Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

The district may study, construct, acquire, improve, maintain, and operate any and all modes of transportation within or partly outside the district, including, but not limited to, water transportation; may join with any cities, counties, districts, or state agencies, or any comb…

The district may not, prior to December 30, 1975, expend any of its funds to implement the addition of a second deck to the Golden Gate Bridge or any other proposed plan for transit services, other than for its interim system of buses and ferries. It is the intention of the Legis…

If the district constructs any rail transit lines, such lines, and the rolling stock and other facilities therefor, shall be coordinated with the system of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. If the district constructs any tunnel within the Geary Corridor in the Ci…

With respect to its ferryboat operations, the district shall not operate any charter or sightseeing services. However, the district may contract with any common carrier to provide such services and to employ the district’s boats, employees, facilities, or equipment for such purpo…

Prior to the expenditure of any funds for the bus transit and water transportation system of the district, the board shall determine: (a) The amount which the counties, and the transit districts therein, served by the system shall contribute to the operation of the system for ben…

It is the intention of the Legislature that the district pursue all avenues to obtain federal financing for both its interim transit system and any long-range transportation facilities approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Furthermore, the district shall take no…

Except for the necessity to finance its interim system of buses and ferries, as described in Section 27551, or the necessity to finance capital improvements or modifications relating to seismic safety of the bridge, the district shall not issue general obligation bonds, revenue b…

The district may purchase transit equipment, such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates in the forms customarily used by private corporations engaged in the transit business appropriate to…

The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or trust company duly authorized to transact business in the state as trustee for the benefit and security of the equipment trust certificates, may direc…

The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgment of deeds. The agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall be authorized by resolution of the district…

The covenants, conditions, restrictions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement securing the payment of bonds, notes, or certificates of the district. (Added by Stats. 1984, C…

An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who may receive one dollar ($1) for each copy filed with the Secretary of State. The filing constitutes notice to any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent purchaser. Eac…

Whenever the district offers for sale to the public coupons or commuter ticket books redeemable for the toll on the Golden Gate Bridge, the district shall make the coupons or commuter ticket books available at locations convenient to the public, which shall not be limited to toll…

Any person who, without the consent of the board of directors of the district, uses any district mark, name, word, or phrase, or combination, simulation, or colorable imitation thereof, which has or which may in the future be adopted by the district, including, but not limited to…

The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Automatic vehicle identification systems when used for toll collection can speed up the flow of traffic at toll facilities and reduce collection costs. (b) More than one system and technology is available. (c) Currently, the depa…

(a) The department, in cooperation with the district and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility in this state, shall develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system, in compliance with all of the following…

(a) In its role as administrator of the automatic vehicle identification system described in Section 27565, the Bay Area Toll Authority shall provide vehicle owners who seek to obtain an account the option of opening and maintaining an account with United States currency or check…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no toll shall be imposed on the passage of a pedestrian, a bicycle, or a personal micromobility device, as defined in Section 1940.41 of the Civil Code, over any bridge that is under the jurisdiction of the district, on which the travel …

At any time after the establishment of two or more districts in any county, the board of supervisors may determine that any two or more of such districts which contain similar type lighting systems, whether or not they are contiguous, should be consolidated. (Added by Stats. 1957…

The board shall fix a time and place for hearing the matter of consolidation of the districts and shall direct its clerk to publish a notice once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper or newspapers circulated in each of the districts which it proposes to consolidate, and…

The notice shall be headed “Notice of the proposed consolidation of ____ Highway Lighting District and ____ Highway Lighting District,” stating the names of the districts proposed to be consolidated and shall contain a statement of the time and place fixed by the board for hearin…

The notice shall state that it is proposed to consolidate into one district all of the territory within the named districts. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)

At the time and place fixed for hearing or at any time to which the hearing may be continued, the board shall hear any person objecting to the consolidation. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)

At the conclusion of the hearing the board may refuse to consolidate any of the districts or it may order the consolidation of any or all of the districts proposed to be consolidated. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)

If the board determines to consolidate any of the districts it shall so declare by resolution stating the name by which the consolidated district shall be known. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)

The district resulting from the consolidation of two or more districts shall become liable for all outstanding liabilities of the districts consolidated. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district resulting from the consolidation of two or more districts shall assume all of the assets of the separate districts so consolidated and shall be entitled to all of the property tax revenues to which each of the separate dist…

As a separate and cumulative method of financing, the board of directors of the district may issue funding bonds to cover the costs and expenses of the whole or any part of any acquisitions of property and improvements undertaken by the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 284.)

