Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

A city or county that adopts a golf cart transportation plan shall adopt all of the following as part of the plan: (a) Minimum design criteria for golf carts, that may include, but not be limited to, headlights, turn signals, safety devices, mirrors, brake lights, windshields, an…

If the council orders the improvement to be made, it shall levy an assessment upon the lots or parcels of land specified in the diagram provided for in this part for the total amount required to pay for the improvement, less any sums allotted by the city council therefor in its r…

Upon the levying of the assessment, the clerk of the council shall transmit to the city tax collector the diagram and assessment upon which the levy is based. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

The validity of any assessment levied under this part shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless the action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the time the assessment is levied. Any appeal from a final judgment in such an action or proceeding must be p…

Upon the receipt of the diagram and assessment the tax collector shall record them in a suitable book to be kept by him for that purpose, and append thereto his certificate of the date of recording. The record shall be the assessment roll. From the date of recording all persons s…

Immediately upon the recording, the several assessments contained in the assessment roll shall become due and payable, and each of the assessments shall be a lien upon the property against which it is made, and shall only be discharged by payment of the assessment or by redemptio…

The tax collector shall, upon the recording of the assessment, give notice thereof by publication for five days in a daily newspaper, published and circulated in the city, or by two insertions in a weekly newspaper so published and circulated. If there is no such newspaper, the n…

The notice shall state that: (a) The assessments have been recorded in the tax collector’s office. (b) All sums assessed therein are due and payable immediately. (c) The payment of the sums shall be made to him within 30 days after the date of the first publication or posting of …

When any assessment is paid, the tax collector shall mark opposite the assessment the word “paid,” with the date of the payment and shall give a receipt therefor. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

All assessments unpaid shall be delinquent at the expiration of a period of 30 days from the first publication or posting of the notice that the assessment is due and payable. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

The tax collector shall, when any assessment is delinquent, mark opposite the assessment the word “delinquent,” and shall add 10 per cent to the amount of the assessment. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

As an alternative method for the collection of assessments levied under this part, the council, after the adoption of the resolution ordering the improvement, may order the assessment roll prepared by the city forester, showing the amount of the assessment against each lot or par…

The city council shall have the power, in its discretion, to determine that the payment of such assessments may be made in annual installments, in any event not to exceed five, and that the payments of assessments so deferred shall bear interest on the unpaid balance at a rate to…

The lien, whether bonds issued to represent the assessment or otherwise, shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created agains…

The validity of an assessment levied under this part for the purpose of raising revenue necessary to pay the debt service on bonds issued pursuant to Section 22662.5 shall not be contested in any action or proceeding, unless the action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days af…

The legislative body may (a) provide for the construction or installation of any improvements authorized by Part 1 (commencing with Section 22000) of this division by proceedings taken pursuant to any other special assessment law or, in the case of a charter city, any procedural …

The department shall be responsible for coordinating the work necessary to carry out the Los Angeles demonstration project, as described in the financial plans adopted pursuant to Sections 307.1 and 347.1, financed with the federal funds made available by subdivision (a) of Secti…

The department shall undertake the Prairie Creek Redwood State Park demonstration project or other projects as described in federal law in lieu of this project financed, in part, with funds made available by Section 152 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 and Section 12 of the…

In addition to the purposes allowable pursuant to Section 193, the commission may allocate State Highway Account funds available for state highway purposes to meet federally required local financial matching provisions for interstate transfer projects. If the commission allocates…

Immediately following the organization of the district, the several boards of supervisors of the counties composing the district shall provide the district with a sufficient contingent fund to enable the district and its officers to perform their prescribed functions and duties. …

The boards of supervisors of the counties within the district may contribute to the contingent fund from any funds of the several counties not otherwise appropriated, including any moneys received from the State by the counties as a result of any tax or license upon motor vehicle…

The contingent fund may be used for the following purposes: (a) For any purpose necessary to create and maintain the organization of the district. (b) For making reconnaissance, preliminary and final location surveys. (c) For all necessary or proper engineering, legal or clerical…

The commission shall be the governing body of the district, and shall exercise all of the powers which are vested in the district. At its first meeting or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, the commission shall choose one of its members as president, and another of its mem…

The commission shall hold all meetings in the district at an appointed place, at such times as may be convenient. If either the president or the secretary are absent or unable to act, the commission shall, by order entered upon its minutes, choose from its members a president pro…

A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and every decision of the majority made when duly assembled, is valid as an act of the commission. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 285.)

