Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

Assessments levied pursuant to this chapter, and the interest and any penalties thereon shall constitute a lien against the lots and parcels of land on which they are made, until they are paid. Division 10 (commencing with Section 8500), insofar as those provisions are not in con…

Since contractual assessments on real property under this chapter are voluntary and imposed pursuant to an agreement with an assessed property owner, the Legislature finds and declares that voluntary contractual assessments under this chapter are not assessments for the purposes …

The legislative body shall direct its clerk to record a notice of the existence and amount of each contractual assessment with the county recorder of the county in which the lot or parcel is located. The county recorder shall accept those filings and may charge the clerk a fee fo…

(a) If a public agency owning property, including property held in trust for any beneficiary, grants a leasehold or other possessory interest in the property, the contractual assessment may be levied on the leasehold or possessory interest and shall be payable by the owner of the…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to address seismic safety needs throughout this state by permitting voluntary individual efforts to improve the seismic safety of homes and buildings. The Legislature further inte…

For the purpose of financing the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources pursuant to this chapter, “permanently fixed” includes, but is not limited to, systems attached to a residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property pursuant…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) This chapter should be used to finance the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure that is permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property. (2) Electri…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide homeowners and businesses with an affordable way to finance improvements to their homes and buildings that make those facilities more resistant to wildfire by permitting voluntary individual efforts to improve the wildfire re…

Unless otherwise provided, the definitions contained in Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 7 (the Improvement Act of 1911), govern the construction of this chapter, unless from the context of this chapter it clearly appears that a different meaning is intended. (Am…

If the legislative body on behalf of a district formed under this part has previously issued bonds pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 35400) of this part which are payable primarily from revenues from parking places or revenues from parking meters on streets, or both,…

In the resolution, the legislative body shall order the engineer to make and deliver a diagram of the parking places for which the outstanding bonds were issued and of the property within the district. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The diagram shall show: (a) The parking places for which the outstanding bonds were issued. (b) Each separate lot or parcel of land within the district. (c) The dimensions of each such lot or parcel of land and its relative location to the parking places for which the outstanding…

The diagram shall be delivered to the street superintendent who shall endorse the date of such delivery on the diagram. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

Upon receiving the diagram, the street superintendent shall assess the total amount necessary for the redemption of the outstanding bonds against the land within the district subject to assessment, and all incidental costs and expenses in connection therewith, including, but not …

All land within the district shall be assessed to provide the funds necessary for the redemption of the outstanding bonds, except: (a) Land owned by the United States. (b) Streets, alleys, and highways. (c) Property acquired for parking places pursuant to this part. (d) Public pr…

A lot or parcel of land in a public use belonging to the state or to a county, city, district, or other public corporation, public agent, mandatory of the government, school board, educational, penal or reform institution, or facility for the housing of persons with developmental…

An assessment upon public property is an enforceable obligation against the owner or the governing body controlling the property and shall be paid by the officer or board having charge of the disbursement of its funds. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

If no money is available for the payment of an assessment of public property, the board or officer whose duty it is to levy taxes for the owner of the public property shall include in the next tax levy an amount, in addition to money for all other purposes, sufficient to pay the …

The assessment shall be made, notice given, hearing held, and the assessment confirmed and recorded substantially in the manner provided in Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 5360) of Part 3 of Division 7 (the Improvement Act of 1911), and the provisions of that chapter relating…

The notice published pursuant to Section 5362 and the notices mailed pursuant to Section 5363 shall also contain a statement that the legislative body has declared its intention to take proceedings under this chapter for the levy of an assessment to provide funds necessary for th…

At the hearing and prior to consideration of the correctness of the assessment and diagram, the legislative body shall hear and consider all protests to the proceedings for the levy of that assessment. The notice, hearing, and protest procedures shall comply with Section 53753 of…