The provisions of this chapter relating to the issuance of funding bonds shall be cumulative and shall not affect any of the other provisions or sections of this part relative to other bonds or levies. Any number of series of funding bonds may be issued for any portion or portion…

If the board of directors propose to issue funding bonds, they shall first adopt a resolution setting forth their intention so to do, and the resolution shall also contain the following: (a) A general description of the boundaries of the funding district to be charged with the pa…

Upon the adoption of the resolution of intention to issue funding bonds, the secretary shall cause a notice of the time and place of hearing to be published twice in a newspaper of general circulation published at the county seat of each county embraced within the boundaries of t…

The time fixed for the hearing shall not be less than 15 days after the completion of the required publication. Not less than 30 days prior to the time fixed for the hearing, a copy of the notice of the hearing shall be transmitted by the secretary of the board of directors to th…

All persons interested may appear at the hearing and they may set forth in writing any objections they may have to the issuance of the funding bonds or to the boundaries of the proposed funding district or the zones therein, or to the amount of benefits to be derived by any parce…

The board of directors shall hear and determine all objections presented at the hearing. The board may alter the boundaries of the proposed funding district or change the amount for which funding bonds are proposed to be issued, but it may not enlarge the boundaries of the fundin…

All decisions, findings and determinations of the board of directors made upon notice and hearing shall, in the absence of actual fraud, be final and conclusive upon all persons entitled to present objections at such hearing. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 284.)

If at the hearing, the owners of more than 25 per cent in area of the property within any proposed funding district object in writing to the issuance of funding bonds, the board of directors shall have no power to cause such funding bonds to issue. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 284.…

Following the hearing the board of directors shall, if it determines to issue funding bonds, cause its findings in relation thereto to be transmitted to the boards of supervisors of the several counties within the district. If any board of supervisors makes objection to the issua…

Funding bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be in substantially the following form (filling in blanks as appropriate): FUNDING BOND Joint Highway District No. ___ of the State of California $____ Bond No. ___ Serial ___. Under and by virtue of Part 1 (co…

Funding bonds shall be dated as of the date of the resolution or order of the board of directors authorizing their issuance. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 284.)

The board of directors may use any available moneys of the district, not already allocated to some other purpose, for the payment of any interest or principal due or past due upon any funding bonds of the district, and may advance moneys of the district for that purpose. If an ad…

All funding bonds shall be signed by the treasurer of the district, attested by the secretary, and shall have the official seal of the district affixed thereto. The form of the interest coupons attached to the funding bonds shall be determined by the treasurer subject to the appr…

All funding bonds shall be serial in character and approximately an even proportion of the total amount of each issue shall be payable annually. The amount of the principal due in each annual payment need not be exactly the same but with respect to each installment excepting the …

The funding bonds shall be issued by the board of directors at such time and manner and in such amounts as may be required to meet the demands of the district, as may be determined by the board of directors. The form, denomination, rate of interest, time, place and manner of paym…

In each district in which funding bonds have been issued there is hereby created a special fund to be designated “Joint Highway District No. ____ of the State of California Funding Bond Redemption Fund No. ____” (each such fund to be consecutively numbered within each district as…

The treasurer of the district shall annually before the fifteenth day of August transmit to the several boards of supervisors within the funding district, a statement showing the amount to be raised in such year by the levy and collection of special assessment taxes upon the land…

The special assessment taxes levied for the payment of funding bonds shall be independent of and distinct from any other levies authorized by this part and shall be levied, collected and enforced by the proper officers of the several counties within the district, in behalf of the…