange bylaws shall contain provisions that identify those matters specified in subdivision (b) of Section 339 as matters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 343
  (a) The Attorney General shall represent the Department of Finance and shall succeed to, and may exercise, all rights, claims, powers, and entitlements of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 345
  The Independent System Operator shall ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the transmission grid consistent with achievement of planning and operating reserve criteria no...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 345.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator, as a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, shall conduct its operations consistent with applicable state and federal laws and consistent with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 346
  The Independent System Operator shall immediately participate in all relevant Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceedings. The Independent System Operator shall ensure that additional filings at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 347
  The Independent System Operator governing board may form appropriate technical advisory committees composed of market and nonmarket participants to advise the Independent System Operator governing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 348
  The Independent System Operator shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards for the transmission facilities under its control no later than September 30, 1997....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 349
  The Independent System Operator shall perform a review following a major outage that affects at least l0 percent of the customers of the entity providing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 349.5
  (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, the Independent System Operator shall notify each air pollution control district and air quality...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 350
  The Independent System Operator, in consultation with the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352
  The Independent System Operator may not enter into a multistate entity or a regional organization as authorized in Section 359 unless that entry is approved...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator shall make publicly available a list of all power plants located in the state that are not operational due to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352.7
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally disclose proprietary information obtained in the negotiation, execution, or performance of a consulting services contract,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.1
  As used in this article, "distributed energy resources" means electric generation technology that meets all of the following criteria: (a) Commences initial operation between May...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.2
  (a) As used in this article, "ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation" means any electric generation technology that meets both of the following criteria: (1) Commences...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.3
  (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation under the operational control of the Independent System Operator as of January 1, 2001, to modify its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.5
  Each electrical corporation, as part of its distribution planning process, shall consider nonutility owned distributed energy resources as a possible alternative to investments in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.7
  Notwithstanding Section 353.3, nothing in this article may result in any exemption from reasonable interconnection charges, lead to any reduction in contributions by each customer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.9
  In establishing the rates required under this article, the commission shall create a firewall that segregates distribution cost recovery so that any net costs, taking...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.11
  A local publicly owned electric utility or a local publicly owned utility otherwise providing electrical service, shall review at the earliest practicable date its rates,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.13
  (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation to establish new tariffs on or before January 1, 2003, for customers using distributed energy resources, including,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.15
  (a) In order to evaluate the efficiency, emissions, and reliability of distributed energy resources with a capacity greater than 10 kilowatts, customers that install those...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 355
  The Power Exchange shall provide an efficient competitive auction, open on a nondiscriminatory basis to all suppliers, that meets the loads of all exchange customers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 356
  The Power Exchange governing board may form appropriate technical advisory committees comprised of market and nonmarket participants to advise the governing board on relevant issues.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 359
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the evolution of the Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange into regional organizations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 360
  The commission shall ensure that existing, and if necessary, additional filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission request confirmation of the relevant provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 360.5
  The commission shall determine that portion of each existing electrical corporation's retail rate effective on January 5, 2001, that is equal to the difference between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 361
  The commission shall ensure that any funds secured by the restructuring trusts established for the purposes of developing the Independent System Operator and the Power...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 362
  (a) In proceedings pursuant to Section 455.5, 851, or 854, the commission shall ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electric supply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 363
  (a) In order to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of public utility electric generating facilities, the commission shall require in any proceeding under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 364
  (a) The commission shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards for the distribution systems of investor-owned electric utilities no later than March 31, 1997....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 365
  The actions of the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be consistent with the findings and declarations contained in Section 330. In addition, the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 365.1
  (a) Except as expressly authorized by this section, and subject to the limitations in subdivisions (b) and (c), the right of retail end-use customers pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 365.5
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the commission from exercising its authority to investigate a process for certification and regulation of the rates, charges, terms,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366
  (a) The commission shall take actions as needed to facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and end-use customers. Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.1
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Department" means the Department of Water Resources with respect to its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.2
  (a) (1) Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their electric loads as members of their local community with community choice aggregators. (2) Customers may aggregate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.5
  (a) No change in the aggregator or supplier of electric power for any small commercial customer may be made until one of the following means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 367
  The commission shall identify and determine those costs and categories of costs for generation-related assets and obligations, consisting of generation facilities, generation-related regulatory assets, nuclear...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 367.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate increases as a result...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 368
  Each electrical corporation shall propose a cost recovery plan to the commission for the recovery of the uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation's generation-related assets...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 368.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the termination of the 10-percent rate reduction for residential and small commercial customers set forth in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 369
  The commission shall establish an effective mechanism that ensures recovery of transition costs referred to in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, and subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 370
  The commission shall require, as a prerequisite for any consumer in California to engage in direct transactions permitted in Section 365, that beginning with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 371
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 372 and 374, the uneconomic costs provided in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 shall be applied to each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 372
  (a) It is the policy of the state to encourage and support the development of cogeneration as an efficient, environmentally beneficial, competitive energy resource that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 373
  (a) Electrical corporations may apply to the commission for an order determining that the costs identified in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 not be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 374
  (a) In recognition of statutory authority and past investments existing as of December 20, 1995, and subject to the firewall specified in subdivision (e) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 374.5
  Any electrical corporation serving agricultural customers that have multiple electric meters shall conduct research based on a statistically valid sample of those customers and meters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 375
  (a) In order to mitigate potential negative impacts on utility personnel directly affected by electric industry restructuring, as described in Decision 95-12-063, as modified by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 376
  To the extent that the costs of programs to accommodate implementation of direct access, the Power Exchange, and the Independent System Operator, that have been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377
  The commission shall continue to regulate the facilities for the generation of electricity owned by any public utility prior to January 1, 1997, that are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377.1
  Section 377 does not apply to the four run-of-river hydroelectric project works located on the Truckee River, as referenced in Section 210(b)(17) of Public Law...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377.2
  Notwithstanding Section 377, a facility for the generation of electricity, or an interest in a facility for the generation of electricity, that is located outside...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 378
  The commission shall authorize new optional rate schedules and tariffs, including new service offerings, that accurately reflect the loads, locations, conditions of service, cost of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379
  Nuclear decommissioning costs shall not be part of the costs described in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, but shall be recovered as a nonbypassable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or before March 7, 2001, the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall take all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.6
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the self-generation incentive program increase deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems to facilitate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.7
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the demonstration project authorized pursuant to this section, at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, to determine actual energy and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.8
  (a) As used in this section, "advanced electrical distributed generation technology" means any electric distributed generation technology that generates useful electricity and meets all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 380
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities. (b) In establishing resource adequacy requirements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381
  (a) To ensure that the funding for the programs described in subdivision (b) and Section 382 are not commingled with other revenues, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381.1
  (a) No later than July 15, 2003, the commission shall establish policies and procedures by which any party, including, but not limited to, a local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381.2
  (a) By March 1, 2010, the commission, by opening a new proceeding or amending an existing proceeding, shall investigate the ability of electrical corporations and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to protect and strengthen the current network of community service providers by doing the following: (a) Directing that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 382
  (a) Programs provided to low-income electricity customers, including, but not limited to, targeted energy-efficiency services and the California Alternate Rates for Energy program shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 382.1
  (a) There is hereby established a Low-Income Oversight Board that shall advise the commission on low-income electric, gas, and water customer issues and shall serve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 384
  (a) Funds transferred to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to this article for purposes of public interest research, development, and demonstration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 384.2
  The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature by July 15, 2009, and triennially thereafter, on the energy efficiency and conservation programs it oversees....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 385
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall establish a nonbypassable, usage based charge on local distribution service of not less than the lowest expenditure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 385.2
  (a) Upon the completion and promulgation of regulations pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code, each governing body of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 386
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall ensure the following: (1) Low-income families within the utility's service territory have access to affordable electricity. (2)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 387.5
  (a) In order to further the state goal of encouraging the installation of 3,000 megawatts of photovoltaic solar energy in California within 10 years, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 387.6
  (a) It is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature to encourage electrical generation from eligible renewable energy resources. (b) As...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 387.8
  Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (5) of subdivision (d) of Section 387.5, a local publicly owned electric utility may adopt, implement, and finance a solar initiative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 388
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency may enter into an energy savings contract with a qualified energy service company for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 390
  (a) Subject to applicable contractual terms, energy prices paid to nonutility power generators by a public utility electrical corporation based upon the commission's prescribed "short...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 390.1
  Any nonutility power generator using renewable fuels that has entered into a contract with an electrical corporation prior to December 31, 2001, specifying fixed energy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 391
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Electricity is essential to the health, safety, and economic well-being of all California consumers. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 392
  (a) (1) Electrical corporations shall disclose each component of the electrical bill as follows: (A) The total charges associated with transmission and distribution, including that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 392.1
  (a) The commission shall compile and regularly update the following information: names and contact numbers of registered providers, information to assist consumers in making service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394
  (a) As used in this section, "electric service provider" means an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.1
  (a) The registration shall be deemed approved and a registration number issued no later than 45 days after the required information has been submitted, unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.2
  (a) The commission shall accept, compile, and attempt to informally resolve consumer complaints regarding electric service providers. Where the commission reasonably suspects a pattern of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.25
  (a) The commission may enforce the provisions of Sections 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2107, 2108, and 2114 against electric service providers as if those electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.27
  When a customer files a claim with an electrical corporation for damages to property resulting from the curtailment of electric service due to the failure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.3
  In order to carry out essential elements of a sustainable and effective consumer protection program in connection with electric service providers offering electrical service to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.4
  Rules that implement the following minimum standards shall be adopted by the commission for electric service providers offering electrical services to residential and small commercial...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.5
  (a) Except for an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218, or a local publicly owned electric utility offering electrical service to residential and small...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.6
  For purposes of this article, service territory of a local publicly owned electric utility means within the boundaries of its service territory as it existed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.7
  (a) The commission shall maintain a list of residential and small commercial customers who do not wish to be solicited by telephone, by an electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, requirements placed on an electric service provider shall not apply to electrical services provided by a local publicly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.9
  Unclaimed refunds ordered by the commission, and any accrued interest, may be used by the commission to fund additional consumer protection efforts.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 395
  (a) In addition to any other right to revoke an offer, residential and small commercial customers of electrical service, as defined in subdivision (h) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 395.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Nonprofit charitable organization" means any charitable organization described in Section 501(c)(3)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 396
  (a) A consumer damaged by a violation of this article by an electric service provider is entitled to recover all of the following: (1) Actual...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 396.5
  The governing body of a community choice aggregator shall adopt a policy that expressly prohibits the dissemination by the community choice aggregator of any statement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 397
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 368, to ensure the continued safe and reliable provision of electric service during the transition to competition, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need for reliable, accurate, and timely information regarding fuel sources for electric generation offered for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.2
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this article. (a) "Retail supplier" means an entity that offers an electricity product...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.3
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1998, or as soon as practicable thereafter, each generator that provides meter data to a system operator shall report to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.4
  (a) Every retail supplier that makes an offering to sell electricity that is consumed in California shall disclose its electricity sources for the previous calendar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.5
  (a) Retail suppliers that disclose specific purchases pursuant to Section 398.4 shall report on June 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, to the Energy Commission, for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399
  (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Reliable Electric Service Investments Act. (b) The Legislature finds and declares that safe,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.2
  (a) (1) It is the policy of this state, and the intent of the Legislature, to reaffirm that each electrical corporation shall continue to operate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.2.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1001 to 1013, inclusive, an application of an electrical corporation for a certificate authorizing the construction of new transmission facilities is necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.3
  Nothing in Section 399.2 shall be construed to preclude any of California's local publicly owned electric utilities from exercising authority to operate their electric distribution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.4
  (a) (1) In order to ensure that prudent investments in energy efficiency continue to be made that produce cost-effective energy savings, reduce customer demand, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.8
  (a) In order to ensure that the citizens of this state continue to receive safe, reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable electric service, it is the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.9
  (a) No part of this article shall be construed to alter or affect the low-income funding provisions set forth in Section 382. Programs provided to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.11
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In order to attain a target of generating 20 percent of total retail sales of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.12
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Conduit hydroelectric facility" means a facility for the generation of electricity that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.12.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 399.12, a small hydroelectric generation facility that satisfies the criteria for an eligible renewable energy resource pursuant to Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.13
  (a) (1) The commission shall direct each electrical corporation to annually prepare a renewable energy procurement plan that includes the matter in paragraph (5), to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.14
  (a) (1) An electrical corporation, pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 1001), and in order to meet its unmet renewables portfolio standard procurement requirements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.15
  (a) In order to fulfill unmet long-term resource needs, the commission shall establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers to procure a minimum...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16
  (a) Various electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources located within the WECC transmission network service area shall be eligible to comply with the renewables...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.17
  (a) (1) Subject to this section, the requirements of this article apply to an electrical corporation that as of January 1, 2010, had 60,000 or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.18
  (a) This section applies to an electrical corporation that as of January 1, 2010, met either of the following conditions: (1) Served 30,000 or fewer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.19
  The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall report to the Legislature by January 1 of every even-numbered year on all of the following:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.20
  (a) It is the policy of this state and the intent of the Legislature to encourage electrical generation from eligible renewable energy resources. (b) As...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.21
  (a) The commission, by rule, shall authorize the use of renewable energy credits to satisfy the renewables portfolio standard procurement requirements established pursuant to this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.22
  (a) For purposes of this section, "state agency" means any state agency, board, department, or commission, including the entities specified in subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.25
  The Energy Commission shall do all of the following: (a) Certify eligible renewable energy resources that it determines meet the criteria described in subdivision (e)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.26
  (a) In order for the state to meet the requirements of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, substantially increased amounts of electricity generated by eligible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.30
  (a) In order to fulfill unmet long-term generation resource needs, each local publicly owned electric utility shall adopt and implement a renewable energy resources procurement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.31
  A retail seller may procure renewable energy credits associated with deliveries of electricity by an eligible renewable energy resource to a local publicly owned electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 401
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the public interest is best served by a commission that is appropriately funded and staffed, that can thoroughly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 402
  The Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account is hereby continued in existence. All fees collected by the commission pursuant to Section 431 shall be transmitted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 403
  There is hereby created the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account in the General Fund. All fees collected by the commission pursuant to Section 421...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 404
  (a) All fees paid pursuant to this chapter, exclusive of any penalties for delinquency, shall be allowed by the commission in a separate order as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 405
  If any person or corporation subject to this chapter is in default of the preparation and submission of any report or the payment of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 406
  The commission may bring an action, in its own name or in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 407
  The commission shall authorize refunds of the fees provided for in this chapter when the fees were collected in error.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 408
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected by the commission pursuant to this code from each common carrier and related business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 409
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected pursuant to this code by the commission from each public utility subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 409.5
  The commission shall maintain those records as are necessary to account separately for all fees and charges, including the fees authorized by Section 431, received...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 410
  The commission may establish rules and regulations that it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 421
  (a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every passenger stage corporation, charter-party carrier of passengers, pipeline corporation, for-hire vessel operator,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 422
  The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 421 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 422.1
  In addition to the requirements of Section 422, the commission may establish a uniform annual fee to be paid by every charter-party carrier of passengers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 423
  Except as provided in Section 404, every carrier and related business subject to Section 421 shall make the payments of the required fee in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 424
  As used in this article: (a) "Class" means a group of carriers or related businesses as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 425
  The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 426
  The commission shall use all moneys paid into the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account by charter-party carriers in connection with charter bus transportation, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 431
  The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer system, and heat corporation and every other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 432
  The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 431 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 432.5
  (a) The commission shall report to the Legislature the collections from each class of utility and expenditures, both direct and indirect, for regulatory and other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 433
  Except as provided in Section 404, every public utility subject to Section 431 shall make payment of the required fee in accordance with the following...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 434
  (a) The commission may require every public utility subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 435
  As used in this article: (a) "Class" means a group of public utilities as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing fees pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 440
  (a) For purposes of this article, "state franchise," "video service," and "video service provider" shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 441
  The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by an applicant or holder of a state franchise pursuant to Division 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 442
  (a) The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 441 with the approval of the Department of Finance. The commission shall specify the amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 443
  (a) The commission may require a video service provider subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 444
  (a) If a video service provider subject to this article is in default of the payment of any fee required by this article for a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 451
  All charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 451.5
  (a) Any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 452
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from establishing and charging a lower than a maximum reasonable rate for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 453
  (a) No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 453.5
  Whenever the commission orders rate refunds to be distributed, the commission shall require public utilities to pay refunds to all current utility customers, and, when...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454
  (a) Except as provided in Section 455, no public utility shall change any rate or so alter any classification, contract, practice, or rule as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a customer with a maximum peak electrical demand in excess of 20 kilowatts located or planning to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.2
  Notwithstanding Section 454, the commission may establish a "zone of rate freedom" for any passenger stage transportation service which is operating in competition with other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.3
  The commission may, after a hearing, approve an increase of from one-half of 1 percent to 1 percent in the rate of return otherwise allowed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.4
  The commission shall establish rates for gas which is utilized in cogeneration technology projects not higher than the rates established for gas utilized as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.5
  (a) The commission shall specify the allocation of electricity, including quantity, characteristics, and duration of electricity delivery, that the Department of Water Resources shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.55
  The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish efficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.56
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.6
  (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.5 by an electrical corporation for the electricity generated by a replacement or repowering project that meets...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.7
  The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest possible priority for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.8
  In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.9
  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the following: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455
  Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate, is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.1
  Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of submission, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.2
  (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.5
  (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, the commission may eliminate consideration of the value of any portion of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 456
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 458
  (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 459
  (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 460.3
  (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or handicapped...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 460.7
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 461.2
  For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the installation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 461.5
  (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 462
  Every street or interurban railroad corporation shall upon such terms as the commission finds to be just and reasonable furnish to its passengers transfers entitling...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 463
  (a) For purposes of establishing rates for any electrical or gas corporation, the commission shall disallow expenses reflecting the direct or indirect costs resulting from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 463.5
  (a) Section 463 does not require the commission to undertake a reasonableness review of recorded costs to determine the reasonableness of the costs of each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 464
  (a) Reasonable expenditures by transmission owners that are electrical corporations to plan, design, and engineer reconfiguration, replacement, or expansion of transmission facilities are in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 465
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), whenever any labor of a custodial or janitorial nature is not performed by the employees of a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 466
  Pursuant to Section 465, the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the specified prevailing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 467
  The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce Section 466 in the same manner as provided for by Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 486
  (a) Every common carrier shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to the public inspection schedules showing the rates, fares, charges,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 487
  The schedules shall plainly state the places between which property and persons will be carried, and the classification of passengers or property in force, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 488
  (a) Subject to such rules as the commission may prescribe, the schedules of carriers shall be produced and made available for inspection upon the demand...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 489
  (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require every public utility other than a common carrier to file with the commission within the time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 490
  (a) The commission may from time to time determine and prescribe by order changes in the form of the schedules referred to in this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 491
  Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate or classification, or in any rule or contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 491.1
  Notwithstanding Section 491, the commission may authorize a passenger stage corporation, upon one day's notice, to reduce its rates and charges to not less than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 492
  The names of the several public utilities which are parties to any joint tariff, rate, contract, or classification shall be specified in the schedule. Unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 493
  (a) No common carrier subject to this part shall engage or participate in the transportation of persons or property, between points within this state, until...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 494
  (a) No common carrier shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a different compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495
  Every telegraph and telephone corporation shall print and file with the commission schedules showing all the rates and classifications for the transmission of messages or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495.6
  (a) Any city, county, or city and county that levies a utility user tax on the consumption of telephone services, including, but not limited to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495.7
  (a) The commission may, by rule or order, establish procedures to allow telephone or telegraph corporations to apply for the exemption of certain telecommunications services...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 521
  As used in this article "employees" includes furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees of any common carrier subject to the provisions of this part, persons who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 522
  Except as provided in this article, Sections 40180.5 and 99151 of this code, and Section 26002.5 of the Government Code, no common carrier subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 523
  When approved by the commission, a common carrier may give free or reduced rate transportation between points within this state to: (a) Its officers, agents,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 524
  (a) Any common carrier may issue free or reduced rate passenger transportation to the proprietors and employees of newspapers and magazines and the members of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 525
  All blind residents of California may be granted free transportation on all street cars and may be permitted to travel on all other common carriers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 527
  Nothing in this part shall prevent the interchange of free or reduced rate transportation for passenger or express matter between common carriers, their officers, agents,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 528
  Nothing in this part shall prevent the interchange of free or reduced rate transportation for passengers or express matter between a common carrier and a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 529
  Nothing in this part shall prevent any of the following: (a) The issue of reduced rate transportation by a common carrier to children attending an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 530
  (a) Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this part may transport, free or at reduced rates, as follows: (1) Persons for the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 531
  Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this part may transport free or at reduced rates contractors and their employees engaged in carrying out...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 532
  Except as in this article otherwise provided, no public utility shall charge, or receive a different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 533
  The officers and employees of the Operations and Safety Section of the Transportation Division of the commission, shall, when in the performance of their official...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 556
  Every common carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the prompt and efficient interchange and transfer of passengers between the lines owned,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 558
  Every telephone corporation and telegraph corporation operating in this State shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 559
  (a) Nothing in Sections 556 to 558, inclusive, shall limit or modify the duty of a common carrier to establish joint rates, fares, and charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 560
  Upon the application of any shipper or receiver or contemplated shipper or receiver of freight for a connection between the railroad of a railroad corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 561
  (a) Every railroad corporation, passenger stage corporation, passenger air carrier, and street railroad corporation providing departures originating in this state shall prohibit the smoking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 562
  (a) Whenever the commission, on its own motion or upon the complaint of a public utility, finds that public convenience and necessity require the use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 581
  Every public utility shall furnish to the commission in such form and detail as the commission prescribes all tabulations, computations, and all other information required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 582
  Whenever required by the commission, every public utility shall deliver to the commission copies of any or all maps, profiles, contracts, agreements, franchises, reports, books,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 583
  No information furnished to the commission by a public utility, or any business which is a subsidiary or affiliate of a public utility, or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 584
  Every public utility shall furnish such reports to the commission at such time and in such form as the commission may require in which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 585
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), every public utility and business specified in subdivision (b) shall in any rate proceeding or proceeding establishing a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 587
  Every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation shall annually prepare and submit to the commission a report describing all significant transactions, as specified by the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 588
  (a) Notwithstanding any regulation, tariff, opinion, or interim opinion of the Public Utilities Commission, or any other provision of law, an inspector or investigator, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 600
  A public utility acquiring real property by eminent domain shall provide relocation advisory assistance and shall make any of the payments required of public entities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 610
  This article applies only to a corporation or person that is a public utility.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 611
  A railroad corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its railroad.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 612
  An electrical corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its electric plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 613
  A gas corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its gas plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 614
  A heat corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its heating plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 615
  A pipeline corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its pipeline.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 616
  A telephone corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its telephone line.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 616.1
  Notwithstanding Section 616, a telephone corporation may not condemn any property on an airport owned by a city and county, and located in another county,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 617
  A telegraph corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its telegraph line.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 618
  A water corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its water system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 619
  A wharfinger may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of facilities for the receipt or discharge of freight or passengers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 620
  A common carrier, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 211, may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of facilities for its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 621
  A street railroad corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its street railroad.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 622
  (a) As used in this section, "motor carrier" means: A passenger stage corporation as defined in Section 226. (b) As used in this section, "water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 623
  A warehouseman may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its facilities for storing property.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 624
  A sewer system corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its sewer system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 625
  (a) (1) (A) For the purpose of this article, except as specified in paragraph (4), a public utility that offers competitive services may not condemn...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 626
  On or after January 1, 2000, a public utility may not enter into any exclusive access agreement with the owner or lessor of, or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 631
  In addition to the requirements of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1001) of Chapter 5 and any other provisions of law, the commission shall require...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 632
  For purposes of entering into contracts for consultant or advisory services, the requirements of Sections 11042 and 14615 of the Government Code and Sections 10295...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 635
  In a long-term plan adopted by an electrical corporation or in a procurement plan implemented by a local publicly owned electric utility, the electrical corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701
  The commission may supervise and regulate every public utility in the State and may do all things, whether specifically designated in this part or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that, in addition to other ratepayer protection objectives, a principal goal of electric and natural gas utilities' resource planning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.3
  Until the commission completes an electric generation procurement methodology that values the environmental and diversity costs and benefits associated with various generation technologies, the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.4
  It is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature that state and municipal electric resource acquisition programs recognize and include a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.5
  With respect to financing arrangements which are established after January 1, 1988, no electrical, gas, or telephone corporation, whose rates are set by the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.6
  (a) The commission may authorize gas and electrical corporations to include in ratepayer-supported research and development programs, activities that relate to improving the energy efficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.8
  (a) To ensure that electrical corporations do not operate their transmission and distribution monopolies in a manner that impedes the ability of the San Francisco...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.10
  The policy of the State of California is that rates and charges established by the commission for water service provided by water corporations shall do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 702
  Every public utility shall obey and comply with every order, decision, direction, or rule made or prescribed by the commission in the matters specified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 703
  The commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, fares, tolls, charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices in relation thereto, for or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 704
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, no foreign corporation, other than those which by compliance with the laws of this State are entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 705
  Whenever in Articles 2 (commencing with Section 726), 3 (commencing with Section 761), and 4 (commencing with Section 791) a hearing by the commission is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 707
  (a) Not later than March 1, 2012, the commission shall institute a rulemaking proceeding for the purpose of considering and adopting a code of conduct,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 708
  The commission shall require every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation to prepare and issue to every employee who, in the course of his or her...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 708.3
  Whenever a business transaction of an electrical, gas, water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone corporation is such that a personal appearance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the policies for telecommunications in California are as follows: (a) To continue our universal service commitment by assuring...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.2
  (a) The commission shall authorize fully open competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service, otherwise known as intrastate interLATA, or intrastate service between local access and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all telecommunications markets subject to commission jurisdiction be opened to competition not later than January 1,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.6
  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commission shall commence a proceeding to consider whether to establish a new regulatory framework that does all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 715
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Comparative energy usage disclosure program" means a program pursuant to which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 716
  (a) If an incumbent local exchange carrier files a forbearance petition with the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Section 10 of the federal Communications Act...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 727
  It is the policy of the state that the use of all waterways, ports, and harbors of this state shall be encouraged, and to that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 727.5
  (a) In establishing rates for water service, the commission shall consider, and may establish, separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rates or classifications, demanded, observed, charged, or collected by any public utility for or in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, "plant held for future use account" means account number 105 of the Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall have no jurisdiction or control over classified telephone directories or commercial advertising included as part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.3
  (a) No telephone corporation operating within a service area shall remove any public telephone unless it has posted on the public telephone for not less...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.4
  A telephone corporation shall list a telephone number as the number for a facsimile machine in its alphabetical or classified directory only if requested to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.5
  (a) The commission may establish rates or charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroads and other transportation companies, except motor carriers of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.7
  (a) Prior to authorizing any change in the amount of the payment required of a telephone corporation which provides service between service areas to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 729
  The commission may, upon a hearing, investigate a single rate, classification, rule, contract, or practice, or any number thereof, or the entire schedule or schedules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 729.5
  A public utility, other than one-way radio paging services, shall not change a group of customers from one rate schedule to another rate schedule, if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730
  (a) The commission shall, upon a hearing, determine the kind and character of facilities and the extent of the operation thereof, necessary reasonably and adequately...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.3
  The commission shall notify every state and local public agency and corporation operating a passenger transit system making a written request for such notification before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.7
  In determining reimbursement to railroad corporations for the operation of rail passenger service, the commission shall not exceed that compensation which would be payable if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.8
  Whenever a state agency files with the commission an application for an increase in rates or fares or for any change in the level of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 732
  (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that the rates, fares, or charges in force over two or more common carriers, between any two...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 733
  (a) If the common carriers do not agree upon the division between them of the joint rates, fares, or charges established by the commission over...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 734
  When complaint has been made to the commission concerning any rate for any product or commodity furnished or service performed by any public utility, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 735
  If the public utility does not comply with the order for the payment of reparation within the time specified in the order, suit may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 736
  All complaints for damages resulting from the violation of any of the provisions of Sections 494 or 532 shall either be filed with the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 737
  All complaints for the collection of the lawful tariff charges or any part thereof, of public utilities may be filed in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 737.3
  (a) (1) A highway carrier, as defined by subdivision (c), a freight forwarder, a party representing a carrier or freight forwarder, or an assignee of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 738
  For the purpose of Sections 734 to 737, inclusive, the cause of action shall accrue upon the delivery or tender of delivery of the shipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 738.6
  In establishing rates for a public utility operating any portion of its line, plant, or system within a federally designated nonattainment area, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Baseline quantity" means a quantity of electricity or gas allocated by the commission for residential customers based on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.1
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Baseline quantity" has the same meaning as defined in Section 739....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.2
  (a) The commission's program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers shall also include the following facilities, provided the commission finds that the occupants...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.3
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and maintain a suitable program to establish a fair and equitable local rate structure aided by universal service rate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.4
  (a) Any natural gas customer who enrolls in the CARE program after the effective date of this section, but before October 1, 2001, shall receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.5
  (a) The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electric service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.6
  The commission shall establish rates using cost allocation principles that fairly and reasonably assign to different customer classes the costs of providing service to those...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.7
  In establishing residential rates, the commission shall retain an appropriate inverted rate structure. If the commission increases baseline rates pursuant to Section 739, revenues resulting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.8
  (a) Access to an adequate supply of healthful water is a basic necessity of human life, and shall be made available to all residents of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.9
  (a) The commission may, subject to the limitation in subdivision (b), increase the rates charged residential customers for electricity usage up to 130 percent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.10
  The commission shall ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material over or undercollections of the electrical corporations.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740
  For purposes of setting the rates to be charged by every electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation or telephone corporation for the services or commodities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.1
  The commission shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration programs proposed by electrical and gas corporations: (a) Projects should offer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.2
  The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, State Air Resources Board, electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, shall evaluate policies to develop infrastructure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.3
  (a) The commission, in cooperation with the State Energy Conservation and Development Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.4
  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development. (b) Reasonable expenses for economic development programs, as specified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.6
  (a) The commission may authorize investor-owned gas and electric utilities to match grants provided to nonprofit agencies and local governments to participate in the Department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.7
  Interruptible service or curtailment programs adopted by the commission shall assure that the programs allow customers to aggregate multiple accounts to meet any minimum kilowatt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.8
  As used in Section 740.3, "interests" of ratepayers, short- or long-term, mean direct benefits that are specific to ratepayers in the form of safer, more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.9
  (a) Any optional binding mandatory curtailment program adopted by the commission that exempts customers from Stage 3 rotating outages in exchange for partial load curtailments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.10
  (a) Each public utility electrical corporation shall develop and offer its customers, on or before May 30, 2001, the opportunity to participate, in addition to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.11
  In recognition of the fact that agricultural and water supplier customers necessarily have high electricity usage during peak summer demand periods, the Legislature strongly urges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 741
  Every owner or operator of coin-activated telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 741.1
  Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, or university, which imposes charges on users of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 741.2
  (a) No nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university, or similar place of temporary accommodation owning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 741.3
  The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements applicable to operator-assisted telephone services, whether furnished by a telephone corporation or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 742
  (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use owned or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 742.1
  (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for every corporation or person, other than a telephone corporation, which, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 742.3
  The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce an operating requirement for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use, whether owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 742.5
  (a) No telephone corporation which operates within a service area shall provide billing and collection services for either of the following: (1) Any telephone corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 743
  (a) As used in this section, "steel producer" means a producer of steel products in California which in 1981 or any subsequent year produced at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 743.1
  (a) Electrical corporations shall offer optional interruptible or curtailable service programs, using pricing incentives for participation in these programs. These pricing incentives shall be cost...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 743.3
  (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, an electrical corporation shall notify each air pollution control district and air quality management...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 744
  (a) As used in this section, "agricultural producer" means any person or corporation whose principal purpose is the agrarian production of food or fiber. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 744.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as is practicable after the operative date of the act adding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 745
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Bill protection" means that customers on mandatory or default time-variant pricing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 747
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount possible. (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 747.5
  The commission shall review its policies concerning pricing of utility service and shall assess whether the pricing policies promote the pursuit of energy efficiency by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 748
  (a) The commission, by May 1, 2010, and by each May 1 thereafter, shall prepare and submit a written report, separate from and in addition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 749
  Public utilities shall develop programs in cooperation with local school districts in reducing their electricity and gas bills through conservation and improvements in efficiency. Utilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 755
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that: (1) An electrical, gas, or water corporation that offers customers credit card or debit card payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 758
  (a) The commission shall allow an electrical corporation to recover in rates amounts assessed to the utility pursuant to Section 8610.5 of the Government Code....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 761
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or the methods of manufacture,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 761.3
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 216 and subdivision (c) of Section 218.5, the commission shall implement and enforce standards for the maintenance and operation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 761.5
  (a) Where the commission determines that it would be cost-effective, the commission shall authorize electrical and gas corporations to participate in a centralized credit check...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 762
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that additions, extensions, repairs, or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment, apparatus, facilities, or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 762.5
  The commission, as a basis for making any order pursuant to the provisions of Section 762 relating to location of structures, shall give consideration to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 763
  (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any railroad corporation or street railroad corporation does not run a sufficient number of trains or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 765.5
  (a) The purpose of this section is to provide that the commission takes all appropriate action necessary to ensure the safe operation of railroads in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 765.6
  The commission shall report to the Legislature on the compliance with the requirements of Section 765.5, as added by Chapter 763 of the Statutes of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 765.7
  The commission, in conjunction with the California Environmental Protection Agency, shall request, no later than July 1, 1992, the appropriate federal agencies to do all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 765.9
  Federal funds available to the commission for rail safety inspection and enforcement purposes shall be allocated to eligible passenger and freight rail activities on a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 766
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone corporations or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 766.5
  The commission shall investigate the practices of every telephone corporation in billing its subscribers for telephone calls, including, but not limited to, whether a corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 767
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint of a public utility affected, finds that public convenience and necessity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 767.5
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Public utility" includes any person, firm, or corporation, except a publicly owned public utility, which owns or controls,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 767.7
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Legislature has encouraged, and continues to encourage, the rapid and economic development of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 768
  The commission may, after a hearing, require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks, and premises in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 768.5
  The commission may, after a hearing, by general or special orders, rules, or otherwise, require every cable television corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 770
  The commission may after hearing: (a) Ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 771
  The commissioners and their officers and employees may enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility, for the purpose of making the examinations and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 772
  Any consumer or user of any product, commodity, or service of a public utility may have any appliance used in the measurement thereof tested upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 773
  Section 4200 of the Government Code shall not apply to a public utility under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of
• California Public Utilities Code Section 774
  No water corporation which has undertaken to provide fire protection service, nor any employee of such corporation acting in the course and scope of his...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 775
  Whenever an electric or gas corporation sells fuel oil which is, or is reasonably expected to be, useful in the performance of its public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 776
  (a) The commission shall, in a single rulemaking or other appropriate proceeding, not to exceed 18 months in duration, consider the need for performance reliability...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 777
  (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling. (b) If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 777.1
  (a) If an electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation furnishes residential service to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 778
  The commission shall adopt rules and regulations, which shall become effective on July 1, 1977, relating to safety appliances and procedures for rail transit services...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 779
  (a) No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the corporation first gives notice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 779.1
  (a) Every electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall allow every residential customer at least 19 days from the date of mailing its bill for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 779.2
  (a) No electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of any delinquent account or other indebtedness owed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 779.5
  The decision of an electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 780
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall, by reason of delinquency in the payment of its charges, terminate service on any Saturday, Sunday, legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 780.5
  The commission shall require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, and mobilehome park for which a building permit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 781
  (a) (1) Each water corporation with 500 or more service connections that is not subject to the requirements of Section 525, 526, 527, or 528...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 781.5
  The commission may require a water corporation that furnishes potable water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use through less than 500 service connections that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 782
  In order to encourage the development of geothermal resources in the State of California, the commission may, upon a complaint by a geothermal energy producer,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 783
  (a) The commission shall continue to enforce the rules governing the extension of service by gas and electrical corporations to new residential, commercial, agricultural, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 785
  (a) To the extent consistent with federal law and regulation and contractual obligations regarding other available gas, the commission shall, in consultation with the Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 785.1
  (a) The commission shall require, after a hearing, every gas corporation to revise its transportation tariffs and conditions of service to eliminate all components that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 785.2
  The commission shall investigate, as part of the rate proceeding for any gas corporation, impediments to the in-state production and storage of natural gas. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 785.5
  (a) The commission shall require every gas corporation to adopt and pursue purchasing and procurement practices which assure its customers the lowest rates consistent with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 785.7
  (a) No gas corporation shall charge, directly or indirectly, a higher rate for the transportation of gas produced in this state than for the transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 786
  (a) On or before March 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, every telephone corporation operating within a service area shall issue to each of its residential...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 787
  (a) Any public utility, or its contractor, to whom an excavation permit has been issued by any local agency for the installation, removal, maintenance, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 788
  (a) This section applies only to a telephone corporation that is a provider of local exchange service. (b) On or before March 1, 1992, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 789
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Utility Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1995.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 789.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Water corporations currently are faced with, and will continue to be faced with, increasing demands...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 790
  (a) Whenever a water corporation sells any real property that was at any time, but is no longer, necessary or useful in the performance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 790.1
  In any proceeding pending after January 1, 1996, the commission shall apply this article in its consideration of any matter concerning the sale by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 791
  Each public utility shall have an office in a county of this State in which its property or some portion thereof is located and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 792
  The commission may establish a system of accounts to be kept by the public utilities subject to its jurisdiction, or classify such public utilities and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 792.5
  Whenever the commission authorizes any change in rates reflecting and passing through to customers specific changes in costs, except rates set for common carriers, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 793
  The system of accounts and the forms of accounts, records, and memoranda prescribed by the commission for corporations subject to the regulatory authority of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 794
  The commission may, after notice, and hearing if requested within 15 days after receipt of notice, prescribe by order the accounts in which particular outlays...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 795
  The commission may, after hearing if requested, require any or all public utilities to carry a proper and adequate depreciation account in the form and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 796
  (a) The commission shall disallow, for purposes of setting the rates to be charged by any electrical, gas, or heat corporation for the services or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 797
  The commission shall periodically audit all significant transactions, as specified by the commission, between an electrical, gas, or telephone corporation and every subsidiary or affiliate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 798
  (a) Whenever the commission finds and determines that any electrical, gas, or telephone corporation has willfully made an imprudent payment to, or received a less...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 799
  (a) With respect to all taxes enacted by any local jurisdiction, including any city, county, or city and county, including a chartered city or county,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 816
  The power of public utilities to issue stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership and bonds, notes, and other evidences of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 816.5
  Nothing in this article or in Article 6 (commencing with Section 851) requires a common carrier by railroad subject to the Interstate Commerce Act (49...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 817
  A public utility may issue stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness payable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 818
  No public utility may issue stocks and stock certificates, or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness payable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 819
  To enable it to determine whether it will issue the order, the commission may hold a hearing and may make such additional inquiry or investigation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 820
  The commission shall have no power to authorize the capitalization of the right to be a corporation, or the capitalization of any franchise or permit,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 821
  Subject to the provisions of this article, any public utility may issue bonds, or other interest bearing securities maturing at periods of more than 12...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 822
  Pursuant to this part the commission may, upon an application for an order to issue stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities or to deliver...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 823
  (a) No public utility shall, without the consent of the commission, apply any part of the issue of any stock or stock certificate or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 824
  The commission may require public utilities to account for the disposition of the proceeds of all sales of stocks and stock certificates or other evidence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 825
  All stock and every stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, and every bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, of a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 826
  Every public utility which, directly or indirectly issues or causes to be issued, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 827
  Every officer, agent, or employee of a public utility, and every other person is guilty of a felony who does any of the following acts:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 828
  No provision of this part, and no act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall obligate the State to pay or guarantee, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 829
  (a) This article shall not apply to any person or corporation which transacts no business subject to regulation under this part, except performing services or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 830
  No public utility shall assume any obligation or liability as guarantor, endorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of the securities of any other person, firm,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 840
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Bank" means the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 841
  (a) An electrical corporation shall, by June 1, 1997, and may from time to time thereafter apply to the commission for a determination that certain...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 842
  (a) Financing entities may issue rate reduction bonds upon approval by the commission in the pertinent financing orders. Rate reduction bonds shall be nonrecourse to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 843
  (a) A security interest in transition property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, subject to the rights of any third parties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 844
  (a) A transfer of transition property by an electrical corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of an electrical...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 845
  Any successor to the electrical corporation, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to any merger, sale, or transfer, by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 846
  The authority of the commission to issue financing orders pursuant to Section 841 shall expire on December 31, 2015. The expiration of the authority shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 846.2
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 841, for any electrical corporation that ended its rate freeze period described in subdivision (a) of Section 368 prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 847
  Regulations adopted to implement this article shall not be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Consumer" means any individual, governmental body, trust, business entity or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.1
  (a) No later than 120 days after the effective date of this article, and from time to time thereafter, the recovery corporation shall apply to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.2
  (a) The financing entity may issue recovery bonds upon approval by the commission in the pertinent financing orders. Recovery bonds shall be nonrecourse to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.3
  (a) A security interest in recovery property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, subject to the rights of any third parties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.4
  (a) A transfer of recovery property by the recovery corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of the recovery...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.5
  Any successor to the recovery corporation, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to any merger, sale, or transfer, by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.6
  The authority of the commission to issue financing orders pursuant to Section 848.1 shall expire on December 31, 2006. The expiration of the authority shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.7
  Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 848.1, the commission shall credit ratepayers, in a manner to be determined by the commission, with the net after tax...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 848.8
  Notwithstanding any other law, regulations adopted to implement this article are not subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 851
  A public utility, other than a common carrier by railroad subject to Part A of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C. Sec. 10101 et seq.),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 852
  No public utility, and no subsidiary or affiliate of, or corporation holding a controlling interest in, a public utility, shall purchase or acquire, take or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 853
  (a) This article does not apply to any person or corporation which transacts no business subject to regulation under this part, except performing services or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 854
  (a) No person or corporation, whether or not organized under the laws of this state, shall merge, acquire, or control either directly or indirectly any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 855
  Whenever the commission determines, after notice and hearing, that any water or sewer system corporation is unable or unwilling to adequately serve its ratepayers or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 856
  Every officer, agent, or employee of a public utility, or of a subsidiary or affiliate of, or a corporation holding a controlling interest in, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 857
  (a) A public utility that owns real property acquired for purposes of obtaining a utility right-of-way, may lease that property to a governmental entity for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 861
  (a) As used in this section, "special law water district" means the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Yuba-Bear River Basin Authority and, if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 871
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 871.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The offering of high-quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 871.7
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, enacted in 1987, was intended to offer high quality...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 872
  As used in this article, "household" means a residential dwelling that is the principal place of residence of the lifeline telephone service subscriber, and excludes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 873
  (a) (1) The commission shall annually do all of the following: (A) Designate a class of lifeline service necessary to meet minimum communications needs. (B)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 874
  The lifeline telephone service rates and charges shall be as follows: (a) In a residential subscriber's service area where measured service is not available, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 875
  (a) In addition to Section 874, every lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be given an allowance, reduced by the amount of any credit or allowance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 876
  The commission shall require every telephone corporation providing telephone service within a service area to file a schedule of rates and charges providing a class...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 877
  Nothing in this article precludes the commission from changing any rate established pursuant to Section 873, either specifically or pursuant to any general restructuring of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 878
  A lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be provided with one lifeline subscription, as defined by the commission, at his or her principal place of residence,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 879
  (a) The commission shall, at least annually, initiate a proceeding to set rates for lifeline telephone service. All telephone corporations providing lifeline telephone service shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 879.5
  Notwithstanding Section 879, the commission shall issue its initial order adopting required rates and funding requirements not later than October 31, 1987, and prior to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 880
  The commission may determine any question of fact in its administration of this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 882
  (a) The Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as practicable, open a proceeding or proceedings to, or as part of existing proceedings shall, consider ways...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 883
  (a) The commission shall, on or before February 1, 2001, issue an order initiating an investigation and opening a proceeding to examine the current and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 884
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that any program administered by the commission that addresses the inequality of access to high-speed broadband services...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 884.5
  (a) This section shall apply to all customers eligible to receive discounts for telecommunications services under the federal Universal Service E-rate program administered by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 885
  (a) Any entity offering the services of telephone prepaid debit cards is subject to the registration requirements of Section 1013, commencing January 1, 1999, unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 886
  Entities that are required to register, but have failed to do so, or entities that are denied registration by the commission, shall not offer the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 887
  The commission may enforce the standards and requirements of Section 17538.9 of the Business and Professions Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 890
  (a) On and after January 1, 2001, there shall be imposed a surcharge on all natural gas consumed in this state. The commission shall establish...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 891
  (a) "Gas utility" means any public utility gas corporation or interstate pipeline as defined in this section. (b) "Public utility gas corporation" means a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 892
  The revenue from the surcharge imposed pursuant to this article and collected by a public utility gas corporation shall be paid to the State Board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 892.1
  The surcharges imposed by this part and the amounts thereof required to be collected by public utility gas corporations are due quarterly on or before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 892.2
  On or before the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, a return for the preceding quarterly period shall be filed with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 893
  The State Board of Equalization shall administer the surcharge imposed pursuant to this article in accordance with the Fee Collection Procedures Law (Part 30 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 894
  The State Board of Equalization may collect any unpaid surcharge imposed pursuant to this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 895
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the Gas Consumption Surcharge Fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, as follows: (a)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 896
  "Consumption" means the use or employment of natural gas. Consumption does not include the use or employment of natural gas to generate power for sale,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 897
  Nothing in this article impairs the rights and obligations of parties to contracts approved by the commission, as the rights and obligations were interpreted as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 898
  Notwithstanding Section 890, a municipality, district, or public agency that offers in published tariffs home weatherization services, rate assistance for low-income customers, or programs similar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 899
  Sections 890 and 892 do not apply to any gas customer of a municipality, district, or public agency exempted by Section 898 from collecting a
• California Public Utilities Code Section 900
  The commission shall determine the most efficient and cost-effective way to provide programs pursuant to Sections 739.1, 739.2, and 2790 in a consistent manner statewide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 910
  (a) By February 1 of each year, the commission shall prepare and submit to the policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a written report...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 911
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 454.5 and Section 583, no later than February 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the commission shall release to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 950
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility" means an intrastate gas pipeline facility as defined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 950.5
  This chapter shall not apply to gas pipeline facilities owned and operated by a local publicly owned utility.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 955
  (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011. (b) The commission is the state...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 956
  (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the commission shall open an appropriate proceeding or expand the scope of an existing proceeding to establish compatible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 956.5
  Owners and operators of intrastate transmission and distribution lines, at least once each calendar year, shall meet with each local fire department having fire suppression...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 957
  (a) (1) Unless the commission determines that it is prohibited from doing so by Section 60104(c) of Title 49 of the United States Code, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 957
  (a) (1) Unless the commission determines that it is prohibited from doing so by subdivision (c) of Section 60104 of Title 49 of the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 958
  (a) Each gas corporation shall prepare and submit to the commission a proposed comprehensive pressure testing implementation plan for all intrastate transmission lines to either...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 958.5
  (a) Twice a year, or as determined by the commission, each gas corporation shall file with the commission's consumer protection safety division a gas transmission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 959
  (a) A gas corporation shall not recover any fine or penalty in any rate approved by the commission. (b) Each gas corporation shall demonstrate to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 961
  (a) For purposes of this section, "gas corporation workforce" means the employees of a gas corporation and employees of an independent contractor of the gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 963
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "After-meter services" includes, but is not limited to, leak investigation, inspecting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 969
  In any ratemaking proceeding in which the commission authorizes a gas corporation to recover expenses for the gas corporation's transmission pipeline integrity management program established...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1001
  No railroad corporation whose railroad is operated primarily by electric energy, street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telegraph corporation, telephone corporation, water corporation, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1001.5
  (a) The commission shall exempt the construction of any line, plant, or system, or extension thereof, located outside the boundaries of the state from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1002
  (a) The commission, as a basis for granting any certificate pursuant to Section 1001 shall give consideration to the following factors: (1) Community values. (2)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1002.3
  In considering an application for a certificate for an electric transmission facility pursuant to Section 1001, the commission shall consider cost-effective alternatives to transmission facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1002.5
  In issuing a certificate of convenience and necessity for additional natural gas pipeline capacity proposed for construction within this state, the commission shall consider the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1003
  Every electrical and every gas corporation submitting an application to the commission for a certificate authorizing the new construction of any electric plant, line, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1003.5
  Every electrical and gas corporation submitting an application to the commission for a certificate authorizing the new construction of an electric plant, line, or extension,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1004
  Before any certificate may issue, under this article, a certified copy of its articles of incorporation or charter, if the applicant is a corporation, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1005
  (a) The commission may, with or without hearing, issue the certificate as prayed for, or refuse to issue it, or issue it for the construction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1005.1
  (a) The commission shall issue a decision on an application for a certificate within 18 months of the date of filing of the completed application,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1005.5
  (a) Whenever the commission issues to an electrical or gas corporation a certificate authorizing the new construction of any addition to or extension of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1006
  When a complaint has been filed with the commission alleging that a public utility of the class specified in Section 1001 is engaged or is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1006.5
  The commission may, after notice and hearing, prior to authorizing any water or sewer system corporation having annual gross operating revenues under two hundred thousand...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1007
  No corporation or person shall begin to operate or cause to be operated any vessel for the transportation of persons or property, for compensation, between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1007.5
  The commission, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon it by the Constitution of the state and by this part, and consistent with Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1008
  Any municipal corporation or port district operating or maintaining a port may apply to the commission for the issuance of a certificate of convenience and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1009
  Any right, privilege, franchise, or permit held, owned or obtained by any person or corporation for the operation of vessels between points in this State...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1011
  The provisions of this article are enacted under the State's reserved power over public utilities or corporations, or both, as the case may be, for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1013
  (a) The commission may by rule or order, partially or completely exempt certain telecommunications services offered by telephone and telegraph corporations from the certification requirements...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1031
  (a) No passenger stage corporation shall operate or cause to be operated any passenger stage over any public highway in this state without first having...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1031.5
  The commission shall not issue or authorize the transfer of any certificate under this article to any person, firm, or corporation or to any officer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1032
  (a) Every applicant for a certificate or transfer of a certificate shall file in the office of the commission an application therefor in the form...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1032.1
  (a) The commission shall not issue or transfer a certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to this article unless the applicant provides for a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1032.5
  The commission shall issue a certificate pursuant to this article to every passenger stage corporation which conducts intrastate passenger transportation service pursuant to federal operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1033
  The commission, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon it by the Constitution of this State and by this part, may grant certificates of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1033.5
  (a) The commission may, at any time for good cause, suspend an operating right acquired by virtue of operations conducted on July 29, 1927, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1033.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a written recommendation from the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the certificate of a passenger stage corporation be suspended...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1033.8
  (a) Upon receipt of a stop order issued by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Section 3710.1 of the Labor Code, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1034
  When a complaint has been filed with the commission alleging that any passenger stage is being operated without a certificate of public convenience and necessity,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1034.5
  Every corporation or person who knowingly and willfully issues, publishes, or affixes, or causes or permits the issuance, publishing, or affixing, of any oral or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1035
  Whether or not any stage, auto stage, or other motor vehicle is being, or is proposed to be operated as a passenger stage corporation "between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1036
  (a) Each application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity made under this article shall be accompanied by a fee of five hundred dollars...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1037
  Every passenger stage corporation which violates any provision of this article, or aids or abets, or without being present advises or encourages any person or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1038
  The interior of every passenger stage operated for hire in this State shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1038.5
  A passenger stage corporation shall not operate any motor vehicle on a public highway unless there is displayed on the vehicle a distinctive identifying symbol...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1039
  In every written or oral advertisement of the service it offers, every passenger stage corporation shall state the number of its certificate or identifying symbol,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1040
  The commission shall, in issuing a certificate pursuant to this article, require the passenger stage corporation to procure, and to continue in effect during the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1041
  It is unlawful for the owner of a passenger stage employing or otherwise directing the driver of the passenger stage to permit the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1042
  (a) Every passenger stage corporation shall furnish the commission annually, as specified by the commission, a list, prepared under oath, of all vehicles used in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1043
  Every passenger stage corporation earning over three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in annual gross operating revenue shall, under oath, file annually a report indicating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1044
  When the executive director of the commission determines that any passenger stage corporation, or any officer, director, or agent of any passenger stage corporation, has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1045
  After the cancellation or revocation of a certificate, or during the period of its suspension, it is unlawful for a passenger stage corporation to conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1091
  In addition to the requirements of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1001) and any other provision of law, every electrical and every gas corporation proposing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1092
  Whenever application is made to the commission for certification of an electric or gas plant, line, or extension subject to this article, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1093
  (a) The construction project board of consultants shall consist of eminently qualified and highly experienced design, construction, and project management economic specialists who can, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1094
  The members of the construction project board of consultants shall receive fees and expenses from the commission. The corporation whose project the construction project board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1095
  The corporation shall provide the construction project board of consultants with all information the board determines necessary for its evaluation of the project. The corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1096
  The construction project board of consultants shall evaluate the design, construction, project management, and economic soundness of the project as directed by the commission, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1097
  (a) For purposes of assisting the construction project board of consultants in monitoring project construction, the corporation shall submit the current design, estimate of project...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1098
  Throughout the design and construction process, the corporation shall submit quarterly progress reports to the commission and the construction project board of consultants on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1099
  Upon completion of the project and commencement of operations, the construction project board of consultants shall submit a final report of its findings and recommendations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1100
  The commission and the corporation shall give full consideration to all reports, findings, and recommendations of the construction project board of consultants and provide a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1101
  No provision of this article shall be construed to relieve an electrical or gas corporation of any responsibility for the construction or modification of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1102
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, and in addition to the requirements of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1001), an electrical corporation proposing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1201
  No public road, highway, or street shall be constructed across the track of any railroad corporation at grade, nor shall the track of any railroad...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1201.1
  The commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards regarding the time after the warning signal begins...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202
  The commission has the exclusive power: (a) To determine and prescribe the manner, including the particular point of crossing, and the terms of installation, operation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.1
  In any proceeding under Section 1202, where the application to the commission states that the parties are not in agreement as to apportionment of costs,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.2
  In apportioning the cost of maintenance of automatic grade-crossing protection constructed or altered after October 1, 1965 under Section 1202, as between the railroad or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any proceeding under Section 1202, in the case of a crossing involving a publicly used road or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.5
  In prescribing the proportions in which the expense of construction, reconstruction, alteration, or relocation of grade separations shall be divided between railroad or street railroad...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.6
  Any municipal corporation, transit district, rapid transit district, or other public entity which provides rail passenger transportation services through a contract with a railroad corporation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1202.7
  Whenever existing automatic grade-crossing safety signal equipment that was installed within the previous 10 years is planned for removal due to upgrade or closure projects...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1203
  Each corporation and political subdivision to which any of the expense is apportioned shall pay from the funds available therefor in its treasury the amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1204
  If the legislative body of the political subdivision determines that special benefits will accrue from the separation of grades to one or more districts within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1205
  If any order of the commission provides for the payment of a portion of the cost of any such grade separation by a political subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1206
  The commission may fix the just compensation to be paid for property or any interest in or to property to be taken or damaged in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1207
  Proceedings under Section 1206 may be commenced by order on the commission's own motion or by a petition filed by the State, county, city and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1208
  Upon the filing of the petition or the making of the order on the commission's own motion, the commission shall make its order to show...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1209
  Personal service shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure or by depositing a copy of the order to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1210
  If any owner or claimant named in the petition or order on the commission's own motion resides out of the State or has departed from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1211
  Within 10 days prior to the time set for the first hearing on the petition or order on the commission's own motion, which time shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1212
  The commission at any time subsequent to the filing of the petition, and prior to making and filing its finding of just compensation, may authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1213
  At the time and place specified in the order to show cause, or at such other time and place as, for good cause, is otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1214
  The commission shall also make its order designating the party or parties to the proceeding who shall pay the just compensation so fixed, or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1215
  When the just compensation has been paid in accordance with the commission's order, the commission shall make its final order of condemnation which shall describe...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1216
  (a) The finding of the commission on the question of the necessity for the taking and the finding fixing the just compensation to be paid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1217
  The procedure provided in this chapter shall be alternative and cumulative and not exclusive to the right to pursue any other procedure providing for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1218
  Nothing in this chapter shall entitle any owner or claimant of property and interest in or to property to receive damages when the right to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1219
  The Legislature declares that Sections 1201 to 1205, inclusive, are enacted as germane and cognate parts of and as aids to the jurisdiction vested in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1220
  The Legislature declares that Sections 1206 to 1218, inclusive, are enacted as a germane and cognate part of and as an aid to the jurisdiction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1231
  The commission shall allocate and expend any money which may be appropriated, from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund or any other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1231.1
  In each annual proposed budget prepared by the Department of Transportation under Section 165 of the Streets and Highways Code, the sum of one million...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1232
  At the time the commission makes each allocation under this chapter, it shall so certify to the State Controller. The commission shall present claims for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1351
  The commission may ascertain for each purpose specified in this part, the value of the property of every public utility in this State and every...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1352
  For the purpose of ascertaining the matters and things specified in Section 1351, the commission may cause a hearing to be held at such time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1353
  (a) The commission may make and file its written findings of fact upon matters concerning which evidence has been introduced before it which, in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1354
  The commission may, from time to time, cause further hearings and investigations to be had for the purpose of making revaluations or ascertaining the value...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1401
  As used in this chapter, "lands, property, and rights" includes a part or portion thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1402
  As used in this chapter, "political subdivision" means a county, city and county, city, municipal water district, county water district, irrigation district, public utility district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1403
  Any political subdivision may, at any time, file with the commission either a petition of the first class, setting forth the intention of the political...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1404
  Each such petition shall contain the name of the political subdivision appearing as petitioner therein, a description of the lands, property, and rights which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1405
  Upon the filing of the petition the commission shall make its order to show cause. The order shall specify the nature of the proceeding, contain...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1405.1
  With respect to water corporations and water companies, the following procedures shall apply: (a) Upon the filing of the petition, the commission shall make its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1406
  Service of the order to show cause shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure or by depositing a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1407
  If any owner or claimant named in the petition resides out of the State or has departed from the State or cannot after due diligence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1408
  Within 10 days prior to the time set for the first hearing on the petition, which time shall be not less than 30 days after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1409
  At the time and place specified in the order to show cause, or at such other time and place as, for good cause, is otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1410
  The commission may, at any time subsequent to the filing of the petition, and prior to making and filing its finding as to just compensation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1411
  When the proceeding has been submitted, the commission shall make and file its written finding fixing, in a single sum, the just compensation to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1412
  Within 20 days after the commission has made and filed its finding, the owner of the lands, property, and rights may file with the legislative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1413
  In the case of a petition of the first class, if the owner does not file the stipulation within such 20 days, the political subdivision,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1414
  If the political subdivision, in a petition of the first class, fails to file such action in a court of competent jurisdiction within such period...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1415
  If the commission determines that the political subdivision, in case of a petition of the first class, has failed to commence the action in a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1416
  The finding of the commission fixing the just compensation to be paid by the political subdivision for the lands, property, and rights shall be final...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1417
  At any time within 30 days subsequent to the entry of such judgment, the owner of the lands, property, and rights may file with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1418
  After a hearing, the commission shall make and file its finding fixing, as of the date on which the finding is made and filed, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1419
  The commission shall thereupon transmit to the court its finding, certified under the seal of the commission, fixing the extent to which the just compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1420
  (a) The provisions of this part with reference to rehearing and review shall be applicable to the findings of the commission made and filed under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1421
  The procedure provided in this chapter shall be alternative and cumulative and not exclusive, and the political subdivision shall continue to have the right to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1501
  The Legislature recognizes the substantial obligation undertaken by a privately owned public utility which is franchised under the Constitution or by a certificate of public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1502
  (a) As used in this chapter, "political subdivision" means a county, city and county, city, municipal water district, county water district, irrigation district, public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1503
  The Legislature finds and declares that whenever a political subdivision constructs facilities to provide or extend water service, or provides or extends such service, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1504
  Just compensation for the property so taken for public purposes shall be as may be mutually agreed by the political subdivision and the private utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1505
  The provisions of Sections 1503 and 1504 will be applicable to any private utility which constructs facilities to provide or extend water service or provides...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1505.5
  The provisions of Sections 1503 and 1504 will be applicable to any political subdivision which constructs facilities to provide or extend water service or provides...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1506
  As used in this chapter, "private utility" includes a mutual water company. In its application to mutual water companies, this chapter affects and relates only...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1507
  This chapter shall not be applicable if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The use is limited to the private use of reclaimed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701
  (a) All hearings, investigations, and proceedings shall be governed by this part and by rules of practice and procedure adopted by the commission, and in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701.1
  (a) The commission, consistent with due process, public policy, and statutory requirements, shall determine whether a proceeding requires a hearing. The commission shall determine whether...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701.2
  (a) If the commission pursuant to Section 1701.1 has determined that an adjudication case requires a hearing, the procedures prescribed by this section shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701.3
  (a) If the commission pursuant to Section 1701.1 has determined that a ratesetting case requires a hearing, the procedures prescribed by this section shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701.4
  (a) If the commission pursuant to Section 1701.1 has determined that a quasi-legislative case requires a hearing, the procedures prescribed by this section shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1701.5
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), in a ratesetting or quasi-legislative case, the commission shall resolve the issues raised in the scoping memo within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1702
  Complaint may be made by the commission of its own motion or by any corporation or person, chamber of commerce, board of trade, labor organization,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1702.1
  (a) The commission shall entertain complaints against any electrical, gas, water, heat, or telephone company under Sections 734, 735, and 736 when the amount of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1702.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any funds entrusted to the commission by any person or corporation filing a complaint against a public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1703
  All matters upon which complaint may be founded may be joined in one hearing, and no motion shall be entertained against a complaint for misjoinder...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1704
  Upon the filing of a complaint, the commission shall cause a copy thereof to be served upon the corporation or person complained of. Service in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1705
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the commission or a commissioner, or the time to which the hearing has been continued, the complainant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1706
  A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the commission or any commissioner on any formal hearing shall be taken down by a reporter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1707
  Any public utility may complain on any of the grounds upon which complaints are allowed to be filed by other parties, and the same procedure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1708
  The commission may at any time, upon notice to the parties, and with opportunity to be heard as provided in the case of complaints, rescind,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1708.5
  (a) The commission shall permit interested persons to petition the commission to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation. (b) (1) The commission shall consider a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1709
  In all collateral actions or proceedings, the orders and decisions of the commission which have become final shall be conclusive.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1710
  No documents or records of a public utility or person or corporation which purport to be statements of fact shall be admitted into evidence or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1731
  (a) The commission shall set an effective date when issuing an order or decision. The commission may set the effective date of an order or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1732
  The application for a rehearing shall set forth specifically the ground or grounds on which the applicant considers the decision or order to be unlawful....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1733
  (a) Any application for a rehearing made 10 days or more before the effective date of the order as to which a rehearing is sought,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1734
  If any application for a rehearing is granted without a suspension of the order involved, the commission shall forthwith proceed to hear the matter with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1735
  An application for rehearing shall not excuse any corporation or person from complying with and obeying any order or decision, or any requirement of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1736
  If, after such rehearing and a consideration of all the facts, including those arising since the making of the order or decision, the commission is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1756
  (a) Within 30 days after the commission issues its decision denying the application for a rehearing, or, if the application was granted, then within 30...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1756.2
  In any proceeding reviewing an order or decision of the commission in the Supreme Court or court of appeal, the commission may appear and be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1757
  (a) No new or additional evidence shall be introduced upon review by the court. In a complaint or enforcement proceeding, or in a ratemaking or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1757.1
  (a) In any proceeding other than a proceeding subject to the standard of review under Section 1757, review by the court shall not extend further...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1758
  (a) The commission and each party to the action or proceeding before the commission may appear in the review proceeding. Upon the hearing the Supreme...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1759
  (a) No court of this state, except the Supreme Court and the court of appeal, to the extent specified in this article, shall have jurisdiction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1760
  Notwithstanding Sections 1757 and 1757.1, in any proceeding wherein the validity of any order or decision is challenged on the ground that it violates any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1761
  (a) Any stay or suspension of an order or decision of the commission shall be granted only in accordance with this article and the rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1762
  (a) Except as provided in this section, no order staying or suspending an order or decision of the commission shall be made by the Supreme...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1763
  (a) No temporary stay shall be granted by the Supreme Court or court of appeal unless it clearly appears from specific facts shown by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1764
  In case the order or decision of the commission is stayed or a temporary stay granted, the order of the Supreme Court or court of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1766
  (a) Under no circumstance shall the Supreme Court or court of appeal stay or suspend any order or decision by the commission authorizing an increase...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1767
  All actions and proceedings under this part and all actions or proceedings to which the commission or the people of the State of California are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1768
  The following procedures shall apply to judicial review of an order or decision of the commission interpreting, implementing, or applying the provisions of Chapter 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1791
  Each witness who appears by order of the commission or a commissioner shall receive for his attendance the same fees and mileage allowed by law...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1792
  In case of the refusal of any witness to attend or testify or produce any papers required by a subpena issued by the commission or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1793
  Upon the filing of the petition the court shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1794
  The commission or any commissioner or any party may, in any investigation or hearing before the commission, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1795
  No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, waybill, document, paper, or account in any investigation or inquiry by or hearing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1801
  The purpose of this article is to provide compensation for reasonable advocate's fees, reasonable expert witness fees, and other reasonable costs to public utility customers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1801.3
  It is the intent of the Legislature that: (a) The provisions of this article shall apply to all formal proceedings of the commission involving electric,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1802
  As used in this article: (a) "Compensation" means payment for all or part, as determined by the commission, of reasonable advocate's fees, reasonable expert witness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1802.3
  A representative of a group representing the interests of small commercial customers who receive bundled electric service from an electrical corporation shall not be eligible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1802.5
  Participation by a customer that materially supplements, complements, or contributes to the presentation of another party, including the commission staff, may be fully eligible for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1803
  The commission shall award reasonable advocate's fees, reasonable expert witness fees, and other reasonable costs of preparation for and participation in a hearing or proceeding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1804
  (a) (1) A customer who intends to seek an award under this article shall, within 30 days after the prehearing conference is held, file and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1806
  The computation of compensation awarded pursuant to Section 1804 shall take into consideration the market rates paid to persons of comparable training and experience who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1807
  Any award made under this article shall be paid by the public utility which is the subject of the hearing, investigation, or proceeding, as determined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1808
  The commission shall deny any award to any customer who attempts to delay or obstruct the orderly and timely fulfillment of the commission's responsibilities.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1812
  A group or association that represents the interests of small agricultural customers in a proceeding and that would otherwise be eligible for an award of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1821
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Computer model" means a computer program. (b) "Operations model" means a computer model that replicates,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1822
  (a) Any computer model that is the basis for any testimony or exhibit in a hearing or proceeding before the commission shall be available to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1901
  Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the office of the commission, certified by a commissioner or by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1902
  Every order, authorization, or certificate issued or approved by the commission under the following provisions of this part shall be in writing and entered on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1903
  The commission shall fix the fees to be charged for the making and furnishing of copies, including certified copies, of papers, records, and documents of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1904
  The commission shall also charge and collect the following fees: (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 1036 for filing each application for a certificate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1904.1
  The commission shall also charge and collect a fee for a certificate authorizing an issue of stock, which fee shall be computed at the rates...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1904.2
  (a) In every case in which an applicant's security issues are subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission pursuant to Section 204...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1905
  No fees shall be charged or collected for copies of papers, records, or official documents, furnished to public officers for use in their official capacity,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 1906
  All fees collected under this chapter shall be paid, except as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 5001) of Division 2, at least once...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2100
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any common carrier, other than a railroad corporation, has charged, collected, or received a lesser compensation for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2101
  The commission shall see that the provisions of the Constitution and statutes of this State affecting public utilities, the enforcement of which is not specifically...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2102
  Whenever the commission is of the opinion that any public utility is failing or omitting or about to fail or omit, to do anything required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2103
  Upon the filing of a petition pursuant to Section 2102, the court shall specify a time, not exceeding 20 days after the service of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2104
  (a) Except as provided by Sections 2100 and 2107.5, and in addition to the remedies provided in Sections 688.020 and 688.030 of the Code of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2104
  (a) Except as provided by Sections 2100 and 2107.5, actions to recover penalties under this part shall be brought in the name of the people...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2104.5
  Any penalty for violation of any provision of this act, or of any rule, regulation, general order, or order of the commission, involving safety standards...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2105
  All penalties accruing under this part shall be cumulative, and a suit for the recovery of one penalty shall not be a bar to or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2106
  Any public utility which does, causes to be done, or permits any act, matter, or thing prohibited or declared unlawful, or which omits to do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2107
  Any public utility that violates or fails to comply with any provision of the Constitution of this state or of this part, or that fails...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2107.5
  When the commission finds, after hearing, that any person or corporation has knowingly aided or abetted a common carrier in violating Section 458 or has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2108
  Every violation of the provisions of this part or of any part of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2109
  In construing and enforcing the provisions of this part relating to penalties, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or employee of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2110
  Every public utility and every officer, agent, or employee of any public utility, who violates or fails to comply with, or who procures, aids, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2111
  Every corporation or person, other than a public utility and its officers, agents, or employees, which or who knowingly violates or fails to comply with,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2112
  Every person who, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of a corporation other than a public utility, violates any provision of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2112.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who willfully violates the provisions of Section 588 is guilty of a misdemeanor, subject to a penalty...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2113
  Every public utility, corporation, or person which fails to comply with any part of any order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2114
  Any public utility on whose behalf any agent or officer thereof who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose or certify truly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2115
  Whenever the commission determines that a railroad corporation has violated any order of the commission concerning the adequacy, condition, or safety of the corporation's cars...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2117
  (a) Whenever a written notice to appear has been mailed to the owner of a passenger stage, an exact and legible duplicate copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2119
  Every passenger stage corporation and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a passenger stage corporation, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2701
  Any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2702
  Any corporation or association which is organized for the purpose of delivering water solely to its stockholders or members at cost, and which delivers water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2703
  Any corporation or association which is organized both for the purpose of delivering water to its stockholders or members at cost, and to persons, firms,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2704
  Any owner of a water supply not otherwise dedicated to public use and primarily used for domestic or industrial purposes by him or for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2705
  Any corporation or association that is organized for the purposes of delivering water to its stockholders and members at cost, including use of works for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2705.5
  Any person or corporation, and their lessees, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court, that maintains a mobilehome park or a multiple unit residential complex...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2705.6
  (a) A mobilehome park that provides water service only to its tenants from water supplies and facilities that it owns, not otherwise dedicated to public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2706
  (a) Any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, who sells or delivers water exclusively to a water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2707
  For the purpose of determining the status of any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, owning, controlling,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2708
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that any water company which is a public utility operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2709
  The commission may require any water corporation to file with the commission a statement in writing defining and describing the lands and territory to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2710
  When it appears from (a) the statement required by Section 2709, (b) the articles of incorporation of any water corporation, or (c) any notice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2711
  Section 2710 does not apply to territory or consumers which have once been served by the corporation. As between consumers who have been voluntarily admitted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2712
  "Whether under contract or otherwise" as used in Section 2701 is not to be construed as authorizing a contract by a person or corporation defined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2713
  (a) No water corporation subject to the jurisdiction and control of the commission and the provisions of Part 1 (commencing with Section 201) of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2714
  No water corporation furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2714.5
  The commission shall, by June 30, 2008, prepare and submit to the Legislature, a report that describes the progress achieved toward implementing the policy objectives...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2718
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Water System Investment and Consolidation Act of 1997.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2719
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Public water systems are faced with the need to replace or upgrade the public water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2720
  (a) The commission shall use the standard of fair market value when establishing the rate base value for the distribution system of a public water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2725
  As used in this chapter, "mutual water company" means any private corporation or association organized for the purposes of delivering water to its stockholders and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2726
  As used in this chapter, "private irrigation plant" means a water system which is not operated by a mutual water company or by a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2727
  In order to increase the output of agricultural products in this State during the time the United States is a party to war or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2728
  The delivery of water pursuant to Section 2727 is subject to the following restrictions: (a) Until a mutual water company fills the water orders of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2729
  A mutual water company may exercise the power of eminent domain for water, water rights, canals, ditches, dams, poundings, flumes, aqueducts, and pipes for irrigation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2771
  The commission shall establish priorities among the types or categories of customers of every electrical corporation and every gas corporation, and among the uses of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2772
  In establishing the priorities pursuant to Section 2771, the commission shall include, but not be limited to, a consideration of all the following: (a) A...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2773
  The commission may establish as many priorities of use for a customer as that customer has uses of gas or electricity.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2773.5
  Notwithstanding any rule, order, or decision of the commission to the contrary, industrial or commercial gas customers shall not be required to maintain any alternative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2774
  In the event any electrical or gas corporation experiences any shortage of capacity or capability in the generation, production, or transmission of electricity or gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2774.5
  An electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility shall immediately notify the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, the California Emergency Management Agency, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2774.6
  The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall develop a program for residential and commercial customer air-conditioning load control,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2775
  No electrical or gas corporation which reduces or discontinues service in accordance with any order of the commission issued pursuant to this chapter shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2775.5
  (a) If an electrical or gas corporation desires to manufacture, lease, sell, or otherwise own or control any solar energy system, it shall submit to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2775.6
  Every request for the recovery in rates of any costs or liability incurred by a gas corporation and resulting from any violation of Section 25241...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2776
  As used in this chapter, the term "electrical cooperative" means any private corporation or association organized for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity exclusively...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2777
  The commission shall have no authority to establish rates or regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, or the sale, lease,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2778
  Except as otherwise specified in this chapter, every electrical cooperative is subject to Part 1 (commencing with Section 201).
