Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

The expenditure of the funds received under this article by an operator may in no year exceed 50 percent of the amount required to meet operating, maintenance, and capital and debt service requirements of the system after deduction therefrom of approved federal grants estimated t…

Commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, an operator that was in compliance with Section 99268 during the 1978–79 fiscal year in order to be eligible for funds under this article shall be eligible for such funds in any fiscal year, if it remains in compliance with that…

Sections 99268.3, 99268.4, and 99268.9 may be waived by the transportation planning agency with respect to an operator during any fiscal year in which both of the following occurred, if the waiver is necessary to enable the operator to provide vital public transportation services…

Notwithstanding Sections 99268.2 and 99268.3, the transportation planning agency or the county transportation commission may set the required ratio of fare revenue to operating cost at not less than three-twentieths for an operator in a county with a population of 500,000 or less…

Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 99247, the costs of providing ridesharing services are excluded from operating costs. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1143, Sec. 2.)

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 99247, all of the following costs shall be excluded from the definition of “operating cost” for the purposes of calculating any required ratios of fare revenues to operating cost specified in this article: (1) The operating costs req…

The exclusions contained in Sections 99268.10, 99268.16, and 99268.17 shall not be applicable for purposes of determining an operator’s compliance with Section 99268. (Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 800, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)

If fare revenues are insufficient to meet the applicable ratio of fare revenues to operating cost required by this article, an operator may satisfy that requirement by supplementing its fare revenues with local funds and calculating all free and reduced transit fares at their cur…

In the case of an operator required to be in compliance with Section 99268 under Section 99268.1, the operator may be allocated additional funds that could not be allocated to it because of those requirements, if it maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to oper…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as specified in subdivision (b), Sections 99268, 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, 99268.6, 99268.7, 99268.8, 99268.9, 99268.11, 99268.12, 99268.16, 99268.17, 99268.18, 99268.19, 99269, 99270.1, 99270.2, 99270.5, and 99270.6…

(a) In the case of an operator that is serving an urbanized area, and that was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not required to be in compliance with Section 99268 or that commenced operation after that fiscal year, the operator sha…

In the case of an operator that is serving a nonurbanized area, and that was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not required to be in compliance with Section 99268 or that commenced operation after that fiscal year, the operator shall…

(a) Commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, no funds shall be allocated under this article in any fiscal year to an operator providing services using vehicles for the exclusive use of elderly and disabled persons, unless the operator maintains, for the fiscal year, a …

(a) If a joint powers entity providing public transportation services was funded at any time under this article and is subsequently dissolved, any succeeding entity providing such services shall not be eligible for funding, unless it conforms to Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3,…

Any unallocated funds resulting from the limitations of Section 99268 may be used for capital intensive transit-related improvements. Every effort shall be made to obtain federal funds for the purposes of this section. Such improvements shall include, but not be limited to, park-…

The required ratios of fare revenues to operating cost prescribed by this article shall not apply to an extension of public transportation services until two years after the end of the fiscal year in which the extension of services was put into operation. As used in this section,…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if an operator was allocated funds under this article during a fiscal year in which it did not maintain the required ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, the operator’s eligibility to receive moneys from the local tran…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, all operators providing service within the area under the jurisdiction of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board and filing claims pursuant to Section 99260 shall be considered a single operator. In order for …

On or after the first day of any fiscal year, an operator may engage in temporary borrowing pursuant to Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 53850), Chapter 4, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code and for such purposes “revenues” as defined in Sections 53856 and 538…

If an operator serves urbanized and nonurbanized areas in the area of jurisdiction of a transportation planning agency, the transportation planning agency shall adopt rules and regulations to determine what portion of the public transportation services of the operator serves urba…

If an operator serves an area that was first designated as an urbanized area in the 1980 or a subsequent federal census, the transportation planning agency or the county transportation commission may grant the operator time, but not more than five years from July 1 of the year fo…

In determining whether there is compliance with Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, or 99268.9, as the case may be, by operators serving the area of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, excluding the City and County of San Francisco, the Metropolita…

In determining whether there is compliance with Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, or 99268.9, as the case may be, by operators serving the area of Sacramento County and the cities within the county, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments may make that deter…

