California Health and Safety Code Section 33685

CA Health & Safety Code § 33685 (2017)  

(a) (1) For the 2008–09 fiscal year a redevelopment agency shall remit, as determined by the Director of Finance, prior to May 10, an amount equal to the amount determined for that agency pursuant to subparagraph (K) of paragraph (2) to the county auditor for deposit in the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, created pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 97) of Chapter 6 of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 2008–09 fiscal year, no funds deposited in the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund pursuant to this section shall be distributed to a community college district.

(2) On or before November 15, 2008, the Director of Finance shall do all of the following:

(A) (i) Determine the value of five percent of the statewide total property tax revenue apportioned to agencies pursuant to Section 33670.

(ii) If the value determined pursuant to clause (i) exceeds three-hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), the value determined in clause (i) shall be allocated to each agency as provided in paragraphs (B) to (J), inclusive.

(iii) If the value determined pursuant to clause (i) does not exceed three-hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), three-hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000) shall be allocated to each agency as provided in subparagraphs (B) to (J), inclusive.

(B) Determine the net tax increment apportioned to each agency pursuant to Section 33670, excluding any amounts apportioned to affected taxing entities pursuant to Section 33401, 33607.5, or 33676.

(C) Determine the net tax increment apportioned to all agencies pursuant to Section 33670, excluding any amounts allocated to affected taxing entities pursuant to Section 33401, 33607.5, or 33676.

(D) Determine a percentage factor by dividing the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (A) by two and then by the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (C).

(E) Determine an amount for each agency by multiplying the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (B) by the percentage factor determined pursuant to subparagraph (D).

(F) Determine the total amount of property tax revenue apportioned to each agency pursuant to Section 33670, including any amounts allocated to affected taxing entities pursuant to Section 33401, 33607.5, or 33676.

(G) Determine the total amount of property tax revenue apportioned to all agencies pursuant to Section 33670, including any amounts allocated to affected taxing entities pursuant to Section 33401, 33607.5, or 33676.

(H) Determine a percentage factor by dividing the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (A) by two and then by the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (G).

(I) Determine an amount for each agency by multiplying the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (F) by the percentage factor determined pursuant to subparagraph (H).

(J) Add the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (E) to the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (I).

(K) Notify each agency, each legislative body, and each county auditor of each agency’s amount. The county auditor shall deposit these amounts in the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund pursuant to paragraph (1).

(3) The obligation of any agency to make the payments required pursuant to this subdivision shall be subordinate to the lien of any pledge of collateral securing, directly or indirectly, the payment of the principal, or interest on any bonds of the agency including, without limitation, bonds secured by a pledge of taxes allocated to the agency pursuant to Section 33670. Agencies shall factor in the fiscal obligations created by this subdivision when issuing bonded indebtedness.

(b) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to make the full allocation required by this section, an agency may borrow up to 50 percent of the amount required to be allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6, unless, in a given fiscal year, executed contracts exist that would be impaired if the agency reduced the amount allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to the authority of this subdivision.

(2) As a condition of borrowing pursuant to this subdivision, an agency shall make a finding that there are insufficient other moneys to meet the requirements of subdivision (a). Funds borrowed pursuant to this subdivision shall be repaid in full within 10 years following the date on which moneys are remitted to the county auditor for deposit in the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) To make the allocation required by this section, an agency may use any funds that are legally available and not legally obligated for other uses, including, but not limited to, reserve funds, proceeds of land sales, proceeds of bonds or other indebtedness, lease revenues, interest, and other earned income. No moneys held in a low- and moderate-income fund as of July 1 of the applicable fiscal year may be used for this purpose.

(d) The legislative body shall by March 1 of each year report to the county auditor as to how the agency intends to fund the allocation required by this section, or that the legislative body intends to remit the amount in lieu of the agency pursuant to Section 33687.

(e) The allocation obligations imposed by this section, including amounts owed, if any, created under this section, are hereby declared to be an indebtedness of the redevelopment project to which they relate, payable from taxes allocated to the agency pursuant to Section 33670, and shall constitute an indebtedness of the agency with respect to the redevelopment project until paid in full.

(f) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, that these allocations directly or indirectly assist in the financing or refinancing, in whole or in part, of the community’s redevelopment project pursuant to Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(g) In making the annual determinations required by subdivision (a), the Director of Finance shall use those amounts reported in “Table 7, Assessed Valuation, Tax Increment Distribution and Statement of Indebtedness” for all agencies and for each agency in the most recent published edition of the Controller’s Community Redevelopment Agencies Annual Report made pursuant to Section 12463.3 of the Government Code.

(h) If revised reports have been accepted by the Controller on or before September 1 of the applicable fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall use appropriate data that has been certified by the Controller for the purpose of making the determinations required by subdivision (a).

(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed as extending the time limits on the ability of agencies to do any of the following:

(1) Establish loans, advances, or indebtedness.

(2) Receive tax increment revenues.

(3) Exercise eminent domain powers.

(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 751, Sec. 53. Effective September 30, 2008.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018