California

Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC

1,333 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 6361 — Annually, on or before the date set for the consideration of the budget by the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is located, the board of each district shall furnish to the boar
• § 6362 — The tax shall in no event exceed the rate of ten cents ($0.
• § 6363 — From the time of the organization of any district until the next succeeding July first, the district may incur indebtedness for the purpose of operating the port and in the first tax levy, the rate sh
• § 6364 — A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.
• § 6365 — (a) The district may, in any year, levy assessments, reassessments, or special taxes and issue bonds to finance waterway construction projects and related operations and maintenance, or operations and
• § 6370 — All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 6371 — If there is not sufficient money in any fund to pay the demands made against it, the demand shall be registered in a book kept by the treasurer, showing its number, when presented, date, amount, name
• § 6372 — Wages and salaries shall be paid at such intervals as the board may direct, but at least once each month.
• § 64 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the growth of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa), and South American spongeplant (Limnobium laevigatum) in the Sa
• § 64.2 — To the extent feasible, the division shall collaborate with the California Conservation Corps established pursuant to Division 12 (commencing with Section 14000) of the Public Resources Code and use m
• § 64.5 — (a) The division is designated as the lead agency of the state for the purpose of cooperating with other state, local, and federal agencies in identifying, detecting, controlling, and administering pr
• § 64.7 — (a) Each marina that is developed or improved with funds loaned by the department pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 70) or Article 5 (commencing with Section 76) on or after January 1, 20
• § 65 — The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, to the extent that funds are available therefor, shall study and report upon prob
• § 65.1 — To the extent that funds are available therefor, the department shall cooperate with all agencies of government, federal, state, and local, for the purposes of beach erosion control and stabilization
• § 65.2 — The department shall prepare plans for and construct such works as its studies and investigations indicate to be necessary for beach erosion control and stabilization of beaches and shoreline areas, t
• § 65.3 — When state funds are made available on a matching basis to be expended in connection with any federal project for beach erosion control or stabilization of beaches and shoreline areas, such funds shal
• § 65.5 — Whenever a beach erosion control project has been authorized by Congress for federal financial participation in accordance with Public Law 727, 79th Congress, 2nd Session, as amended by Public Law 826
• § 65.6 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 65.
• § 65.7 — Small beach erosion control projects not specifically authorized by Congress and undertaken by the United States Corps of Engineers pursuant to Section 103 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962, Title I
• § 65.9 — Whenever beach erosion control works are included in a small boat harbor development project, the report of the department required by Section 65.
• § 650 — It is the policy of this state to promote safety for persons and property in and connected with the use and equipment of vessels and to promote uniformity of laws relating thereto.
• § 650.1 — (a) This chapter shall apply to vessels and associated equipment used, to be used, or carried in vessels used on waters subject to the jurisdiction of this state.
• § 651 — As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) “Alcohol” means any form or derivative of ethyl alcohol (ethanol).
• § 651.1 — As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, “bather” or “bathing” means a person floating, swimming, wading, or bodysurfing, with or without the use of a flotatio
• § 651.5 — The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide every person who originally registers, or who acquires the ownership certificate of, a vessel required to be numbered pursuant to Division 3.
• § 652 — (a) The department may issue regulations to do all of the following: (1) Establish minimum safety standards for boats and associated equipment.
• § 652.5 — (a) The use of a distinctive blue light as prescribed by the department is reserved for public safety vessels and may be displayed during the day or night whenever the vessel may be engaged in direct
• § 654 — (a) (1) For the purposes of this section, a “muffler” or “muffler system” is a sound suppression device or system that is designed and installed to abate the sound of exhaust gases emitted from an int
• § 654.03 — (a) A person may not manufacture for sale a motorized recreational vessel that is not equipped with a muffler or muffler system, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 654, that brings the vessel in
• § 654.05 — (a) The owner of a motorized recreational vessel that is numbered pursuant to Section 9850 of the Vehicle Code, or that is documented by an agency of the federal government, shall not operate, or auth
• § 654.06 — No person shall sell or offer for sale at retail any internal combustion engine for use on any motorized recreational vessel which, when operated, exceeds the following noise levels: (a) For engines m
• § 654.1 — Boating facilities constructed with funds derived from the state shall be required as a condition for the receipt of such funds to provide shoreside facilities for purposes of emptying waste matter ho
• § 654.3 — (a) Each diesel powered vessel operating exclusively in California, engaged in the commercial transport of passengers with the capacity to transport 75 passengers or more, shall use only California di
• § 654.5 — A person who maliciously throws, hurls, or projects an object by manual, mechanical, or other means at a vessel or an occupant of a vessel on any of the waters within or bordering on this state, which
• § 655 — (a) No person shall use any vessel or manipulate water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device in a reckless or negligent manner so as to endanger the life, limb, or property of any person.