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2780
  As used in this chapter, the term "electric microutility" means any electrical corporation that is regulated by the commission and organized for the purpose of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2780.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission consider the legal, administrative, and operational costs that an electric microutility faces if it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2781
  As used in this chapter, the term "electrical corporation" shall have the same meaning as prescribed in Section 218, and the term "gas corporation" shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2782
  The commission shall permit any electrical or gas corporation to institute a home insulation assistance and financing program for its residential customers in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2783
  A home insulation assistance and financing program shall meet the requirements specified in Sections 2784 to 2786, inclusive, and such other requirements as the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2784
  A customer of a participating electrical or gas corporation who is the owner or mortgagor of real property or tenant of such property with a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2785
  Upon approval of an application, the corporation shall arrange for a licensed contractor to perform the necessary work. Upon approval of an estimate by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2786
  An electrical or gas corporation shall provide for payment by a customer for whom home insulation has been installed pursuant to this chapter through such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2787
  As an alternative to the provisions of Section 2786, an electrical or gas corporation may conclude financial arrangements with one or more lending institutions in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2788
  The commission shall allow for purposes of setting the rates of any electrical or gas corporation participating in a home insulation assistance and financing program...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2789
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part, the commission may permit or require any electrical or gas corporation subject to its jurisdiction to institute energy conservation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2790
  (a) The commission shall require an electrical or gas corporation to perform home weatherization services for low-income customers, as determined by the commission under Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2791
  (a) The owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that provides gas or electric service to residents may transfer ownership and operational...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2792
  (a) Upon receipt of a written notice of intent to transfer from the mobilehome park or manufactured housing community owner, the gas or electric corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2793
  (a) Upon receipt from the park or community owner of a deposit representing the gas or electric corporation's estimated cost of the engineering evaluation, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2794
  (a) A gas or electric system shall be considered acceptable for transfer if it is in compliance with the following criteria: (1) It is capable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2795
  The park or community owner and the gas or electric corporation shall develop a cost for the transfer of the gas or electric system that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2796
  (a) During the pendency of a transfer request, the owner of the park or community shall be responsible for the continued maintenance to preserve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2797
  The commission shall permit the gas or electric corporation to recover in its revenue requirement and rates all costs to acquire, improve, upgrade, operate, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2798
  The commission shall adopt a standard form of agreement for transfer of gas and electric distribution facilities in mobilehome parks and manufactured housing communities that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2799
  (a) The mobilehome park or manufactured housing community owner may, by written notice, stop the transfer process at any time. Within 60 days of delivery...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2801
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to promote the more rapid development of new sources of natural gas and electric energy, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2802
  "Private energy producer" includes every person, corporation, city, county, district, and public agency of the state generating or producing electricity not generated from conventional sources...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2803
  "Interconnection" means the facilities necessary to physically connect the energy source of and the point of use by a private energy producer with the existing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2804
  "Transmission service" means the intrastate transfer of electricity or natural gas by a public utility for any private energy producer between the points of interconnection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2805
  "Conventional power source" means power derived from nuclear energy or the operation of a hydropower facility greater than 30 megawatts or the combustion of fossil...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2806
  "Fossil fuel" means a mixture of hydrocarbons including coal, petroleum, or natural gas, occurring in and extracted from underground deposits.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2807
  "Standby charge" means a charge by an electrical corporation for providing standby generation, transmission, and distribution facilities to a private energy producer employing other than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2811
  In order to promote the more efficient use and distribution of natural gas or electric energy and eliminate the necessity for construction of transmission facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2812
  Upon application of a private energy producer, and after notice to any affected public utility and hearing thereon, the commission shall authorize such producer to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2812.5
  Upon application of a private energy producer, and after notice to any affected public utility and hearing thereon, the commission shall authorize such producer to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2813
  The private energy producer shall be required to provide and to pay the total cost of the interconnection as well as any costs associated with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2815
  Nothing in this chapter shall require that any private energy producer perform any service or deliver any commodity to the public or any portion thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2816
  Every public utility shall keep accurate records of transactions with a private energy producer, and of the use of the public utility's facilities by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2821
  (a) The commission shall approve and establish equitable charges to be paid by an electrical corporation which purchases electricity or electrical generating capacity, or both,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2821.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Small power producers provide important alternative sources of electrical energy. (b) The commission is required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2822
  The commission shall approve and establish standby charges for electrical corporations. The commission may act in this regard on its own motion or on application...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2823
  The commission shall approve and establish charges for transmission service. The commission may act in this regard on its own motion or on application of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2824
  (a) The commission shall conduct a review of the charges paid by electrical corporations for electricity generated from other than conventional power sources and furnished...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2826
  (a) The commission shall establish requirements for the administration of power purchase contracts between electrical corporations and private energy producers. For any project which has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2826.5
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Benefiting account" means an electricity account, or more than one account,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2827
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a program to provide net energy metering combined with net surplus compensation, co-energy metering, and wind energy co-metering...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2827.7
  Generation eligible for net energy metering that has all local and state permits required to commence construction on or before December 31, 2002, and has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2827.8
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the following provisions apply to an eligible customer-generator utilizing wind energy co-metering with a capacity of more than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2827.10
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Electrical corporation" means an electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2828
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Appropriate TOU tariff" means the Time-of-Use tariff that would be applicable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2829
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "EBMUD" means the East Bay Municipal Utility District organized and operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2830
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Benefiting account" means an electricity account, or more than one account,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2835
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) (1) "Energy storage system" means commercially available technology that is capable of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2836
  (a) (1) On or before March 1, 2012, the commission shall open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2836.2
  In adopting and reevaluating appropriate energy storage system procurement targets and policies pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 2836, the commission shall do all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2836.4
  (a) An energy storage system may be used to meet the resource adequacy requirements established for a load-serving entity pursuant to Section 380 if it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2836.6
  All procurement of energy storage systems by a load-serving entity or local publicly owned electric utility shall be cost effective.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2837
  Each electrical corporation's renewable energy procurement plan, prepared and approved pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2838
  (a) (1) By January 1, 2016, each load-serving entity shall submit a report to the commission demonstrating that it has complied with the energy storage...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2838.5
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the requirements of this chapter do not apply to either of the following: (a) An electrical corporation that has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2839
  (a) (1) By January 1, 2017, a local publicly owned electric utility shall submit a report to the Energy Commission demonstrating that it has complied...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2840
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2840.2
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Combined heat and power system" means a system that produces both electricity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2840.4
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Combined heat and power systems produce both electricity and thermal energy from a single fuel...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2840.6
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that state policies dramatically advance the efficiency of the state's use of natural gas by capturing unused...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2841
  (a) The commission may require an electrical corporation to purchase from an eligible customer-generator, excess electricity that is delivered to the grid that is generated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2841.5
  A local publicly owned electric utility serving retail end-use customers shall establish a program that does both of the following: (a) Allows retail end-use customers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2842
  The commission, in approving a procurement plan for an electrical corporation pursuant to Section 454.5, shall require that the electrical corporation's procurement plan incorporate combined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2842.2
  The commission shall ensure that an electrical corporation utilizes long-term planning and a reliability assessment for upgrades to its transmission and distribution systems and that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2842.4
  (a) The commission shall, for each electrical corporation, establish a pay-as-you-save pilot program for eligible customers. (b) For the purposes of this section, an "eligible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2843
  (a) The Energy Commission shall, by January 1, 2010, adopt guidelines that combined heat and power systems subject to this chapter shall meet, and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2845
  The State Air Resources Board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature by December 31, 2011, on the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2851
  (a) In implementing the California Solar Initiative, the commission shall do all of the following: (1) The commission shall authorize the award of monetary incentives...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2851.1
  (a) As used in this section,"discount rate" means a financial mechanism that provides a given amount of interest as an offset to the loss of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2851.5
  (a) A school district or community college district may request an extension of a reservation expiration date for monetary incentives for a solar energy system....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2852
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Affordable housing cost," "affordable rent," and "lower income households" have the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2853
  (a) For purposes of this section, "eligible state solar energy system" means a solar energy system that meets all of the following requirements: (1) Is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2860
  This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Solar Water Heating and Efficiency Act of 2007.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2861
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Energy Commission" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2862
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California is heavily dependent on natural gas, importing more than 80 percent of the natural...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2863
  (a) The commission shall evaluate the data available from the Solar Water Heating Pilot Project conducted by the California Center for Sustainable Energy. If, after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2864
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and interested members of the public, shall establish eligibility criteria for solar water heating systems receiving...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2865
  (a) The commission shall establish conditions on gas customer funded incentives pursuant to this article. The conditions shall require both of the following: (1) Appropriate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2866
  (a) The commission shall provide not less than 10 percent of the overall funds for installation of solar water heating systems on low-income residential housing....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2867
  (a) The rebates provided through this program shall decline over time. They shall be structured so as to drive down the cost of the solar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2867.1
  Not later than July 1, 2010, the commission shall report to the Legislature as to the effectiveness of the program and make recommendations as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2867.2
  Except for the Solar Water Heating Pilot Program in San Diego, solar water heating technologies shall not be eligible for California Solar Initiative (CSI) funds,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2867.3
  In order to further the state goal of encouraging the installation of 200,000 solar water heaters by 2017, the governing body of each publicly owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2867.4
  This article shall remain in effect only until August 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2868
  The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this article: (a) "Electric utility" means an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218, a local publicly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2869
  (a) (1) An independent solar energy producer contracting for the use or sale of electricity or the lease of a solar energy system, to an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2871
  As used in this article, "automatic dialing-announcing device" means any automatic equipment which incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2872
  (a) The connection of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line is subject to this article and to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2872.5
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency and the California Technology Agency, shall open an investigative proceeding to determine whether standardized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2872.5
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of General Services, shall open an investigative proceeding to determine whether...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2873
  Automatic dialing-announcing devices may be used to place calls over telephone lines only pursuant to a prior agreement between the persons involved, whereby the person...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2874
  (a) Whenever telephone calls are placed through the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, the device may be operated only after an unrecorded, natural voice...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2875
  No person shall connect any automatic dialing-announcing device to any telephone line without first making written application to the telephone corporation within whose service area...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2875.5
  (a) On and after July 1, 2002, no person operating any automatic equipment that incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2876
  Any person violating this article is guilty of a civil offense and is subject to either or both of the following penalties: (a) A fine...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2881
  (a) The commission shall design and implement a program to provide a telecommunications device capable of serving the needs of individuals who are deaf or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2881.1
  (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881, the commission shall design and implement a program to provide a telecommunications device capable of servicing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2881.2
  (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881, the commission shall design and implement a program that shall provide for publicly available telecommunications devices...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2881.4
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Section 278 requires the commission to transfer to the Controller for deposit in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2883
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) As originally enacted, Section 2883 required local telephone corporations to provide a residential...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2884
  (a) The commission shall, pursuant to its existing authority, by rule or order, establish procedures governing telephone corporation billing practices and operations to require every...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2884.2
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), the billing and collection practices of a telephone corporation for services rendered to or for an information service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2884.5
  Notwithstanding Section 2884, the commission shall require that telephone subscriber access to information services providing messages which constitute harmful matter, as defined in Section 313...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2884.6
  (a) The commission shall require telephone corporations and providers of information-access telephone services to institute a method of handling subscriber complaints concerning these services, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2885
  The commission shall, on or before July 1, 1987, determine the feasibility of requiring that, whenever a call is placed from a cellular telephone, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2885.6
  (a) The commission shall require mobile telephony service, as defined in Section 224.4, carriers to provide the commission, within six months of the effective date...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2886
  (a) The commission shall require every telephone corporation furnishing mobile telephony service, as defined in Section 224.4, to establish a pricing system made available to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2888
  The commission shall pursue all available legal remedies to redraw intrastate inter-exchange, also known as local access and transport area, or LATA, boundaries for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889
  (a) An information provider engaged in furnishing any live, recorded, or recorded-interactive audio text through information access telephone service shall provide a (1) delayed timing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.2
  No telephone corporation or provider of information-access telephone services shall charge the subscribing party for a call made to a telephone number with an "800"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.3
  (a) (1) Before a telephone corporation exits the business of providing interexchange services to all of its customers or to an entire class of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.4
  (a) A local exchange service provider that offers and charges for pay per use features that do not require an access code to be dialed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.5
  (a) No telephone corporation, or any person, firm, or corporation representing a telephone corporation, shall make any change or authorize a different telephone corporation to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.6
  The commission shall, by rule or order, require all local exchange carriers to do both of the following: (a) Include in their telephone directory information...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.8
  The commission periodically shall assess the reliability of the public telecommunications network and, if necessary, develop recommendations for improvement. The assessment shall include, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2889.9
  (a) No person or corporation shall misrepresent its association or affiliation with a telephone carrier when soliciting, inducing, or otherwise implementing the subscriber's agreement to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2890
  (a) A telephone bill may only contain charges for products or services, the purchase of which the subscriber has authorized. (b) When a person or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2890.1
  The commission shall, on or before July 1, 2001, adopt any additional rules it determines to be necessary to implement the billing safeguards of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2890.2
  (a) A provider of mobile telephony services, as defined in Section 224.4, shall provide subscribers with a means by which a subscriber can obtain reasonably...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2891
  (a) No telephone or telegraph corporation shall make available to any other person or corporation, without first obtaining the residential subscriber's consent, in writing, any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2891.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2891, a telephone corporation selling or licensing lists of residential subscribers shall not include the telephone number of any subscriber assigned an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2891.2
  Telephone subscribers shall be annually notified that use of an "800" or "900" telephone number may result in the disclosure of the subscriber's telephone number...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2892
  (a) A provider of commercial mobile radio service, as defined in Section 216.8, shall provide access for end users of that service to the local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2892.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, "telecommunications service" means voice communication provided by a telephone corporation as defined in Section 234, voice communication provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2892.3
  (a) The commission shall require providers of mobile telephony service, as defined in Section 224.4, to report to the commission, as specified by the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2892.5
  (a) As used in this section "public safety agency" means a "public safety agency" as defined in Section 53102 of the Government Code. (b) A...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2893
  (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require that every telephone call identification service offered in this state by a telephone corporation, or by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2894
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 2891, the disclosure of any information by an interexchange telephone corporation, a local exchange telephone corporation, or a provider...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2894.10
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a number of federal and state laws have been enacted to protect residential telephone subscribers' privacy rights with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2895
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Telecommunications Customer Service Act of 1993.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2896
  The commission shall require telephone corporations to provide customer service to telecommunication customers that includes, but is not limited to, all the following: (a) Sufficient...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2897
  Consistent with other provisions of this code, orders, rules, and applicable tariffs of telecommunications service providers, the commission shall apply these policies to all providers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2901
  Any municipal corporation may retain or surrender to the commission the powers of control vested in it to supervise and regulate the relationship between any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2902
  This chapter shall not be construed to authorize any municipal corporation to surrender to the commission its powers of control to supervise and regulate the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2903
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2904
  "Municipal corporation" means a city and county or incorporated city.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2905
  "Legislative body" means the board of supervisors, municipal council, commission, or other legislative or governing body of a municipal corporation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2906
  "Powers of control" means all powers of control vested in a municipal corporation to supervise and regulate (a) the relationship between public utilities and their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2907
  "Railroad corporation," "street railroad corporation," "common carrier," "gas corporation," "electrical corporation," "telephone corporation," "telegraph corporation," "water corporation," and "public utility" have the same meaning as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2931
  The question whether any municipal corporation shall retain its powers of control respecting one or more classes of public utilities may be submitted to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2932
  The ordinance of intention or the petition, as the case may be, shall contain the propositions proposed to be so submitted, as set forth in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2933
  The petition shall be signed by qualified electors of the municipal corporation, equal in number to 10 per centum of the qualified electors, computed upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2934
  The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the legislative body of the municipal corporation. Within 10 days from the date of the filing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2935
  Upon completion of the examination, the clerk shall forthwith attach to the petition his certificate, properly dated, showing the result of the examination. If from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2936
  If, by the certificate of the clerk, the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended by filing a supplemental petition within 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2937
  The clerk shall, within 10 days from the filing of the supplemental petition, make a like examination of the supplemental petition and certify to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2938
  The sufficiency or insufficiency of the petition shall not be subject to review by the legislative body. After the election held in pursuance of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2939
  In any city and county having a board of election commissioners and a registrar of voters, the clerk of the legislative body thereof shall immediately...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2961
  Upon the adoption of an ordinance of intention, or the presentation of a petition, as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 2931), the legislative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2962
  A special election shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days after the adoption of the ordinance of intention,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2963
  Every special election held in any municipal corporation under the provisions of this chapter, shall be called by the legislative body thereof, by ordinance, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2964
  The ordinance shall, prior to the election, be published five times in a daily newspaper printed and published in the municipal corporation, or twice in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2965
  The ballots to be used at any general municipal election or at any special election, at which is submitted the question whether a municipal corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2966
  If the propositions specified in Section 2965 are submitted at a special election in any municipal corporation, the legislative body or other body or board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2967
  Immediately upon the completion of the canvass of the returns of any special or general municipal election at which the propositions specified in Section 2965...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2968
  If it appears from the result of the election, as so declared, that a majority of the qualified electors of the municipal corporation have voted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2969
  If it appears from the result of the election, as so declared, that a majority of the qualified electors voted not to retain the powers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2970
  Immediately upon the entry of the order declaring the result of the election, the clerk of the legislative body or the registrar of voters of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2971
  Immediately upon the filing of a certified copy of the order in the office of the commission, the powers of control theretofore vested in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2972
  Any municipal corporation which has retained the powers of control vested therein respecting any class or classes of public utilities may thereafter surrender its powers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2973
  The ballots to be used at the election shall have printed thereon, in addition to the other matters required by law, separate propositions as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2974
  The provisions of this chapter, insofar as applicable, shall govern elections called, conducted, and held under the provisions of this article and general municipal elections...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2975
  The holding of a special election, or the submission of propositions at any general municipal election, under any of the provisions of this chapter, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2976
  Except as otherwise in this chapter provided, the holding and conducting of elections pursuant to this chapter, the form of the ballots used, the opening...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3002
  "Association" means any corporation which is organized pursuant to this chapter. An association is incorporated or organized pursuant to this chapter and is a producer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3003
  "Member" includes members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations which are organized with shares of stock.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3004
  "Gas" means all gas produced in this state, natural or manufactured, except propane, for light, heat, or power.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3021
  The purpose of this chapter is to do all of the following: (a) Promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of gas through...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3022
  In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) California gas production is an important part of the state's gas supply. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3023
  Associations are "nonprofit," since they are not organized to make profit for themselves, as such, or for their members, as such, but only for their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3024
  Any provision of law which is in conflict with this chapter does not apply to any association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3025
  Any exemption under any existing law which applies to gas in the possession, or under the control, of the individual producer, applies equally to gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3026
  No person, corporation, or association, that is hereafter organized or doing business in this state, may use the word "cooperative" as part of its corporate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3027
  Any person, corporation, or association which is organized pursuant to any previously existing statute for the purpose of cooperatively selling gas is deemed to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3028
  An association is not any of the following: (a) A conspiracy, a combination in restraint of trade, or an illegal monopoly. (b) An attempt to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3029
  The marketing contracts and agreements between an association and its members, and any agreements authorized in this chapter, are not illegal, in restraint of trade,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3030
  The General Corporation Law (Division 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Title 1 of the Corporations Code) applies to each association which is organized pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3031
  It is an unfair trade practice, and unlawful, for any gas corporation to do any of the following: (a) Interfere with, restrain, coerce, or boycott...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3051
  Three or more natural persons, all of whom are residents of this state, who are engaged in the production of gas within this state, may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3061
  The articles of incorporation of the association shall show that the signers of the articles of incorporation are engaged in the production of gas, state...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3062
  Articles of incorporation shall be signed, acknowledged, and filed in the manner which is prescribed by the general laws of this state for domestic corporations.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3063
  The articles of incorporation of any association may be amended in the manner and for the purposes which are authorized by the General Corporation Law...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3081
  Each association shall, within 30 days after its incorporation, adopt for its government and management a code of bylaws that is not inconsistent with this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3082
  The bylaws may prescribe the time, place, and manner of calling and conducting meetings. Meetings of members shall be held at the place specified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3083
  The bylaws may prescribe the number of stockholders or members which constitutes a quorum.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3084
  The bylaws may prescribe the right of members to vote by proxy or by mail, or both; the conditions, manner, form, and effects of their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3085
  The bylaws may prescribe the number of directors which constitutes a quorum.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3086
  (a) The bylaws may prescribe the qualifications, compensation, duties, and term of office of the directors and officers and the time of their election. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3087
  The bylaws may prescribe penalties for violations of the bylaws.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3088
  The bylaws may prescribe the amount of entrance, organization, and membership fees, if any; the manner and method of collection of these fees; and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3089
  The bylaws may prescribe the amount which each member shall be required to pay annually, or from time to time if at all, to carry...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3090
  The bylaws may prescribe the amount of any dividends which may be declared on the stock or membership capital, which shall not exceed 8 percent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3091
  The bylaws may prescribe the number and qualification of members of the association and the conditions precedent to membership; the method, time, and manner of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3092
  The bylaws may prescribe the manner of determining the value of a member's interest and provision for its purchase by the association upon the death...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3101
  The affairs of the association shall be managed by a board of not less than three directors who are elected by the members.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3102
  The bylaws may provide that the territory in which the association has members shall be divided into districts and that directors shall be elected from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3103
  The bylaws may provide that primary elections shall be held to nominate directors. If the bylaws provide that the territory in which the association has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3104
  The bylaws may provide that the territory in which the association has members shall be divided into districts and that the directors shall be elected...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3105
  The bylaws may provide that one or more directors may be appointed by any public official or commission or by the other directors selected by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3106
  The bylaws may provide for an executive committee and may delegate to the committee all the functions and powers of the board of directors, subject...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3107
  The association may provide a fair remuneration for the time which is actually spent by its officers and directors in its service and for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3108
  If a vacancy on the board of directors occurs except by expiration of a term, the remaining members of the board, by a majority vote,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3109
  The directors shall elect a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, and any other officers that may be prescribed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3110
  Any member may bring charges against an officer or director by filing them, in writing, with the secretary of the association, together with a petition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3121
  An association may engage in any activity in connection with the selling, transporting, or storing of gas which is produced and delivered to it by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3122
  An association may borrow without limitation as to amount of corporate indebtedness or liability and may make advances to members.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3123
  An association may act as the agent or representative of any member in any of the activites specified in Section 3171 or 3172.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3124
  An association may purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own, and exercise all rights of ownership in, sell, transfer, pledge, or guarantee the payment of dividends...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3125
  An association may establish reserves and invest the funds of the reserves in bonds or in any other property as may be provided in the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3126
  An association may buy, hold, and exercise all privileges of ownership of real or personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3127
  An association may levy assessments in the manner and in the amount as may be provided in its bylaws.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3128
  An association may do all of the following: (a) Do each and every thing which is necessary, suitable, or proper for the accomplishment of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3130
  An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, and have an interest in, own stock of, or be a member of any other corporation, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3131
  An association may, upon resolution adopted by its board of directors, enter into all necessary and proper contracts and agreements and make all necessary and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3151
  (a) Any share or membership issued by an association is exempt from Part 2 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 1 of Title 4 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3152
  If an association issues nonpar value stock, the issuance of that stock shall be governed by the terms of all general laws which cover the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3153
  If an association with preferred shares of stock purchases the stock or any property, or any interest in any property, of any person, it may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3154
  The board of directors of an association shall cause to be sent to the members of the association, not later than 120 days after the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3171
  Under the terms and conditions which are prescribed in the bylaws adopted by it, an association may admit as members or issue common stock to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3172
  If a member of a nonstock association is other than a natural person, that member may be represented by any individual, associate, officer, manager, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3173
  Any association may become a member or stockholder of any other association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3174
  If a member of an association which is established without shares of stock has paid the prescribed membership fee in full, the member shall receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3175
  An association shall not issue a certificate for stock to a member until it has been fully paid for. The promissory notes of the members...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3176
  An association, in its bylaws, may limit the amount of common stock which any member may own.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3177
  The bylaws shall prohibit the transfer of the common stock or membership certificates of the associations to any person that is not qualified to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3178
  The association may, at any time, as specified in the bylaws, except when the debts of the association exceed 50 percent of its assets, buy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3179
  A member is not liable for the debts of the association in an amount which exceeds the sum which remains unpaid on the member's or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3180
  No public utility, corporation holding a controlling interest in a public utility, or subsidiary or affiliate of a public utility may be a member of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3181
  No producer of gas owning or controlling petroleum refining capacity of 100,000 or more barrels per day in California, or a producer of gas owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3201
  The association and its members may make and execute marketing contracts which require the members to sell, for any period of time not to exceed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3202
  The contract may provide that the association may sell or resell any gas which is delivered by its members, with or without taking title to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3203
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Civil Code, a contract which is entered into by a member of an association which provides for the delivery to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3204
  The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specific sums to be paid by the member to the association for the breach...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3205
  If there is a breach or threatened breach of a marketing contract by a member, the association may file an action for an injunction to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3206
  In any action upon a marketing agreement, it is conclusively presumed that a landowner, landlord, or lessor is able to control the delivery of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3221
  Any corporation which is organized or existing pursuant to any other law may be brought under this chapter by amending its articles of incorporation, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3222
  Articles of incorporation are deemed to conform to this chapter within the meaning of Section 3291 in both of the following cases: (a) It is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3223
  If the amended articles conform, as provided in Section 3222, provisions in the articles of incorporation that appeared in the original articles or some previous...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3224
  This article applies retrospectively as well as prospectively, and may be availed of by a corporation regardless of the time of incorporation, whether prior or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3250
  Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3251
  "Person" means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, but does not include an association, as defined in Section 3002.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3252
  "Natural gas" means all gas produced in this state, natural or manufactured, except propane, for light, heat, or power.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3255
  (a) A person involved in the production of natural gas may buy, hold, and exercise all privileges of ownership of real or personal property as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3260
  Nothing in this division prohibits payments pursuant to an agreement authorized by the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq.), or payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3300
  The Legislature finds and declares that in order to furnish the citizens of California with reliable, affordable electrical power, to ensure sufficient power reserves, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3301
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3302
  As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Act" means the California Consumer Power and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3304
  Any action taken pursuant to this division is exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act, as defined in Section 11370 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3310
  The authority may only exercise its powers pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 3340) of Chapter 3 for the following purposes: (a) Establish, finance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3320
  (a) There is hereby created in the state government the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, which shall be responsible for administering this division....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3325
  (a) The authority shall be governed by a five-member board of directors that shall consist of the following persons: (1) Four individuals appointed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3326
  (a) The members of the board shall be subject to the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000)) of the Government...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3327
  Meetings of the board shall be open to the public and shall be conducted in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3328
  The California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code) applies to all records...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3330
  The chief executive officer shall manage and conduct the business and affairs of the authority and the fund subject to the direction of the board....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3340
  The authority is authorized and empowered to do any of the following: (a) Adopt an official seal. (b) Sue and be sued in its own...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3341
  In connection with the purposes of this division, the authority may do any or all of the following: (a) Issue bonds, from time to time,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3341.1
  In connection with an enterprise, the authority may do any or all of the following: (a) Acquire any enterprise by gift, purchase, or eminent domain...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3341.2
  In connection with a project, the authority may do any or all of the following: (a) Determine the location and character of any project to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3341.5
  In connection with the purposes of this division, the authority shall charge and equitably apportion among participating parties or other public or private entities the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3342
  The fiscal powers granted to the authority by this division may be exercised without regard or reference to any other department, division, or agency of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3343
  No member of the board or any person executing bonds of the authority pursuant to this division shall be personally liable on the bonds or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3344
  All expenses incurred in carrying out this division shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this division and no liability or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3345
  The authority's operating budget shall be subject to review and appropriation in the annual Budget Act. For purposes of this section, the authority's operating budget...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3346
  The authority shall, on or before January 1 of each year, prepare and submit to the Governor, the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3347
  The Bureau of State Audits shall perform an evaluation of the effectiveness of the authority's efforts in achieving its purposes as described in Section 3310....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3350
  In evaluating the eligibility for financing of additional generation facilities, the authority shall utilize the Energy Commission's and the Independent System Operator's, or their successor's,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3351
  (a) All generation-related projects and enterprises financed pursuant to this division shall provide electricity to the consumers of this state at the cost of generating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3352
  In addition to the other powers provided in this division, the activities of the authority under this article are intended to supplement private and public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3353
  The authority shall have the authority to receive and act on applications for financial assistance from owners of existing powerplants whose owners or operators commit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3354
  All generation facilities constructed or improved pursuant to this division shall comply with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1720) of Part 7 of Division 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3355
  The authority may not invest in any nuclear facilities or develop additional hydroelectric facilities without first receiving specific statutory authorization to do so on a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3356
  (a) If the authority determines under Section 3350 that additional electric generation supply is required to meet the purposes of this division, the authority may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3365
  The authority may provide loans, utilizing up to one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) of the bond authority, under terms and conditions approved by the authority, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3366
  As a condition of receipt of a loan pursuant to Section 3365, a participating party shall be required to conduct a comprehensive marketing program that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3367
  The authority shall require that any equipment or improvement financed by a loan made pursuant to this article shall be certified as having been installed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3367.5
  The authority may require that a participating party utilize a consumer protection plan for screening qualified contractors who serve consumers under this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3368
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall prepare and submit to the authority and to the Legislature, within 90 days of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3369
  (a) Within 180 days of the effective date of this division, the authority, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the Independent System Operator, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3369.5
  Nothing in this division shall be construed to obviate the need to review the roles, functions, and duties of other state energy oversight agencies and,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3370
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority Fund for expenditure by the authority for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3380.1
  For the purposes provided in this division, the authority is authorized to incur indebtedness and to issue securities of any kind or class, at public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3380.2
  In connection with the issuance of bonds, in addition to the powers otherwise provided in this division, the authority may do all of the following:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3381
  Bonds issued by the authority are legal investments for all trust funds, the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, trust companies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3382
  The authority is authorized to obtain loans from the Pooled Money Investment Account pursuant to Sections 16312 and 16313 of the Government Code. These loans...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3383
  Bonds issued under this division shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3384
  The authority may not finance or approve any new program, enterprise, or project on or after January 1, 2007, unless authority to approve such an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3901
  This chapter may be cited as the Interstate and Foreign Motor Carriers of Household Goods and Passengers Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3902
  (a) No household goods carrier, as defined in Section 5109, shall engage in any interstate or foreign transportation of property for compensation by motor vehicle,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3903
  Household goods carriers, as defined in Section 5109, engaged in interstate or foreign transportation or property for compensation by motor vehicle, and motor carriers engaged...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 3950
  It is a violation of law for any person or corporation to operate, or cause to be operated, on the highways of this state, any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4000
  This chapter may be cited as the Private Carriers of Passengers Registration Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4001
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "private carrier" means a not-for-hire motor carrier, as defined in Section 408 of the Vehicle Code, who transports passengers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4002
  The Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Board of Equalization shall furnish, upon request, whatever information from their records may be required to assist...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4005
  Except as provided in Section 4008, no private carrier of passengers shall operate a motor vehicle on any public highway in this state unless its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4006
  A fee of thirty-five dollars ($35) shall be paid to the commission for the filing of the initial registration of private carriers of passengers, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4007
  (a) When the department issues a carrier identification number pursuant to Section 34507.5 of the Vehicle Code to a private carrier of passengers, it shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4008
  The State of California and its agencies and political subdivisions are exempt from the registration requirements of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4010
  (a) Registration shall not be granted to any private carrier of passengers until there is filed with and accepted by the commission, in the form...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4015
  A private carrier of passengers shall display the carrier identification number, as required by Section 34507.5 of the Vehicle Code, on the vehicles operated pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4020
  The commission shall periodically, but not less frequently than quarterly, transmit to the department a list of persons, firms, and corporations which have received a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4021
  (a) Any person or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4022
  (a) Upon receipt of a written recommendation from the department that the registration of a private carrier of passengers be suspended for failure to either...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4351
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Gas" means natural or manufactured gas, except propane, used for light, heat, or power. (b) "Distribution system" means a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4352
  (a) The commission shall undertake a gas safety inspection and enforcement program for mobilehome parks with distribution systems to ensure compliance with the federal pipeline...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4353
  (a) The commission shall conduct an initial inspection of each distribution system which shall take place on the mobilehome park premises. The inspection shall consist...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4354
  (a) Every operator shall prepare and submit to the commission annually a report on the distribution system. (b) The report shall be submitted to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4354.5
  (a) Every operator shall maintain all of the following: (1) A map, drawing, or diagram which indicates the location of the distribution system's main and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4355
  Except as specified in Section 4356, after each inspection, the commission shall furnish the operator, or a representative designated in writing by the operator, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4356
  (a) If the commission determines the presence of a gas leak or other safety hazard in the distribution system which poses a significant or immediate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4357
  (a) Any operator who commits a violation enumerated in subdivision (f) of Section 4353, or who fails to file the report required by Section 4354...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4358
  (a) The commission shall establish a uniform billing per space or lot surcharge to be paid by operators with distribution systems subject to this chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4359
  The commission may adopt rules and orders to carry out this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4360
  Nothing in this chapter affects the requirement that operators of liquefied petroleum gas (propane) master-meter systems supplying 10 or more customers from a single source...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4361
  (a) In each mobilehome park, the operator shall post on the mobilehome park premises the current emergency telephone numbers for, at a minimum, the gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4451
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Supplier" means a person or corporation, other than a public utility, who sells propane and arranges for its delivery...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4452
  (a) On or before July 1, 1995, the commission shall undertake a propane safety inspection and enforcement program for propane distribution systems to ensure compliance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4453
  (a) The commission shall conduct an initial inspection of each distribution system which shall take place on the premises. The inspection shall determine if the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4454
  (a) Every operator of a system serving 10 or more units or where any portion of the system is located in a public place, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4454.5
  (a) Every operator shall maintain all of the following: (1) A map, drawing, or diagram that indicates the location of the distribution system's main and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4455
  Except as specified in Section 4456, after each inspection, the commission shall furnish the operator, or a representative designated in writing by the operator, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4456
  (a) If the commission determines the presence of a propane leak or other safety hazard in the distribution system, which poses a significant or immediate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4457
  (a) Any operator who commits a violation enumerated in subdivision (f) of Section 4453 or who fails to file the report required by Section 4454...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4458
  (a) The commission shall establish a surcharge to be paid by operators with distribution systems subject to this chapter on propane purchased for distribution to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4459
  The commission may adopt rules and orders to carry out this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4460
  (a) In each distribution system, the operator shall post on the premises the current emergency telephone numbers for, at a minimum, the operator, the supplier,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4461
  Prior to January 1, 1996, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt by reference the 1992 edition of NFPA 58 Standard for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4462
  (a) This chapter hereby creates a trust fund known as the propane safety inspection and enforcement program trust fund. The trust fund shall be administered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4463
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter, as added by Chapter 388 of the Statutes of 1994, shall not be implemented unless sufficient federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4464
  (a) The commission in administering the trust fund, shall be responsible for the identification of the pertinent operators and for the collection of the surcharges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4465
  (a) If any operator subject to this chapter is in default of the payment of the surcharge required by this chapter for a period of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4660
  As used in this chapter, "for-hire vessel operator" means any person owning, controlling, operating, or managing a for-hire vessel for the transportation of persons for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4661
  As used in this chapter, "for-hire vessel" includes any vessel, by whatsoever power operated, carrying passengers for hire, except a seaplane on the water, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4662
  As used in this chapter, "person" means any individual, firm, partnership, private, municipal or public corporation, limited liability company, company, association, joint stock association, trustee,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4663
  The Public Utilities Commission shall require every for-hire vessel operator to procure, and continue in effect so long as the for-hire vessel operator continues to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4664
  The commission shall, after a public hearing, set the amount of liability insurance, required by Section 4663, which is reasonably necessary to provide adequate compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4665
  The protection required under Section 4663 shall be evidenced either by the deposit with the commission, covering each vessel used or to be used in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4666
  With the consent of the commission a copy of an insurance policy, certified by the company issuing it to be a true copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4667
  The protection against liability shall be continued in effect so long as the for-hire vessel operator continues to offer his services for compensation. The policy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4668
  The commission may establish such rules as are necessary to enforce this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4669
  Any for-hire vessel operator who knowingly refuses or fails to procure protection against liability, as required by Section 4663, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4670
  Following an administrative hearing, the commission may impose a penalty of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4671
  (a) Upon filing of the evidence of liability protection pursuant to Section 4663, the commission shall provide a certificate of filing to the for-hire vessel...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4672
  Upon receiving notification of impending cancellation of liability protection pertaining to a for-hire vessel owner or operator, the commission shall, effective upon the date of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5001
  This chapter is enacted for the following purpose: (a) Creating a special fund to administer and enforce the commission's jurisdiction to regulate household goods carriers....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5001.5
  In addition to those purposes specified in Sections 5001 and 5005, the commission may utilize the funds it collects pursuant to this chapter for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5002
  "Gross operating revenue" as used in this chapter includes all revenue derived from the transportation of property having origin and destination within this state, where...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5003.1
  Every household goods carrier owning or operating motor vehicles in the transportation of property for hire upon the public highways under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5003.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5003.1, the commission shall require every highway carrier otherwise subject to Section 5003.1 for whom the commission does not establish minimum or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5005
  All fees collected under this chapter and all fees charged and collected for copies of papers, records, transcripts of testimony, or other documents, the cost...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5006
  The commission shall, within 30 days prior to commencement of the regular session of the Legislature, submit to the Governor a full and true report...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5007
  If any transportation agency referred to in this chapter is in default in the payment of the fees prescribed, other than filing fees, for a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5008
  The commission may bring an action, in its own name, or in the name of the people of the State, in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5009
  The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5010
  The commission may make refunds out of money in its possession of the fees provided for in this chapter when it appears that such fees...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5011
  The commission may establish such rules as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5012
  The Public Utilities Commission shall conduct an audit of the expenditures of the funds received pursuant to this chapter each fiscal year. The results of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5101
  This chapter may be cited as the "Household Goods Carriers Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5102
  The use of the public highways for the transportation of used household goods and personal effects for compensation is a business affected with a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5103
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5104
  In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter relating to penalties, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or employee of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5105
  "Corporation" includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5106
  "Person" includes an individual, a firm, or a copartnership.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5107
  "Public highway" includes every public street, road or highway in this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5108
  "Motor vehicle" means every motor truck, tractor, or other self-propelled vehicle used for transportation of property over the public highways, otherwise than upon fixed rails...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5109
  "Household goods carrier" includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustee, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, engaged in the transportation for compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5110.5
  With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of property for compensation by a household goods carrier, "owner" means the corporation or person...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5111
  This chapter shall not be construed as a regulation of commerce with foreign nations or among the several states, except insofar as such regulation is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5112
  The regulation of the transportation of used household goods and personal effects in a motor vehicle or motor vehicles over any public highway in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5113
  The transportation of used household goods and personal effects in any truck or trailer for compensation over any public highway in this state is a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5131
  No household goods carrier shall engage in such business for compensation by motor vehicle over any public highway in this State, except in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5132
  Each household goods carrier shall display on each vehicle operated by it an identification symbol in the form and in accordance with rules and regulations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5133
  (a) No household goods carrier shall engage, or attempt to engage, in the business of the transportation of used household goods and personal effects, by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5134
  Application for a permit shall be in writing, verified under oath, and shall be in a form, contain information, and be accompanied by proof of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5135
  (a) Before a permit is hereafter issued the commission shall require the applicant to establish ability and reasonable financial responsibility to initiate the proposed operations....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5135.5
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every household goods carrier shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5135.6
  The commission shall not issue or authorize the transfer of any permit under this chapter to any person or corporation against whom a final judgment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5136
  Each application for issuance of a permit under this chapter shall be accompanied by a fee of five hundred dollars ($500). The filing fee for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5137
  (a) A household goods carrier, under its permit, may also transport used office, store, and institution furniture and fixtures. The commission shall not regulate the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5138
  The commission shall establish rules and regulations governing the notification of shippers of any delay in the delivery of goods beyond the date agreed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5139
  The commission may establish rules for the performance of any service of the character furnished or supplied by household goods carriers. Every household goods carrier...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5140
  It is unlawful for the owner of a household goods carrier motor vehicle employing or otherwise directing the driver of the vehicle to permit the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5142
  (a) Except as provided in Section 5133, a household goods carrier in compliance with this chapter has a lien on used household goods and personal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5143
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) "Consignor" means the person named in the bill of lading as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5161
  (a) The commission, in granting permits pursuant to this chapter, shall require the household goods carrier to procure, and continue in effect during the life...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5162
  The protection required under this article shall be evidenced by the deposit of any of the following with the commission covering each vehicle used or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5163
  With the consent of the commission a copy of an insurance policy, certified by the company issuing it to be a true copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5164
  The protection against liability shall be continued in effect during the active life of the permit. The policy of insurance or surety bond shall not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5165
  The commission may establish such rules as are necessary to enforce this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5191
  (a) The commission shall establish or approve just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory maximum or minimum or maximum and minimum rates to be charged by household goods...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5192
  A household goods carrier shall not advertise, quote, or charge a rate or an amount for the transportation of used household goods and personal effects...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5193
  By the specific procedures approved by the commission in its Decision 92-05-028, any household goods carrier may charge or collect a greater rate than the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5194
  The commission shall make such rules as are necessary to the application and enforcement of the rates established or approved pursuant to this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5196
  No household goods carrier shall directly or indirectly pay any commission to a shipper, consignee, or the employee thereof, or to the payer of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5197
  No household goods carrier, or any officer, or agent thereof, or any person acting or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5198
  No person, corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation shall, by means of false billing, false or incorrect classification, false weight or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5199
  No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly by any false statement or representation as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5221
  Each household goods carrier maintaining an office or place of business within this State and offering intrastate service shall keep therein all books, accounts, papers,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5222
  The commission may require any household goods carrier to file with it a true copy of any contract, agreement, or arrangement between the carrier and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5223
  The commission may prescribe the forms of any accounts, records, and memoranda, including those pertaining to the movement of traffic and the receipt or expenditure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5224
  Where the commission has prescribed the forms of accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by household goods carriers for any of its business, it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5225
  The commission, its authorized employees, representatives, and inspectors shall at all times have access to all lands, buildings, and equipment of household goods carriers used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5226
  The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any lands, buildings, equipment, accounts, books, records, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5227
  Sections 5221 to 5226, inclusive, shall, to the extent deemed necessary by the commission, apply to persons having control, direct or indirect, over or affiliated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5228
  Any employee of the commission who divulges any fact or information which comes to his knowledge during the course of the examination of the accounts,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5229
  (a) Every household goods carrier shall furnish the commission annually, as specified by the commission, a list, prepared under oath, of all vehicles used in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5230
  Every household goods carrier earning over three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in annual gross operating revenue shall, under oath, file annually a report indicating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5241
  No claim against a household goods carrier for loss or damage of goods shall be denied solely because the lost or damaged goods were not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5243
  No household goods carrier may transport household goods under a subhauling agreement unless each of the following occurs: (a) The subhauler is licensed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5244
  The commission shall adopt any rules and regulations it determines to be necessary to enforce the requirements of this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5244.5
  This article does not apply to a subhauling agreement when the subhauler is not otherwise subject to this chapter for activity related to the subhauling
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5245
  The commission shall establish rules and regulations controlling the estimates given by a household goods carrier to a shipper of the charges it would make...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5251
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, in all respects in which the commission has power and authority under the Constitution of this State or this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5252
  Service of all process and orders instituting investigation in all proceedings, complaints, investigations, or hearings brought or pending before the commission pursuant to this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5253
  Service of all process and orders, decisions and orders, orders and notices in all such proceedings, investigations, complaints and hearings may be made personally or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5254
  Service by personal delivery is complete upon delivery to the person to be served of a true copy of the paper to be served. Service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5255
  In all proceedings instituted by or pending before the commission pursuant to this chapter, the commission may from time to time make such interim, interlocutory,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5256
  After the making of an interim, interlocutory, or other order, any party to the proceeding or any stockholder or bondholder or other party pecuniarily interested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5257
  Any interim, interlocutory, or other order may be reviewed as provided in Sections 1756 to 1766, inclusive. Upon review, only that portion of the record...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5258
  No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing any book, document, paper, or account in any investigation or inquiry by or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5259
  Whenever the executive director of the commission determines that any household goods carrier or any officer, director, or agent of any household goods carrier is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5259.5
  (a) Whenever the commission determines that any household goods carrier or any officer, director, or agent of any household goods carrier has abandoned, or is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5260
  Upon the filing of such a petition, the court shall specify a time, not exceeding 20 days after the service of the copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5281
  The commission may, at the request of any household goods carrier, suspend the operating permit of the carrier for a definite time during which it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5282
  Upon such suspension of a permit the commission shall thereupon require the removal from any vehicle operated thereunder of any identifying symbols which have been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5283
  Upon the termination of the period of suspension the commission shall restore the permit and the carrier shall again place on all vehicles the identifying...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5284
  A permit shall remain in effect until suspended or terminated as provided in this chapter. Any permit not exercised for a period of one year,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5284.5
  The commission shall only authorize a sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of a permit to a transferee who has qualified in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5285
  (a) The commission may suspend the permit of any household goods carrier after notice and an opportunity to be heard, if the carrier knowingly and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5285.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a stop order issued by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Section 3710.1 of the Labor Code, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5285.6
  (a) (1) Upon receipt of a written recommendation from the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the permit of a household goods carrier be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5286
  After the cancellation or revocation of a permit or during the period of its suspension, it is unlawful for a household goods carrier to conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5311
  (a) Every household goods carrier and every officer, director, agent, or employee of any household goods carrier who violates or who fails to comply with,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5311.3
  Every household goods carrier, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a household goods carrier, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5312
  Every corporation or person other than a household goods carrier, who knowingly and willfully, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5313
  Every household goods carrier and every officer, director, agent, or employee of any household goods carrier who violates or who fails to comply with, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5313.5
  Whenever the commission, after hearing, finds that any person or corporation is operating as a household goods carrier without a valid permit, or is holding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5314
  Every corporation or person other than a household goods carrier who knowingly and wilfully, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5314.5
  Every corporation or person who knowingly and willfully issues, publishes, or affixes, or causes or permits the issuance, publishing, or affixing, of any oral or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5314.6
  Every household goods carrier and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a household goods carrier who knowingly and willfully makes a false statement of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5315
  Every violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission by any corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5316
  All remedies and penalties accruing under this chapter are cumulative to each other and to the remedies and penalties available under any other law, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5317
  (a) In addition to the remedies provided in Sections 688.020 and 688.030 of the Code of Civil Procedure, actions to recover penalties under this chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5317
  (a) Actions to recover penalties under this chapter shall be brought in the name of the people of the State of California, in the superior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5317.5
  The commission shall ensure that this chapter is enforced and obeyed, and that violations thereof are promptly prosecuted and penalties due the state therefor recovered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5318
  In any such action, all penalties incurred up to the time of the commencement of the action may be sued for and recovered. In all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5319
  All penalties recovered by the State in any action pursuant to this chapter, together with the costs thereof, shall be paid into the State Treasury...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5320
  Whenever a written notice to appear has been mailed to the owner of a household goods carrier motor vehicle, an exact and legible duplicate copy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5322
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that advertisement and use of telephone service is essential for household goods carriers to obtain business and conduct intrastate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5325
  This article may be cited as the Household Goods Carriers Uniform Business License Tax Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5326
  An adequate transportation system is essential to the welfare of the state, and an important part of that system is service rendered by household goods
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5327
  On and after the effective date of this article no city or county shall assess, levy, or collect an excise or license tax of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5328
  (a) On and after the effective date of this article, there is imposed upon every household goods carriers, and every person or corporation, owning or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5329
  On and after the effective date of this article, any person or corporation, subject to the license fee imposed by Section 5328, required to pay...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5330
  (a) All funds collected by the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Highway Carrier's...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5331
  (a) If any person or corporation is in default in the payment of the license fee prescribed by this chapter for a period of 30...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5332
  The commission may bring an action, in its own name, or in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5333
  The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order of direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5334
  The commission may make refunds of all or any amount of a fee provided for in this article if it determines that such fee or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5335
  (a) The commission may establish rules and regulations as it deems necessary to carry out this article. (b) This section does not prohibit the imposition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5351
  This chapter may be cited as the "Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5352
  The use of the public highways for the transportation of passengers for compensation is a business affected with a public interest. It is the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5353
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (a) Transportation service rendered wholly within the corporate limits of a single city or city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5353.5
  On and after July 1, 1989, this chapter does not apply to transportation service, other than transportation service furnished in a limousine for hire, rendered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5354
  In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter relating to the prescribed privileges and obligations of the holder of a permit or certificate issued...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5355
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5356
  "Corporation" includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5357
  "Person" includes an individual, a firm, or a copartnership.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5358
  "Public highway" includes every public street, road, or highway in this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5359
  "Motor vehicle" means a vehicle which is self-propelled.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5360
  Subject to the exclusions of Section 5353, "charter-party carrier of passengers" means every person engaged in the transportation of persons by motor vehicle for compensation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5360.5
  (a) Charter-party carriers of passengers shall operate on a prearranged basis within this state. (b) For purposes of this section, "prearranged basis" means that the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5362
  With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of persons for compensation by a charter-party carrier of passengers, "owner" means the corporation or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5363
  (a) Any provision of the Public Utilities Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 201) of Division 1) or of this chapter applicable to charter bus...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371
  No charter-party carrier of passengers excepting transit districts, transit authorities or cities owning and operating local transit systems themselves or through wholly owned nonprofit corporations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.1
  (a) No charter-party carrier of passengers issued a class A certificate subject to this section shall be restricted as to point of origin or destination...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.2
  (a) All holders of certificates issued under this section shall operate from a service area to be determined by the commission. In no case shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.3
  A class C certificate holder is one who provides transportation services incidental to commercial balloon operations, commercial river rafting, or skiing. This section does not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.4
  (a) The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may not impose a fee on charter-party carriers operating limousines. However, the governing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a complaint containing sufficient information to warrant conducting an investigation, the commission shall investigate any business that advertises limousine-for-hire or passenger...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5371.6
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that advertising and use of telephone service is essential for charter-party carriers of passengers to obtain business and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5372
  Applications for permits and certificates shall be in writing, verified under oath, and shall be in such form, contain such information, and be accompanied by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5373.1
  (a) Each application for a charter-party carrier of passengers certificate or permit shall be accompanied by a filing fee as follows: (1) Class A certificates...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5373.5
  The commission shall not issue or authorize the transfer of any certificate or permit under this chapter to any person or corporation against whom a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5374
  (a) (1) Before a permit or certificate is issued or renewed, the commission shall require the applicant to establish reasonable fitness and financial responsibility to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5374.5
  (a) At the time of each bus terminal inspection conducted by the Department of the California Highway Patrol pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 34501...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5374.6
  Every charter-party carrier earning over three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in annual gross operating revenue shall, under oath, file annually a report indicating the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5375
  The commission may, with or without hearing, issue or refuse to issue a permit or certificate. If the commission finds that public convenience and necessity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5376
  A permit or certificate, or renewal thereof, is effective for three years, unless suspended or revoked by the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5377
  No permit issued pursuant to this article, or rights to conduct any of the services therein authorized, shall be sold, leased, or assigned, or otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5377.1
  No certificate issued pursuant to, or rights to conduct any of the services authorized by, this article shall be sold, leased, or assigned, or otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378
  (a) The commission may cancel, revoke, or suspend any operating permit or certificate issued pursuant to this chapter upon any of the following grounds: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.1
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every charter-party carrier shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of workers'...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a written recommendation from the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the certificate or permit of a charter-party carrier be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.6
  (a) The commission shall deny a new or renewal application for a charter-party carrier certificate or permit upon receipt of a written recommendation from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a stop order issued by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Section 3710.1 of the Labor Code, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5379
  After the cancellation or revocation of a permit or certificate, or during the period of its suspension, or after the expiration of its permit or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5379.5
  The commission may, on a complaint alleging that any corporation or person is operating as a charter-party carrier of passengers without a valid certificate or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5381
  To the extent that such is not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, the commission may supervise and regulate every charter-party carrier of passengers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5381.5
  The commission shall, by rule or other appropriate procedure, ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers operates on a prearranged basis within the state, consistent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5382
  To the extent that such are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, all general orders, rules and regulations, applicable to the operations of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5383
  The commission shall create the following classifications or types of certificates for charter-party carriers of passengers: Class A: from any point or points within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5384
  The commission shall issue permits to persons, who are otherwise qualified, whose passenger carrier operations fall into the following categories: (a) Specialized carriers, who do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5384.1
  (a) The driver of any limousine for hire operated by a charter-party carrier of passengers under a valid certificate or permit shall do all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5384.2
  A school, school district, or the state is not liable for transportation services provided by an operator of a charter-party carrier operating a motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5384.5
  If the driver of any limousine for hire operating under a valid certificate or permit, or any officer, director, agent, or employee of a charter-party...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5385
  A charter-party carrier of passengers, except those engaged in the provision of a hired driver service when a rented motor vehicle is being operated by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5385.5
  For motor vehicles designed to carry not more than eight passengers, including the driver, the commission shall issue a suitable decal for purposes of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5385.6
  (a) No charter-party carrier shall operate a limousine as defined by Section 5371.4 unless the limousine is equipped with the special license plates issued and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5386
  (a) Every charter-party carrier of passengers, including a charter-party carrier that operates a limousine, shall include the number of its permit or certificate in every...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5386.5
  No charter-party carrier of passengers shall advertise its services, or in any manner represent its services, as being a taxicab or taxi service. For the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5387
  (a) It is unlawful for the owner of a charter-party carrier of passengers to permit the operation of a vehicle upon a public highway for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5387.3
  (a) A charter-party carrier described in subdivision (c) of Section 5387, that has received a notice of refusal or revocation of its permit to operate,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5387.5
  When the commission or an employee of the commission determines that any person or corporation is holding itself out as a charter-party carrier of passengers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5389
  (a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time have access to the land, buildings, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5390
  The commission shall fund the costs of administering the special identification license plate program required by Section 5385.6 of this code and Section 5011.5 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.1
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every charter-party carrier shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of workers'...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a written recommendation from the Department of the California Highway Patrol that the certificate or permit of a charter-party carrier be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.6
  (a) The commission shall deny a new or renewal application for a charter-party carrier certificate or permit upon receipt of a written recommendation from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5378.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a stop order issued by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Section 3710.1 of the Labor Code, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5379
  After the cancellation or revocation of a permit or certificate, or during the period of its suspension, or after the expiration of its permit or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5379.5
  The commission may, on a complaint alleging that any corporation or person is operating as a charter-party carrier of passengers without a valid certificate or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5391
  The commission shall, in granting permits or a certificate pursuant to this chapter, require the charter-party carrier of passengers to procure, and to continue in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5391.2
  Notwithstanding Section 5391, in granting certificates to the holders of class C certificates, the commission shall require that those carriers procure and continue in effect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5391.5
  The commission shall commence a rulemaking proceeding to develop uniform operating standards applicable to charter-party carriers of passengers. The rulemaking proceeding shall include, but shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5392
  (a) The protection required under Sections 5391 and 5391.2 shall be evidenced by the deposit of any of the following with the commission covering each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5392.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any charter-party carrier of passengers that contracts to provide a vanpool vehicle, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5392.5
  No person, firm, or corporation holding a valid permit issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be required by any agency of local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5393
  With the consent of the commission a copy of an insurance policy, certified by the company issuing it to be a true copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5401
  Charges for the transportation to be offered or afforded by a charter-party carrier of passengers shall be computed and assessed on a vehicle mileage or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5402
  No person, partnership, corporation, or organization shall sell transportation by a passenger stage on an individual-fare basis for a sightseeing trip in California on a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5411
  Every charter-party carrier of passengers and every officer, director, agent, or employee of any charter-party carrier of passengers who violates or who fails to comply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5411.3
  Every charter-party carrier of passengers, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a charter-party carrier of passengers, who displays on any vehicle any identifying...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5411.5
  (a) Whenever a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, arrests...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5411.6
  Every charter party carrier of passengers and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a charter party carrier of passengers who knowingly and willfully makes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5412
  Every corporation or person other than a charter-party carrier of passengers, who knowingly and willfully, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5412.2
  (a) When a person is convicted of the offense of operating a taxicab without a valid certificate or permit, in addition to any other penalties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5412.5
  Every officer or person employed by the commission who, except as authorized by the commission or a court, discloses any fact or information from an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5413
  Every charter-party carrier of passengers and every officer, director, agent, or employee of any charter-party carrier of passengers who violates or who fails to comply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5413.5
  (a) Whenever the commission, after hearing, finds that any person or corporation is operating as a charter-party carrier of passengers, including a charter-party carrier operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5414
  Every corporation or person other than a charter-party carrier of passengers who knowingly and willfully, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5414.5
  Every corporation or person who knowingly and willfully issues, publishes, or affixes, or causes or permits the issuance, publishing, or affixing, of any oral or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5415
  Every violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission by any corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5415.5
  When the executive director of the commission determines that any charter-party carrier of passengers, or any officer, director, or agent of any charter-party carrier of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5416
  All penalties accruing under this chapter are cumulative, and a suit for the recovery of one penalty does not bar or affect the recovery of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5417
  (a) In addition to the remedies provided in Sections 688.020 and 688.030 of the Code of Civil Procedure, actions to recover penalties under this chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5417
  (a) Actions to recover penalties under this chapter shall be brought in the name of the people of the State of California, in the superior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5418
  In any such action, all penalties incurred up to the time of the commencement of the action may be sued for and recovered. In all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5419
  All penalties recovered by the State in any action pursuant to this chapter, together with the costs thereof, shall be paid into the State Treasury...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5420
  Whenever a written notice to appear has been mailed to the owner of a charter-party carrier of passengers motor vehicle, an exact and legible duplicate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5500
  (a) As used in this article, "commercial air operator" means any person owning, controlling, operating, renting, or managing aircraft for any commercial purpose for compensation....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5500
  (a) As used in this article, "commercial air operator" means any person owning, controlling, operating, renting, or managing aircraft for any commercial purpose for compensation....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5501
  (a) As used in this article, "aircraft" means any contrivance used for navigation of, or flight in, the air. "Aircraft" does not include a hot...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5501
  (a) As used in this article, "aircraft" means any contrivance used for navigation of, or flight in, the air. (b) This section shall become operative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5502
  As used in this article, "person" means any individual, firm, partnership, private, municipal or public corporation, limited liability company, company, association, joint stock association, trustee,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5503
  The Public Utilities Commission shall require every commercial air operator to procure, and continue in effect so long as the commercial air operator continues to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5503.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5503, the commission shall require less accident insurance than that required of commercial air operators pursuant to Section 5503, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5504
  This article does not apply to any person licensed under Article 1 (commencing with Section 11701) of Chapter 4 of Division 6 of the Food...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5505
  The commission shall, after a public hearing, set the amount of liability insurance, required by Section 5503, which is reasonably necessary to provide adequate compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5506
  The protection required under Section 5503 shall be evidenced either by the deposit with the commission, covering each aircraft used or to be used in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5507
  With the consent of the commission a copy of an insurance policy, certified by the company issuing it to be a true copy of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5508
  The protection against liability shall be continued in effect so long as the commercial air operator continues to offer his services for compensation. The policy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5509
  The commission may establish such rules as are necessary to enforce this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5510
  Any commercial air operator who knowingly refuses or fails to procure protection against liability, as required by Section 5503, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5511
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5506, the commission shall have the authority to accept policies of insurance written by nonadmitted insurers subject to Section 1763...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5512
  Following an administrative hearing, the commission may impose a penalty of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) upon any commercial air operator who fails to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5513
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any person owning, controlling, operating, renting, managing, furnishing, or otherwise providing transportation by hot air balloon for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5800
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5810
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Increasing competition for video and broadband services is a matter of statewide concern for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5820
  (a) Nothing in this division shall be deemed as creating a vested right in a state-issued franchise by the franchise holder or its affiliates that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5830
  For purposes of this division, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Broadband" means any service defined as broadband in the most recent Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5840
  (a) The commission is the sole franchising authority for a state franchise to provide video service under this division. Neither the commission nor any local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5850
  (a) A state-issued franchise shall only be valid for 10 years after the date of issuance, and the holder shall apply for a renewal of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5860
  (a) The holder of a state franchise that offers video service within the jurisdiction of the local entity shall calculate and remit to the local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5870
  (a) The holder of a state franchise shall designate a sufficient amount of capacity on its network to allow the provision of the same number...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5880
  Holders of state franchises shall comply with the Emergency Alert System requirements of the Federal Communications Commission in order that emergency messages may be distributed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5885
  (a) The local entity shall allow the holder of a state franchise under this division to install, construct, and maintain a network within public rights-of-way...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5890
  (a) A cable operator or video service provider that has been granted a state franchise under this division may not discriminate against or deny access...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5900
  (a) The holder of a state franchise shall comply with the provisions of Sections 53055, 53055.1, 53055.2, and 53088.2 of the Government Code, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5910
  (a) The holder of a state franchise shall perform background checks of applicants for employment, according to current business practices. (b) A background check equivalent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5920
  (a) A holder of a state franchise employing more than 750 total employees in California shall annually report to the commission all of the following:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5930
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, any video service provider that currently holds a franchise with a local franchising entity in a county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5940
  The holder of a state franchise under this division who also provides stand-alone, residential, primary line, basic telephone service shall not increase this rate to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5950
  The commission shall not permit a telephone corporation that is providing video service directly or through its affiliates pursuant to a state-issued franchise as an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5960
  (a) For purposes of this section, "census tract" has the same meaning as used by the United States Census Bureau, and "household" has the same...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5970
  Subject to the requirements of this division, a state franchise may be transferred to any successor in interest of the holder to which the certificate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6001
  Every franchise or privilege to erect or lay telegraph or telephone wires, to construct or operate street or interurban railroads upon any public street or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6001.5
  (a) All franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges granted to a public utility by any city, county, or city and county holding a freeholder's charter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6002
  The grantor may, in such a franchise, impose such other and additional terms and conditions not in conflict with this article, whether governmental or contractual...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6003
  No clause or condition of any kind shall be inserted in any franchise or grant offered or sold under the terms of this article which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6004
  An applicant for a franchise or privilege shall file with the governing or legislative body of the county or municipality an application, and thereupon that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6005
  The advertisement shall state that bids will be received for the franchise and that it will be awarded to the highest bidder. The advertisement shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6006
  The publication shall state the character of the franchise or privilege proposed to be granted, the term for which it is granted, and, if it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6007
  The advertisement shall also contain a statement that the franchise will be struck off, sold, and awarded to the person, firm, or corporation making the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6008
  Each sealed bid shall be accompanied with cash or a certified check payable to the treasurer of the county or municipality for the full amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6009
  The successful bidder shall deposit with the clerk of the county or municipality, within 24 hours of the acceptance of his bid, the remaining 90...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6010
  (a) The advertisement may also contain a statement that the successful bidder for any franchise or privilege struck off, sold, and awarded under this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6010.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any franchise heretofore or hereafter granted shall not be invalid or subject to revocation because the bond required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6011
  If the franchise is a renewal of a right already in existence, payment of the percentage of gross receipts shall begin at once upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6012
  If the franchise granted is an extension of an existing street railroad system, the gross receipts shall be estimated to be one-half of the proportion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6013
  Work to erect or lay telegraph or telephone wires, to construct street or interurban railroads, to lay gas pipes for the purpose of carrying gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6014
  Work to construct street or interurban railroads shall be completed within not more than three years from the granting of the franchise, and if not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6015
  Work under any franchise other than for a street or interurban railroad shall be prosecuted diligently and in good faith so as to meet and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6016
  The Attorney General, upon the complaint of any county or municipality, or, in his discretion, upon the complaint of any taxpayer, shall sue for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6017
  Any member of a governing or legislative body of any county, city and county, or city, who, by his vote, violates or attempts to violate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6041
  In all cases where application is made to the governing or legislative body of a city or city and county for permission and authority to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6091
  All cities and cities and counties are empowered to grant franchises for the laying of pipes in the streets, roads, avenues, alleys, and public highways...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6092
  The granting of franchises under this article shall be pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6201
  This chapter may be cited as the Franchise Act of 1937.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6201.3
  As used in this chapter, "industrial gas" means any substance which is in a gaseous state at ambient conditions of temperature and pressure used for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6201.5
  As used in this chapter, municipality includes counties, but no county shall grant a franchise pursuant to this chapter in any incorporated area.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6202
  The legislative body of any municipality may grant a franchise to any person, firm, or corporation, whether operating under an existing franchise or not, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6203
  The legislative body may in such a franchise impose such other and additional terms and conditions not in conflict with this chapter, whether governmental or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6204
  This chapter provides a procedure, alternative to the procedure provided in Article 1 of Chapter 1 of this division, for the granting of franchises by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6205
  This chapter does not apply to any municipality having a freeholders' charter adopted and ratified under the Constitution and having in such charter provisions for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6205.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6205, all franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges granted to a public utility by any city, county, or city and county holding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6231
  An applicant for a franchise shall file with the legislative body of the municipality in which the franchise is desired an application stating all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6231.5
  (a) An applicant for a franchise to build and operate a pipeline system transmitting oil or products thereof shall file with the legislative body of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6232
  Upon receipt of the application the legislative body of the municipality may pass its resolution declaring its intention to grant the franchise applied for, stating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6233
  The notice of the time and place of hearing objections shall state that the grantee of the franchise and its successors and assigns will, during...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6234
  At any time not later than the hour set for the hearing of objections, any person interested may make written protest stating objections against the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6235
  A franchise granted under this chapter does not become effective until the grantee files written acceptance thereof with the clerk of the granting municipality. When...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6261
  Any franchise granted under this chapter with respect to a given utility service is in lieu of all other franchises, rights, or privileges owned by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6262
  No franchise granted under this chapter in any way impairs or affects the right of the granting municipality to acquire the property of the grantee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6263
  No franchise granted under this chapter shall ever be given any value before any court or other public authority in any proceeding of any character...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6264
  Every franchise granted pursuant to this chapter, except when a definite term therefor is specified in the ordinance granting it, is indeterminate, that is to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6265
  Every gas franchise granted pursuant to this chapter confers upon the grantee the right to use, or to lay and use, gas pipes and appurtenances...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6291
  If the grantee of any franchise granted under this chapter fails, neglects or refuses to comply with any of the provisions or conditions prescribed in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6292
  Any municipality may sue in its own name for the forfeiture of any franchise granted pursuant to this chapter, in the event of noncompliance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6293
  The grantee shall pay to the municipality a sum of money sufficient to reimburse it for all publication expenses incurred by it in connection with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6294
  The grantee of a franchise under this chapter shall construct, install, and maintain all pipes, conduits, poles, wires, and appurtenances in accordance and in conformity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6295
  The grantee shall pay to the municipality on demand the cost of all repairs to public property made necessary by any of the operations of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6296
  The grantee shall indemnify and hold harmless the municipality and its officers from all liability for damages proximately resulting from any operations under the franchise.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6297
  The grantee shall remove or relocate without expense to the municipality any facilities installed, used, and maintained under the franchise if and when made necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6298
  The grantee shall file with the legislative body of the municipality within thirty (30) days after any sale, transfer, assignment, or lease of the franchise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6299
  The grantee shall file with the clerk of the municipality, within three (3) months after the expiration of the calendar year, or fractional calendar year,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6300
  The grantee shall pay to the municipality within fifteen (15) days after the time for filing its statement of gross receipts, in lawful money of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6301
  (a) The grantee of a franchise under this chapter may be required to file a bond running to the municipality approved by the legislative body,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6302
  The grantee of a franchise under this chapter shall be liable to the granting municipality for all damages proximately resulting from the failure of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6350
  There is hereby created a surcharge to be applied to natural gas and electricity transported over utility and nonutility transmission or distribution systems, or both,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6351
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Municipality" includes counties. (b) "Energy transporter" means and includes every utility and nonutility owner or operator, or both, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6352
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transportation customer who receives transportation service on a natural gas or electric transmission or distribution system, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6353
  For purpose of calculating the surcharge required in Section 6352, the energy transporter shall do all of the following: (a) For each transportation customer, determine...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6354
  (a) Surcharges calculated pursuant to Section 6353 shall be recovered from the transportation customer through the energy transporter's normal billing process. (b) Surcharges collected from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6354.1
  As an alternative to the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 6354, an energy transporter may elect to state on each customer's bill, including both...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6451
  The governing or legislative body of any city or city and county having on July 27, 1917, a freeholders' charter adopted under Section 8 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6452
  The resettlement franchise shall be granted after such publication and upon such notice as the governing or legislative body shall by resolution determine, or failing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6453
  After the final passage of a resettlement franchise, it shall be referred and submitted to the vote of the electors of the city or city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6454
  No resettlement franchise shall go into effect until it has received the approval of a majority of the electors voting thereon and until it has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6455
  Every resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall confer upon the grantee the right to occupy the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6456
  The grantee shall pay to the city or city and county such a percentage of the net revenue annually collected from any and all sources...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6457
  The legislative or governing body may in a resettlement franchise provide that any new franchise granted to the holder of the resettlement franchise shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6458
  The legislative or governing body may in the resettlement franchise provide that in case of consolidation or annexation to the city or city and county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6459
  Every resettlement franchise shall provide that the grantee shall surrender the franchises or rights, owned or claimed by the grantee, to occupy such portion of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6460
  The resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall be granted for an indeterminate period, subject always to the right of the city or city and county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6461
  The resettlement franchise shall be granted upon the express condition that the city or city and county may, at a valuation for the purpose of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6462
  The valuation for the purpose of public acquisition of property used and useful, or in the discretion of the city or city and county prospectively...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6463
  All expenses of the valuation by the Public Utilities Commission shall be paid by the city or city and county to the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6464
  The resettlement franchise shall provide that the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall never claim before any court or other public authority in any proceeding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6465
  The resettlement franchise may be amended from time to time by ordinance passed by the governing or legislative body of the city or city and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6466
  The power of the State, in the exercise of its police power or otherwise through the instrumentality of the Public Utilities Commission or other agency,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6467
  Nothing in this chapter, nor any provision of any franchise granted under this chapter, shall prevent a city or city and county from acquiring at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7000
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, a utility shall mean all of the following: (1) An electric corporation. (2) A water corporation. (3) A telephone...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7001
  For purposes of this chapter, "authority" means the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as defined in Section 100011.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7002
  When a utility enters into a relocation agreement with the authority in connection with a transit or transportation capital improvement project, the agreement may include,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7003
  (a) If a utility, cable television corporation, or cable operator abandons utility relocation work under a relocation agreement with the authority in connection with a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7004
  The rights and remedies available to the authority under this article are nonexclusive and are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7005
  This chapter applies only if all of the following occurs: (a) The authority has executed a formal, written utility relocation agreement with the utility, cable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7503
  Any person or any corporation formed under the laws of this State or of any other state within the United States that the directors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7505
  (a) Revenue derived from passenger rail service on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad right-of-way south of Willits to Larkspur shall only be used for capital improvements...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7508
  Subject to the provisions of Part 1 of Division 1 and of the Corporations Code, any railroad corporation, or person or corporation owning any railroad...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7526
  Every railroad corporation has all of the following powers: (a) To make such examination and surveys as are necessary to the selection of the most...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7527
  Every railroad corporation also has all of the following powers: (a) To carry persons and property on its railroad, and to receive tolls or compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7528
  Every person or corporation authorized to operate a railroad is authorized to use steam, diesel, electricity, compressed air, or any other suitable motive power, for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7529
  Railroad corporations doing business in this State and organized under any law of this State or the United States, or of any state or territory...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7530
  Every railroad corporation in this State shall, within a reasonable time after its road is finally located, make a map and profile thereof, and of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7531
  If, at any time after the location of the line of the railroad and the filing of the maps and profiles thereof, it appears that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7531.5
  Upon receipt by it of an application, filed with either the federal Surface Transportation Board or the Public Utilities Commission, to abandon a line of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7533
  The board of directors of any railroad corporation may at any time after the original location and construction of its railroad, in order to provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7535
  Whenever the track of one railroad intersects or crosses the track of another railroad, whether it is a street railroad, wholly within the limits of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7536
  Whenever the track of a railroad crosses another railroad or a highway, such railroad or highway may be carried under, over, or on a level...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7537
  The owner of any lands along or through which any railroad is constructed or maintained, may have such farm or private crossings over the railroad...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7538
  At every farm or private grade crossing of a railroad where no automatic grade crossing protective device is in place there shall be installed, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7551
  Every railroad corporation is granted the right of way for the location, construction, and maintenance of its necessary works, and for every necessary adjunct thereto,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7551.1
  The Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency may grant to every railroad corporation whose primary business is the transportation of passengers the rights-of-way...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7551.3
  (a) To ensure that a fair and reasonable price is paid for public acquisition of railroad rights-of-way, it is the intent of the Legislature to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7552
  (a) Every railroad corporation is granted the right, subject to subdivision (b), to take from any of the lands belonging to the state, adjacent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7553
  When any selection of a right of way, or land for an adjunct to the works of a railroad corporation, is made by any corporation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7554
  If any corporation receiving state lands or appurtenances thereunder is dissolved, ceases to exist, is discontinued, or the route or line of its works is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7555
  No railroad corporation may use any street, alley, or highway, or any of the land, whether covered by water or otherwise, owned by any city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7556
  The governing body of a county, city and county, or city, under such regulations, restrictions, and limitations, and upon such terms and payment of license...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7556.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7556, to railroad corporations whose primary business is the transportation of passengers, the governing body of a county, city and county, or city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7557
  Where any railroad or street railroad tracks are located on property that a public entity is authorized to acquire by eminent domain for road, highway,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7576
  In any contract for the sale of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it is lawful to agree that title to the property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7577
  In any contract for the leasing or hiring of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it is lawful to stipulate for a conditioned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7578
  No contract of the type provided for in this article shall be valid as against any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent bona fide purchaser...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7601
  Except as provided in Section 7602 every common carrier by railroad operating within this State shall maintain, on what is known as passing track sidings,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7602
  Section 7601 does not apply to any track, siding, spur, or other track owned by private persons for their own use, except when the track,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7603
  Any corporation, company, or person, or any officer, superintendent, manager, or other agent thereof, who violates any of the provisions of Sections 7601 or 7602,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7604
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), a bell, siren, horn, whistle, or similar audible warning device shall be sounded at any public crossing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7605
  Every railroad corporation, or receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this State by steam locomotives, shall equip all steam locomotives used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7606
  Every steam locomotive used upon a railroad in this State, carrying passengers or freight for hire, shall be equipped with one or more water glasses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7607
  Every railroad corporation, or receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this State, shall equip all locomotive engines used in the transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7608
  Every railroad company, or the receiver or receivers of any railroad, operating trains within this state, shall provide a first aid kit containing written instructions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7609
  Every railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, operating trains in whole or in part within this State, shall provide an emergency first-aid kit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7610
  The employee of any railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, having charge of any passenger train, caboose, locomotive, motor or diesel engine shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7611
  Any person or any employee of any railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, who removes, carries away from its proper place, or uses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7612
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the boundaries of the State of California and engaged...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7613
  On and after July 1, 1954, any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within this State as a common carrier of persons...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7614
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the boundaries of the State of California and engaged...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7626
  Every railroad corporation shall make and maintain a good and sufficient fence on both sides of its track and property. If it does not and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7627
  A railroad corporation that pays to the owner of the land through or along which its road is located an agreed price for making and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7628
  The commission may require every railroad corporation operating any steam or electric railroad in this State to erect and maintain lawful fences on each or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7629
  The authority of the commission to require such fences shall be exercised in each instance only when a verified application is filed with the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7630
  Upon hearing the commission shall determine whether or not any fence or fences are necessary to protect cattle, horses, mules, or any other domestic animals...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7631
  The failure of any railroad corporation to comply with any order of the commission authorized by this article shall not subject it, or any of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7653
  Every railroad corporation shall furnish, on the inside of its passenger cars, sufficient room and accommodations for all passengers to whom tickets are sold for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7654
  Every railroad corporation shall print and conspicuously post on the inside of its passenger cars its rules and regulations regarding fare and conduct of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7655
  A check shall be affixed to every package or parcel of baggage when taken for transportation by any agent or employee of a railroad corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7656
  If any passenger refuses to pay his fare, or to exhibit or surrender his ticket, when reasonably requested to do so, the conductor and employees...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7657
  Every conductor, baggage master, engineer, brakeman, or other employee of any railroad corporation, employed on a passenger train or at stations for passengers, shall wear...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7658
  No city or county or city and county ordinance which establishes a limit on the speed of trains shall be valid unless that ordinance has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7659
  Notwithstanding any city or county or city and county ordinance to the contrary, no railroad conductor or engineer, who, while operating a train, obstructs a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7660
  The commission, in authorizing any restrictions on the speed of rail services, shall do so only upon receipt of evidence and a finding (a) that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7661
  (a) The commission shall require every railroad corporation operating in this state to develop, within 90 days of the effective date of the act adding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7662
  (a) (1) A railroad corporation shall place appropriate signage to notify an engineer of an approaching grade crossing, consistent with federal law. (2) Whistle post...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7663
  Whenever the Department of the California Highway Patrol or a designated local public safety agency responds to a railroad accident, the accident shall be reported...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665
  (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Local Community Rail Security Act of 2006. (b) The Legislature declares that the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.1
  Unless the context requires otherwise, for purposes of this article: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Emergency
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.2
  By July 1, 2007, every operator of rail facilities shall provide a risk assessment to the commission and the agency for each rail facility in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.3
  The agency may provide the risk assessment provided pursuant to Section 7665.2 to other law enforcement or emergency personnel.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.4
  (a) By January 1, 2008, every rail operator shall develop and implement an infrastructure protection program to protect rail infrastructure in the state from acts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.6
  Every rail operator shall, for all facilities that handle hazardous cargo, do all the following: (a) Secure all facilities that handle or store hazardous materials...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7665.8
  Every rail operator shall provide communications capability that can accomplish all of the following: (a) Timely alerting local and state law enforcement personnel, emergency personnel,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7666
  No rail operator or any other person covered by this article may act to punish an employee who reports a violation of this article. An...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7667
  The provisions of this article are severable. If any provision of this article or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7671
  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this article is to protect the health and safety of the public and to improve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7672
