Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) The board shall adopt an annual budget pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29000) of Division 3. (b) A county service area shall be deemed to be a “special district whose affairs and finances are under the supervision and control of the board” within the meaning of…

(a) On or before July 1 of each year, the board shall adopt a resolution establishing the appropriations limit, if any, for each county service area and make other necessary determinations for the following fiscal year pursuant to Article XIII B of the California Constitution and…

(a) The board may accept any revenue, money, grants, goods, or services from any federal, state, regional, or local agency or from any person for any lawful purpose of the county service area. (b) In addition to any other existing authority, the board may borrow money and incur i…

The board of supervisors may authorize expenditures from the county’s general fund on behalf of a county service area and shall repay the county general fund from the funds of the county service area in the same fiscal year.

(a) The board of supervisors may loan any available funds of the county to a county service area to pay for any lawful expenses of the county service area. The loan shall be repaid within the same fiscal year in which the board of supervisors loaned the funds at a rate of interes…

(a) The board of supervisors may appropriate up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) from any available funds of the county to a revolving fund to be used by county service areas for the acquisition or improvement of real or personal property, environmental studies, fiscal analyse…

Whenever the board determines that the amount of revenue available to a county service area or any of its zones is inadequate to meet the costs of operating and maintaining the services and facilities that the county service area provides, the board may raise revenues pursuant to…

The auditor shall allocate to each county service area its share of property tax revenue, if any, pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 95) of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.

The board may levy special taxes pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5. The special taxes shall be applied uniformly to all taxpayers or all real property within the county service area, except that unimproved prop…

The board may levy benefit assessments for operations and maintenance consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution, including, but not limited to, benefit assessments levied pursuant to any of the following: (a) The Improvement Act of 1911 (Di…

The board may, by resolution or ordinance, do any of the following: (a) Establish user fees, rates, or other charges, provided that they are not property-related fees and charges, for the services and facilities that are not property related that the county service area provides.…

The board may, by resolution or ordinance, do any of the following: (a) Impose property-related fees and charges for the property-related services that the county service area provides, subject to the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution. If new, increase…

(a) The board may charge standby charges for water, sewer, or water and sewer services pursuant to the Uniform Standby Charge Procedures Act (Chapter 12.4 (commencing with Section 54984) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5). (b) If the procedures set forth in the former Section 25…

Whenever a person installs any facilities including, but not limited to, facilities for sewer or water service, and the board determines that it is necessary that those facilities be constructed so that they can be used for the benefit of property within a county service area oth…

Whenever the board determines that the amount of revenue available to a county service area is inadequate to acquire, construct, improve, rehabilitate, or replace the facilities authorized by this chapter, or to fund or to refund any outstanding indebtedness, the board may incur …

(a) Whenever the board determines that it is necessary for a county service area to incur a general obligation bond indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property, the board may proceed pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 29900) of Division 3. (b) The…

The board of supervisors may finance any enterprise and issue revenue bonds pursuant to the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5), and a county service area shall be deemed a “local agency” for the purposes of that…

The board may levy benefit assessments to finance facilities consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution including, but not limited to, benefit assessments levied pursuant to any of the following: (a) The Improvement Act of 1911 (Division 7 (…

(a) Whenever the board determines that it is in the public interest to provide different authorized services, provide different levels of service, provide different authorized facilities, or raise additional revenues within specific areas of a county service area, it may form one…

(a) At the public hearing, the board shall hear and consider any protests to the formation of the zone. (b) (1) In the case of inhabited territory, if at the conclusion of the public hearing, the board determines that more than 50 percent of the total number of voters residing wi…

The board may change the boundaries of a zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Sections 25217 and 25217.1, as appropriate.

A local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to review and approve or disapprove a proposal to form a zone, a proposal to change the boundaries of a zone, or a proposal to dissolve a zone.

(a) The board may provide any authorized service, any level of service, or any authorized facility within a zone that the board may provide in the county service area as a whole. (b) As determined by the board and pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, the board may exerci…

This chapter may be known and cited as the Open Space Maintenance Act.

The procedure established herein shall be additional or alternative to any other procedure established by ordinance or state law. The election to proceed under this chapter shall be expressed in the ordinance of intention to form the district.

Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and provisions contained in this section shall govern the construction and the meaning and application of words and phrases used in this chapter.

“Clerk” means the clerk of the legislative body of the local agency.

