Title GOV, California Gov. Code

All bonds, and the interest or income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation in this State other than gift, inheritance and estate taxes. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 822.)

All bonds issued under this chapter shall be legal investments for both public and private funds. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 822.)

The board may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any revenue bonds issued by the board. All provisions of this chapter applicable to the issuance of revenue bonds are applicable to the funding or refunding bonds…

Funding or refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of all bonds to be funded or refunded thereby, and in addition for the payment of all expenses incident to the calling, retiring or paying of such outstanding bonds, and the…

All bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter are negotiable instruments, except when registered in the name of a registered owner. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 822.)

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 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1547.)

As used in this article: (a) “Navigable water” includes a harbor, bay, inlet, and estuary. (b) “Tidelands” includes submerged lands. (c) “Owns tidelands” means by grant from the State, or otherwise, owns, holds, or possesses tidelands or the title to such lands. (Added by Stats. …

By ordinance a city which owns tidelands situated within the city boundaries and fronting on a navigable water within the city boundaries may fix and establish harbor lines, both pierhead and bulkhead lines, in and for the navigable water. By ordinance the city may change or abol…

A city may exercise such power to the same extent which the State may exercise it or to which the State can grant such power to a city. Harbor lines shall not be fixed or established beyond or outside harbor lines established by the United States. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

All navigable waters situated within or adjacent to city shall remain open to the free and unobstructed navigation of the public. Such waters and the water front of such waters shall remain open to free and unobstructed access by the people from the public streets and highways wi…

To secure the benefits of this article and of Article XV of the Constitution to such city and to the people generally, a city in which a navigable water is situated may: (a) By ordinance establish public streets and other public rights of way to the water over, upon, or along the…

The authority granted by this article may be exercised by a city over, along, or upon the water frontage or tidelands which it owns or which one claimed or possessed by any person. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

City ordinances for the laying out, establishing, opening, constructing, maintaining, or otherwise improving of public streets and other public rights of way adopted prior to August 10, 1913, are confirmed and validated. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

When by ordinance a city declares that any right of way to a body of navigable water in the city over, upon, or along the frontage of city tidelands is required for any public purpose, a person claiming or possessing such frontage or tidelands shall not: (a) Hinder the city in la…

Ordinances of a city owning tidelands fronting on a navigable water situated within the city boundaries which were adopted prior to August 10, 1913, and which fix harbor lines upon or adjacent to such tidelands are confirmed and validated unless they extend beyond harbor lines es…

In implementing this division, each independent special district shall maintain an internet website in accordance with Section 53087.8. (Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 614, Sec. 2. (AB 473) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, pursuant to Sec. 7931.000.)

(a) Any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, is a public record subject to disclosure under this division. (b) Any provision in a written agreement that purports to exclude a contract specifi…

The board shall fix the rates, fees and all other charges to be made for all projects, services or facilities furnished, acquired, constructed or completed under this chapter for the use thereof by any persons or public or private agencies utilizing such projects, services or fac…

Every contract entered into by the board for the use of any project or the services or facilities thereof, acquired, constructed or completed from the proceeds of the sale of revenue bonds shall incorporate by reference the provisions of any indenture pursuant to which the bonds …

The legislative body may: (a) Improve the rivers and streams flowing through or adjoining the city, widen, straighten, and deepen their channels, and remove obstructions from them. (b) Acquire and improve public mooring places for water craft. (c) Improve the city water front, in…

It may also acquire, own, construct, maintain, and operate wharves, chutes, piers, breakwaters, bathhouses, and life saving stations on lands bordering on a navigable bay, lake, inlet, river, creek, slough, or arm of the sea within the city limits or contiguous thereto. (Added by…

Pursuant to contract and through its legislative body, a city may join with another city of the same class or with a county in: (a) Acquiring an existing ferry and franchise, wharf, or landing place necessary for its operation. (b) Operating the ferry upon navigable waters within…

Each contracting party may pay its proportionate share of the cost of acquiring and operating the ferry out of its general fund. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

