Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

A district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, or completing the whole or any portion of any transit facilities, or for acquiring any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other proper…

Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction, or completion by the district of any transit facilities or any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or …

In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated by petition of the voters of the district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast is presented to the board asking for the acquisition, construction, or completion of the whole or any portion of any transit facilities or for acquiring any wo…

If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without the signatures. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission to the voters of the district at a special bond election called for that purpose the proposition of incurring a bon…

The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election and of voting for or against incurring the indebtedness. It shall also recite the objects and purposes for which the indebtedness is propose…

Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the district may vote. If a special bond election is consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this chapter setting forth the pr…

The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which are applicable to any bond election held pursuant to this article. Wherever the words “county clerk” or “county elections official” appea…

The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after the election hold another special election for the submission of a proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness substantially the …

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to promote the more rapid development of new sources of natural gas and electric energy, to maintain the economic vitality of the state through the continuing production of goods and the employment of its people, and to prom…

“Private energy producer” includes every person, corporation, city, county, district, and public agency of the state generating or producing electricity not generated from conventional sources or natural gas for energy either directly or as a byproduct solely for his or its own u…

“Interconnection” means the facilities necessary to physically connect the energy source of and the point of use by a private energy producer with the existing transmission facilities of a public utility, and shall include any necessary transformation, compression or other facili…

“Transmission service” means the intrastate transfer of electricity or natural gas by a public utility for any private energy producer between the points of interconnection for use within this state in the service area of the utility. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 915.)

“Conventional power source” means power derived from nuclear energy or the operation of a hydropower facility greater than 30 megawatts or the combustion of fossil fuels, unless cogeneration technology, as defined in Section 25134 of the Public Resources Code, is employed in the …

“Fossil fuel” means a mixture of hydrocarbons including coal, petroleum, or natural gas, occurring in and extracted from underground deposits. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 915.)

“Standby charge” means a charge by an electrical corporation for providing standby generation, transmission, and distribution facilities to a private energy producer employing other than a conventional power source for the generation of electricity. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 373…

The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent taxes, with penalties, interest, and cost. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1056.)

The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect annually until the general obligation bonds of the district are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district set apart for that purpo…

The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal, and sinking fund of general obligation bonds of the district shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for district purposes, and shall be collected at the time and in the same manner as other d…

The tax rate for taxes levied in any fiscal year for all district purposes other than taxes levied pursuant to Section 29121, shall not exceed five cents ($0.05) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation of taxable property within the district, except the tax rate …

All assessments shall be made for the district by the State Board of Equalization and the county assessors, and all taxes shall be collected for the district by the tax collectors, of the counties in which the district is situated. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1056.)

Each county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the total value of all property within the district as equalized. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1056.)

The board shall, on or before the first weekday in September, or if such weekday falls upon a holiday then on the first business day thereafter, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each hundred dollars, using as a basis the value of property transmitted to…

If in the determination of any tax rate a fraction of a cent occurs, the board may adopt a rate ending in the next higher tenth of one cent ($0.001). An excess over the amount specified in the budget, arising from the use of the tenth of one cent tax rate, is not a violation of t…

The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district is situated a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1056.)

The district’s taxes levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount, ascertained as provided in this article, shall be paid to the chief financial officer of the district, under the genera…

Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of the provisions of Section 29124 has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the district by the county treasurers receiving it in the p…

The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this chapter shall be fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors of the county and the board. The compensation shall in no event exceed one-half of 1 percent of all money colle…

All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied. Unless the board has by ordinance otherwise provided, the enforcement of the collection of such taxes shall be in the same manner and by the same means provided by law for the enforcement of lie…

Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, development, joint development, maintenance, operation, or repair of any or all improvements, works, property, or facilities, authorized by this part or necess…

Notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the ordinance calling the election in at least one newspaper published in such district. No other notice of such election need be given. Except as otherwise provi…

If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six months after the prior election. If a petition requesting submission of such a proposition, signed by 15 percent of the district …

If 60 percent of the electors voting on the proposition vote for it, then the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as it deems proper, issue bonds of the district for the whole or any part of the amount of the indebtedness so authorized and may from time to time, by re…

The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum rate allowed by law, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on the bonds or any series thereof may be for any period not exceeding one year as determined by the board. In the resoluti…

The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner as it may prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received the bonds offered for sale …

Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the State, and the purchase price may be received in cash or bank credits. (Added by Stats. 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 62.)

All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds and the remainder of the proceeds of the bonds shall be placed in the treasury to the credit of the proper improvement …

After the expiration of three years after a bond election the board may determine, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the board, that any or all of the bonds authorized at said election remaining unsold shall not be issued or sold. When the ordinan…

Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise, it may, by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all members of the board, so declare and call an election to be held in the …

The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 53500), Chapter 3, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code are applicable to the district. (Added by Stats. 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 62.)

Any bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this article shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, banks—both commercial and savings—and trust companies; and for state school funds; and whenever any money or funds may, by any…

The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing the whole or any portion of any transit facilities, or for acquiring any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other prope…