  For purposes of this article, "hazardous material" means either of the following: (a) A hazardous material, as defined in Section 171.8 of Title 49 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7672.5
  Any railroad corporation which is involved in an incident resulting in a release, or threatened release, of a hazardous material shall immediately report the type...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7673
  Each railroad corporation which transports hazardous materials in the state shall do all of the following: (a) Provide a system map of the state to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7676
  Every person who, in making up or running any railroad train, places or runs, or causes to be placed or run, any freight car in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7677
  No person, firm, or corporation operating a railroad with more than four trains each way every 24 hours shall require or permit any engineer, fireman,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7677.1
  Radio or other means of communication not hereinabove referred to in Section 7677 may be used for the purpose of transmitting orders for the movement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7678
  Except as provided in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (a) of Section 7604, every person in charge of a locomotive engine who, before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7679
  Any person employed upon any railroad as engineer, conductor, baggage-master, brakeman, switchman, fireman, bridge-tender, flagman, or signalman, or having charge of the regulation or running...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7680
  Every conductor, engineer, brakeman, switchman, or other person having charge, wholly or in part, of any railroad, car, locomotive, or train, who willfully or negligently...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7681
  Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender, or other officer, agent, or servant of any railroad company, who is guilty of any wilful violation or omission of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7700
  By Section 803 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, designated in this chapter as the "act," Congress has established a local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7701
  The Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the commission and other affected state and local agencies, shall be responsible for the preparation and periodic update...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7702
  The Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the commission and other affected state and local agencies, shall perform the duties required by the act in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7703
  The Department of Transportation shall administer a program of projects for rail service assistance financed in whole or in part with funds derived pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7704
  To the maximum extent permitted by federal law, rules, and regulations, the Department of Transportation shall recover the costs of administering this chapter from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7705
  The Governor, the Secretary of the Business and Transportation Agency, and the Department of Transportation may enter into such agreements, execute such documents, establish and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7710
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Commission" shall mean the Public Utilities Commission. (b) "Fund" means the Rail Accident Prevention...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7711
  The commission shall annually report to the Legislature, on or before July 1, on sites on railroad lines in the state it finds to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7711.1
  The commission shall collect and analyze near-miss data generated from incidents occurring at railroad crossings and along the rail right-of-way. For purposes of this section,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7712
  On or before January 1, 1993, the commission shall adopt regulations, based on its findings and not inconsistent with federal law. The commission may amend...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7713
  (a) The Rail Accident Prevention and Response Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and the money in the fund is available for appropriation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7714
  (a) The Hazardous Spill Prevention Account in the Railroad Accident Prevention and Response Fund is hereby created. The moneys deposited in the prevention account shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7714.5
  (a) In accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to Section 7713, the secretary shall establish a fee schedule, which shall be paid by each surface transporter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7718
  (a) The Railroad Accident Prevention and Immediate Deployment Force is hereby created in the California Environmental Protection Agency. The force shall be responsible for providing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7720
  (a) (1) When an appropriate prosecuting agency determines that any person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any acts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7721
  Every civil action commenced pursuant to this article for civil or criminal penalties authorized by this article shall be brought by the city attorney, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7722
  Any civil action brought in the superior court pursuant to this article shall be brought in the county in which the spill, discharge, or violation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7723
  The civil and criminal penalties provided in this article are separate and in addition to, and do not supersede or limit, any other civil or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7724
  (a) Any person who commits any of the following acts, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7724.1
  (a) If a person reasonably, and in good faith, believes that the directions or orders given by the secretary or the commission would substantially endanger...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7724.5
  (a) Any person who commits any of the acts set forth in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, shall be liable for a civil penalty not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7725
  Twenty-five percent of penalties and fines collected pursuant to any action brought under Sections 7724 and 7724.5 shall be paid to the governmental agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7726
  (a) When the secretary or the commission determines that any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or threatens to engage in, any practice or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7727
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter shall not be construed to make a reference to the California Environmental Protection Agency for the purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7801
  Street railroads are governed by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7501), so far as it is applicable, unless street railroads are therein specially excepted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7802
  When a street railroad is constructed, owned, or operated by any natural person, this chapter is applicable to such person in like manner as it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7803
  Any street railroad or any street railway corporation may sell, lease, convey, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7804
  Authority to lay railroad tracks through the streets and public highways of any city or city and county may be obtained for a term of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7805
  The city governing body, in granting the right of way to a street railroad corporation, in addition to the restrictions which they are authorized to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7806
  The legislative body of any city or city and county may permit two or more lines of street railway to use the same portion of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7807
  Where the portion of the street is occupied by a track or tracks of a different gauge from the track or tracks proposed to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7808
  Any city or city and county may own and operate street railways within or without its corporate limits and may occupy the same street or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7809
  Any proposed railroad track may be permitted to cross any track already constructed, the crossing being made as provided in Chapter 1 of this division....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7810
  Street railway cars shall be of the most approved construction for the comfort and convenience of passengers, and provided with brakes to stop them, when...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7811
  Cities in or through which street railroads run may make such further regulations for the government of the street railroads as may be necessary to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7812
  In every grant to construct street railroads, the right to grade, sewer, pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve, alter, or repair the streets or highways, is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7813
  The right to lay down a track for grading purposes and to maintain it for a period not to exceed three years may be granted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7814
  Any corporation, or agent or employee thereof, demanding or charging a greater sum of money for fare on the cars of a street railroad than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7815
  Every street railroad corporation shall provide, and on request furnish to all persons desiring a passage on its cars, any required quantity of passenger tickets...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7816
  Upon the trial of an action for any of the sums forfeited, as provided in Sections 7814 or 7815, proof that the person demanding or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7817
  Any street railroad corporation operating cars on the streets of cities or on the county roads within the State for the conveyance of passengers, propelled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7818
  Any person operating or driving a street car who becomes or is intoxicated while so engaged in operating or driving such street car is guilty...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7901
  Telegraph or telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone lines along and upon any public road or highway, along or across any of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7901.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, consistent with Section 7901, that municipalities shall have the right to exercise reasonable control as to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7903
  Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph or telephone office, who in any way uses or appropriates any information derived by him from any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7904
  Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph or telephone office, who wilfully refuses or neglects to send any message received at such office for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7905
  The Public Utilities Commission shall issue regulations requiring every telephone corporation subject to its jurisdiction to maintain complete records of all instances in which its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7906
  The Public Utilities Commission shall regularly make inquiry of every telephone corporation under its jurisdiction to determine whether or not such corporation is taking adequate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7907
  Notwithstanding Section 591, 631, or 632 of the Penal Code or Section 7906 of this code, whenever the supervising law enforcement official having jurisdiction has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7910
  (a) Telephone corporations, holders of a state franchise pursuant to Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 5800), and a video provider, as defined in Section 53088.1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7912
  (a) A public utility employing more than 750 total employees shall annually report to the commission all of the following: (1) The number of customers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7930
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The explosive demand for new area codes in California requires more area codes to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7931
  (a) This chapter is applicable to telephone corporations, including resellers, and to paging companies, hereafter referred to as providers. (b) For purposes of this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7932
  (a) Whenever a provider opens a new area code, it shall do all of the following: (1) If the new area code plan permits seven-digit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7933
  The rate structure of any call originating in or made to an area code shall not change with the split of an area code into...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7934
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The number of area codes in this state has more than doubled since 1991. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7935
  (a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess prefixes to efficiently allocate telephone numbers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7936
  The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to obtain utilization data for any area code for which a relief plan is proposed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7937
  (a) On or before March 1, 2000, the commission shall request from each telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7938
  The commission shall require, as an interim measure until the commission develops procedures for number pooling or adopts utilization standards, that number assignments made by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7939
  (a) If the commission or an authorized federal agency establishes a process to ensure that telephone numbers can be allocated in blocks smaller than 10,000,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7940
  A telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more telephone number prefixes, or portions thereof, shall provide to the commission or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7943
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when the commission has no reasonable alternative other than to create a new area code, that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7951
  Any person who wilfully and maliciously does any injury to telegraph or telephone or electric power or gas property is liable to the corporation for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7952
  Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful facility or equipment of any telegraph, telephone, electrical, or gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7953
  No telegraph, telephone, electrical or gas corporation can recover damages for the breaking, injury or destruction of any underwater cable or gas pipeline, unless the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8001
  Unless the particular provisions or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8002
  "Person" includes any commission, officer, agent, or employee of this State, or of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision thereof, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8003
  "Signal wires or cables" include telephone, telegraph, and other signal wires.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8026
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, on any pole, or any crossarm, bracket, or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8027
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain in the vicinity of any pole (and unattached thereto) within the distance of 13 inches from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8028
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain, above ground, within four feet from any wire or cable conducting less than 600 volts of electricity,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8029
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable which conducts at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity, without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8029.5
  No person shall place, erect, or maintain on any pole any transformer, capacitor, or other electrical device containing polychlorinated biphenyls for transforming electric current, when...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8030
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any guy wire or guy cable attached to any pole or appliance to which is attached any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8031
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain vertically on any pole any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, without causing such wire or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8032
  No person shall place, erect, or maintain on any pole, or any crossarm or other appliance on the pole, which carries or upon which is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8033
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable carrying more than 15,000 volts of electricity across any wire or cable carrying...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8034
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any suspension wire to which is attached any aerial cable of 75 pair No. 19 Brown and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8035
  None of the provisions of Sections 8026 to 8034, inclusive, apply to direct current electric wires or cables having the same polarity, nor to signal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8036
  No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any span wire attached to any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, without causing the span...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8037
  The commission may grant such additional time and shall inspect all work which is included in the provisions of this article, and may make such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8038
  Any violation of any provision of this article is a misdemeanor.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8051
  No person shall build or rebuild any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8052
  No person shall build or rebuild in any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8053
  No person shall build or rebuild in any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room, used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8054
  No person shall build or rebuild any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room, used or to be used, to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8055
  No person shall build or rebuild or maintain any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used, or to be used, to contain, encase, cover, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8056
  The commission may inspect all work which is included in the provisions of this article, and may make such further additions or changes as the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8057
  Any violation of any provision of this article is a misdemeanor.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8101
  Under certain conditions the sale and distribution of electric power and energy in the same geographical area both by an electrical utility and by an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8102
  Any utility may petition the commission setting forth in its petition the following: (a) That the petitioner and an irrigation district formed under the laws...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8103
  Thereupon, the commission shall cause an investigation to be made and may conduct such hearings in connection therewith as it considers desirable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8104
  If the commission finds that it is for the best interests of the State and of the utility, and not incompatible with any public interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8106
  Where limitation of areas to be served or limitations or designations of areas not to be served by the utility and by an irrigation district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8107
  In any civil or criminal action or proceeding for violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 530, Statues of 1907), Part 2 of Division 7 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8108
  If, in any contract submitted and approved by the commission or in any order made by the commission pursuant to application and petition as in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8201
  Any water company having a franchise to use the streets of a city, shall properly and adequately serve with water the inhabitants of the territory...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8202
  If the commission has jurisdiction of extensions and service in the city it shall enforce a compliance with Section 8201. If the commission does not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8203
  In addition to the penalties which may be provided by the governing body of a city for failure to comply with such regulations adopted by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8204
  "Water company" as used in this article, includes any person, firm, or private corporation engaged in the business of supplying water for domestic use within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8226
  The Governor of the state may, upon the application of any railroad company, appoint and commission during his or her pleasure one or more persons...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8227
  Every peace officer designated under Section 8226 shall, when in uniform, wear in plain view a shield bearing the words "railroad police," and the name...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8251
  It is unlawful for any public service corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8252
  Each violation of this article by any person, firm, association, or corporation is a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8276
  The commission shall prohibit any public utility that has any retirement funds invested in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8277
  The commission shall require every public utility to provide the commission with a list of its retirement fund investments in the government of Libya, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8278
  The commission shall verify the accuracy of the information provided pursuant to Section 8277, and shall disallow any losses incurred as a result of investments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8279
  This article does not prevent the commission from applying this article to public utility retirement fund investments in other countries such as, but not limited...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8281
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free, open, and transparent competition. Only...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8282
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Women business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is at least 51 percent owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8283
  (a) The commission shall require each electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with gross annual revenues exceeding twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8284
  (a) (1) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt criteria for verifying and determining the eligibility of women and minority business enterprises for procurement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8285
  (a) Any person or corporation, through its directors, officers, or agents, which falsely represents a business as a women or minority business enterprise in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8286
  (a) In order to facilitate the participation of women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, disabled veteran-owned businesses, and small businesses in contract procurement, any corporation subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8301
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Nuclear Powerplant Communities Information Act of 1985.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8302
  Every privately owned and publicly owned public utility generating electricity by means of any nuclear powerplant and every privately owned and publicly owned public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8321
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act of 1985.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8322
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The citizens of California should be protected from exposure to radiation from nuclear facilities....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8323
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to protect electric customers, both present and future, from the risks of unreasonable costs...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8324
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Board" means the board of directors or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8325
  (a) Each electrical corporation owning, in whole or in part, or operating nuclear facilities, located in California or elsewhere, shall establish an externally managed, segregated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8326
  (a) Each electrical utility owning, in whole or in part, or operating a nuclear facility, located in California or elsewhere, shall provide a decommissioning cost...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8327
  The commission or the board shall review, in conjunction with each proceeding of the electrical utility held for the purpose of considering changes in electrical...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8328
  The expenses associated with decommissioning of nuclear facilities shall be paid from the funds established pursuant to Section 8325. If the money in the funds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8329
  The commission or the board shall, for purposes of establishing rates or charges, review and approve the estimated service life and estimated retirement date of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8330
  Every electrical utility involved in decommissioning, closure, or removal of nuclear facilities, shall provide assistance in finding comparable alternative employment opportunities for its employees who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8340
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Baseload generation" means electricity generation from a powerplant that is designed and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8341
  (a) No load-serving entity or local publicly owned electric utility may enter into a long-term financial commitment unless any baseload generation supplied under the long-term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8350
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Load-serving entity" has the same meaning as that term is defined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8341
  (a) No load-serving entity or local publicly owned electric utility may enter into a long-term financial commitment unless any baseload generation supplied under the long-term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8360
  It is the policy of the state to modernize the state's electrical transmission and distribution system to maintain safe, reliable, efficient, and secure electrical service,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8361
  For purposes of this chapter, "ISO" means the Independent System Operator operating pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 345) of Chapter 2.3 of Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8362
  (a) By July 1, 2010, the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the ISO, and other key stakeholders shall determine the requirements for a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8363
  This chapter shall be implemented in a manner that does not compromise customer or worker safety or the integrity or reliability of the electrical transmission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8364
  (a) By July 1, 2011, each electrical corporation shall develop and submit a smart grid deployment plan to the commission for approval. (b) This section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8366
  Smart grid technology may be deployed in a manner to maximize the benefit and minimize the cost to ratepayers and to achieve the benefits of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8367
  By January 1, 2011, and by January 1 of each year thereafter, the commission shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the commission's...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8368
  The commission may modify or adjust the requirements of this chapter for any electrical corporation with fewer than 100,000 service connections, as individual circumstances merit.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8369
  Each local publicly owned electric utility with more than 100,000 service connections, shall, by July 1, 2011, develop a smart grid deployment plan, that is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8380
  (a) For purposes of this section, "electrical or gas consumption data" means data about a customer's electrical or natural gas usage that is made available...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8381
  (a) For purposes of this section, "electrical consumption data" means data about a customer's electrical usage that is made available as part of an advanced...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9500
  (a) Each publicly owned electric and gas utility that provides the energy for space heating for low-income customers shall also provide home weatherization services for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9501
  Each publicly owned electric and gas utility shall develop and implement its low-income home weatherization program, in consultation with gas and electrical corporations and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9502
  On or before December 1, 1994, and on a biennial basis thereafter, each publicly owned electric and gas utility shall submit a report to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9510
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that in order to promote wireline and wireless broadband access and adoption, it is in the interest of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9510.5
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Communications service provider" means a cable television corporation, video service provider, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9511
  (a) A local publicly owned electric utility shall make appropriate space and capacity on and in a utility pole and support structure owned or controlled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9511.5
  (a) If a local publicly owned electric utility has the authority pursuant to other law to impose a fee to provide the use described in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9512
  (a) (1) An annual fee charged by a local publicly owned electric utility for the use of a utility pole by a communications service provider...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9513
  (a) A local publicly owned electric utility may require an additional one-time charge equal to three years of the annual fee described in Section 9512,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9514
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit a local publicly owned electric utility from requiring a one-time fee to process a request for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9515
  (a) In the event that it becomes necessary for the local publicly owned electric utility to use space or capacity on or in a support...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9516
  (a) (1) Before adopting, or increasing, a fee described in this part, or adopting or changing the terms and conditions of access subject to this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9517
  (a) Any person or entity may protest the adoption or imposition of, or increase of, a fee described in this part, or adoption or change...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9518
  (a) A judicial action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an ordinance, resolution, motion, or contract adopting, or increasing, a fee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9519
  (a) A person or entity, or trade association representing that person or entity, may request an audit in order to determine whether a fee described...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9520
  (a) Nothing in this part alters the ability of a local publicly owned electric utility to determine who performs work for the local publicly owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9600
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that California's local publicly owned electric utilities and electric corporations should commit control of their transmission facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9601
  (a) Except with respect to supply options of the nature specified in Section 218, with the exception of paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9602
  (a) After a public hearing, the local regulatory body of each local publicly owned electric utility shall determine whether it will authorize direct transactions between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9603
  (a) Not less than six months prior to the date of implementation of direct transactions, the regulatory body shall establish the nonbypassable generation-related severance fee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9604
  For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply: (a) "Direct transaction" means a contract between one or more electric generators, marketers, or brokers, public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9605
  (a) Nothing in this division or Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 350) of Part 1 of Division 1 shall affect preexisting ratemaking authority of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9606
  All city-owned electric utilities shall report on the periodic bill the amount expected to be transferred from the utility to the general fund, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9607
  (a) The intent of this section is to avoid cost-shifting to customers of an electrical corporation resulting from the transfer of distribution services from an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9608
  Sections 454.1 and 9607 of this code and Section 56133 of the Government Code do not apply to an irrigation district with respect to an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9610
  Commencing on January 1, 2001, and continuing through December 31, 2025, inclusive, all of the following shall apply: (a) An electrical corporation may not provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9611
  Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 56100) of Part 1 of Division 3 of the Government Code does not apply to electric service provided by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9612
  The Legislature finds and declares that the policies stated in Section 8101 to 8108, inclusive, would be furthered and that it would be in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9614
  (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, a local publicly owned electric utility shall notify each air pollution control district and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9615
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility, in procuring energy to serve the load of its retail end-use customers, shall first acquire all available energy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9615.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, "comparative electricity usage disclosure program" means a program pursuant to which a local publicly owned electric utility discloses information...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9620
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility serving end-use customers, shall prudently plan for and procure resources that are adequate to meet its planning reserve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10001
  "Public utility" as used in this article, means the supply of a municipal corporation alone or together with its inhabitants, or any portion thereof, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10002
  Any municipal corporation may acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10003
  The power to acquire and operate a public utility includes the power to complete, reconstruct, extend, change, enlarge, and repair a public utility acquired, constructed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10004
  For the purpose set forth in Sections 10002 and 10003 a municipal corporation may acquire, own, control, sell, or exchange lands, easements, licenses, and rights...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10004.5
  (a) Except as provided for in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a municipal corporation that provides electric utility service, to attack, review,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10005
  Whenever, in the operation of a utility, a municipality develops an excess of water, light, heat, or power, over and above the amount which is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10006
  No lease of a public utility is valid for a period of more than 15 years, and all such leases shall be let to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10007
  (a) Every public utility furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when such advertising encourages increased consumption of such services or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10009
  (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling. (b) If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10009.1
  (a) If a public utility furnishes light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10009.6
  (a) The decision of a public utility to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the public utility prior to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10010
  (a) No public utility furnishing light, water, power, or heat may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the public utility first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10010.1
  (a) No public utility furnishing light, heat, water, or power may terminate residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10011
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water public utility shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause cessation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10011.5
  Whenever a business transaction of a public utility, as defined in Section 10001, furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10012
  Every public utility shall comply with Section 8029.5.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10013
  (a) Subsequent to signing a contingent franchise, license, or service agreement with a local agency, a privatizer shall apply to the commission for a determination...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10014
  The commission may enter into a contract with a local agency to provide any technical assistance needed to comply with Section 10013, if the contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10051
  Any municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this State may as provided in this article sell and dispose of any public utility that it
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10052
  Whenever the legislative body of a municipal corporation by a resolution passed by two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest and necessity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10053
  The ordinance calling the special election shall recite the object for which the election is to be held, the purpose for which the proceeds of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10054
  The ordinance shall be published once a day for at least 12 days in a newspaper published at least six days a week in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10055
  The votes of two-thirds of all voters voting at the election are necessary to authorize the sale of the public utility described in the ordinance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10056
  The resolution and ordinance may provide for the sale of more than one public utility, but in such case the question of selling each public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10057
  If the vote cast at the election is in favor of the sale of the public utility mentioned in the ordinance calling for the election,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10058
  At the date fixed for receiving bids the legislative body of the municipal corporation shall open and examine all bids received and may sell the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10059
  When a bid is accepted by the legislative body of the municipal corporation, the legislative body may by resolution authorize its mayor, or president of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10060
  The proceeds of the sale of the public utility shall be placed in the municipal treasury and shall be applied exclusively for the purposes and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10061
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 1 (commencing with Section 10001) and this article, a municipal corporation, by following the provisions of this section, may lease, sell or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10101
  There is granted to every municipal corporation of the State the right to construct, operate, and maintain water and gas pipes, mains and conduits, electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10102
  A municipal corporation exercising its rights under this article shall restore the road, street, alley, avenue, highway, canal, ditch, or flume so used to its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10103
  Before any municipal corporation uses any street, alley, avenue, or highway within any other municipal corporation, it shall request the municipal corporation in which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10104
  If the two municipal corporations are unable to agree on the terms and conditions and location of a use within three months after a proposal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10105
  A grant of authority from or agreement with another municipality is not necessary in any case where the street, alley, avenue, or highway, or portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10106
  This article does not authorize the construction of any sanitary sewer within the territorial limits of any other municipality if the method of disposition of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10107
  Nothing in this article limits in any respect the jurisdiction, powers, and duties vested by law in the Public Utilities Commission or, with respect to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10151
  There is granted to every municipal corporation of the State the right of way for the location, construction, and maintenance of water works and works...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10152
  There is granted to every municipal corporation of the State the right to take from any of the lands belonging to the State adjacent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10153
  There is granted to every municipal corporation of the State the right to take, in the manner provided by law, any waters belonging to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10154
  If the route or location of any works or adjuncts is changed so as not to cover or cross the lands selected under this article,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10155
  When any selection of a right of way or land is made under this article by any municipal corporation, the legislative body thereof shall transmit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10201
  This article is intended to provide a means of making the work and improvements herein mentioned useful and beneficial to the lands or property assessed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10202
  When any legislative body elects to proceed under this article, the provisions hereof only shall apply and the limitations herein shall be followed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10203
  This article and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed to the end that the purposes hereof may be effective.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10204
  "District," as used in this article, includes any district for which the legislative body of any county or city may make contracts.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10205
  Whenever, under any street improvement act under which public work or improvements may be installed or constructed and the costs and expenses assessed in whole...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10206
  Before granting such permission the legislative body of the county or city shall find that the public interest, convenience, and necessity require that the work...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10207
  The permission shall be signed by the mayor or other chief executive of the city or by the chairman of the board of supervisors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10208
  The permission shall state the time for which it is given, which shall not exceed two years, and describe the work or improvement for which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10209
  If any extensions of or additional installations for the work or improvement are necessary in order to serve all of the lands required to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10210
  The permission shall provide that the charge made by the permittee for gas or water shall not be greater than the charge therefor made by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10211
  The permission granted under this article to a private corporation or individual, not a public utility, and the furnishing of gas or water thereunder shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10212
  The permission shall expressly reserve to the legislative body granting it the right to terminate it whenever the city or county can conveniently furnish gas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10213
  The permission shall provide that if any district or public corporation is formed or extended, and if the district or public corporation can conveniently serve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10251
  Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful facility or equipment of any municipal corporation is liable to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10301
  The Legislature finds and declares that financing the acquisition of privately owned facilities of an electrical or gas corporation by a municipal corporation not previously...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10302
  As used in this article: (a) "Electrical corporation" means an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218. (b) "Gas corporation" means a gas corporation as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10303
  The use of certificates of participation by a municipal corporation not previously engaged in furnishing electricity or gas to customers on a regular and ongoing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11501
  This division may be cited as the "Municipal Utility District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11502
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11503
  "District" means a municipal utility district formed under this division or under Chapter 218 of the Statutes of 1921, as originally enacted or subsequently amended;...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11504
  "Public agency" includes a city, county water district, county sanitation district, or sanitary district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11505
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11506
  "Sewage disposal" means the acquisition, construction, enlargement, operation, and maintenance of intercepting sewers, sewage treatment works, pumping plants, outfall sewers, and appurtenances.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11507
  "Percent of the total vote cast," when used with reference to the requirements of any petition or nomination paper, means percent of the total vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11508
  "Solid Waste Resource Recovery" means the acquisition, construction, enlargement, operation, and maintenance of facilities for the purpose of collecting, reducing, separating, recovering, converting, and recycling...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11509
  "Electricity district" means a municipal utility district formed under this division that furnishes electricity to more than 100,000 customers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11531
  A municipal utility district may be created as provided in this division and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11532
  All persons who, at the time this division goes into effect, hold offices under Chapter 218 of the Statutes of 1921, as originally enacted or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11533
  Except as otherwise provided in this division elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11534
  Except as otherwise provided in this division all ordinances, summaries of ordinances, and notices that are required to be published shall be published once a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11535
  Whenever in this division publication in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district is required, and there is no such newspaper, then the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11536
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the Retirement Board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11561
  Any public agency together with unincorporated territory, or two or more public agencies, with or without unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as a municipal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11562
  A request for the formation of a district may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11581
  Legislative bodies of half or more of the public agencies proposed to be included in the proposed district may pass resolutions declaring that in their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11582
  The resolutions may state the kind of utility proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such utility shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11583
  Certified copies of the resolutions shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county containing the largest number of voters within the proposed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11611
  Instead of resolutions, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors of the county containing the largest number of voters within the proposed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11612
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolutions presented to a board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11613
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11614
  The clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in which the petition is presented shall compare the signatures to the petition with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11641
  Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolutions or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors to whom they are presented shall call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11642
  Before calling the election the board of supervisors shall divide the proposed district into five wards, the boundaries of which shall be so drawn that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11643
  Upon establishing the wards, the board of supervisors shall publish notice of the election within the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11643.1
  Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11643.2
  The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide assocation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11643.3
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11643.4
  The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11644
  The notice shall state the name of the proposed district, and describe the boundaries thereof and the boundaries of the wards provided for the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11645
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: ------------------------------------+-------+-----...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11646
  The ballots shall also contain the names of the persons nominated in each ward to serve as a member of the board from such ward,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11647
  Any person may be nominated for the office of director upon written petition of at least 50 voters of the ward in which such person
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11648
  Candidates for the office of director shall be voted upon at large, and every voter in the proposed district may vote for all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11649
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11650
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11651
  The board of supervisors which called the election shall meet on Monday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the votes cast thereat.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11652
  (a) The board of supervisors shall canvass, separately, the returns of each public agency and each parcel of unincorporated territory, if any. (b) Subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11653
  No person may serve as a director unless he is a resident and voter of the district as finally determined. Any vacancies on the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11654
  The board of supervisors shall also canvass the returns of the election with respect to the persons voted for as directors, and shall declare the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11655
  The board of supervisors calling the election shall make all provision for the holding thereof throughout the entire district as proposed, and shall pay the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11656
  If a special election is held exclusively on the proposition of organizing a district, the expenditure therefor shall be reimbursed to the county which called...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11681
  The board of supervisors shall cause a certified copy of the order declaring the result of the election to be filed in the Office of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11701
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11801
  The government of every district is vested in a board of five directors, one from each ward, together with the other officers mentioned in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11821
  The first directors are elected at the formation election as provided in Chapter 2. All elections of directors subsequent to the first shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11822
  Notice of election shall be published and no other notice of such election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11823
  The board shall by resolution or ordinance fix the boundaries of the wards for the purpose of electing directors therefrom. The board of directors shall,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11824
  The notice of election shall refer to the wards established by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11825
  Not more than 113 days prior to the election, upon request, the county elections official of the principal county containing the majority of the population...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11827
  Nomination papers may be circulated throughout the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11828
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the provisions of the Elections Code prescribed for independent nominations shall substantially govern the manner of appointment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11829
  The board shall in the notice, ordinance, or resolution calling an election consolidate it with the general election to be held at the same time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11830
  Candidates for the office of director shall be voted upon at large, and every voter in the district may vote for all of the directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11831
  Upon receipt of the returns of the canvass by the respective boards of supervisors the board shall meet and determine results of the election and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11832
  The secretary of the district shall issue certificates of election, signed by him and duly authenticated, immediately following the determination of the result of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11850
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any district formed prior to January 1, 1974, and containing a population of 1,000,000 or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11851
  In any district in which the number of directors is required to be increased from five to seven as provided in Section 11850, the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11852
  The two additional directors provided for by this article shall be nominated and elected in the manner and at the election called and conducted within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11853
  The two additional directors elected pursuant to this article shall take office immediately upon the issuance of the certificates of election by the secretary of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11854
  The term of office of the additional directors elected pursuant to this article shall be four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11855
  Nothing in this article shall effect the term of office of district directors in office on the effective date of this section.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the number of directors on the district board shall be increased from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857.1
  To effectuate the increase as provided in Section 11857, the board of directors in office on January 1, 1994, shall, by resolution or ordinance adopted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857.2
  The two additional directors provided for by this article shall be nominated and elected in the manner and at the election called and conducted within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857.3
  The two additional directors elected pursuant to this article shall take office immediately upon the issuance of the certificates of election by the secretary of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857.4
  The term of office of the additional directors elected pursuant to this article shall be four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11857.5
  Nothing in this article shall affect the term of office of district directors in office on the effective date of this section.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11861
  The directors elected at the formation election shall hold their respective offices only until the first day of January next following the next general election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11862
  Of the directors elected at the first election following the formation election, those three elected by the highest vote shall hold office for four years,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11863
  Directors elected at the formation election shall enter upon their official duties immediately upon the filing of the order declaring the result of the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11865
  Vacancies on the board shall be filled as provided in this section: (a) The remaining board members may fill the vacancy by appointment until the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11881
  The oath of office of directors shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after the director has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11882
  The board shall choose one of its members president, and another vice president, who shall be authorized to act for the president during his absence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11883
  The board is the legislative body of the district and determines all questions of policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11884
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this division shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11885
  The board shall supervise and regulate every utility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges, and classifications, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11886
  The board shall by resolution determine and create such number and character of positions as are necessary properly to carry on the functions of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11886.1
  The board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11887
  The board of any district having 600 or more employees may appoint not to exceed 15 employees to positions requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications, including...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11887.1
  The board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11887.2
  The board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11888
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11889
  The board shall employ an expert who shall examine and report, at least annually, upon the system of accounts kept by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11890
  The salaries or wages of all officers and employees of a district shall be paid periodically as the board may prescribe. At the expiration of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11891
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11891.5
  The board of any district which has owned and operated a water distribution system for at least 10 years and which maintains a system of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11891.6
  The board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11892
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of revolving funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11892.1
  Notwithstanding Section 11892, the board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11893
  If a legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the board may provide by resolution that the Friday preceding is a holiday within the district for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11894
  The board may provide by resolution, if necessary to implement a memorandum of understanding adopted pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11895
  A district may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the board, change its name. A certified copy of the resolution changing the name of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11907
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11908
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each member shall receive for each attendance at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11908.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11908, a district with a board having seven directors may provide, by resolution or ordinance, that each director shall receive compensation in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11908.2
  Notwithstanding Section 11908, the board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11909
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance, resolution, or motion shall have any validity or effect unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11910
  (a) No ordinance shall be passed by the board within five days of the day of its introduction or at any time other than a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11911
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the board of directors of ________ municipal utility district:"
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11912
  All ordinances shall be signed by the president of the board or the vice president, and attested by the secretary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11926
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge and control of the construction of the works...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11927
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager some person who has had experience in municipal engineering or in the construction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11928
  The general manager need not be a resident of this State at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11929
  The general manager shall hold office for an indefinite term and may be removed by the board only upon the adoption of a resolution by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11930
  Notwithstanding this article, until such time as the district has operated, controlled, or used works or parts of works for providing the inhabitants and public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11931
  The board may appoint an accountant, a secretary, a treasurer, and an attorney, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11932
  The attorney shall be admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the State, and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11933
  The board may also provide for assistants to any officer of the district who shall hold office at the pleasure of the board and may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11934
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11935
  The oath of office of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11936
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11937
  The powers of the general manager are: (a) To see that all ordinances of the district are enforced. (b) To administer the civil service system...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11938
  The general manager shall within 90 days from the end of each fiscal year cause to be published a summary of the financial report showing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11939
  The attorney shall take charge of all suits and other legal matters to which the district is a party or in which it is legally...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11940
  The accountant shall install and maintain a system of auditing and accounting which shall completely and at all times show the financial condition of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11941
  The treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments and execute instruments for the payment of demands against...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11942
  With the consent of the board, the treasurer may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank, or a trust company authorized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11950
  The initiative and referendum provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9300) of Division 9 of the Elections Code shall apply to every municipal utility
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12051
  The general manager shall adopt a civil service system for the selection, examination, employment, classification, advancement, suspension, and discharge of employees included in the "district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12052
  The general manager shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of the civil service provisions of this division and may from time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12053
  The rules and regulations or any proposed amendments thereto shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall be posted in a conspicuous place in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12054
  The civil service provisions of this chapter do not apply to any district until such time as it has operated, controlled, or used works or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12055
  The "district civil service" includes every employee of the district except all of the following: (a) Officers elected by the people. (b) Officers, assistant officers,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12101
  All appointments under the civil service system shall be made for the good of the public service and solely on the basis of integrity, character,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12102
  (a) When no list of eligibles is available for a position in the class requisitioned by the department or division head, the general manager may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12102.1
  When no list of eligibles is available for a position in the class requisitioned by the department or division head, the general manager of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12103
  The general manager may make appointments to higher positions exclusively promotional by tests from lower ranks.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12104
  Every appointee to a permanent position shall be on probation for six months, except that the general manager may establish a probationary period for up...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12131
  The incumbents of permanent positions who have held such positions for a period of at least six months continuously next preceding the time that a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12132
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, whether by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12133
  If a civil service system is adopted for a district during the period of a leave of absence granted under Section 395.4 of the Military...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12134
  Whenever a district acquires existing facilities from a public utility, whether by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, any officer or employee of the public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12161
  No person employed under civil service provisions of this division or of any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto in a permanent position shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12162
  Removal or discharge may be made for any of the following causes: incompetence, habitual intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, dishonesty, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12163
  The department or division head may for disciplinary purposes suspend a subordinate for a period of not exceeding 15 days and suspension shall carry with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12164
  Within five days after the mailing of written notice of removal, discharge, or suspension, any employee may file a written request with the general manager...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12165
  When such request is made the general manager shall immediately appoint from officers or assistant officers of the district (other than elected officials), or heads...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12166
  The committee shall examine into the case and make such decision as it deems just and may among other things order the employee discharged, suspended,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12167
  Nothing in the civil service provisions of this division deprives any person of his rights and remedies in a court of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12301
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers, whether elective or appointive, or both, and employees of the district and provide for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12302
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12303
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12304
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12305
  A district may make all or part of its officers, whether elective or appointive, or both, and employees members of the Public Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12306
  The board may classify and determine the officers, whether elective or appointive, or both, and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12307
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a participant in a deferred compensation plan may also participate in the district's retirement system, and, in ascertaining the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12331
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12332
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12333
  The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. Based on tables and assumptions adopted by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12334
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12335
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interest, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12336
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12337
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement allowance, disability payment, or death benefit from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12337.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 12337, the retirement board may comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12338
  Nothing in this division shall prevent a district from establishing a deferred compensation plan for some or all of its officers and employees pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12361
  The board shall create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12362
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12363
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12364
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund, the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of the retirement fund....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12365.6
  In addition to such other investments that are authorized by this article, the retirement board may, in its discretion, invest the assets of the retirement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12365.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the retirement board, or the district's treasurer with the approval of the retirement board, may enter into...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12365.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the retirement system may invest in any and all investments authorized by Section 1372 of the Financial Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12366
  Notwithstanding Section 12364, the retirement board may contract with one or more qualified investment managers in connection with the investment program of the retirement board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12367
  The retirement board may authorize a trust company or a trust department of any state or national bank authorized to conduct the business of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12368
  Funds held by a district pursuant to a written agreement between the district and the employees of the district to defer a portion of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12391
  At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12392
  Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12701
  A district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12702
  A district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12702.5
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a district that provides electric utility service, to attack, review, set aside,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12703
  A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12721
  A district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12722
  Neither the general manager nor any director of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12723
  Whenever the board, by resolution passed by a majority of its members, determines that the public interest will be served, a district constructing or operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12751
  (a) Except as specified in Section 12751.5, the purchase of all supplies and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12751.1
  Notwithstanding Section 12751, the board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12751.2
  Notwithstanding Section 12751, the board of a district which has owned and operated water distribution or sewage disposal systems for at least eight years and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12751.3
  (a) The purpose of this section is to provide affected districts with an alternative acquisition process that will result in reduced costs to ratepayers. Notwithstanding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12752
  If after the bids have been rejected, the board determines and declares by a four-fifths vote of all the members of a five-ward district, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12753
  In case of any great emergency, the board may, by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all the members of a five-ward district, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12771
  A district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12772
  A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12801
  A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without, or partly within or partly without, the district, works or parts of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12802
  A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions of money, rights of way, labor, materials...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12803
  Except as provided in this division with reference to sewage disposal, a district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any existing utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12804
  Whenever there is a surplus of water, light, heat, or power above that which is required by inhabitants or public agencies within a district, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12805
  Whenever any of the facilities, works, or utilities of the district, or part thereof, is not used or employed to its fullest capacity for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12806
  The district and any public agencies included therein may at any time enter into appropriate contracts for the use by any such public agencies of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12807
  A district may sell or otherwise dispose of any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewage disposal system,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12808
  A district may construct works across or along any street or public highway, or over any of the lands which are the property of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12808.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 53091 and 65402 of the Government Code, Section 12808 of the Public Utilities Code and Section 1469 of the Streets and Highways...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12809
  The rates and charges for commodities or service furnished by a district shall be fixed by the board. As far as possible utilities shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12810
  The board may provide that rates, tolls, and charges for any sewage disposal enterprise or service may be collected with the rates, tolls, and charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12811
  The board may provide for the collection of fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges in any lawful manner and may provide for collection by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12811.1
  (a) Except when prohibited by Section 12822.6, a district may, by resolution or ordinance, require the owner of record of real property within the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12811.1
  (a) A district, by resolution or ordinance, may require the owner of record of real property within the district to pay the fees, tolls, rates,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12811.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district may establish a temporary relief program for assistance to needy customers of the district who are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12812
  The board may apportion all or a portion of the expenses of operation and maintenance of any sewage disposal facilities constructed by the district, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12813
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this article, the board may, in its discretion, finance any sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery enterprise, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12814
  A district may add fluorine or fluorine compounds to the water supply of the district only if the voters of the district have approved the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815
  The board may call a special election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the proposition as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.1
  The board shall adopt an ordinance, in accordance with Section 12815, calling an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.2
  Petitions which meet the requirements of this article shall be certified as sufficient.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.3
  Before circulating the petition, its proponents shall publish a notice of intention to do so. The notice shall be accompanied by a printed statement, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.4
  The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands that a special election be called by the board of directors for the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.5
  Any registered voter who is a resident of the district may circulate the petition anywhere within the district. Each section of the petition shall bear...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.6
  The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by the proponents. All sections of the petition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.7
  If the petition contains more than 500 signatures, the secretary shall, within 30 days from the date such petition is filed, verify such signatures by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.8
  In determining valid signatures from voter registration records, the secretary may use the duplicate file of affidavits or may check the signatures against facsimiles of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.85
  The secretary shall attach to the petition, a certificate showing the result of the signature examination, and shall notify the proponents of either the sufficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12815.9
  If the petition is found insufficient, no action shall be taken on it. However, the failure to secure sufficient signatures shall not preclude the later...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12816
  (a) At least 90 days prior to the election provided for in Sections 12815 and 12815.1, notice of the election shall be published within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12817
  A district may, through contract or otherwise, construct, maintain, improve and operate public recreational facilities appurtenant to any water reservoir owned or operated by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12818
  (a) No publicly owned utility shall commence the distribution or sale of water for municipal, domestic, industrial or similar purposes for, on, or to, any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12819
  (a) Every district furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when the advertising encourages increased consumption of the services or commodities....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12819.5
  Whenever a business transaction of a municipal utility district furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12820
  (a) A district may employ a suitable security force. The employees of the district that are designated by the general manager as security officers shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12821
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 117070 or 117120 of the Health and Safety Code, any violation of a rule or regulation of a district adopted pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12821.5
  (a) Whenever residential light, heat, or power is furnished through a submeter system by a master-meter customer for sale to users who are tenants of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12822
  (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling. (b) If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12822.1
  (a) If a district furnishes residential light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12822.6
  (a) The decision of a district to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the district prior to establishing an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12823
  (a) No district furnishing its inhabitants with light, water, power, or heat may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12823.1
  (a) No district furnishing light, heat, water, or power may terminate residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12824
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water municipal utility district shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12825
  (a) A district furnishing light, heat, or power may engage in activities to reduce wasteful, uneconomical or unnecessary uses of energy, including, but not limited...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12826
  Every district shall comply with Section 8029.5.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12827
  The board of a district that has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12830
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12841
  A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness, and may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. No indebtedness shall be incurred exceeding the ordinary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12842
  No district shall incur an indebtedness for public works which in the aggregate exceeds 20 percent of the assessed value of all the real and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12843
  Indebtedness which has been incurred for the construction and operation of a public utility, where the revenue from the utility for three years or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12844
  A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12850
  This article shall apply only to districts which have owned and operated an electric distribution, water distribution, or sewage disposal system for at least eight...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12851
  A district may, from time to time, issue bonds in accordance with the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12852
  Article 3 (commencing with Section 54380) of Chapter 6 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, the limitations on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12853
  When bonds are issued under this article, the preliminary resolution of the board adopted pursuant to this article shall take effect upon its adoption by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12854
  Upon any such resolution taking effect subject to the right of referendum pursuant to this article, the board shall cause the same to be published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12855
  If no such referendary petition is presented within the period of 60 days, then upon the expiration of such period, or if the proposition of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12856
  The board at any time may, and upon the filing of a referendum petition as provided in Section 12854 shall, adopt a resolution calling a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12857
  The authority herein contained shall be in addition to the authority conferred by Chapter 7 of this division and indebtedness incurred in accordance with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12860
  Bonds issued by a district, pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53540) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12871
  A district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12872
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12873
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12874
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12875
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district which has owned and operated a water distribution or sewage disposal system for at least eight years...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12891
  A district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12891.5
  A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12892
  If, in the opinion of the board, the revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy a tax...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12893
  The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12894
  The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal, and sinking fund of district bonds shall be in addition to all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12895
  Nothing in this division prevents the issuance of revenue bonds by a district for the entire district or any special district created therein under any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12896
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12897
  The board may elect to avail itself of the assessments made by the assessors of the counties in which the district is situated, and of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12898
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before August 15th of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12899
  In case the board elects to avail itself of the assessments referred to in Section 12897 it shall, on or before the first week day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12900
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12901
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12902
  Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of the provisions of Section 12897 has been sold for taxes and has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12903
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12904
  All taxes levied under this division are a lien on the property on which they are levied. Unless the board has by ordinance otherwise provided,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12921
  The Improvement Act of 1911 may be used by a district formed pursuant to this division for the construction of water facilities. In the application...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12922
  The powers and duties conferred by the Improvement Act of 1911 on boards, officers and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13010
  The Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 may be used by a district formed pursuant to this division for any purpose or purposes which a district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13021
  This article shall apply only to the ownership, operation, control, or use by a district of a system for the distribution of irrigation water and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13022
  (a) A district which acquires, constructs, owns, operates, controls, or uses works for supplying its inhabitants and lands within the district with irrigation water, may,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13023
  (a) Any disrict levying a standby charge, which has elected under Section 12897 to use county and state assessment and tax collection procedures, shall, on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13024
  Any funds derived from the standby charges levied pursuant to this article may be used by the district for all purposes which a district is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13071
  This chapter is complete authority for the issuance of bonds hereunder, and no action or proceeding not required by this chapter shall be necessary for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13072
  Unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context, all of the provisions of this chapter shall be understood as relating only to bonds issued under this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13073
  This chapter shall apply only to districts which have owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least 10 years and which have a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13081
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13082
  "Bonds" includes the meaning of "notes, certificates and other evidences of indebtedness" and in every case refers only to bonds issued under this chapter, whether...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13083
  "Refund" includes the meaning of "extend" and "renew."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13084
  "Assented to by the voters" means that the proposition indicated by the context has been submitted to the voters of the district, and has been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13085
  "Payments on principal" means payments on account of the principal of bonds, whether upon maturity or by payments into a sinking fund on account of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13091
  A district may borrow money from time to time for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, replacing, extending or improving its system for supplying the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13092
  A district may also refund from time to time, whether at or prior to maturity, any outstanding indebtedness evidenced by its bonds, and may issue,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13093
  Whenever a district exercises the power to borrow money pursuant to this chapter the board may authorize the issuance of bonds in any amount which,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13094
  The limitations prescribed in Section 13093 shall not be applicable to the issuance of any refunding bonds pursuant to this chapter, and the amount of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13095
  Any bond for the payment and discharge of which, upon maturity or upon redemption prior to maturity, provision has been made through the setting apart...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13096
  The board shall have power to determine all the terms and conditions of the issuance and sale of bonds pursuant to this chapter, excepting only...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13101
  Whenever a district proposes to exercise the power to borrow money, or to refund indebtedness, pursuant to this chapter, the board shall adopt a preliminary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13103
  When bonds are issued under this chapter, the preliminary resolution of the board adopted pursuant to this article shall take effect upon its adoption by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13104
  Upon any such resolution taking effect subject to the right of referendum, pursuant to this article, the board shall cause the same to be published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13105
  If no such referendary petition is represented within the aforesaid period of 60 days, then upon the expiration of said period, or if the proposition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13106
  The provisions of any resolution constituting a part of the proceedings for the issuance of any bonds under this chapter, when so declared by its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13107
  The board at any time may adopt a resolution providing for submission to the voters of the district of the proposition of assenting to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13111
  All bonds issued by a district pursuant to this chapter shall be, and shall recite upon their face that they are, payable both as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13112
  The provisions of this article shall not preclude any of the following: (1) The payment of any such principal, interest or premiums through appropriate reserve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13121
  In connection with the exercise of the power to borrow money, to issue bonds, and to refund indebtedness, pursuant to this chapter, the board may,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13122
  Money set aside and placed in any such reserve fund or special trust account shall remain therein until from time to time expended for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13123
  Money in any such reserve fund shall be drawn therefrom only upon demands authenticated by the signature of the accountant of the district; provided, however,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13124
  Money in any such special trust account shall be drawn therefrom only in accordance with directions given or authorized by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13131
  So long as any bonds of the district are outstanding and unpaid, or so long as provision has not been made for the full payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13132
  The board shall fix rates for service from the electric system to which the indebtedness pertains, and collect charges for such service, such as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13133
  Bonds issued under this chapter shall be issued without any priority with respect to payment of principal or interest.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13134
  The electric system of the district to which the indebtedness pertains shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of, as a whole or substantially as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13135
  No indebtedness payable out of revenues shall be created in contravention of the provision of any resolutions heretofore adopted by the board in connection with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13136
  Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the board, in any resolution constituting a part of the proceedings for the issuance of any issue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13141
  The board may provide in the resolution authorizing the issue of any bonds under this chapter that any act consented to by the holders of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13142
  The board may provide in the resolution authorizing the issue of any bonds under this chapter the terms and conditions upon which any provision of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151
  Without limiting in any way the generality of its power, the board is expressly authorized, in its discretion, to provide, in connection with any issue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.1
  The board may provide for such bonds being in such amounts, of such denominations, payable at such times, and in such form as the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.2
  The board may provide for such bonds being negotiable or nonnegotiable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.3
  The board may provide for such bonds and the interest thereon, and premiums, if any, due upon the redemption of any thereof, being payable or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.4
  The board may provide for such bonds being payable to bearer or only to the registered holder, either as to principal alone, or as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.5
  The board may provide for such bonds being redeemable, either at the option of the district, or in the operation of any sinking fund provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.6
  The board may provide for the issuance by the district of a duplicate, in the manner and on such terms and conditions as the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.7
  The board may provide for the appointment and payment of fiscal, paying, sinking fund or other agents, or of trustees or registrars.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.8
  The board may provide for the appointment of the treasurer of the district to act as such fiscal, paying, sinking fund or other agent.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.9
  The board may provide for the custody by the district of bonds and coupons, whether pending delivery or after purchase or surrender; for the delivery...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.10
  The board may provide for the sale of any such bonds upon such terms and conditions as the board in its discretion may determine at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.11
  The board may provide for the issuance of interim receipts or of temporary bonds, in such form as the board may prescribe, pending the issuance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.12
  The board may provide for any signatures to such bonds and to any coupons thereto attached, and to any interim receipts and temporary bonds, being...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.13
  The board may provide for restrictions on the incurring of additional indebtedness of the district payable out of the revenues out of which the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.14
  The board may provide for restrictions on future transfers out of the revenues out of which the bonds then authorized are to be payable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.15
  The board may provide for covenants with the holders of bonds to the same effect as set forth in Article 7 of this chapter, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.16
  The board may provide for the issuance and distribution in such form as the board may determine of official statements respecting proposed issues of bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13151.17
  The board may provide for the making of contracts, or the placing of orders, for the engraving or printing of any bonds, whether definitive or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13152
  Each issue of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall conform to the following requirements: (1) Such bonds shall be serial bonds or sinking fund...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13161
  Prior to the issue of any bonds to be issued pursuant to this chapter, the board, after satisfying itself respecting the relevant facts, shall, by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13162
  The board may also, by resolution, find and determine any other facts relevant to the legality of the issue.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13163
  The board, by resolution adopted in connection with any issue of bonds pursuant to this chapter, may direct that there shall be included in each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13164
  From and after the issuance of any issue of bonds the findings and determinations of the board respecting that issue made pursuant to this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13165
  Bonds shall be deemed to be issued, within the meaning of this article whenever the definitive bonds, or any temporary bonds or interim receipts exchangeable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13166
  The validity of bonds reciting that they have been issued pursuant to this chapter shall not be affected by any provision or limitation contained in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13171
  All sums received as accrued interest on the sale of any issue of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be applied to the payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13172
  All sums received as principal and premiums on the sale of any issue of bonds shall be applied to the purposes for which such bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13173
  The board may from time to time establish and maintain a separate fund or funds in the district treasury for the purpose of insuring the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13174
  Money set aside and placed in any such separate fund shall remain therein until from time to time expended for the purposes for which such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13175
  Money in any such separate fund shall be drawn therefrom only upon demands authenticated by the signature of the accountant of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13176
  If the board shall determine by resolution that the expenditure of the whole or any portion of the said principal sum of any issue of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13177
  If any excess of the principal sum of the proceeds of any issue of bonds shall remain unexpended after the full accomplishment of the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13181
  A district may also have the power to borrow money from time to time for any or all of the purposes specified in this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13182
  All notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued under the authority of this article shall contain upon their face a recital that they are so...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13183
  No amount shall be borrowed under the authority of this article which when added to the amount of all other notes or other evidences of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13184
  All of the provisions of this chapter not inconsistent with the terms of this article, and not by their terms made inapplicable thereto, shall apply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13191
  Pending use for the purposes for which any reserve fund or special trust account or any other separate fund established pursuant to this chapter was...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13192
  Any bonds or other securities so purchased shall constitute a part of such reserve fund, separate fund or special trust account, and any interest or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13193
  Bonds issued under this chapter may be presented to the State Treasurer for certification under Division 10 of the Water Code in like manner and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13201
  A district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13202
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13203
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13204
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast is presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13205
  If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13206
  Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13207
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13208
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13209
  All special bond elections held in even-numbered years shall be consolidated with the direct primary or general election. All special bond elections held in odd-numbered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13210
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13211
  The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13212
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13241
  Bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; provided, that payment shall begin not more than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13242
  The bonds shall be issued in such denomination or denominations as the board determines, and shall be payable on the day and at the place...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13243
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13244
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13261
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13262
  The proceeds of the bonds shall be placed in the district treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be used exclusively for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13263
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13281
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13282
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this division, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13284
  Only the property in a special district is taxable for the payment of the principal and interest on any refunding bonds which are issued for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13285
  Except as provided in this article, matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds under this chapter shall be governed by Article 9 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13286
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13287
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13288
  Whenever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13311
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13312
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13341
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13345
  Whenever the board, by resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of all members of the board of a five-ward district, or by a five-sevenths vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13346
  Whenever the board makes the finding and determination as described in Section 13345, the district may borrow money and incur indebtedness by the issuance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13347
  Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this chapter shall be payable from any sources of available funds, including revenues, taxes, or state or federal grants. The board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13371
  A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness for the purposes of this chapter by the issuance of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13372
  The district may issue refunding bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for the purpose of paying and redeeming at or before maturity any bonds,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13373
  General obligation indebtedness issued pursuant to this chapter shall be payable from any sources of available funds, including revenues or taxes. The board is hereby...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13374
  This chapter applies only to districts which have owned and operated an electric distribution system or electric generating facilities or a water distribution or sewage...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13375
  As used in this chapter, the term "revenues of the district" shall have the same meaning as is provided in Section 54315 of the Government
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13376
  When bonds are issued under this article, the preliminary resolution of the board adopted pursuant to this article shall take effect upon its adoption by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13377
  Whenever a resolution authorizes the issuance of bonds pursuant to Section 13371, the board shall cause the resolution to be published in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13378
  If no such referendum petition is presented within the period of 60 days, then upon the expiration of such period, or if the proposition of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13379
  The board at any time may, and upon the filing of a referendum petition as provided in Section 13377 shall, adopt a resolution calling a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13391
  A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness for the purchasing of electricity; provided, that the maximum principal amount of indebtedness outstanding under this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13392
  All provisions of this chapter not inconsistent with this article and not by their terms made inapplicable thereto shall apply to all evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13451
  One or more special districts for sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery purposes may be created within the boundaries of a district as provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13452
  Resolutions shall first be passed by the legislative bodies of half or more, but of not less than two, of the public agencies, all or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13453
  Instead of procedure by resolutions, a petition may be filed with the secretary of a district signed by voters within the proposed special district equal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13454
  The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands the creation of a special district for sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13455
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures with the affidavits of registration and shall certify to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the petition.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13456
  The board may initiate proceedings for the creation of a special district for sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery purposes within the area of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13481
  Within 60 days after receipt of the resolutions of the public agencies or receipt of the certification of the sufficiency of a petition by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13482
  The notice of hearing shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13483
  The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of the first publication of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13484
  At or before the hearing, any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the creation of the special district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13485
  The board may reduce or enlarge the boundaries of the proposed special district, but the boundaries as enlarged shall be within the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13486
  The board shall not approve the creation of a special district containing territory in addition to the territory included in the resolutions or petitions filed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13487
  No public agency or portion thereof shall be included within the boundaries of a special district unless its legislative body consents by resolution, or unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13488
  If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution approve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13511
  At any time after the board has approved the creation of the proposed special district, and fixed its boundaries, the board shall call and publish...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13512
  No person is entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed special district. The election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13513
  If a proposition for incurring a bonded indebtedness is submitted at the same election with the proposal to create the special district, the votes cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13531
  On the question of the creation of a special district, the returns of each public agency and of each parcel of unincorporated territory shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13532
  A special district has no separate corporate existence but shall be deemed to be a taxing subdivision of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13561
  Connections of all sewers within the special district to intercepting sewers of the district shall be made at such points and in such manner and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13562
  Nothing in this division shall require the district to construct any sewers other than intercepting and outfall sewers. The determination by the board of what...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13563
  Upon completion of sewage disposal facilities for any special district all sewage and industrial waste originating within the special district shall be disposed of through...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13564
  Without limiting in any way the foregoing provisions of this division, the respective public agencies within the district and the district may contract regarding the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13565
  Each utility which a district is authorized to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use pursuant to this division shall be considered to be a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13570
  The board shall supervise and regulate sewage disposal within a special district, including the fixing of standards, contracts, issuance of licenses or permits, practices and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13571
  Without limiting in any way the provisions of this division, and in addition to the powers granted therein, the board may make and enforce such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13572
  Rules and regulations pertaining to the control of quantity, quality or flow of waste water may provide for any or all of the following: (a)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13573
  No person shall discharge waste water into a community sewer system connected to or directly into a district interceptor which will result in contamination, pollution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13574
  Whenever a discharge of waste water is in violation of the district's regulations or otherwise causes or threatens to cause a condition of contamination, pollution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13575
  (a) Any person who fails to comply with any order issued by the district, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed ten...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13575.5
  (a) The district may issue a complaint to any person on whom civil liability may be imposed pursuant to this article. The complaint shall allege...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13575.6
  Any party aggrieved by a final order issued by the board under Section 13575.5, after granting review of a hearing officer order, may obtain review...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13575.7
  (a) Within 30 days after service of a copy of a decision and order issued by the board pursuant to Section 13575.5, any aggrieved party...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13576
  Any person who intentionally discharges waste water in any manner, in violation of any order issued by the district, which results in contamination, pollution or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13576.5
  Any person who knowingly makes any false statement or representation in any record, report, plan, or other document filed with the district, or who falsifies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13577
  Any abatement actions taken pursuant to the foregoing sections with respect to contamination, pollution or nuisance, as defined in this article, created by the discharge...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13578
  The district may enter upon private property of any person and sample at, inspect or survey the waste water sampling installation or pretreatment facilities or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13591
  The board may use temporarily any district funds for the payment of any costs or expenses incident to the proposed or actual creation of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13592
  The board shall recover all district funds advanced under this article by means of taxes levied upon all property within the special district or from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13593
  Nothing in this article limits the general powers of a district with reference to sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13621
  At any time after the creation of a special district a proposition of incurring bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, or completion by the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13622
  Except as otherwise provided herein the provisions of Chapter 7 shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of bonds under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13623
  The favorable vote of two-thirds of all the voters within the special district voting on the proposition is required to authorize the issuance of the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13624
  Only the property in the special district shall be taxable for the payment of the principal and interest on special district bonds. Until the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13625
  Any proceeding denying the validity of the creation of any special district, or of any bonds authorized by the voters thereof pursuant to this division,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13626
  The board may utilize the provisions of Chapter 7.1 (commencing with Section 13345) to authorize emergency financing of the repair or replacement of damaged or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13631
  The special district may borrow money and incur indebtedness in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13632
  The special district may issue refunding bonds, notes, or other securities for the purpose of paying and redeeming at or before maturity any bonds, notes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13633
  Evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article shall be payable from any sources of available funds of the special district, including revenues, taxes, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13651
  Any public agency or portion thereof or unincorporated territory within the boundaries of a district (hereinafter referred to collectively as "territory") not included within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13652
  The board shall by resolution determine that the annexation of the territory will facilitate the acquisition or operation of a public utility for the special...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13653
  No public agency or portion thereof shall be annexed to a special district unless the legislative body thereof shall by resolution consent.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13654
  The terms and conditions for the annexation of territory to a special district may provide, among other things, for the payment of taxes within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13655
  Notice fixing the time and place for hearing on the question of the annexation of territory to a special district shall be published once in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13656
  The time for hearing shall be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of the first publication of the notice.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13657
  At or before the hearing any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the annexation of the territory to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13658
  The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order entered upon the minutes of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13659
  From and after the date of filing of the resolution with the secretary of the district the annexation of the territory, or portion thereof, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13660
  No annexation to a special district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of any public agency within or partly within the territory
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13661
  From and after the date of annexation any territory annexed to a special district is liable for payment of its proportionate share of any indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13691
  A special district may be dissolved by resolution of the board if any proposition for the incurring of a bonded indebtedness fails to carry, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13801
  Any public agency not included within the boundaries of a district may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13802
  The legislative body of the public agency proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board upon the terms and conditions of annexation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13802.5
  The terms and conditions of annexation may provide, among other things, for the levy and payment of taxes within the territory to be annexed in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13803
  After the legislative body of the public agency and the board have concurred upon the proposed terms and conditions, the secretary or clerk of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13804
  After the filing of the proposed agreement with the executive officer, proceedings thereon shall be taken by the local agency formation commission in the manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13821
  The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the public agency when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13822
  The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13823
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the execution of the agreement.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13824
  Upon the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear and determine all objections thereto....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13825
  Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order to be entered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13826
  If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the agreement and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13827
  When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district. An executed copy shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13851
  At any time after the board has finally approved the agreement of annexation the legislative body of the public agency to be annexed shall cause...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13852
  Notice of election shall be published as provided in Section 11534 and shall either state that a copy of the annexation agreement is on file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13853
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13854
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13855
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body of the public agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13856
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters the governing body of the public agency shall enter in its minutes an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13886
  Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the public agency proposed to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13911
  Upon the completion of the annexation of any territory in accordance with law to any city included in the district the city clerk shall file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13912
  If the district shall file its objections in the manner aforesaid to the annexation of said territory or any specified portion or portions thereof to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13931
  From and after the date of annexation the board shall levy upon all of the property in the public agency annexed such taxes, tolls, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13932
  No annexation of a public agency to a district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of the public agency annexed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14051
  Unincorporated territory may be annexed to a district in the manner provided in the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14052
  Unincorporated territory not contiguous to a district may not be annexed if the district does not possess facilities for supplying utility service to that territory.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14351
  Any territory contained within a district not operating any utility and not included within the boundaries of any incorporated city and not benefited in any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14381
  If the city to which any territory included in any district has been annexed already serves electricity or water to the territory annexed, the city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14382
  The agreement for exclusion shall be authorized and executed and proceedings for such exclusion taken in the same manner as provided in Chapter 9 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14383
  If an order of exclusion is granted the board and the governing body of the city shall by contract provide for the payment by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14384
  The order of exclusion does not invalidate in any manner any taxes or assessments theretofore levied or assessed against the lands excluded nor relieve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14401
  Before any rates and charges for commodities or service furnished by a district are fixed or changed the general manager shall file with the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14402
  A district or any interested person may bring an action pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14403
  Before the board adopts any change in rates and charges for commodities or services furnished by an electricity district intended to increase or decrease revenues,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14403.3
  The report and recommendation of the general manager of an electricity district filed pursuant to Section 14403 shall include all of the following: (a) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14403.5
  At the hearing held pursuant to Section 14403, the board shall do both of the following: (a) Permit any member of the public who has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15501
  This division may be cited as "The Public Utility District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15502
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15503
  "District" means a public utility district formed pursuant to this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15504
  "Board" means the board of directors of a district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15505
  "Elector," "voter," or "qualified elector," means a voter whose name appears on the great register of the county in which the district is located, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15506
  "Original and primary proposition" means the proposition to incorporate the proposed district with all of the proposed territory joining in the proceedings and mentioned and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15507
  "Person" means an individual, a firm or a copartnership.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15531
  The great register or supplement thereto, and certificates in due form of notaries public or verification deputies acknowledging the signature of any voter to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15532
  Nothing in this division shall be construed as repealing or modifying the provisions of any other law relating to public utility districts, except insofar as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15533
  Whenever all the territory comprising a district becomes part of a city, the legislative body of the city succeeds to the powers of the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15701
  A district may be incorporated and managed in unincorporated territory pursuant to this division and may exercise the powers expressly granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15702
  Whenever the people of unincorporated territory desire to organize a district, they shall present to the board of supervisors of the county within which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15703
  The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, all of which shall constitute one petition. A separate petition is required from each unit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15704
  Each petition shall name or describe the territory within which the registered voters signing it reside. Every petition shall set forth the boundaries and name...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15705
  The county elections official shall within 30 days examine and verify the signatures to the petition and certify the result of the examination to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15706
  If the county elections official, by his or her certificate, finds that a petition is insufficient, he or she shall certify to the number of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15707
  If a supplemental petition is filed, all signatures appended to the petition and to the supplemental petition shall be considered in determining the number of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15708
  After the election for the incorporation of the proposed district, the sufficiency of the petition in any respects shall not be subject to judicial review...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15709
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, for purposes of this division all territory in the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District shall be deemed to be solely...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15731
  By resolution each board of supervisors to which a petition is presented shall fix a time for a hearing, which shall be within 15 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15732
  Within 10 days after a petition is presented to it, the board of supervisors shall publish a copy of the petition, and a notice that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15733
  The hearing may be adjourned from time to time for the determination of facts, not exceeding two weeks in all.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15734
  If the signatures attached to the petition are sufficient, no defect in the contents of the petition or in the title to or form of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15735
  The publication of notice shall be pursuant to Section 6062 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published, and circulated in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15736
  At the hearing or at any time prior thereto, any owner of taxable property within the proposed district may file a petition with the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15737
  Any person owning land adjoining any land described in the petition, upon his verified application, in the discretion of the board, may have his land...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15738
  At the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the petition complies with the requirements set forth in this division and whether or not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15761
  The special election shall be called by ordinance by each board of supervisors. The ordinance shall specify the purpose and time of the election, establish...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15762
  The ordinance calling the election shall be published in the unincorporated territory pursuant to Section 6062 of the Government Code. If no newspaper is printed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15762.1
  Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15762.2
  The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15762.3
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15762.4
  The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15763
  The election shall be held and conducted, the returns canvassed, and the result declared by the board of supervisors in the manner provided by general...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15764
  The proposition submitted at the election shall be stated upon the ballot substantially as follows: "Shall ________ public utility district (naming it) be organized pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15765
  Within five days after the result of the election is declared, and the order is made where required, the chairman of the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15791
  The board of supervisors receiving the certificates delivered pursuant to Section 15765 shall meet and examine them within three weeks after all the elections are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15792
  If it appears from the certificates that a majority of the electors voting at the election has voted against the formation of the district, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15793
  When the board of supervisors has completed its examination of the certificates, and has made the order provided in Section 15791, it shall forthwith attach...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15794
  The board of supervisors shall immediately deposit one roll for filing in the office of the Secretary of State, and cause the other roll to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15795
  Upon the receipt of the duplicate roll the Secretary of State shall issue his certificate reciting that it is filed in his office and that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15796
  No charge shall be made by either the Secretary of State or any county recorder or county elections official for the services required of him...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15797
  From and after the date the duplicate roll is filed with the Secretary of State, the district is incorporated as a public utility district, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15798
  The board may change the name of the district by adoption of an ordinance changing the name of the district and by giving notification of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15821
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15822
  Any such contest shall be brought in the superior court of the county where the district, or the greater part of its population, is situated....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15841
  Verification deputies shall be qualified electors residing within the territory of the district or the proposed district for which they are appointed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15842
  Verification deputies required to verify signatures to petitions for the formation of a district, or to certificates or petitions nominating candidates for election to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15843
  Appointments of verification deputies shall be made upon written application of not less than five (5) nor more than ten (10) qualified electors of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15844
  Verification deputies need not use a seal, and shall not have power to administer oaths for any purpose other than that for which they are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15845
  Verification deputies shall not be paid, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, out of the county treasury or the treasury of a district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15846
  Before appointment a verification deputy shall make and file with the clerk appointing him an oath as to his age, place of residence, occupation, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15951
  At an election held in the district on the next established election date not less than 74 days after its formation a board of directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15952
  A director at large shall be a resident and qualified elector of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15953
  All unincorporated territories situated in the same county and included within the district shall be regarded as an entirety and as a territorial unit of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15954
  Candidates for the office of director to be elected by a unit shall be nominated from each such territorial unit, and the remaining number of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15955
  Each directorship is a separate office for the purpose of nomination and election, and for the filling of vacancies.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15956
  (a) Candidates for directors at large shall be designated in all declarations of candidacy, nominating certificates, and on all official election ballots as candidates for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15957
  Candidates for director from the several territorial units entitled to one director each shall be designated in all declarations of candidacy, nominating certificates, and on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15958
  If only one unit of unincorporated territory is contained in the district, it may be designated as "the unincorporated territorial unit."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15959
  If two or more units of unincorporated territory are contained in the district, they shall be numbered, named, and designated by the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15960
  The board of supervisors shall number, name, and designate each territorial unit of the district by ordinance at a regular or special meeting after the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15961
  Designations of directors by name or number have no significance whatever after election and qualification of the directors or after appointment and qualification of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15961.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the division, the candidates for director of any district that is wholly or partially within the County of Placer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15962
  The population of each unit of unincorporated territory within the district shall be determined at the time of calling the election of the first board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15963
  The board of directors shall determine the boundaries of each unit of unincorporated territory within the district pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 22000)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15965
  The election of directors shall be held in the unincorporated territory included within the district and shall be called by the board of supervisors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15966
  (a) Not less than 30 days prior to the election, any five or more electors in the district may file with the board of directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15967
  A certificate of election shall be issued by the board of supervisors to each person elected and declared elected.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15968
  Immediately after receiving his or her certificate of election and before assuming the duties of office, each director shall take and subscribe an official oath...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15969
  All official oaths shall be in the form provided by law for official oaths of county officers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15970
  If a person elected fails to qualify, the office shall be filled as if there were a vacancy in the office.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15971
  Elections of directors after election of the first board shall be called and held by the board of directors, and shall be called, held, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15972
  The board of directors of a district which lies entirely within one county may submit to the qualified electors, at a general election or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15973
  Within 30 days after an increase in the number of directors has been authorized, the board of directors shall appoint two qualified electors of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15973.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 15951, 15972, and 15973, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15974
  Notwithstanding Section 15952 or any other provision of this division, each member of the board of directors of the Johnsville Public Utility District in Plumas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15975
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, candidates for director of the Georgetown Divide Public Utility District may be elected by wards upon adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15976
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, the Board of Directors of the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District shall consist of five members, elected at large. Each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16001
  On the first Tuesday after their election and qualification, the directors shall meet and classify themselves by lot, so that the largest possible minority shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16002
  (a) Each member of the board may receive the compensation that the board by ordinance provides, not exceeding four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16003
  A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16031
  Except as otherwise provided in this division, the powers of the district shall be exercised by the board of directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16032
  The board of directors shall choose one of its members president.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16033
  The president shall sign all contracts on behalf of the district and perform such other duties as may be imposed by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16034
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional services required by the district, the board, or any officers of the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16035
  At the first meeting of the board, after the board has qualified and organized, it shall appoint the clerk, accountant, general manager, and treasurer.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16036
  In lieu of appointing a treasurer, the board may elect that the duties of treasurer be performed by the treasurer of the county in which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16037
  The board may consolidate two or more offices in the same person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16038
  The board may provide for an assistant to any officer of the district who may perform the acts his principal may perform, when authorized so...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16039
  At the first meeting after the end of each fiscal year, the board shall render and immediately cause to be published a verified statement of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16040
  The financial statement shall show particularly the receipts and disbursements since the publication of the last preceding statement and of the last preceding fiscal year...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16041
  Publication of the financial statement shall be made pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16042
  A neglect or refusal of the board to comply with Sections 16601 to 16614, inclusive, 16644 to 16659, inclusive, and 16467 is cause for removal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16043
  No director or other officer of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16044
  A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16071
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and shall provide for the time and place of holding meetings and the manner in which special...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16072
  The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion. The ayes and noes shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances, resolutions, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16073
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be: "Be it enacted by the board of directors of _______ public utility district:".