In the discretion of the legislative bodies of the contracting parties, the ferry may be operated either as a toll or free ferry. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The board may include, in an indenture for the issuance of revenue bonds, a clause that no competitive projects will be acquired or constructed by the board as long as any of the bonds issued under any such indenture are outstanding. Such limitation shall be valid and binding upo…

The board may also include in an indenture for the issuance of bonds a clause that no project or the facilities or services thereof acquired, constructed or completed from the proceeds of revenue bonds shall be used without charge therefor or be furnished free of charge to any pe…

The holder of any bond issued pursuant to this chapter may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding, require and compel the performance of any of the duties imposed upon the board or its officers, agents or employees in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation,…

While any revenue bonds issued by the board remain outstanding, the powers and duties of the board shall not be diminished or impaired in any manner that will adversely affect the interest and rights of the holders of the bonds. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 822.)

The board may accept contributions or appropriations from the United States of America, the State of California, or any department or agency of either thereof, or from any city, city and county, political subdivision, agency, district or other public corporation of this State. (A…

The board may enter into any contract, arrangement or agreement with the State or any other municipal corporation or public agency and may cooperate with the State or any other municipal corporation or public agency for the development, maintenance, operation or use of any projec…

The board may cooperate and contract with the United States under the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944, approved October 3, 1944, and any acts amendatory or supplemental thereto or any other act of Congress heretofore or hereafter enacted, authorizing or permitting s…

The board may authorize or direct any county officer, employee or department to perform services for or in connection with the development, construction, maintenance or operation of any project and the cost of such services shall be a charge against the appropriate project fund. …

The board may provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of any project upon any lands owned by the county without regard to the manner in which such lands were acquired, and if such lands were acquired other than through the issuance of revenue bonds authorized for …

The proceeds from the sale of all bonds authorized under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of a bond fund or enterprise fund, one of which the treasurer is hereby directed to establish for the particular project for which the bond…

If any surplus shall exist in a bond fund or enterprise fund after the payment in full of all costs of acquisition, construction and completion of the project for which the revenue bonds were issued, the same may be disbursed for any of the purposes provided for in this chapter o…

The board may provide for the payment of the interest becoming due and payment on the principal of revenue bonds prior to and during the period of actual construction of the project for which the bonds are issued and for the period specified in the indenture for the issuance of t…

Moneys in a bond fund or enterprise fund not required to meet acquisition or constructions costs or expenses payable from the construction fund or interest on the bonds, may be invested in bonds and other obligations eligible for investment of surplus county moneys; subject to su…

All revenues received from the operation of the project acquired, constructed or completed by the board shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of either an enterprise fund or a special revenue fund established for the particular project for which the bonds were auth…

This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out its objects and purposes and to finance the construction of needed public improvements through the medium of revenue bonds and to protect the holders of such bonds. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 822.)

“Bonds” as used in this chapter means the written evidence of any obligation incurred by the board payable out of revenues as provided in this chapter in order to secure funds with which to carry out the purposes of this chapter irrespective of the form of such obligation whether…

“Revenue” as used in this chapter shall mean all fees, rates, charges, rentals or other income and revenue actually received or receivable by or for the account of the board from the operation of any particular project including without limiting the generality of the foregoing in…

This chapter shall not be operative in any county until the board of supervisors, either at a general or a special election, shall submit to the electors of the county the question as to whether the board of supervisors shall be authorized to adopt the revenue-bond method of fina…

This chapter may be cited as the Public Employees’ Long-Term Care Act. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Adult children” means children who are at least 18 years of age. (2) “Domestic partners” means adults in a domestic partnership as defined in Section 22771. (3) “Siblings” means siblings who are at least 18 years of age. (4) “Spouses” means …

The board shall consult with employer and employee representatives of the state and local government entities for whom the board administers retirement benefits. The board and each employer is authorized to recover the administrative costs of the long-term care insurance program …

(a) The board may enter into contracts with long-term care insurance carriers, pursuant to Section 21661, and with entities offering services relating to the administration of long-term care plans, without compliance with any provisions of law relating to competitive bidding. (b)…