If there is no such majority protest and if all protests to the proceedings are overruled, the legislative body may proceed with the hearing on the correctness of the assessment and diagram and may confirm the assessment. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The legislative body may not confirm the assessment unless the owners of a majority in area of the lands in the district subject to assessment have filed with the clerk of the legislative body written consent to the levy of an assessment under this chapter. An owner of land means…

After the assessment roll is recorded, all persons are deemed to have notice of its contents. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

Immediately upon the recording, the several assessments contained in the assessment roll are due and payable, and each assessment is a lien upon the property against which it is made. Unless sooner discharged, the lien shall continue for four years from the date of recording, or …

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…

Any deed issued in the foreclosure of the assessment lien or sale of property for the lien conveys the property to the purchaser free and clear of all encumbrances, except taxes, and such special assessment liens as are, at the date of creation of the lien, equal or superior to t…

Any action or proceeding to set aside, cancel, avoid, annul, or correct any assessment or reassessment, or to review any of the proceedings, acts, or determinations pursuant to this chapter, or to question the validity or enjoin the collection of any assessment or reassessment, o…

Proceedings under this chapter shall not be attacked upon any ground not stated in an objection or protest filed pursuant to this chapter. Any landowner or person interested in any land within the district is estopped to attack the proceedings upon any ground not stated in an obj…

The officer with whom the assessment is recorded shall give notice that the assessment has been recorded in his office and that all sums assessed in it become due and payable upon the recordation of the assessment, stating the date of recordation and that the payment of the sums,…

The notice shall also contain a statement that bonds to represent each assessment, or the unpaid balance thereof, remaining unpaid after 30 days will issue in the manner and form provided in this chapter, and shall state the period over which the bonds extend and the maximum rate…

The notice shall be published twice in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the city in which the assessed land lies. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

Notice shall also be given by mailing a post card to the owner of each lot, piece, or parcel of land assessed, according to the name and address appearing on the last equalized assessment roll prior to the recordation of the assessment or as known to the officer giving the notice…

Failure of the officer with whom the assessment is recorded to give notice by mailing, or of the person addressed to receive the notice, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings or the validity of the lien of any assessment or of any bond issued on the assessment. (Repeal…

When any payment is made upon an assessment, the street superintendent shall mark opposite the assessment “Paid in full” or “Paid in part,” as the case may be, the date of payment, the amount of payment, and the name of the person by or for whom the assessment is paid. If so requ…

After the expiration of 30 days from the date of recording the assessment, the superintendent of streets shall make a complete list of all assessments unpaid and the amounts unpaid, except assessments upon public property. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

All unpaid assessments upon public property shall be collected pursuant to this article, but if the property is not in use in the performance of a public function, the lien of the assessment may be foreclosed in the mode provided for foreclosure of assessments in Chapter 18 (comm…

Bonds shall be issued pursuant to this article. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The list of unpaid assessments shall be certified and filed with the city treasurer. Upon the filing of the list, the city treasurer shall make out and sign a separate bond representing upon each lot or parcel of land on the list the total amount of the unpaid assessment against …

The legislative body shall sell the bonds for cash for not less than the amount of the assessments represented by the bonds. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

At any time after the assessment is recorded, the legislative body may call for sealed bids on the bonds proposed to be issued. Notice inviting bids shall be given by two publications in a newspaper published in the city, the first publication to be at least 10 days before the bi…

The legislative body shall sell the bonds for cash, and if bids are made, for cash to the best responsible bidder. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The bonds may be sold at any rate of interest not exceeding that stated in the resolution of intention. The maximum interest rate shall not exceed 7 percent a year. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The bonds shall extend over a period not to exceed 24 years from January 2nd next succeeding the next September 1st following their date. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

Upon the award of the bonds to a purchaser, the treasurer shall issue bonds representing the liens of the unpaid assessments as shown on the list and bearing interest at the rate fixed by the legislative body. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 234.)

The treasurer shall deliver the bonds to the purchaser upon receiving the purchase price bid. The purchase price shall be deposited in the fund for the redemption of the bonds issued pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 35400) of this part. (Repealed and added by Stats.…