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16074
  All resolutions and ordinances shall be signed by the president of the board and attested by the secretary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16075
  No ordinance passed by the board takes effect less than 30 days after its passage. At least one week before the expiration of the said...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16076
  An order entered in the minutes of the board that an ordinance has been duly posted and published is prima facie proof of such posting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16077
  All tax levies for a purpose other than interest or sinking fund payments shall be first authorized by the board by ordinance when the amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16078
  During the 30 days following passage of an ordinance pursuant to Section 16077 a petition, signed by qualified voters of the district equal to 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16079
  Immediately upon receipt of a petition submitted pursuant to Section 16078 the board shall cause the clerk of the district to examine and verify the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16080
  Within 10 days after the filing of a supplemental petition, the clerk shall examine it and certify to the result of his examination.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16081
  An ordinance is suspended from going into operation until the examination, verification, and certification are completed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16082
  If a petition, or petition as amended, is certified to be sufficient the ordinance is suspended from going into operation and the board shall reconsider
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16083
  If the board does not entirely repeal the ordinance upon reconsideration, it shall submit the ordinance to a vote of the electors at a general...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16084
  Unless otherwise provided in this division, petitions made pursuant to this article, in the matter of form, signatures, and preparation, and the proceedings based upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16111
  The officers of the district, other than the board of directors, are: (a) A clerk, who is also ex officio secretary of the board. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16112
  The officers, other than the board of directors, shall be appointed by the board, hold office at its pleasure, and receive such compensation as is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16113
  When the district acquires, constructs, owns, or operates two or more public utilities, a general manager may be appointed and employed for each public utility.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16114
  Subject to such restrictions as the board may impose, the general manager shall have full charge and control of the construction of the works of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16115
  The clerk shall countersign all contracts on behalf of the district. He shall give his full time during office hours to the affairs of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16116
  The accountant shall install and maintain a system of auditing and accounting which completely and at all times shows the financial condition of the district....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16151
  The biennial election for the election of directors shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd-numbered years. This...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16152
  Except as otherwise provided in this division, districts governed by this division are subject to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16153
  No person may vote at any district election unless he possesses all the requirements of an elector under the general laws and is a qualified...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16160
  If land is annexed to a district, the board shall reestablish the boundaries of the units and election precincts within the district not less than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16162
  Whenever a special election is called pursuant to Articles 1 or 2 of Chapter 5 for the purpose of submitting to the electors a proposition,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16163
  At the special election all propositions formulated pursuant to Articles 1 or 2 of Chapter 5 may be submitted to the electors of the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16164
  The ordinance calling the election shall set forth the following: (a) The purposes for which it is called. (b) The estimated cost of each utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16165
  The election shall be held as provided for holding elections in the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16191
  The maximum time of labor or service required of any laborer, workman, or mechanic employed upon any work of the district, whether employed directly by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16192
  The board shall fix the hours of labor or service required of all employees of the district, and their compensation, and shall employ all necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16193
  The board shall classify all places of employment under the district and its offices and departments, with reference to the examinations provided by this article,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16194
  The board shall make rules to effect a civil service system, and for examinations, appointments, promotions, and removals, and from time to time may make...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16195
  Examinations shall be practical, and shall relate to those matters only which will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16196
  The manager, engineer, clerk, accountant, and treasurer shall not be included within the classified civil service of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16401
  A district has perpetual succession.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16402
  Except as otherwise provided, a district may sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16402.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a district that provides electric utility service, to attack, review, set aside,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16403
  A district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16404
  A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16407
  A district has the same powers with reference to improvement districts as are conferred upon irrigation districts by Division 11, Part 7 of the Water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16408
  Improvement districts also may be formed of land proposed to be annexed to the district, contingent upon the annexation being completed. The petition for annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16409
  For the purpose of obtaining and supplying water for domestic, irrigation, and fire protection purposes, a district may cooperate and contract with the United States...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16431
  A district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or otherwise acquire, hold and enjoy, and lease or dispose of, real and personal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16432
  The legal title to all property acquired under this division vests immediately and by operation of law in the district, and is held by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16461
  A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without or partly within and partly without the district, works for supplying its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16461.5
  (a) The Shasta Dam Area Public Utility District may construct those public works necessary for the industrial and commercial development of any undeveloped property owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16462
  A district may also purchase any of such commodities or services from any other utility district, municipality, person, or private company, and distribute them.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16463
  A district may acquire, construct, own, complete, use, and operate a fire department, street lighting system, public parks, public playgrounds, golf courses, public swimming pools,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16463.5
  (a) A district may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16464
  A district may construct works across or along any street or public highway, or over any land which is the property of the state, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16465
  A district may construct its works across any stream of water or watercourse.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16466
  A district using a street or highway shall restore it to its former state as nearly as possible and shall not unnecessarily impair its usefulness.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16467
  Only revenue producing utilities shall be acquired, owned, or operated by a district. So far as possible the board shall fix such charges for commodities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16467.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16467 of this code, fire departments, street lighting systems, public parks, public playgrounds, public swimming pools, public recreation buildings, buildings...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16468
  Charges fixed by the board for commodities or services furnished may be made payable in advance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16469
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), charges unpaid at the time specified for the fixing of the rate of taxes may be added to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16470
  Charges added to an assessment are a lien on the land, except that if, during the year preceding the date on which the first installment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16471
  If the assessment is divided and made payable in two installments, the unpaid charges may be added to and become a part of the first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16472
  When the board declares that charges are to be added to the annual assessment and the district is availing itself of assessments made by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16472.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 16469 to 16472, inclusive, and as an alternative to the procedures specified in those sections, a district may provide by resolution or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16472.5
  (a) In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, including an ordinance fixing charges for the furnishing of commodities or services,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16473
  Whenever there is a surplus of available water, light, heat, or power above that which is required by the inhabitants or municipalities within the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16474
  Whenever any of the facilities, works, or utilities of all or part of a district is not used or employed to its fullest capacity for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16475
  (a) A public utility district which acquires, constructs, owns, operates, controls or uses works for supplying its inhabitants with water, may, pursuant to the notice,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16476.1
  (a) The Tahoe City Public Utility District may acquire, construct, install, maintain, improve, or operate public walkways, paths, sidewalks, trails, and public parking facilities if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16477
  Notwithstanding Section 16475, the Board of Directors of the Fallbrook Public Utility District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16478
  The Board of Directors of the Tahoe City Public Utility District, the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, and the Board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16479
  If the Board of Directors of the Tahoe City Public Utility District or of the North Tahoe Public Utility District determines to use all or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16480
  (a) Every district furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when such advertising encourages increased consumption of such services or commodities....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16480.5
  Whenever a business transaction of a public utility district furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16481
  (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling. (b) If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16481.1
  (a) If a district furnishes residential light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16481.6
  The decision of a district to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the district prior to establishing an account...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16482
  (a) No district furnishing its inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, or means for the disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter may terminate residential...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16482.1
  (a) No district furnishing light, heat, water, or power, or means for the disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter, may terminate residential service on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16483
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water public utility district shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16485
  (a) A public utility district which acquires, constructs, owns, operates, controls or uses works for supplying its inhabitants with electricity, may fix and collect charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16486
  (a) In addition to all other powers, excepting telephone service, authorized by this division, the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District may acquire, construct, own, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16487
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District may issue bonds and incur indebtedness pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16488
  Every district shall comply with Section 8029.5.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16489
  The June Lake Public Utility District may exercise all of the powers of a mosquito abatement district or vector control district, as set forth in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16531
  Except as otherwise provided, the board shall determine annually what goods, merchandise, stores, subsistence, materials, and other supplies will be needed by the district for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16571
  A district may borrow money and incur or assume indebtedness, and issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16572
  A district may refund or retire any of its existing or assumed indebtedness.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16573
  No district shall incur any funded indebtedness which in the aggregate exceeds 20 percent of the assessed valuation of all real and personal property situated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16574
  The board of directors or other officers of the district may not incur any debt or liability, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, in excess...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16575
  A district may issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring or constructing any waterworks necessary or proper for carrying out the objects and purposes of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16576
  Notwithstanding any provision of this division limiting the amount of indebtedness which may be incurred by it, in order to repair and replace structures and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16577
  A district may refinance any indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 16576 by borrowing from the United States or any of its agencies and issuing in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16578
  A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16580
  A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by Section 16461 that is related to the provision of water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16601
  Receipts from the operation of a public utility shall be paid daily into the treasury of the district in a special fund set aside for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16602
  The board may from time to time make appropriations from individual public utility funds for the following purposes: (a) The payment of operating expenses of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16603
  Whenever a reserve fund exceeds one-half of the payment for operating expenses in the preceding fiscal year, the board may appropriate such excess to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16604
  The books of account of the district shall show all of the following: (a) The true and complete financial results of the ownership and operation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16605
  The accounts of the district shall be examined at least once a year by an expert accountant, who shall report to the directors the result...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16606
  Every two years the board may, and upon petition of 15 percent of the electors of the district shall, employ a qualified expert who shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16607
  The expense of employing an expert shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) at any one time, to be paid out of the income and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16608
  Experts shall be selected by the Public Utilities Commission, and their names and addresses certified to the board of directors of the district. Several experts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16609
  Whenever an expert is to be employed pursuant to Section 16606, at least four months before each biennial district election the board shall request in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16610
  Within 10 days after receipt of a certification the board shall by resolution entered on its minutes employ the expert, or one of the experts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16611
  In his report the expert shall make such recommendations and suggestions as to him seem proper and required for the good of the district, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16612
  In his report the expert shall make such recommendations and suggestions as to: (a) The system of accounts kept, or in his judgment to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16613
  The expert shall enter upon his duties at least 90 days before the next impending biennial district election, and shall complete his examination and file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16614
  The expert's report shall be made in duplicate to the electors of the district. One copy shall be filed with the board in the office...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16641
  A district may levy and collect, or cause to be levied and collected, taxes for the purpose of carrying on its operations and paying its
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16641.5
  A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16642
  Farm products and crops which are stored within the exterior boundaries of the district are not subject to taxation by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16643
  The board shall annually levy and collect a tax sufficient (a) to pay the annual interest on bonds, (b) to pay such part of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16644
  If from any cause the revenues of a district are inadequate to pay the principal or interest on any bonded debt as it becomes due,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16645
  The board shall state the purposes for which taxes are necessary, and shall fix by ordinance the amount of money necessary to be raised by
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16646
  By ordinance, the provisions of which conform to general law, the board may provide the manner of assessing and of correcting and equalizing assessments upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16647
  The board may provide for the collection of delinquent taxes, penalties, interest, and costs by actions or legal proceedings brought, prosecuted, and maintained in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16648
  The board may elect to avail itself of the assessments made by the assessors of the counties in which the district is situated, and may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16649
  An election pursuant to Section 16648 is effective with respect to all taxes levied and assessed after February 1 next succeeding the date upon which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16650
  Upon receipt of the certified copy filed pursuant to Section 16648 the county auditors shall, on or before the second Monday in August of each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16651
  If the board elects to avail itself of county assessments, it shall, before September 1st, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16652
  Immediately after fixing the rate of taxes the board shall transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district is situated a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16653
  The county auditors shall compute and enter in the assessment rolls, the district tax on the property enumerated and assessed as being in the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16654
  Taxes levied pursuant to Sections 16648 to 16653, inclusive, shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16655
  Each county auditor and tax collector shall annually file with the board of supervisors of his county itemized statements showing the additional expense to his...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16656
  The boards of supervisors may provide extra help for their county offices or officers as in their judgment is necessary for the proper performance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16657
  Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of county assessments has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16658
  District taxes are a lien on the property on which they are levied, except that if, during the year preceding the date on which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16659
  Where a district has not availed itself of county assessments, delinquent property sold by the tax collector of the district for delinquent taxes shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16660
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16681
  No claims shall be paid until allowed by the board, and only upon a warrant signed by any two officers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16682
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16801
  As used in this chapter "acquisition of public utility works" includes construction, completion, or acquisition of public utilities or public utility works.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16802
  Whenever any petition signed by electors of the district equal in number to 15 percent of all votes cast within the district at the last...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16803
  Upon receiving a petition certified to contain the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission to the electors of the district at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16804
  In the formulation of a proposition the board shall procure plans and estimates of the cost of original construction and completion by the district of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16805
  In securing estimates of the cost of original construction and completion of water works by the district, the board shall procure and place on file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16806
  Before submitting propositions to the electors for the acquisition of any public utility works, the board shall solicit and consider offers for the sale to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16807
  The board may apply to the Public Utilities Commission to ascertain the value of existing utility works for the purpose of submitting to the electors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16808
  Upon application by the board the commission without delay shall make a valuation in accordance with Chapter 8, Part 1 of Division 1 of this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16809
  When the commission has made and filed its findings and decision, the board may have the findings reviewed in accordance with Chapter 8, Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16810
  Upon the filing of plans and estimates the board shall determine whether the cost of the public utility works proposed for acquisition can be paid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16811
  When the cost of any public utility works named in a petition can be paid out of the revenues of the district derived from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16812
  If the cost of any public utility works named in a petition so far exceeds the revenues of the district derived from the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16813
  At the next regular meeting after formulation of a proposition for the acquisition of the public utility works, the board by ordinance shall submit the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16814
  All propositions formulated pursuant to Section 16803 shall be submitted within six months after filing of the petitions, unless more time is required for obtaining...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16815
  The affirmative vote of a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition is necessary to accept a proposition submitted under Section 16811.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16816
  The affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the electors voting upon the proposition is necessary to approve a proposition submitted under Section 16812 and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16817
  At as early a date after determination of the election result as the board deems is for the best interests of the district, it shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16841
  Whenever the board determines that the public interest or necessity of the district demands the acquisition of any public utility works, it shall specifically declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16842
  The board shall procure plans and estimates and negotiate for offers for the sale to the district of existing public utility works in the same...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16843
  When the cost of the public utility works can be paid out of the revenues of the district derived from the operation of its public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16844
  The ordinance shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in some newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16845
  If the cost of the public utility works so far exceeds the revenues of the district derived from the operation of its public utilities, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16846
  Propositions submitted pursuant to Section 16845 shall specify the amount of bonded indebtedness necessary for the acquisition of the public utility works, the rate of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16871
  As used in this article, "public agency" includes the Federal Government or any of its branches, and any county, city, district, or other public corporation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16872
  As used in this article, "sewage disposal facilities" includes sewers or other works or facilities for the handling, treatment, or disposal of sewage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16873
  A district may contract with any public agency or with any person, firm, or corporation, for the joint acquisition, construction, or use of any sewage...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16874
  A contract may provide for the construction and maintenance of sewage disposal facilities, and for the payment by or for the parties to the contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16875
  A contract may provide for the joint use of any sewage disposal facilities upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16876
  A district which has acquired or constructed or which proposes to acquire or construct any sewage disposal facilities, may contract with any public agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16878
  Sections 16873 to 16876, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to the end that sewer systems may be planned for areas requiring sewers, which may not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16879
  Any contract or agreement made under Sections 16873 to 16876, inclusive, is not subject to the limitations of Section 16474.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16880
  A district may contract with any public agency or with any person, firm, or corporation for the joint acquisition or construction or use of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16881
  A contract may provide for the construction and maintenance of water works or other facilities and for the payment by or for the parties to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16882
  A contract may provide for the joint use of any water works or other facilities upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16883
  A district which has acquired or constructed or which proposes to acquire or construct any water works or other facilities for supplying water to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16884
  No agreement under Sections 16880 to 16883, inclusive, shall run for a longer period than 30 years; provided that in case bonds are issued to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16885
  Sections 16880 to 16884, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to the end that water works and systems may be planned by public utility districts for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17001
  District bonds shall be of such form and shall be redeemed at such times and in such amounts as the board may from time to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17002
  The bonds are payable, principal and interest, in lawful money of the United States.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17003
  The interest on the bonds, other than bonds for sewage works, shall not exceed 8 percent a year. The interest on bonds for sewage works...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17004
  The bonds shall be issued in such denomination or denominations as the board may prescribe and may be sold by the board at such times...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17005
  District bonds have the same force, value, and use as bonds issued by a municipality.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17006
  The proceeds from the sale of bonds shall be placed in the treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be applied exclusively...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17007
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board and countersigned by the clerk, and shall have the seal of the district attached....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17008
  Notwithstanding the fact that an officer whose signature, countersignature, or attestation appears on any bonds or coupons thereof ceases to be such officer before the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17009
  In determining the amount of bonds to be issued, the legislative body may include: (a) All costs and estimated costs incidental to or connected with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17010
  Whenever, in the opinion of the board, the public interest or convenience may require, it may order to be done in, under, or upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17011
  In the application of said acts to proceedings under this section the terms used in said acts shall have the following meanings: (a) "City council"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17012
  The powers and duties conferred by said acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the board, officers,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17013
  The improvements authorized to be constructed or acquired by this chapter are restricted to those permitted to be constructed or acquired pursuant to this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17101
  An action to determine the validity of bonds or indebtedness, authorized for the acquisition, construction, or completion of any public utility or public utility works,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17301
  Unincorporated territory contiguous or noncontiguous to a district may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in the District Reorganization Act of 1965...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17302
  Any district in the Lake Tahoe Basin which is able to provide to incorporated territory contiguous to such district a sewer system and treatment facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17360
  As used in this article, "petitioning district" means any public utility district, water district, or irrigation district containing land which is to be annexed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17361
  As used in this article, "annexing district" means any public utility district to which land is to be annexed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17362
  Land not a part of and not contiguous to any district, containing at least 10 privately owned acres, and lying within the exterior boundaries of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17363
  The board of directors or other governing body of the petitioning district may request by petition that lands lying within its boundaries and described in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17364
  The petition shall be addressed to the board of directors of the annexing district and filed with the secretary of the annexing district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17365
  The execution and filing of the petition by the petitioning district shall be authorized by resolution of its board of directors and a certified copy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17366
  If the board of directors of the annexing district determines that the annexation of the territory will facilitate the acquisition, construction, completion, or operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17367
  In the terms and conditions, the board may provide for any of the following: (a) That the territory to be annexed shall not become liable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17368
  The terms and conditions may also provide for any of the following: (a) That any and all property, services, or commodities may be delivered directly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17369
  The terms and conditions shall become effective and binding upon the annexing district and upon the territory to be annexed and the petitioning district when...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17370
  The resolution of the board of directors of the annexing district shall describe the territory proposed to be annexed and set forth the terms and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17370.1
  After the board of directors of the annexing district shall have adopted a resolution declaring its intention of approving an annexation the secretary of such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17370.2
  After said resolution has been filed with the executive officer, proceedings thereon shall be taken by the local agency formation commission in the manner and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17371
  After receipt of the resolution of the local agency formation commission making determinations, the board of directors of the annexing district shall cause publication of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17372
  The time fixed for hearing shall not be less than 20 days nor more than 60 days after the date of the first publication of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17373
  At the hearing or any continuance thereof, the board of directors of the annexing district shall hear all relevant evidence and shall determine whether the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17374
  At the hearing or any prior time, any person interested may file with the board of directors of the annexing district a written protest to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17375
  If written protests are filed by the owners of taxable property in the territory proposed to be annexed, the board of directors shall refer the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17376
  If the board of supervisors finds and determines at the hearing that the property described in the protests will not be substantially benefited by annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17377
  Any person who is interested in any land located within the annexing district or the territory to be annexed and who does not file a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17378
  After the hearing, the board of directors of the annexing district may adopt a resolution ordering and approving the annexation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17379
  The annexing board shall by resolution describe the territory ordered to be annexed, and set forth the boundaries of the district as they will exist...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17380
  After adoption of the resolution ordering the annexation, the secretary of the annexing district shall make the filings provided for in Chapter 8 (commencing at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17381
  The inclusion in, or annexation or addition to, a public utility district of the corporate area of any public corporation or public agency shall not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17501
  Any territory within a district which is not benefited in any manner by the district or its continued inclusion therein may be excluded from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18050
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public utility district in the Lake Tahoe Basin which has provided or undertaken to provide a sewer system...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18051
  (a) The zones authorized by this chapter shall be formed in the same manner as assessment districts are formed pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18052
  Bonds of a zone formed pursuant to this chapter shall be issued in the amount of the costs of the improvements of the zone, notwithstanding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18054
  The board shall annually, at the time of levying taxes for general district purposes, fix a rate of ad valorem tax upon the taxable real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18055
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that special facts exist with respect to public utility districts in the Lake Tahoe Basin which require the enactment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21001
  This part may be cited as the "State Aeronautics Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21002
  The purpose of this part is to further and protect the public interest in aeronautics and aeronautical progress by the following means: (a) Encouraging the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21003
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21004
  The acquisition of any land or interest therein pursuant to this part, the planning, acquisition, establishment, construction, improvement, maintenance, equipment, and operation of airports and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21005
  This part shall not be construed as limiting any power of the state or a political subdivision to regulate airport hazards by zoning.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21006
  This chapter or any other law shall not be construed as prohibiting, restricting, or permitting the prohibition of the operation or landing in populated areas...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21006.5
  "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21007
  Whenever the term "California Aeronautics Commission," "Division of Aeronautics," or "Department of Aeronautics" is used in any other law, it means the Department of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21008
  "Director" means the Director of Transportation. Any reference in any law or regulation to the Director of Aeronautics shall be deemed to refer to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21008.3
  "Division" means the Division of Aeronautics in the department.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21008.5
  "Commission" means the California Transportation Commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21009
  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21010
  "Political subdivision" means any county, city, city and county, public corporation, district or other political entity or public corporation of this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21011
  "Aeronautics" means: (a) The science and art of flight, including transportation by aircraft. (b) The operation, construction, repair, or maintenance of aircraft and aircraft power...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21012
  "Aircraft" means any manned contrivance used or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air requiring certification and registration as prescribed by federal statute...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21013
  "Airport" means any area of land or water which is used, or intended for use, for the landing and take-off of aircraft, and any appurtenant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21014
  "Air navigation facility" means any facility, other than facilities owned or operated by the United States, used, or available or designed for use, in aid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21015
  "Operation of aircraft" or "operate aircraft" means the use, navigation, or piloting of aircraft in the air space over this State or upon any airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21016
  "Airman" means any individual who engages, as the person in command, or as pilot, mechanic, or member of the crew, in the navigation of aircraft...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21017
  "Airport hazard" means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land, which obstructs the air space required for flight of aircraft in landing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21018
  "Airway" means a route in the navigable air space over the land or waters of this State, designated by proper authority as a route suitable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21019
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this part, other than Section 21407.1, or any of the rules or orders issued under this part,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21020
  "Land" includes tide and submerged lands or other lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, or fisheries.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21204
  The department may adopt, administer, and enforce rules and regulations for the administration of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21206
  The department shall prepare a statement of all estimated revenues of the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund and revenues available for local subventions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21207
  Whenever a political subdivision owning and operating an airport constructs or implements a noise mitigation project at the airport, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21215
  (a) The State Aeronautics Board is hereby abolished, and the California Transportation Commission succeeds to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21216
  Any person or entity injured or aggrieved by any procedure or action of the department with respect to aeronautics may appeal to the California Transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21240
  This state recognizes the authority of the federal government to regulate the operation of aircraft and to control the use of the airways, and nothing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21241
  The department shall encourage, foster, and assist in the development of aeronautics in this state and encourage the establishment of airports and air navigation facilities....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21242
  The department may: (a) Draft and recommend necessary legislation to advance the interest of the state in aeronautics. (b) Represent the state in aeronautical matters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21243
  The department may make and amend general or special rules, regulations, and procedures and establish minimum standards, consistent with and clearly within the scope of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21244
  For the purpose of protecting and insuring the general public interest and safety and the safety of persons operating, using, or traveling in aircraft and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21245
  The department shall keep on file with the Secretary of State, and at its principal office, a copy of all its rules for public inspection.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21246
  The department shall provide for the publication and general distribution of all its orders, rules, and procedures having general effect.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21247
  The department may enter into any contracts necessary to the execution of its powers under this part. All contracts made by the department, either as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21248
  The department may exercise any of its powers under this part jointly with any political subdivision, state agency, other states or their political subdivisions, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21249
  The department may confer or hold joint hearings with any federal agency in connection with any matter arising under this part or relating to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21250
  The department may avail itself of the cooperation, services, records, and facilities of the federal agencies in the administration and enforcement of this part. It...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21251
  In administering this part the department may use the facilities and services of other state agencies and political subdivisions to the utmost extent possible. These...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21252
  (a) The department, its members, the director, officers and employees of the department, and every state and peace officer charged with the enforcement of state...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21253
  In the name of the state, the department may enforce this part and rules and orders issued under this part by injunction or other legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21254
  The department may report to the appropriate federal agencies and agencies of other states all proceedings instituted charging violations of Section 21407, and Sections 21409...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21255
  The department may receive reports of penalties and other data from agencies of the federal government and other states, and may enter into agreements with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21256
  The department may accept, receive, receipt for, disburse, and expend federal and other money, public or private, made available to accomplish in whole or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21257
  The department may own and operate aircraft for use in the furtherance of its duties, employ airmen and mechanics for proper operation and maintenance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21258
  The department shall represent the state and local agencies before the Civil Aeronautics Board and other federal agencies in all matters related to the Airline...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21401
  Sovereignty in the space above the land and waters of this state rests in the state, except where granted to and assumed by the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21402
  The ownership of the space above the land and waters of this State is vested in the several owners of the surface beneath, subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21403
  (a) Flight in aircraft over the land and waters of this state is lawful, unless at altitudes below those prescribed by federal authority, or unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21404
  Liability of the owner or pilot of an aircraft carrying passengers for injury or death to the passengers is determined by the rules of law...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21404.1
  (a) The liability of an owner, bailee of an owner, or personal representative of a decedent imposed by Section 21404 and not arising through the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21405
  The liability of the owner of one aircraft to the owner of another aircraft, or to operators or passengers on either aircraft, for damage caused...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21407
  It is unlawful for any person to operate an aircraft in the air, or on the ground or water in a careless or reckless manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21407.1
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or the combined influence of an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21407.2
  (a) (1) (A) Any person who operates an aircraft in the air or on the ground or water is deemed to have given his or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21407.6
  (a) Any person convicted under Section 21407.1 shall be punished upon a first conviction by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 30...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21408
  For any violation of Section 21407 or 21407.1, in addition to the penalties provided by Section 21019 or 21407.6, the court may prohibit the violator...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21409
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in aeronautics as an airman in the State unless he has an appropriate effective airman certificate, permit,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21410
  Every airman shall keep any certificate, permit, rating, or license required for him by the United States in his personal possession when he is operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21411
  It is unlawful for any person to operate, or cause or authorize to be operated, any civil aircraft within this State unless the aircraft has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21412
  Any certificate, permit, or license required by the United States for an aircraft shall be carried in the aircraft at all times while the aircraft...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21413
  The department shall report to the appropriate federal agency all accidents in aeronautics in this state of which it is informed, and shall, insofar as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21415
  No person shall be in, or perform any act in connection with the maintenance or operation of, any aircraft when under the influence of intoxicating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21416
  On all commercial aircraft which transport passengers for compensation or hire the door which separates the pilot compartment from the passenger compartment shall be kept...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21504
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Representatives from the aviation community, electric utility industry, and government agencies voluntarily convened a working group in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21505
  (a) The Division of Aeronautics, in cooperation with the aviation industry and the electric utility industry and in consultation with the Federal Aviation Administration, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21507
  All costs incurred by an electrical corporation pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed reasonable by the commission and shall be fully recoverable through rates.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21601
  The department may make available its engineering and other technical services, with or without charge, to any political subdivision or person desiring them in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21602
  (a) Subject to the terms and within the limits of special appropriations made by the Legislature, the department may render financial assistance by grant or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21603
  Upon the request of any political subdivision or political subdivisions acting jointly, the department may act as agent in accepting, receiving, receipting for, and disbursing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21605
  No proprietor of any permitted airport which is open to the public and has received public funds shall close or suspend operation of the airport,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21631
  From appropriations or other money made available for the purpose, the department, on behalf of and in the name of the state, may plan, establish,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21632
  (a) The department may also acquire existing airports and air navigation facilities, but it shall not acquire any airport or air navigation facility owned or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21633
  For the purposes of this article, the department, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, may acquire real or personal property, or any interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21636
  The department may dispose of any property, airport, air navigation facility, or portion or interest, acquired pursuant to this article, by sale, lease, or otherwise....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21637
  In operating an airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by the state, the department may enter into contracts, leases, and other arrangements for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21638
  The department shall call for bids for the operation of any state-owned airport and shall lease the airport for a term not to exceed five...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21639
  The department shall grant no exclusive right for the use of any airport or air navigation facility under its jurisdiction. This section shall not be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21640
  To enforce the payment of any charges for repairs, improvements, storage, or care of any personal property by the department or its agents in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21646
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to release or fly or cause to be released or flown, within five miles of any airport,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21650
  "Airport" for the purposes of this article means an airport not open to the general public.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21650.1
  An airport shall be marked as required by rule of the department with letters or symbol selected by the department to designate that the airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21650.2
  Nothing shall prevent an airport from applying for and receiving a permit pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 21661) of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21652
  (a) Any person authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain for airport purposes may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation, or otherwise: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21653
  Any person authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain for airport purposes may provide, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21655
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the proposed site of any state building or other enclosure is within two miles, measured by air line,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21656
  No person shall erect or add to the height of any structure within the boundaries of this state which will result in a structure that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21657
  The department may refuse issuance of a permit under Section 21656 if it determines that the erection of or addition to a structure would obstruct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21658
  No public utility shall construct any pole, pole line, distribution or transmission tower, or tower line, or substation structure in the vicinity of the exterior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21659
  (a) No person shall construct or alter any structure or permit any natural growth to grow at a height which exceeds the obstruction standards set...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21660
  The department may refuse issuance of a permit under Section 21659 if it determines that the construction or alteration of the structure or growth of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21661
  This article does not apply to any temporary seaplane landing site, ultralight vehicle flightpark, or to airports owned or operated by the United States. To...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21661.5
  (a) No political subdivision, any of its officers or employees, or any person may submit any application for the construction of a new airport to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21661.6
  (a) Prior to the acquisition of land or any interest therein, including tide and submerged lands or other lands subject to the public trust for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21662
  The department shall have the authority to issue airport site approval permits, amended airport site approval permits, airport permits, and amended airport permits. No charge...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21662.1
  (a) At or as near as practical to the site of a medical emergency and at a medical facility, an officer authorized by a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21662.4
  (a) Emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes by law enforcement, firefighting, military, or other persons who provide emergency flights for medical purposes are exempt from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21662.5
  Notwithstanding Section 21006 or Section 21661 or any other provision of law to the contrary, no helicopter may land or depart in any area within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21663
  It is unlawful for any political subdivision, any of its officers or employees, or any person to operate an airport unless an appropriate airport permit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21664
  Any political subdivision or person planning to construct, establish, or expand an airport shall apply for the appropriate permit from the department prior to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21664.5
  (a) An amended airport permit shall be required for every expansion of an existing airport. An applicant for an amended airport permit shall comply with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21666
  The department shall issue a permit if it is satisfied that all of the following requirements have been met: (a) The site meets or exceeds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21668
  The department may revoke any airport permit if it determines that any of the following conditions are present: (a) There has been an abandonment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21668.2
  In lieu of revoking an airport permit pursuant to Section 21668, the department may suspend any airport permit, or may require suspension of operations of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669
  The department shall adopt noise standards governing the operation of aircraft and aircraft engines for airports operating under a valid permit issued by the department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.1
  (a) Land use conversion involving existing residential communities shall generally be considered the least desirable action for achieving compliance with noise standards regulations adopted by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.2
  In its deliberations, the department shall be governed by the following guidelines: (a) Statewide uniformity in standards of acceptable airport noise need not be required,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.3
  Any regulations designed to establish a noise monitoring program at an airport entering service after November 30, 1971, shall go into effect on the date...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.4
  (a) The violation of the noise standards by any aircraft shall be deemed a misdemeanor and the operator thereof shall be punished by a fine...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) (A) "Avigation easement" means a less-than-fee-title transfer of real property rights...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21669.6
  Hearings under this article required by the provisions of Sections 21666, 21668, 21668.2, and 21669, or regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions, shall be conducted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (1) It is in the public interest to provide for the orderly development of each public use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if the board of supervisors and the city selection committee of mayors in the county each makes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670.2
  (a) Sections 21670 and 21670.1 do not apply to the County of Los Angeles. In that county, the county regional planning commission has the responsibility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670.3
  (a) Sections 21670 and 21670.1 do not apply to the County of San Diego. In that county, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670.4
  (a) As used in this section, "intercounty airport" means any airport bisected by a county line through its runways, runway protection zones, inner safety zones,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21670.6
  Any action brought in the superior court relating to this article may be subject to a mediation proceeding conducted pursuant to Chapter 9.3 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21671
  In any county where there is an airport operated for the general public which is owned by a city or district in another county or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21671.5
  (a) Except for the terms of office of the members of the first commission, the term of office of each member shall be four years...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21672
  Each commission shall adopt rules and regulations with respect to the temporary disqualification of its members from participating in the review or adoption of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21673
  In any county not having a commission or a body designated to carry out the responsibilities of a commission, any owner of a public airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21674
  The commission has the following powers and duties, subject to the limitations upon its jurisdiction set forth in Section 21676: (a) To assist local agencies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21674.5
  (a) The Department of Transportation shall develop and implement a program or programs to assist in the training and development of the staff of airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21674.7
  (a) An airport land use commission that formulates, adopts, or amends an airport land use compatibility plan shall be guided by information prepared and updated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21675
  (a) Each commission shall formulate an airport land use compatibility plan that will provide for the orderly growth of each public airport and the area...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21675.1
  (a) By June 30, 1991, each commission shall adopt the airport land use compatibility plan required pursuant to Section 21675, except that any county that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21675.2
  (a) If a commission fails to act to approve or disapprove any actions, regulations, or permits within 60 days of receiving the request pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21676
  (a) Each local agency whose general plan includes areas covered by an airport land use compatibility plan shall, by July 1, 1983, submit a copy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21676.5
  (a) If the commission finds that a local agency has not revised its general plan or specific plan or overruled the commission by a two-thirds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21677
  Notwithstanding the two-thirds vote required by Section 21676, any public agency in the County of Marin may overrule the Marin County Airport Land Use Commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21678
  With respect to a publicly owned airport that a public agency does not operate, if the public agency pursuant to Section 21676, 21676.5, or 21677...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21679
  (a) In any county in which there is no airport land use commission or other body designated to assume the responsibilities of an airport land...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21679.5
  (a) Until June 30, 1991, no action pursuant to Section 21679 to postpone the effective date of a zoning change, a zoning variance, the issuance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21680
  (a) The Aeronautics Fund is hereby continued in existence as the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. The moneys deposited to the credit of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21681
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Own and operate" means that the public entity shall own the property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21682
  (a) The department shall establish individual revolving fund subaccounts for eligible airports in the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. Money payable under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21682.5
  The department shall pay, from the Aeronautics Account to the Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund, a sum equal to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21683
  Any public entity may apply to the department each year for the allocation of funds for the acquisition or development of airports. The commission may,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21683.1
  (a) At the discretion of the commission, any balance remaining in the Aeronautics Account, after the payments made under Section 21682, may be used to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21683.2
  Any balance remaining in the Aeronautics Account, after the payments made under Section 21682 and Section 21683.1, shall be used at the discretion of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21684
  (a) No payment shall be made to a public entity pursuant to this article unless the public entity has established a special aviation fund in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21684.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 21683, any balance remaining in the fund after the payments made under Section 21682 may be used by the department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21684.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this article inasmuch as they require matching funds the department may allocate funds to public agencies for the construction of airports.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21684.6
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, inasmuch as they require matching funds, the department may allocate funds to a county or a city for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21685
  Any public entity may pay any part of the money in its special aviation fund to a state college or branch of the University of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21686
  It shall be the duty of any public entity receiving payments or allocations under this article to periodically audit its books and records as deemed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21687
  (a) (1) If an airport, for which payments have been made from the Aeronautics Account, ceases to be open to the general public for more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21688
  (a) No payments shall be made from the Aeronautics Account for expenditure on any airport or for the acquisition or development of any airport, if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.5
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) The proper operation of California's publicly owned or operated airports is essential to the welfare of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.6
  The provisions of this article shall apply to any airport owned or operated by a political subdivision, including a charter city.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.7
  The governing bodies of publicly owned or operated airports shall manage airport facilities and grant airport concessions in furtherance of the development of commerce and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.8
  The Legislature recognizes that to further the policies and fulfill the objectives stated in this article, it is often necessary that publicly owned or operated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.9
  Before entering any exclusive or limited agreement in connection with the management of any airport facility or the operation of any airport concession, the governing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.10
  Nothing in this article shall excuse any local agency from complying with applicable state or local requirements for competitive bidding or public hearings which may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.20
  The Legislature hereby finds that Los Angeles International Airport is one of the important air terminals of the world, making a significant contribution daily to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.21
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this article: (a) "Airport" means Los Angeles International Airport. (b) "Department" means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.22
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department is authorized to: (a) Assist homeowners displaced by the expansion of the airport to relocate in comparable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.23
  The department is authorized to expend any available funds, including state and federal funds, for the purpose of purchasing homes from homeowners displaced by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.24
  Upon establishment of a program for additional payments to homeowners by the department pursuant to this article, the affected property owners may petition as provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.25
  Upon establishment by the department of a program for such additional compensation, the mayor shall appoint, subject to the approval of the city council, five...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.26
  The members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor, and any action taken by a majority thereof shall constitute the action...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.27
  The Board of Airport Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles is directed to pay any sum awarded by the board pursuant to Section 21690.26.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.28
  The provisions of this article are available only to persons who own residential property which has been or is being condemned or sold for airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21690.29
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21692
  The department, any member, the director, or any officer or employee of the department designated by it may hold investigations, inquiries, and hearings concerning matters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21693
  In order to facilitate the making of investigations by the department in the interest of public safety and promotion of aeronautics, the reports of investigations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21694
  Every order of the department requiring performance of certain acts or compliance with certain requirements shall set forth the reasons, state the acts to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21701
  The division, in consultation with transportation planning agencies as designated by the director pursuant to Section 29532 of the Government Code, shall prepare a California...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21702
  The California Aviation System Plan shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following elements: (a) A background and introduction element, which summarizes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21703
  The division shall submit the California Aviation System Plan to the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21704
  The division, in consultation with the transportation planning agencies, shall biennially revise the capital improvement plan developed pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 21702, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21705
  The commission shall review, hold public hearings on, and, based on these hearings, adopt or revise and adopt as revised, the California Aviation System Plan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21706
  The division shall require that every project submitted for funding from the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund shall be consistent with the California...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21707
  Any funds necessary to carry out Sections 21701, 21702, and 21704 shall be obtained from federal grants, except for updates of the capital improvement plan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22001
  This part may be cited as the "California Airport District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22002
  The purpose of this part is to facilitate the formation of intercity and county airport districts having responsibility for the development of airports, spaceports, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22003
  (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this part. (b) "Spaceport" and associated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22004
  Airport districts may be created, maintained, and managed as provided in this part and may exercise the powers expressly granted or necessarily implied.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22005
  A district may lie within or include the territories of one or more counties. It may include one or more cities, all or any part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22006
  The boundaries of a district may be altered and outlying contiguous territory in the same or an adjoining county annexed to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22007
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the law governing the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of election officers, the canvassing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22008
  "District" means airport district, formed and proposed to be formed, pursuant to this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22009
  "Principal county" means the county in which all of the territory of the district is situated, or if the territory is situated in more than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22010
  "Affected county" means any county in which the territory of the district is situated.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22011
  "Board" means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22012
  "Director" means member of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22013
  "Secretary" means secretary of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22014
  "Bond election" means an election provided for in Article 2 (commencing with Section 22731) of Chapter 5.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22015
  "Formation election" means an election provided for in Article 4 (commencing with Section 22226) of Chapter 2.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22016
  "Bond tax" means the tax levied pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 22901) for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22017
  "District tax" means the tax levied pursuant to Chapter 6 for the payment of expenses of, and claims against the district, other than the bonded
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22151
  The board of supervisors of each county desiring to form, or join in forming, a district shall adopt a resolution of intention to that effect.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22152
  Each resolution shall contain: (a) A statement of intention to form a district. (b) The boundaries of the district or some other designation of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22153
  Each resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in the county concerned. The board of supervisors may order it published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22176
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the District Investigation Law of 1933 applies to districts formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22177
  Section 22178 of this code supersedes Section 58680 of the Government Code, with respect to districts formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22178
  The requirements of the District Investigation Law for the mailing of the notice of hearing, and for the inclusion in the report of value and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22201
  Written protests or objections to the formation of the district or to its extent within the county may be filed in the office of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22202
  The board of supervisors of each affected county shall hold a public hearing to consider the objections or protests at the time fixed for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22203
  Each board of supervisors may overrule any protests or objections filed with it.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22204
  The board of supervisors of each affected county may exclude any territory within the county that in its opinion will not be benefited by inclusion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22226
  If after the hearing the board of supervisors of each affected county determines that the district should be formed, each board, by resolution entered on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22227
  The resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in each county and city in the district. The first publication shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22228
  The proposition submitted at the election shall be "Shall the proposition to form ____________________ Airport District under the California Airport District Act be adopted?"