• § 655.05 — (a) No person shall operate a vessel other than a recreational vessel for 24 hours if the person is found by a peace officer to have an alcohol concentration of 0.
• § 655.1 — (a) As used in this section, “mechanically propelled vessel” means any vessel actively propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion.
• § 655.2 — (a) Every owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery is guilty of an infraction who uses it, or permits it to be used, at a speed in excess of five miles per hour in an
• § 655.3 — The department may adopt regulations to establish and maintain for the use of vessels and the equipment on vessels on the waters of this state rules of the road and pilot rules in conformity with thos
• § 655.4 — (a) No person shall serve as a crew member on any charter boat while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, or the combined influence of intoxicating liquor and any drug.
• § 655.5 — (a) Whenever a person convicted of any violation of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655 is found by the court to have willfully refused the request of a peace officer to submit to ch
• § 655.6 — (a) It is an infraction for a person under the age of 21 years who has 0.
• § 655.7 — (a) A person operating a personal watercraft equipped by the manufacturer with a lanyard-type engine cut-off switch shall attach the lanyard to themselves, their clothing, or their personal flotation
• § 656 — (a) It is the duty of the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty, so far as the operator can do so without serious danger to his or her own vessel, crew, and passeng
• § 656.1 — The operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows or has reason to know that the accident resulted in damage to other property shall, if reasonable to do so unde
• § 656.2 — In addition to the requirements of Section 656.
• § 656.3 — In addition to the requirements of Sections 656.
• § 656.4 — The department is authorized to develop a program of public information and research in the interest of reducing loss of life and property in the operation of vessels covered by this chapter.
• § 657 — In accordance with any request duly made by an authorized official or agency of the United States, any information compiled or otherwise available to the department pursuant to Section 656 shall be tr
• § 658 — (a) No person shall operate a vessel on any waters for towing a person or persons on water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device unless there is in the vessel a person at least 12 years of age, in a
• § 658.3 — (a) A person shall not use a recreational vessel unless all of the following requirements are met: (1) There is at least one wearable personal flotation device on board the vessel for each person on t
• § 658.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person under 16 years of age shall operate a vessel powered by a motor of greater than 15 horsepower, except for a vessel that does not exceed 30 feet in
• § 658.7 — (a) Failure of the operator of a vessel involved in towing a skier to display or cause to be displayed a ski flag, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 7009 of Title 14 of the California Code of
• § 659 — The department may make rules and regulations for the uniform navigational marking of the waters of this state.
• § 66 — The department, with the approval of the Director of Finance, and on terms satisfactory to the department may advance moneys appropriated for this purpose in the amount required to meet the federal sh
• § 66.1 — Where the department is the construction agency, the city, county or other public agency acting in cooperation with the department in the construction of any federally authorized beach erosion control
• § 660 — (a) Any ordinance, law, regulation, or rule relating to vessels, which is adopted pursuant to provisions of law other than this chapter by any entity other than the department, including, but not limi
• § 661 — (a) Every owner of an undocumented vessel numbered under this code is liable and responsible for the death of or injury to person or property resulting from negligence in the operation of such vessel,
• § 662 — A copy of the ordinances or local laws adopted pursuant to this chapter, and of any amendments thereto, shall be filed in the office of the department.
