Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The regulations shall specify that the program shall be operated as a privately operated program under the oversight of a state agency to be designated by the Governor. In consultation with the districts and interested parties, the state oversight agency shall be responsible for …

The program shall include provisions for monitoring and preventing all forms of tampering or other forms of cheating, and shall effectively address “avoidance vehicles” such as nonregistered vehicles and vehicles lacking a sufficient inspection and maintenance history. If fraud i…

The program shall discourage tampering and other forms of cheating, and effectively address “avoidance vehicles,” such as nonregistered vehicles and vehicles lacking a sufficient inspection and maintenance history.

The program shall include appropriate means to solicit vehicle owners, including mass mailings, media advertising, news coverage, and direct mail to owners of candidate vehicles, and may include high-emitting vehicles based on smog check or remote sensing or high-emitter profile …

The program shall ensure that vehicle purchase transactions are convenient to vehicle owners, including advance screening to reasonably assure that vehicles qualify for the program.

Vehicle disposal under the program shall be consistent with appropriate state board guidance and provisions of the Vehicle Code dealing with vehicle disposal and parts reuse, and shall do both of the following: (a) Allow for trading, sale, and resale of the vehicles between licen…

The state board shall develop standards for the certification and use of emission reduction credits to ensure that the credits are real, surplus, and quantifiable after accounting for program uncertainties.

Emission reductions achieved from retired vehicles shall be quantified as follows: (a) Vehicle emissions shall be based on either direct testing, statistical sampling, or emission modeling methods. Sampling of a statistically significant portion of the vehicles may be used to est…

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Car sharing” has the same meaning as in Section 44258. (b) “Clean Cars 4 All” means the Clean Cars 4 All Program established pursuant to Section 44124.5. (c) “Disadvantaged community” means a comm…

(a) The Clean Cars 4 All Program is hereby established and is to be administered by the state board to focus on achieving reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, improvements in air quality, and benefits to low-income state residents through the replacement of high-pollu…

(a) (1) No later than July 1, 2009, the state board, in consultation with the bureau, shall adopt a program to commence on January 1, 2010, that allows for the voluntary retirement of passenger vehicles and light-duty and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. The program sh…

Beginning no later than July 1, 2019, and every year thereafter, the state board, for both the program and Clean Cars 4 All, shall collect and post on its internet website all of the following: (a) The performance of both programs relative to the goals set pursuant to subdivision…

The Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount is hereby created in the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account. All moneys deposited in the subaccount shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for both of the following: (a) To the department and the bureau to estab…

(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the state board may allocate moneys for the expansion of the replacement component or mobility option component of the program or Clean Cars 4 All from any of the following: (1) The Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount, created pursua…

“Works,” as used in this chapter, includes any or all of the following facilities, including, but not limited to, necessary lands, rights-of-way, or other property: (a) Sewage treatment plants. (b) Intercepting and collecting sewers. (c) Outfall sewers. (d) Force mains. (e) Pumpi…

“District,” as used in this chapter, includes city, county, city and county, or any municipal or public corporation or district which is authorized to acquire, construct, own, or operate a sewer system.

“Governing body,” as used in this chapter, means the governing body of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Clerk,” as used in this chapter, means the clerk or secretary of the governing body or of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Area,” as used in this chapter, means the area served, or proposed to be served, by the works, or proposed works. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Rates,” as used in this chapter, includes rates and charges. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Bonds,” as used in this chapter, means revenue bonds authorized by this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Treasurer,” as used in this chapter, means the treasurer of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Owners of improved real property,” as used in this chapter, means persons who are recorded on the books of the assessor and tax collector as the owners of lots or parcels of land in the area that are improved by buildings that would be subject to service of works under the provi…

The provisions of this chapter regarding a referendum shall be liberally construed to effect the objects of this chapter, and no irregularity or informality shall invalidate the election when it appears that the provisions of law have been substantially complied with. (Enacted by…

This chapter is an additional and alternative method to those already provided for the acquisition, construction, extension, and operation of the works referred to in this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is for any reason held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances,…

