Title GOV, California Gov. Code

(a) The following projects are eligible for grants from the fund for the purposes and amounts specified: (1) BART to San Jose; extend BART from Fremont to Downtown San Jose in Santa Clara and Alameda Counties. Seven hundred twenty-five million dollars ($725,000,000). The lead app…

As of June 30, 2017, projects in Section 14556.40 for the Traffic Congestion Relief Program shall be deemed complete and final, and funding levels shall be based on actual amounts requested by the designated lead applicant pursuant to Section 14556.12. Projects without approved a…

The contract may be terminated by the governing body of a contracting department by resolution or by any other means permitted by law. All liability of the department with respect to its volunteer members of the award system shall cease. All moneys deposited in the fund shall be …

The board may provide that an award under this chapter shall not be payable, or begin to accrue, until the board establishes, by appropriate resolution, that the fund contains sufficient net assets to make the payments provided by this chapter based upon an actuarial reserve basi…

Upon termination of the award system, assets in the fund shall be disbursed in the following order: (a) An amount sufficient to pay awards previously granted shall be retained by the board. (b) An amount sufficient to pay reasonable administrative expenses shall be retained by th…

(a) A public agency that is the lead agency for a development project shall approve or disapprove the project within whichever of the following periods is applicable: (1) One hundred eighty days from the date of certification by the lead agency of the environmental impact report,…

Notwithstanding Section 65950, if there has been an extension of time pursuant to Section 21100.2 or 21151.5 of the Public Resources Code to complete and certify the environmental impact report, the lead agency shall approve or disapprove the project within 90 days after certific…

(a) If an applicant for a development project for natural gas exploration or production and a public agency agree in writing to expedite the public agency’s actions pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 65940) or this article, the public agency may provide the services, …

In the event that a combined environmental impact report-environmental impact statement is being prepared on a development project pursuant to Section 21083.6 of the Public Resources Code, a lead agency shall approve or disapprove the project within 90 days after the combined env…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a public agency that is a responsible agency for a development project that has been approved by the lead agency shall approve or disapprove the development project within whichever of the following periods of time is longer: (1) Within …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), where a development project consists of a subdivision pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act (Division 2 (commencing with Section 66410) of Title 7), the time limits established by Sections 65950 and 65952 shall apply to the appro…

No public agency shall disapprove an application for a development project in order to comply with the time limits specified in this chapter. Any disapproval of an application for a development project shall specify reasons for disapproval other than the failure to timely act in …

(a) All time limits specified in this article are maximum time limits for approving or disapproving development projects. All public agencies shall, if possible, approve or disapprove development projects in shorter periods of time. (b) All time limits specified in this article s…

The time limits established by this article shall not apply in the event that federal statutes or regulations require time schedules which exceed such time limits. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1200.)

The time limits established by this article shall not apply to applications to appropriate water where such applications have been protested pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1330) of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Water Code, or to petitions for changes pursuant to Cha…

(a) If any provision of law requires the lead agency or responsible agency to provide public notice of the development project or to hold a public hearing, or both, on the development project and the agency has not provided the public notice or held the hearing, or both, at least…

(a) Prior to an applicant providing advance notice to an environmental agency of the intent to provide public notice pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 65956 for action on an environmental permit, the applicant may submit an appeal in writing to the governing body of the envi…

The time limits established by Sections 65950, 65950.1, 65951, and 65952 may be extended once upon mutual written agreement of the project applicant and the public agency for a period not to exceed 90 days from the date of the extension. No other extension, continuance, or waiver…

In the event that a development project requires more than one approval by a public agency, such agency may establish time limits (1) for submitting the information required in connection with each separate request for approval and (2) for acting upon each such request; provided,…

(a) Whenever the director of a Department of Transportation highway district recommends to a public agency considering an application to subdivide real property or to issue a construction permit that the agency impose certain conditions on its approval of the application, the app…

(a) The governing procedure by which an agency conducts an adjudicative proceeding is subject to all of the following requirements: (1) The agency shall give the person to which the agency action is directed notice and an opportunity to be heard, including the opportunity to pres…

(a) A hearing shall be open to public observation. This subdivision shall not limit the authority of the presiding officer to order closure of a hearing or make other protective orders to the extent necessary or proper for any of the following purposes: (1) To satisfy the United …

(a) A person may not serve as presiding officer in an adjudicative proceeding in any of the following circumstances: (1) The person has served as investigator, prosecutor, or advocate in the proceeding or its preadjudicative stage. (2) The person is subject to the authority, dire…

