Title GOV — California Gov. Code

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

“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…

When a city legislative body determines that it is beneficial to the city and if an equal or greater sum of money has been made available from private sources, it may appropriate and expend money from the general fund for making surveys, maps, plans, and plats and for obtaining i…

A city whose limits include or bound upon a harbor, bay, estuary, or other navigable body of water may: (a) Establish, acquire, construct, improve, and maintain in, upon, and along the body of water, piers, docks, wharves, bulkheads, quays, and other necessary works. (b) Construc…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

In the discretion of the legislative bodies of the contracting parties, the ferry may be operated either as a toll or free ferry.

Notwithstanding any contract term to the contrary, a contract entered into by a state or local agency subject to this division, including the University of California, that requires a private entity to review, audit, or report on any aspect of that agency shall be public to the e…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and in Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610, this division does not require disclosure of the contents of real estate appraisals or engineering or feasibility estimates and evaluations made for or by a state or local agency relative …

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Alternative investment” means an investment in a private equity fund, venture fund, hedge fund, or absolute return fund. (2) “Alternative investment vehicle” means the limited partnership, limited liability c…

Nothing in this division requires disclosure of an identification number, alphanumeric character, or other unique identifying code that a public agency uses to identify a vendor or contractor, or an affiliate of a vendor or contractor, unless the identification number, alphanumer…

Notwithstanding Sections 7920.510, 7920.515, 7920.520, 7920.530, 7920.540, and 7920.545, and subdivision (a) of Section 7920.525, an itemized statement of the total expenditures and disbursements of any agency provided for in Article VI of the California Constitution shall be ope…

In implementing this division, each independent special district shall maintain an internet website in accordance with Section 53087.8.

(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…