California Water Code CHAPTER 10.7 - California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1986

• Section 13895.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1986.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 410, Sec....
• Section 13895.1.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) The State Department of Health Services has discovered toxic chemicals in 126 of California’s large public...
• Section 13895.2.
  The Legislature further finds and declares that the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California requires that water supplied for...
• Section 13895.3.
  The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to...
• Section 13895.4.
  The State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code)...
• Section 13895.5.
  As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
• Section 13895.6.
  The Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, the Director of...
• Section 13895.7.
  There is in the State Treasury the California Safe Drinking Water Fund, which fund is hereby created.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 410, Sec. 1. Approved...
• Section 13895.8.
  The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in an aggregate amount of one hundred million dollars...
• Section 13895.9.
  (a) An aggregate amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) of the moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated and shall be used for the...
• Section 13896.
  (a) The department may make state grants to suppliers that are political subdivisions of the state, from moneys in the fund available for that purpose pursuant...
• Section 13896.1.
  Applications for grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting material as prescribed by the department.(Added...
• Section 13896.2.
  The department shall prepare a report on each grant application pursuant to this chapter. The report shall be filed with the Legislature, if it is...
• Section 13896.3.
  (a) Loans and grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The State Department of Health Services may make reasonable allowance for future...
• Section 13896.4.
  An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department, unless the department determines that the public agency is...
• Section 13896.5.
  First priority for grants shall be granted to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health Services. Additional...
• Section 13896.6.
  First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers...
• Section 13896.7.
  Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before a loan or grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall...
• Section 13896.8.
  No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to this...
• Section 13896.9.
  Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by...
• Section 13897.
  For the purpose of administering this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 5 percent...
• Section 13897.1.
  As much of the moneys in the fund as may be necessary shall be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant...
• Section 13897.2.
  Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding...
• Section 13897.3.
  The department shall annually establish the interest rate for loans made pursuant to this chapter at 50 percent of the average interest rate, computed by...
• Section 13897.4.
  (a) The department, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 13897.5.
  The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this...
• Section 13897.6.
  (a) The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall, from time to time, establish a...
• Section 13897.8.
  Not more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract...
• Section 13897.9.
  All bonds authorized, which have been duly sold and delivered pursuant to this chapter, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State...
• Section 13898.
  (a) All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under Section 13895.9 shall be deposited in the General Fund and, when so deposited,...
• Section 13898.1.
  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of...
• Section 13898.2.
  For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• Section 13898.25.
  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...
• Section 13898.3.
  Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13895.9 for the purposes stated therein,...
• Section 13898.4.
  The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized at the time or times as fixed by the...
• Section 13898.5.
  All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, are available for the purpose provided in Section 13898.5, but...

Last modified: October 22, 2018