Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

(a) The department may install bicycle route signs, identifying bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance, that are associated only with the state highway system, which includes state highways, United States highways, and interstate freeways, and state-financed …

Notwithstanding any other law, the legislative body may determine, by resolution, to allow landowners to defer payment of their assessments pursuant to this chapter. This chapter may be used only if 80 percent or more of the area of the assessment district is developed for reside…

The legislative body may determine criteria that property owners must meet to qualify for deferral, and may determine procedures to ensure that the criteria are satisfied. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1298, Sec. 29.)

No deferral arrangement may restrict, reduce, or eliminate any remedy of a bondholder provided by this division in the event of a default. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1298, Sec. 29.)

Deferral may be provided through a year-to-year agreement between the city and an eligible property owner, which provides that the city will make assessment payments on behalf of the property owner for that year. No agreement shall commit the city to make deferral payments beyond…

Alternatively, the city may create a deferral fund for the assessment district, and deposit into the deferral fund an amount sufficient to pay the asessments being deferred for a specified period of time. Funds in the deferral fund may be invested as other city funds are invested…

A city may increase the principal amount of bonds issued under this division by an amount sufficient to fund a program pursuant to this chapter. The proceeds of bonds issued for this purpose shall be placed in the deferral fund created pursuant to Section 10704, and may be used f…

The amount of any deferred assessments, including interest at a rate determined by the legislative body, shall be due and payable whenever the parcel of property upon which the assessment was levied is transferred, or at the time of last maturity of the bonds issued for the impro…

The city and its legislative body shall have the power to improve a pedestrian mall as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 11101, and for the accomplishment, in whole or in part, of that purpose may use the Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, or any…

A pedestrian mall established or to be established pursuant to this part may be so improved either concurrently with the proceedings taken under this part for the establishment of the pedestrian mall or at any time subsequent to the establishment of the city mall, but no contract…

If in connection with the establishment of a pedestrian mall and concurrently with the proceedings taken pursuant to this part, the legislative body proposes to improve the proposed pedestrian mall and for that purpose uses the Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement A…

The procedure in this chapter shall be an alternative procedure to that provided in other sections of this part, and the city council may use this procedure or not, in its discretion, and when used the period for which the work is to be done shall be upon a fiscal year basis. (Ad…

When the assessment has been adopted and confirmed, as provided in Section 18075, the city clerk shall transmit the report, diagram and assessment, or a certified copy thereof, as finally adopted and confirmed to the city auditor, who shall record the same and thereafter enter on…

Assessments coming due under this procedure in any year during the period of time stated in the resolution of intention shall be payable in annual or semiannual installments, accordingly as the general city taxes are payable in annual or semiannual installments, and shall be paya…

The city may be the purchaser at any delinquent sale under this chapter in like manner as it may become the purchaser of property sold for delinquent general city taxes, and when the city becomes the purchaser it shall transfer into the special fund devoted to the improvement the…

When the city becomes the purchaser the land shall not again be sold for any succeeding delinquent assessment, penalties and interest until it has been redeemed from the previous sale. The city shall, however, unless a resale has been made by it, from time to time when due transf…

If the procedure provided for in this chapter is adopted and the duties of assessing property and collecting city taxes are performed for the city by the county assessor and the county tax collector, in the manner provided by law, a certified copy of the diagram and assessment sh…

The sole acts necessary to confer jurisdiction upon the city council to order the formation of a district under the provisions of this part and the furnishing of maintenance and operation for street lighting systems therein shall consist of the adoption of a resolution of intenti…

No error, defect, irregularity, informality, neglect or omission of any officer of any city in any proceeding taken under the provisions of this part, which does not affect the jurisdiction of the governing body to order the formation of a district shall avoid or invalidate the p…

In granting authority to install the system and in contractng for service the governing body shall impose such restrictions and conditions, and provide for such locations of the various wires and lights, as will work the least possible public or private inconvenience. (Added by S…

The funds collected by the tax collector under this part shall be paid by him, as fast as collected, to the city treasurer. The city treasurer shall place the funds in a special fund designated by the name of the improvement proceeding, and shall make payments out of that fund on…