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22229
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the election shall be called, noticed, and conducted, candidates nominated, the vote canvassed, and the results declared in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22229.1
  Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22229.2
  The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22229.3
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22229.4
  The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22230
  At the first election the board of supervisors of each affected county and its clerk have the powers and duties vested in the legislative bodies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22231
  The canvass of the returns of the election shall be made at the time, in the manner, and by the officers prescribed by law for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22232
  If the canvass is made by an officer other than the board of supervisors of the affected county, the officer shall transmit the results to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22256
  By a resolution entered on its minutes, the board of supervisors of each affected county shall declare the district formed if: (a) A majority of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22257
  The resolution shall contain the name of the district and a description or other designation of its boundaries.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22258
  A certified copy of the resolution shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of each affected county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22259
  Upon the filing with the Secretary of State, the formation of the district is complete.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22401
  A board of five directors is the governing body of the district. Each director shall be a resident of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22402
  Each district shall hold a general district election, governed by the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law, for the election of directors on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22403
  Within 30 days after notice of election or appointment each member of the board shall qualify by taking the official oath of office and filing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22404
  The terms of office of the directors elected at the formation election are governed by the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22406
  The board shall fill any vacancies occurring in the office of director. The appointee shall hold office for the balance of the term and until...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22407
  Each member of the board of directors shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each attendance at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22408
  The board shall hold its first meeting in the meeting room of the board of supervisors of the principal county at 10 a.m. on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22409
  At its first meeting the board shall provide for the time and place of holding its meetings and the manner in which special meetings may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22410
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22411
  A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22436
  At its first meeting the board shall choose one of its members president. The president shall sign all contracts on behalf of the district and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22437
  At its first meeting or as soon thereafter as practicable, by a majority vote the board shall appoint a general manager, a secretary, a district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22438
  The secretary shall countersign all contracts on behalf of the district and perform such other duties as may be imposed by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22439
  The general manager has the following powers and functions: (a) Full charge and control of the construction, maintenance, and operation of the physical properties of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22440
  The general manager shall report to the board in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22441
  The auditor shall install and maintain a system of auditing and accounting which shall competently and at all times show the financial condition of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22442
  The board shall designate depositories for the custody of the funds of the district. A depository shall give security sufficient to secure the district against...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22443
  The general manager, secretary, auditor, and all other employees or assistants of the district who may be required to do so by the board, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22551
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the powers of the district shall be exercised by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22552
  A district has perpetual succession.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22553
  A district may do all of the following: (a) Sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22553.2
  No district may exercise any of the authority granted under this part for the development of spaceports unless it has been designated as a spaceport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22553.5
  (a) The board of directors may, from time to time, cause to be sold or leased property of the district which in its opinion is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22554
  A district may also: (a) Employ legal counsel, in addition to its district counsel, and provide all necessary custodians, employees, engineers, and attendants for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22555
  The board shall make all rules governing the use of the airports and spaceports, landing places for aerial traffic, and other aerial facilities of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22556
  The board may charge and collect fees, tolls, and rentals for the use of all or a part of the aerial facilities of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22557
  (a) The district may issue temporary negotiable notes bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 8 percent per annum. However, these notes shall be general...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22557.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 22557, the Big Bear Airport District may issue temporary negotiable notes bearing interest at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate permitted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22558
  In addition to all other powers authorized by this part, the Santa Maria Public Airport District may do both of the following: (a) Employ airport...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22559
  The board may by resolution change the name of the district. Certified copies of such resolution shall be recorded in each county within which some...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22601
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22701
  As used in this chapter, "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22702
  District bonds may be issued and sold pursuant to this chapter for all of the following purposes: (a) Raising money for purchasing real property for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22703
  If the board deems it advisable it may call an election and submit to the electors of the district the question whether district bonds shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22704
  The board shall call and conduct the bond election in the manner prescribed by this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22705
  The order calling the bond election shall be signed by a majority of the directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22706
  In the order calling the bond election, the board may submit to the electors as one proposal the question of issuing bonds for all or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22707
  When bonds issued pursuant to this part have been investigated and certified by any authorized officer of the state and are declared to be legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22708
  If any officer whose signature, countersignature, or attestation appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22731
  A notice of the bond election, signed by a majority of the directors, shall be posted in three public places in the district not less...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22732
  The notice shall contain: (a) The time and place of holding the bond election. (b) The names of the election officers. (c) The hours the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22733
  For the purpose of the bond election, the board may divide the district into election precincts and may change the precincts as often as occasion
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22734
  The board shall appoint one inspector, one judge, and two clerks of election in each precinct.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22735
  If the board fails to appoint the election officers, or if those appointed are not present at the opening of the polls, the electors present...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22736
  The board may fix the compensation of the election officers but not exceeding seven dollars ($7) for each election officer.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22737
  The polls shall be open on election day from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22738
  Every resident of the district, who is a qualified elector of the county, and who is registered in the precinct where the election is held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22739
  The secretary shall obtain uniform ballots for the bond election. No other form of ballot shall be used. The expense of printing and distributing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22740
  The ballot shall contain the following: (a) "Official ballot provided by the board of directors of the "____ airport district' to be used in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22741
  The board shall provide a booth or private room in which the voter may prepare his ballot in secret.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22742
  No electioneering shall be carried on within 100 feet of the polls.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22743
  Each voter shall put a cross (x) upon his ballot with pencil or ink after the words "Bonds--Yes" or "Bonds--No" to indicate whether he has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22744
  After marking his ballot the voter shall hand it to the inspector. The inspector, in the presence of the voter, shall deposit the ballot in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22745
  Any person offering to vote may be challenged by any elector of the district. In the case of a challenge the judge or clerks of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22746
  The secretary shall provide the election officers with official poll and tally lists.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22747
  The heading of the poll list shall read "Official poll list of ____ airport district for the airport district bond election on the ____ day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22748
  The heading of the tally list shall read "An official tally list of ____ airport district for the airport district bond election held on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22749
  The election officers shall publicly canvass the votes immediately after closing the polls. They shall fill out the tally sheet and certify the correctness of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22750
  The election officers shall transmit the returns of the election to the board of directors. The board shall meet and canvass the returns on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22776
  If two-thirds of the votes cast at the election were for the issuance of bonds, the board shall enter that fact in its minutes. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22777
  The board of supervisors shall issue the district bonds in the number and amount specified in the bond proceedings. The board of supervisors shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22778
  By an order entered in its minutes, the board of supervisors shall: (a) Prescribe the form of the bonds and of the interest coupons. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22779
  The total amount of bonds issued shall not exceed 15 percent of the taxable property of the district as shown by the last equalized assessment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22780
  The term of the bonds shall not exceed 40 years.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22781
  The bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States as to principal and interest.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22782
  The board of supervisors may make the principal and interest of the bonds payable at the office of the treasurer of the principal county, at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22783
  The bonds shall be sold at the times and in the amounts prescribed by the board of supervisors, but for not less than par.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22784
  Before selling all or any part of the bonds, the board of supervisors shall advertise for bids pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22785
  If satisfactory bids are received the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest bidder. If no bids are received or the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22786
  The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited in the treasury of the principal county to the credit of the improvement fund...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22811
  If any bonds remain unsold for six months after having been offered for sale, the board of directors of the district for which the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22812
  Upon receiving a petition signed by a majority of the members of the board of directors, the board of supervisors shall fix a time for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22813
  The board of supervisors shall publish a notice stating the time and place of the hearing and the object of the petition in general terms,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22814
  At the time and place designated in the notice, or at any subsequent time to which the hearing is postponed, the board of supervisors shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22850
  In addition to any other powers of the district to finance improvements and to provide an independent method of financing from that contained in any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22851
  Revenue bonds under this article shall be authorized, issued and sold under the provisions of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22901
  As used in this chapter, "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22902
  If the revenues of the district are inadequate to pay the interest or principal of the bonded indebtedness of the district as it becomes due,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22903
  The board shall transmit the estimates to the board of supervisors and the county auditor at least 15 days before the first day of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22904
  Annually, after receiving the estimates, the board of supervisors shall levy a tax sufficient for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonded...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22905
  The bond tax shall be sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds for the year and the portion of the principal becoming due during...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22906
  The proceeds of the bond tax shall be paid into the treasury of the principal county to the credit of the district interest and sinking...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22907
  The rate of the district tax levied in any one year shall not exceed twenty cents ($0.20) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22908
  The bond and district taxes shall be levied on all the taxable property in the district. They shall be levied by the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22909
  A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24230
  This part may be cited as the Uniform Aircraft Financial Responsibility Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24231
  This part shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24232
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24233
  "Department" means the Department of Aeronautics in the Business and Transportation Agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24234
  "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known, or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24235
  "Judgment" means any judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24236
  "Operator" means any person who is exercising actual physical control of an aircraft.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24237
  "Owner" means any of the following persons who may be legally responsible for the operation of an aircraft: (a) A person who holds the legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24238
  "Passenger" means any person in, on or boarding an aircraft for the purpose of riding therein, or alighting therefrom following a flight or attempted flight
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24239
  "Person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, association or corporation, public or private, including his or its successors, assignees or legal representatives.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24240
  "Notification" means notice in writing served upon a person by either: (a) Actual delivery or offer of delivery to such person by any adult individual...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24241
  "State" means any state, the District of Columbia, any territory or possession of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24242
  "Claimants" means any person having a claim for damages as the result of an accident within this state involving an aircraft.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24243
  This part does not apply to: (a) Any aircraft owned and operated by or leased to and subject to the sole control of the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24244
  This part shall not apply with respect to any accident occurring prior to the effective date of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24245
  Nothing in this part shall be construed as precluding any party in any action or proceeding from employing other processes provided by law. Nothing in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24246
  A discharge in bankruptcy shall not relieve any person from the requirements of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24247
  Nothing in this part shall be construed as authorizing the state to license the operators of aircraft.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24250
  The department shall administer and enforce the provisions of this part and may make rules and regulations necessary for its administration. Nothing in this part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24251
  The department shall provide for hearings upon request of any person who may be affected by its orders or acts under the provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24252
  Any person aggrieved by any rule, regulation, order or act of the department or by a failure of the department to act hereunder, may have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24253
  The records of and proceedings before the department shall be inadmissible in evidence and shall not be referred to at the trial of any civil...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24254
  (a) The operation of an aircraft on the land or waters of, or in the air over, this state shall be deemed an appointment by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24300
  The operator of any aircraft involved in an accident within this state in which any person is killed or injured or damage in excess of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24301
  The report, the form of which shall be prescribed by the department, shall include information to enable the department to determine whether the requirements for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24302
  The operator and the owner shall furnish such additional information as the department may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24325
  As promptly as practicable but not later than 30 days after receipt of an accident report as required in Article 1 (commencing with Section 24300),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24326
  As promptly as practicable but not later than 30 days after the entry of the order required by Section 24325, the department, the owner or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24327
  The requirements as to security do not apply: (a) To the operator of an aircraft involved in an accident in which no injury was caused...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24350
  A policy or bond is not effective under Article 2 unless: (a) Issued either (1) by an insurer or surety company authorized to do business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24351
  The policy or bond need not cover: (a) Any liability on account of bodily injury to or death of any employee of the owner or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24352
  Any person may at any time apply to the department for a certificate of self-insurance, whether or not there has occurred an accident as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24353
  The department may in its discretion issue a certificate of self-insurance when satisfied that the applicant is possessed and will continue to be possessed of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24354
  Upon not less than 10 days notification of a self-insurer the department may for reasonable cause cancel a certificate of self-insurance and shall cancel such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24355
  The security required under this part shall be cash or securities permissible under state law as security for deposit of state funds and in such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24356
  Upon 10 days notification of the parties concerned, the department may reduce, or, within the limits specified in Section 24350, increase the amount of security...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24357
  Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this part shall be delivered to the department. The department shall deposit all cash received as security...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24358
  Such security shall be available for the following purposes: (a) Payment of a final judgment or judgments in any amount for bodily injury or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24359
  Every judgment shall for the purposes of this part be deemed satisfied: (a) When fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) has been credited, upon any judgment in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24360
  Whenever any evidence of proof of ability to respond in damages filed by any person under the provisions of this part no longer fulfills the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24361
  No insurance policy meeting the requirements of Section 24350 shall be canceled unless 30 days' prior notice is given to the department by either the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24362
  Every person permitting another person to operate an aircraft under the terms of any rental agreement or lease which provides for any remuneration for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24400
  Any owner or operator who knowingly refuses or fails to make any report of an accident as required in Article 1 (commencing with Section 24300)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24401
  Any owner or operator who knowingly makes a false statement or representation of a material fact in a report to or written instrument filed with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24402
  Any owner or operator who refuses or fails to comply with the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 24325) of Chapter 3 of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24403
  Every person permitting another person to operate an aircraft under the terms of any rental agreement which provides for any remuneration for the use of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24410
  It is the purpose of this part to establish minimum standards for aircraft financial responsibility, and nothing in this part shall be construed as preventing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24450
  Any person who causes damage to any aircraft that may reasonably be expected to affect the airworthiness of the aircraft shall do either of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24451
  Any person failing to comply with the requirements of Section 24550 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24501
  This part may be cited as the "Transit District Law."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24501.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except Section 24826, elections for the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District shall be conducted in accordance with the Uniform District...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24502
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24503
  "District" means a transit district formed under this part; "board" means the board of directors of a district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24504
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24505
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24506
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24507
  "Percent of the total vote cast," when used with reference to the requirements of any petition or nomination paper, means percent of the total vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24508
  "City" includes city and county and incorporated town, but does not include unincorporated town or village.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24509
  "Public agency" includes a city, city and county, a county, the State of California, or any public district organized under the laws of the State...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24531
  A transit district may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24532
  Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24533
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24534
  Whenever in this part publication is required and there is no newspaper of general circulation published within the district, the publication may be made in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24535
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24561
  Any city together with unincorporated territory, or two or more cities, with or without unincorporated territory, in either Alameda County or Contra Costa County or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24562
  A request for the formation of a district may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24581
  Legislative bodies of half or more of the cities proposed to be included in the proposed district may pass resolutions declaring that in their opinion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24582
  The resolutions may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24583
  Certified copies of the resolutions shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county containing the largest number of voters within the proposed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24611
  Instead of resolutions, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors of the county containing the largest number of voters within the proposed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24612
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolutions presented to a board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24613
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24614
  The clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in which the petition is presented shall compare the signatures to the petition with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24641
  Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolutions or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors to whom they are presented shall call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24642
  Before calling the election the board of supervisors shall divide the proposed district into five wards, the boundaries of which shall be so drawn that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24643
  Upon establishing the wards, the board of supervisors shall publish notice of the election within the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24644
  The notice shall state the name of the proposed district, and describe the boundaries thereof and the boundaries of the wards provided for the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24645
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: -------------------------------+----------+-------...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24646
  The ballots shall also contain the names of the persons nominated to serve as a member of the board showing separately each ward and its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24647
  Any person may be nominated for the office of director upon written petition of at least 50 voters of the ward in which such person...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24648
  Candidates for the office of director shall be voted upon and elected one from each ward and two at large.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24649
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24650
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24651
  The board of supervisors which called the election shall meet on Monday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the votes cast thereat.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24652
  The board of supervisors shall canvass the returns of each city and each parcel of unincorporated territory, if any, separately, and shall order and declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24653
  No person may serve as a director unless he is a resident and voter of the district as finally determined. Any vacancies on the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24654
  The board of supervisors shall also canvass the returns of the election with respect to the persons voted for as directors, and shall declare the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24655
  The board of supervisors calling the election shall make all provision for the holding thereof throughout the entire district as proposed, and shall pay the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24656
  If a special election is held exclusively on the proposition of organizing a district, the expenditure therefor shall be reimbursed to the county which called...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24681
  The board of supervisors shall cause a certified copy of the order declaring the result of the election to be filed in the Office of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24701
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24801
  The government of every district is vested in a board of seven directors, one from each ward, and two at large, together with the other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24821
  The first directors are elected at the formation election as provided in Chapter 2. All elections of directors subsequent to the first shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24822
  Notice of election shall be published and no other notice of such election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24823
  The board shall by resolution or ordinance fix the boundaries of the wards for the purpose of electing directors therefrom. The board shall adjust the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24824
  The notice of election shall refer to the wards established by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24825
  Upon the filing of a sufficient nomination paper and affidavit by any candidate the name of the candidate shall go upon the ballot at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24826
  The nomination paper, for those directors elected by wards, shall contain the name of the candidate, with such other information as may be required herein,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24827
  Nomination papers may be circulated throughout the district for those directors elected at large and throughout each respective ward for those directors elected by wards.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24828
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the provisions of the Elections Code prescribed for independent nominations shall substantially govern the manner of appointment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24829
  The board shall in the notice, ordinance, or resolution calling an election consolidate it with the general election to be held at the same time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24830
  Candidates for the office of director shall be voted upon and elected one from each ward and two at large.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24831
  Upon receipt of the returns of the canvass by the respective boards of supervisors the board shall meet and determine results of the election and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24832
  The secretary of the district shall issue certificates of election, signed by him and duly authenticated, immediately following the determination of the result of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24861
  The directors elected at the formation election shall hold their respective offices only until the first Monday after the first day of January next following...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24862
  Of the directors elected at the first election following the formation election, those three elected by wards and the one elected at large by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24863
  Directors elected at the formation election shall enter upon their official duties immediately upon the filing of the order declaring the result of the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24864
  Every director is subject to recall by voters of the district, in accordance with the recall provisions of the general laws of the State applicable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24865
  The board shall fill all vacancies on the board, including those caused by the death or resignation of a member. If, however, a vacancy exists...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24866
  The person appointed to fill any vacancy on the board shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term of his predecessor.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24881
  The oath of office of directors shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after the director has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24882
  The board shall choose one of its members president, and another vice president, who shall be authorized to act for the president during his absence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24883
  The board is the legislative body of the district and determines all questions of policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24884
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24885
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges, and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24886
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24887
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24888
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by a certified public accountant or public accountant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24889
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24890
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24906
  All legislative sessions of the board, whether regular or special, are open to the public.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24907
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24908
  (a) The board may, by ordinance or resolution, provide that each director shall be paid a sum that shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24909
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24910
  All ordinances shall be published after passage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24911
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the board of directors of________transit district:"
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24912
  All ordinances shall be signed by the president of the board or the vice president, and attested by the secretary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24926
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24927
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager some person who has had experience in the construction or management of transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24928
  The general manager need not be a resident of this State at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24929
  The general manager shall hold office for an indefinite term and may be removed by the board only upon the adoption of a resolution by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24930
  Notwithstanding this article, until such time as the district has operated, controlled, or used facilities or parts of facilities for providing the inhabitants and cities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24931
  The board may appoint a secretary and an attorney, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24932
  The attorney shall be admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the State, and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24932.5
  The secretary, and such assistants as the board may determine, shall have the power to administer all oaths or affirmations required by this part, including...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24933
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24934
  The oath of office of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24935
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24936
  Subject to the control of the board, the powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have full charge of the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24937
  The general manager shall within 90 days from the end of each fiscal year cause to be published a financial report showing the result of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24938
  The attorney shall take charge of all suits and other legal matters to which the district is a party or in which it is legally...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24939
  The general manager shall cause to be installed and maintained a system of auditing and accounting which shall completely and at all times show the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24940
  The general manager shall provide for the custody of the funds of the district and the keeping of accounts of all receipts and disbursements. Payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 24941
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this State, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25051
  (a) If a majority of the employees employed by a transit district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25052
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25053
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25054
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25055
  The persons entitled to pension benefits as provided for in Section 25054 and the benefits which are provided shall be specified in the agreement or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25056
  All persons receiving pension benefits from such acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under any pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25057
  Notwithstanding any provisions of the Government Code, the board may authorize payment of any or all of the premiums on any group life, accident and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25301
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25302
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25303
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25304
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25305
  Nothing in this chapter prevents a district from participating in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25306
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25331
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25332
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district or any predecessor public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, acquired by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25333
  The board may provide that the district shall contribute the entire cost of the retirement system or may require that an officer or employee of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25334
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25335
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interest, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25336
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25337
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement allowance, disability payment, or death benefit from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25361
  The board, upon establishing a retirement system pursuant to this chapter, shall create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25362
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25363
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25364
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund, the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of the retirement fund....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25391
  At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25392
  Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25701
  A district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25702
  A district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25703
  A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25721
  A district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25722
  Neither the general manager nor any director of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25771
  A district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25772
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25801
  A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights of way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25802
  A district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25803
  A district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25804
  A district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25805
  A district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25806
  A district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25807
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25808
  The board of supervisors of a county or a city and county, or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25809
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 25808 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25810
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25811
  The district, petitioner or petitioners, and the intervenors shall have the right to call and examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25812
  Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. The hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25813
  The attorney for the district shall be present at the hearing and shall advise the board on matters of law, and shall render such other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25814
  A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the board at such hearing shall be taken down by a reporter appointed by the board....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25815
  Within 30 days after submission of the case the board shall render its decision in writing together with written findings of fact. Copies of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25816
  Within 40 days after the mailing of the decision to the petitioner, the petitioner may apply for a writ of mandate in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25841
  A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness, and may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. No indebtedness shall be incurred exceeding the ordinary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25841.5
  A district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25842
  No district shall incur an indebtedness for public works which in the aggregate exceeds 20 percent of the assessed value of all the real and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25843
  Indebtedness which has been incurred for the acquisition, construction, and operation of transit facilities, where the revenue from the transit facilities for three years or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25844
  A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25845
  The district may purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, and rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25846
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25847
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25848
  The covenants, conditions and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25849
  An executed copy of each agreement or lease shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, who will be entitled to receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25871
  A district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25872
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25873
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25874
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25891
  A district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25892
  If, in the opinion of the board, the revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy a tax...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25892.1
  (a) The district board may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25893
  The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25894
  The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal, and sinking fund of district bonds shall be in addition to all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25895
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25896
  The board may elect to avail itself of the assessments made by the assessors of the counties in which the district is situated, and of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25897
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25898
  In case the board elects to avail itself of the assessments referred to in Section 25896 it shall, on or before the first weekday in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25899
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25900
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25901
  Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of the provisions of Section 25896 has been sold for taxes and has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25902
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25903
  All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied. Unless the board has by ordinance otherwise provided,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25904
  Whenever one or more special transit service districts are created and established pursuant to Chapter 10.5 (commencing at Section 27401), taxes in excess of one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 25951
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26201
  A district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26202
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26203
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26204
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast is presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26205
  If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26206
  Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26207
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26208
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26209
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26210
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26210.5
  The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26211
  The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26212
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26241
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26242
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination less than one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26243
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26244
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26261
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26262
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26263
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26281
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26282
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this division, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26283
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26284
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26285
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26286
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26311
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26312
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26341
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26351
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, a district created pursuant to this part is authorized to issue bonds, payable from revenues of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26352
  A district created pursuant to this part is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26401
  Any city not included within the boundaries of a district may be annexed thereto in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26402
  The legislative body of the city proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board upon the terms and conditions of annexation, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26403
  The annexation agreement may also provide that the city's annexation to the district shall constitute annexation to any existing special transit service district. Approval of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26404
  As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by action of the legislative body of a city, a petition signed by voters within the city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26405
  The petition may include one or more separate documents, but each document shall contain the affidavit of the party who circulated it, certifying that each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26406
  If the board determines that the annexation of the city, whose voters have petitioned pursuant to Section 26404, would facilitate the acquisition or operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26421
  The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the city when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26422
  The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26423
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the execution of the agreement.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26424
  Upon the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear and determine all objections thereto....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26425
  Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order to be entered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26426
  If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the agreement and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26427
  When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district. An executed copy shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26451
  At any time after the board has finally approved the agreement of annexation the legislative body of the city to be annexed shall cause an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26452
  Notice of election shall be published as provided in Section 24533 and shall either state that a copy of the annexation agreement is on file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26453
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26454
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26455
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body of the city.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26456
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters the governing body of the city shall enter in its minutes an order...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26486
  Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the city proposed to be annexed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26511
  Upon the completion of the annexation of any territory in accordance with law to any city included or partially included in the district, the city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26512
  If the district shall file its objections in the manner aforesaid to the annexation to the district of such territory or portion thereof, the territory,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26531
  From and after the date of annexation the board shall levy upon all of the property in the city annexed such taxes, tolls, or charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26532
  No annexation of a city to a district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of the city annexed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26551
  The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any city to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26651
  Unincorporated territory may be annexed to a district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26652
  Unincorporated territory not contiguous to a district may not be annexed if the district does not possess facilities for supplying transit service to that territory.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26653
  A petition signed by voters within the territory proposed to be annexed equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total vote cast,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26654
  The secretary shall compare the signatures on the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and if he or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26655
  If the board determines that the annexation of the territory would facilitate the acquisition or operation of any transit facilities for the district, or be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26656
  Provisions may be made (among other things) for payment of taxes within the territory to be annexed in addition to the taxes elsewhere in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26657
  The annexation agreement may also provide that the unincorporated territory's annexation to the district shall constitute annexation to any existing special transit service district. Approval...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26658
  As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by a petition by the voters within any unincorporated territory, proposed to be annexed, the legislative body...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26681
  The board shall by ordinance setting forth the terms and conditions at length declare its intention of causing the agreement to be approved by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26682
  The ordinance together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26683
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26684
  Upon the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions will be approved and shall hear and determine all objections thereto....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26685
  Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further notice other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26686
  If no protests are filed or the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 26687
  If protests against the proposed annexation are sustained, all proceedings shall be dismissed and no proceedings shall be undertaken again concerning the territory or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27011
  The board shall cause an election to be held in the territory proposed to be annexed on the next established election date not less than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27012
  Notice of election shall be published and shall either state that a copy of the ordinance containing the terms and conditions of annexation at length...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27013
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27014
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27015
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27016
  If the proposition is defeated by the voters, no annexation proceeding shall be commenced involving the territory or any part thereof until after the expiration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27041
  In the event the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters the board shall pass a resolution declaring the territory annexed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27061
  Unincorporated territory may be annexed to a district without an election in the manner provided in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27062
  A petition describing the territory proposed to be annexed and requesting that proceedings be taken for its annexation shall be signed by all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27063
  Proceedings shall thereafter be taken and a hearing held in substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter relating to the annexation of unincorporated territory...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27091
  From and after the date of annexation the board shall levy upon all of the property in the territory annexed any taxes, tolls, or charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27111
  The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any unincorporated territory to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27251
  Any territory contained within a district not being served by any transit facilities of the district and not included within the boundaries of any incorporated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27252
  The petition shall describe the territory sought to be excluded and shall set forth that the territory is not benefited in any manner by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27253
  The petition shall be filed with the secretary of the district and shall be accompanied by a deposit with the secretary of the sum of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27254
  Upon the filing of the petition the secretary shall cause it to be set for hearing at a regular or adjourned regular meeting of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27255
  Any landowner or taxpayer within the district may appear at the hearing either in behalf of or in opposition to the granting of the petition.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27256
  The petition shall come on for hearing before the board at the time and place specified in the notice of hearing.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27257
  If upon the hearing the board determines that it is for the best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27258
  A copy of the order of exclusion certified by the secretary of the district shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27259
  From and after the making of the order of exclusion and the record thereof the lands excluded are no longer included in the district. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27281
  If the city to which any territory included in any district has been annexed already provides transit service in the territory annexed, or if any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27282
  The petition shall contain the information prescribed for petitions for exclusion under Article 1 of this chapter, a deposit for expenses shall be made as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27283
  If an order of exclusion is granted, the board and the governing body of the city shall by contract provide for the payment by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27284
  The order of exclusion does not invalidate in any manner any taxes or assessments theretofore levied or assessed against the lands excluded nor relieve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27291
  The provisions of this article are alternative to any other provisions for the exclusion of territory from the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27292
  Any time after the defeat of a bond issue by the voters of the district any city or unincorporated territory, a majority of whose voters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27293
  The petition or resolution shall state the reasons for the proposed exclusion and that the area will not be benefited by inclusion in the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27294
  (a) If the exclusion is initiated by a city council or a board of supervisors, such legislative body shall hold a public hearing on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27295
  Within 60 days after the receipt of a petition for exclusion, the board shall hear the petition or resolution at a regular or adjourned meeting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27296
  Any landowner or taxpayer within the district may appear at the hearing, either in behalf of or in opposition to the granting of the petition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27297
  The petition or resolution shall be heard by the board at the time and place specified in the notice of the hearing.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27298
  If, upon the hearing the board determines that it is in the best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27299
  In the event that the board shall not make the order excluding all of the area proposed to be excluded within 10 days after the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27300
  In the event that a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the exclusion, the board, upon completion of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27301
  A copy of the order of exclusion, certified by the secretary of the district, shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27302
  Subsequent to the making and recording of the order of exclusion, the lands excluded shall no longer be a part of the district. The order...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27401
  One or more special transit service districts may be created within the boundaries of a district pursuant to this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27402
  Resolutions shall first be passed by the legislative bodies of half or more, but of not less than two, of the public agencies, within all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27403
  As an alternative to the instigation of the formation of a special transit service district by resolutions, a petition may be filed with the secretary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27404
  The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands the creation of a special transit service district within the area of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27405
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures on the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27406
  The board may initiate proceedings for the creation of a special transit service district within the area of the district by passing a resolution declaring...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27411
  Within 60 days after receipt of the resolutions of the public agencies or receipt of the certification of the sufficiency of a petition by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27412
  The notice of hearing shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27413
  The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than 20 nor more than 60 days from the date of the publication of the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27414
  At or before the hearing, any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the creation of the special transit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27415
  The board may reduce or enlarge the boundaries of the proposed special transit service district, but the boundaries of the proposed special transit service district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27416
  The board shall not approve the creation of a special transit service district containing territory in addition to the territory included in the resolutions or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27417
  If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall by resolution approve the creation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27421
  Any public agency included, or partly included, within the boundaries of a special transit service district may, by a resolution adopted by its legislative body,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27422
  Instead of the procedure by resolution of a public agency, a petition may be filed with the secretary of the district, signed by voters within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27423
  The petition may include one or more documents, but each document shall contain the affidavit of the party who circulated it, certifying that each name...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27424
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and shall certify to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27425
  The filing of a resolution pursuant to Section 27421, or of a petition pursuant to Section 27422, shall stay the effective creation of the special...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27426
  The board shall call the election required by Sections 27421 and 27422 to be held on the next established election date not less than 74...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27427
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: -------------------------------------+------+-----...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27428
  No person is entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the public agency or portion thereof requesting the election. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27429
  The costs of the election required by this article shall be borne equally by the public agency and the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27430
  The question of the creation of a special transit service district, submitted to a vote pursuant to this article, shall be canvassed separately for each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27441
  A special transit service district has no separate corporate existence, but shall be deemed to be a taxing subdivision of the district, and within each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27451
  At any time after the adoption by the board of the resolution creating a special transit service district, notwithstanding the effective date of the resolution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27452
  The proposition for incurring a bonded indebtedness under Section 27451 may be submitted to the voters of any public agency or portion thereof at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27453
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing at Section 26201) shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27454
  The favorable vote of a majority of all the voters voting on the proposition to authorize the issuance of bonds at the election or elections...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27455
  Only the property in the special transit service district shall be taxable for the payment of the principal and interest on special transit service district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27456
  Any proceeding denying the validity of the creation of any special transit service district, or of any bonds authorized by the voters thereof, pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27461
  Any public agency or portion thereof within the boundaries of a district, hereafter referred to collectively as "territory," not included within the boundaries of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27462
  The board shall, by resolution, determine that the annexation of the territory will facilitate the acquisition or operation of transit facilities for the special transit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27463
  Any public agency or portion thereof included as part of the territory to be annexed to a special transit service district pursuant to this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27464
  Except as otherwise provided herein, Article 3 (commencing at Section 27421) shall govern the procedure for the submitting of the annexation proposition to the voters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27465
  The terms and conditions for the annexation of territory to a special transit service district may provide (among other things) for the payment of taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27466
  Notice fixing the time and place for hearing on the question of the annexation of territory to a special transit service district shall be published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27467
  The time for hearing shall be not less than 20 nor more than 60 days from the date of the publication of the notice.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27468
  At or before the hearing, any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the annexation of the territory to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27469
  The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order entered upon the minutes of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27470
  From and after the date of filing of the resolution with the secretary of the district the annexation of the territory, or portion thereof, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27471
  From and after the date of annexation any territory annexed to a special transit service district is liable for payment of its proportionate share of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27472
  Upon the completion of the annexation of any territory in accordance with law to any city included, or partially included, in a special transit service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27473
  If the district shall file its objections in the manner aforesaid to the annexation to a special transit service district of such territory or portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27481
  A special transit service district may be dissolved by resolution of the board if any proposition for the incurring of a bonded indebtedness fails to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27501
  The board of any district which operates no transit facilities, or with exterior boundaries coincident with the boundaries of a single city, may call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27502
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27503
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27504
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27505
  No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this chapter need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27506
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27507
  Upon dissolution of any district which has boundaries that are coincident with the corporate limits of a city, the district property wherever situated vests absolutely...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27508
  If at the time of dissolution there is any outstanding indebtedness of the district the legislative authority of the city, where the limits of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 27509
  In the event that the proposition for dissolution fails to carry, no subsequent election for the dissolution of the district shall be called until after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28500
  This part is known and may be cited as the "San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28501
  This part is in furtherance of the declared policy of the State to stimulate the maximum use of the harbor in San Francisco Bay in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28502
  The part shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes and the declared policy of the State of California as in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28502.1
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28503
  "District" as used in this part, means the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28504
  "San Francisco Bay area," as used in this part, means the Counties of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28505
  "Rapid transit," as used in this part, means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28506
  For the purpose of establishing the bonded debt limit of the district, "taxable property," as used in this part, shall not include solvent credits.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28507
  "Board of supervisors," as used in this part, means the board of supervisors of a county in the San Francisco Bay area.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28508
  "Board of directors," "board," or "directors," as used in this part, means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28509
  "Public agency," as used in this part, includes the State of California, and any county, city and county, city, district, or other political subdivision or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28600
  There is hereby created the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, comprising the territory lying within the boundaries of the Counties of Alameda, Contra...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28601
  Through compliance with the provisions for withdrawal set forth in Chapter 10 of this part, the territory of any of the Counties of Alameda, Contra...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28602
  Through compliance with the provisions for annexation set forth in Chapter 9 of this part, the territory of all or any of the Counties of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28745
  On and after November 29, 1974, the governing body of the district shall be a board of directors consisting of nine members elected by election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28745.4
  The board, in dividing the district into election districts, shall establish and define the boundaries of the nine election districts within the territory of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28745.6
  In establishing the election districts, consideration shall be given to the following factors: (a) Community of interest of the population within an election district. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28745.8
  The establishment of election districts shall be made on the basis of the population in the district as shown or estimated from the most recent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28746
  The resolution establishing the election districts shall describe the boundaries of the election districts by reference to a map or maps on file with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28746.2
  All cities, counties, and cities and counties within the district shall provide such information, services, and facilities as may be required in apportioning the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28746.4
  Until the election and qualification of the first elected board, the members of the board in office on January 1, 1974, shall remain in office,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28746.6
  A general district election for the election of directors whose terms are to expire in that year shall be held and conducted on the first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28746.8
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, candidates for the board shall be nominated, the election held and conducted, and the ballots canvassed in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28747
  Each candidate for the board shall file a declaration of candidacy in the form and manner prescribed in the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28747.2
  A candidate for election from any of the election districts shall be nominated and elected by the voters residing within the election district from which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28747.4
  The county elections official of each county within the boundaries of the district shall conduct the election and canvass the returns for those election districts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28747.6
  Members of the board shall be residents and voters of the district and of the geographical area making up the election district from which they...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28747.8
  The candidate from each election district receiving the highest number of votes cast for the board in that election district shall be declared elected.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28748
  If a tie vote makes it impossible to determine which of two or more candidates has been elected, the existing board shall resolve the tie...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28748.2
  Each member of the first elected board shall take office at noon on November 29, 1974. The term of office of the elected directors shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28748.4
  Until November 29, 1974, any vacancy on the board shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28748.8
  (a) The board may by ordinance or resolution provide that each director shall be paid a sum that shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28750
  Following each federal decennial census and using the census as a basis, the board shall, by resolution, adjust the boundaries of the election districts so...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28750.2
  The boundaries of the election districts shall be adjusted by the board before November 1 of the year next succeeding the year in which each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28750.4
  The resolution reestablishing the election districts shall describe the new boundaries of the election districts by reference to a map or maps on file with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28750.6
  If, at any time between each federal decennial census, the district annexes territory, pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 29500), the board, within 90...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28750.8
  (a) The term of office of any director who has been elected and whose term of office has not expired shall not be affected by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28752
  Not later than January 31, 1974, the board of supervisors of any county included within the district may adopt a resolution declaring that, in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28752.2
  (a) If the boards of supervisors of two or more counties included within the district adopt resolutions pursuant to Section 28752, the board of directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28752.4
  If a majority of the votes cast in the district on the proposition are in favor of the proposition, the members of the board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28752.6
  If a majority of the votes cast in the district on the proposition are not in favor of the proposition, the members of the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28752.8
  The results of the election shall be entered into the minutes of the board of directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28760
  Each director, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath of office as provided for in the Constitution and laws of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28761
  The board shall choose one of its members president, and another vice president, who shall be authorized to act for the president during his absence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28762
  The board of directors is the legislative body of the district and, consistent with the provisions of this part, shall determine all questions of district
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28763
  The district may do any and all things necessary to carry out the purposes of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28764
  The board shall determine what transit facilities should be acquired or constructed, and may establish zones within the district to undertake the acquisition or construction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28765
  The board may determine what transit facilities should be acquired or constructed: (a) For the common benefit of the district as a whole; or (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28766
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges, and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28767
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28767.3
  Not later than October 12, 1974, the board shall adopt an affirmative action program approved by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance of the Department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28767.5
  The district is authorized to maintain a police department. The employees of the district that are appointed as members of such department by the general...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28767.8
  (a) The board may establish an office of independent police auditor, reporting directly to the board, to investigate complaints against district police personnel. (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28768
  The board of directors may contract for or employ any professional services required by the district or for the performance of work or services for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28769
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by an independent certified public accountant or public accountant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28769.5
  The board shall operate an automated management information system to enable it to submit a report monthly to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the office...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28770
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year the board of directors shall submit to the chief administrative officer and legislative bodies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28771
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28772
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28773
  The board of directors may hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, and perform all other acts necessary to properly carry out its duties. The board may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28774
  Each director may administer oaths and affirmations in any district investigation or proceeding.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28790
  All meetings of the board of directors, whether regular or special, shall be open to the public.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28791
  A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of its business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28792
  The board of directors shall adopt rules to govern its proceedings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28793
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28794
  All ordinances shall be published after passage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28795
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28796
  All ordinances shall be signed by the president or the vice president of the board, and attested by the secretary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28810
  The officers of the district shall consist of the members of the board of directors; a president and a vice president of the board, each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28811
  The secretary, general manager, general counsel, treasurer, and controller shall be appointed by and may be removed by the affirmative votes of a majority of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28812
  The compensation of all district officers and employees, except as otherwise provided in this part, shall be fixed by ordinance or resolution of the directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28813
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28814
  The oath of office of all officers appointed by the board of directors or by the general manager of the district shall be taken, subscribed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28815
  Each officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28816
  Article 4 (commencing at Section 1090), Chapter 1, Division 4, Title 1, of the Government Code shall apply to all officers and contracts of the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28817
  The treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28818
  With the consent of the board, the treasurer may: (a) Authorize any state or national bank in this state, a federally chartered or state chartered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28830
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have charge, subject to the direction and control of the board,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28831
  All other things being equal, the general manager shall be chosen on the basis of his qualifications with special reference to his actual experience in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28832
  The general manager need not be a resident of this State at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28833
  The general manager shall hold office for an indefinite term and may be removed by the board only upon the adoption of a resolution by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28834
  The powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have charge, subject to the direction and control of the board, of the acquisition,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28835
  The general manager shall attend meetings of the board as directed by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28836
  The directors may appoint a general manager pro tempore during any absence or disability of the general manager.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28850
  (a) If a majority of the employees employed by a district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28851
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28852
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28853
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28854
  The persons entitled to pension benefits as provided for in Section 28853 and the benefits which are provided shall be specified in the agreement or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28855
  All persons receiving pension benefits from such acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under the pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28870
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28871
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28872
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28873
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28874
  Nothing in this chapter prevents the district from participating in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28875
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28890
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28891
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28892
  The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. The rate of contribution by an officer or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28893
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28894
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interest, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28895
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28896
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement allowance, disability payment, or death benefit from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28910
  The board shall create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28911
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28912
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28913
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund. Investment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28950
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28951
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28952
  The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose, as provided in Chapter 7 of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28953
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28955
  The Public Utilities Commission of the State shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28956
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28957
  The district may be merged into or consolidated with any other public agency which may be established by law upon such terms as the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28958
  The board may authorize the temporary transfer of cash balances in any fund (except moneys in any fund which the district is required to set...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28959
  Notwithstanding Sections 53090 and 53091 of the Government Code, commercial outdoor advertising signs located on property of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28970
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28971
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America or of the State of California or with any public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28973
  The district may insure against any accident to or destruction of the system or any part thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28974
  The district may insure against loss of revenues from any cause whatsoever.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 28975
  The district may insure against public liability or property damage, or both. It may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of any bonds for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29010
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29010.3
  (a) The district may take by gift, or take or convey by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29010.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 53091 and 53094 of the Government Code, nor any zoning override which may have been previously exercised pursuant thereto by a school district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29011
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29030
  The district may provide a rapid transit system for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29031
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29032
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29033
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29034
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any public agency or public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29034.5
  (a) The district may approve annexation of areas to the district pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 29500) or other forms of affiliation; however,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29034.6
  (a) Not later than 1991, the district shall proceed to commence construction of an extension of its facilities to West Pittsburg, or to a point...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29034.7
  (a) Not later than December 31, 1991, the district shall proceed to commence construction of an extension of its facilities to Dublin if an agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29035
  The district may operate such feeder bus lines and other feeder services as necessary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29035.5
  Metropolitan Transportation Commission Resolution 3434, in December 2001, established the following Regional Transit Expansion Program for the San Francisco Bay area: (a) BART to Warm...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29036
  The board of directors shall refer for recommendation the plans of routes, rights of way, terminals, stations, yards and related facilities and improvements to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29037
  The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29038
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the board and shall be reasonable....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29039
  The board of supervisors of a county or a city and county, or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29040
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 29039 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29041
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29042
  The district, petitioner or petitioners, and the intervenors shall have the right to call and examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29043
  Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. The hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29044
  A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the board at such hearing shall be taken down by a reporter appointed by the board....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29045
  Within thirty (30) days after submission of the case the board shall render its decision in writing together with written findings of fact. Copies of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29046
  Within forty (40) days after the mailing of the decision to the petitioner, the petitioner may apply for a writ of mandate in the manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29047
  The district shall be subject to regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to safety appliances and procedures, and the commission shall inspect all work...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29060
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29080
  The district may accept, subject to the procedures and limitations provided in Chapter 8 of this part, contributions or loans from the United States, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29081
  The district may cooperate with and enter into agreements with the State of California or any public agency for the acquisition, construction, completion, maintenance, operation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29100
  Subject to any agreement or covenant between the district and the holders of any of its obligations limiting or restricting classes of investments, the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29101
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29102
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29103
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29120
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29121
  The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29122
  The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal, and sinking fund of general obligation bonds of the district shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29123
  The tax rate for taxes levied in any fiscal year for all district purposes other than taxes levied pursuant to Section 29121, shall not exceed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29124
  All assessments shall be made for the district by the State Board of Equalization and the county assessors, and all taxes shall be collected for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29125
  Each county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29126
  The board shall, on or before the first weekday in September, or if such weekday falls upon a holiday then on the first business day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29126.1
  If in the determination of any tax rate a fraction of a cent occurs, the board may adopt a rate ending in the next higher...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29127
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29128
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29129
  Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of the provisions of Section 29124 has been sold for taxes and has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29130
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this chapter shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29131
  All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied. Unless the board has by ordinance otherwise provided,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29140
  The board shall, by ordinance, impose transactions and use taxes in conformity with Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of Division 2 of the Revenue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29141
  Any transactions and use taxes ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142
  (a) Revenues derived from the transactions and use taxes, not to exceed an aggregate principal amount of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000), plus the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142.2
  Notwithstanding Section 7271 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, after deduction for the cost of the State Board of Equalization in administering the transactions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142.4
  No funds shall be allocated to an entity pursuant to Section 29142.2, after January 1, 1978, unless, as determined by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142.5
  On and after July 1, 1984, for purposes of meeting the requirement of subdivision (b) of Section 29142.4, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission may consider, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142.6
  Upon determination by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission that an operator has met the conditions specified in Section 29142.4, the commission shall notify the State Board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29142.8
  (a) Any portion of the transactions and use tax revenues available for allocation and not allocated by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall be invested through...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29143
  (a) The district is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds, payable, in whole or in part, from revenues made available under this article. Those revenues...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29150
  The district may borrow money, incur a bonded indebtedness in respect thereto, and levy taxes for the payment of principal and interest thereon, in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29151
  Before submitting a proposal to incur any bonded indebtedness, the district shall employ such engineers, economists, fiscal experts and others as is necessary to develop...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29152
  Such engineers, economists, fiscal experts and others shall make reports to the district, which shall include: (a) A general description of the facilities to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29153
  After receiving such reports, the board shall determine and declare by resolution whether or not the proposed plan of work is feasible and whether or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29154
  After adoption by the board of the reports made pursuant to Section 29152 the board shall refer such reports to the boards of supervisors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29155
  After receiving the reports, each board of supervisors shall fix a time and place for a public hearing to consider the reports. The time fixed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29156
  Within 15 days from the date of the public hearing held pursuant to Section 29155, each board of supervisors shall, by a resolution adopted by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29157
  If a majority of any board of supervisors does not approve the reports, the district may make additional studies and changes and may refer the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29157.1
  Whenever it appears to the board that bonded indebtedness heretofore authorized pursuant to the provisions of this article is insufficient to cover all costs of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29158
  When the district has received unanimous approval from the boards of supervisors of the counties comprising the district pursuant to Section 29156 of this code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29159
  The resolution calling the special election shall contain: (a) A statement of the general object and purpose of incurring the indebtedness. (b) Statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29160
  The provisions of Section 37.5 of Chapter 1239 of the Statutes of 1949, the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Rapid Transit District Act, relating to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29161
  Any election submitting the proposition of incurring indebtedness and the issuance of bonds called pursuant to this part, may be held separately, or may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29162
  Whenever a special bond election is called pursuant to this part and is not consolidated with any other election the board shall in its resolution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29163
  Notice of a special bond election shall be given by publication of the text of the resolution calling the election and except as provided below...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29164
  All the expenses of holding the election shall be borne by the district, except when the election is consolidated with another election pursuant to Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29165
  No error, irregularity or omission in the calling, holding or conducting of any special bond election which does not affect the substantial rights of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29166
  (a) The returns of the election shall be made and the votes shall be canvassed by the county elections official in each county contained in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29167
  At any special bond election called pursuant to this part, all residents of the district who are qualified electors possessing the qualifications prescribed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29168
  At any special bond election two or more propositions for incurring indebtedness may be submitted at the same election in which event the votes cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29169
  Whenever three-fifths of the votes cast at any special bond election or on any proposition submitted thereat are in favor of incurring the indebtedness set...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29170
  Bonds may be issued in form payable to bearer, with coupons attached for payment of interest and, if so issued, may be made subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29171
  Coupon bonds may be issued in denominations of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or multiples thereof, as the district may determine. Coupon bonds of different denominations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29172
  Registered bonds may be issued without limitation as to principal amount, as may be determined by the district, except that registered bonds shall be in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29173
  Bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not to exceed 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that interest for the first year or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29174
  The district may provide for redemption of bonds prior to maturity, on such notice and at such time or times and with such redemption provisions,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29175
  The district may provide for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds at any place within the State of California, or at any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29176
  Bonds shall bear dates prescribed by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29177
  Bonds may be serial or sinking fund bonds, or in part serially and in part sinking fund bonds, with such maturities and in such amounts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29178
  No bond by its terms shall mature in more than fifty (50) years from its own date, and in the event any authorized issue is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29179
  The district may divide any authorized issue into one or more series or division and fix different dates and different maturity dates for the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29180
  The district may prescribe the form of such bonds, and of the interest coupons attached thereto. Bonds shall be signed by the president of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29181
  Pending the actual issuance or delivery of bonds, the district may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denomination whatsoever, with or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29182
  The district may provide that interest on bonds may be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds during the actual construction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29183
  The district shall provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds by the levy and collection of taxes upon all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29184
  Any general obligation bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this part shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29200
  The district may by resolution at any time, or from time to time, provide for the authorization and issuance of any bonds authorized pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29201
  Before making a sale of any of the bonds, notice shall be given by publication once a week, for two weeks, in a newspaper of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29202
  The published notice of sale shall describe the bonds and set forth the terms and conditions of sale.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29210
  The district may provide for the funding or refunding of outstanding general obligation indebtedness pursuant to this article, if any of the following conditions exist:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29211
  The district by a two-thirds vote of the board may fund or refund its general obligation indebtedness at, after, or before maturity and issue refunding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29212
  Refunding general obligations may be issued and may be sold in accordance with Articles 2 (commencing with Section 29169) and 3 (commencing with Section 29200),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29213
  Refunding bonds issued pursuant to this article will have the same weight and force and may be used in the same manner as the bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29214
  The proceeds of any sale of refunding bonds for cash shall be deposited with the treasurer or depositary, as determined by the district, to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29215
  Any proceeds of the refunding bonds remaining after the indebtedness has been paid shall be deposited in the fund established for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29216
  At the time of making the general tax levy after incurring the bonded indebtedness and annually thereafter until the refunding bonds are paid or until...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29217
  If the earliest maturity of the refunding bonds is more than one year after the date of issuance, the board shall levy and collect annually...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29218
  The taxes shall be levied and collected as other district taxes, and are in addition to all other taxes. They shall be used only for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29219
  Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for (a) the payment of the principal of and interest on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29220
  When sufficient money is in the Funding Fund to redeem one or more outstanding past due bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29221
  At the same time, the treasurer shall deposit in the post office a copy of the notice, enclosed in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29222
  When any outstanding bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness are surrendered and paid, the treasurer shall cancel them by endorsing on their faces the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29223
  The treasurer shall keep a record of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness redeemed, and report the redemption to the board. At the end...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29224
  Any money remaining in the Funding Fund, after all outstanding bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness proposed to be refunded have been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29225
  Refunding of revenue bonds of the district may be accomplished in the manner provided by the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, all of the provisions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29230
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying general administrative and preliminary expenses of the district, lawfully incurred, prior to the time moneys...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29231
  At any time prior to the first receipt by the district of revenues from taxation, the counties within the district may loan any available money...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29232
  The treasurers of the counties within the district shall pay into the treasury of the district all funds held by them to the credit of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29233
  The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing at Section 53820), Chapter 4, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29234
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not been sold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29235
  (a) The district may borrow money for the purchase of transit vehicles, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 99501, transit equipment, or transportation facilities,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29236
  In addition to any other existing authority, the district may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Article 7.4 (commencing with Section 53835) of Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29240
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district is hereby authorized to issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29241
  The district is hereby declared to be a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941. The term "enterprise" as used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29250
  The district shall have power to purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motor buses, rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29251
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29252
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29253
  The covenants, conditions and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29260
  In addition to all other powers granted under this part, the district shall have the right to acquire, construct and complete any improvements authorized hereunder...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29261
  An assessment district formed or proposed to be formed under this part, on the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement thereby,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29262
  An assessment district formed or proposed to be formed under this part, on the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement thereby,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29270
  If lost or completely destroyed, any bond, note, coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness may be reissued in the form and tenor of the lost...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29271
  If defaced, mutilated, or partially destroyed, any bond, note, coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness may be reissued in the form and tenor of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29280
  When a bond, note, interest coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness payable from funds in the custody of the treasurer of the district is presented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29281
  Upon receipt of the first money in the treasury applicable to their payment, the treasurer shall set apart the amount necessary to pay the past...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29282
  If the registered bonds, notes, coupons, and other evidences of indebtedness are not presented for payment within 30 days from mailing of the notice, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29290
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29291
  An action to determine the validity of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29292
  Any person who, without probable cause, institutes in any court, state or federal, any action or proceeding contesting the validity of the issuance or sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29293
  Notwithstanding any other statutory provision to the contrary, the district may pledge all or any part of income received under Section 29123 to the payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29500
  Any county not included within the boundaries of the district, including a county which has withdrawn from the district pursuant to Chapter 10 of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29501
  The board of supervisors of the county proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board of directors of the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29502
  As a condition of annexation, the district shall require any county seeking to annex to the district to reimburse the district for the county's equitable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29503
  As an alternative method of annexation, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors of a county proposed to be annexed, signed by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29504
  Upon receipt of a petition pursuant to Section 29503, the board of supervisors shall communicate with the board and negotiate an annexation agreement and hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29520
  The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the county when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29521
  The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29522
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board of directors of the district written objections to the execution of the agreement.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29523
  Upon the hearing the board of directors of the district shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29524
  Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board of directors of the district without further notice other than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29525
  If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied, the board of directors of the district shall thereupon by resolution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29526
  When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district. An executed copy shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29540
  At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement of annexation the board of supervisors of the county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29541
  Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the county,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29542
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29543
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29544
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the board of supervisors of the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29545
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the board of supervisors of the county shall enter in its minutes an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29560
  Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the county proposed to be annexed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29570
  From and after the date of annexation the board of directors of the district shall levy upon all of the property in the county annexed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29580
  The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any county to the district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29590
  When the district is the sole owner of any tract of land within the County of San Mateo upon which is located works and facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29650
  Any county, the board of supervisors of which does not approve the reports of the board of directors of the district submitted pursuant to Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29650.1
  In addition to the right of withdrawal of a county as provided in Section 29650, any county may withdraw from the district at any time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29651
  Withdrawal from the district shall be by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the board of supervisors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29652
  The withdrawal of any county from the district pursuant to this chapter shall not be effective until the resolution of withdrawal adopted by the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29653
  The withdrawal of a county pursuant to this chapter does not invalidate any taxes or assessments levied or assessed against any property in the county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29654
  Any county which is withdrawn from the district pursuant to this chapter may be subsequently annexed thereto on compliance with Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29660
  One or more special service districts for any of the purposes in which the district is authorized to engage may be created within the boundaries...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29661
  Proceedings for the creation of a special service district may be initiated by resolution of the legislative body or bodies of the city or cities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29662
  As an alternative to the initiation of proceedings for the formation of a special service district by resolution or resolutions, a petition may be filed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29663
  The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands the creation of a special service district within the area of the district described...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29664
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures in the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29665
  The following provisions of the Government Code shall not apply to this chapter or any proceeding taken thereunder: (a) Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 54775),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29666
  Nothing contained herein shall allow the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or any special service district formed hereunder, to exercise any jurisdiction, taxing,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29670
  Within 30 days after receipt of the resolution or resolutions of the legislative body or bodies or receipt of the certification of the sufficiency of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29671
  The notice of hearing shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district. The board, in its discretion, may give...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29672
  The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days from the date of the publication...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29673
  At or before the hearing, any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the creation of the special service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29674
  If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall by resolution approve the creation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29680
  At the time of the approval of the creation of a special service district, the board shall call an election in the territory proposed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29681
  Such election shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days after the board's approval of the creation of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29682
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: |...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29683
  No person is entitled to vote at the election unless he is a registered voter residing within the territory proposed to be included in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29684
  The costs of the election required by this article shall be borne by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29685
  The question of the creation of a special service district shall be canvassed separately for each public agency, or portion thereof, in which an election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29690
  A special service district has no separate corporate existence, but shall be deemed to be a taxing subdivision of the district, and within each special...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29700
  At any time after the approval by the board of the creation of a special service district, as provided in Section 29674, the board may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29701
  The proposition for incurring a bonded indebtedness under Section 29700 may be submitted to the voters at the same election as the proposition to create...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29702
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing wtih Section 29150) relating to general obligation bonds with the exception of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29703
  Only those registered voters residing within the boundaries of the special service district shall be entitled to vote on the proposition for the incurring of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29704
  Only the property in the special service district shall be taxable for the payment of the principal and interest on special service district bonds. Until...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29705
  Any proceedings denying the validity of the creation of any special service district, or of any bonds authorized by the voters thereof, pursuant to this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29710
  Any territory within the boundaries of the district not included within the boundaries of the special service district to which it is proposed to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29711
  The board shall by resolution determine that the annexation of the territory will facilitate the acquisition or operation of transit facilities for the special service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29712
  Any public agency or portion thereof included as part of the territory proposed to be annexed to a special service district pursuant to this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29713
  The petition for election provided for in Section 29712 shall be signed by voters within any public agency, or portion thereof, included within the boundaries...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29714
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official, and shall certify to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29715
  The terms and conditions for the annexation of territory to a special service district may provide, among other matters, for the payment of taxes within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29716
  Notice fixing the time and place for hearing on the question of the annexation of territory to a special service district shall be published once...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29717
  The time of hearing shall be not less than 20 nor more than 60 days from the date of the publication of the notice.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29718
  At or before the hearing, any person interested may file with the secretary of the district written objections to the annexation of the territory to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29719
  The hearing may be continued from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order entered upon the minutes of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29719.5
  If the board finds that protest has been made, prior to the board's final determination for annexation, by the owners of real property within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29720
  From and after the date of filing of the resolution with the secretary of the district, the annexation of the territory, or portion thereof, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29721
  If an election is required to be held, pursuant to the provisions of Section 29712, the board shall call such election within 60 days after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29722
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: |...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29723
  No person is entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the public agency, or portion thereof, requesting the election. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29724
  The costs of the election required by this article shall be borne by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29725
  The question of the annexation of territory to a special service district shall be canvassed separately for each public agency, or portion thereof, in which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29726
  Upon the completion of the annexation of any territory, in accordance with law, to any city included in a special service district, the city clerk...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29727
  If the district shall file its objections, in the manner provided in Section 29726, to the annexation to a special service district of territory annexed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29740
  A special service district may be dissolved by resolution of the board if any proposition for the incurring of a bonded indebtedness fails to carry,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29750
  If district bonds for the acquisition or construction of rapid transit facilities have not been voted by the electors within five years of the creation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29751
  The election, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29752
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29753
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29754
  No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this article need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29755
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29756
  If a majority of the qualified electors voting at said election vote in favor of such dissolution, the board of directors shall, by resolution entered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 29757
  In the event that the proposition for dissolution fails to carry, no subsequent election for the dissolution of the district shall be called until after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30000
  This part shall be known as the Southern California Rapid Transit District Law.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) There is an imperative need for a comprehensive mass rapid transit system in the southern California area, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30002
  The part shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes and the declared policy of the State of California as in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30003
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30004
  "District," as used in this part, means the Southern California Rapid Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30005
  (a) "Rapid transit," as used in this part, means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30006
  "Board of directors," "board," or "directors," as used in this part, means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30007
  "Public agency," as used in this part, includes the State of California, and any county, city and county, city, district, or other political subdivision or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30100
  There is hereby created the Southern California Rapid Transit District, comprising that territory hereinafter described in this section lying within the boundaries of the County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30101
  The district created in accordance with the provisions of this part is a public corporation created for the purposes set forth in this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30200
  All powers, privileges and duties vested in or imposed upon the district shall be exercised and performed by and through a board of directors; provided,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30201
  The board of directors shall consist of 11 members appointed as follows: Five by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, who,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30201.5
  Notwithstanding Section 30201, if a director appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles is a member of the city council of that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30202
  At its first regular meeting after the effective date of this part, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles shall appoint as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30203
  At its first regular meeting after the effective date of this part, the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, subject to confirmation by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30204
  Each member of the board of directors appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, shall serve at the pleasure of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30205
  Each director appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles shall be appointed by resolution, and each director appointed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30206
  Any vacancy in the members of the board of directors appointed by the County of Los Angeles or by the City of Los Angeles shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30207
  A city selection committee shall be established which shall consist of one member representing each city within the district as described in Section 30100, except...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30208
  On or before the second Monday which is not a holiday following the effective date of this part, the governing body of each city within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30209
  Each member of the city selection committee shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body of the city by which he was appointed. If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30210
  Each member of the city selection committee shall be appointed by a resolution adopted by the governing body of the appointing body. Certified copies of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30211
  Any vacancy in the city selection committee shall be filled by appointment by the body which originally made the appointment to the office in which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30212
  No person serving as a member of the city selection committee shall be eligible for appointment to any salaried office or employment in the service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30213
  The county auditor shall furnish the necessary certificates as to assessed valuation to enable the city selection committee to function.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30214
  All meetings of the city selection committee shall be conducted pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30215
  The presence of members of the city selection committee representing more than fifty (50) percent of the total number of votes of all the members...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30216
  The affirmative votes of members representing more than fifty (50) percent of the total number of votes of all the members of the city selection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30217
  Within ten (10) days after the Secretary of State has received certified copies of the resolutions appointing a majority of the city selection committee, he...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30218
  The city selection committee shall appoint from its members a chairman and such other officers as may be necessary. Until a chairman is appointed, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30219
  The city selection committee shall appoint as members the number to be appointed by it under Section 30201 as the first board of directors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30220
  Members of the board of directors who are not members of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles or members of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30221
  Whenever a vacancy occurs in the member of the board appointed by a subcommittee of the city selection committee, the vacancy shall be filled by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30222
  The city selection committee shall meet within 45 days after receiving the latest population estimate prepared by the population research unit of the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30223
  Upon petition signed by members of the city selection committee representing more than two-thirds ( 2/3) of the total number of votes of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30224
  Members of the board of directors shall serve until their respective successors are appointed and qualified.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30225
  Except as provided in Section 30251 of this part, no person serving as a director shall be eligible for appointment to any salaried office or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30226
  In order to provide orderly transition from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (herein sometimes referred to as "authority") to the district, it may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30227
  Within ten (10) days after the Secretary of State has received certified copies of the resolutions appointing a majority of the directors, he shall call...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30250
  Each director, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath of office. The oath shall be filed with the Secretary of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30252
  The board of directors is the legislative body of the district and, consistent with the provisions of this part, shall determine all questions of district
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30253
  The board may contract and take any and all actions and proceedings and do any and all other things necessary to carry out the purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30254
  The board shall determine what transit facilities should be acquired, constructed, developed, jointly developed, leased, or disposed of, by means including, but not limited to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30255
  In order to provide orderly transition from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (herein sometimes referred to as "authority") to the district, it may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30256
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, fares, rentals, charges, and classifications...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30257
  Subject to the provisions of Article 10 (commencing with Section 30750), Chapter 5 of this part, the board may adopt a personnel system for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30258
  The board may contract for or employ any professional services required by the district or for the performance of work or services for the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30259
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by an independent certified public accountant or public accountant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30260
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year the board shall submit to the chief administrative officers and legislative bodies of cities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30261
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30262
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30263
  The board may hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, and perform all other acts necessary to properly carry out its duties. The board may delegate such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30264
  Each director may administer oaths and affirmations in any district investigation or proceeding.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30270
  All meetings of the board of directors shall be conducted pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30271
  The affirmative votes of a majority of the members of the board shall be necessary and, except as otherwise provided in this part, shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30272
  The board shall adopt rules for the general conduct of its proceedings including, without limitation, penalties for unexcused absence from meetings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30273
  (a) The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30274
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the Board of Directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District:"
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30275
  All ordinances shall be signed by the president or the vice president of the board and attested by the secretary. All ordinances shall be published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30300
  The officers of the district shall consist of the members of the board of directors; a president and a vice president of the board, each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30301
  The secretary, general manager, general counsel, treasurer, and auditor shall be full-time officers and shall be appointed by and may be removed by the affirmative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30302
  The compensation of all district officers and employees, except as otherwise provided in this part, shall be fixed by ordinance or resolution of the directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30303
  The general counsel shall be a person admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of California and shall have been actively engaged in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30304
  The oath of office of all officers appointed by the board of directors or by the general manager of the district shall be taken, subscribed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30305
  The board may require officers, assistants, deputies and employees to give bonds and may fix the amount thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30306
  Article 4 (commencing with Section 1090), Chapter 1, Division 4, Title 1, of the Government Code shall apply to all officers and contracts of the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30307
  The treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30308
  The district may designate the treasurer and the auditor of the County of Los Angeles as treasurer and auditor of the district and the treasury...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30330
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, maintenance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30331
  All other things being equal, the general manager shall be chosen on the basis of his qualifications with special reference to his actual experience in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30332
  The general manager need not be a resident of this State at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30333
  The general manager shall hold office for an indefinite term and may be removed by the board upon the adoption of a resolution by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30334
  The powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have full charge of the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, maintenance, operation, leasing, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30335
  The general manager shall attend meetings of the board and be entitled to participate in the deliberations of the board, but shall not have a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30336
  The directors may appoint a general manager pro tempore to serve during any absence or disability of the general manager.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30400
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30401
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30402
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30403
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30404
  As an alternative method of providing a retirement system the board may contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30405
  The board may also contract with the Board of Administration of the State Employees' Retirement System for participation in the Federal Social Security Act and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30406
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30430
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30431
  Any pension or retirement system adopted shall be on a sound actuarial basis and provide for contributions by both the district and the employee members...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30432
  Contributions shall be in amounts which will accumulate at retirement a fund sufficient to carry out the promise to pay benefits to the individual on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30433
  Nothing in any pension or retirement system or plan shall prevent the board from, at any time, amending, changing, modifying or terminating any provision for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30450
  Articles 1 (commencing with Section 30400) and 2 (commencing with Section 30430) do not apply to any employees of the district in a bargaining unit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30451
  The adoption, terms, and conditions of the retirement systems covering employees of the district in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30470
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage of its employees under Title 2 of the Federal Social Security Act,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30471
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the state laws relating to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30500
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30501
  The district and its officers may sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30502
  The district may levy and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose, as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 30800)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30503
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain within the boundaries of the district to take any property necessary, incidental, or convenient to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30504
  The district is authorized to maintain a suitable security force comprised of transit police officers and security guards. Persons designated as transit police officers are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30505
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30506
  The district may exercise any and all powers granted by any other law which by its terms is applicable to districts generally, to public corporations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30507
  Prior to the time the district incurs any bonded indebtedness, the district shall insofar as possible follow the budgetary control procedures for counties, pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30530
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30531
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America or of the State of California or with any public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30532
  The district may contract with any person, firm, corporation, association, organization, or other entity, public or private, for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, maintenance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30533
  The district may insure against any accident to or destruction of the system or any part thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30534
  The district may insure against loss of revenues from any cause whatsoever.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30535
  The district may insure against public liability or property damage, or both. It may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of any bonds for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30536
  Any bonds, notes, warrants and other evidences of indebtedness issued or incurred by the district shall be signed as provided in the section of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30600
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or by condemnation, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30630
  The district may provide a rapid transit system for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30630.5
  The district may operate charter bus service, subject to all of the following limitations: (a) No bus equipment that is designed solely for charter service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30631
  (a) The district may acquire, construct, develop, lease, jointly develop, own, operate, maintain, control, use, jointly use, or dispose of rights-of-way, rail lines, monorails, buslines,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30632
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its facilities, or any portion therof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30633
  The district may construct, acquire, develop, jointly develop, maintain, operate, lease, and dispose of works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30634
  (a) The district may enter into agreements for the joint use or joint development of any property or rights by the district and any city,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30635
  The district may operate such feeder bus lines and other feeder services as necessary.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30636
  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this part, the board shall cause a preliminary report to be made as to a rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30636.2
  In planning the development of a rapid transit system or any part thereof within its territory and in carrying out the provisions of Section 30001,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30636.5
  (a) Not later than January 10, 1974, the district shall submit to the Legislature its plan for the implementation of a rapid transit system, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30637
  The district shall not exercise control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within, or without, the district by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30638
  (a) The rates, fees, and charges for service or rights furnished, leased, or otherwise transferred pursuant to this part, including, but not limited to, station...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30638.2
  Notwithstanding Section 30638, all net income from fees, charges, rents, profits, or other net income arising from joint development of the property of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30639
  The board of supervisors of a county, or the governing body of a city having territory located within the district may file a request for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30640
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 30639, the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30641
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city governing body eligible to file a request for hearing,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30642
  The district, petitioner or petitioners, and the intervenors shall have the right to call and examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30643
  Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. The hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidences and witnesses....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30644
  A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the board at such hearing shall be taken down by a reporter appointed by the board....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30645
  Within 30 days after the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall render its decision, in writing, with written findings of fact. Copies of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30646
  The district shall be subject to regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to safety appliances and procedures, and the commission shall inspect all work...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30647
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30648
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the district made specified representations regarding construction plans at the time it received authorization to proceed with the planning and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30650
  Before the district takes action on a route, grades, or station location, including parking and storage facilities, for any portion of a rail transit system,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30651
  The citizens' advisory committee may advise the district of the prevalent sentiments of its area and shall advise the board on any and all related...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30652
  The district may establish a citizens' advisory committee in any identifiable area in which rail transportation is not currently contemplated, but in which the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30653
  (a) The district shall designate the area to be represented by each citizens' advisory committee, with a separate area for any identifiable segment of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30655
  A citizens' advisory committee shall consist of not less than 15 persons and not more than 45 persons.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30656
  Every meeting of a citizens' advisory committee is open to the general public. Minutes of the proceedings shall be kept and shall be available for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30670
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30700
  The district may issue any bonds, borrow money and incur indebtedness as authorized by law or in this part provided.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30701
  The district may accept contributions or loans from the United States, or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, for the purpose of financing the acquisition,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30702
  The district may cooperate with and enter into agreements with the State of California or any public agency for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30703
  The district may accept contributions or loans from the State of California or any public agency, for the purpose of planning, acquiring, constructing, developing, jointly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30703.1
  The district may make an irrevocable pledge or contract in connection with the payment of the principal and the interest, sinking or reserve funds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30703.2
  To the extent permitted by the law governing the source of any transit funds, appropriations, contributions, grants or loans received pursuant to this article or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30704
  The district shall not incur an indebtedness which exceeds in the aggregate 15 percent of the assessed value of all real and personal property in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30705
  The district may also refund any indebtedness as provided in this part or in any other applicable law. The board may provide for the issuance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30706
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of the following terms shall apply to indebtedness under this part: (a) "Any bond" or "any bonded indebtedness"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30730
  The board may, by resolution, order that any of the moneys in the funds under its control which are not necessary for current operating expenses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30740
  All district elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, as the same now exist...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30740.5
  The board of directors or any officer or member or members thereof authorized by that body, or any individual voter or bona fide association, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30741
  The provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, as the same now exist or may hereafter be amended, governing the initiative and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30742
  No irregularities or informalities in conducting any election shall invalidate the same if the election shall have been otherwise fairly conducted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30750
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), if a majority of the employees employed by a district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30751
  Any question which may arise with respect to whether a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30752
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings, by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30753
  (a) Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30754
  The district shall not acquire any existing transit system or part thereof whether by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, or dispose of or lease any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30755
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30756
  (a) In the event the board and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit a dispute over the terms and conditions of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30900
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, maintenance, operation, or repair...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30901
  Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30902
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30903
  If 60 percent of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30904
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum rate allowed by law, payable semiannually, except that the first interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30905
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30906
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the State, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30907
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30908
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30909
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30912
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500), Chapter 3, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code are applicable to the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30913
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30930
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a revenue bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, operation, maintenance, completion,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30931
  The district is hereby declared to be a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941. The term "enterprise" as used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30932
  Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this Article 2 shall be subject to the priorities set forth in Section 30638. Revenue bonds shall have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30940
  The district shall have power to purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30941
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30942
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30943
  The covenants, conditions and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any agreement securing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30950
  Prior to the time moneys authorized by special taxes under Part 16 (commencing with Section 36000) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30951
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not been sold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30952
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Article 7.7 (commencing with Section 53859) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30960
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, completion, operation, maintenance, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30961
  Notice of said hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution declaring the necessity pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30962
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30963
  The board may change the purposes for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, or the estimated cost, or the amount of bonded debt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30964
  The purposes, estimated cost, amount of bonded debt, or boundaries shall not be changed by the board except after notice of its intention to do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30965
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30966
  At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall, by resolution, determine whether it is deemed necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness, and, if so,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30967
  After the formation of the improvement district or districts within the district pursuant to this article, all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30968
  After the board has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by resolution pursuant to Section 30966, and if the board deems...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30969
  Thereafter the provisions relating to the authorization and issuance of bonds, Sections 30901 to 30914, inclusive, shall apply.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30970
  Any action or proceeding, wherein the validity of the formation of the improvement district or districts or of any bonds or of the proceedings in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30980
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30981
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 30982
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31000
  On the date (which is hereinafter referred to as "merger date") of the second regular meeting of the board held pursuant to Section 30251 that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31001
  Upon the merger date, the secretary of the district shall record in the office of the Recorder of the County of Los Angeles a certificate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31002
  A copy of the certificate provided for in Section 31001 certified by the Recorder of the County of Los Angeles is, except as against the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31003
  On said merger date, all employees of the authority shall become employees of the district with all the same rights, privileges and compensation they had...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31004
  It is the intent of this part that the board of directors of the district shall have a free choice as to officers of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31005
  Whenever the board deems it necessary, it may issue bonds to refund all outstanding, unmatured bonds of the authority which are subject to call and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31400
  The governing body of any city, which is not within the district, may apply to the board of directors of the district for consent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31401
  The board of directors may grant or deny such application and in granting the same may fix the terms and conditions upon which the corporate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31402
  The action of the board of directors evidenced by resolution shall be promptly transmitted to the governing body of such applying city or board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31403
  The notice shall contain the substance of the terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors, as provided in Section 31401. Such election shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31404
  A certificate of proceedings shall be made by the secretary of the district and filed with the Secretary of State. Upon the filing thereof in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31405
  Upon the filing in his or her office of the certificate of proceedings, the Secretary of State shall, within 10 days, issue a certificate, reciting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31407
  If territory is annexed to a city or consolidated with a city, the corporate area of which has been included in the district, or, if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31408
  If the applicable provisions of law governing such annexation to, or consolidation with, such municipality or such incorporation shall require any notice of any election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31409
  The validity of any proceedings resulting in the annexation of territory to the district shall not be contested in any action unless such action shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31410
  If any portion of the corporate area of any city whose corporate area is a part of the district, shall be excluded from such city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31411
  Any city whose corporate area is a part of the district and any county with regard to any unincorporated territory which is a part of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31412
  Whenever any change is made in the boundaries of this district by the annexation or exclusion of any city or any unincorporated county territory pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31413
  No consent to annexation or exclusion shall be made by the board of directors of the district pursuant to this chapter, and no annexation or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 31520
  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this part, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is for any reason held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 32000
  In cooperation with the Department of Transportation and the cities, counties, and local and regional transportation entities in the district's service area, the district, after...
• California Public Utilities Code 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 Public Utilities Code 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,...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 33002.1
  The board may order benefit assessment without an election, except as otherwise provided in Section 33002.2.
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 33002.10
  Notice of each hearing upon the petition for exclusion or reduction shall be given in accordance with subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 33001.
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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,...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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.