The district may use a common seal, alterable at the pleasure of the commission and may: (a) Sue and be sued in its own name. (b) Lay out, establish, construct, acquire and maintain boulevards within the district, and for this purpose acquire by purchase, gift, devise, condemnati…

For the purposes of this part the district may take over, control, operate, and use in whole or in part any county road or public highway and may construct any boulevard in whole or in part, over, along, or upon all or any part of any county road or public highway. District funds…

At its option, the commission may make application to the Department of Transportation for the exercise by the department of any powers, duties, or authority which the department may have with respect to the ownership, construction, maintenance, or improvement of any boulevard pu…

When all of the petitions, or certifications of the result of elections have been received from the county elections officials of the counties having any portion of their territory within the boundaries of the proposed district the Secretary of State shall publish the text of the…

The petition and notice shall be published for at least three weeks prior to the last day in which protests may be filed in at least one and not to exceed three newspapers printed and published in each of the counties from which petitions have been presented. (Added by Stats. 194…

Neither the names attached to the petition, nor the certificates of any of the county elections officials, need be published with the petition. It shall be sufficient to state that the petition has been signed by a certain number of electors, naming it, and duly verified by the c…

Any owner of property which is subject to taxation within the boundaries of the proposed district may, within the time specified, protest against the formation of the district. The protest shall be in writing and shall be filed with the Secretary of State. The protest shall conta…

The Secretary of State shall attach the protests which he receives from each county to the petition filed from that particular county, and forward the petition with the protests attached to the superior court of that county. The superior court in each county shall have jurisdicti…

At the time specified in the notice, or at such other time to which the said hearing may be continued, the superior court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all matters urged by the protestants against the formation of the proposed district, or against the inclusion of…

The superior court shall have jurisdiction to exclude any lands from the proposed district, together with any other lands contiguous to the excluded lands, and contiguous to the exterior boundaries of the proposed district which are similarly situated to the lands of the protesta…

The judgment of the superior court shall not be appealable, and all questions of fact therein contained shall be final and conclusive. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

The judgment shall only be subject to review by the Supreme Court of this State, upon a writ of review issued out of that court in such cases as writs of review are now permissible against superior courts. Proceedings for a writ of review may only be taken within 10 days after th…

After the judgment of the court has become final the county elections official shall certify the judgment together with the petition and the protests which he or she received, to the Secretary of State. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 147. Effective January 1, 2003.)

When the results of the final judgments upon all protests have been certified to the Secretary of State, he shall issue his certificate of incorporation declaring the district with the boundaries as finally established to be duly incorporated. He shall file the original certifica…

Upon the issuance of the certificate of incorporation the district shall come into existence and shall have all the rights, powers and privileges expressly or impliedly conferred upon it by this part. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

After the Secretary of State has issued his certificate of incorporation of the district, the sufficiency of any petition shall not be subject to judicial review or be otherwise questioned. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

No informality in any proceeding not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any person shall invalidate the incorporation of any district. All proceedings to contest the validity of the incorporation of any district may only be commenced within three months from th…

(a) Tolls may be imposed by the commission on segments of newly constructed state highway routes, as described in subdivision (b), if transportation facilities, including, but not limited to, additional highways and capacity enhancing improvements to existing highways, are needed…

The department shall be responsible for the collection of tolls imposed by the commission pursuant to Section 31300. The department shall transmit the toll revenues to the Controller for deposit in the Highway Toll Revenue Account, which is hereby created in the State Transportat…

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, funds in the Highway Toll Revenue Account required to meet the obligations assumed by the commission under any bond resolution adopted pursuant to Section 31306 are continuously appropriated to the commission for that purpose.…

The commission may issue revenue bonds for the purpose of obtaining funds for constructing additional highways or for making capacity enhancing improvements to existing highways to accommodate additional commercial traffic resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement. T…