• § 663 — Every peace officer of this state or of any city, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of the state shall enforce this chapter and any regulations adopted by the department pursuant
• § 663.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person who is involved in an accident in the waters of this state involving a vessel when the officer has r
• § 663.5 — Within the territorial limits of a county, city, or district, a harbor policeman regularly employed and paid as such by the county, city, or district shall also enforce the provisions of this chapter
• § 663.6 — Every vessel subject to this chapter, if under way and lawfully ordered to stop and lie to by a peace officer or harbor policeman authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter who is either in
• § 663.7 — (a) Each county of the state is entitled to receive state financial aid for boating safety and enforcement programs on waters under its jurisdiction as provided in this section.
• § 664 — (a) When any person is arrested for a violation of this chapter or any regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter or any ordinance or local law relating to the operation and equipme
• § 665 — Any person willfully violating his written promise to appear in court is guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was originally arrested.
• § 666 — When a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail as provided in Section 664, the magistrate shall issue and have
• § 667 — In addition to any other court which may be a proper place of trial, any superior court location where cases of that type are tried, within 50 miles by the nearest road to the place of the alleged off
• § 668 — (a) Any person who violates subdivision (c) of Section 652, Section 654, 654.
• § 668.1 — (a) A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655, or of Section 655.
• § 668.2 — The department may grant funds from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund to local public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and colleges and universities for scholarship funding relating to boati
• § 668.3 — (a) For the purposes of Section 668.
• § 668.5 — (a) The interest of any registered owner of a vessel that has been used in the commission of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 655 for which the owner was convicted and the conduct resulted in
• § 669 — The regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 67 — The San Diego County Beach Erosion Control Project (Imperial Beach) is authorized for state participation pursuant to Section 65.
• § 67.1 — The San Diego (Sunset Cliffs), California, Beach Erosion Control Project is authorized for state participation pursuant to Section 65.
• § 67.2 — The Orange County, California, Beach Erosion Control Project is authorized for state participation pursuant to Section 65.
• § 67.3 — The Los Angeles County (Redondo Beach to Malaga Cove) Beach Erosion Control Project is authorized for state participation pursuant to Section 65.
• § 67.4 — The department shall conduct the repair and restoration of the beach and shoreline located adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and in the City of Oceanside if the city does all of the following: (a) Prepare
• § 673 — The owner of a boat livery shall cause to be kept a record of the name and address of the person or persons hiring any boat or vessel subject to this code, the registered identification number of such
• § 674 — Neither the owner of a boat livery nor his agent or employees shall permit any vessel to be delivered to a renter unless it shall have been provided, either by the owner or renter, with the equipment
• § 675 — (a) (1) In addition to the fees imposed pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 9853 or Section 9860 of the Vehicle Code, there shall be a separate invasive mussel infestation
• § 676 — (a) All moneys deposited in the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 675 shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the following purposes: (1) For reasonable
• § 676.1 — Any person or entity that manages any aspect of the water in a reservoir, as defined in Section 6004.
• § 677 — This article does not preempt a special district, city, county, or joint powers authority from adopting local regulations or ordinances related to the prevention and eradication of invasive aquatic sp
• § 677.5 — For purposes of this article, “invasive mussel” has the same meaning as Section 2303 of the Fish and Game Code.
• § 678 — (a) On or before January 1, 2018, the division shall develop a vessel operator card to be issued pursuant to this article.
• § 678.11 — (a) Subject to the schedule in subdivision (b), a person shall not operate on waters subject to the jurisdiction of the state a vessel that is propelled by an engine, regardless of whether the engine
• § 678.15 — (a) A violation of this article is an infraction.
• § 678.3 — (a) (1) The division shall determine the fees required under this section in amounts sufficient to cover the reasonable costs of the development, establishment, and operation of the program.
• § 678.5 — (a) The division may develop and provide a vessel operator examination on the division’s Internet Web site.
• § 678.7 — (a) An amount not to exceed four million dollars ($4,000,000) shall, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, be transferred from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund to the Vessel Operator C
• § 678.9 — (a) On or before April 1, 2019, and on or before April 1 annually thereafter, the division shall prepare a report that includes all of the following information with respect to the prior calendar year
• § 68 — The director shall cause to be prepared, and continuously maintained, a comprehensive plan for the development and operation of a statewide system of recreational boating trails.