(a) An operator shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the current cost of its retirement system is fully funded with respect to the officers and employees of its public transportation system, or if the operator is implementing a …

An operator that has a private pension plan shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the operator does both of the following: (a) Conducts periodic actuarial studies of its employee pension plans to determine the annual cost of futu…

An operator that has a private pension plan shall be eligible for allocations under this article, on and after July 1, 1976, only if the operator reports in its financial statements, at least annually, all of the following: (a) The actuarially determined amount of pension liabili…

The power and duties of the general manager are all of the following: (a) To head the administrative branch of the VTA and to be responsible to the board of directors for the proper administration of all affairs of the VTA. (b) To appoint, supervise, suspend, or remove VTA office…

Any vacancy in the membership of the board shall be filled for the unexpired term of the member whose office has become vacant, and shall be made by appointment by the body which is authorized, pursuant to Section 101103, to make the appointment of the particular class of directo…

The appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made within 30 days after the creation of the vacancy. In the event the vacancy is in the class of member provided for in subdivision (c) of Section 101103, and if the remaining members of the board fail to fill the vacancy within that t…

The power and duties of the general manager are: (a) To head the administrative branch of the district and to be responsible to the board for the proper administration of all affairs of the district. (b) To appoint, supervise, suspend, or remove district employees other than memb…

(a) Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors, which shall include an affirmative vote of at least three directors from each county within the district appointed pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of Section 105020, the board may by resolutio…

(a) The district has no authority to impose sales or special taxes, but may, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions represented on the board of directors, cause to be submitted to voters of the district a ballot measure for the imposition of those taxes. A…

The district may issue bonds not to exceed the amount of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), payable in whole or in part from revenues of any enterprise acquired, constructed, or completed, or to be acquired, constructed, or completed, by the district, in the manner provided by …

The district may advocate and act on behalf of all district member jurisdictions with their concurrence to further Monterey County transportation system interests, funding, projects, and priorities. (Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 460, Sec. 1. (AB 644) Effective January 1, 2010.)

The district may promulgate a plan for funding transportation projects within its jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 460, Sec. 1. (AB 644) Effective January 1, 2010.)

The San Diego Association of Governments that includes the area of the board shall be responsible for long-term transportation system planning in that area. The planning shall be directed to, among other things: (a) Identification of corridors of travel. (b) Definition of the tra…

With respect to the area under its jurisdiction, the board shall be responsible for operational planning, which includes all planning and monitoring necessary for the operation, implementation, modification, and elimination of public transportation services operated by the board.…

Notice of the time and place of the public hearing by the board shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, and shall be published not later than the 15th day prior to the date of the hearing. The materials for the public hearing shall be available for pub…

The Legislature finds and declares: (a) That the near-term programming and budgeting requirements of state and federal law is a cooperative intergovernmental planning process intended to determine the foreseeable capital and operational needs of a multimodal transportation system…

The multicounty designated transportation planning agency which includes the area of the commission shall be responsible for long-range transportation system planning, including preparation of the regional transportation plan as defined in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 650…

The role of the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, in coordinating, reviewing, and resolving intercommission conflicts, approving multicounty transportation plans, in developing plans and programs, shall be a cooperative effort with the commissions and shall b…

With respect to the area under its jurisdiction, the commission shall be responsible for short-range capital and service planning directed to: (a) Determination, on an annual basis, of the total amount of funds that could be available to the commission for transportation planning…

In addition to its short-range transportation planning responsibilities, the commission shall also be responsible, pursuant to Section 180206, for developing long-range expenditure plans for transportation programs included in voter-approved transaction and use tax measures that …

(a) The county transportation commission shall submit the short-range transportation improvement program prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 130303 to the multicounty designated transportation planning agency. The program shall be the county transportation commission’…

The commission shall take all action necessary to obtain the maximum amount of funding available pursuant to Section 1602 of Title 49 of the United States Code. Public transit operators or other public agencies may only apply for such funds under such terms as prescribed by the c…

The commission shall determine the projects on the federal-aid urban system to be funded. The commission shall determine the projects to be funded pursuant to Sections 1602 and 1604 of Title 49 of the United States Code. The commission shall also determine the program to be funde…