Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

A district may issue bonds as provided in this part. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

A district may issue bonds to raise money for any of the purposes stated in Section 6512 hereof.

By order entered in its minutes, when in its judgment it is advisable, the board may and shall, upon a petition of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the district, call an election and submit to the electors of the district the question whether bonds shall be issued…

The order calling the election may submit as one proposal the question of issuing bonds to make all of the outlays, or so many of them as may be selected, or the order may submit at the election as separate questions the issuance of bonds for any of the outlays singly or in combi…

If, at the election, two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of bonds, the board may issue and dispose of the bonds as proposed in the order calling the election.

Bonds issued by the district under the provisions of this part shall be of such denomination or denominations as the board determines.

The bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer and bear interest at a rate not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually in like lawful money. The interest for the first year may be payable in one installment at the end of…

No bonds shall be payable in installments, but each shall be payable in full on the date specified therein by the board, which need not be an anniversary of the date of the bond. The board may provide that any bond issued by the district may be subject to call and retirement prio…

Each bond shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary. The bonds shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one, and shall have coupons attached referring to the number of the bond. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The bonds shall be sold by the board in such manner and in such quantities as may be determined by it in its discretion but not less than 95 percent of the par value thereof. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such m…

The term of bonds issued shall not exceed forty years. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The outstanding bonds of the district shall not at any one time exceed 15 percent of the assessed value of the real and personal property of the district, except where the board elects to use the county assessor’s tax roll pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 6780) of C…

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.

(1) An issue of bonds is hereby defined to be the aggregate principal amount of all of the bonds authorized to be issued in accordance with a proposal submitted to and approved by the electors of the district, but no indebtedness will be deemed to have been contracted until bonds…

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…

At any time after the annexation of territory, the board may issue bonds to raise money for any of the purposes stated in Section 6512 hereof in or for the benefit of said annexed area in the same manner as in any other part of the district, except, only qualified electors reside…

The provisions of this part with reference to bonds in annexed territory do not limit the powers or alter the procedure provided for the issuance of bonds by an entire district and payable out of taxes levied upon all taxable property whether the boundaries of the district remain…

Bonds of the district for the purpose of providing funds for the construction of a larger main sewer or a different system shall be authorized and issued in the same manner as that provided in this part for other bonds of the district.

After a district organized under the Sanitary District Act of 1891, or Chapter 161, Statutes of 1891, has been reorganized under this part the entire amount of bonds issued by it under either act may be presented by the holder to the board, and there shall be issued in exchange t…

The new bonds shall be payable as nearly as practicable at the same time as the installments on the old bonds and in equal amounts. Interest on the new bonds shall be paid at the same time and rate as on the old bonds. The amount of the new bonds payable in any one year shall equ…

The expenses of the exchange shall be borne by the holder of the bonds presented for exchange. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

After the exchange the old bonds shall be canceled by punching holes in the signatures, and shall be retained by the county treasurer. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The board may cause refunding bonds to be issued for the purpose of refunding any or all outstanding bonds of the district.

Refunding bonds shall be issued and delivered only when the bonds to be refunded have matured or are about to mature or are subject to retirement before maturity, or, if the outstanding bonds are not subject to retirement the retirement thereof shall have been assured or obtained…

Except as otherwise provided in this article, refunding bonds shall be issued in substantially the manner and form prescribed for the issuance of other bonds under this part and the provisions of this part concerning the authorization, certification, issuance, and sale of bonds s…

The board desiring to refund any of its bonds may formulate a proposed plan for that purpose and shall call an election for the purpose of authorizing the issuance of such refunding bonds. The election shall be called and held and the result thereof determined and declared substa…

Only a majority vote shall be required to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds.

The maturity date of refunding bonds shall be fixed by the board but in no case shall the maturity of any such bonds be more than forty years from the date thereof.

The rate of interest on refunding bonds shall not exceed 8 percent per annum payable semiannually.

Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of the bonds to be refunded thereby and in addition all expenses incidental to the calling, retiring or payment of such outstanding bonds and the issuance of such refunding bonds.

(a) Money deposited in the state account may also be appropriated by the Legislature to the department on a specific site basis for the following purposes: (1) For all costs incurred in restoring, rehabilitating, replacing, or acquiring the equivalent of, any natural resource inj…

(a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 25187 of the Health and Safety Code , the department may use any legal remedies available pursuant to this part or Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 20 to compel a responsible party or parties t…

(a) Any treatment, storage, transfer, or disposal facility built on the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site, that was built for the purpose of a remedial or removal action at that site, shall only be used to treat, store, transfer, or dispose of hazardous su…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Article 5 (commencing with Section 78760) of Chapter 4, the department shall place the highest priority on taking removal and remedial actions at the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Si…