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code 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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40000
  This part shall be known and cited as the "Orange County Transit District Act of 1965."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40002
  "District" means the Orange County Transit District formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40003
  "Board" means the board of directors of this district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40010
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in Orange County in order to provide an interim solution to the transit problem of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40011
  The Orange County Transit District as created and established by the voters of the County of Orange comprises all that portion of the County of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40012
  Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40013
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40014
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40060
  The members of the Orange County Transportation Authority, comprised as specified by Section 130052, shall serve as the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40061
  The board of directors shall select one of its members as chairman.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40062
  The board shall determine the number of, and appoint the officers of the district. Any officer of the Orange County Transportation Authority may also serve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40070
  The chairman is the presiding officer of the board and he shall vote on the propositions passed upon by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40071
  The first meeting of the board shall be held within 10 days after the board of supervisors certifies the results of the election to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40072
  The board shall select one of its members vice chairman, who shall preside in the absence of its chairman. The board shall provide for and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40073
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40074
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40075
  The board may either operate the transit system itself or a part thereof or it may contract with any other public or private agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40077
  The board may, from time to time, contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40078
  (a) The Auditor of the County of Orange shall provide the board with an annual audit of all books and accounts of the district, unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40079
  Payment of claims against the district and disbursement of district funds shall be in the manner provided for claims against a county and disbursements of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40080
  None of the territory which is within the district shall be annexed to any other transit district unless the board, by resolution, approves the annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40081
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40085
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40086
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40088
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution or ordinance. No ordinance, resolution or motion shall have any validity or effect unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40089
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the board of directors of the Orange County Transit District." All...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40095
  The board may appoint and fix the salary of a general manager who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40096
  The board may designate the Treasurer, the Auditor, the County Counsel, and the Clerk of the County of Orange as the treasurer, auditor, counsel, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40097
  The treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40098
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law which requires warrants to be paid by the county auditor, the district treasurer shall pay the warrant if sufficient...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40120
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40122
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40123
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, the district shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40124
  Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 40221) of this part, the district shall not acquire any existing system or part thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40125
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code, employees of this district may authorize and, upon such authorization, the district may make deductions from wages and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40126
  The obligation of the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and to execute a written collective bargaining...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40127
  The district may provide for a retirement system; provided, that the adoption, terms and conditions of any retirement system covering employees of the district represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40128
  The district shall take the necessary steps to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Subchapter II of the federal Social Security Act,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40129
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40130
  The Orange County Employees Retirement System and the laws relating thereto or as hereafter amended shall be applicable to the officers and employees of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40160
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40161
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40162
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40163
  All the provisions of the County Transportation Commissions Act (Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000)), regarding the powers and functions of the Orange County Transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40165
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40166
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40175
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40176
  Exercise of the powers provided under Section 40175 shall be undertaken in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedures as in the exercise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40180
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40180.5
  The district may make bulk purchases of passenger tickets for scheduled passenger rail services provided by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation during peak hours, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40181
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40182
  The district may acquire, construct, own, or operate air terminal facilities within the district and, with the consent of the county in which such facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40183
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40184
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40185
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40186
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40187
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40200
  The district shall have the power to obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 31, Article IV of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40201
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40221
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Establish" includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend, or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40222
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may propose to establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40222.5
  The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has completed the purchase of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40223
  The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or any portion thereof to be purchased, shall be the reproduction cost new, including going...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40223.5
  The district and the public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40224
  Section 851 does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40225
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40226
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40231
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40232
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40233
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40234
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40235
  The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40236
  The votes of sixty percent (60%) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40237
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40240
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40241
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40242
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40243
  The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40245
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40246
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40260
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40261
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40263
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40265
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40266
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40300
  The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40301
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes, the board shall levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40302
  The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 40300 levy and collect annually until the district's bonds are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40303
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40304
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40305
  In such case, the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40306
  The board shall, on or before the first day of September, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40307
  The board shall immediately, after fixing the rate of taxes as provided in Section 40306, transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40308
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40309
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40310
  All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40330
  Transactions and use taxes (to be designated in the ballot proposition set forth in Section 40334 as a "sales tax") may be imposed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40331
  Any transactions and use taxes ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40332
  (a) The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be used for any lawful purpose of the district. (b) During the first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40333
  The taxes authorized by this article shall not be imposed unless the board shall have authorized it by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40334
  The actual wording of the proposition on any short form of ballot card, label, or other device, regardless of the system of voting used, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40335
  The board is authorized to impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this article and the board may state the maximum tax rate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40336
  The district is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds, payable, in whole or in part, from revenues made available under this article. Such revenues are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40500
  The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40501
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40502
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40503
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40504
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40505
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40506
  Upon dissolution the right, title, and interest to property owned or controlled by the district situated within the limits of any city vests absolutely in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40507
  The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of the dissolved district. It may levy taxes and assessments and perform other acts necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40600
  The district may be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District organized and operating pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 30000) of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40601
  Whenever the board finds and determines that: (a) The Southern California Rapid Transit District is willing to annex the territory comprising the district; (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40602
  The board shall thereafter, by resolution setting forth the terms and conditions of the proposed contract at length, declare its intention to cause the agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40603
  The resolution, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40604
  At the hearing any interested person may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions of the proposed contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40605
  Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions of the contract will be approved and the consolidation effected, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40606
  Any hearing on the agreement and consolidation may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40607
  If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40608
  At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement the Board of Supervisors of Orange County shall cause...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40609
  Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40610
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40611
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40612
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the Board of Supervisors of Orange County.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40613
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the Board of Supervisors of Orange County shall enter in its minutes an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40614
  Upon receipt by the Southern California Rapid Transit District of a copy of the consolidation agreement properly executed by the district and Orange Conty the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40615
  From and after the date of consolidation the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall levy upon all of the property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40616
  The validity of any consolidating proceedings shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 40617
  Upon the completion of such consolidation procedure, the Orange County Transit District shall be deemed to be dissolved. Thereafter, all property and assets of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50000
  This part shall be known and cited as the "San Joaquin Regional Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50002
  "District" means the San Joaquin Regional Transit District formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50003
  "Board" means the board of directors of this district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50007
  For purposes of this part, "Stockton Metropolitan Area" means that area which was included within the boundaries of the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District, immediately prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50010
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in the Stockton metropolitan area which includes the City of Stockton and adjacent territory situated in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50011
  The San Joaquin Regional Transit District may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50012
  Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in, all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50013
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50014
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50020
  The City of Stockton, together with unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50021
  The request for the formation of the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50025
  The legislative body of the City of Stockton may pass a resolution declaring that in its opinion public interest or necessity demands the creation and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50026
  The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50027
  Certified copies of the resolution shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County requesting the board of supervisors to call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50030
  Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within the proposed district equal in number to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50031
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution presented to the board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50032
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50033
  The County Elections Official of the County of San Joaquin shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50035
  Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolution or a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of forming...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50036
  The board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude unincorporated areas which, in the board's determination, would not receive reasonable benefit from inclusion in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50037
  At the conclusion of the hearing, if the board of supervisors approves the resolution or petition as originally presented or in modified form, it shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50038
  The election shall be held not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution prescribed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50039
  The election shall be called by publishing notice calling the election pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code not less than 20 days before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50040
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: ------------------------------------+--------+-----...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50041
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50042
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50043
  The board of supervisors shall meet on the Tuesday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the returns.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50044
  The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the entire district as proposed, and shall pay the cost
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50045
  If a special election is held exclusively on the proposition of organizing the district, the expenditure therefor shall be reimbursed to the county by means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50050
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the creation and establishment of the district, the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50055
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50060
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of five directors. Two of the directors shall be appointed by the Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50061
  These appointments shall be made within 30 days after the formation of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50062
  A vacancy on the board shall be filled by the body which appointed the director whose office is vacated and the new appointee shall hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50063
  Each director shall, within 10 days after his appointment and before entering upon the discharge of his duties of his office, take and subscribe to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50064
  A person shall not be appointed to or be a member of the board unless he is a resident of the district and has resided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50067
  The term of office of each director is four years from the time of his appointment, except that the chairman first appointed shall hold office...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50070
  The board shall annually, in January, select one of its members as chairperson to serve at the pleasure of the board. The chairperson shall preside...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50071
  The first meeting of the board shall be held within 10 days of the appointment of its chairman. The board may make its own rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50072
  The board shall select one of its members vice chairman, who shall preside in the absence of its chairman. The board shall provide for and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50073
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50074
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50075
  The board may either operate the transit system itself, or it may contract with the City of Stockton, or with any other public or private...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50075.5
  All new intercity, interregional, and rural services provided outside the Stockton Metropolitan Area shall be subject to open competitive bidding at least once every five...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50076
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50077
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50078
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by a certified public accountant or public accountant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50079
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50080
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50085
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50086
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50087
  The board shall adopt rules for its proceedings and may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each member shall receive for each attendance at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50088
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50089
  All ordinances shall be published after passage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50090
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the board of directors of San Joaquin Regional Transit District:" All...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50095
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50096
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager, a person who has had experience in the construction or management of transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50097
  The general manager need not be a resident of this State at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50098
  The general manager may be removed by the board upon the adoption of a resolution by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50099
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 50098, until such time as the district has operated, controlled, or used facilities or parts of facilities for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50100
  The board shall appoint a secretary and an attorney, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50101
  The attorney shall be admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the State, and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50102
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50103
  The oath of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50104
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50105
  Subject to the control of the board, the powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have full charge of the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50106
  The general manager shall within 90 days from the end of each fiscal year cause to be published a financial report showing the result of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50107
  The attorney shall take charge of all suits and other legal matters to which the district is a party or in which it is legally...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50108
  The general manager shall cause to be installed and maintained a system of auditing and accounting which shall completely and at all times show the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50109
  The general manager shall provide for the custody of the funds of the district and the keeping of accounts of all receipts and disbursements. Payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50110
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this State, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50120
  (a) If a majority of the employees employed by a transit district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50121
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50122
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50123
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50124
  The persons entitled to pension benefits as provided for in Section 50123 and the benefits which are provided shall be specified in the agreement or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50125
  All persons receiving pension benefits from such acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under the pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50126
  Notwithstanding any provisions of the Government Code, the board may authorize payment of any or all of the premiums on any group life, accident and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50130
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50131
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50132
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50133
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50134
  Nothing in this chapter prevents a district from participating in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50135
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50140
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50141
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50142
  The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. The rate of contribution by an officer or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50143
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50144
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interests, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50145
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50146
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement allowance, disability payment, or death benefit from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50150
  The board shall create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50151
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50152
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50153
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund. Investment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50155
  At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50156
  Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50160
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50161
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50162
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50165
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50166
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50175
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50176
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50180
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50181
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50182
  The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned, and operated wholly or partly within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50183
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50184
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50185
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50186
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50187
  The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50188
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 50187 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50189
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50190
  Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50200
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50201
  The board of directors of a district may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50202
  The district shall not incur an indebtedness under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 50225) of this part which in the aggregate exceeds two (2) percent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50203
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50205
  The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50206
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50207
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50208
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50210
  The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50210.5
  The district may only levy and collect taxes pursuant to this article within the Stockton Metropolitan Area, as defined in Section 50007.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50211
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50212
  The board shall, in addition to the general tax levy as set forth in Section 50210, levy and collect annually until the district' s bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50213
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50214
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50215
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50216
  The board shall, on or before the first weekday in September, or if such weekday falls upon a holiday then on the first business day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50217
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50218
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50219
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50220
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50225
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50226
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50227
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50228
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50229
  If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50230
  Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50231
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50232
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50233
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50234
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50235
  The board shall comply with the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50236
  The votes of a majority of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50237
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50240
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50241
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination less than one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50242
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50243
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50245
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50246
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50247
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50250
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50251
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this act, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50252
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50253
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50254
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50255
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50256
  Whenever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50260
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50261
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50263
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50265
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50266
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50270
  Territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50271
  Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50272
  The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board and be approved by the board of supervisors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50273
  The resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed. (b) Designate the proposed annexation by an appropriate name. (c) Declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50274
  The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50275
  On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50276
  After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50277
  Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50500
  If the district operates no transit facilities, or its exterior boundaries become coincident with the boundaries of a single city, the board may call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50501
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50502
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50503
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50504
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50505
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50506
  Upon dissolution the right, title, and interest to property owned or controlled by the district situated within the limits of any city vests absolutely in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 50507
  The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of any dissolved district. It may levy taxes and assessments and perform other acts necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Yolo County Transportation District Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60002
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" means the Yolo County Transit Authority, a joint exercise of powers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60004
  There is hereby created the Yolo County Transportation District. The jurisdiction of the district extends throughout the county, including all of the incorporated and unincorporated
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60006
  On and after July 1, 1997, the authority is dissolved and the district succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the rights, powers, duties,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60008
  (a) The district shall be governed by a five-member board of directors representing the county and cities in the county in the district, appointed as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60010
  Upon dissolution of the authority, employees of the authority shall be deemed to be employees of the district without any break in service nor any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60012
  (a) The district shall assume the duties of public transit provider performed by the authority. On and after July 1, 1997, the Cities of West...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60014
  The district, at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the meeting designated by the district, shall elect a chairperson who shall preside at all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60016
  The district shall adopt rules for its proceedings consistent with the laws of the state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60018
  A majority of the board of directors entitled to vote constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. All official acts of the district require...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60020
  The acts of the district shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60022
  All meetings of the district shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60024
  The district shall do all the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which prescribes the powers and duties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60026
  (a) The district may hire an independent staff of its own or contract with any department or agency of the United States or with any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60028
  The board of directors shall fix the compensation of the district's officers and employees.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60030
  (a) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60032
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60034
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60036
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60038
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60040
  (a) Contracts for the purchase of services, supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60042
  (a) The district has no authority to impose property, sales, or special taxes, but may, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60046
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law which relates to the functioning of the district as the Yolo County Congestion Management Agency District, the district may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60048
  The district shall include in its bylaws a process for assuring that member jurisdictions of the district may reasonably determine to what extent their share...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60050
  The district may advocate and act on behalf of all district member jurisdictions with their concurrence to further Yolo County transportation system interests, funding, projects,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60052
  The district shall act as a countywide forum for the coordination of transportation system planning, programming, and prioritization of significant projects.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60054
  The district may promulgate a plan for funding transportation projects within its jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60056
  The board of directors shall adopt priorities reflecting the district's goals, including consideration of being designated as the federal Designated Recipient for Yolo County, consideration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60058
  The district bylaws shall establish an advisory committee structure, which shall include a Technical Advisory Committee and a Citizen's Advisory Committee and other advisory committees...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60060
  Transportation funding and project prioritization decisions made by the board of directors shall endeavor to be mode neutral, not biased in favor of any one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60062
  The district shall act as the coordinating agency for all state and federal funding applications where appropriate.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60100
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the county may be imposed by the district in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60102
  (a) The district, in the ordinance, shall do all of the following: (1) State the nature of the tax to be imposed. (2) Establish the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60103
  (a) The county shall conduct the special election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 60100. If the measure is approved, the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60104
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60105
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter may be allocated by the district for the construction and improvement of state highways, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60106
  (a) A county transportation expenditure plan shall be prepared for the expenditure of the revenues expected to be derived from the tax imposed pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60107
  (a) The district may annually review and propose amendments to the county transportation expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 60106 to provide for the use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60150
  (a) As part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, authorization may be sought to issue bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60151
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60152
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by a two-thirds vote of the district. Each resolution shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60153
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60154
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable at intervals determined by the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60155
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the district may also provide for the call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60156
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60157
  The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60158
  The bonds may be sold as the district determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at a price below par, whether by negotiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60159
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60160
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60161
  (a) The district may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60162
  (a) The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60163
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 60164
  Any action or proceedings wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70000
  This part shall be known and cited as the "Marin County Transit District Act of 1964."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70002
  "District" means the Marin County Transit District formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70003
  "Board" means the board of directors of this district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70010
  It shall be the purpose of the Marin County Transit District to develop, finance, organize, and provide local Marin County transit service in a manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70011
  The Marin County Transit District may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70012
  Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70013
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70014
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70020
  The County of Marin may organize and incorporate as the Marin County Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70021
  The request for the formation of the Marin County Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70022
  The district may include incorporated or unincorporated territory within the County of Marin.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70025
  The Board of Supervisors of the County of Marin may pass a resolution declaring that in its opinion public interest or necessity demands the creation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70026
  The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70030
  Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within Marin County equal in number to at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70031
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution adopted by the board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70032
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70033
  The County Elections Official of the County of Marin shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70035
  Upon adoption of the resolution or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of forming a Marin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70036
  The board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude areas which in the board's determination would not receive reasonable benefit from inclusion in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70037
  After the conclusion of the hearing, the board of supervisors shall in case of initiation by petition and may in case of initiation by resolution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70038
  The board of supervisors shall publish notice of the election within the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70039
  The notice shall state the name of the proposed district, and describe the boundaries thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70040
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: -------------------------------------+-------+----...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70041
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70042
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70043
  The board of supervisors shall meet on the Tuesday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the returns.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70044
  The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the district as proposed, and the cost of said election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70050
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the creation and establishment of the district, the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70055
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70060
  The governing body of the district shall consist of the members of the board of supervisors and two members, who shall be a mayor or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70061
  The city members of the governing body of the district shall serve for terms of two years commencing on the first Monday of January in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70070
  The chairman is the presiding officer of the board and he shall vote on the propositions passed upon by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70071
  The first meeting of the board shall be held within 10 days after the board of supervisors certifies the results of the election to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70072
  The board shall select one of its members vice chairman, who shall preside in the absence of its chairman. The board shall provide for and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70073
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70074
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70075
  The board may either operate the transit system itself or a part thereof or it may contract with any other public or private agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70076
  Marin County Ordinance 617 (Merit System Ordinance) as amended or hereafter amended shall be applicable to all personnel of the district, except to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70077
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70078
  The auditor shall provide the board with an annual audit of all books and accounts of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70079
  Payment of demands against the district and disbursement of district funds shall be in the manner provided for demands against a county and disbursements of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70085
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70086
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70087
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and board members shall be allowed necessary traveling and personal expenses incurred in performance of duties authorized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70088
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution or ordinance. No ordinance, resolution or motion shall have any validity or effect unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70089
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the board of directors of the Marin County Transit District." All...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70095
  The board may appoint and fix the salary of a general manager who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70120
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70121
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made, or assumed, with any labor organization, association, group, or individual that denies membership to, or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70122
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70123
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, the district shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70124
  The district shall not acquire any existing system or part thereof whether by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, nor shall the district dispose of or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70125
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Government Code, employees of this district may authorize and, upon that authorization, the district may make deductions from their wages...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70126
  The obligation of the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and to execute a written collective bargaining...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70127
  The district may provide for a retirement system; provided, that the adoption, terms and conditions of any retirement system covering employees of the district represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70128
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Title II of the Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70129
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70130
  The Marin County Employees Retirement System and the laws relating thereto or as hereafter amended shall be applicable to the officers and employees of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70160
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70161
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70162
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70165
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70166
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70175
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70176
  Exercise of the powers provided under Section 70175 shall be undertaken in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedures as in the exercise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70180
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70181
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70183
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70184
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70185
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70186
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70187
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70200
  The district shall have the power to obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 31, Article IV of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70201
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70210
  The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70210.5
  The maximum tax rate set forth in Section 70210 may be increased to an amount approved by a majority of the electors of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70211
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70212
  The board shall, in addition to the general tax levy as set forth in Section 70210, levy and collect annually until the district' s bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70213
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70214
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70215
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70216
  The board shall on or before the first day of September fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70217
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70218
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70219
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70220
  All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of Division 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223.1
  Any transaction and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223.2
  The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transactions and use tax ordinance....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223.3
  Prior to the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223.4
  If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transactions and use tax ordinance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70223.5
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70225
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70226
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70231
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70232
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70233
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70234
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70235
  The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70236
  The votes of sixty percent (60%) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70237
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70240
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70241
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70242
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70243
  The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70245
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70246
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70260
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70261
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70263
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70265
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70266
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70270
  Territory within Marin County may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70271
  Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70272
  The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70273
  The resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed. (b) Designate the proposed annexation by an appropriate name. (c) Declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70274
  The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70275
  On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70276
  After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 70277
  Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80000
  The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80001
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80002
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80003
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80004
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80005
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80006
  Upon dissolution the right, title, and interest to property owned or controlled by the district situated within the limits of any city vests absolutely in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80007
  The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of the dissolved district. It may levy taxes and assessments and perform other acts necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80010
  The district may be consolidated with any other transit district organized and operating pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 28500) of this division, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80011
  Whenever the board finds and determines that: (a) Another transit district is willing to annex the territory comprising the district; (b) The annexing district has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80012
  The board shall thereafter, by resolution setting forth the terms and conditions of the proposed contract at length, declare its intention to cause the agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80013
  The resolution, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80014
  At the hearing any interested person may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions of the proposed contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80015
  Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions of the contract will be approved and the consolidation effected, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80016
  Any hearing on the agreement and consolidation may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80017
  If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80018
  Thereafter such consolidation shall be effected by such other district in the manner provided for annexation of counties in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 29500),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 80019
  Upon the completion of such consolidation procedure, the Marin County Transit District shall be deemed to be dissolved. Thereafter, all property and assets of district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90000
  This part shall be known and cited as the "San Diego County Transit District Act of 1965."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90002
  "District" means the San Diego County Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90003
  "Board" means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90020
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of California to develop transit system districts in the various metropolitan areas within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90021
  The San Diego County Transit District may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90022
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90023
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90024
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90025
  The district is hereby designated a rapid transit district and the transit facilities and services the district is authorized to acquire, own, operate, control, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90050
  The area to be embraced in the district shall include all of the corporate area of each of the Cities of San Diego, Chula Vista,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90070
  The Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall call an election in the area to be included within the district on the question of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90071
  Each signer of a petition within a particular city shall be a registered voter and resident of that city.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90072
  Upon receipt of the resolutions or petitions, or sufficient combination of both, the board of supervisors shall call a hearing thereon not less than 77...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90073
  At any time within 30 days following the receipt by the board of supervisors of petitions or resolutions, or both, requiring the calling of an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90074
  At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude any unincorporated territory which, in its determination, would not receive reasonable benefit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90075
  The election shall be called, noticed, held, and conducted, election officers appointed, voting precincts designated, ballots printed, polls opened and closed, ballots counted and returned,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90076
  The count of the votes of the election shall be conducted in two parts (see Section 90050). One part shall consist of the votes cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90078
  If from the canvass it appears and the board of supervisors finds that a majority of the votes cast in the City of San Diego...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90100
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition in the City of San Diego and a majority of the electors in the other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90120
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90170
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors elected concurrent with the district's formation. If no unincorporated area of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90171
  The directors elected shall be residents of the respective city they represent at the time of their election and during the term of their office....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90190
  The term of each director shall be for four years, except as provided in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90191
  Any vacancy, including any caused by death or resignation of any member, shall be filled by appointment of the board of directors within 60 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90192
  The person to fill any vacancy on the board shall serve temporarily to fill the unexpired term or until a successor is regularly elected at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90193
  The first members of the board of directors elected after the formation of the district shall so classify themselves by lot that one more than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90194
  Every director is subject to recall by voters of the district, in accordance with the recall provisions of the general laws of the state applicable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90210
  The oath of office of directors shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after the director has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90211
  The board shall choose one of its members president, and another vice president, who shall be authorized to act for the president during his absence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90212
  The board is the legislative body of the district and determines all questions of policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90213
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this act shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90214
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges, and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90215
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90216
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90217
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by a certified public accountant or public accountant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90218
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90219
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90240
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90241
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90242
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and may provide by ordinance or resolution that each member shall receive for each attendance at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90243
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90244
  All ordinances shall be published after passage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90245
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Transit District."...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90260
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90261
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager some person who has had experience in the construction or management of transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90262
  The general manager need not be a resident of this state at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90263
  The general manager shall hold office for an indefinite term and may be removed by the board only upon the adoption of a resolution by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90264
  Notwithstanding this article, until such time as the district has operated, controlled, or used facilities or parts of facilities for providing the inhabitants within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90265
  The board shall appoint a secretary and an attorney, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90266
  The attorney shall be admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the state, and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90267
  The secretary and such assistants as the board may determine, and shall have the power to administer all oaths or affirmations required by this act,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90268
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90269
  The oath of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90270
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90271
  Subject to the control of the board, the powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have full charge of the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90272
  The general manager shall within 90 days from the end of each fiscal year cause to be published a financial report showing the result of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90273
  The attorney shall take charge of all suits and other legal matters to which the district is a party or in which it is legally...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90274
  The general manager shall provide for the custody of the funds of the district and the keeping of accounts of all receipts and disbursements. Payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90275
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this state or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90300
  (a) Employees have the right to self-organize, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90350
  The district is empowered to contract with the State Employees' Retirement System and may provide retirement and disability benefits for employees under the State Employees'...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90351
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90400
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90401
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90402
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90420
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90420.5
  The district further shall be empowered to furnish contractual service outside of the district's boundaries.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90421
  Neither the general manager nor any director of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90460
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90461
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90480
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all such other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90480.5
  The negotiated purchase price of any existing facilities which are acquired by the district shall not exceed the fair market value of the tangible real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90481
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90482
  The district may plan for, establish, construct, finance and operate rapid transit facilities and service within or without the district's boundaries, including making whatever contracts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90484
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90485
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90486
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this act shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90487
  The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90488
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 90487 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90489
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90490
  Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90500
  The district may borrow money and incur indebtedness, and may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. No indebtedness shall be incurred exceeding the ordinary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90501
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90501.5
  The board of directors of the district may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90502
  The district shall not incur an indebtedness for public works which in the aggregate exceeds 15 percent of the assessed value of all the real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90503
  Indebtedness which has been incurred for the acquisition, construction, and operation of transit facilities, where the revenue from the transit facilities for three years or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90504
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this act requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90505
  The district may purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, and rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90506
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90507
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90508
  The covenants, conditions and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreements...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90520
  The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90521
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90522
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90540
  A district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90541
  If, in the opinion of the board, the revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes, the board shall levy a tax...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90542
  The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90543
  The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal and sinking fund of district bonds shall be in addition to all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90544
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90545
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90546
  In such case the county assessor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90547
  The board shall, on or before the first weekday in September, or if such weekday falls upon a holiday then on the first business day...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90548
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county assessor of the county a statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90549
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90550
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90551
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90552
  All taxes levied under this act are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90570
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 700) of Division 3.5 of Title 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90600
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90601
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90602
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90603
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90604
  If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90605
  Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90606
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90607
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90608
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90609
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90610
  The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90611
  The votes of 60 percent of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of general obligation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90612
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90620
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90621
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90622
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90623
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90640
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90641
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90642
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90660
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90661
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this part, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90662
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90663
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90664
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90665
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90666
  Whenever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90680
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90681
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90700
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90720
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds the district is authorized to issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90721
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90770
  Any city not included within the boundaries of the district may be annexed thereto in the manner provided in this chapter, and if such annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90771
  The legislative body of the city proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board upon the terms and conditions of annexation, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90772
  As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by action of the legislative body of a city, a petition signed by voters within the city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90773
  The petition may include one or more separate documents, but each document shall contain the affidavit of the party who circulated it, certifying that each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90774
  If the board determines that the annexation of the city, whose voters have petitioned pursuant to Section 90773, would facilitate the acquisition or operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90790
  The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the city when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90791
  The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90792
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the execution of the agreement.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90793
  Upon the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear and determine all objections thereto....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90794
  Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order to be entered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90795
  If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied, the board shall by resolution finally approve the agreement and authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90796
  When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district. An executed copy shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90810
  At any time after the board has finally approved the agreement of annexation the legislative body of the city to be annexed shall cause an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90810.5
  The city shall cause to be held, concurrent with the annexation election, an election for the purpose of selecting one board member for the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90811
  Notice of election shall be published as provided in Section 6066 of the Government Code and shall either state that a copy of the annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90812
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90813
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90814
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body of the city.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90815
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the governing body of the city shall enter in its minutes an order...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90830
  Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the city proposed to be annexed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90850
  Any territory annexed in accordance with law to any city included in the district shall, upon the completion of such annexation proceeding, be deemed incorporated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90870
  From and after the date of annexation, the board shall levy upon all of the property in the city annexed, such taxes, tolls, or charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90871
  No annexation of a city to a district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of the city annexed.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90880
  The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any city to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90930
  Unincorporated territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90931
  Unincorporated territory not contiguous to the district may not be annexed if the district does not possess facilities for supplying transit service to that territory.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90932
  A petition signed by voters within the territory proposed to be annexed equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total vote cast,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90933
  The secretary shall compare the signatures on the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and if he or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90934
  If the board determines that the annexation of the territory would facilitate the acquisition or operation of any transit facilities for the district, or be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90935
  Provisions may be made, among other things, for payment of taxes within the territory to be annexed in addition to the taxes elsewhere in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90936
  As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by a petition by the voters within any unincorporated territory, proposed to be annexed, the legislative body...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90950
  The board shall by ordinance setting forth the terms and conditions at length declare its intention of causing the agreement to be approved by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90951
  The ordinance together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90952
  At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90953
  Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions will be approved and shall hear and determine all objections thereto....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90954
  If no protests are filed or the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall by resolution finally approve the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90955
  If protests against the proposed annexation are sustained, all proceedings shall be dismissed and no proceedings shall be undertaken again concerning the territory or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90970
  Within 90 days after the board has finally approved the terms and conditions of annexation, the board shall cause an election to be held in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90971
  Notice of election shall be published and shall either state that a copy of the ordinance containing the terms and conditions of annexation at length...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90972
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90972.5
  In the event that no unincorporated territory shall have been included in the original formation of the district, an election shall be held concurrent with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90973
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90974
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90975
  If the proposition is defeated by the voters, no annexation proceeding shall be commenced involving the territory or any part thereof until after the expiration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 90990
  In the event the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the board shall pass a resolution declaring the territory annexed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 91010
  Unincorporated territory may be annexed to a district without an election in the manner provided in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 91011
  A petition describing the territory proposed to be annexed and requesting that proceedings be taken for its annexation shall be signed by all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 91012
  Proceedings shall thereafter be taken and a hearing held in substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter relating to the annexation of unincorporated territory...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 91020
  From and after the date of annexation, the board shall levy upon all of the property in the territory annexed, such taxes, tolls, or charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 91040
  The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any unincorporated territory to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92000
  If the district operates no transit facilities, or its exterior boundaries become coincident with the boundaries of a single city, the board may call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92001
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92002
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92003
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92004
  No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this chapter need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92005
  If upon a canvass of the election, it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92006
  Upon dissolution of any district which has boundaries that are coincident with the corporate limits of a city, the district property wherever situated vests absolutely...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92007
  If at the time of dissolution, there is any outstanding indebtedness of the district the legislative authority of the city, where the limits of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 92008
  In the event that the proposition for dissolution fails to carry, no subsequent election for the dissolution of the district shall be called until after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93000
  The district may be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District organized and operating pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 30000) of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93001
  Whenever the board finds and determines that: (a) The Southern California Rapid Transit District is willing to annex the territory comprising the district; (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93002
  The board shall thereafter, by resolution setting forth the terms and conditions of the proposed contract at length, declare its intention to cause the agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93003
  The resolution, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93004
  At the hearing any interested person may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions of the proposed contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93005
  Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions of the contract will be approved and the consolidation effected, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93006
  Any hearing on the agreement and consolidation may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93007
  If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93008
  At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93009
  Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93010
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93011
  If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93012
  If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93013
  If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall enter in its minutes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93014
  Upon receipt by the Southern California Rapid Transit District of a copy of the consolidation agreement properly executed by the district and San Diego County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93015
  From and after the date of consolidation the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall levy upon all of the property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93016
  The validity of any consolidating proceedings shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 93017
  Upon the completion of such consolidation procedure, the San Diego County Transit District shall be deemed to be dissolved. Thereafter, all property and assets of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95000
  This act shall be known and cited as the "Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District Act of 1965."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95002
  "District" means the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District formed under this act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95003
  "Board" means the board of directors of this district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95030
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in the Santa Barbara metropolitan area which includes the City of Santa Barbara and adjacent territory,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95031
  The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District may be created as provided in this act and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95032
  Except as otherwise provided in this act elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in, all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95033
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95034
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95035
  The boundaries of the district shall not be affected by reason of the incorporation of any territory wholly or partly within the boundaries of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95100
  The City of Santa Barbara, together with unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95101
  The request for the formation of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95130
  The legislative body, the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara, may pass a resolution declaring that in its opinion public interest or necessity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95131
  The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95132
  Certified copies of the resolution shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County requesting the board of supervisors to call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95160
  Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within the proposed district equal in number to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95161
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution presented to the board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95162
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95163
  The County Elections Official of the County of Santa Barbara shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95190
  Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolution or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95191
  The board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude unincorporated areas which, in the board's determination, would not receive reasonable benefit from inclusion in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95192
  At the conclusion of the hearing, if the board of supervisors approves the resolution or petition as originally presented or in modified form, it shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95193
  The election shall be held not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution prescribed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95194
  The election shall be called by publishing notice calling the election pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code not less than 20 days before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95195
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: ------------------------------+-------+------...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95196
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95197
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95198
  The board of supervisors shall meet on the Tuesday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the returns.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95199
  The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the entire district as proposed, and shall pay the cost
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95200
  If a special election is held exclusively on the proposition of organizing the district, the expenditure therefor shall be reimbursed to the county by means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95230
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the creation and establishment of the district, the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95250
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95400
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of seven members. Two of the directors shall be appointed by the Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95401
  These appointments shall be made within 30 days after the formation of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95402
  Any vacancy on the board, including any caused by the death or resignation of a member, shall be filled by the body which appointed the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95403
  Each director shall, within 10 days after his appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of his duties of his office, take and subscribe to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95404
  A person shall not be appointed to or be a member of the board unless he is a resident of the district and has resided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95430
  The term of office of each director is four years from the time of his appointment, except that for the board first appointed, the director...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95450
  The chairman is the presiding officer of the board and he shall vote on the propositions passed upon by the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95451
  The first meeting of the board shall be held within 10 days of the appointment of its chairman. The board may make its own rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95452
  The board shall select one of its members vice chairman, who shall preside in the absence of its chairman. The board shall provide for and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95453
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this act shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95454
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95455
  The board may either operate the transit system itself or a part thereof or it may contract with any other public or private agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95456
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95457
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95458
  The board shall have an annual audit made of all books and accounts of the district by a certified public accountant or public accountant. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95459
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95460
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95490
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95491
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95492
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and may provide by ordinance or resolution that each member shall receive for each attendance at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95493
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95494
  All ordinances shall be published after passage.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95495
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District:"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95520
  The board shall appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have full charge of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95521
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager, a person who has had experience in the construction or management of transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95522
  The general manager need not be a resident of this state at the time of his appointment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95523
  The general manager may be removed by the board upon the adoption of a resolution by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95524
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 95523, until such time as the district has operated, controlled, or used facilities or parts of facilities for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95525
  The board may appoint a secretary and an attorney who may hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95526
  The attorney shall be admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the state, and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95527
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices in one person.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95528
  The oath of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95529
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95530
  Subject to the control of the board, the powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To have full charge of the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95533
  The attorney shall take charge of all suits and other legal matters to which the district is a party or in which it is legally...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95534
  The general manager shall cause to be installed and maintained a system of auditing and accounting which shall completely and at all times show the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95535
  The general manager shall provide for the custody of the funds of the district and the keeping of accounts of all receipts and disbursements. Payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95536
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this state, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95650
  (a) If a majority of the employees employed by a transit district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95651
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95652
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95653
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95654
  The persons entitled to pension benefits as provided for in Section 95653 and the benefits which are provided shall be specified in the agreement or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95655
  All persons receiving pension benefits from such acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under the pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95656
  Notwithstanding any provisions of the Government Code, the board may authorize payment of any or all of the premiums on any group life, accident and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95800
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95801
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95803
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administration of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95804
  Nothing in this chapter prevents the district from participating in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95805
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95806
  In the event the board elects to adopt and maintain its own retirement system, that system shall comply with this article and the requirements of:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95830
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95831
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95832
  The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. The rate of contribution by an officer or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95833
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95834
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interests, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95835
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95836
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement allowance, disability payment or death benefit, from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95860
  The board shall create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95861
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95862
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95863
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund. Investment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95890
  At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 95891
  Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96000
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96001
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96002
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96030
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96031
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96090
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96091
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96120
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96121
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96122
  The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned, and operated wholly or partly within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96123
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96124
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96125
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96126
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96127
  The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96128
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 96127 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96129
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96130
  Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96150
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96151
  The board of directors of a district may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96152
  The district shall not incur an indebtedness under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 96400) of this part which in the aggregate exceeds two (2) percent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96153
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96180
  The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96190
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96191
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96192
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96220
  The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96221
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96222
  The board shall, in addition to the general tax levy as set forth in Section 96220, levy and collect annually until the district' s bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96223
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96224
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96225
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96226
  The board shall, on or before the first day in September, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each hundred dollars,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96227
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96228
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96229
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96230
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96400
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96401
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96402
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96403
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96404
  If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96405
  Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96406
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96407
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96408
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96409
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96410
  The board shall comply with Article 3, (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96411
  The votes of two-thirds ( 2/3) of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96412
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96440
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96441
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination less than one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96442
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96443
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96470
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96471
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96472
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96500
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96501
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this act, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96502
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96503
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96504
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96505
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96506
  Whenever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96530
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96531
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96560
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96590
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96591
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96750
  Territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96751
  Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96752
  The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board and be approved by the board of supervisors of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96753
  The resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed. (b) Designate the proposed annexation by an appropriate name. (c) Declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96754
  The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96755
  On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96756
  After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96757
  Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96900
  Territory within the district may be detached from the district by a four-fifths vote of the board of directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96901
  The detachment of territory from the district shall become effective upon giving of the notice required in Section 96902, provided that the detached territory shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 96902
  Notice of detachment of territory from the district shall be given to each assessor whose roll is used for the tax levy made pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97000
  If the district operates no transit facilities, or its exterior boundaries become coincident with the boundaries of a single city, the board may call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97001
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97002
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97003
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97004
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97005
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97006
  Upon dissolution the right, title, and interest to property owned or controlled by the district situated within the limits of any city vests absolutely in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 97007
  The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of any dissolved district. It may levy taxes and assessments and perform other acts necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98000
  This part shall be known and cited as the "Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District Act of 1967."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98002
  "District" means the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District formed under this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98003
  "Board" means the board of directors of this district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98004
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98005
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98006
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means all real and personal property equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98007
  "Officer" means the general manager and the directors on the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98010
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in the Santa Cruz metropolitan area which includes the Cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98011
  The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit System may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98012
  Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98013
  Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98014
  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98020
  The County of Santa Cruz may organize and incorporate the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98021
  The request for the formation of the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98022
  The district may include incorporated and unincorporated territory within the County of Santa Cruz.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98030
  The Board of Supervisors for the County of Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz City Council and the Capitola City Council may pass a joint resolution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98031
  The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98032
  Certified copies of the resolution shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County requesting the board of supervisors to call an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98040
  Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within the proposed district equal in number to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98041
  The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution presented to the board of supervisors under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98042
  The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98043
  The County Elections Official of the County of Santa Cruz shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98050
  Upon adoption of the resolution or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of forming a Santa...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98051
  The board of supervisors shall submit the boundaries for the district as described in the resolution or petition to the local agency formation commission for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98052
  Upon conclusion of the board of supervisors' hearing and completion of the review of the boundaries for the proposed district by the local agency formation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98053
  Prior to calling the election, the board of supervisors shall by resolution, entered upon its minutes: (a) Fix and describe the exterior boundaries of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98053.5
  The election shall be held not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution prescribed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98054
  The election shall be called by publishing notice calling the election pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code not less than 20 days before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98055
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: Shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98056
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98057
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98058
  The board of supervisors shall meet on the Tuesday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the returns.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98059
  The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the district as proposed, and the cost of said election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98060
  If any special election is held exclusively on the proposition or propositions related to the transit district organization, bond issuance, raising of tax levy, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98070
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the creation and establishment of the district, the board of supervisors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98080
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98100
  The district shall be governed by a board of directors of seven members, which may be increased to 9 or 11 members if the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98101
  The appointees to the board made by the several legislative bodies shall have been residents of the area encompassed by the district for at least...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98102
  These appointments shall be made within 30 days after the formation of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98103
  A person shall not be appointed to, or be a member of, the board unless that person is a resident of the district and has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98104
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the term of office of each director shall be four years. (b) For the board first appointed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98105
  The first meeting of the board shall be held within 10 days of the appointment of the last director by a legislative body. The board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98106
  The board shall select one of its members chairman, and one vice chairman, who shall preside in the absence of its chairman. The board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98110
  The chairman is the presiding officer of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98111
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for in this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98112
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and classifications, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98113
  The board may either operate the transit system itself or a part thereof or it may contract with any other public or private agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98114
  The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98115
  The board may from time to time contract for or employ any professional service required by the district or for the performance of work or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98116
  The board shall have an annual audit of all books and accounts of the district made by a certified public accountant or public accountant or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98117
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98118
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98119
  None of the territory which is within the district shall be annexed to any other transit district unless the board, by resolution, approves the annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98130
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in a manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98131
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98132
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and board members shall be allowed necessary traveling and personal expenses incurred in performance of duties authorized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98133
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution or ordinance. No ordinance shall be passed until a public hearing has been held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98134
  All ordinances shall be printed after passage, and maintained in the district's offices.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98135
  The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the Board of Directors of the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District:"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98140
  The board may, by an affimative vote of the majority of its members, appoint and fix the salary of a general manager, who shall have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98141
  The general manager may be removed by the board upon the adoption of a resolution by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98142
  The oath of all appointive officers of the district shall be taken, subscribed, and filed with the secretary of the district at any time after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98143
  Each appointive officer shall give such bond and in such amount as the board may require.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98144
  The board shall establish by resolution the powers and duties of the general manager.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98145
  The general manager shall prepare, within 90 days from the end of each fiscal year, a financial report showing the result of operations for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98146
  At least 30 days prior to the end of the fiscal year, the general manager shall prepare a proposed annual budget for the district. Prior...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98147
  The general manager shall provide for the custody of the funds of the district and the keeping of accounts of all receipts and disbursements. Payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98148
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this state, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98149
  The board may appoint a regular attorney who shall serve at the pleasure of the board or it may engage an attorney from time to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98160
  Appointments and promotions in the service of the transit district shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as practicable,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98161
  All citizens shall have equal opportunity to obtain and hold employment, and to advance in that employment, without discrimination on any basis listed in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98162
  (a) All employees of the district are to be free from interference, coercion, and restraint in associating themselves together for their mutual benefit in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98162.5
  Any question which may arise with respect to whether a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98163
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98164
  Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98165
  All persons receiving pension benefits from such acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under the pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98166
  Notwithstanding any provisions of the Government Code, the board may authorize payment of any or all of the premiums on any group life, accident and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98167
  The obligation of the district is to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and, when an agreement is reached,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98168
  The district shall not require any employee, who is a member of a bona fide religion, body, or sect which has historically held conscientious objections...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98180
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employes of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98181
  The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98182
  Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98183
  The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administrations of the retirement system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98184
  Nothing in this chapter prevents the district from participation in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98185
  The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98190
  The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98191
  The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98192
  The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. The rate of contribution by an officer or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98193
  All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98194
  Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interests, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98195
  If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98196
  All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement, allowance, disability payment or death benefit, from the retirement system, and all contributions and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98200
  The board may create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98201
  All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98202
  The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98203
  If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund. Investment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98204
  At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98205
  Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98210
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98211
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98212
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98213
  No action in eminent domain to acquire property or interests therein within any incorporated city or any county shall be commenced unless the legislative body...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98214
  No such taking or acquisition by the district which would involve the abandonment, removal, relocation, or use of property of a railroad corporation, as defined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98220
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98221
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98233
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98234
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98240
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98241
  The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98242
  The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned, and operated wholly or partly within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98243
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98244
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98245
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98246
  The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98247
  The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98248
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 98390) of this part, the district board shall fix...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98249
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98250
  Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98251
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98260
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98262
  The district shall not incur an indebtedness under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 98310) of this part which in the aggregate exceeds one (1) percent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98263
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98270
  The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury. The county treasury shall act as treasurer of the district and he shall handle such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98280
  The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98280.5
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98281
  The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 98280, levy and collect annually until the district' s bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98282
  The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98283
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98284
  In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98285
  The board shall on or before the first day of September fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98286
  The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98287
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98288
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98289
  The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98289.3
  All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied and shall become a lien at the same...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98289.5
  (a) On and after the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance pursuant to Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 98290) of this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98290
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98291
  Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98292
  The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transactions and use tax ordinance....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98293
  Prior to the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98294
  If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transactions and use tax ordinance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98295
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98296
  Whenever a bond election is held to authorize a bonded indebtedness pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 98310) of Chapter 7, the ordinance calling...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98300
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Establish" includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98301
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert, lessen, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98302
  The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has offered to purchase the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98303
  The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or that part thereof which the district desires to purchase, shall be the reasonable market...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98304
  The district and the public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98305
  Section 851 of the Public Utilities Code does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98310
  The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98311
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98312
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98313
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98314
  Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this chapter setting forth the procedure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98315
  The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98316
  The board shall comply with Article 3, (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98317
  The votes of two-thirds ( 2/3) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98318
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98330
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98331
  The board may divide any issue of bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter into two or more series, and may fix different dates of issuance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98332
  Pending the actual issuance or delivery of bonds, a district may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denomination whatsoever, with or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98333
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98334
  The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98335
  The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98340
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98341
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98342
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98350
  Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98351
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this act, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98352
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98353
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98354
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98355
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98356
  Wherever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98360
  All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98361
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any other municipality, are legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98370
  An action to determine validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98380
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98381
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98390
  Territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter. Territory to be annexed need not be contiguous to the present
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98391
  Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98392
  The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board and shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98393
  The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98394
  On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98395
  After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98396
  Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98397
  Territory within the district may be excluded from the district in the manner provided in this chapter. Proceedings for the exclusion of such territory may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98398
  After the petition is filed with the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors shall determine whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98399
  On the day fixed for the hearing, or any day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the local agency formation commission shall hear persons...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98400
  The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98401
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98402
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98403
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98404
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98405
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98406
  Upon dissolution the right, title and interest to property owned or controlled by the district shall be divided among the cities within the district and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 98407
  The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of the dissolved district. It may levy taxes and assessments and perform other acts necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99000
  Whenever the board of directors of any transit district or rapid transit district finds that areas adjacent to any transit station of the district, exclusive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99001
  The board of directors of any transit district or rapid transit district may establish one or more special benefit districts within the district pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99002
  Whenever the board of directors of any transit district or rapid transit district finds that areas adjacent to two or more transit stations of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99003
  The notice of the time and place of hearing specified in either Section 99000 or Section 99002 shall be given by publishing a copy of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99004
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99005
  The board shall have power to change the purposes for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, or the estimated cost, or the amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99006
  The purposes, estimated cost, amount of bonded debt or boundaries shall not be changed by said board except after notice of its intention to do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99007
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99008
  At the conclusion of the hearing the board shall by resolution determine whether it is deemed necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness, and, if so,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99009
  After the formation of such benefit district within the district and after the assessments have been confirmed pursuant to this chapter, all proceedings for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99010
  After the board has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by this chapter, and if the board deems it necessary to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99011
  Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99012
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99013
  If 66 2/3 percent of the electors in the entire benefit district voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99013.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 99013, if a rapid transit district is authorized to issue bonds subject to approval by a percentage of the electors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99014
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 6 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99015
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99016
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99017
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99018
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99019
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99020
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99021
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99022
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99023
  Any action or proceeding, wherein the validity of the formation of the benefit district or of any such bonds or of the proceedings in relation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99024
  If 66 2/3 percent of the electors of the benefit district voting on the proposition at the special election called pursuant to Section 99011 have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99025
  The powers granted to transit districts and rapid transit districts by this chapter shall be in addition to any powers otherwise granted to such districts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99026
  This part may be cited as "the Mills Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99100
  Whenever the legislative body of any city, or the board of supervisors of any city and county owns, a municipal transportation system, either by means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99101
  The legislative body of any city or the board of supervisors of any city and county may establish one or more special benefit districts within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99102
  Whenever the legislative body of a city or the board of supervisors of a city and county finds that areas adjacent to two or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99103
  Notice of the time and place of the hearing specified in Section 99100 or 99102 shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99104
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the legislative body or board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99105
  The legislative body or board of supervisors shall have power to change the purposes for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99106
  The purposes, estimated cost, amount of bonded debt or boundaries shall not be changed by the legislative body or board of supervisors, except after notice...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99107
  At the time and place so fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the legislative body or board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99108
  At the conclusion of the hearing, the legislative body or board of supervisors shall by resolution determine whether it is deemed necessary to incur the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99109
  After the formation of such benefit district within the city or city and county and after the assessments have been confirmed pursuant to this chapter,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99110
  After the legislative body or board of supervisors has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by this chapter, and if the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99111
  Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99112
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the legislative body or board of supervisors shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99113
  If 66 2/3 percent of the electors in the entire benefit district voting on the proposition vote for it, then the legislative body or board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99114
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 6 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99115
  The bonds may be sold as the legislative body or board of supervisors determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99116
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99117
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99118
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election the legislative body or board of supervisors may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99119
  Whenever the legislative body or board of supervisors deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99120
  The legislative body or board of supervisors may provide for the issuance, sale or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99121
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99122
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99123
  Any action or proceeding, wherein the validity of the formation of the benefit district or of any such bonds or of the proceedings in relation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99124
  If 66 2/3 percent of the electors of the benefit district voting on the proposition at the special election called pursuant to Section 99111 have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99125
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no city nor city and county shall pledge any portion of its general fund revenues to pay any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99150
  In locating its bus stops, park and ride service facilities, and special service terminal points and stations, a transit district shall consult with, and consider...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99151
  Any transit district whose area is served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company line from the City of San Jose to the City and County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99152
  Any public transit guideway planned, acquired, or constructed, on or after January 1, 1979, is subject to regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99153
  Any transit district or operator may adopt uniform standards to rate bidders, on the basis of questionnaires and required statements, with respect to contracts for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99154
  Any transit district or operator may require from prospective bidders for any contract answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire and financial statement, including...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99155
  (a) Each transit operator, whether publicly or privately funded all or in part, nonprofit or profit, which offers reduced fares to senior citizens shall honor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99155.1
  (a) There shall be close coordination between local transit providers and county welfare departments in order to ensure that transportation moneys available for purposes of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99155.5
  (a) The Legislature intends that dial-a-ride and paratransit services be accessible to handicapped persons, as defined in Section 99206.5. It is intended that transportation service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99156
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may provide compensation to a member of the governing board of the district only for attendance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99157
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may not provide any life, accident, or health insurance plan to any member or former member...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99158
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may not establish or contribute to a pension or retirement benefits plan or purchase an annunity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99159
  (a) Any retirement system established or maintained pursuant to this division for employees of a transit district who are members of a unit appropriate for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99160
  Any public entity which plans the development of, or which operates, a rail transit system, shall, with respect to any current or future rail transit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99161
  (a) Space at a publicly owned transportation facility may be leased by competitive bid, taking into consideration affordability and quality of care, to a child...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99162
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, one or more local agencies listed in subdivision (i) of Section 99602 may undertake a study or a joint...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99163
  On and after January 1, 2005, whenever a transit operator improves or replaces a ticket vending machine at a public transit station to include video...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99164
  (a) When installing new security systems, a transit agency operated by an operator as defined in Section 99210 shall only purchase and install equipment capable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99165
  (a) For purposes of this section, "environmental and public health impacts" means those impacts that affect the health and environment of persons living, working, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99170
  (a) A person shall not do any of the following with respect to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district: (1) Operate, interfere...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99171
  (a) (1) A transit district may issue a prohibition order to any person to whom either of the following applies: (A) On at least three...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99172
  (a) Prior to exercising the authority given in subdivision (a) of Section 99171 to issue prohibition orders, a transit district shall do all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99201
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions given in this article shall govern construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99203
  "Claimant" or any derivative term, such as "applicant," means an operator, city, county, or consolidated transportation service agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99204
  "City" means a city within the county having the fund from which the disbursement will be made.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99204.3
  "Commission" means the California Transportation Commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99204.5
  "Consolidated transportation service agency" means an agency designated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 15975 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99204.6
  "Controller" means the Controller of the State of California.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99205
  "County" includes a city and county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99205.5
  "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99205.6
  "Director" means the Director of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99205.7
  "Fare revenues" means the revenue object classes 401, 402, and 403 as specified in Section 630.12 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99206
  "Fund" means the local transportation fund established by a county under Article 11 (commencing with Section 29530) of Chapter 2 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99206.5
  "Handicapped person" means any individual who by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99207
  (a) "Included municipal operator" means a city or county which is included, in whole or in part, within a transit district or which has been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99207.5
  In Los Angeles County, an "eligible municipal operator" is a transit operator that has been designated eligible to receive formula-equivalent funds allocable for transit operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99208
  "Included transit district" means any of the following which has operated a public transportation system since at least January 1, 1971: (a) A transit district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99209
  "Municipal operator" means a city or county, including any nonprofit corporation or other legal entity wholly owned or controlled by the city or county, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99209.1
  "Municipal operator" also means any county which is located in part within a transit district and which operates a public transportation system in the unincorporated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99209.5
  "Operates" for purposes of Sections 99209 and 99215, and "operation" for purposes of paragaraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 99289, mean that the operator...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99210
  "Operator" means any transit district, included transit district, municipal operator, included municipal operator, or transit development board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99210.1
  "Operator" also means the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission for operation of commuter rail services.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99211
  "Public transportation system" means any system of an operator which provides transportion services to the general public by any vehicle which operates on land or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99211.5
  "Ridesharing services" means a comprehensive organizational effort which is designed to reduce the number of vehicles on the highways during peak travel periods within a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99212
  "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99213
  "Transit district" means a public district organized pursuant to state law and designated in the enabling legislation as a transit district or a rapid transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99214
  (a) "Transportation planning agency" means the entity designated in Section 29532 of the Government Code. (b) "Transportation planning agency" also includes, for purposes of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99215
  "Transit development board" means a public entity created pursuant to state law and designated in the enabling legislation as a transit development board, including, solely...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99217
  "Urbanized area" means such an area as defined by Section 101 of Title 23 of the United States Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99220
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Public transportation is an essential component of the balanced transportation system which must be maintained and developed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99221
  It is the intent of the Legislature to improve existing public transportation services and encourage regional public transportation coordination. The Legislature recognizes that in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99222
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) It is in the interest of the state that funds available for transit development be fully expended...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99230
  The designated transportation planning agency shall, from an analysis and evaluation of the total amount anticipated to be available in the local transportation fund and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99231
  All operators and city or county governments with responsibility for providing municipal services to a given area collectively may file claims for only those moneys...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99231.2
  Except in the County of Los Angeles, the transportation planning agency, notwithstanding Section 99231, may approve the claim filed for an unincorporated area by an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232
  For counties with a population of 500,000 or more, as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census, but excluding counties with more than 4,500 miles...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99232, for each county with a population of less than 500,000 as of the 1970 federal decennial census, but with a population...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99232.1, a city with a population of 100,000 or fewer within an urbanized area in a county subject to Section 99232.1 is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.3
  Sections 99232.1 and 99232.2 shall not apply to Ventura County. The Ventura County Transportation Commission may submit to the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.4
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99231, and subject to subdivision (a) of Section 99232.5, the apportionment area for the Sacramento Regional Transit District includes all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99232, cities within the County of Sacramento which are outside the activated boundaries of the Sacramento Regional Transit District, but which provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99232.6
  Notwithstanding Section 99232, the County of San Diego may also file claims under Article 8 (commencing with Section 99400) for an unincorporated area not served...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233
  Except as provided in Section 99233.11, the fund shall be allocated by the designated transportation planning agency for the purposes specified in Sections 99233.1 to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.1
  There shall be allocated to the county and the transportation planning agency such sums as are necessary to administer this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), there shall be allocated to the transportation planning agency, if it is statutorily created, such sums...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.3
  Two percent of the remaining money in the fund shall be made available to counties and cities for facilities provided for the exclusive use of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.4
  Allocations shall be made for rail passenger service operations and capital improvements pursuant to Section 99234.5, 99234.7, or 99234.9.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.5
  Up to 10 percent of the remaining money for the area under the jurisdiction of a transit development board created pursuant to Division 11 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.7
  Up to 5 percent of the remaining money in the fund shall be made available to cities, counties, and operators for claims filed pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.8
  There shall be allocated to operators such money as is approved by the transportation planning agency for claims presented pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.9
  There shall be allocated to counties and cities such money as is approved by the transportation planning agency for claims presented pursuant to Article 8...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.10
  Notwithstanding Section 99233.7, funds made available in the County of Santa Barbara for claims filed pursuant to Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 99275) may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.11
  Funds made available to the County of Stanislaus and the cities in that county shall be allocated in the following order: (a) To the Stanislaus...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99233.12
  Notwithstanding anything in Sections 99233 to 99233.9, inclusive, to the contrary, the Solano Transportation Authority may file a claim, and the transportation planning agency may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99234
  (a) Claims for facilities provided for the exclusive use of pedestrians and bicycles or for bicycle safety education programs shall be filed according to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99234.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 4 (commencing with Section 99260), the Orange County Transportation Commission may allocate funds from either the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99234.5
  (a) The Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles may enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99234.7
  (a) The Department of Transportation may negotiate and contract with the appropriate railroad corporation to provide passenger rail service between the City and County of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99234.9
  Any county, city, county transportation commission, or operator may file claims with the transportation planning agency for rail passenger service operation expenditures and capital improvement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99235
  Upon having determined the allocation of each claimant on the fund, the transportation planning agency shall convey such information to each claimant and the county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99236
  No funds from the fund shall be budgeted, allocated, or expended for any project which calls for any change in passenger train stations or loading...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99238
  Each transportation planning agency shall provide for the establishment of a social services transportation advisory council for each county, or counties operating under a joint...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99238.5
  (a) The transportation planning agency shall ensure the establishment and implementation of a citizen participation process appropriate for each county, or counties if operating under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99241
  (a) Except for allocations made for purposes of Section 99234 and subdivision (a) of Section 99400, which shall be subject to the rules and regulations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99241.5
  All rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency pursuant to Section 99241, as it read prior to its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99242
  In the event that a claimant is not satisfied with his approved claim or other action taken by the transportation planning agency, a notification with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99243
  (a) The Controller, in cooperation with the department and the operators, shall design and adopt a uniform system of accounts and records, from which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99243.5
  On the basis of data in the annual reports submitted pursuant to Section 99243 and the information submitted pursuant to Section 99406 to the Controller,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99244
  Each transportation planning agency shall annually identify, analyze, and recommend potential productivity improvements which could lower the operating costs of those operators who operate at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99245
  Each transportation planning agency, transit development board created pursuant to Division 11 (commencing with Section 120000), and county transportation commission shall be responsible to ensure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99245.2
  (a) A transit district or other provider of public transportation services subject to an audit pursuant to Section 99245, that receives funds from other sources...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99246
  (a) The transportation planning agency shall designate entities other than itself, a county transportation commission, a transit development board, or an operator to make a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99247
  For purposes of Section 99246, and as used elsewhere in this article: (a) "Operating cost" means all costs in the operating expense object classes exclusive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99248
  No operator is eligible to receive an allocation under this chapter for any fiscal year until the transmittal of reports of its performance audit to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99249
  The cost of making the performance audits may be deemed an administrative cost of the transportation planning agencies for purposes of Section 99233.1. However, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99250
  (a) All charter bus services authorized to be performed by a public transportation system receiving funding under this chapter shall contribute financially to the reduction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99250.5
  (a) (1) At any publicly noticed meeting of the governing body of an operator, a representative of a private transportation service provider may request the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99251
  No claim submitted by an operator pursuant to this chapter shall be approved unless it is accompanied by a certification completed within the last 13...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99260
  Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators under this article for the following purposes: (a) The support of public transportation systems....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99260.2
  (a) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators to contract with common carriers of persons operating under a franchise or license...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99260.5
  (a) Claims may also be filed with the transportation planning agency by a city and county or a transit district under this article for payments...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99260.6
  Public agencies authorized to file claims pursuant to Section 99234.9 may file claims under this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99260.7
  In order to provide, or to contract to provide, transportation services using vehicles for the exclusive use of elderly or handicapped persons, a city or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99261
  The transportation planning agency may adopt rules and regulations supplemental to, and consistent with, those of the department to further delineate procedures for the submission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99261.5
  The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board shall adopt rules and regulations for its area of jurisdiction. The transportation planning agency may include in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99262
  Claims for public transportation systems may include claims for money for all purposes necessary and convenient to the development and operation of the system, including...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99262.5
  Any transit district whose formation was approved in an election held in June 1972 may include in its claim an amount to reimburse any city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99263
  An approved claim may include an amount to pay the principal and interest on bonds of the applicant for a public transportation system. This section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99264
  An operator shall not be eligible for allocation under this article if it routinely staffs with two or more persons a vehicle for public transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99266
  No moneys may be allocated to an operator whose claim includes funds for an increase in operating budget in excess of 15 percent above the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99267
  If an operator ceases operations, any capital acquisitions made by that operator from funds allocated to it pursuant to this article may be transferred to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268
  The expenditure of the funds received under this article by an operator may in no year exceed 50 percent of the amount required to meet...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.1
  Commencing with claims for the 1980-81 fiscal year, an operator that was in compliance with Section 99268 during the 1978-79 fiscal year in order to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.2
  (a) In the case of an operator required to be in compliance with Section 99268 under Section 99268.1, the operator may be allocated additional funds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.3
  (a) In the case of an operator which is serving an urbanized area, and which was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978-79...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.4
  (a) In the case of an operator which is serving a nonurbanized area, and which was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978-79...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.5
  (a) Commencing with claims for the 1980-81 fiscal year, no funds shall be allocated under this article in any fiscal year to an operator providing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.6
  (a) If a joint powers entity providing public transportation services was funded at any time under this article and is subsequently dissolved, any succeeding entity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.7
  Any unallocated funds resulting from the limitations of Section 99268 may be used for capital intensive transit-related improvements. Every effort shall be made to obtain...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.8
  The required ratios of fare revenues to operating cost prescribed by this article shall not apply to an extension of public transportation services until two...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.9
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if an operator was allocated funds under this article during a fiscal year in which it did...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.11
  Sections 99268.3, 99268.4, and 99268.9 may be waived by the transportation planning agency with respect to an operator during any fiscal year in which both...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.12
  Notwithstanding Sections 99268.2 and 99268.3, the transportation planning agency or the county transportation commission may set the required ratio of fare revenue to operating cost...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.16
  Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 99247, the costs of providing ridesharing services are excluded from operating costs.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.17
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 99247, the additional operating costs required to provide comparable complementary paratransit service as required by Section 37.121 of Title...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.18
  The exclusions contained in Sections 99268.10, 99268.16, and 99268.17 shall not be applicable for purposes of determining an operator's compliance with Section 99268.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99268.19
  If fare revenues are insufficient to meet the applicable ratio of fare revenues to operating cost required by this article, an operator may satisfy that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99269
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, all operators providing service within the area under the jurisdiction of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99270
  On or after the first day of any fiscal year, an operator may engage in temporary borrowing pursuant to Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99270.1
  If an operator serves urbanized and nonurbanized areas in the area of jurisdiction of a transportation planning agency, the transportation planning agency shall adopt rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99270.2
  If an operator serves an area that was first designated as an urbanized area in the 1980 or a subsequent federal census, the transportation planning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99270.5
  In determining whether there is compliance with Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, or 99268.9, as the case may be, by operators serving the area...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99271
  (a) An operator shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the current cost of its retirement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99272
  An operator that has a private pension plan shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99273
  An operator that has a private pension plan shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99275
  (a) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by claimants for community transit services, including such services for those, such as the disabled,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99275.5
  (a) Claims, for purposes of this article, shall be filed in the same manner as claims are filed for purposes of Article 4 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99276
  Each claimant receiving funds allocated for purposes of this article shall submit an annual certified fiscal audit pursuant to Section 99245.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99277
  Claimants may contract on the basis of competitive bidding to provide community transit services.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99280
  An included municipal operator shall not establish a public transportation system either by adding new routes or extending existing routes, by acquisition or otherwise, outside...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99281
  The transit district may operate or establish new routes or extend existing routes in all or part of the area outside a municipal operator, except...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99282
  All operators shall be encouraged to establish maximum coordination of public transportation services, fares, transfer privileges, and all other related matters for the overall improvement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99282.5
  Where there are two or more operators within its area of jurisdiction, the transportation planning agency, the county transportation commission, and the San Diego Metropolitan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99283
  The consent of a transit district to the operation of a public transportation system by an included municipal operator pursuant to Section 99280 may include...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99284
  The violation by a transit district or an included municipal operator of any provisions of this article, or of any agreement between them with regard...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99285
  (a) The county transportation commissions created pursuant to Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000), including those agencies in Los Angeles County created by statute that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99285.1
  For any fiscal year commencing on and after July 1, 1975, in determining the allocation of any operator pursuant to Section 99285, the public transit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99285.2
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 99285, any county transportation commission created pursuant to Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000) may adopt a resolution electing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99286
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no operator may plan or establish a public transportation system by adding or extending routes, by acquisition or otherwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99287
  (a) No provision of this article shall preclude the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District from planning, acquiring, constructing, and operating its system within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99288
  (a) Any city, county, or transit district may enter into a contract with any operator, except with an included municipal operator unless specifically approved by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99289
  (a) Funds received by a city or county designated as an included municipal operator pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99207 because it is not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99299
  The provisions of this article shall control over the provisions of any other act or law applicable to a transit district to the extent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99301
  Interest earned on funds allocated pursuant to this chapter shall be expended only for those purposes for which the funds were allocated.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99301.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 99232, 99233, and 99301, the Orange County Transportation Commission may direct the transportation planning agency to allocate interest accruing from money retained for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99301.6
  Interest accruing pursuant to Section 99301.5 shall continue to be allocated under that section for as long as there is a balance of money retained...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99302
  Notwithstanding the fact that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is not required to adopt a regional transportation plan until June 30, 1973, for the region comprised...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99302.5
  Before the Orange County Transit District may expend any of its allocation it has retained for the development of rapid transit for purposes other than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99303
  Not less than 75 percent of the unallocated apportionment, as of June 30, 1978, and each June 30th thereafter, for the cities, and that portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99304
  Notwithstanding Section 29530 of the Government Code, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall, if an unallocated apportionment has been set aside for an operator for specific...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99310
  (a) The Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund, hereafter referred to as the "account" in this article, is hereby continued in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99310.5
  (a) The account is hereby designated a trust fund. (b) The funds in the account shall be available, when appropriated by the Legislature, only for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99310.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Finance may adjust the budgeting, accounting, and reporting system for the Public Transportation Account so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99311
  Upon appropriation by the Legislature, funds transferred, or scheduled as a reimbursement, to the account, pursuant to Section 21682.5 of this code and Section 194...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99311.1
  Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the director shall allocate, from the account or from other available state or federal sources, or from both state and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99311.5
  The amount allocated to a transportation planning agency designated pursuant to Section 29532 of the Government Code, for the preparation or updating of a regional...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99312
  Except as provided in Sections 99311 and 99311.5, and Sections 6051.8 and 6201.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and except as otherwise provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99312.1
  Revenues transferred to the Public Transportation Account pursuant to Sections 6051.8 and 6201.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code are hereby continuously appropriated to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99312.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, twenty-three million dollars ($23,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the Public Transportation Account to the Controller for allocation to local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99312.5
  (a) In the case of a transportation planning agency with county transportation commissions within its area of jurisdiction, the allocations pursuant to Sections 99313 and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99312.7
  (a) Not later than each January 31st, the Controller shall send to each transportation planning agency and county transportation commission, and the San Diego Metropolitan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99313
  From the funds made available pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 99312, an amount shall be allocated by the Controller to each transportation planning agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99313.1
  (a) A transportation planning agency, a county transportation commission, or the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board may transfer any funds that it receives pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99313.3
  The amount received by each transportation planning agency and county transportation commission, and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, pursuant to Sections 99313 and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99313.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each transportation planning agency and county transportation commission, and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, shall create...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99313.7
  A public agency authorized to file claims with the transportation planning agency and expend funds pursuant to Section 99234.5, 99234.7, or 99234.9 may also file...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314
  (a) From funds made available pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99312, an amount shall be allocated by the Controller to each transportation planning agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) The "Altamont Commuter Express Authority" or the "authority" is the joint...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.2
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) The "Southern California Regional Rail Authority" or the "authority" is that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.3
  (a) The amount received by each transportation planning agency and county transportation commission, and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, pursuant to Section 99314...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.4
  (a) An operator in an urbanized area having a population of less than 200,000 persons may elect to participate in the funding exchange program authorized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.5
  (a) No funds allocated pursuant to Section 99313.3 or 99314.3 shall be allocated to an operator unless it is eligible for allocations under Article 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.6
  (a) Except as provided in Section 99314.7, the following eligibility standards apply: (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), funds shall not be allocated for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99314.7
  (a) In allocating funds for operating purposes pursuant to Sections 99313 and 99314, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall apply the following eligibility standards to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99315
  Funds made available pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99312 shall be available for all of the following purposes: (a) To the department for bus...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99315.7
  All funds from the Public Transportation Account and the State Highway Account, State Transportation Fund, previously allocated by the commission or the department to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99315.8
  All funds from the Public Transportation Account and the State Highway Account, in the State Transportation Fund, previously allocated by the commission for specific track...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99315.95
  All funds from the Public Transportation Account and the State Highway Account, in the State Transportation Fund, previously allocated by the California Transportation Commission to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99316
  Funds made available pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99315 shall be appropriated to the department for allocation, as directed by the commission, for purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99317
  (a) Funds made available pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99315 shall be appropriated to the department for allocation, as directed by the commission, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99317.1
  (a) Funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99317 shall, in addition to the purposes specified in that section, be available for short-line railroad...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99317.8
  (a) A public agency that has received an allocation for funding of an intermodal transfer station pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99317 shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99317.9
  The department and the commission shall give reasonable priority to allocations pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99317 to station projects that improve access for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99317.10
  (a) A public entity which has received an allocation for funding of an intermodal transfer station pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 99317 shall, upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99318.1
  An intercity rail project nominated by the department shall be eligible to compete for funding pursuant to Section 99317 if it is recommended in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99319
  (a) If a rail capital improvement project proposed for funding by the department or a local agency includes as an element the addition or improvement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99320
  This article is not applicable in a county where the transit district has been provided bonding authority by statute.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99320.5
  If the transportation planning agency determines that the cost of an approved claim for capital expenditures for public transportation purposes, excluding highways, within a county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99321
  For purposes of this article, "limited obligation bonds" are bonds payable solely from the local transportation fund of the county. The money, or portion thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99322
  In determining the amount of bonds to be issued, the transportation planning agency may include: (a) All costs and estimated costs incidental to or connected...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99323
  The bonds and the resolution providing for their issuance shall state that they are limited obligation bonds payable solely from the revenues.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99324
  The term of bonds issued shall not exceed 31 years.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99325
  The bonds shall be sold as the transportation planning agency shall determine but for not less than a price which will produce a net interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99326
  The bonds are special obligations of the county and shall be a charge against and are secured by a lien upon and shall be payable,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99327
  By resolution, the board of supervisors shall pledge, place a charge upon, and assign all or any part of the revenues for the security of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99328
  The payment of interest on and principal of the bonds and any premiums upon the redemption of any thereof are secured by an exclusive pledge,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99329
  The revenues and any interest earned on the revenues constitute a trust fund for the security and payment of the interest on and principal of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99330
  So long as any bonds or interest thereon are unpaid following their maturity, the revenues or the designated portion and interest thereon shall not be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99331
  If the interest and principal of the bonds and all charges to protect or secure them are paid when due, an amount or amounts for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99332
  Bonds of the same issue shall be equally secured by a pledge, charge, and lien upon the revenues specified in the resolution authorizing the issuance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99333
  The general fund or any other fund of the county shall not be liable for the payment of the bonds or their interest.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99334
  The general credit or taxing power of the county, other than the sales and use tax as herein provided, shall not be liable for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99335
  The holder of the bonds or coupons shall not compel the exercise of the taxing power by the county, other than the sales and use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99336
  The principal of and interest on the bonds and any premiums upon the redemption of any thereof are not a debt of the county, nor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99337
  Every bond shall recite in substance that the principal of and interest on the bond are payable solely from the revenues pledged to its payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99338
  The bonds and interest or income from the bonds are exempt from taxation in this state, except from gift, inheritance, and estate taxes.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99339
  In the resolution authorizing the bonds, the board of supervisors may, with the consent of the transportation planning agency, insert any of the provisions authorized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99340
  The transportation planning agency may provide for limitations on: (a) The purpose to which the proceeds of sale of any issue of bonds may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99341
  The transportation planning agency may provide for events of default and terms upon which the bonds may be declared due before maturity and the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99342
  The transportation planning agency may provide for the rights, liabilities, powers, and duties arising upon the county's breach of any covenants, conditions, or obligations.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99343
  The transportation planning agency may provide for the vesting in a trustee of the right to enforce covenants to secure payment of or in relation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99344
  The transportation planning agency may provide for the terms upon which the bondholders or any percentage of them may enforce covenants or duties imposed by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99345
  The transportation planning agency may require the board of supervisors to provide in the resolution for a procedure for amending or abrogating the terms of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99346
  Any resolution containing such a procedure may also provide for meetings of bondholders or for their written assent without a meeting and the manner of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99347
  The resolution shall specifically state the effect of amendment upon the rights of the holders of all of the bonds and attached or detached interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99348
  The transportation planning agency may provide for any other acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to secure the bonds or tending to make them...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99349
  The county shall pay or cause to be paid the principal and interest of the bonds on the date, at the place, and in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99350
  During the period that any of the bonds and the interest thereon are unpaid, the county shall prescribe, revise and collect taxes in the manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99351
  After making allowances for contingencies and error in the estimates, the taxes, for the respective purposes hereinafter set forth, shall be at least sufficient to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99352
  A separate, distinct and special account shall be created at or before the issuance of the bonds, which shall be maintained continuously in the local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99353
  All designated revenues shall be deposited in the special account and payments shall be made therefrom as provided in Section 99351.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99354
  The county shall preserve and protect the security of the bonds and the rights of the bondholders and warrant and defend their rights against all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99355
  In order to fully preserve and protect the priority and security of the bonds, the county shall pay from the special account in the local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99356
  The county shall hold in trust the revenues pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds for the benefit of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99357
  The county may invest funds held in reserve, or in any sinking fund, or funds not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99358
  The county shall keep proper books of record and accounts of the revenues, separate from all other records and accounts, in which complete and correct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99359
  At all times the books shall be subject to the inspection of the holders of not less than 10 percent of the outstanding bonds or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99360
  The county shall cause to be published a summary statement showing the amount of revenues deposited which are required as security for payment of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99361
  The statement shall be published annually, not more than 120 days after the close of each fiscal year. The county shall furnish a copy of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99362
  In the resolution authorizing the bonds, the county may agree that the statement shall be prepared or audited by an independent certified public accountant and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99363
  The duties set forth in this article do not require the county to expend any funds other than revenues pledged to secure payment of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99364
  A fiscal or paying agent may be appointed as now or as may hereafter be provided in Article 7 (commencing with Section 54550), Chapter 6,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99365
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99366
  Bondholders shall have the remedies as now or as may hereafter be provided in Article 10 (commencing with Section 54640), Chapter 6, Part 1, Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99367
  The bonds may be refunded in the manner now or as may hereafter be provided in Article 11 (commencing with Section 54660), Chapter 6, Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99368
  Without the issuance of bonds hereunder, a pledge or allocation from revenues for the payment of bonds and interest issued or to be issued under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99369
  All bonds issued in pursuance of the provisions of this article shall by their issuance be conclusive evidence of the regularity, validity and legal sufficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99370
  All bonds by their issuance in pursuance of the provisions of this article shall by their issuance be conclusive evidence of the regularity, validity and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99371
  Any action, suit or proceeding of any kind or nature in which the validity of any of the proceedings taken under the provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99372
  This article and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed to the end that the purposes hereof may be effective. If any section, subsection,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99373
  Proceedings are initiated to issue bonds within the meaning of this article when the board of supervisors, by majority vote, adopts a resolution in conformity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99374
  At its next subsequent meeting, the board of supervisors shall pass an ordinance ordering the submission of the proposition of incurring a bonded debt for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99375
  Propositions for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99376
  The ordinance shall recite: (a) The object and purpose of incurring the indebtedness. (b) The estimated cost of the public improvements. (c) The amount of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99377
  The ordinance may provide that the estimated cost stated therein of the public improvements includes any or all of the following: (a) Legal or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99378
  The ordinance shall be published once a day for at least seven days in a newspaper published at least six days a week in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99379
  If an election called pursuant to this article is consolidated with any other election, the ordinance calling the bond election need not set forth the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99380
  Except as otherwise provided in the ordinance, the election shall be conducted as other county elections.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99381
  If two-thirds of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, the bonds shall be issued.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99382
  When two or more propositions for incurring indebtedness are submitted at the same election, the votes cast for and against each proposition shall be counted
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99383
  If any proposition is defeated, the transportation planning agency shall reconsider the application pertaining thereto. Another election on a substantially similar proposition shall not be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99400
  Claims may be filed under this article with the transportation planning agency by counties and cities for the following purposes and by transit districts for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99400.5
  Notwithstanding Section 99232, a county or a city in a county in which there is no countywide transit district may file a claim under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99400.6
  Notwithstanding Section 99232, the County of San Diego may file a claim under this article with the transportation planning agency to provide express bus service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99400.7
  Notwithstanding Sections 99232, 99268.3, and 99405, cities within the County of San Diego may file a claim under this article with the transportation planning agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99401
  (a) The transportation planning agency shall adopt rules and regulations delineating procedures for the submission of claims under Section 99234 and subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99401.5
  Prior to making any allocation not directly related to public transportation services, specialized transportation services, or facilities provided for the exclusive use of pedestrians and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99401.6
  Upon adoption of a finding, pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 99401.5 that there are no unmet transit needs or that there are no unmet...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99402
  Claims for streets and roads may include those purposes necessary and convenient to the development, construction, and maintenance of the city or county's streets and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99403
  In the County of Tuolumne, claims by the county or by a city within the county for streets and roads may also include contributions to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99405
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the allocation for any purpose specified in Section 99400 may in no year exceed 50 percent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99406
  Expenditures of moneys received for streets and highways purposes under this article shall be reported to the Controller by way of inclusion of information regarding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99407
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the transportation planning agency may approve claims filed by a city for the construction of facilities for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99408
  Any action to review, set aside, void, or annul the decision of a transportation planning agency made pursuant to Section 99401.5 shall be filed within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99420
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit operator may enter into agreements with a public agency, public utility, or person or entity, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99500
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), in addition to taxes imposed pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 7301), Part 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99501
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Taxing entity" means a county other than a county with a transit development board or a county under the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99502
  (a) The tax may be imposed by the adoption of an ordinance by a taxing entity if (1) it calls a special election for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99503
  A special election for a transit development board or a transit district shall be conducted pursuant to the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99504
  (a) The taxing entity shall contract with the State Board of Equalization for the administration of the tax imposed pursuant to the adopted ordinance, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99505
  The ordinance shall include provisions identical to those contained in Part 2 (commencing with Section 7301), Part 3 (commencing with Section 8601), and Part 31...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99506
  The State Board of Equalization shall adopt the necessary rules and regulations to administer the tax.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99507
  After deducting its cost in administering the tax, the State Board of Equalization shall transmit the net revenues to the taxing entity periodically as promptly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99508
  The net revenues received by a taxing entity shall be expended only for the following: (a) The planning, construction, and maintenance of, and the acquisition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99509
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99505, any person required to pay a license tax under Section 7351 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall also collect the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99510
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 99505, any person required to pay a tax under Sections 60051, 60052, and 60058 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall also...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99550
  The decision of the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles County Transportation Agency v. Richmond (1982), 31 Cal. 3d 197, shall be applicable to and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99560
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The people of this state have a fundamental interest in the development of harmonious and cooperative labor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99560.1
  As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Arbitration" means a method of resolving a rights dispute under which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99560.2
  This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99560.3
  This chapter shall only apply to supervisory employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99561
  This chapter shall be administered by the Public Employment Relations Board. In administering this chapter the board shall have all of the following rights, powers,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99561.1
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99561.2
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99561.3
  The board shall have the power to issue a decision and order directing an offending party to cease and desist from the unfair practice and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99561.4
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99562
  (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563
  Transit district employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code or other laws or statutes, the transit district employer shall make deductions from wages and salaries of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.2
  Subject to reasonable regulations, employee organizations shall have the right of access at reasonable times to areas in which employees work, the right to use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.3
  A reasonable number of representatives of an exclusive representative shall have the right to receive reasonable periods of released or reassigned time without loss of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.4
  Transit district employers, or the representatives as they may designate, shall engage in meeting and conferring with the employee organization selected as exclusive representative of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.5
  (a) The scope of representation shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.6
  The duty to meet and confer in good faith requires the parties to begin negotiations prior to the adoption of the final budget for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.7
  It shall be unlawful for the transit district employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99563.8
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the transit district employer to violate Section 99563.7. (b) Impose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564
  An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and conferring by filing a request...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564.1
  The transit district employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 99564 except in one of the following circumstances: (a) The employer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564.2
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564.3
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564.4
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 99564.2, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold hearings as it deems necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99564.5
  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach of this duty...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99565
  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99566
  Subject to the limitations set forth in this chapter, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99566.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receiving notice from the exclusive representative of a transit district employee who is in a unit for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99566.2
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 99560.1, Section 99566, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99566.3
  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99567
  (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99568
  The impasse procedures contained in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1137) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Labor Code shall govern any impasse...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99569
  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of transit district employers, that relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99570
  The following proceedings set forth in this section are exempt from the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99570.1
  No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting discrimination in employment.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99570.2
  If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99570.3
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to deprive employees of their rights pursuant to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (49 U.S.C....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99570.4
  For employees of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority covered under this chapter, this chapter shall supersede subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 30750...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99580
  (a) Pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 640 of the Penal Code, the City and County of San Francisco, the Los Angeles...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99581
  (a) For a period of 21 calendar days from the issuance to a person of the notice of fare evasion or passenger conduct violation, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99582
  (a) Within 30 calendar days after the mailing or personal delivery of the decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 99581, the person may seek...