Payments out of the special fund shall be made by the city treasurer to the board as funds are required for the prosecution and completion of the improvement. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

To expedite the making of the improvement, the city council may at any time transfer into the special fund out of any money in the general fund, any sums which it may deem necessary. The sums so transferred shall be a loan to the special fund, and shall be repaid out of the proce…

There is hereby established the Active Transportation Program in the department for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking. It is the intent of the Legislature that the program achieve all of the following goals: (a)…

(a) The Active Transportation Program shall be funded by state and federal funds from appropriations in the annual Budget Act. Funds for the program shall be appropriated to the department, for allocation by the commission. The amount to be appropriated shall include 100 percent …

(a) The California Transportation Commission shall develop guidelines and project selection criteria for the Active Transportation Program in consultation with the Active Transportation Program Workgroup, which shall be formed for purposes of providing guidance on matters includi…

The commission may amend the adopted guidelines after conducting at least one public hearing. The commission shall make a reasonable effort to amend the guidelines prior to the call for projects or may extend the deadline for project submission in order to comply with the new gui…

(a) The commission shall adopt a program of projects to receive allocations under this chapter. The guidelines for an initial two-year program of projects shall be adopted within six months of the enactment of the act enacting this section. The commission shall adopt each program…

The department shall administer the program consistent with the guidelines adopted pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 359, Sec. 15. (SB 99) Effective September 26, 2013.)

If the report of the project, as adopted by the board of directors, contains a request for contribution from the state, the board shall, immediately upon its adoption, file a certified copy thereof with the Director of Transportation. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 110.)

Within 90 days after its receipt, the Department of Transportation, through its proper officers, shall consider and pass upon the report so filed. It may approve or reject the request for contribution, and may reject, approve, or modify the report, in whole or in part, or may sug…

If the whole or any part of the project proposed in the report is approved and a contribution by the state is recommended, the California Transportation Commission shall thereupon adopt a resolution setting forth the amount of the contribution, the time and manner of payment ther…

The Director of Transportation shall issue and transmit to the secretary of the district a certificate of commitment showing the decision of his department upon the report and setting forth the amount of contribution, if any, and the terms relative to the payment thereof. (Amende…

The board of directors may amend its report of the project to conform with any suggestions, modifications, or recommendations of the Department of Transportation or the California Transportation Commission. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 114.)

The obligation of the State for any contribution shall be contingent upon the approval by all counties comprising the district of the balance of the costs of the project, or of the particular unit thereof proposed to be immediately improved. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 284.)

The board shall be the governing body of the district and shall outline rules of policy, approve plans, and vote or withhold appropriations to carry the same into effect. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

Within two weeks after the Secretary of State has received certified copies of the resolutions of the board of supervisors of each county in the district, appointing the members of the board of directors from that county, he shall call the first meeting of the board of directors …

At the first meeting the board shall organize by choosing one of its members as president, and choosing a secretary, who shall not be a member of the board. At its first meeting the board shall also provide for the time and place of holding its meetings, and the manner in which i…

All meetings of the board, whether regular or special, shall be open to the public. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

The board shall adopt rules to govern its proceedings, including the use of motions in connection with such proceedings. (Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1381.)

The board shall select an office and place of business within the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

For the purpose of considering questions relating to the bridge and highway district generally or local questions affecting a particular county or group of counties, the board or any of its committees may hold meetings in the chambers of the boards of supervisors of any county in…

All official action of the board shall be by ordinance or resolution. The ayes and noes shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the board. No ordinance or resolution shall be passed or become effective …

The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the board shall be “Be it ordained by the board of directors of ____ bridge and highway district as follows:” All resolutions and ordinances shall be signed by the president of the board and attested by the secretary. (Added by Stat…

Each member of the board shall receive the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for attending each meeting of the board and each committee meeting on different days, but no member shall receive this compensation in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) in any one year, except the presid…

The board shall at its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint by a majority vote a general manager, an auditor and a secretary. No director shall be eligible for appointment to any district office except president or vice president of the board. The compensa…