• § 68.2 — In conformance with the California Recreational Trails Act, the Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is a statewide and continuing interest in the public’s use of the state’s inland waterw
• § 680 — This act shall be known as the Anthony Farr and Stacy Beckett Boating Safety Act of 2004, and may be cited as Anthony and Stacy’s Law.
• § 6800 — “District,” as used in this part, means any river port district formed pursuant to this part.
• § 6801 — “Board,” as used in this part, means the port commission described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 6830).
• § 6802 — This part does not repeal, modify, or otherwise affect the provisions of any other law relating to port or harbor districts, and no other law providing for the creation of port or harbor districts rep
• § 6803 — Any property owned by any city which is used or held for the purpose of aiding or developing navigation, commerce, or fishing may be transferred to the district to be used for the same purposes, and a
• § 6804 — If any land under a navigable stream, is by virtue of any work or improvement by the United states or the State, freed from the easement of navigation and fishing, it reverts to the district, to be us
• § 6805 — If a district is dissolved, all land granted to it by a municipal corporation, reverts to and is revested in the municipal corporation granting it to the district.
• § 681 — (a) It is unlawful to operate a motorized vessel or have the engine of a motorized vessel run idle while an individual is teak surfing, platform dragging, or bodysurfing behind the motorized vessel.
• § 6810 — A district may be organized pursuant to this part.
• § 6811 — Whenever the formation of a district is desired, a petition may be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of each county in which is located any portion of land within the proposed
• § 6812 — The provisions of Chapters I and II of Division I of the District Organization Act shall govern and control the proceedings for the filing and hearing of the petition and the proceedings for final hea
• § 682 — All state-sponsored boating safety courses and all boating safety courses that require state approval by the Department of Boating and Waterways shall incorporate information about the dangers of bein
• § 683 — (a) When a new or used motorized vessel is sold in California, the two carbon monoxide poisoning warning stickers developed by the Department of Boating and Waterways shall be placed on the motorized
• § 6830 — The district shall be governed by a port commission, which consists of five members.
• § 6830.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 6830, the Sacramento-Yolo Port Commission shall be composed of five members selected and appointed as follows: (1) Four commissioners shall be appointed by the City Council
• § 6830.2 — The boundaries of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District are hereby established to coincide with the first supervisorial district of the County of Yolo, as of October 1, 2005.
• § 6832 — (a) The mayor of the municipality in which is located the largest proportion in value of the land within the district, or any chairperson of any of the boards of supervisors of the counties in which t
• § 6833 — Each commissioner shall, within ten days of his appointment and before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation before an officer authorize
• § 6834 — A vacancy on the board shall be filled by the body which appointed the member whose office is vacated, and the newly appointed member shall hold his office for the unexpired term.
• § 6835 — A person shall not be appointed a member of the board who is not, at the time of his appointment, a taxpayer within the district and who has not resided within the district for at least one year.
• § 6835.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person shall not be ineligible for appointment to the board because he or she is an elected official or employee of an appointing authority to the board.
• § 6836 — The members of the board shall serve without salary or compensation, but are entitled to necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
• § 6837 — The term of office of each member of the board is four years from the time of his appointment, except that the first appointed chairman holds office for two years, and the remaining members shall clas
• § 6838 — The chairman is the presiding officer.
• § 6839 — The first meeting of the board shall be held within ten days of the appointment of the chairman.
• § 684 — (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall insert the Department of Boating and Waterways’ informational brochure and warning stickers about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and boats into the
• § 6840 — The board shall select one of its members as chairperson and select one of its members as vice chairperson, who shall preside in the absence of the chairperson, and it may provide for and select the o
• § 6841 — A corporation may be selected as treasurer or the board may provide that the duties of the treasurer shall be performed by the county treasurer of the county in which the district or the greater porti
• § 6843 — The fiscal year of a district shall begin on the first day of July of each year and shall end on the thirtieth day of June of the following year.
• § 6844 — The board shall annually file a report of the affairs and financial condition of the district for the preceding year with the governing body of every county or city, all or part of which is included i
• § 685 — The Department of Boating and Waterways pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 85.
