Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

The district may operate and exercise the powers under this part within all or a part of the unincorporated area of any county, provided that the district shall have no power to levy an ad valorem property tax within the unincorporated area that is not within the boundaries of th…

(a) Any city or county authorized to join the district pursuant to Section 102051 may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this section. (b) Annexation shall only be effective if the legislative body of the city or county that requests to be annexed to the distric…

(a) Territory within the district may be detached from the district by a supermajority vote of the board of directors, which shall be at least 67 percent of the nonweighted vote of the existing board, and by a majority vote of the governing body of the territory proposed to be de…

(a) The district shall be governed by a board composed of a minimum of five directors, which may be expanded with the addition of new member cities but shall not exceed 11 directors. One director shall be appointed by the governing body of each member. Each director shall serve a…

The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a vice chair who shall preside in the absence of the chair. In the event of the absence or inability to act by the chair or vice chair, the chair pro tempore shall preside. (Amend…

The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 294.)

(a) A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. All official acts of the board require the affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the board present. However, after a vote of the members is taken, a weighted vote may be …

The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 294.)

All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code). (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 294.)

The board shall perform the following duties: (a) Determine whether to operate exclusive public mass transit guideways or to let contracts for their operation in conformity with state labor laws and subdivision (d) of Section 120508. (b) Determine the means to finance the operati…

The board shall appoint a general manager or chief executive officer with experience in the management, planning, and development of urban mass transportation systems. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 615, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2005.)

Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, and shall be published not later than the 15th day prior to the date of the hearing. The proposed annual budget shall be availa…

(a) Each member of the board, including alternate members appointed pursuant to Section 120051.6 when serving in the absence of a regular member, shall be compensated for each day the member attends meetings of the board and committees of the board, not to exceed six committee me…

The board shall maintain accounting records and shall report accounting transactions in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as adopted by the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) of the Financial Accounting Foundation for both public reporting purpose…

(a) The clerk of the board shall cause a proposed ordinance or proposed amendment to an ordinance, and any ordinance adopted by the board, to be published at least once, in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the board’s area of jurisdiction. (b) The pu…

The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings, and a vice chairman who shall preside in his absence. In the event of their absence or inability to act, the members present, by an o…

The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1188.)

(a) A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. All official acts of the board require the affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the board present. However, after a vote of the members is taken, a weighted vote may be …

The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1188.)

All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code). (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1188.)

The board shall: (a) Acquire, construct, maintain, and operate (or let a contract to operate) public transit systems and related facilities. (b) Adopt an annual budget and fix the compensation of the district’s officers and employees. (c) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinanc…

Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, and shall be published not later than the 15th day prior to the date of the hearing. The proposed annual budget shall be availa…

Each member of the board, including an alternate member appointed pursuant to Section 125051 when acting on behalf of the member, shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for each meeting of the board or other meeting of a governmental entity the member or alternate attends…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 130052, each commission at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January or at such other date as the commission may determine, shall elect a chairperson from its members who shall preside at all meetings, and a…

The commission shall establish rules for its proceedings consistent with the law of the State of California. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1333.)

A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the commission shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the commission. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 216, Sec. 3. (SB 1305) Ef…

The acts of the commission shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1333.)

(a) All meetings of the commission shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code). (b) All meetings of the citizens’ advisory committee and technical advisory co…

The commission shall: (a) Adopt an annual budget and fix the compensation of its officers and employees. (b) Adopt an administrative code, by ordinance, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of commission officers, the method of appointment of commission employees, and meth…

Notice of time and place of the public hearing for the adoption of the annual budget shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, and shall be published not later than the 15th day prior to the date of the hearing. The proposed annual budget shall be availa…

The commission shall appoint a full-time executive director who shall act for the commission under its direction. The commission may appoint such officers as it deems necessary to carry out its duties and functions. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1333.)

(a) Each member of a commission may be compensated at a rate not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for any day attending to the business of the commission, but not to exceed four hundred dollars ($400) in any month, and the necessary traveling and personal expenses incurred in…

Notwithstanding Section 130108, the Board of Directors of the Orange County Transportation Authority may allow members of the board necessary traveling and personal expenses incurred in performance of duties authorized by the board and may allow members per diem compensation at t…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall enter into a contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, and the board shall enter into that contract, to include all of the employees of the commission into that r…

Upon creation of the Ventura County Transportation Commission, and on the effective date of a contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, existing balances in the Ventura County Association of Governments Account in the Public Employees’ …

(a) For employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority not in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization, the authority shall establish retirement benefits pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 30400) and Article 2 (commencing with S…

(a) The Legislature, by the enactment of this chapter intends a county transportation authority or the commission, pursuant to a county transportation expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Section 131055, to use any additional funds provided by this chapter to supplement existing …

All allocations of revenues derived from the adoption of a retail transactions and use tax ordinance in a county shall be consistent with the priorities established by its county transportation expenditure plan. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 301, Sec. 3. Effective July 14, 1986.)

(a) (1) A retail transactions and use tax ordinance for a tax of either one-half of 1 percent or 1 percent applicable in the incorporated and unincorporated territory of a county, except as provided in paragraph (2), may be imposed by a county transportation authority or the comm…

The county, in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed and shall specify the purposes for which the revenues derived from the tax will be used, and may state the membership of the county transportation authority. (Amended by …

(a) The county shall conduct the election called by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 131102, and the county shall bear the cost in conducting the election, but shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of the tax by the agency imposing the tax if the tax is approved pursu…

(a) Any tax ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 120 days after adoption of the ordinance. (b) Prior to the operative date of the ordinance, a county transportation authority or the commi…

The net revenues derived from the taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter, after deduction for expenses pursuant to Section 131107, shall be allocated by the agency imposing the tax for the transportation purposes as set forth in the adopted county transportation expenditure plan.…

In an adopted county transportation expenditure plan that provides for the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, not more than 1 percent of the annual net amount of revenues raised by the tax may be used to fund the salaries and benefits of the staff of the commission …

(a) The board of supervisors, as part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, may seek authorization to issue bonds as may be provided for in the adopted county transportation expenditure plan payable solely from the proceeds of t…

(a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by the agency imposing the tax and shall be payable solely from the proceeds of the tax. The bonds shall be referred to as “limited tax bonds.” (…