“Maintenance” means the performance of all acts and doing of the things necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including the maintenance and improvement of open areas and the doing of those acts set forth in Section 50583.

“Open space” or “open area” means any space or area characterized by great natural scenic beauty or whose existing openness, natural condition, or present state of use, if retained, would enhance the present or potential value of abutting or surrounding urban development, or woul…

“Open space maintenance district” or “district” means any district created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter to pay the assessments for the maintenance work to be done hereunder.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a means whereby any local agency may form maintenance districts within which property may be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of improving and maintaining open spaces which the local agency has acquired pursuant to Sections 6950 to …

In addition to matters specified elsewhere in this chapter, the acts authorized under this chapter include the following: (a) The formation of districts pursuant to this chapter. (b) The planning, maintaining, improving, protecting, limiting the future use of or otherwise conserv…

Proceedings for the formation of an open space maintenance district may be initiated by petition signed by the owners of assessable land in the proposed district, as shown by the last equalized assessment roll of the county, owning lands of an assessed value of not less than twen…

Before the legislative body adopts an ordinance of intention to form the district, the superintendent of streets or other officer, board or commission of the local agency designated by the legislative body shall make and file with the clerk a preliminary report which shall contai…

After the filing of the report, the clerk shall present it to the legislative body for consideration. The legislative body may approve, amend, alter, modify or correct the report or may direct changes to be made therein. When the report has been approved by the legislative body, …

If the legislative body determines that the public interest and convenience require the formation of a district, it may adopt an ordinance declaring its intention to form a district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The ordinance of intention, in addition to making the …

The proposed assessment district may be described in the ordinance of intention by stating the exterior boundaries thereof or by referring to the diagram provided for in the Preliminary report required therefor. The description of the maintenance shall be sufficient if the ordina…

The legislative body in its discretion may, in the ordinance of intention or at any subsequent time, order that a portion of the costs and expenses of the maintenance shall be paid out of the treasury of the local agency from such fund as the legislative body may designate and th…

The ordinance of intention shall be published as provided in Section 6061 and at least 15 days before the date set for hearing protests or objections.

At the hearing the legislative body may order changes in the proposed maintenance or the proposed boundaries of the district by the elimination of any portion thereof which will not in its opinion be benefited by the work proposed to be done. If the legislative body proposes a ch…

If the boundaries are changed, objections or protests made by owners of land excluded by the change shall not be counted in computing a majority protest, but written objections or protests to the things proposed to be done as an entirety made by owners of the remaining assessable…

Except in the case of a majority protest, the legislative body may sustain or deny any or all objections or protests and its determination is final. The determination shall be entered upon the minutes. If the protests are denied or if no protests are filed, the legislative body s…

If the legislative body decides to proceed, it shall by ordinance fix and establish the boundaries of the district, declare that the district is formed pursuant to this chapter, describe the open areas to be maintained by the district, order the maintenance to be performed and pr…

Any objections or protests not made at the time and in the manner provided for by this chapter are deemed waived voluntarily. The validity of proceedings taken under this chapter shall not be attacked subsequent to the hearing upon any ground not stated in an objection or protest…

The legislative body shall have complete charge, supervision and control of all open areas maintained pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The legislative body may appoint an advisory board composed of five property owners within a district, which advisory board may make r…

The legislative body may enter into such annual contracts as may be required for performance of the maintenance or may cause any part or parts thereof to be performed or furnished by the local agency and may employ the necessary labor and provide, by purchase order when necessary…

The legislative body may levy an annual ad valorem special assessment not to exceed fifty cents ($0.50) per one hundred dollars ($100) assessed valuation of taxable land and improvements within the maintenance district to pay the costs of maintenance and operation of the open are…

The proceeds of the annual special assessments shall be paid to the treasurer of the local agency, who shall place the proceeds in a special fund to the credit of the district and payment shall be made out of the special fund only for the purposes provided for in this chapter for…

If for any reason there shall be a deficiency in the funds derived from the annual assessments levied for the district, the legislative body may meet the deficiency by an appropriation out of the general fund or may advance such sums, to be repaid out of the proceeds of the annua…

Any unexpended balance remaining in the special fund for the district after the payment of the costs and expenses of the maintenance for which the assessment was levied shall be credited to the fund to be raised for the next ensuing period of maintenance for the district. Wheneve…