Before a district acquires or constructs any works under this chapter, its governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring its intention to do so. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The resolution of intention shall contain all of the following: (a) A brief and general description of the works. If they are to be constructed, a reference to the plans and specifications that have been prepared and filed by the engineer chosen by the governing body. (b) The est…

The owner of property that may be benefited by the acquisition, construction, extension, or operation of the works referred to in this chapter may file with the district a request that a particular work be undertaken. The request may, but need not, include the descriptions and es…

The time set for the hearing shall be not less than twenty nor more than forty days after the adoption of the resolution. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The governing body shall cause the resolution to be published twice in one or more newspapers published and circulated in the district. If no newspaper is published in the district, then the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in the county in which the district is…

A copy of the resolution headed “Notice of Sewer Work,” in letters not less than one inch in height, shall be posted in the district along the entire length of that street in the district which, in the opinion of the governing body, is traversed by the largest number of people. T…

Both the posting and the publication shall be completed at least ten days before the time set for the hearing. Affidavits of publication and of posting shall be filed with the clerk. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

At the time set for the hearing, the governing body shall hear all persons or their representatives having any objections to the acquisition or construction of the works as proposed, also any suggestions that may be offered in the way of an amendment or modification of the propos…

If, before the conclusion of the hearing, a petition signed by not less than 15 percent of the owners or by not less than 15 percent of the registered voters in the specified area is filed with the governing body requesting that body to submit the proposition of acquiring or cons…

If called, the election shall be held and conducted, the votes received and canvassed, and the returns made, determined, and declared, so far as practicable, in accordance with the laws governing the enactment or rejection of city ordinances by means of the initiative or referend…

If the proposal is not rejected at a referendum election, the governing body acquires jurisdiction to proceed.

The cost of the acquisition or construction of the works for which bonds may be issued includes all of the following: (a) The cost of all property, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or convenient therefor. (b) Engineering, clerical, legal, financial, paying and f…

Bonds issued and sold under this chapter shall be revenue bonds of the character and form known as “serials.” Each bond shall be entitled “sewer revenue bond,” and shall be paid and discharged within forty years from its date.

Each bond, except those of the last installment, or one of each annual installment, shall be in multiples of one hundred dollars, in such amount as the governing body determines, but no bond shall be of greater denomination than one thousand dollars. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. …

The bonds shall bear interest, as the governing body shall determine, at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per annum, and shall, after the first principal maturity, be payable semiannually by coupon.

The governing body shall prescribe the form of the bonds, and provide that of the indebtedness represented thereby a part shall be payable each year after their date, at a time and place to be designated in the bonds, together with interest, until the whole of the indebtedness ha…

The number of bonds to be paid each year need not be the same, and the governing body may fix maturities so that the number of bonds retired each year will, in the discretion of the governing body, be most equitable and just; however, all bonds shall be completely paid within for…

If the district is a city, the bonds shall be signed by the mayor if there is one; otherwise by the president or chairman of the governing body, and countersigned by the clerk. The seal of the district shall be affixed to the bond. The coupons shall be signed by the treasurer by …

In the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds, provision may be made, but are not limited to provisions: (a) That all or part of the bonds are callable, the manner of the call and the premiums to be paid thereon; (b) That all or part of the bonds are payable at the offic…

If the proceeds of the bonds for any reason are less than the cost of the works, additional bonds may in like manner be issued and sold to provide for the amount of the deficit, but not to exceed the amount necessary to complete the works according to the original plans and speci…

No error, defect, irregularity, informality, and no neglect or omission of any officer of any district in any proceedings under this chapter, that does not affect the jurisdiction of the governing body to order the doing of the acts proposed to be done, avoids or invalidates the …

Bonds may be made payable on a date subsequent to the time fixed for the collection of the second installment of general district taxes with which the first levy of taxes for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds is to be collected. In such event, the first inte…

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.

In determining the amount of bonds to be issued, the legislative body may include: (a) All costs and estimated costs incidental to or connected with the acquisition, construction, improving or financing of the project. (b) All engineering, inspection, legal and fiscal agent’s fee…