Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

(a) If the Orange County Board of Supervisors determines, subsequent to the issuance of bonds, that the acquisition or construction of all or any part of the proposed improvement will be delayed beyond the date upon which, at the time the bonds were issued, the acquisition or con…

If the first assessment or the sale of bonds to represent assessments levied pursuant to this division fails to raise sufficient money to pay all costs, damages, and expenses of the improvement or acquisition, including any judgments rendered in the action and proceedings mention…

The supplemental assessment shall be made and collected in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as the first assessment. Subsequent supplemental assessments may be made, if necessary, to pay for the improvement. At the hearing the legislative body may confirm, modify, or correct…

After completion of the improvement and the payment of all claims from the improvement fund, the legislative body shall determine the amount of the surplus, if any, remaining in the improvement fund by reason of the assessment and any supplemental assessment levied for the improv…

(a) If there is no supplemental assessment, the entire amount of the surplus shall be applied as a credit to the assessment or, as an alternative, any portion of the surplus may be used to call outstanding bonds. If any supplemental assessment has been levied, any portion of the …

If, pursuant to Section 10427, the legislative body determines that any surplus remaining in the improvement fund shall be used as a credit upon the assessment or any supplemental assessment, the legislative body may also determine that such surplus shall be applied as a credit t…

If any work to be performed under this division is deleted from a specific lot fronting on the improvement, the surplus in the improvement fund resulting from the deletion of such work may be returned to the owner of that lot, in the manner provided in Section 10427.1. (Amended b…

From the date of the recordation pursuant to Sections 3114 and 3115, each special assessment levied under this division is a lien upon the land upon which it is levied. This lien is paramount to all other liens, except prior assessments and taxation. Unless sooner discharged, the…

The lien, whether bonds issued to represent the assessment or otherwise, shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created agains…

The lien of a reassessment and a refunding assessment shall have the same priority as the original assessment to which it relates. A supplemental assessment is a new assessment. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1465.)

At any time after the preliminary approval of the report provided for in Section 10300, by resolution adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all its members and without calling for bids, the legislative body may order that the municipality itself execute any or all of the improvement…

The legislative body, on ordering the municipality itself to execute the improvement, may authorize the municipality to employ the labor, and provide the material, appliances, supplies, and illuminating agent necessary to carry out the work. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 1…

The cost and expenses of work executed by the municipality itself shall be paid out of the improvement fund, but the amount appropriated and used from the fund for this purpose shall not exceed the amount of the bid upon which the award of the contract was made, or if no bids are…

If following the hearing the legislative body shall determine that the pedestrian mall shall be established, and if at that time there remain any written claims for damages which have not been allowed pursuant to Section 11310 or which have not been withdrawn, the legislative bod…

The judgment in any such action shall be satisfied and a final order taken before vehicular traffic is prohibited, in whole or in part, on the pedestrian mall pursuant to this part. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

Anything in this part to the contrary notwithstanding, nothing in this part shall be construed or interpreted as creating any right in any person to damages or compensation by reason of the establishment of a pedestrian mall, it being the intention of the Legislature in enacting …

(a) After the adoption of the resolution of intention, the city council shall direct the clerk to give notice and set the time and date for a public meeting and public hearing pursuant to Section 54954.6 of the Government Code. (b) If assessments are to be levied as contemplated …

(a) Any person interested who objects to the proposed improvement may file a written protest, stating his or her objections, with the clerk at or before the hour set for the hearing of protests. The clerk shall indorse on every protest the date and time of its reception by him or…

The city council shall hear, consider, and pass upon the protests against the proposed improvement at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearings may be adjourned, and its decision on all matters of protest shall be final and conclusive. If those protests are sustain…

If there is a majority protest by the landowners in any zone to the improvement in that zone, or if the officer or person designated reports that it is practical to subdivide a zone and a majority of the landowners in that subdivided zone protest the improvement in that subdivide…

If a zone or subdivided zone is struck from the proceedings, the city council may proceed the same as though that zone or subdivided zone was not a part of the original proceedings. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 620.)