• § 6860 — The powers of a district established pursuant to this part shall be exercised by the board, by ordinance or resolution passed by a majority vote of the board.
• § 6860.5 — A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• § 6861 — Any grant of a franchise or lease of property of the district shall not be for a longer period than 50 years.
• § 6864 — The district, may itself, without letting contracts therefor, do such work and make such improvements as are necessary.
• § 6866 — An officer of the district, and any of its employees, shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or transaction with the district or become surety for the performance of any contra
• § 6867 — The board may prescribe rules and regulations pertaining to the selection of officers and employees of the district, other than the auditor.
• § 6868 — The board may adopt and carry into effect a contract or contracts of group insurance or a system of group annuities or both for the benefit of such of the officers and employees of the district as acc
• § 6869 — (a) In lieu of the benefits afforded pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) and Division 4.
• § 6890 — Any district created pursuant to this part is a public corporation created for municipal purposes.
• § 6891 — It has perpetual succession.
• § 6892 — It may sue and be sued.
• § 6893 — It may adopt a seal.
• § 6894 — It may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease or otherwise acquire and hold and enjoy and lease or dispose of, real and personal property of every kind, within or without the district, necessa
• § 6894.1 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6894, the board of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not do any of the following: (a) Sell or dismantle the Deepwater Channel or the North Terminal Prop
• § 6894.2 — (a) Moneys in the Riverfront Enhancement Fund, created by the Joint Port Governance Agreement dated January 15, 2006, shall be expended exclusively on projects related to the Sacramento and American R
• § 6895 — A district may acquire, purchase, takeover, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering facilities, cold storage facilities, belt railroa
• § 6896 — It may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to carry out any of its purposes.
• § 6897 — It may incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for its purposes, and if any bonds issued for port improvement purposes by any part of a district prior to its creation are
• § 6898 — It may levy and collect or cause to be levied or collected taxes as in this part provided.
• § 6899 — It has exclusive jurisdiction over, and it may provide for and supervise pilots and the pilotage of sea-going vessels from the end of jurisdiction of existing pilot authorities to points lying upon an
• § 69.5 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Public Beach Restoration Act.
• § 69.6 — (a) The California Public Beach Restoration Program is hereby established, to be administered by the department for all of the following purposes: (1) The restoration, enhancement, and nourishment of
• § 69.9 — (a) The Public Beach Restoration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 6900 — It may contribute money to the Federal or the State government or to any county in which the district is located or to any city within the district, for the purpose of defraying the whole or a portion
• § 6901 — A district may do any work or make any improvement within or without the territorial limits of the district, if the doing of the work or the making of the improvement will aid in the development or th
• § 6901.1 — It may by resolution hold and save harmless the State of California, the Reclamation Board of the State of California, and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, their officers, agents or e
• § 6902 — A district may enact necessary police regulations providing for control of any waterway project of the United States, entering the district, and it may adopt rules and regulations concerning the const
• § 6903 — A district may provide for the opening and laying out of streets leading to the waterfront.
• § 6904 — A district may regulate and control the construction, maintenance, and operation, or use, of all wharves, warehouses, structures, improvements, or appliances used in connection with or for the accommo
• § 6905 — It may fix, regulate, and collect the rates or charges for the use of wharves, warehouses, vessels, railroads and other facilities, structures and appliances owned, controlled or operated by the distr
• § 6906 — It may lay out, plan and establish the general plan and system of harbor and harbor district improvements and modify such plan and prescribe the specifications for such improvements.
• § 6907 — It may act as warehousemen, stevedores, lighterers, reconditioners, shippers and reshippers of properties of all kinds.