(a) The presiding officer is subject to disqualification for bias, prejudice, or interest in the proceeding. (b) It is not alone or in itself grounds for disqualification, without further evidence of bias, prejudice, or interest, that the presiding officer: (1) Is or is not a mem…

(a) The decision shall be in writing and shall include a statement of the factual and legal basis for the decision. (b) The statement of the factual basis for the decision may be in the language of, or by reference to, the pleadings. If the statement is no more than mere repetiti…

(a) A decision may not be expressly relied on as precedent unless it is designated as a precedent decision by the agency. (b) An agency may designate as a precedent decision a decision or part of a decision that contains a significant legal or policy determination of general appl…

The grant authorized under paragraph (32) of subdivision (a) of Section 14556.40 shall be allocated as follows: (a) (1) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to defray the administrative costs of the North Coast Railroad Authority, allocated directly to the authority as d…

(a) Before grants from the fund may be allocated to any of the three Alameda Corridor East Projects identified in paragraphs (54), (55), and (73) of subdivision (a) of Section 14556.40, a report shall be completed and submitted to the commission within one year of the operative d…

The Public Employees’ Retirement System, as a public entity, and the present, future, and former board members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, jointly and individually, and state officers and employees, shall be indemnified from the General Fund as described in Sectio…

(a) The Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System shall not be liable for any action or failure to act by the board of the California State Fire Employees Welfare Benefit Corporation. Upon transfer of the award system, the board of the California State Fi…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any person applies for approval of a geothermal field development project, then only one permit from the lead agency and one permit from each responsible agency shall be required for all drilling, construction, operation, and mainten…

(a) Any local source of funding that can be used for the development of affordable housing shall include adaptive reuse as an eligible project. No agency with control of a local source of funding shall prohibit or exclude a project proposal that uses an adaptive reuse model for a…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subdivisions (e) and (f), upon approval or conditional approval of a tentative map for a subdivision of single- or multiple-family residential units, or upon recordation of a parcel map for such a subdivision for w…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, after the amendments required by Sections 65302.9 and 65860.1 have become effective, each city and county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley shall not approve a discretionary permit or other discretionary entitlement that would result in t…

(a) For purposes of Sections 65865.5, 65962, and 66474.5, the Mossdale Tract shall achieve the urban level of flood protection by 2040. (b) For purposes of this section, “Mossdale Tract” means an area of land identified as Reclamation District No. 17 on page 144 of Bulletin No. 3…

(a) For purposes of Sections 65865.5, 65962, and 66474.5, the City of West Sacramento shall achieve the urban level of flood protection by 2040. (b) For purposes of this section, “City of West Sacramento” means the incorporated area in the County of Yolo as identified in Resoluti…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 9795 and 10231.5, on or before December 31, 2028, and every five years thereafter until December 31, 2038, the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency and the San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency shall provide a report to the Senate Natural Resourc…

(a) For purposes of Sections 65865.5, 65962, and 66474.5, the following locations shall achieve the urban level of flood protection by 2030: (1) The Natomas subarea of the City of Sacramento. (2) The Beach Lake subarea of the City of Sacramento and the Beach Lake subarea of the u…

(a) The Department of Toxic Substances Control shall compile and update as appropriate, but at least annually, and shall submit to the Secretary for Environmental Protection, a list of all of the following: (1) All hazardous waste facilities subject to corrective action pursuant …

Except as otherwise provided in Article 8.7 (commencing with Section 25199) of Chapter 6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, this chapter applies to the making of a land use decision or the issuance of a permit for a hazardous waste facility project by a public agency…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission. (2) “Pipeline integrity management program” means a program verified by the commission to be in compliance with state or federal regulations …

As a condition of approval of an application for a permit for construction or reconstruction for a development project for a wireless telecommunications facility, as defined in Section 65850.6, a city or county shall not do any of the following: (a) Require an escrow deposit for …

(a) A collocation or siting application for a wireless telecommunications facility, as defined in Section 65850.6, shall be deemed approved if all of the following occur: (1) The city or county fails to approve or disapprove the application within a reasonable period of time in a…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Batch broadband permit processing” means the simultaneous processing of multiple broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites under a single permit. (2) “Broadband permit ap…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Fiber” means fiber optic cables, and related ancillary equipment such as conduit, ancillary cables, hand holes, vaults, and terminals. (2) “Local agency” means a city, county, city and county, charter city, s…

(a) While the proceeding is pending there shall be no communication, direct or indirect, regarding any issue in the proceeding, to the presiding officer from an employee or representative of an agency that is a party or from an interested person outside the agency, without notice…