Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes of this article. A district may not acquire by condemnation any of the lands, properties, or facilities of any municipal utility district which are appropri…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and except as provided in subdivision (b), when property, whether owned in fee or lesser title interest, leased, or operated under a license, management agreement, or otherwise, is appropriated or otherwise acquired …

A district may make contracts, employ labor, and do all acts necessary for the full exercise of its powers. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

A district may borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness, but it shall not incur any funded indebtedness except in accordance with the provisions of section 5568 of this article. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the board may borrow money by the issuance of promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness in an amount, or of a value, not exceeding, in the aggregate at any one time, the greater of 5 percent of the total of the distr…

(a) A district may acquire all necessary and proper lands and facilities, or any portion thereof, by means of a plan to borrow money or by purchase on contract. (b) The amount of indebtedness to be incurred shall not exceed an amount equal to the anticipated property tax revenue …

The district may, pursuant to Section 5544, borrow not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to cover operating expenses between the time of formation of the district and the first receipt of revenue under Section 5545. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1171.)

It may levy and collect, or cause to be levied and collected, taxes to carry out any of its objects or purposes and to pay the obligations of the district. Taxes levied for any one fiscal year shall not exceed ten cents ($0.10) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessed v…

The board may submit a proposition to the electors of the district for an increase in the maximum rate of tax specified by Section 5545. The election shall be called and held in the same manner as a bond election, and approval by a majority of all votes cast shall be required to …

In the event the board of directors proposes to submit a special tax, as provided in Section 50077 of the Government Code, and a bond issue for approval by the voters of the district, or a zone or zones within the district, both the special tax and the bond issue may be consolida…

Any tax imposed under Section 5545 by a district formed pursuant to Section 5506.5 shall be used exclusively for the acquisition of open-space, park, or recreation lands or for the development, operation, or maintenance of open-space, park, or recreation lands so acquired. (Added…

A district may contribute money, in those amounts the board of directors, by resolution, finds to be proper, to the State Park and Recreation Commission or to any municipality, county, or other public corporation, district, or agency, for the purpose of assisting in the acquisiti…

The board of directors shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or a motion duly recorded in the minutes of the meeting. The ayes and noes shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances or resolutions, and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the board. An ordinance,…

The president shall preside over all meetings of the board. He shall sign all contracts and conveyances on behalf of the district after they have been approved by the board, and he shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the board. In the absence of the pres…

(a) The general manager has the following administrative and executive functions, powers, and duties. The general manager shall do all of the following: (1) Enforce this article and all ordinances and regulations of the district. (2) Appoint and remove subordinates, clerks, and o…

(a) The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, applies to all districts. (b) A board of directors may adopt an ordinance establishing an employee relations system that may include, but is not limited to,…

The secretary of the board, the administrative secretary, or the clerk, as the case may be, shall countersign and affix the seal to all contracts and conveyances on behalf of the district, shall act as secretary to the board and keep a record of its proceedings, and shall perform…

The controller is the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments by check or by warrant drawn upon the district’s depositories for obligations that have been first approved by a majority of the board of directors at a meeting of the board of directors. The boa…

Notwithstanding Section 5552, the boards of directors of the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District and the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District may, by resolution, eliminate the requirement that demands against that respective district …

The controller shall install and maintain a system of auditing and accounting, which will at all times show the financial condition of the district, and he shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by this article, the board, or the general manager. Payment of em…

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicabl…

The directors of the district, before assuming the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an official oath, and file it in the office of the board. The official oath shall be in the form provided by law for official oaths of county officers. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 9…

The board may appoint, employ, or contract for the services of attorneys, consultants, advisers, and such other experts as they deem necessary, and shall authorize the appointment or employment by the general manager of such assistants, deputies, and other appointees and employee…

The board shall have a suitable office in the district where its maps, plans, documents, records, and accounts shall be kept, subject at all reasonable times and under reasonable regulations to public inspection. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

The board may authorize at any time the destruction or disposition of any duplicate record, paper, or document, the original or a permanent photographic reproduction of which is in the files of the district. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 687.)

A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code. (Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 158, Sec. 28. Effective January 1, 2006.)

(a) The board shall superintend, control, and make available to all of the inhabitants of the district, subject to its ordinances, rules, and regulations, all public parks, playgrounds, beaches, parkways, scenic drives, boulevards, open spaces, and other facilities for public rec…

(a) By ordinance, a board of directors may declare that an encroachment onto district land constitutes a nuisance. (b) (1) Upon adopting an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a), the board of directors may, by ordinance, establish a nuisance abatement procedure to abate an encroa…

The board may adopt regulations, and it shall cause the regulations made by it to be posted upon park or other property of the district to which they apply, and it shall cause them to be published at least once in a newspaper published in the county or counties within which the d…

(a) Violation of an ordinance, rule, or regulation adopted pursuant to this article is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment…

In order to protect property, improvements, and facilities of parks under its management or belonging to the district and to preserve the peace within such parks, the district board may confer, on uniformed park employees which it may designate, the authority to issue citations f…

(a) A district may enact in its ordinances clauses which provide that if any person is arrested for a violation of the ordinance, and such person is not immediately taken before a magistrate, the arresting officer shall prepare in duplicate a written notice to appear in court, co…

A district may enact in its ordinances clauses which prohibit any person from willfully violating his written promise to appear in court regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was orginally arrested. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 813.)

A district may further provide in its ordinance that when a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail as provided in Section 5560.5, the magistrate shall issue and have delivered for execution…

A district may enact the foregoing as a separate and distinct ordinance which shall apply to all or one or more of its ordinances. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 813.)

The police appointed or employed by the board shall have, within the district for which they are appointed or employed, all the powers of police officers of municipal corporations except the power of serving and executing civil process. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

The board may provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed property in the possession of the district. Any resolution or regulation adopted pursuant to this section shall provide therein (1) that such unclaimed property shall be…

The district shall be primarily responsible for the prevention and suppression of all fires on any lands in its possession or control, excluding all lands of a district located within the exterior boundaries of any municipality or other fire protection district. For the purposes …

The board may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate golf courses, bathhouses, boathouses, tennis courts, gymnasiums, and other special amusements and forms of recreation, and it may acquire, construct, or complete all buildings, structures, waterways, lakes, equipmen…

If, in the opinion of the board, any land or property owned by the district, or any interest therein, becomes unnecessary for the purposes of the district, the board may, subject to the provisions of Section 5540, sell such lands or property, or interest therein. When land or pro…

Notwithstanding Sections 5540 and 5563, the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District may, and the Board of Directors of the East Bay Regional Park District may, without obtaining the consent of the voters, lease real property for a term not exceeding 99…

(a) If it is necessary or advisable to acquire or construct any works, structures, or embankments, including nature-based and built, in order to protect the property of the district from damage by flood or storm waters, the board may acquire or construct those works, structures, …

The legal title to all property acquired by the district under the provisions of this article shall immediately and by operation of law vest in the district, and shall be held by the district in trust for, and is dedicated and set apart for, the uses and purposes set forth in thi…

(a) With the consent of the board of directors of a district, an irrevocable offer of dedication of real property or any interest in real property for any of the purposes authorized by this article may be made to the district pursuant to this section. The offer of dedication shal…

It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a district with authority to impose special taxes. A district may impose special taxes pursuant to the procedures set forth in Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Governm…

Every director and every other officer named in this article who is, in any manner interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded, or to be awarded, by the board, or in the profits to be derived from such a contract, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and conviction of a pe…