The city council shall thereafter levy an assessment upon each lot and parcel of land for the first contract year for the amount estimated to be necessary to improve the street lighting system for the ensuing contract year. Prior to the expiration of each contract year the city c…

The city council may order by resolution that any part or amount of the next installment of the estimated cost and expense of any improvement be paid out of the city treasury from such fund as the city council may designate, in wihich case the liability and obligation to pay any …

Whenever a part of the next installment of the estimated cost and expense is to be paid by the city, the superintendent of streets, in making up the installment assessment for such cost and expense, shall first deduct from the whole estimated cost and expense that part or amount …

Any surplus assessments collected shall be applied by the city council to reduce the assessment to be levied either for the next ensuing contract year or for the last contract year under the proceedings, and for the latter purpose such surplus may be permitted to accumulate in th…

If there is any suplus remaining at the close of the last contract year under any proceedings, such surplus shall be used as follows: (a) If new proceedings are started within one year after the close of the last contract year, such surplus shall be applied toward a reduction of …

Whenever a lot or parcel of land belonging to the United States or to the state, or to a county, city, public agent, mandatory of the government, school board, educational, penal or reform institution, or facility for the housing of persons with developmental or intellectual disa…

If the lots or parcels of land, or any of them, are so omitted from any installment assessment then the total cost and expense of the improvement shall be assessed on the remaining lots or parcels of land lying within such zones or subdivisions of zones as the city shall direct i…

If in such resolution the city council declares that the lots or parcels of land owned as provided in Section 18395 shall be included in an installment assessment or if no declaration is made respecting such lots or parcels of land, or any of them, the city shall be liable for su…

The validity of any assessment levied under this part shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless such action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the city council has acquired jurisdiction to confirm the report and assessment and any appeal from a final …

Upon the levying of an installment assessment the city clerk shall transmit the diagram and assessment and any modifications or corrections thereof made by the city council to the tax collector. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

Upon the receipt of the diagram and installment assessment the tax collector shall record them in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording. Such record shall become a part of the assessment roll upon which other …

Where the duties of assessing property and collecting city taxes are performed for the city by the county assessor and the county tax collector, in the manner provided by law, a certified copy of the diagram and assessment shall be filed with the county auditor on or before the t…

All sums collected on account of such assessment shall be placed in the city treasury to the credit of a special fund, which shall be designated by the name of the proceeding. The special fund shall be used only for paying the costs and expenses of the improvement described in th…

When the diagram and installment assessment are recorded, the several amounts assessed shall be a lien upon the lots or parcels of land assessed, respectively. Such lien shall continue and be enforced in the same manner and with the same penalties as other taxes of the city are c…

Where the duties of assessing property and collecting city taxes are performed for a city by the county assessor and the county tax collector in a manner provided by law, cities and counties may enter into an agreement whereby special assessments may be collected at the same time…

The lien shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created against the property. A supplemental assessment is a new assessment. (…

The city council may, by final resolution, order the district formed. The final resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the district as finally established. (b) List the items of maintenance and operation agreed to be furnished, and their estimated cost for the first yea…

A certified copy of the final resolution shall be filed with the assessor who makes the assessment for general city taxes. Thereafter the assessor in making up the city assessment roll shall segregate the property included within the district on the assessment roll under the dist…

Within 30 days after acquiring jurisdiction to proceed, the board of supervisors shall by resolution order that an election be held in the proposed district to determine whether or not the district shall be formed. The board may establish one or more voting precincts within the d…

The election shall be called by posting notice thereof in three public places in the proposed lighting district, and by publishing the notice in a daily or weekly newspaper, published and circulated in the district, if there is one, at least once a week for not less than 15 days.…

The election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this state, where applicable. The ballots shall contain the words, “For lighting district,” and “Against lighting district,” and the voter shall mark his or her ballot in the space provided for that p…

Every registered voter in the jurisdiction shall be entitled to vote at this election. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 133. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The precinct boards shall canvass the votes in accordance with the general laws of this state. The board of supervisors may order the county elections official to conduct the official canvass within seven days subsequent to the holding of the election. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch…

This chapter may be cited as the Federal-Aid Secondary Highways Act. (Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 580. Inoperative on date prescribed in Section 2202. Repealed on January 1 after inoperative date, pursuant to Section 2202.)

Various federal-aid highway acts have authorized appropriations for various programs for projects on secondary roads within this state. The purpose of this chapter is to implement such programs in this state. The commission, the department, and boards of supervisors are authorize…