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• California Public Utilities Code Section 99581
  (a) For a period of 21 calendar days from the issuance to a person of the notice of fare evasion or passenger conduct violation, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99582
  (a) Within 30 calendar days after the mailing or personal delivery of the decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 99581, the person may seek...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99600
  This part shall be known as the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99601
  The people of California find and declare all of the following: (a) Rail transportation results in cleaner air, less energy use, more transportation opportunities for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99602
  For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings, unless expressly stated otherwise: (a) "CalTrain" means the commuter rail service operated along...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99603
  (a) The department shall establish an advisory committee to assist the department in developing specifications for standard state-of-the-art California commuter and intercity rail cars and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99604
  If bonds sufficient to fund the total aggregate of the amounts specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620) cannot be sold pursuant to Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99605
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the Legislature may amend this part, by statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99610
  The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund is hereby created.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99611
  It is the intent of the people of California, in enacting this part, that bond funds shall not be used to displace existing sources of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99612
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all money deposited in the fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the commission, without regard to fiscal years,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99613
  (a) The commission shall allocate money from the fund in accordance with the allocations specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620) to the department,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99614
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 16312 of the Government Code and Section 99694.5 of this part, the interest on any loans made from the Pooled Money Investment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99605
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the Legislature may amend this part, by statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99620
  This chapter sets forth the purposes and the amounts for which allocations shall be made from the fund. Money from the fund shall be awarded...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99622
  Two hundred thirty million dollars ($230,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for all of the following: (a) Improvements to the Los Angeles-Fresno-San Francisco Bay...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99623
  (a) Eighty one million dollars ($81,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for intercity and commuter rail projects along the Los Angeles-Santa Barbara rail corridor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99624
  (a) Eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) to the department for grade separations along the Alameda-San Pedro branch rail line connecting the Los Angeles and Long Beach...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99625
  (a) Six million dollars ($6,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for the improvement of rail service, including rail freight service and tourist-related services, important...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99626
  (a) Four million dollars ($4,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for the improvement of rail service, including rail freight service and tourist-related services, important...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99627
  (a) If the Legislature establishes a railroad transportation authority which includes, or which is subsequently expanded to include, within its jurisdiction, Humboldt County or Mendocino...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99628
  (a) Seventy three million dollars ($73,000,000) for allocation by the commission on a per capita basis to the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99629
  Two hundred two million dollars ($202,000,000) shall be allocated to the Los Angeles-San Diego Rail Corridor Agency for intercity and commuter rail projects for expenditure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99630
  Two hundred twenty nine million dollars ($229,000,000) shall be allocated to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, for expenditure on rail projects within Los Angeles...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99631
  (a) Seventy nine million dollars ($79,000,000) shall be allocated to the joint powers agency required to be established pursuant to Section 130255, for the San...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99632
  (a) Ninety eight million dollars ($98,000,000) shall be allocated to the joint powers agency required to be established pursuant to Section 130255, for the San...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99633
  Sixty-one million dollars ($61,000,000) shall be allocated to the Alameda County Transportation Commission for expenditure on rail projects of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99634
  Thirty seven million dollars ($37,000,000) shall be allocated to the Contra Costa Transportation Authority for expenditure on rail projects of the San Francisco Bay Area...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99635
  Thirty five million dollars ($35,000,000) shall be allocated to the Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco, for expenditure for rail...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99636
  One hundred seventy three million dollars ($173,000,000) shall be allocated to the Peninsula Corridor Study Joint Powers Board for CalTrain capital improvements and acquisition of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99637
  Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be allocated to the San Mateo County Transit District for expenditure for extensions of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99638
  Seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) shall be allocated to the Monterey County Transportation Commission for the following: (a) Extension of CalTrain service. (b) Other rail projects...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99639
  (a) Twenty eight million dollars ($28,000,000) shall be allocated to a joint powers agency responsible for expenditure for a rail project along the Santa Rosa...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99640
  Eleven million dollars ($11,000,000) shall be allocated to the Santa Cruz County Transportation Commission for the following: (a) Intercity passenger rail projects connecting the City...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99641
  Forty seven million dollars ($47,000,000) shall be allocated to the Santa Clara County Transit District, for expenditure for rail projects within Santa Clara County.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99642
  Seventy seven million dollars ($77,000,000) shall be allocated on a per capita basis to the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board and the North San...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99643
  One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be allocated to the Sacramento Regional Transit District for rail transit projects.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99644
  Fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) shall be allocated to the San Joaquin Council of Governments for expenditure for rail projects along the Stockton-Manteca-Tracy corridor to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99645
  One hundred twenty five million dollars ($125,000,000) shall be allocated to the City of Irvine for construction of a guideway demonstration project.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99646
  Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be allocated to the City of Vallejo for expenditure on water-borne ferry vessels and terminal improvements.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99647
  Seven million dollars ($7,000,000) shall be allocated to the City of South Lake Tahoe for expenditure on acquisition of rights-of way, construction of an intermodal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99648
  Five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the Department of Parks and Recreation for construction of the California State Museum of Railroad Technology. These funds shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99649
  (a) One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be allocated by the commission to fund a competitive program for the acquisition of both commuter and intercity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99650
  (a) Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) shall be allocated to fund a program of competitive grants to local agencies for capital outlay for bicycle improvement projects...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99651
  Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) shall be allocated to fund a program of competitive grants to local agencies for the construction, improvement, acquisition, and other capital...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99652
  Not more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) may be allocated for the administration of this part by the commission to pay its expenses and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99653
  In any case in which funds are granted or allocated for expenditure within specified counties or regions in or along a rail corridor, the grantee...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99654
  Any agency or combination of agencies which is the successor to an agency having any rights, powers, duties, or obligations under this part, including eligibility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99655
  As of June 30, 2007, fourteen million five hundred sixty-three thousand dollars ($14,563,000) allocated for the improvement of the Los Angeles-Fresno-San Francisco Bay Area passenger...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99660
  (a) The commission shall adopt guidelines, as necessary, to require that grants for transit projects be expended for projects which are essential to the implementation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99661
  The department, the Department of Parks and Recreation, or a local agency responsible for a project which is eligible for a grant pursuant to Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99662
  Two or more applicant agencies may join in applying for a grant for a project in which each of the agencies will participate.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99663
  (a) In accordance with regulations and guidelines of the commission, each application shall be accompanied by a plan describing how the grant funds will be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99664
  (a) The commission, with the assistance of the department, shall commence its review of an application for a grant within 30 days of receipt of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99665
  (a) To be eligible for a grant for a rail transit project pursuant to Section 99630, subdivision (b), (c), or (d) of Section 99631, subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99666
  The eligibility of an applicant agency for a grant pursuant to a section of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620) does not make it ineligible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99667
  (a) An application for a grant for a commuter rail or rail transit project within the area of jurisdiction of a transportation planning agency, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99668
  Each application for a grant to fund a segment of a commuter rail project shall demonstrate that the project is coordinated with all other planned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99669
  An application for rail transit extension shall include a plan for integrating bus service with the rail line and for avoiding duplicative and competing bus...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99680
  Funds allocated pursuant to this part shall not be used for any of the following: (a) A rail project connecting San Bernardino County and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99681
  Funds shall not be allocated for a project requiring service over the right-of-way of a railroad corporation unless a course of improvements and operation is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99682
  All passenger rail and water borne ferry equipment and facilities acquired or constructed pursuant to this part and intended for public use shall be accessible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99683
  All passenger vehicles and vessels acquired pursuant to this part shall provide reasonable access to bicycles. All stations acquired or constructed pursuant to this part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99684
  (a) All funds allocated to an agency pursuant to this part shall be programmed, encumbered, obligated, or spent prior to July 1, 2000, unless economically...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99685
  If, within one year after the commission has denied any grant specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620), the Legislature does not require the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99686
  Every expenditure made pursuant to this part shall be made in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99690
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Bond Act of 1990.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99690.5
  Bonds in the total amount of one billion nine hundred ninety million dollars ($1,990,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99691
  The proceeds of bonds and notes issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund created...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99691.5
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99692
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99692.5
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99693
  There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99693.5
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, for the purposes of this part, an amount that will...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99694
  For the purposes of carrying out this part, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99694.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99694.5
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account in the General Fund, in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99695
  All money derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99695.5
  Any bonds issued or sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 99696
  The people of California hereby find and declare that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this part are not "proceeds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100001
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in the County of Santa Clara in order to meet the public transit problems of that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100001.5
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) Since the formation of the Santa Clara County Transit District, unprecedented growth has occurred in the San Francisco...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100002
  The Santa Clara County Transit District is renamed the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Any reference in this part, or in any other provision of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100010
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100011
  "Authority," "district," or "VTA" means the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100012
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means, and includes rapid transit.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100013
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means any or all real and personal property, equipment, rights or interests owned or to be acquired by the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100014
  "Board of directors" and "board" means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100014.1
  "Director" means a member of the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100015
  "County" means the County of Santa Clara.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100016
  "Public agency" includes the State of California, and any county, city and county, city, district, or other political subdivision or public entity of, or organized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100017
  "System" means all transit works and transit facilities owned or held or to be owned or held by the district for transit purposes.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100018
  "Revenues" means all rates, fares, tolls, rentals or other income and revenue actually received or receivable by or for the account of the district from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100019
  "Person" includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, trust, limited liability company, business trust or receiver or trustee or conservator for any thereof, but does...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100020
  "Establish" includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend, or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of any existing system acquired by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100021
  "Existing system" means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility or division thereof operating entirely within Santa Clara County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100022
  "Transportation works" or "transportation facilities" means any or all real and personal property, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the authority to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100030
  The Santa Clara County Transit District may be formed as provided in this chapter and when so formed may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100031
  The district shall include all incorporated and unincorporated territory lying within the County of Santa Clara.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100032
  The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara may, after notice and public hearing, published pursuant to Government Code Section 6061, adopt a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100040
  Upon adoption of the resolution provided for in Section 100032, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara shall adopt a resolution calling...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100041
  The resolution calling the formation election shall be published pursuant to Government Code Section 6061. The resolution shall: (a) Call, provide and give notice of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100042
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: -----------------------------------------...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100043
  (a) The registrar of voters shall mail a notice of polling place, date and purpose of the election to each registered voter of the county....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100044
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a registered voter of the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100045
  The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, and be consolidated therewith.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100046
  The county registrar of voters shall canvass the returns and certify the election results to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100047
  The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the district as proposed,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100048
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the formation of the district, the Board of Supervisors of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100049
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100050
  This part shall not be subject to the Knox-Nisbet Act, Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 54773), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100055
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert, lessen, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100055.1
  The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has completed the purchase of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100055.2
  Subject to Section 100351, the purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or any portion thereof to be purchased, shall be the reproduction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100055.3
  The district and public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100055.4
  Section 851 does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100060
  (a) The government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors which shall consist of 12 members, as follows: (1) Two representatives...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100060.2
  Except as otherwise provided, the term of office for each director shall be two years and until the appointment and qualification of his or her...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100061
  The board of directors shall annually elect a chairperson who shall preside at all meetings. The board of directors shall also annually elect a vice...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100062
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100062.1
  (a) No ordinance, except an urgency ordinance, shall be passed by the board on the day of its introduction, nor within three days thereafter, nor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100063
  The board may fix the amount of compensation to be paid each member of the board for services and for each meeting attended by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100070
  The board of directors is the legislative body of the district and shall determine all questions of district policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100071
  It shall be the duty of the board of directors and it shall have the power to: (a) Determine the transit facilities to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100080
  The board of directors shall establish at least one advisory committee.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100082
  The advisory committees shall provide advice to the board of directors on matters of district policy and shall have additional duties as provided by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100090
  The officers of the district shall consist of the members of the board of directors, the chairperson and vice chairperson of the board, a secretary,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100091
  The secretary and those assistants that the board designates may administer all oaths or affirmations required by law, including the oath of office.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100100
  The power and duties of the general manager are: (a) To head the administrative branch of the district and to be responsible to the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100110
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100111
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100112
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Govenment Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100113
  The district shall not levy any tax unless a majority of the electors voting on the measure vote to authorize the levy of the tax...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100114
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, district elections shall be called, held, and conducted as provided by the Uniform District Election Law.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100115
  The district may exercise any and all powers granted by any other law that, by its terms, is applicable to transit districts generally, to public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100115.5
  (a) The authority may administer and implement any adopted countywide transportation expenditure plan funded in an amount greater than 50 percent from revenues derived from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100120
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100121
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency or with any person upon such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100124
  The district may insure against any accident or destruction of the system or any part thereof. The district may insure against loss of revenues from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100125
  The district may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100126
  The district, which was established with the approval of the voters in 1972, shall continue as an entity under the control of its governing board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100130
  The district may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100130.5
  (a) The district may take by gift, or take or convey by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100131
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100132
  The Public Utilities Commission of the state shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100133
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100160
  The district may provide transit service for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100160.1
  The authority may provide facilities, including streets and highways, for the movement of vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. All installations in state highways shall be developed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100160.2
  The authority may enter into agreements with any city within the territory of the authority or with the County of Santa Clara to improve a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100160.5
  The district may operate charter bus service subject to the following limitations: (a) No bus equipment which is designed solely for charter service shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100161
  (a) The authority may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100162
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100163
  The board may contract with any public agency or person to provide transit or transportation facilities and services for the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100164
  (a) The authority may construct and operate or acquire and operate transit works and facilities and may construct, acquire, and provide for repair and maintenance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100165
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any public agency or public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100166
  The rates and charges, if any, for transit service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100167
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to operation of buses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100168
  The district shall be subject to the regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to safety appliances and procedures, and the commission shall inspect all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100169
  The district and any one or more school districts located within its boundaries may enter into agreements pursuant to which school transportation equipment may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100170
  The authority may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions, grants, or loans from any public agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100171
  The district may obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100250
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100251
  Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative in accordance with Section 7265 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100252
  The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transaction and use tax ordinance....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100253
  Prior to the operative date of the transaction and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100254
  If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transaction and use tax ordinance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100255
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100256
  Whenever a bond election is held to authorize a bonded indebtedness pursuant to Section 100400, the ordinance calling the election may include a statement that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100300
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100301
  Any question which may arise with respect to whether a majority of employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor organization...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100302
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100303
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made with any labor organization, association, group, or individual that denies membership on any basis listed in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100304
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement on the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100305
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement either on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100306
  In the event the district and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit any dispute to arbitration as provided in Section 100305...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100307
  (a) Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code is not applicable to the district. (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100308
  County employees and employees of the Santa Clara County Congestion Management Agency who, on a date or dates determined by the board of directors, terminate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100309
  To the extent permitted by law, and until altered or revoked as provided by law, the district shall grant recognition to those employee organizations which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100350
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100351
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a pension...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100370
  The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100371
  The board may contract with the board of administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and enter all or any portion of its employees under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100372
  All persons receiving pension benefits from an acquired public utility and all persons entitled to pension benefits under any pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100380
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Title 2 of the Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100381
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100400
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, or repair of any or all improvements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100401
  Notice of holding of the election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100402
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100403
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100404
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 7 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100405
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100406
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100407
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100408
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100409
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100410
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100411
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500), Chapter 3, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code are applicable to the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100412
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100413
  If bonds are authorized that contain a provision for special taxes under subdivision (i) of Section 100400, the board may enter into such convenants as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100450
  The district may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100451
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300), Part 1, Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100460
  The district shall have power to purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses, and motor buses, or rolling equipment; and may execute agreements, leases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100461
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100462
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100463
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100470
  The Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100471
  The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000), Part 11, Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100462
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100463
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100482
  The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), or of Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100483
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds that have been authorized to be issued, but have not been sold and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100490
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100491
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100492
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100500
  The district may be dissolved pursuant to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 5 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100600
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) It is necessary and in the best interest of the citizens of the state to authorize the Santa...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100601
  (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,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100601.5
  (a) The resolution shall state, as appropriate, the maximum and minimum rate of assessment, the amount of the special benefit assessment and the purposes for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602
  (a) In determining the amount of a special benefit assessment, the board shall measure the benefit to real property in the benefit district or zones...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.4
  (a) Where any parcel in the benefit district is owned in joint tenancy, tenancy in common, or any other multiple ownership, the owners of that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.8
  If there is no majority protest to the imposition of an assessment, the board may levy the assessment in accordance with the resolution adopted pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.9
  (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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.10
  Notice of each hearing upon the petition for exclusion or reduction shall be given in accordance with subdivision (d) of Section 100601. Notice shall also...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.11
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.12
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.13
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100602.14
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100603
  (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,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100604
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100605
  Special benefit assessments for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, bonds issued for a benefit district or zone shall be levied in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100606
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100607
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100608
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100609
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter shall be placed in the fund...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100610
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the authority under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100611
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100612
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100613
  (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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100614
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100615
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100616
  Any action or proceeding which contests, questions, or denies the validity or legality of the formation of any benefit district or zone, the issuance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100617
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100618
  In the event of conflict with any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail with respect to benefit districts within the authority.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 100619
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the authority shall not pledge any portion of its general fund revenues to pay any part of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Golden Empire Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101001
  It appears that public interest and necessity may require that a transit district be established in the territory comprising the City of Bakersfield and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101005
  Unless the context otherwise specifically requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101006
  "District" means the Golden Empire Transit District formed under the provisions of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101007
  "Board" means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101008
  "County" means the County of Kern.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101009
  "Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101010
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered to vote under the provisions of the Elections Code and who resides within the territory proposed for formation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101011
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers by any means and includes the transportation of the incidental baggage of passengers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101012
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means any and all real or personal property, equipment, rights or interests acquired, constructed, leased, purchased, owned or otherwise operated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101013
  "Commission" means the local agency formation commission, of the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101014
  "Existing system" means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility, or division thereof, operating entirely within the district or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101030
  The Golden Empire Transit District may exercise the powers granted in this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101031
  The territory of such district shall be composed of the entire City of Bakersfield and such portions of unincorporated territory of the county contiguous thereto...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101100
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors of five members.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101101
  Each director shall be a resident of the district. Members of the board of supervisors and members of the City Council of the City of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101102
  Except for the first members of the board, the term of office of each director shall be four years commencing at noon on the first...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101103
  The board of directors shall be appointed as follows: (a) Two members shall be appointed by the board of supervisors. (b) Two members shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101104
  If the majority of the four members of the board appointed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 101103 fail to appoint the fifth...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101105
  Within the 30 days next preceding the date of expiration of the term of any director, a successor shall be appointed to succeed the director...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101106
  Not later than the 10th day after the commencement of his term of office and before entering upon the discharge of his official duties, each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101110
  The appointment of the first members of the board of directors shall be made within 30 days after the date of the formation of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101111
  The one member of the first board appointed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 101103 shall hold office until noon on the first Monday following...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101120
  Immediately following the appointment and qualification of the first board of directors, and thereafter at the first meeting of the board following the first Monday...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101121
  The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board. He shall perform such other functions as delegated to him under this part or under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101122
  In the absence of the chairman at any meeting, the vice chairman shall preside. In the event of the inability of the chairman to perform...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101123
  A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The adoption of any minute order, resolution, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101124
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by minute order, resolution, or ordinance. District ordinances shall be adopted by the board in substantially the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101125
  By resolution or ordinance, the board shall prescribe the time and place of the regular meetings of the board. All meetings of the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101126
  In any particular not otherwise provided for by this part, the board, by resolution or ordinance, may prescribe any regulation which it may deem appropriate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101127
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 101304, whenever the signature of any officer or employee of the district is authorized or required under the provisions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101130
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem compensation for his services for each day, or portion thereof, in which he is in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101131
  In addition to the compensation provided for in Section 101130, each member of the board shall receive reimbursement for his actual and necessary traveling expenses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101135
  Any vacancy in the membership of the board shall be filled for the unexpired term of the member whose office has become vacant, and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101136
  The appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made within 30 days after the creation of the vacancy. In the event the vacancy is in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101140
  Any member of the board may be removed at any time and without cause by the body which is authorized, pursuant to Section 101103, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101141
  Any such removal from office shall create a vacancy to be filled in the manner prescribed by Sections 101135 and 101136.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101150
  All matters and things necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the district which are not provided for by this part shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101151
  The board shall supervise and regulate every transit facility owned and operated or controlled by the district, including the fixing of rates, rentals, charges and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101152
  The board may either itself operate the transit system, or any part thereof, or it may contract with any other public or private agency or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101153
  The board may contract with the governing body of any school district, and the governing board of any school district may contract with the board,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101154
  The board may, from time to time, contract for or employ any professional service required by the district and may, from time to time, contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101160
  Prior to the time the district has operated, controlled, or used transit facilities, or any part thereof, for the transportation of passengers under the provisions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101161
  After the district has operated, controlled, or used transit facilities, or any part thereof, for the transportation of passengers under the provisions of this part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101162
  All other things being equal, the board shall appoint as general manager a person who has had experience in the acquisition, construction, or management of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101163
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, and subject to the policies established by the board, the general manager shall have the responsibility and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101164
  The general manager may be removed from office by resolution. Before the general manager may be removed, he shall, if he so demands, be given...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101165
  The board shall appoint a secretary and an attorney to serve as legal counsel to the district. These officers shall serve at the pleasure of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101166
  If the moneys of the district, or any part thereof, are deposited in a depositary other than the county treasury, the board shall appoint a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101167
  No member of the board of directors, and no county or city officer or employee of the county or a city located within the county,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101168
  Within 10 days after his appointment and before entering upon the discharge of his official duties, each of the officers appointed under the provisions of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101169
  The board may consolidate any of the district offices provided for by this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101170
  The treasurer of the district, if one is appointed by the board, shall give bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101171
  The secretary shall maintain and preserve a permanent written record of all of the official acts of the board as evidenced by minute order, resolution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101172
  The board shall fix the compensation of the officers provided for in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101173
  The premium upon any bond required under this article is a charge against the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101175
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101176
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the district may sue and be sued in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101177
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101178
  No action in eminent domain to acquire property, or any interest therein, shall be commenced unless the legislative body of the city, as to property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101179
  No such taking or acquisition by the district which would involve the abandonment, removal, relocation, or use of the property of a railroad corporation, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101180
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101181
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101190
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101191
  Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper which has been in the possession of the district, or any officer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101195
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101196
  The district may, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101197
  The district shall not interfere with, or exercise control over, any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101198
  The district may lease, or contract for the use of, its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101199
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101200
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency, or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101201
  The rates and charges for service furnished by the district shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101202
  The board of supervisors, or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district, may file a request for a hearing before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101203
  Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided for in Section 101202, the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101204
  Prior to, or at the time fixed, for hearing, the board of supervisors, or any city council eligible to file a request for hearing, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101205
  Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101206
  The district may operate charter bus service subject to the following limitations: (a) No bus equipment which is designed solely for charter service shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101208.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert, lessen, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101208.2
  The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system, until it has completed the purchase of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101208.3
  The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or any portion thereof to be purchased, shall be the reproduction cost new, including going...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101208.4
  The district and public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101208.5
  Section 851 shall not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this article, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101210
  To facilitate the business of the district, the board may provide for the creation and administration of such funds as the needs of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101211
  Whenever the moneys of the district, or any part thereof, are deposited in a depositary other than the county treasury, all withdrawals of funds shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101212
  The board may designate the county treasury as the depositary, and in such case the county treasurer shall have custody of all, or any portion,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101213
  If the county treasury is designated as the depositary, the county treasurer shall: (a) Receive and receipt for all of the district's moneys received by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101214
  When the county treasury has been designated as the depositary, the county treasurer shall have the custody of the district's moneys and funds, and he...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101215
  The board shall examine, settle, and allow all accounts legally chargeable against the district, and shall order checks or warrants to be drawn in payment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101216
  The board may provide by resolution, under such terms and conditions as it sees fit, for the payment of demands against the district without the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101220
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101221
  The board may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to a resolution adopted by it for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101222
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101223
  The authority to incur indebtedness vested in the district by the provisions of this article shall be in addition to any right vested in it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101230
  The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following: (a) Its own bonds....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101231
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101232
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may, from time to time, be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101233
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall, from time to time, be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101234
  With the consent of the board, the general manager may: (a) Authorize the trust department of any state or national bank in this state, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101240
  The general manager shall cause to be installed and maintained a system of auditing and accounting which shall completely and at all times show the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101241
  The fiscal affairs of the district shall be predicated upon a fiscal year commencing on the first day of July of each calendar year and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101242
  Within 90 days from and after the close of each fiscal year, the general manager shall prepare and file with the secretary of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101243
  A copy of the financial report shall be kept in the office of the general manager and shall be available to public inspection at all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101244
  Within 15 days after the filing of the financial report, the general manager shall publish a notice of such filing and shall state the fact...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101245
  Within 15 days after the filing of the financial report, the general manager shall transmit a copy thereof to the board of supervisors and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101250
  On or before the 30th day prior to the end of each fiscal year, the general manager shall submit to the board a proposed budget...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101251
  Prior to the time the board finally adopts the budget, it shall hold a public hearing upon the proposed budget submitted by the general manager....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101252
  The date of the hearing shall be fixed by the board and shall be not later than July 1 of each year.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101253
  At the time and place designated in the published notice, the board shall meet and consider the proposed budget. Any resident of the district may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101254
  The board may continue the hearing from day to day; provided the hearing shall be concluded not later than July 15 first following its commencement.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101255
  After the conclusion of the hearing, and not later than August 1st of each year, and after making any revisions of the proposed budget which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101256
  A copy of the budget as finally adopted by the board shall be filed with the county auditor pursuant to Section 53901 of the Government
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101260
  Whenever the district avails itself of the services of any officer or department of the County of Kern, or of any city within the district,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101265
  (a) The district may cause to be levied and collected taxes for any lawful purpose, subject to a maximum limit of fifteen cents ($0.15) per...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101266
  If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient to pay for any and all lawful purposes of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101267
  The board shall, in addition to the general tax levy as set forth in Section 101265, levy and collect annually until the district's bonds are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101268
  On or before the second Monday in August of each year, the county auditor shall transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101269
  On or before the last Friday in July of each year, the board shall file with the board of supervisors and with the county auditor...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101270
  Annually at the time of levying county taxes, the board of supervisors shall levy a tax upon all the taxable real and personal property within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101271
  The taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes and, when collected, shall be paid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101272
  The performance of the acts provided for by this chapter shall constitute a valid assessment of the property within the district and a valid levy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101273
  All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied and shall become a lien at the same...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101274
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101280
  The district may, from time to time, incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101281
  The district shall not incur a total bonded indebtedness which exceeds 5 percent of the assessed value of all the taxable real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101282
  Whenever the board, by resolution passed by vote of four-fifths of all its members, determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101283
  In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101284
  The petition may be presented to the board, and shall be executed and attested in the same manner as provided a petition for the formation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101285
  Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast within the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101286
  Within 30 days after the receipt of the petition, the county elections official shall examine the petition and determine the number of valid signers thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101287
  If the county elections official certifies that the percentage of registered voters signing the petition is less than that required by Section 101284, a supplemental...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101288
  If the petition has been executed in the manner provided and by the required number of signers, the secretary of the district shall forthwith transmit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101289
  Upon receiving a petition so executed by the required number of signers, the board shall provide by ordinance for the submission of the proposition of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101290
  The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101291
  Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose, or propositions proposed by resolution or petition, may be submitted at the same election.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101292
  The bond election may be held separately, or it may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101293
  If a special bond election is consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this article setting forth the procedure for the calling and holding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101294
  The board shall cause the ordinance to be published in accord with Section 6061 of the Government Code; the publication shall be made not less...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101295
  If the ordinance calling the election so provides, the election shall be conducted by the county elections official in accord with the manner of holding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101296
  The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101297
  The votes of a majority of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101298
  If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not, within six months after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101300
  If the board has appointed a treasurer of the district pursuant to Section 101166, then the word "treasurer" as used in this chapter shall refer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101301
  Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board, except that payment shall begin not later than 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101302
  The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board shall determine and shall be payable on the day and at the place or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101303
  The board may, at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds, provide for the call and redemption of any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101304
  The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101310
  The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101311
  All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101312
  In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest, or any part thereof, on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101315
  Whenever the board, by resolution passed by a vote of four-fifths of all its members, determines that the refunding of the whole, or any portion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101316
  The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this part, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101317
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101318
  Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101319
  The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101320
  In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101321
  Whenever outstanding bonds are refunded, they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, or the county treasurer, as the case may be, who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101325
  All bonds, including refunding bonds, issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101326
  All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101330
  An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860), Title 10, Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101335
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101336
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300), Part 1, Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101340
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101341
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101342
  In the event the board and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit the dispute to an arbitration board as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101343
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made, or assumed under this part, with any labor organization, association, or group that denies membership to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101344
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101345
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, the district shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101346
  The district shall not acquire any existing system or part thereof whether by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, nor shall the district dispose of or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101347
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code, employees of the district may authorize and, upon such authorization, the district shall make deductions from wages and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101348
  The obligation of the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and to execute a written collective bargaining...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101355
  Subject to Sections 101356 and 101357, the board shall provide for retirement benefits for the officers and employees of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101356
  (a) At its discretion, the board shall select one of the following plans to provide retirement benefits to officers and employees of the district: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101357
  (a) The board shall determine and classify the officers and employees who shall be eligible to participate in the retirement system. However, any action by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101358
  The retirement system provided for by this chapter shall not include the members of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101359
  As to the members of the retirement system provided for by this chapter, the board may provide for their coverage under Title II of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101365
  The board shall provide for the coverage of the officers and employees of the district under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation disability, and unemployment insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101366
  Subject to such regulations and schedule of contributions of premiums as it shall determine, the board shall provide for group health and medical insurance for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101370
  As used in this article the terms "change of organization" and "reorganization" shall have the meanings defined in Section 56021 and Section 56073, respectively, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101371
  A change of organization or a reorganization of the district formed and existing under the provisions of this part may be effected in the manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 101372
  Notwithstanding Section 101371, from and after the completion of the organization of the district on June 29, 1972, any territory lying outside of the boundaries...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Sacramento Regional Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) It is necessary that a transit district be established to operate a single unified public transportation system in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102002
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the formation of this district shall further the concept of regional rapid transit and transit districts, with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102010
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102011
  "District" means the Sacramento Regional Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102012
  "Transit" means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102013
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means any or all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned, or to be acquired, by the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102014
  "Board of directors", "board", and "directors", means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102015
  "City" means, individually, the Cities of Citrus Heights, Davis, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Sacramento, West Sacramento, and Woodland, and any other city that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102016
  "County" means, individually, the Counties of Sacramento and Yolo, and any other county which is annexed, in whole or in part, to the district as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102017
  "Public agency" includes the State of California, and any county, city, district, or other political subdivision or public entity of, or organized under the laws...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102018
  "System" means all transit works and transit facilities owned or held, or to be owned or held, by the district for transit purposes.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102019
  "Revenues" means all rates, fares, tolls, rentals, or other income and revenue actually received or receivable by, or for the account of, the district from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102020
  "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, trust, or business trust, or the receiver, trustee, or conservator for any thereof, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102021
  "Establish" includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend, or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of any existing system acquired by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102022
  "Sacramento Area Council of Governments" means that agency or any successor thereto.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102023
  "Tax or financial support" includes funds made available pursuant to the "Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act" (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 99200) of Part 11 of Division 10),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102025
  "Member entity" means a city or county that is annexed to the district pursuant to Section 102051, 102052, or 102055. "Member entities" means all those...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102026
  "Participating entity" means a city or county that has entered into an agreement with the district pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 102100.3, but only...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102027
  "Voting entity" means a member entity or a participating entity. "Voting entities" means all member entities and participating entities.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102028
  "Transportation planning agency" shall have the meaning provided in Section 99214.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102050
  The Sacramento Regional Transit District may be formed pursuant to this chapter to carry out the purposes of this part. The district shall be a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102051
  The district may comprise the Cities of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Davis, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Sacramento, West Sacramento, and Woodland, and the following described...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102052
  The district shall be formed upon the adoption of a resolution by the City Council of the City of Sacramento and the adoption of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102052.5
  The boundaries of the district, at any point in time, shall include (a) all the area of any city eligible to participate under Section 102051...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102053
  The district may operate and exercise the powers under this part within any city, provided that the district shall have no power to levy an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102054
  The district may operate and exercise the powers under this part within all or a part of the herein described unincorporated area of any county....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102055
  Any city or county may annex to and become a part of the district upon approval by the board of directors following (1) written request...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.1
  (a) Except as otherwise provided, the government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors. The number of members on the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.2
  The first board of directors shall consist of seven members appointed within 30 days after the district is formed as provided in Section 102052. Four...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.3
  The number of members of the board of directors shall be increased as follows: (a) Each member entity shall be entitled to make one appointment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.4
  The appointing authority of a participating entity under subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 102100.3, and the term of its appointee to the board, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.5
  After initial formation of the district, each voting entity shall have the right to appoint fewer members than it is entitled to appoint under Sections...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.6
  An action by the board shall not be void or voidable under either of the following circumstances: (a) If it is determined, subsequent to an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.7
  The appointments to the board may be changed in the following manner: Not more often than every two years, the voting entities may, by agreement,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.8
  Execution of the agreement provided in subdivision (b) of Section 102100.3 by the district and the City of Elk Grove shall be a complete defense...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.9
  For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 102100.3, the City of Elk Grove's proportionate share shall be determined in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102100.10
  Each voting entity appointing members to the board in accordance with Section 102100.2 or 102100.3 may also select, in the same manner as the primary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102101
  A member of a city council or board of supervisors may serve as a member of the board of directors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102104
  The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102105
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. All meetings of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102105.1
  In acting on any item, the following weighted voting procedure shall be applied: (a) There shall be a total of 100 votes. (b) The presence...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102106
  Each member of the board shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each attendance at up to four noticed meetings of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102107
  (a) No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of its introduction, nor within three days thereafter, nor at any time other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102120
  The board of directors is the legislative body of the district and shall determine all questions of district policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102121
  It shall be the duty of the board of directors and it shall have the power to: (a) Determine the transit facilities to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102122
  (a) The board of directors may adopt ordinances that do any of the following: (1) Prohibit persons from knowingly giving false identification to a district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102140
  The board may establish an advisory commission to the board pursuant to this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102141
  The commission shall be composed of three persons appointed by the legislative body of each voting entity. At least one of the three persons appointed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102142
  The commission shall meet as often as the board deems necessary, but at least twice annually, and shall advise the board on matters of district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102160
  The officers of the district shall consist of the members of the board, and the chairman, chairman pro tem, and secretary, who shall be selected...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102161
  At any time, any city, county, or other public agency may contract with the district for the performance of services on behalf of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102162
  Article 4 (commencing with Section 1090) and Article 4.6 (commencing with Section 1120), Chapter 1, Division 4, Title 1 of the Government Code shall apply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102180
  The power and duties of the general manager are: (a) To head the administrative branch of the district and to be responsible to the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102200
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102201
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102202
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102203
  Subject to the provisions of Article 7 (commencing with Section 102330) or Article 8 (commencing with Section 102350) of this chapter, the district may levy,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102204
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, district elections shall be called, held, and conducted as provided by law for county elections. Except in cases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102205
  (a) The district shall annually submit its tentative or proposed budget to the legislative body of each voting entity, within the time and in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102206
  The district shall also submit to the legislative body of each voting entity with its tentative or proposed budget a statement of its proposed operations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102220
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102221
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, or with any person upon such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102222
  Contracts for the purchase of supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102223
  Notwithstanding Section 102222 or any other provision of law, the district may procure one or more streetcars that operated more than 50 years ago in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102224
  The district may insure against any accident or destruction of the system or any part thereof. The district may insure against loss of revenues from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102225
  The district may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102240
  The district may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102240.5
  (a) As used in this section, "transit-oriented joint development project" means a development project for commercial, residential, or mixed-use purposes that is undertaken in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102242
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102243
  The Public Utilities Commission of the state shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102244
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102260
  The district shall adopt and maintain a general transit plan for the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102261
  The general transit plan, or any element or amendment thereof, shall be adopted in the manner provided in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102262
  Before adopting the plan, or an element or amendment thereof, the board shall refer the plan or element or amendment thereof to the advisory commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102263
  Before adopting the plan, or an element or amendment thereof, the board shall hold a public hearing. Notice of the time and place of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102264
  The adoption of the general plan, or an element or amendment thereof, shall be by resolution of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102265
  The Sacramento Area Council of Governments shall be the long-range planning agency advising the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102280
  The district may provide transit service for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means, both within and outside the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102281
  (a) The district may engage in the business of providing charter bus service, sightseeing service, special school service, and other service, including any other service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102282
  The board may contract with any public agency or person to provide transit facilities and services for the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102283
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate transit works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any state or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102284
  (a) The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any public agency or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102285
  The rates and charges, if any, for transit service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102286
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to operation of buses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102287
  The district and any one or more school districts may enter into agreements pursuant to which school transportation equipment may be used by the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102288
  (a) The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102289
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102300
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time substantially divert, lessen,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102301
  The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system, until it has completed the purchase of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102302
  The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or any portion thereof to be purchased, shall be the reproduction cost new, including going...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102303
  The district and the public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price, or they may agree that the purchase price is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102304
  Section 851 does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102310
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions, grants, or loans from any public agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102311
  The district shall have the power to obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 6 of Article XVI of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102330
  The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, property taxes for any lawful purpose.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102331
  In addition to revenues and receipts from other sources, the board may levy and collect a property tax. The board may impose different rates of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102332
  The district shall not levy or collect a property tax within any city or within all or any part of the unincorporated area of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102333
  The district may conduct a single election in an area comprising the area of a city and the unincorporated area of a county or more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102334
  Each election shall be called and conducted by the district in the same manner as provided by law for the conduct of special elections by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102335
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto, the following: Shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102336
  In addition to the general tax levy as set forth in Section 102331, if from any cause the revenues of the district are, or are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102337
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of any county in which it operates and of the assessments made by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102338
  The county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102339
  The board shall, on or before the first day of September, fix the rate or rates of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102340
  The board shall, immediately after fixing the rate or rates of taxes, transmit to the county auditor of each county in which the board has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102341
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102342
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102343
  All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102344
  The county shall be compensated for services under this article at the rate of 1 percent for collecting the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102345
  In lieu of, or in addition to, any taxes which may be levied by the district pursuant to this article, the legislative body of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102350
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102351
  Notwithstanding Sections 7261 and 7262 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the retail transactions and use tax ordinance shall provide for rates of one-quarter or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102352
  Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102353
  The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transactions and use tax ordinance....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102354
  (a) Prior to the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102355
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102400
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102401
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102402
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made, or assumed under this article, with any labor organization, association, or group that denies membership to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102403
  If there is a question whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102404
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, the district shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102405
  The district shall not contract with any company, person, or public agency for such company, person, or public agency to provide transit facilities or services...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102406
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code, employees of this district may authorize and, upon such authorization, the district shall make deductions from wages and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102407
  The obligation of the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and to execute a written collective bargaining...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102408
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Subchapter II of the Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102409
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102410
  In the event an exclusive collective bargaining representative is selected pursuant to Section 102403, the provisions of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500), Division 4,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102430
  The district may provide for a retirement system; provided, that the adoption, terms, and conditions of any retirement system covering employees of the district represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102431
  The board may contract with the board of administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and enter all or any portion of its employees under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102432
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102500
  The district may exercise its powers under this article only with respect to territory in cities and counties in which the voters have authorized the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102501
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, or repair of any or all improvements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102502
  Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102503
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102504
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102505
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102506
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution, but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102507
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102508
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102509
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election, the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote of the board, that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102510
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102511
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102512
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500), Chapter 3, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code are applicable to the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102513
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102530
  The district may issue bonds, payable in whole or in part from revenue of any facility or enterprise acquired or constructed or to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102531
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102550
  The district shall have power to purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102551
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102552
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102553
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102554
  An executed copy of each such agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who will be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102570
  The Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102571
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 applies to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102552
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102553
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102554
  An executed copy of each such agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who will be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102581
  At any time prior to the first receipt by the district of revenues from taxation or other sources, any city or county may lend any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102582
  The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), Article 7.4 (commencing with Section 53835), Article 7.5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102583
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102600
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102601
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102602
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102603
  The district shall not incur a total indebtedness under the provisions of this chapter which exceeds 15 percent of the assessed value of all taxable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 102700
  The district may be dissolved pursuant to the provisions of the District Reorganization Act of 1965 (Division 1 (commencing with Section 56000), Title 6 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "San Mateo County Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103001
  It is necessary that a transit district be established in the County of San Mateo in order to meet the public transit problems of that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103010
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103011
  "District" means the San Mateo County Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103012
  "Transit" or "transit service" means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage and parcels by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103013
  "Transit works" or "transit facilities" means any or all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned, or to be acquired, by the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103014
  "Board of directors", "board", or "directors" means the board of directors of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103015
  "County" means the County of San Mateo.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103015.5
  "Board of supervisors" means the county board of supervisors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103016
  "Public agency" includes the State of California, and any county, city, district, or other political subdivision or public entity of, or organized under the laws...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103017
  "System" means all transit works and transit facilities owned or held, or to be owned or held, by the district for transit purposes.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103018
  "Revenues" means all rates, fares, tolls, rentals, or other income and revenue actually received or receivable by, or for the account of, the district from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103019
  "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, trust, business trust, or the receiver or trustee or conservator for any thereof, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103020
  "Establish" includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend, or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of any existing system acquired by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103021
  "Existing system" means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility, or division thereof, which was operated on January 1,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103022
  "Existing taxi service" means any public passenger transportation service which (1) is not subject to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the Public Utilities Commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103050
  The San Mateo County Transit District may be formed as provided in this chapter and, when so formed, may exercise the powers herein granted.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103051
  The district shall include all the incorporated and unincorporated territory lying within the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103052
  The board of supervisors may, after notice published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code and public hearing, adopt a resolution declaring that, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103053
  The district shall not be subject to the Knox-Nisbet Act (Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 54773), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103070
  Upon adoption of the resolution provided for in Section 103052, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution calling an election within the proposed district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103071
  The resolution calling the formation election shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. The resolution shall: (a) Call and provide notice...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103072
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and, in addition thereto, the following: ----------------------------------+----------+----...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103073
  The county registrar of voters shall mail a notice of polling place, and the date and purpose, of the election to each registered voter of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103074
  The provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code relating to ballot arguments and analyses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103075
  The general elections provisions of the Elections Code, as far as they may be applicable, relating to the qualifications of voters, the manner of voting,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103076
  No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a registered voter of the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103077
  The county registrar of voters shall canvass the returns and certify the election results to the board of supervisors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103078
  The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the district as proposed, and the cost of the election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103079
  If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the formation of the district, the board of supervisors shall adopt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103085
  No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103100
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors, which shall consist of nine members, selected as follows: (a) Three members,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103102
  Within 30 days after the adoption of the order declaring the district formed, the members of the board of directors appointed pursuant to subdivisions (a)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103103
  The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103104
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103105
  A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103106
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103107
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103108
  Except for the terms of office of the members of the first board, the term of office of each member shall be four years and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103109
  The expiration date of the term of office of each member shall be the 31st day of December in the year in which his term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103111
  The body which originally appointed a member whose term has expired shall appoint his successor for a full term of four years.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103112
  Any vacancy on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the body which originally appointed the member whose office has...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103113
  Each member of the board shall receive compensation, as determined by the board, in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for attending...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103140
  The board is the legislative body of the district and shall determine all questions of district policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103141
  It shall be the duty of the board and it shall have the power to: (a) Determine the transit facilities to be acquired and constructed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103160
  The officers of the district shall consist of the members of the board, the chairman of the board, a secretary, a general manager, a legal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103161
  The county may render such assistance to the district as it may require, including the performance by officers of the county as ex officio officers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103162
  Article 4 (commencing with Section 1090), Chapter 1, Division 4, and Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 3600), of Title 1 of the Government Code shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103180
  The powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To head the administrative branch of the district and to be responsible to the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103200
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103201
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103202
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103203
  The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose, as provided by law.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103204
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, district elections shall be called, held, and conducted as provided by law for county elections.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103220
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103221
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, or with any person upon such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103222
  (a) The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), shall be, by contract, let to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103223
  If, after rejecting bids received under Section 103222, the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all of its members that, in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103225
  The district may insure against any accident or destruction of the system or any part thereof. The district may insure against loss of revenues from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103226
  The district may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103240
  The district may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103240.5
  (a) The district may take by gift, or take or convey by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103242
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103243
  The Public Utilities Commission of the state shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103244
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103260
  The board shall adopt a general transit plan for the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103261
  The general transit plan, or any element or amendment thereof, shall be adopted in the manner provided in this article.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103262
  The general manager shall submit the proposed plan, or an element or amendment thereof, to the board which shall hold a public hearing thereon. Notice...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103263
  The adoption of the general plan, or an element or amendment thereof, including any changes or additions, shall be by resolution of the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103264
  The district may adopt official plan lines based on the adopted general plan designating the precise location of planned rights-of-way of transit works and facilities....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103265
  The provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090), Chapter 1, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code shall not be applicable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103280
  The district may provide transit service within or without the district for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage and parcels by any means.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103281
  The district may operate charter bus service subject to the following limitations: (a) No bus equipment which is designed solely for charter service shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103282
  The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103283
  The district may lease, or contract for the use of, its transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103284
  The board may contract with any public agency or person to provide transit facilities and services for the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103285
  The district may construct and operate, or acquire and operate, transit works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any state or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103286
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any public agency or public utility...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103287
  The rates and charges, if any, for transit service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103288
  The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103289
  The district and any one or more school districts located within the district may enter into agreements pursuant to which school transportation equipment may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103290
  No interconnection shall be made into fixed right-of-way facilities of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District without the approval of the voters of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103300
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may significantly divert, lessen, or compete for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103301
  Where notice is required pursuant to Section 103300, the district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103301.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any demand-activated service or system which may, at any time, divert, lessen, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103301.6
  If any demand-activated service or system operated by the district diverts or lessens the patronage or revenues of any existing taxi service by causing a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103302
  The district and entity operating the existing system or the existing taxi service may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103303
  Section 851 shall not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system or existing taxi service, or any portion thereof, pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103310
  The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions, grants, or loans from any public agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103311
  The district shall have the power to obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 6 of Article XVI of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103320
  The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, property taxes for any lawful purpose.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103321
  In addition to revenues and receipts from other sources, the board may levy and collect a property tax.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103322
  The district shall not levy or collect a property tax unless a majority of the voters voting on the question at an election called for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103323
  Each election shall be called and conducted by the district in the same manner as provided by law for the conduct of special elections by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103324
  The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto, the following: Shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103326
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the county assessor of the assessments made by the State Board of Equalization for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103327
  The county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103328
  The board shall, on or before the first day of September, fix the rate or rates of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103329
  The board shall, immediately after fixing the rate or rates of taxes, transmit to the county auditor a statement of the rate of taxes fixed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103330
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103331
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103332
  All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103333
  In lieu of, or in addition to, any taxes which may be levied by the disrict pursuant to this article, any city council within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103340
  The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, property taxes, for bond redemption purposes.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103341
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if from any cause the revenues of the district are, or are expected to be, inadequate in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103342
  The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103343
  The county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103344
  The board shall, on or before the first day of September, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103345
  The board shall, immediately after fixing the rate of taxes, transmit to the county controller a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103346
  The district's taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103347
  Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103348
  All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103350
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103351
  Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103352
  The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its services in the preparation necessary to administer a transaction and use tax ordinance....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103353
  Prior to the operative date of the transaction and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103354
  If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transaction and use tax ordinance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103355
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103356
  Whenever a bond election is held to authorize a bonded indebtedness pursuant to Section 103500, the ordinance calling the election may include a statement that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103357
  (a) The district may issue bonds payable from the proceeds of the retail transactions and use tax. (b) The maximum bonded indebtedness which may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103358
  (a) The bonds may be issued by the district at any time, and from time to time, payable from the proceeds of the tax. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103359
  The district may provide for the bonds to bear a variable interest rate, for the manner and intervals in which the rate shall vary, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103360
  (a) Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time, and from time to time, by the district by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103360.1
  (a) The district may issue refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the terms, at the times, and in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103360.2
  (a) The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this article but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103361
  Any bonds issued pursuant to this article are legal instruments for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103362
  This article provides a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing what is authorized by this article and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103363
  (a) Any action or proceedings wherein the validity of the levy or collection of the retail transactions and use tax, or any proceedings in relation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103390
  Subject to any agreement or covenant between the district and the holders of any of its obligations limiting or restricting classes of investments, the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103391
  Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103392
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may, from time to time, be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103393
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall, from time to time, be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103400
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103401
  Any question which may arise with respect to whether a majority of employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor organization...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103402
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103403
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made with any labor organization, association, or group that denies membership on any basis listed in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103404
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement on the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103405
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement either on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103406
  In the event the district and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit any dispute to arbitration as provided in Section 103405,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103407
  In the event an exclusive collective bargaining representative is selected pursuant to Section 103401, the provisions of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500), Division 4,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103420
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103421
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a pension...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103440
  The adoption, terms, and conditions of a pension plan covering employees of the district in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103441
  The board may contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and enter all, or any portion, of its employees under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103442
  All persons receiving pension benefits from an acquired public utility, and all persons entitled to pension benefits under any pension plan of such acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103450
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Subchapter II of the Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103451
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workmen' s compensation, unemployment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103500
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, or repair of any or all improvements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103501
  Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling for election...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103502
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103503
  If 60 percent of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103504
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 7 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103505
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution, but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103506
  The delivery of any bonds shall be at the office of the district treasurer, and the purchase price may be received in cash or cashier
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103507
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103508
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election, the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103509
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103510
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103511
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500), Chapter 3, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code are applicable to the
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103512
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103513
  If bonds are authorized that contain a provision for special taxes under subdivision (i) of Section 103500, the board may enter into such covenants as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103530
  The district may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103531
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300), Part 1, Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103550
  The district shall have power to purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103551
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103552
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103553
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103554
  An executed copy of each such agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103570
  The Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103571
  The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 of this division are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103552
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103553
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103554
  An executed copy of each such agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103580
  The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying general administrative and preliminary expenses of the district, lawfully incurred, prior to the time moneys...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103581
  At any time prior to the first receipt by the district of revenues from taxation, the county may lend any available money to the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103582
  The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), or of Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103583
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not been sold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103600
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103601
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103602
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 103700
  The district may be dissolved pursuant to the provisions of the District Reorganization Act of 1965 (Division 1 (commencing with Section 56000), Title 6 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105001
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to provide for a unified, comprehensive institutional structure for the ownership and governance of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105002
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105003
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "District" means the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. (b) "Rail transit" means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105004
  The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Part 1 (commencing with Section 56000) Division 3 of Title 5 of the Government Code), shall not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105010
  There is hereby created the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District, comprising the territory lying within the boundaries of the Counties of Marin and Sonoma.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105011
  Through compliance with the provisions for annexation set forth in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 105280), the territory of all or part of any other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105012
  (a) Upon the dissolution of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Commission and the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Authority, the district shall succeed to any or all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105020
  The government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors, which shall consist of 12 members, appointed as follows: (a) Two members...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105021
  (a) The 12 members of the board shall serve staggered, four-year terms. (b) Within 60 days of its occurrence, any vacancy on the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105022
  The board may fix the amount of compensation to be paid to each member of the board. The compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105023
  In the event that new territory is annexed to the district pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 105280), and upon the affirmative vote of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105030
  The board is the legislative body of the district and, consistent with the provisions of this part, shall determine all district policy.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105031
  The board shall select one of its members as chairperson, and another of its members as vice chairperson, who shall serve in the absence of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105032
  It shall be the duty of the board and it shall have the power to: (a) Own, operate, manage, and maintain a passenger rail system...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105040
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105041
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of its business.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105042
  The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board shall be necessary and, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105043
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings and determine the place and time for its meetings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105044
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105050
  The board shall appoint a general manager for the district. The board may appoint a secretary, a chief engineer, a legal counsel, a controller, an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105051
  The Counties of Marin and Sonoma, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, or any other public agency may render assistance to the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105052
  The powers and duties of the general manager are: (a) To head the administrative branch of the district and to be responsible to the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105060
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105061
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105062
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105070
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, employ labor, and do all acts necessary and convenient for the full...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105071
  No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105072
  The district may insure against any accident or destruction of the rail transit system or any part thereof. The district may insure against loss of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105073
  The district may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105074
  For purposes of entering into design-build contracts, the district is a "transit operator" within the meaning of Article 6.8 (commencing with Section 20209.5) of Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105075
  The district is a local agency for purposes of the Natural Disaster Assistance Act, Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 8680) of Division 1 of Title...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105076
  The district shall be considered the succeeding agency to the "Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Authority" for the purpose of receiving funds available under paragraph (30)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105085
  The district may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105086
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105087
  (a) The district may take by gift, or take or convey by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105095
  The district may provide a rail transit system for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by rail.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105096
  (a) The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105097
  The district may lease or contract for the use of its rail transit facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105098
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 105143, the board may contract with any public agency or person to provide rail transit facilities and services for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105099
  The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate rail transit works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any state or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105100
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 105087, the provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105101
  The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency, or public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105102
  The district may, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, grants, loans, rights-of-way, labor, materials,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105103
  The rates and charges for rail transit service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105104
  The district shall work with the North Coast Railroad Authority, the Federal Railroad Administration, and any of its successor agencies, to achieve safe, efficient, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105105
  The district shall be responsible for any advance payment of any portion of the North Coast Railroad Authority's Q-Fund loan repayment obligation caused by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105115
  Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors, which shall include an affirmative vote of at least three directors from each county within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105125
  The district's investment of any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, shall be in accordance with Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105126
  The district's deposit of district money shall be in accordance with Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105140
  Except as otherwise provided in this article and in Article 2 (commencing with Section 105150), the determination of questions concerning employee representation and the conduct...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105141
  Except as otherwise provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 105150), whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105142
  (a) If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement either on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105143
  The district may contract for management services with any public agency or person and may contract for operations and maintenance services with the district organized...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105150
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the creation of the district may adversely affect the collective bargaining rights, wages, benefits, and employment opportunities of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105151
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 105140), in order to protect and preserve the collective bargaining rights of employees of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105152
  For a period of four years, commencing with the district's decision to commence rail service as provided in Section 105151, or until the expiration of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105153
  The district shall recognize and bargain with, as the accredited representative of the employees within the collective bargaining units set forth in Section 105151, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105154
  Employees of the district organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000) of Division 16 of the Streets and Highways Code who transfer to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105155
  To facilitate implementation of the employee rights enumerated in this section, the district and the district organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105160
  (a) Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105161
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a pension...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105170
  The adoption, terms, and conditions of any retirement system covering employees of the district in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105171
  The board may contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System or with a retirement system maintained pursuant to the County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105172
  All persons receiving pension benefits from an acquired public utility, and all persons entitled to pension benefits under any pension plan of the acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105180
  The district shall obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Title II of the federal Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. Sec....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105181
  The district shall obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, and disability and unemployment insurance laws of this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105200
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property authorized by this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105201
  Notice of holding of the election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105202
  If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105203
  If two-thirds of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at the time or times it deems...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105204
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 7 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105205
  The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds or any part thereof,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105206
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105207
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105208
  After the expiration of three years after a bond election the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105209
  Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105210
  The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105211
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105212
  Any bonds that are issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105213
  The board may enter into any covenants deemed proper to provide for issuance of additional parity bonds and the priority and pledge of special taxes;...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105220
  The district may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105221
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105230
  The district shall have power to purchase rail transit equipment such as cars or rolling equipment; and may execute agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105231
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105232
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105233
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105240
  The Improvement Act of 1911 (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 7 of the Streets and Highways Code), the Municipal Improvement Act of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105241
  The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code are applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105232
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105233
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105250
  The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), or of Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105251
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds that have been authorized to be issued, but have not been sold and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105260
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105261
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105262
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105280
  Territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105281
  A county contiguous to the district may, by majority vote of the board of supervisors of that county, petition the district to annex all or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105282
  If annexation is proposed pursuant to Section 105281, the board shall determine whether the additional territory proposed to be annexed will be benefited by annexation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105283
  The board of supervisors of the county in which the territory to be annexed is situated shall agree in writing with the board of directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105284
  The resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed. (b) Designate the proposed annexation by an appropriate name. (c) Declare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105285
  The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board voting for and against it, shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105286
  On the day fixed for hearing or on any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105287
  After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105288
  Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105300
  One or more service zones to provide different levels of service, to provide different facilities or other improvements, or to raise additional revenues within specific...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105301
  (a) Proceedings for the creation of a service zone may be initiated by resolution of the legislative body or bodies of the city or cities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105302
  (a) As an alternative to the initiation of proceedings for the formation of a service zone by resolution or resolutions, a petition may be filed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105303
  The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures in the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county election official. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105304
  (a) Within 30 days after receipt of the resolution or resolutions of the legislative body or bodies or receipt of the certification of the sufficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105305
  The board may change the boundaries of a service zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Section 105301.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105306
  A local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to review and approve or disapprove a proposal to create a service zone, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105307
  As determined by the board, a service zone may provide any service at any level within its boundaries that the district may provide.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105308
  As determined by the board and pursuant to the requirements of this part, a service zone may exercise any fiscal powers within its boundaries that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105309
  Any taxes, special taxes, assessments, or fees which are intended solely for the support of services within a zone shall be levied, assessed, and collected...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105310
  To assist in the operation of a service zone, the board may appoint one or more advisory groups composed of persons who reside in or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105330
  If the district operates no rail transit facilities, the board may call an election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105331
  The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105332
  Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105333
  The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105334
  The board shall canvass the vote. If a majority of the votes favor dissolution, the board shall by resolution dissolve the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105335
  The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105336
  Upon dissolution, the right, title, and interest to any property owned or controlled by the district which was acquired by the district from the Golden...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 105337
  The board shall wind up the affairs of the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Monterey-Salinas Transit District Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106001
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the Monterey-Salinas Transit Joint Powers Agency, a joint exercise of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106010
  There is hereby created the Monterey-Salinas Transit District. The jurisdiction of the district extends throughout the county, including all of the incorporated and unincorporated territory.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106011
  On and after July 1, 2010, the agency is dissolved and the district succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the rights, powers, duties,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106012
  (a) The district shall assume the duties of public transit provider performed by the agency. On and after July 1, 2010, the Cities of Carmel-by-the-Sea,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106013
  Upon dissolution of the agency, employees of the agency shall be deemed to be employees of the district without any break in service or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106020
  (a) The district shall be governed by a board of directors which shall be composed of one representative from each member jurisdiction. Each member of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106021
  The board shall adopt bylaws for its proceedings consistent with the laws of the state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106022
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which prescribes the powers and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106023
  The board of directors shall adopt priorities reflecting the district's goals.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106030
  The board, at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the meeting designated by the board, shall elect a chairperson who shall preside at all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106031
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106032
  A majority of the board of directors entitled to vote constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. All official acts of the district require...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106033
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106040
  (a) The district may hire an independent staff of its own or contract with any department or agency of the United States or with any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106041
  The board of directors shall fix the compensation of the district's officers and employees.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106045
  (a) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106050
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106051
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106055
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106056
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106057
  (a) The purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), shall, by contract, be let to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106060
  (a) The district has no authority to impose sales or special taxes, but may, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106061
  As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106062
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106063
  The district may advocate and act on behalf of all district member jurisdictions with their concurrence to further Monterey County transportation system interests, funding, projects,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 106064
  The district may promulgate a plan for funding transportation projects within its jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Mills-Deddeh Transit Development Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120001
  As used in this division, "board" means a county transit development board created pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 120050).
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120050
  (a) There is hereby established the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board in that portion of the County of San Diego as described in Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120050.2
  The board consists of 15 members selected as follows: (a) One member of the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors, appointed by the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120050.5
  Any person who is a member of the board may be appointed by his or her appointing authority to continue to serve as a member...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120051
  The member of the board of supervisors appointed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 120050.2 shall represent one of the two supervisorial districts with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120051.1
  The member of the board of supervisors appointed pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 120050.2 shall represent the supervisorial district with the greatest percentage of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120051.6
  The alternate members of the board shall be appointed as follows: (a) The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors shall appoint any other county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120054
  The area of the board shall consist of all of the following: (a) The Cities of Chula Vista, Coronado, El Cajon, Imperial Beach, La Mesa,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120100
  The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a vice chair who shall preside in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120101
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120102.5
  (a) A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. All official acts of the board require the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120103
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120104
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120105
  The board shall perform the following duties: (a) Determine whether to operate exclusive public mass transit guideways or to let contracts for their operation in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120105.5
  The board shall appoint a general manager or chief executive officer with experience in the management, planning, and development of urban mass transportation systems.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120106
  Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120107
  (a) Each member of the board, including alternate members appointed pursuant to Section 120051.6 when serving in the absence of a regular member, shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120108
  The board shall maintain accounting records and shall report accounting transactions in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as adopted by the Government Accounting Standards...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120109
  (a) The clerk of the board shall cause a proposed ordinance or proposed amendment to an ordinance, and any ordinance adopted by the board, to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120200
  The board has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120201
  The board may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120202
  (a) All of the privileges, immunities from liability, and exemptions from laws, ordinances, and rules, and all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120220
  The board may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120220.5
  The board may provide and maintain by contract with a public agency or by other means, a security force to enforce its regulations, to preserve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120221
  The board may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, or with any person upon such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120222
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a compelling interest exists in ensuring that all federal, state, local, and private funds available to the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120223
  (a) If, after rejecting bids received under Section 120222, the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all of its members that, in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120224.1
  (a) Upon determining that immediate remedial measures to avert or alleviate damage to, or to repair or restore damaged or destroyed property of, the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120224.2
  Notwithstanding Section 120222 and upon a finding by two-thirds of all members of the board that a purchase in compliance with Sections 120222 and 120223...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120224.3
  Notwithstanding Section 120222, the board may direct the purchase of any supply, equipment, or materials without observance of any provision requiring contracts, bids, or advertisements...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120224.4
  (a) A person who submits, or who plans to submit, a proposal in response to a procurement solicitation may protest any acquisition conducted in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120225
  The board may insure against any accident or destruction of the system or any part thereof. The board may also provide insurance as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120226
  The board may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120227
  The board and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall enter into a contract, and the board shall make all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120228
  Subject to Section 120260, the board may enter into joint powers agreements to operate exclusive public mass transit guideways.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120240
  The board may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120241
  Whenever a portion of a parcel of real property is to be taken for board purposes and the remainder is to be left in such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120242
  The board shall have or exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120243
  The Public Utilities Commission of the state shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120244
  The board is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120260
  The board shall provide input to the San Diego Association of Governments on the planning and construction of exclusive public mass transit guideways in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120261
  Subject to Section 120260, if the board determines that there is a countywide agency capable of operating exclusive public mass transit guideways, the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120263
  Priority for guideway development shall be given to meeting the transportation needs of areawide corridors of travel. If the transit development board determines that a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120264
  The transit development board may acquire, construct, maintain, and operate (or let a contract in conformity with state labor laws and subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120266
  (a) The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board may enter into contracts with any city in its area of jurisdiction and with the County of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120267
  (a) The board may, by ordinance, regulate vehicle safety and driver qualifications for passenger jitney service operating between cities and between a city and unincorporated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120268
  The board may enter into cooperative agreements with cities within its area of jurisdiction and with the County of San Diego to establish uniform policies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120269
  (a) If the board licenses or regulates any transportation service, pursuant to Section 120266, or any passenger jitney service, pursuant to Section 120267, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120300
  The San Diego Association of Governments that includes the area of the board shall be responsible for long-term transportation system planning in that area. The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120301
  With respect to the area under its jurisdiction, the board shall be responsible for operational planning, which includes all planning and monitoring necessary for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120302
  Notice of the time and place of the public hearing by the board shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120350
  The provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 120350) and Article 7 (commencing with Section 120400) shall be implemented in conformity with, and subject to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120351
  The designated recipient for purposes of Chapter 53 (commencing with Section 5301) of Subtitle III of Title 49 of the United States Code shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120352
  The board may receive any money pursuant to Chapter 53 (commencing with Section 5301) of Subtitle III of Title 49 of the United States Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120354
  (a) No other public entity within the area of the board's jurisdiction may file an application for funds for public transportation under Chapter 4 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120355
  The board may take all action necessary to obtain funding available pursuant to Chapter 53 (commencing with Section 5301) of Subtitle III of Title 49...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120356
  The board may establish and maintain reserve funds for its planning, procurement, construction, and acquisition programs with moneys received from private and public contributions, donations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120400
  The board may accept contributions, grants, or loans from any public agency or the United States or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120450
  Violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board relating to the nonpayment of a fare on any transit vehicle or in any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120450.5
  No person shall give, either orally or in writing, information to a public officer or employee engaged in the enforcement of the provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120451
  Violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board prohibiting unauthorized operation or manipulation of transit facilities owned, controlled, or used by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120452
  Violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board prohibiting the unauthorized entering into, climbing upon, holding onto, or in any manner attaching...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120470
  Subject to any agreement or covenant between the board and the holders of any of its obligations limiting or restricting classes of investments, the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120471
  The investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of the bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120472
  Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the board may, from time to time, be sold and the proceeds reinvested...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120473
  Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the board shall, from time to time, be made in season so that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120475
  The board shall coordinate the operation of all regional public transit services which operate within the area under the jurisdiction of the board so as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120476
  The board shall act in full cooperation and coordination with the regional operators, the local operators, and the local public agencies in such matters as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120477
  (a) The board shall resolve regional transit service disputes between local agencies and transit operators which provide services in the area, pursuant to the rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120478
  The rules and regulations adopted by the board shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Criteria to determine the definition and validity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120500
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120501
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the board in a unit that is the appropriate unit for collective bargaining indicate a desire to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120502
  In case of a labor dispute over wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, and benefits on the making or maintaining of collective-bargaining agreements and the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120503
  In the event the board and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit the dispute to an arbitration panel as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120504
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made with any labor organization, association, or group that denies membership to, or in any manner discriminates...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120505
  If there is a question of whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is the appropriate unit for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120506
  The obligation of the board to meet and confer in good faith with the duly certified labor organization and to agree on the terms of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120507
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code, employees of the board may authorize and, upon such authorization, the board may make deductions from wages and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120508
  (a) This article also applies to the employee relations of employees of a nonprofit entity that operates public mass transit services and that is solely...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120509
  (a) Upon the request of the board, as defined in Section 120508, with the consent of any labor organization acting as the exclusive representative of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120520
  Whenever the board acquires ownership of existing facilities from a privately or publicly owned corporation or utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120521
  (a) Whenever the board acquires ownership of existing facilities from a privately or publicly owned corporation or public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120522
  Whenever the board acquires ownership of existing facilities from a privately or publicly owned corporation or public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120523
  (a) Any pension plan maintained by the board pursuant to this division for employees of the board who are members of a unit appropriate for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120540
  It shall be a condition of the operation of any transit facility owned or controlled by the board that Section 5333 of Title 49 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120550
  The board may establish and maintain a police force. Those employees of the board appointed by the general manager or chief executive officer to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120630
  The board may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by, or on behalf of, the board,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120631
  The board is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120650
  The board may purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses, motorbuses, light rail vehicles, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and equipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120651
  The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120652
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120653
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120654
  An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120670
  The Improvement Act of 1911 (Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Streets and Highways Code), the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Division 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120671
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 of Division 10 is applicable to the board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120652
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120653
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120654
  An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120680
  The board may borrow money in accordance with Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850), or Article 7.7 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120681
  The board may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not been sold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120700
  The board may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120701
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the board under this chapter, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt from all taxation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 120702
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "North County Transit District Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125001
  As used in this division, "district" means the North County Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125002
  It is the intent of the Legislature to improve existing public transportation coordination. The Legislature recognizes that in order to achieve a unified, coordinated public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125050
  There is hereby created, in that portion of the County of San Diego as described in Section 125052, the North County Transit District. The district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125051
  Each of the governing bodies appointing a member of the board pursuant to Section 125050 shall also appoint one alternate to serve on the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125052
  The area of jurisdiction of the board shall consist of the following areas: (a) The Cities of Carlsbad, Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, Oceanside, San Marcos,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125100
  The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125101
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125102
  A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the board shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125103
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125104
  All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125105
  The board shall: (a) Acquire, construct, maintain, and operate (or let a contract to operate) public transit systems and related facilities. (b) Adopt an annual...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125106
  Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125107
  (a) Each member of the board, including the alternate members appointed pursuant to Section 125051, shall be paid seventy-five dollars ($75) for each day the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125200
  The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125201
  The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125202
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125220
  The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125221
  Immediately upon holding its first meeting, the board shall proceed to negotiate with the existing municipal transit operators within its area of jurisdiction to acquire...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125222
  The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, or with any person upon such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125223
  Contracts for the purchase of supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125224
  If, after rejecting bids received under Section 125223, the board determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all of its members that, in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125226
  The district may insure against any accident or destruction of the system or any part thereof. The district may also provide insurance as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125227
  The district may contract for the services of independent contractors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125240
  The district may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125241
  The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125260
  The district shall plan, construct, and operate (or let a contract to operate) public transit systems in conformance with, and to the extent provided for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125350
  The district shall be deemed a provider of services within the area of its jurisdiction for purposes of Section 1604 of Title 49 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125351
  The district shall take all action necessary to obtain the maximum amount of funding available pursuant to Section 1602 of Title 49 of the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125352
  It is the intent of this section that the district shall file application for funds for public transportation in conformity with, and subject to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125400
  The district may accept contributions, grants, or loans from any public agency or the United States or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125450
  A violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board relating to the nonpayment of a fare in any transit facility owned or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125450
  A violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board relating to the nonpayment of a fare in any transit facility owned or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125451
  No person shall give, either orally or in writing, information to a public officer or employee engaged in the enforcement of this article if that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125452
  A violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board prohibiting unauthorized operation or manipulation of transit facilities owned or controlled by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125453
  A violation of any ordinance, rule, or regulation enacted by the board prohibiting the unauthorized entering into, climbing upon, holding onto, or in any manner...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125500
  This chapter shall become operative on the date the district first begins to operate a public transit system pursuant to Section 125105.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125520
  Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125521
  Any question which may arise with respect to whether a majority of employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor organization...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125522
  Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125523
  (a) A contract or agreement shall not be made with any labor organization, association, or group that denies membership on any basis listed in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125524
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement on the terms...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125525
  If, after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the district and the accredited representatives of the employees fail to reach agreement either on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125526
  If the district and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit any dispute to arbitration as provided in Section 125525, the State...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125527
  If an exclusive collective-bargaining representative is selected pursuant to Section 125521, the provisions of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125540
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, to the extent necessary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125541
  Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a pension...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125550
  (a) The adoption, terms, and conditions of a pension plan covering employees of the district in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125551
  The district may contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, and in that case the board of administration shall enter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125552
  All persons receiving pension benefits from an acquired public utility, and all persons entitled to pension benefits under any pension plan of the acquired public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125560
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the board and its employees under Subchapter II of the Federal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125561
  The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the board and its employees under the workers' compensation, unemployment compensation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125600
  The district may establish and maintain a police force. Those employees of the district appointed by the executive director to the police force and who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125700
  The district may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner provided...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125701
  The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125702
  The district may purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses, motorbuses, light rail vehicles, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and equipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125703
  The agreement to purchase or lease transit equipment may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the transit equipment to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125704
  The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125705
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates may not conflict with any trust agreement or similar document securing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125706
  An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, for a fee of one dollar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125707
  The Improvement Act of 1911 (Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Streets and Highways Code), the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Division 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125708
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 of Division 10 is applicable to the district.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125709
  The district shall be considered a "local agency," as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 53317 of the Government Code, and the provisions of Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125710
  The district shall be considered to be a "local agency" as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 6585 of the Government Code, and Article 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125711
  The district may borrow money in accordance with Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850), or Article 7.7 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125712
  The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds that have been authorized to be issued, but that have not been sold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125713
  The district may issue negotiable promissory notes pursuant to this section to acquire funds for any district purposes. The maturity of the promissory notes may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125714
  The district may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125715
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under this chapter, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt from all taxation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 125716
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division or of any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the County Transportation Commissions Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Public demand for an efficient public transportation system in the southern California region resulting from population sprawl,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130002
  As used in this division, "commission" means a county transportation commission created pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 130050).
