Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2076, a district that has total annual revenues greater than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) may withdraw its funds from the control of the county treasurer pursuant to this section. (b) The board of trustees shall adopt a resolution that…

The board of trustees may establish a revolving fund pursuant to Article 15 (commencing with Section 53950) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code to make change and pay small bills directly.

(a) The board of trustees shall provide for regular audits of the district’s accounts and records pursuant to Section 26909 of the Government Code. (b) The board of trustees shall provide for the annual financial reports to the Controller pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Se…

Whenever a board of trustees determines that the amount of revenues available to the district or any of its zones is inadequate to meet the costs of providing facilities, programs, projects, and services, the board of trustees may raise revenues pursuant to this article or any ot…

A district may levy special taxes pursuant to: (a) Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (b) The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 53311) of Part 1 of Div…

(a) A district may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution to finance vector control projects and programs. (b) Before beginning a vector control project or program proposed to be financed pursuant to this…

A district may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution to finance capital improvements, including, but not limited to, special benefit assessments levied pursuant to: (a) The Improvement Act of 1911, Divis…

Pursuant to Section 5 of Article XIII D of the California Constitution and Section 53753.5 of the Government Code, any assessment existing on November 6, 1996, that was imposed exclusively to finance the capital costs or maintenance and operation expenses for vector control shall…

(a) A board of trustees may charge a fee to cover the cost of any service that the district provides or the cost of enforcing any regulation for which the fee is charged. No fee shall exceed the costs reasonably borne by the district in providing the service or enforcing the regu…

(a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it is in the public interest to provide different services, to provide different levels of service, or to raise additional revenue within specific areas of the district, it may form one or more zones pursuant to this article. (b) T…

(a) At the hearing, the board of trustees shall hear and consider any protests to the formation of a zone pursuant to this article. The board of trustees shall terminate the proceedings, if, at the conclusion of the hearing, it determines either of the following: (1) More than 50…

(a) A board of trustees may change the boundaries of a zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Sections 2090 and 2091. (b) Except as provided in Section 56886 of the Government Code, a local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to review and appr…

(a) As determined by the board of trustees, a zone may provide any service at any level or levels within its boundaries that the district may provide. (b) As determined by the board of trustees and pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, a zone may exercise any fiscal power…

This part may be cited as the Community Redevelopment Law.

The definitions and general provisions contained in this article govern the construction of this part, unless the context otherwise requires.

“Community” means a city, county, city and county, or Indian tribe, band, or group which is incorporated or which otherwise exercises some local governmental powers.

“Agency” means a redevelopment agency created by this part or its predecessor, or a legislative body which has elected to exercise the powers granted to an agency by this part.

“Public body” means the State, or any city, county, district, authority, or any other subdivision or public body of the State.

“State” includes any state agency or instrumentality.

“Federal government” means the United States or any of its agencies or instrumentalities.

“Legislative body” means the city council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body of the community.

“Planning commission” means a planning agency established pursuant to law or charter.

“Obligee” includes any bondholder, his trustee, any lessor demising to the agency property used in connection with a project area or any assignee of all or part of his interest, and the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the agency.

“Redevelopment project” means any undertaking of an agency pursuant to this part.

“Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.

“Director” means the Director of Housing and Community Development.

“Small housing project” means real property containing or proposed to contain a separate residential structure having not more than four dwelling units and which is owned by an agency and proposed to be conveyed to persons and families of low or moderate income or to private part…

“Redevelopment” means the planning, development, replanning, redesign, clearance, reconstruction, or rehabilitation, or any combination of these, of all or part of a survey area, and the provision of those residential, commercial, industrial, public, or other structures or spaces…

In addition to Section 33020, “redevelopment” also means payments to school districts in the fiscal years specified in Sections 33690 and 33690.5.