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130003
  As used in this division, "local transportation zones" means cities or unincorporated areas which contain at least one economic center or major trip generator in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130004
  As used in this division, "multicounty designated transportation planning agency" means the Southern California Association of Governments.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130005
  The multicounty designated transportation planning agency shall conduct its meetings in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130010
  Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c) of Section 130109, all provisions of the Orange County Transit District Act of 1965 (Part 4 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130050
  There is hereby created a commission in Los Angeles County, in Orange County, in Riverside County, and in San Bernardino County.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130050.1
  There is hereby created the Ventura County Transportation Commission. The commission shall be the successor agency to the Ventura County Association of Governments and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130050.2
  There is hereby created the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The authority shall be the single successor agency to the Southern California Rapid Transit...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051
  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority consists of 14 members, as follows: (a) Five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.1
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 130051, if a member appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles is not a member of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.5
  Every member of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is subject to Section 87100 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each member of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall serve a term of four years or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.7
  (a) The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall conduct joint regular meetings at least once during each quarter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.9
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall appoint a full-time chief executive officer who shall act for the authority under its direction and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.10
  (a) The members of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall be appointed no later than February 1, 1993. The authority shall have no...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.11
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority may determine its organizational structure, which may include, but is not limited to, the establishment of departments,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.12
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall, at a minimum, reserve to itself exclusively, all of the following powers and responsibilities: (1) Establishment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.13
  On April 1, 1993, the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission are abolished. Upon the abolishment of the district...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.14
  On and after April 1, 1993, any reference in this part, or in any other provision of law or regulation, to the Southern California Rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.15
  (a) Upon the abolishment of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.16
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall assume the duties, obligations, and liabilities of the Southern California Rapid...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.17
  (a) Prior to the approval of any contract by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or by any organizational unit of the authority, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.18
  Prior to the approval of any contract by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or by any organizational unit of the authority, the authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.19
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall adopt an affirmative action plan for its management positions which reflects the ethnic demographics of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.20
  (a) (1) No construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a contract with the Los Angeles County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.21
  The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall each cause a supplemental independent fiscal audit to be conducted for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.21
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall require its inspector general to prepare a prequalification questionnaire to be completed by each construction company,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.23
  Whenever the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the authority or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.24
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) The "authority" is the Los...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.25
  (a) For the purpose of this section, "recordable injury" means any injury requiring treatment beyond simple first aid. (b) A construction firm that contracts with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130051.28
  (a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall appoint an inspector general to a term of office of four years. The inspector general shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130052
  The Orange County Transportation Commission shall be known as the Orange County Transportation Authority and shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130052.1
  The members of the Orange County Transportation Authority, comprised as specified by Section 130052, shall serve as the governing body of the Orange County Service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130052.2
  Until July 1, 1996, any included municipal operator within the jurisdiction of the Orange County Transportation Authority shall annually be allocated a level of funding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130052.3
  (a) The Orange County Transportation Commission, the Orange County Transit District, the Orange County Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies, and the Orange County Consolidated Transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130053
  The Riverside County Transportation Commission shall consist of the following regular members: (a) Five members of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. (b) One member...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130053.5
  (a) The Riverside County Board of Supervisors shall establish a procedure by which a member of that board may appoint an alternate member of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130053.7
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), each regular member of the Riverside County Transportation Commission, or an alternate member acting in the place of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130054
  The San Bernardino County Transportation Commission shall be the San Bernardino Associated Governments, consisting of the following members: (a) Five members of the San Bernardino...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130054.1
  The Ventura County Transportation Commission shall consist of the following members: (a) Five members of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors. (b) One member from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130054.8
  The Governor shall appoint a nonvoting member to each of the commissions to represent the interest of state. The appointees shall serve terms of four...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130055
  The commissions shall merge with, or otherwise join, any statutorily created multifunctional regional government organization, if it has transportation planning and programming responsibilities as specified...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130056
  The commissions shall rely to the maximum extent possible on existing state, regional, and local transportation planning and programming data and expertise, rather than on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130057
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, after the development and approval of the short-range transportation improvement program pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130058
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, working through the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, the four commissions be encouraged to develop joint powers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130059
  The multicounty designated transportation planning agency shall convene at least two meetings annually of representatives from each of the four commissions, the agency, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130100
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 130052, each commission at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January or at such...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130101
  The commission shall establish rules for its proceedings consistent with the law of the State of California.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130102
  A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the commission, except...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130102.5
  In the case of the San Bernardino County Transportation Commission, its official acts shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members representing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130103
  The acts of the commission shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130104
  (a) All meetings of the commission shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950),...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130105
  The commission shall: (a) Adopt an annual budget and fix the compensation of its officers and employees. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130106
  Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130107
  The commission shall appoint a full-time executive director who shall act for the commission under its direction. The commission may appoint such officers as it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130108
  (a) Each member of a commission may be compensated at a rate not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for any day attending to the business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130108.5
  Notwithstanding Section 130108, the Board of Directors of the Orange County Transportation Authority may allow members of the board necessary traveling and personal expenses incurred...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130109
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall enter into a contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130109.1
  Upon creation of the Ventura County Transportation Commission, and on the effective date of a contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees'...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130110
  (a) For employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority not in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization, the authority shall establish...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130200
  The commission has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130201
  The commission may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130202
  All claims for money or damages against the commission are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130203
  Whenever a commission, by resolution, determines that any record, map, book, paper, or other document of the commission in the possession of the commission or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130220
  The commission may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130220.5
  (a) The commission has the power of eminent domain to take any property necessary, incidental, or convenient to the exercise of its powers pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130221
  The commission may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency (including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130231
  (a) The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission is authorized to impose a transactions and use tax within the County of Los Angeles pursuant to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130232
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, and the construction of all facilities and works, when the expenditure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130233
  If, after rejecting bids received under Section 130232 the commission determines and declares, by a two-thirds vote of all of its members, that the supplies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130234
  In case of any great public calamity, such as an extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, or other disaster, or interruption of contracts essential to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130235
  (a) Upon determining that immediate remedial measures to avert or alleviate damage to property, or to replace, repair, or restore damaged or destroyed property, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130236
  Notwithstanding Section 130232, and upon a finding by two-thirds vote of all members of the commission that the proposed purchase in compliance with Sections 130232...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130237
  Notwithstanding Section 130232, the commission may direct the purchase of any supply, equipment, or material without observance of any provision in this article regarding contracts,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130238
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that (1) because of the highly specialized and unique nature of all rail transit equipment, (2) because of products...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130239
  In order to facilitate the participation of minority-owned and women-owned businesses and disadvantaged individuals in activities and contracts of the commission, to the extent that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130240
  (a) "Transit" means as defined in Section 40005. (b) (1) The Orange County Transportation Authority may acquire, construct, develop, lease, jointly develop, own, operate, maintain,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130240.1
  (a) The Orange County Transportation Authority may enter into agreements for the joint use or joint development of any property or rights by the authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130240.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Orange County Transportation Authority may acquire rights-of-way from willing sellers for the following projects: (a) Addition of auxiliary...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130241
  All the provisions of the Orange County Transit District Act of 1965 (Part 4 (commencing with Section 40000) of Division 10), regarding the powers and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130242
  (a) In addition to the other powers it possesses, the authority may enter into contracts with private entities, the scope of which may combine within...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130243
  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall adopt a change order procedure for contracts awarded by the authority that includes each of the following...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130244
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) "Authority" means the Orange County Transportation Authority. (2) "Bonds"...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130245
  (a) An advisory committee shall be created to review issues and make recommendations to the Orange County Transportation Authority and the Riverside County Transportation Commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130250
  The commission shall coordinate the operation of all public transportation services within the county so as to achieve efficient operation thereof and shall resolve all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130251
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, if, at the time the commission commences operation, an application to the federal government has been submitted,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130252
  (a) All plans proposed for the design, construction, and implementation of public mass transit systems or projects, including exclusive public mass transit guideway systems or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130253
  Any plan for a transit system proposed to serve more than one county shall also be submitted for approval by the multicounty designated transportation planning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130254
  The commission shall designate the operator of any approved transit guideway system. Except as specified in Section 130254.5, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130254.5
  The City of Los Angeles may design, construct, and operate a point-to-point transportation system on or between property under the jurisdiction and control of its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130255
  (a) If a commuter or urban rail transit system is proposed to serve two or more counties, the commissions in those counties shall form a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130256
  The commission shall require all planning for guideway and rapid transit systems be coordinated with the Department of Transportation and the multicounty designated transportation planning
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130257
  The commission may enter into an agreement with the Department of Transportation for the department to provide those services which are within the capabilities of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130258
  If the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission is authorized to construct a transit guideway system, the commission shall closely coordinate the planning, design, and construction...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130259
  (a) Not later than February 1, 1978, the commissions in Riverside County and San Bernardino County shall, and the commissions in Los Angeles County and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130260
  The Orange County Transportation Commission may establish local transportation zones only in those areas where the commission determines that the Orange County Transit District cannot...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130261
  The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission may establish local transportation zones only in those areas where the commission determines by eight affirmative votes of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130262
  The commission shall require full cooperation and coordination between the regional operator, the municipal operators, and the local transportation zones in such matters as schedules,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130263
  The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall not reduce, by order or by reducing funding, the size of the service areas under the jurisdiction of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130265
  In 1990, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission adopted an approved San Fernando Valley rail rapid transit route and plan as described in the Findings...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130290
  As used in this article: (a) "Smart freeway corridor" means a segment of a state highway route in an urban area selected for a smart...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130291
  A smart freeway demonstration project shall be comprised of the following elements: (a) A linked traffic monitoring network of traffic monitoring devices placed in freeway...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130292
  (a) The project shall be coordinated by the statutorily created county transportation commission in whose jurisdiction the project is located. The county transportation commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130300
  The Legislature finds and declares: (a) That the near-term programming and budgeting requirements of state and federal law is a cooperative intergovernmental planning process intended...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130301
  The multicounty designated transportation planning agency which includes the area of the commission shall be responsible for long-range transportation system planning, including preparation of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130302
  The role of the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, in coordinating, reviewing, and resolving intercommission conflicts, approving multicounty transportation plans, in developing plans and programs,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130303
  With respect to the area under its jurisdiction, the commission shall be responsible for short-range capital and service planning directed to: (a) Determination, on an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130303.1
  In addition to its short-range transportation planning responsibilities, the commission shall also be responsible, pursuant to Section 180206, for developing long-range expenditure plans for transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130304
  (a) The county transportation commission shall submit the short-range transportation improvement program prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 130303 to the multicounty designated transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130305
  The commission shall take all action necessary to obtain the maximum amount of funding available pursuant to Section 1602 of Title 49 of the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130306
  The commission shall determine the projects on the federal-aid urban system to be funded. The commission shall determine the projects to be funded pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130350
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the County of Los Angeles may be adopted by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130350.4
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In authorizing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to impose a transaction and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130350.5
  (a) In addition to any other tax that it is authorized by law to impose, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) may impose,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130351
  The County of Los Angeles shall conduct the special election called by the commission pursuant to Section 130350, and the commission shall reimburse the county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130352
  Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130353
  Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130354
  The revenues received by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission from the imposition of the transactions and use taxes shall be used for public transit
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130355
  Any action or proceeding in which the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this article or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130370
  (a) Not later than February 1, 1980, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, in cooperation with all the transit operators in the County of Los...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130371
  The rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Criteria to determine the definition and validity of a transit service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130372
  (a) The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall have sole authority to resolve any transit service dispute between transit operators in the County of Los...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130373
  Prior to January 1, 1981, only a transit service dispute submitted by a transit operator in the County of Los Angeles may be resolved by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130380
  Prior to October 1, 1980, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, in cooperation with all transit operators in the County of Los Angeles, shall prepare...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130381
  The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall adopt by eight affirmative votes of the voting members, or designated alternates, a transit coordination and service program...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130382
  (a) After April 1, 1981, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall implement the recommendations of the transit coordination and service program, except as otherwise...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130383
  The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall adopt an updated transit coordination and service program not later than January 10, 1983, and biennially thereafter, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130384
  (a) The updated transit coordination and service program, and any amendment to the program, shall be adopted by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130385
  (a) Any transit operator in the County of Los Angeles which disagrees with any portion of the transit coordination and service program, or any amendment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130400
  As used in this article: (a) "Commission" means the county transportation commission created in Orange County pursuant to Section 130000. (b) "County" means the County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130400.5
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this article, intends the county and cities therein to use any additional funds provided them by this article to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130401
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the county may be adopted by the commission in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130402
  The commission, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, shall provide the tax rate or rates or the maximum...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130403
  (a) The County of Orange shall conduct the special election called by the commission pursuant to Section 130401, and the commission shall reimburse the county...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130404
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130405
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be allocated by the commission for public transportation purposes, including, but not limited to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130406
  (a) If the commission decides to adopt a retail transactions and use tax pursuant to this article, the commission shall review and assess the needs...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130407
  (a) The commission may annually review and propose amendments to the expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 130406 to provide for the use of additional...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130408
  The expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 130406, and any amendment adopted pursuant to Section 130407, shall include a provision for an annual allocation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130409
  An amended expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 130407 may include a provision to reduce a tax rate to percentages lower than that approved by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130409.5
  If a retail transactions and use tax is adopted pursuant to this article, the commission shall prepare and submit a report to the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130410
  (a) The commission is authorized to impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this article and Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130411
  (a) The actual wording of the proposition on any short form of ballot card, label, or other device, regardless of the system of voting used,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130412
  The commission may, as part of the same ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, seek authorization to issue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130413
  The commission may further, as part of the same proposition, submit to the voters a proposal to increase any appropriations limits heretofore imposed upon the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130420
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued by the commission at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130421
  (a) Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time, and from time to time, by the commission by a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130422
  (a) The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable semiannually, except that the first interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130423
  (a) The bonds may be sold as the commission determines by resolution. The commission may sell the bonds at a price below par; provided, however,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130424
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130425
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130430
  (a) The commission may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the commission upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130435
  (a) The commission may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this article, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130440
  Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130441
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this article or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130442
  If the measure to adopt the transaction and use tax pursuant to Section 130401 is not submitted to the electors on or before December 31,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130450
  For purposes of this article: (a) "Commissions" means the county transportation commissions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. (b) "Region" means the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130451
  (a) The commissions shall jointly develop an implementation program for regional transit services. In developing the program, the commissions shall consult with the Southern California...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130452
  The commissions shall hold a joint public hearing in each county in their jurisdiction on the draft program no earlier than 30 days after the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130453
  The initial regional transit services draft program shall be completed by December 1, 1990. The initial program need not reflect intercounty bus services. The commissions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130454
  The adopted program shall serve as the basis for a coordinated application submitted by the commissions for funds allocated by the California Transportation Commission. Nothing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130455
  This article shall become operative only if the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, the Orange County Transportation Commission, the Riverside County Transportation Commission, and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130500
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Revenue Bond Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130501
  The Legislature finds that alternative methods of financing provided in this chapter are needed to finance the cost of acquiring, constructing, and developing facilities for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130502
  It is the purpose of this chapter to carry out and make effective the findings of the Legislature and, to that end, to provide an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130510
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130511
  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, commercial paper, and other obligations.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130512
  "Commission" means the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission created pursuant to Section 130050 and any board, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the functions thereof...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130513
  "Cost," as applied to a project or portion thereof financed under this chapter, means all or any part of the cost of construction and acquisition...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130514
  "Notes" means notes and agreements relating thereto, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130515
  "Transit project" or "project" means real and personal property, including, but not limited to, land, structures and all improvements thereto, works, vehicles, rolling stock, rights-of-way,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130516
  "Public agency" means any state agency, department, board, or commission, any county, city, regional agency, district, or other political subdivision.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130517
  "Public transit purposes," as used in this chapter and in Section 130354, includes a pledge of transactions and use tax revenues to secure any bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130518
  "Revenues" means all rents, receipts, purchase payments, and all other income or receipts derived by the commission, whether from fares, the sale, lease, or other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130519
  (a) The "Los Angeles Metro Rail project" means an 18.6 mile rail line and necessary support facilities and equipment as described in the June 1983...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130520
  The commission may incur indebtedness and obligations as provided by this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130521
  The commission may acquire by deed, purchase, lease, contract, gift, devise, or otherwise, any real or personal property, structures, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, air, land,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130522
  The commission may do all of the following: (a) Fix, collect, and revise from time to time, rates, rents, fees, fares, and charges for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130530
  The commission may issue bonds for purposes authorized by this chapter, and to fund or refund them, pursuant to this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130531
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) The commission and its revenues are exempt from all taxes on, or measured by, income. (b) Bonds issued...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130532
  The commission may from time to time issue or renew notes in anticipation of the sale of bonds or otherwise. The commission may also issue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130533
  (a) Except as provided in this subdivision and as may be otherwise expressly provided by the commission, all issues of its bonds are special obligations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130534
  (a) The bonds may be issued as serial bonds or as term bonds, or the commission, in its discretion, may issue bonds of both types....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130535
  (a) At times that the commission desires to issue bonds, it shall adopt a resolution specifying the total amount of bonds proposed to be issued....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130536
  Neither the members of the commission, nor any person executing the bonds, are liable personally on the bonds, or are subject to any personal liability...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130537
  The commission may, from any funds available therefor, purchase its bonds. The commission may hold, pledge, cancel, or resell the bonds, subject to, and in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130538
  (a) At the discretion of the commission, any bonds issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130538.5
  The commission shall take no action which will materially impair the security pledged for any bonds which it has previously issued.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130539
  All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the trust agreement or resolution may be treated as a part of the cost of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130540
  (a) Bonds issued under this chapter do not constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any other public agency, other than the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130541
  The commission may provide for the issuance of bonds of the commission for the purpose of refunding any bond then outstanding, including the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130542
  (a) The proceeds of any bonds issued for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds may, in the discretion of the commission, be applied to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130543
  The proceeds of any bonds issued for the additional purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of constructing and acquiring additions, improvements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130544
  Bonds issued pursuant to Section 130542 are subject to this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as other bonds issued pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130545
  The bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are legal investments for all trust funds, the funds of all insurance companies, commercial or savings banks, trust...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130550
  This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130551
  (a) This chapter provides a complete, additional, and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and is supplemental and additional to powers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130552
  The State of California does hereby pledge to, and agree with, the holders of any bonds issued under this chapter and with those parties who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130553
  To the extent that the provisions of this chapter, with respect to the financing of transit systems or facilities, are inconsistent with the provisions of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130600
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130605
  Any reference in this chapter to "chief executive officer," "general counsel," "counsel," "inspector general," "board secretary," or "secretary" is to the officers of the Los...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130610
  (a) The board shall appoint an ethics officer, who shall report to the board. (b) When in doubt as to the applicability of any provision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130615
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the inspector general. (b) Any violation of this chapter that is also a violation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130620
  (a) Sanctions for violations of this chapter shall be determined by the board. The sanctions imposed shall depend upon the severity of the infraction and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130625
  Confidential information, particularly investigative reports for the inspector general, shall not be disseminated beyond the authorized recipient of the report.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130630
  The role of the board as it relates to the MTA is as follows: (a) The board provides counsel and direction to management and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130635
  The rules of conduct at board meetings shall apply to all matters under consideration by the board except for ceremonial matters and are as follows:...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130640
  (a) Members shall not publicly engage in personal attacks on MTA employees or attempt to discipline any employee. (b) Any concerns regarding an employee's performance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130650
  Committee chairs shall present items from their committee meetings and the recommendation of their committee.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130655
  (a) All members shall be afforded an adequate opportunity to review written motions having financial or policy implications prior to the board meeting. (b) A...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130660
  (a) Board members or their staff are prohibited from soliciting or accepting any gift from MTA contractors or from persons or entities that have submitted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130665
  (a) Board members or their staff shall not accept any payment made for a speech given, an article published, participation in a program, or any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130670
  Reimbursement for travel or lodging may be exempt from the provisions prohibiting gifts if the travel is related to MTA business. That reimbursement, however, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130675
  Board members shall not direct any MTA employee, contractor or potential contractor to make a charitable contribution to a specified agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130680
  (a) The chief executive officer shall be responsible for ensuring the MTA has an independent professional procurement staff. The chief executive officer and designated procurement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130685
  (a) Prior to the issuance of a request for proposal (RFP), request for interest in qualification (RFIQ), or invitation for bid (IFB), and ending on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130690
  Board members and their staff shall refrain from conduct that they know or reasonably should know is likely to create in the minds of reasonable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130700
  (a) Board members or their staff shall not participate in an MTA decision in which they know or have reason to know that they have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130705
  (a) Board members or their staff shall not engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise that is inconsistent, incompatible, or in conflict with the duties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130710
  The MTA shall not contract with any of the following: (a) MTA board members or their staff. (b) Any profit-making firm or business in which...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130715
  (a) Former board members or their staff shall not participate in any contract with the agency for a period of 12 months after leaving the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130720
  (a) Board members shall file Statements of Economic Interest with the ethics officer pursuant to state law, within 30 days of assuming office, annually, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130725
  Any person who receives compensation to regularly provide advice, recommendations, or counsel to board members regarding MTA activities shall file a Statement of Economic Interest...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 130730
  Any person who regularly provides advice, recommendations, or counsel to board members regarding MTA activities and also advises another agency or entity that has a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Bay Area County Traffic and Transportation Funding Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131001
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That, in the nine-county San Francisco Bay area, traffic and transportation improvements are an immediate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131002
  This division does not apply to the County of Santa Clara until November 1, 1995.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131003
  "City selection committee" means the committee created pursuant to Section 50270 of the Government Code. For purposes of the City and County of San Francisco,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131004
  "Commission" means the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131005
  "County" includes a city and county, and means any of the nine San Francisco Bay area counties listed in Section 66502 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131006
  "Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of any of the nine San Francisco Bay area counties listed in Section 66502 of the Government
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131007
  "County transportation authority" means any authority created pursuant to this division in any of the nine San Francisco Bay area counties listed in Section 66502...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131008
  "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131009
  "Local governments" means the cities within each of the nine San Francisco Bay area counties listed in Section 66502 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131010
  "Sponsoring agency" means a governmental agency, including a county transportation authority, that has transportation responsibilities in the county in which a retail transactions and use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131050
  Any board of supervisors which believes its county has essential traffic and transportation projects for which current estimates of federal, state, and local funds may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131051
  The county transportation expenditure plan shall consist of all of the following: (a) (1) A list of essential traffic and transportation projects in the order...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131052
  The recommended county transportation expenditure plan shall be subject to a public hearing and then to a review by the commission, before submittal to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131053
  The commission shall, within 45 days after receipt of a draft county transportation expenditure plan forwarded pursuant to Section 131052, approve the draft plan unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131054
  If the commission rejects a draft county transportation expenditure plan because the draft plan fails to meet the requirements set forth in Section 131053, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131055
  If the commission approves a draft county transportation expenditure plan, the commission shall return the draft plan to the board of supervisors for its approval...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131056
  (a) Not less than one year prior to the date of the last general election in which a retail transactions and use tax ordinance is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131057
  The commission and any county transportation authority, in administering the adopted county transportation expenditure plan and imposing the retail transactions and use tax, shall have...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131100
  (a) The Legislature, by the enactment of this chapter intends a county transportation authority or the commission, pursuant to a county transportation expenditure plan adopted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131101
  All allocations of revenues derived from the adoption of a retail transactions and use tax ordinance in a county shall be consistent with the priorities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131102
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a retail transactions and use tax ordinance for a tax of either one-half of 1 percent or 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131103
  The county, in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed and shall specify the purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131104
  (a) The county shall conduct the election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 131102, and the county shall bear the cost in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131105
  (a) Any tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 120...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131106
  The net revenues derived from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter, after deduction for expenses pursuant to Section 131107, shall be allocated by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131107
  In an adopted county transportation expenditure plan that provides for the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, not more than 1 percent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131108
  (a) The board of supervisors, as part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, may seek authorization...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131109
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131110
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time of a two-thirds vote by the agency imposing the retail transactions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131111
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131112
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131113
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the agency imposing the retail transactions and use tax may also provide for the call and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131114
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131115
  The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the agency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131116
  The bonds may be sold as the agency imposing the retail transactions and use tax determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131117
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131118
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131119
  (a) The agency imposing the retail transactions and use tax may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131120
  (a) The agency imposing the retail transactions and use tax may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131121
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131122
  Any action or proceedings wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131200
  Upon approval of a retail transactions and use tax at an election conducted pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 131100) in a county with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131201
  The commission, with the advice of the advisory committee, shall determine the allocation of the net revenues derived from the imposition of the retail transactions...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131202
  The commission shall prepare and adopt an annual report by January 1 of each year on the progress to achieve the objectives of completion of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131203
  Any amendment to a county transportation expenditure plan proposed by the commission is subject to approval by the advisory committee. An amendment which adds or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131240
  Upon approval of a retail transactions and use tax at an election conducted pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 131100) in a county with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131241
  (a) The county transportation authority shall consist of the members who are elected officials as specified in the county transportation expenditure plan or in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131242
  The Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall convene the initial meeting of the county transportation authority at the county seat, within 90...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131260
  A county transportation authority at its first meeting, and thereafter, after the first complete calendar year, annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131262
  The majority of the members of a county transportation authority constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131263
  The acts of a county transportation authority shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131264
  All meetings of a county transportation authority shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131265
  A county transportation authority shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget and fix the compensation of its officers and employees. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131266
  Notice of the time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget of a county transportation authority shall be published...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131267
  A county transportation authority may appoint officers that it deems necessary to carry out its duties and functions.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131268
  Each member of a county transportation authority shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day attending the business of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131269
  A county transportation authority may enter into a contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, and the board may enter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131280
  A county transportation authority shall close its affairs and be terminated within 180 days after the completion of the projects listed in the county transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131281
  A county transportation authority may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, and in all courts and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131282
  All claims for money or damages against a county transportation authority are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131283
  A county transportation authority may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature to indemnify and hold harmless, to employ labor, and to do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131284
  A county transportation authority may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any public agency, including but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131285
  Contracts for the purchase of supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131286
  If, after rejecting bids received under Section 131285, the county transportation authority determines and declares by a two-thirds vote of all of its voting members...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131300
  The county transportation authority shall administer the county transportation expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 131055.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131301
  The county transportation authority shall determine the use of the net revenues derived from the imposition of the retail transactions and use tax in conformance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131302
  A county transportation authority shall consult with, and coordinate its actions with, other transportation funding agencies when allocating the net revenues derived from the retail...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131303
  The county transportation authority shall prepare and adopt an annual report by January 1 of each year on the progress to achieve the objectives of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 131304
  Any amendment to a county transportation expenditure plan proposed by the county transportation authority which adds or deletes a project, or is of major significance,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recognizing the scarcity of resources available for all transportation development, alternative methods of financing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132002
  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132003
  "Commission" means the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission created pursuant to this chapter in the County of San Diego.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132004
  "County" means the County of San Diego.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132005
  "San Diego Association of Governments" means the joint powers agency established pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132006
  "Transit development boards" means the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board and the North San Diego County Transit Development Board.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132050
  There is hereby created the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission in the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132051
  The Board of Directors of the San Diego Association of Governments shall serve as the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132052
  The commission shall not hire a staff, but shall use the staff of the San Diego Association of Governments and shall compensate the San Diego...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132053
  On and after a transactions and use tax is imposed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 132300), the commission may authorize payment from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132100
  The joint powers agreement, bylaws, and all rules and regulations of the San Diego Association of Governments shall be the established rules for the proceedings...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132101
  Meetings of the commission shall be held at least annually and as often as determined necessary by the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132102
  The acts of the commission shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132103
  The commission shall expend only that amount of the funds generated pursuant to this chapter for staff support, audit, administrative expenses, and contract services that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132104
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Cause a postaudit of the financial transactions and records of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132105
  (a) The commission shall publish, pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, notice of the time and place of the public hearing for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132106
  The initial meeting of the commission shall be held in the City of San Diego when called by the Board of Directors of the San...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132200
  The commission may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132201
  The commission may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all court and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132202
  All claims for money or damages against the commission are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132203
  The commission may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, including, but not limited to, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132204
  The commission may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132205
  The commission may provide and maintain, by contract with a public agency or by other means, a security force to enforce its regulations, preserve and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132300
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this article, intends the additional funds provided government agencies by this article to supplement existing local revenues being used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132301
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the county shall be imposed by the commission in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132302
  The commission, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate, the purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132303
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the commission pursuant to Section 132301. (b) The election shall be called and conducted in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132304
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132305
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be allocated by the commission for public transportation purposes consistent with the adopted regional...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132306
  If taxes are imposed pursuant to this article for expenditure for public transit purposes, the commission shall allocate revenues derived therefrom to the transit development...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132307
  (a) The commission, subject to the approval of the voters, may impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this chapter and Part 1.6...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132308
  The commission may reduce a tax rate to percentages lower than that approved by the voters and may further provide for an increase of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132309
  (a) The commission, as part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, shall seek authorization to issue...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132310
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued by the commission at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132310.5
  The commission may provide for the bonds to bear a variable interest rate, for the manner and intervals in which the rate shall vary, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132311
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time, and from time to time, by the commission by a two-thirds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132312
  Any bonds issued pursuant to this article are a legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132313
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this article or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132314
  The commission has no power to impose any tax other than the transactions and use tax imposed upon approval of the voters in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132320
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) To "expand" the transactions and use tax means to expand the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132321
  (a) The commission may, upon terms, standards, and conditions approved by the commission, transfer environmental mitigation or conservation property to a public agency or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132322
  (a) An ordinance expanding, extending, or increasing the retail transactions and use tax imposed under this chapter shall be imposed by the commission and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132324
  (a) In the ordinance, the commission shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132326
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the commission pursuant to Section 132322. (b) The election shall be called and conducted in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132328
  (a) Any ordinance extending or expanding, or both, the transactions and use tax shall be operative on the day immediately following the day of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132330
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the extension, expansion, or increase of the retail transactions and use tax, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132332
  The commission has no power to extend, expand, or increase any tax other than the transactions and use tax extended, expanded, or increased upon approval...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132334
  All provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 132300) relating to allocation of revenues, tax rates, and bonds apply to the expanded, extended, or increased...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132350
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation Act. The purpose of this act is to provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132350.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is an imperative need for comprehensive planning and implementation of regional transportation projects...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132350.2
  For purposes of this chapter, the definitions contained in this section have the following meanings: (a) "Consolidated agency" means the authority resulting from the consolidation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132324
  (a) In the ordinance, the commission shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132326
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the commission pursuant to Section 132322. (b) The election shall be called and conducted in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132328
  (a) Any ordinance extending or expanding, or both, the transactions and use tax shall be operative on the day immediately following the day of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132330
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the extension, expansion, or increase of the retail transactions and use tax, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132332
  The commission has no power to extend, expand, or increase any tax other than the transactions and use tax extended, expanded, or increased upon approval...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132334
  All provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 132300) relating to allocation of revenues, tax rates, and bonds apply to the expanded, extended, or increased...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351
  The consolidation of SANDAG and the transit boards will consolidate responsibilities under the organization and governance structure and with the powers, duties, functions, and authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.1
  (a) A board of directors consisting of 21 members shall govern the consolidated agency. (b) For purposes of this chapter, "governing body" shall mean the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.2
  (a) A majority of the member agencies constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In order to act on any item, except consent items...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.3
  The consolidated agency is the successor agency to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and those entities set forth in Article 4 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.4
  (a) The consolidated agency shall have four standing policy advisory committees named the executive, transportation, regional planning, and borders committees. The responsibilities of the committees...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.5
  (a) Each member of the consolidated agency, including alternate members when serving in the absence of a regular member at board meetings, and members, including...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132351.6
  District 11 of the Department of Transportation shall coordinate with the consolidated agency on transportation planning for all projects within the jurisdiction of the consolidated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352
  (a) The consolidated agency may adopt bylaws and other rules necessary to carry out its responsibilities. (b) The clerk of the board shall cause a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352.1
  All meetings of the consolidated agency, including, but not limited to, adjourned regular and special meetings of the board, shall be called, noticed, held, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352.2
  Acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352.3
  The officers of the board are the chairperson and the vice chairperson. The board may create additional officers and elect members to those positions. However,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352.4
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a compelling interest in ensuring that all federal, state, local, and private funds available to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132352.5
  (a) All of the privileges and immunities from liability, exemptions from laws, ordinances and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132353
  Definitions. The following definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this article. (a) "Construction" shall mean the final design, permitting and building...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132353.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in this chapter, the San Diego Association of Governments shall be consolidated into a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132353.2
  (a) A transition plan for the transfer of project development and construction responsibilities of the transit boards and the financial resources therefore to the consolidated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132353.3
  In the event of complete consolidation of MTDB with the consolidated agency, any corporation that is a wholly owned subsidiary of MTDB shall become a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132353.4
  Upon the transfer of responsibilities and obligations from the consolidated entities into the consolidated agency, the consolidated agency, shall by operation of law, and in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354
  The consolidated agency shall have and may exercise all rights and powers, expressed or implied, that are necessary to carry out the purposes and intent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.1
  The board shall arrange for a post audit of the financial transactions and records of the consolidated agency to be made at least annually by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.2
  This chapter is necessary for the public health, safety, and welfare, and shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.3
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the federal government, the state, and local agencies within the jurisdictional area of the consolidated agency will...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.4
  The consolidated agency shall be excluded from the requirements of a "local agency" set forth in Section 53091 of the Government Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.5
  Nothing in this chapter authorizes the consolidated agency to operate public transit systems.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132354.6
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the consolidated agency shall not have any authority over local land use decisions affecting permitting or zoning of public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132355
  Administrative authority for the consolidated agency shall be vested in the office of the executive director, subject to the direction and policies of the consolidated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132355.1
  The employees of the consolidated entities affected by this chapter shall become employees of the consolidated agency and shall suffer no loss of employment or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132355.2
  (a) Upon succession of the consolidated agency under Section 132351.3, and in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 132353), all affected employees of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132355.3
  (a) Members and beneficiaries of any pension or retirement system or other benefits established by the consolidated entities shall continue to have comparable rights, privileges,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132355.4
  (a) Whenever a majority of the employees employed by the consolidated agency in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132357
  On or before June 30, 2008, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and the consolidated agency shall enter into an agreement for the coordination...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132358
  (a) The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority shall prepare a regional aviation strategic plan with the objective of identifying workable strategies to improve the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132359
  (a) The consolidated agency shall prepare and adopt a multimodal surface transportation accessibility plan for airports in San Diego County (airport multimodal accessibility plan) by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the consolidated agency complete a public process by June 30, 2004, to prepare and adopt a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.1
  If the consolidated agency prepares a regional comprehensive plan, it is the intent of the Legislature that: (a) The regional comprehensive plan preserve and improve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.2
  The regional transportation plan, the regional aviation strategic plan, the airport multimodal accessibility plan, and the regional comprehensive plan should be compatible. The regional comprehensive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.3
  The consolidated agency shall maintain the data, maps, and other information developed in the course of formulating the regional comprehensive plan in a form suitable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.4
  Each member agency should review the actions that the consolidated agency makes on state and federally regulated or mandated items and report these actions to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.5
  All documents created in compliance with this article shall be made available and ready for public review in compliance with the California Public Records Act...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132360.6
  The consolidated agency may use the authority for the retail transactions and use tax provided under Sections 132301 and 132302 to fund and finance infrastructure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132362
  In addition to the authority set forth in Article 5 (commencing with Section 132300) and Article 6 (commencing with Section 132320) of Chapter 2 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132364
  The county shall conduct an election, including an advisory election, called by the consolidated agency in the same manner as provided by law for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370
  The consolidated agency may issue bonds, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the consolidated agency, in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.1
  (a) The consolidated agency may issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 for any one or more transit facilities authorized to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.2
  The Improvement Act of 1911 (Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Streets and Highways Code), the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Division 10...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.3
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code is applicable to the consolidated agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.4
  The consolidated agency shall be considered to be a "local agency" as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 53317 of the Government Code and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.5
  The consolidated agency shall be considered to be a "local agency" as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 6585 of the Government Code and the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.6
  The consolidated agency may borrow money in accordance with Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820), Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850), or Article 7.7 (commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.7
  (a) The consolidated agency may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.8
  The consolidated agency may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.9
  All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the consolidated agency under this chapter, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt from all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132370.10
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372
  (a) The consolidated agency may purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses, motorbuses, light rail vehicles, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.1
  The agreement to purchase or lease transit equipment may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the transit equipment to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.2
  (a) The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.3
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.4
  (a) An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132400
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) The "authority" is the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority created...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132405
  The authority is hereby created for the purpose of awarding and overseeing all design and construction contracts for completion of the project.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132410
  (a) The authority has all of the powers necessary for planning, acquiring, leasing, developing, jointly developing, owning, controlling, using, jointly using, disposing of, designing, procuring,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132415
  (a) The authority shall be governed by a board consisting of five voting members and three nonvoting members who shall be appointed as follows: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132420
  (a) The board may appoint an executive director to serve at the pleasure of the authority. (b) The executive director is exempt from all civil...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132425
  The LACMTA shall identify and expeditiously enter into an agreement with the authority to hold in trust with the authority all real and personal property,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132430
  (a) The LACMTA shall transfer the unencumbered balance of all local funds programmed for completion of the project and that have been identified in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132435
  The authority shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the LACMTA that shall specifically address the ability of the LACMTA to review any significant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132440
  The authority shall not encumber any future farebox revenue anticipated from the operation of the project.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132445
  The authority shall not encumber the project with any obligation that is transferable to the LACMTA upon completion of the design and construction of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132450
  The authority shall be dissolved upon completion of construction of the light rail project. The LACMTA shall assume responsibility for operating the project upon dissolution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372
  (a) The consolidated agency may purchase transit equipment such as cars, trolley buses, motorbuses, light rail vehicles, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.1
  The agreement to purchase or lease transit equipment may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the transit equipment to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.2
  (a) The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.3
  The covenants, conditions, and provisions of the agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132372.4
  (a) An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall be entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132600
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) The "authority" is the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority created under this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132605
  The authority is hereby created for the purpose of awarding and overseeing final design and construction contracts for completion of the project.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132610
  (a) The authority has all of the powers necessary for planning, acquiring, leasing, developing, jointly developing, owning, controlling, using, jointly using, disposing of, designing, procuring,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132615
  (a) The authority shall be governed by a board consisting of seven voting members who shall be appointed as follows: (1) Two members shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132620
  (a) The board may appoint an executive director to serve at the pleasure of the authority. (b) The executive director is exempt from all civil...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132625
  The LACMTA shall identify and expeditiously enter into an agreement or agreements with the authority to do all of the following: (a) Hold in trust...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132635
  The authority shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the LACMTA that shall specifically address the ability of the LACMTA to review any significant...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132640
  The authority shall not encumber any future farebox revenue anticipated from the operation of the project.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132645
  The authority shall not encumber the project with any obligation that is transferable to the LACMTA upon completion of the design and construction of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132650
  The authority shall be dissolved upon completion of construction of the light rail project. The LACMTA shall assume responsibility for operating the project upon completion...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132800
  There is hereby created the Imperial County Transportation Commission. The commission shall be the successor agency to the Imperial Valley Association of Governments and shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132801
  (a) The governing board of the commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the Imperial County Board of Supervisors. The term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132810
  The governing board of the commission at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairperson from its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132811
  The board shall establish rules for its proceedings consistent with the law of the State of California.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132812
  A majority of the voting members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and all official acts of the commission....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132813
  The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132814
  (a) All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132815
  The board shall do the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget and fix the compensation of its officers and employees. (b) Adopt an administrative code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132816
  Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132820
  The commission may do any of the following: (a) Use up to 3 percent of the revenues in the local transportation fund for the purpose...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 132824
  The commission shall undertake the following: (a) Prepare a short-range transportation plan that includes the development and approval of a three- to five-year transportation improvement...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 140280
  (a) The repeal of Division 13 (commencing with Section 140000), and the termination of the Santa Clara County Traffic Authority, do not impair either the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141000
  For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) The "authority" is the Coachella Valley Intermodal Transportation Authority and its 11...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141005
  The Coachella Valley Intermodal Transportation Authority is hereby created to serve as the governing agency for its 11 separate districts, recognized in that capacity by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141010
  (a) The authority shall be governed by the Executive Committee of the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. (b) A district shall be governed by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141015
  The board and all district boards shall do all of the following: (a) Elect a chairperson, vice chairperson, and secretary. (b) Supervise and regulate all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141020
  All meetings of the board or the district boards shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141025
  No officer or employee of the authority or any district shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded, or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141040
  (a) The authority or any of the districts, either in conjunction with the authority or any other of the districts or individually, may issue general...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141045
  (a) The authority may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use right-of-way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 141050
  The authority or the districts shall not interfere with, or exercise any control over, any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) In Fresno County, regional transportation improvements and local transportation improvements and services are an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142002
  It is the intent of the Legislature that funds generated pursuant to this division not replace property tax revenues which would otherwise be expended for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142003
  This division shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. No inadvertent error, irregularity, informality, or the inadvertent neglect or omission of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142004
  "Authority" means the Fresno County Transportation Authority created pursuant to this division in the County of Fresno.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142005
  "Board of supervisors" means the Fresno County Board of Supervisors.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142006
  "County" means the County of Fresno.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142007
  "Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area" means that area within the adopted spheres of influence of the Cities of Fresno and Clovis, as approved and amended by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142008
  "Transportation planning agency" means the Council of Fresno County Governments or any other agency which may be designated by the Governor as responsible for regional...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142010
  The authority is terminated two years from the last day on which the transactions and use tax authorized by this division is collected and as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142050
  The Fresno County Transportation Authority is hereby continued in the county, as originally created by this section.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142051
  The authority shall consist of nine members selected as follows: (a) Two members of the board of supervisors appointed by the board, consisting of one...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142052
  (a) Except for the Mayor of the City of Fresno, the members of the authority shall serve for a term of two years. (b) If...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142100
  The authority, at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairperson who shall preside at all meetings,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142101
  The authority shall adopt rules for its proceedings consistent with the law of the state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142102
  A majority of the members of the authority constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the authority require the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142103
  The acts of the authority shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142104
  All meetings of the authority shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142105
  The authority shall do all the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which prescribes the powers and duties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142106
  The authority may hire an independent staff of its own or contract with any department or agency of the United States or with any public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142107
  The authority shall fix the compensation of its officers and employees.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142108
  (a) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142109
  (a) The authority shall rely, to the extent possible, on existing state, regional, and local transportation planning and programming data and expertise, rather than on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142150
  The authority may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142151
  The authority may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142152
  All claims for money or damages against the authority are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142153
  The authority may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142154
  The authority may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142155
  (a) Contracts for the purchase of services, supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142200
  The authority shall consult with, and coordinate its actions to secure funding for the completion and improvement of the priority regional transportation improvements with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142201
  The authority shall prepare and adopt an annual report each year on progress made to achieve the objective of improving transportation conditions related to priority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142250
  (a) A retail transactions and use tax ordinance, applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the county may be imposed by the authority in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142251
  The authority, in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, shall provide the tax rate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142252
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the board of supervisors to implement this chapter pursuant to Section 142250, and the authority shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142253
  Any retail transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142254
  The revenues from the retail transactions and use taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter may be allocated by the authority for the administration of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142255
  A county transportation expenditure plan shall be prepared by the transportation planning agency for the expenditure of the revenues expected to be derived from the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142256
  (a) A county transportation expenditure plan shall not be adopted by the authority until it has received the approval of the board of supervisors and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142257
  (a) The expenditure plan shall specify the amount and the formula by which the retail transactions and use tax shall be allocated to each city...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142258
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 142260, the transportation planning agency may amend the expenditure plan. The transportation planning agency, at a minimum, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142259
  Amendments to the expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 142255 are to provide for the use of additional federal, state, and local funds, to account...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142260
  (a) The authority may, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members, approve the updated expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 142258. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142261
  If a retail transactions and use tax is adopted pursuant to this chapter, the authority shall prepare and submit a report to the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142262
  The authority, subject to the approval of the voters, may impose the retail transactions and use tax at a maximum rate of one-half of 1...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142263
  (a) The board of supervisors, or its designee, as part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142264
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued by the authority at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142265
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142266
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of limited tax bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purpose for which the proposed debt is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142267
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142268
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the authority may also provide for call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142269
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the auditor-controller-treas urer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142270
  (a) The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142271
  The bonds may be sold as the authority determines by resolution. The authority may sell the bonds at a price below par, whether by negotiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142272
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142273
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142274
  (a) The authority may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange or refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the authority upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142275
  (a) The authority may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142276
  Any bonds issued under this chapter are legal investments for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks, and trust...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 142277
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Tuolumne County Road Facilities Improvement Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recognizing the scarcity of resources available for all transportation development, the alternative methods of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150002
  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150003
  "Authority" means the Tuolumne County Traffic Authority created pursuant to this division in the County of Tuolumne.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150004
  "City" means the City of Sonora in the County of Tuolumne.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150005
  "County" means the unincorporated area of the County of Tuolumne.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150006
  "County of Tuolumne" and "Tuolumne County" mean the entire territory of the County of Tuolumne, including the territory of incorporated cities within the county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150007
  "Electors" means the electors of the city with respect to a city ordinance, or the electors of the county with respect to a county ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150008
  "Ordinance" means either a city ordinance or a county ordinance, adopted pursuant to Section 150201, which imposes a retail transactions and use tax within the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150009
  "Tuolumne County LTC" means the Tuolumne County and Cities Area Planning Council, the transportation planning agency for the county established pursuant to Section 29535 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150010
  "Voters" means the voters of the city with respect to a city ordinance, or the voters of the county with respect to a county ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150050
  There is hereby created the Tuolumne County Traffic Authority in the County of Tuolumne.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150051
  The appointed Commissioners of the Tuolumne County LTC shall serve as the Tuolumne County Traffic Authority.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150052
  The authority shall hire only that staff as may be necessary to meet its responsibilities, but shall strive to use the existing Tuolumne County LTC...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150100
  The organization and procedures manual of the Tuolumne County LTC shall be the established rules for the proceedings and administration of the authority except as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150101
  Meetings of the authority shall be held at least annually and as often as determined necessary by the authority. All meetings of the authority shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150102
  The acts of the authority shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150103
  The authority shall expend only that amount of the funds generated pursuant to this division for staff support, audit, administrative expenses, and contract services that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150104
  The authority shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Cause a postaudit of the financial transactions and records of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150105
  (a) The authority shall publish, pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, notice of the time and place of the public hearing for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150150
  The authority may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150151
  The authority may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all court tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150152
  All claims for money or damages against the authority are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150153
  The authority may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, including, but not limited to, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150154
  The authority may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150155
  The authority may provide and maintain, by contract with a public agency or by other means, a security force to enforce its regulations, preserve and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150200
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this chapter, intends the additional funds provided government agencies by this chapter to supplement existing local revenues being used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150201
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance shall be imposed by the authority in accordance with Section 150206 and Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150202
  The retail transactions and use tax ordinance shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150203
  (a) The county shall conduct the elections called pursuant to Section 150201. (b) The elections shall be called and conducted in the same manner as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150204
  (a) Any retail transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150205
  (a) Revenues from the retail transactions and use tax imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated by the authority for public transportation purposes consistent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150206
  (a) The authority, subject to the approval of the voters, may impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this division and Part 1.6...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150207
  The authority may reduce the tax rate to a percentage lower than that approved by the voters and may further provide for an increase of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150208
  (a) A ballot proposition to approve an ordinance for the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, shall seek authorization to issue bonds payable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150209
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued by the authority at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150210
  The authority may provide for the bonds to bear a variable interest rate, for the manner and intervals in which the rate shall vary, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150211
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time, and from time to time, by the authority by a four-fifths...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150212
  Any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are a legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150213
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 150214
  The commission may not impose any tax other than the retail transactions and use tax imposed upon approval of the voters in accordance with this
• California Public Utilities Code Section 160000
  The Peninsula Corridor Study Joint Powers Board, created pursuant to Section 1 of Chapter 1328 of the Statutes of 1987, is hereby redesignated the Peninsula...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 160001
  As used in this division, "district" means the Peninsula Rail Transit District.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 160002
  The district board shall be comprised of nine members appointed as follows: (a) The governing bodies of the municipal railway operated by the City and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 160005
  In addition to powers delegated to the Peninsula Corridor Study Joint Powers Board by a joint exercise of powers agreement pursuant to Section 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 160006
  (a) If the district acquires stations, facilities, and passenger equipment owned or leased by the Department of Transportation for the passenger rail service provided by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161000
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Transportation is vital to the state's economy, and a complete transportation system is essential in times...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161001
  As used in this division, "commission" means the California Transportation Commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161002
  As used in this division, "department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161003
  As used in this division, "secretary" means the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161004
  As used in this division, "transportation corridor" means an area or one or more parcels of land that meets any of the following requirements: (a)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161020
  The department may apply for and accept federal grants and receive gifts, donations, subventions, rents, royalties, and other financial support from public and private sources...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161021
  The department may serve as a repository for lands located within a transportation corridor where the preservation of those lands is required by the department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161022
  On an annual basis, or as may be otherwise required by the secretary, the department shall report to the secretary regarding privately owned lands determined...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161023
  The department may acquire land or any interest therein for purposes of this division pursuant to procedures applicable to the acquisition of land by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161024
  (a) The department may sell, rent, lease, exchange, or otherwise transfer any land or interest therein acquired under this division pursuant to an implementation plan...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161025
  The department shall develop and implement procedures to ensure that land acquisition, leasing, options to purchase, disposal, and other transactions in land under this division...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161027
  (a) The department shall cooperate with federal, state, and local public agencies in ensuring the reservation of lands for transportation purposes. (b) If any state...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161028
  (a) The department shall not hold any land acquired under this division for more than 20 years from the time of acquisition. A state or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161029
  If the department acquires any land prior to the adoption of a specific route or alignment by the commission, the commission shall disregard that land...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161030
  There is hereby appropriated from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund to the department the amount of the proceeds of all sales,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 161031
  The department shall comply with applicable environmental protection laws and regulations when taking any action authorized by this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170002
  There is hereby established the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, as a local governmental entity of regional government, with jurisdiction extending throughout the County...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170004
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Airports help to link local, regional, statewide, national, and global economic activities. Airports are also...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170006
  For the purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise. (a) The "authority" means the San Diego...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170010
  (a) The board of directors shall consist of nine members, appointed as follows: (1) The Mayor of the City of San Diego shall appoint three...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170011
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and subdivision (e) of Section 170010, the term of office of a member of the board of directors...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170012
  (a) At the first meeting of the board of directors on or after February 4, 2008, and at the first meeting of the board on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170013
  (a) The board of directors shall govern the authority. (b) The board of directors shall establish policies for the operation of the authority. The board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170014
  (a) Meetings of the board of directors are subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170016
  (a) The board of directors may adopt and enforce rules and regulations for the administration, maintenance, operation, and use of its facilities and services. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170017
  (a) The board of directors may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each of its members may receive compensation in an amount not to exceed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170018
  (a) On or before July 1, 2008, the board of directors shall expand the membership of the Audit Committee, a standing committee of the board...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170024
  (a) Upon request of the board of directors of the authority, and with the consent of any labor organization acting as the exclusive representative of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170026
  (a) The board of directors shall appoint the following executive employees of the authority: (1) Chief executive officer. (2) General counsel. (3) Auditor. (b) The...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170030
  The authority has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170032
  (a) The authority may sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction. (b) All claims for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170034
  All the provisions of Section 120242 are applicable to the authority, and the authority may exercise those provisions within its area of jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170035
  The authority is a local agency for purposes of the California Disaster Assistance Act (Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 8680) of Division 1 of Title...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170036
  The authority may act as a city police department, city, local government, or public agency for the purposes of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 2080)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170038
  The authority may take by grant, purchase, devise, or lease or otherwise acquire, hold, enjoy, lease, and dispose of, real and personal property within or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170040
  The authority may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any state or local governmental agency, or with any person upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170044
  Except as otherwise specifically provided to the contrary in this chapter, a recorded majority vote of the total membership of the board of directors is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170048
  (a) The authority has exclusive responsibility to study, plan, and implement any improvements, expansion, or enhancements at San Diego International Airport. (b) The authority may...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170050
  The authority shall be the only agency, public or private, in the County of San Diego that is eligible to take ownership of airports owned...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170052
  The authority shall be responsible for developing all aspects of airport facilities that it operates, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170054
  (a) The authority shall form an advisory committee to assist it in performing its responsibilities related to the planning and development of all airport facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170056
  The port shall transfer all title and ownership of the San Diego International Airport to the authority consistent with the terms of the transfer under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170058
  Property adjacent to the San Diego International Airport, owned by the port, and commonly referred to as the "General Dynamics Property" shall continue to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170060
  (a) The port shall retain trusteeship of lands underlying the airport consistent with the State Lands Commission's requirement and shall execute a 66-year lease with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170062
  (a) The authority shall develop a transition plan to facilitate the transfer of the San Diego International Airport to the authority pursuant to this section....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170064
  (a) From revenues in accounts attributable to airport operations, the port shall fund the authority for not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) each year...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170066
  (a) No other agency in the County of San Diego may apply for grants for funding significant expansion activities, including, but not limited to, specific...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170068
  The authority may only accept the transfer of ownership of other publicly owned airports in the County of San Diego upon initiation by the respective...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170070
  (a) The authority may issue bonds, from time to time, payable from revenue of any facility or enterprise operated, acquired, or constructed by the authority,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170072
  The authority may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution to finance capital improvements, including, but...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170074
  The authority may borrow money in accordance with Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820) of, Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850) of, or Article 7.7...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170076
  (a) The authority may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of any bonds that have been authorized to be issued, but have not been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170078
  The authority may bring an action to determine the validity of any of its bonds, equipment trust certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170082
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division or any other law, the provisions of all ordinances, resolutions, and other proceedings in the issuance by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 170084
  The authority shall assume and be bound by the terms and conditions of employment set forth in any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180000
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Local Transportation Authority and Improvement Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Local highway and transportation improvements and services are an immediate high priority needed to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180002
  "Authority" means a local transportation authority created or designated pursuant to this division.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180003
  This division shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. No inadvertent error, irregularity, informality, or the inadvertent neglect or omission of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180050
  A county board of supervisors may create an authority to operate within the county to carry out this division, or may designate a transportation planning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180051
  (a) A board of supervisors that chooses to create an entirely new entity as an authority pursuant to Section 180050 shall determine the membership of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180052
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), members of an authority which is an entirely new entity shall serve for a term of not more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180100
  The authority at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the meeting designated by the authority, shall elect a chairperson who shall preside at all...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180101
  The authority shall adopt rules for its proceedings consistent with the laws of the state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180102
  A majority of the members of the authority constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the authority requires the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180103
  The acts of the authority shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180104
  All meetings of the authority shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180105
  The authority shall do all the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which prescribes the powers and duties...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180106
  (a) The authority may hire an independent staff of its own or contract with any department or agency of the United States or with any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180107
  The authority shall fix the compensation of its officers and employees.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180108
  (a) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180109
  (a) The authority shall rely, to the extent possible, on existing state, regional, and local transportation planning and programming data and expertise, rather than on...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180110
  The authority shall consult with, and coordinate its actions to secure funding for the completion and improvement of the priority regional highways, with the cities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180111
  The authority shall prepare and adopt an annual report each year on progress made to achieve the objective of improving transportation conditions related to priority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180150
  The authority may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180151
  All claims for money or damages against the authority are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180152
  The authority may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, but not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180153
  The authority may contract with any department or agency of the United States, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180154
  (a) Contracts for the purchase of services, supplies, equipment, and materials in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180200
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this division, intends that the additional funds provided governmental agencies by this chapter shall supplement existing local revenues being...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180201
  A retail transactions and use tax ordinance applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of a county may be imposed by the authority in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180202
  The authority, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, shall provide the tax rate or the maximum tax rate,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180203
  (a) The county shall conduct the special election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 180201. If the measure is approved, the authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180204
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180205
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter may be allocated by the authority for the construction and improvement of state highways, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180206
  (a) A county transportation expenditure plan shall be prepared for the expenditure of the revenues expected to be derived from the tax imposed pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180207
  (a) The authority may annually review and propose amendments to the county transportation expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 180206 to provide for the use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180250
  (a) As part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, authorization may be sought to issue bonds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180250.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, together with the establishment of an appropriations limit of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180251
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180252
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by a two-thirds vote of the authority. Each resolution shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180253
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180254
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable at intervals determined by the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180255
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the authority may also provide for the call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180256
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180257
  The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the authority...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180258
  The bonds may be sold as the authority determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at a price below par, whether by negotiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180259
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180260
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180261
  (a) The authority may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the authority upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180262
  (a) The authority may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180263
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 180264
  Any action or proceedings wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181000
  The Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority is hereby created. For the purposes of this division, "authority" means the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181001
  The authority is a public instrumentality governed by the same board as that governing the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. The authority is, however, a separate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181003
  The authority, in cooperation with local agencies that elect to participate, may perform coordination and implementation activities, within the boundaries of Sonoma County, to assist...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181004
  Activities authorized under Section 181003 shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Reduction of energy consumption. (b) Coordination and implemention of energy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181005
  The authority shall adopt rules for its proceedings consistent with the laws of the state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181006
  A majority of the members of the authority constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the authority require the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181007
  The acts of the authority shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181008
  All meetings of the authority shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181009
  The authority shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt an annual budget. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which prescribes the powers and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181010
  The members of the authority shall be compensated as determined by the authority and shall be reimbursed for necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181011
  (a) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181012
  The authority may sue and be sued, except as provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181013
  All claims for money or damages against the authority are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181014
  The authority may apply for funds available to carry out its functions and may receive grants of funds to carry out its functions. All funds...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181015
  Nothing in this division shall supersede or interfere with activities, plans, or actions of other local agencies.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 181016
  This division shall become inoperative on December 1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185000
  This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the California High-Speed Rail Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185010
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) California, over the past decades, has built an extensive network of freeways and airports...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185012
  As used in this division, unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" means the High-Speed Rail Authority. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185020
  (a) There is in state government a High-Speed Rail Authority. (b) (1) The authority is composed of nine members as follows: (A) Five members appointed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185022
  (a) Each member of the authority shall receive compensation of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day that the member is attending to the business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185024
  (a) The authority shall appoint an executive director, exempt from civil service, who shall serve at the pleasure of the authority, to administer the affairs...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185030
  The authority shall direct the development and implementation of intercity high-speed rail service that is fully integrated with the state's existing intercity rail and bus...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185032
  (a) (1) Upon an appropriation in the Budget Act for that purpose, the authority shall prepare a plan for the construction and operation of a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185033
  (a) The authority shall prepare, publish, adopt, and submit to the Legislature, not later than January 1, 2012, and every two years thereafter, a business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185034
  The authority may do any of the following: (1) Conduct engineering and other studies related to the selection and acquisition of rights-of-way and the selection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185035
  (a) The authority shall establish an independent peer review group for the purpose of reviewing the planning, engineering, financing, and other elements of the authority's...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185036
  Upon approval by the Legislature, by the enactment of a statute, or approval by the voters of a financial plan providing the necessary funding for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185037
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any project along the high-speed rail network, the authority may contract with the department to perform project...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 185038
  Any legal or equitable action brought against the authority shall be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the County of Sacramento. For purposes...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190000
  The division shall be known and may be cited as the San Bernardino County Transportation Sales Tax Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recognizing the scarcity of resources available for all transportation development, alternative methods of financing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190002
  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190003
  "Commission" means the San Bernardino County Transportation Commission created pursuant to Section 130054.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190004
  "County" means the County of San Bernardino.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190005
  "San Bernardino Associated Governments" means the joint powers agency established pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190100
  The commission shall expend only that amount of the funds generated pursuant to this division for staff support, audit, administrative expenses, and contract services that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190101
  The commission shall do all of the following with respect to the revenues derived from the transactions and use tax levied pursuant to Chapter 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190102
  (a) The commission shall publish, pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, notice of the time and place of the public hearing for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190103
  The commission may approve a transaction and use tax ordinance and ballot proposition and call an election in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190200
  The commission may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190201
  All claims for money or damages against the commission are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190202
  The commission may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, including, but not limited to, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190203
  The commission may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190300
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this chapter, intends the additional funds provided government agencies by this chapter to supplement existing local revenues being used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190302
  (a) The commission, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190303
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 190301. (b) The election shall be called and conducted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190304
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190305
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated by the commission for transportation purposes consistent with the adopted regional transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190306
  (a) The commission, subject to the approval of the voters, may impose a maximum tax rate of one-half of 1 percent under this division and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190307
  The commission may reduce a tax rate to percentages lower than that approved by the voters and may further provide for an increase of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190307.5
  Any increase or reduction in the tax rate adopted pursuant to Section 190306 or 190307 shall become effective on the first day of the calendar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190308
  (a) If requested to do so by the commission in its resolution calling for an election, the board of supervisors, as part of the ballot...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190309
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190310
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by a two-thirds vote of the commission. Each resolution shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190311
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190312
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable at intervals determined by the commission, except...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190313
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the commission may also provide for the call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190314
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190315
  The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190316
  The bonds may be sold as the commission determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at a price below par, whether by negotiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190317
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190318
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190319
  (a) The commission may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the commission upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190320
  (a) The commission may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190321
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190322
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 190323
  The commission has no power to impose any tax other than the transactions and use tax imposed upon approval of the voters in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240000
  The division shall be known and may be cited as the Riverside County Transportation Sales Tax Act.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240001
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recognizing the scarcity of resources available for all transportation development, alternative methods of financing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240002
  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240003
  "Commission" means the Riverside County Transportation Commission created pursuant to Section 130054.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240004
  "County" means the County of Riverside.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240100
  The commission shall expend only that amount of the funds generated pursuant to this division for staff support, audit, administrative expenses, and contract services that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240101
  The commission shall do all of the following with respect to the revenues derived from the transactions and use tax levied pursuant to Chapter 4...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240102
  (a) The commission shall publish, pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, notice of the time and place of the public hearing for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240103
  The commission may approve a transaction and use tax ordinance and ballot proposition and call an election in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240200
  The commission may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240201
  All claims for money or damages against the commission are governed by Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240202
  The commission may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, including, but not limited to, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and hold...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240203
  The commission may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America, with any public agency, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240300
  The Legislature, by the enactment of this chapter, intends the additional funds provided government agencies by this chapter to supplement existing local revenues being used...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240301
  The commission may levy a retail transactions and use tax applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of the county in accordance with this chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240302
  (a) The commission, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, the tax rate or the maximum tax rate, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240303
  (a) The county shall conduct an election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 240301. (b) The election shall be called and conducted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240304
  (a) Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240305
  The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated by the commission for transportation purposes consistent with the adopted regional transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240306
  (a) The commission, subject to the approval of the voters, may impose a maximum tax rate of one-half of 1 percent under this division and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240307
  Any increase or reduction in the tax rate adopted pursuant to Section 240306 or 240307 shall become effective on the first day of the calendar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240308
  (a) If requested to do so by the commission in its resolution calling for an election, the board of supervisors, as part of the ballot...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240309
  (a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240310
  Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by a two-thirds vote of the commission. Each resolution shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240311
  (a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240312
  The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable at intervals determined by the commission, except...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240313
  In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the commission may also provide for the call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240314
  The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240315
  The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240316
  The bonds may be sold as the commission determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at a price below par, whether by negotiated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240317
  Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240318
  All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240319
  (a) The commission may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the commission upon...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240320
  (a) The commission may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240321
  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...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240322
  Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240323
  The commission has no power to impose any tax other than the transactions and use tax imposed upon approval of the voters in accordance with...