Redevelopment includes: (a) The alteration, improvement, modernization, reconstruction, or rehabilitation, or any combination of these, of existing structures in a project area. (b) Provision for open-space types of use, such as streets and other public grounds and space around b…

In a city and county, redevelopment includes improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. These shelters may be located within or outside of established redevelopment project areas. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only re…

Redevelopment does not exclude the continuance of existing buildings or uses whose demolition and rebuilding or change of use are not deemed essential to the redevelopment and rehabilitation of the area.

(a) It is found and declared that there exist in many communities blighted areas that constitute physical and economic liabilities, requiring redevelopment in the interest of the health, safety, and general welfare of the people of these communities and of the state. (b) A blight…

(a) This subdivision describes physical conditions that cause blight: (1) Buildings in which it is unsafe or unhealthy for persons to live or work. These conditions may be caused by serious building code violations, serious dilapidation and deterioration caused by long-term negle…

It is further found and declared that: (a) The existence of blighted areas characterized by any or all of such conditions constitutes a serious and growing menace which is condemned as injurious and inimical to the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of the communiti…

It is further found and declared that: (a) Such conditions of blight tend to further obsolescence, deterioration, and disuse because of the lack of incentive to the individual landowner and his inability to improve, modernize, or rehabilitate his property while the condition of t…

For these reasons it is declared to be the policy of the State: (a) To protect and promote the sound development and redevelopment of blighted areas and the general welfare of the inhabitants of the communities in which they exist by remedying such injurious conditions through th…

The Legislature of the State of California recognizes that among the principal causes of slum and blighted residential areas are the following factors: (a) Inadequate enforcement of health, building, and safety laws. (b) The fact that the limited financial resources of many human…

(a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state that in undertaking community redevelopment projects under this part there shall be no discrimination because of any basis listed in subdivision (a) or (d) of Section 12955 of the Government Code, as those bases are defined …

If the legislative body of the City and County of San Francisco adopts, or has adopted, an ordinance which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, it may require the agency to prohibit discrimination on that basis. In this case, the agency shall implement Sec…

The Legislature finds and declares that decent housing and genuine employment opportunities for all the people of this state are vital to the state’s future peace and prosperity, for all of the following reasons: (a) Hazardous, congested, and insanitary housing debilitates occupa…

The Legislature further finds and declares that a fundamental purpose of redevelopment is to expand the supply of low- and moderate-income housing, to expand employment opportunities for jobless, underemployed, and low-income persons, and to provide an environment for the social,…

(a) Every redevelopment agency shall file with the Controller within six months of the end of the agency’s fiscal year a copy of the report required by Section 33080.1. In addition, each redevelopment agency shall file with the department a copy of the audit report required by su…

Every redevelopment agency shall submit the final report of any audit undertaken by any other local, state, or federal government entity to its legislative body within 30 days of receipt of that audit report. In addition, every redevelopment agency shall present an annual report …

(a) When the agency presents the annual report to the legislative body pursuant to Section 33080.1, the agency shall inform the legislative body of any major audit violations of this part based on the independent financial audit report. The agency shall inform the legislative bod…

The Controller shall develop and periodically revise the guidelines for the content of the report required by Section 33080.1. The Controller shall appoint an advisory committee to advise in the development of the guidelines. The advisory committee shall include representatives f…

(a) For the purposes of compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 33080.1, the description of the agency’s activities shall contain the following information regardless of whether each activity is funded exclusively by the state or federal government, for each project area and f…

For the purposes of compliance with subdivision (b) of Section 33080.1, the fiscal statement shall contain the following information: (a) The amount of outstanding indebtedness of the agency and each project area. (b) The amount of tax increment property tax revenues generated in…

On or before May 1 of each year, the department shall compile and publish reports of the activities of redevelopment agencies for the previous fiscal year, based on the information reported pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 33080.1 and reporting the types of findings made by…

For purposes of compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 33080.1 and in addition to the requirements of Section 33080.4, the description of the agency’s activities shall identify the amount of excess surplus, as defined in Section 33334.10, which has accumulated in the agency’s…