• § 6908 — It may manage the business of the district and promote the maritime and commercial interests by proper advertisement of its advantages, and by the solicitation of business, within or without the distr
• § 6908.5 — Upon a four-fifths vote of all the members of the board, it may issue negotiable promissory notes bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding 7 percent per annum; provided, however, that said notes sh
• § 6909 — Notwithstanding the enumeration and specific statement herein of particular powers, the district may do and perform all acts and things necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this part
• § 6910 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not exercise the power of eminent domain in the County of Sacramento, the City of Sacramento, the County of Yolo, or
• § 6930 — Any district organized pursuant to this part may create a bonded debt pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 43600) of Chapter 4 of Division 4, Title 4 of the Government Code
• § 6931 — Any bonds issued by any district pursuant to this part are legal investments for all trust funds, and for the funds of all insurers, banks, both commercial and savings, and trust companies, and for th
• § 6935 — Whenever, upon the creation of a district, any municipality therein or any county in which the district is located, which has theretofore authorized or incurred a bonded indebtedness for any work or i
• § 6936 — Pursuant to this article a district may create a revenue bond indebtedness for the acquisition and construction, or acquisition or construction of any improvements or property or facilities contained
• § 6937 — The issuance of said bonds shall be authorized by ordinance adopted by five-sevenths of all the members of the board, to take effect upon its publication.
• § 6938 — The secretary shall publish said ordinance once in a newspaper of general circulation printed in said district, and if there is none, then in such newspaper published in one of the counties in which s
• § 6939 — Said ordinance shall specify the total amount, denomination, method of maturity, and the rate or maximum rate of interest of said bonds, and in general terms, the acquisitions and improvements to be c
• § 6939.1 — The proceeds of said bonds shall be placed in an account in the treasury of the district to be entitled ________ Port District Revenue Construction Fund No.
• § 6939.10 — The form of the bonds shall be prescribed by the board and they shall be signed by the officer or officers that the board designates.
• § 6939.11 — The income and revenue derived or to be realized from the harbor improvement acquired, constructed, improved or extended from the proceeds of the bonds shall be deposited in a special fund and kept se
• § 6939.12 — The special fund shall be applied, secondly, to the creation of a sinking fund, herein designated as “sinking fund,” to provide for the payment of the principal of the bonds at or before their maturit
• § 6939.13 — Any additional revenues over and above the amounts required to be deposited in the interest fund and the sinking fund, may be deposited in an operation fund, herein designated as “operation fund,” to
• § 6939.14 — Surplus revenues in the operation fund may be deposited either in the interest fund or any reserve fund created to secure any bonds or in the sinking fund, but money allocated to the interest fund or
• § 6939.15 — The board, in and by the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds, shall hypothecate and allocate all of the revenues to be realized from the revenue-producing harbor improvement to be acquired
• § 6939.16 — Whenever the revenues of the district are, or in the opinion of the board will be insufficient to provide for the payment in full of the principal or interest on the bonds, the board may, and if the r
• § 6939.17 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that because of the unique, complex problems existing with respect to the Sacramento-Yolo Port District, as a large inland port district, it is necessary that
• § 6939.3 — Proceedings for the issuance of said bonds shall be had, the board shall have such powers and duties, and the bondholders shall have such rights and remedies, all in substantial accordance with and wi
• § 6939.4 — Pursuant to this article, the Sacramento-Yolo Port District may also create an additional bonded debt, in addition to all other indebtedness authorized by the provisions of this chapter, up to but not
• § 6939.5 — This bonded indebtedness may be created solely for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, improvement, or extension of revenue-producing harbor improvements of a self-liquid
• § 6939.6 — Any bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be authorized by ordinance passed by two-thirds of all of the members of the board.
• § 6939.7 — The bonds of any issue may be issued in one or more series.
• § 6939.8 — The bonds may be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bond shall be of a denomination less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor of a greater denomination than one thousa
• § 6939.9 — If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be an officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, his signature or countersignature is never
• § 6940 — On or before June first of each year, the port director shall submit to the board a detailed statement of the money required for the ensuing fiscal year for the purpose of conducting the business of t
• § 6941 — Annually on or before the date set for the consideration of the budget by the board of supervisors of each county in which the district, or any portion thereof, is located, the board of each district
• § 6942 — The tax shall not exceed the rate of ten cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all taxable property within the district, exclusive of the amount necessary to be raised by taxes to
• § 6943 — From the time of the organization of any district until the next succeeding July 1st, or in the event that a district is formed between February 1st and July 1st of any year then until one year from t
• § 6944 — (a) The district may, in any year, levy assessments, reassessments, or special taxes and issue bonds to finance waterway construction projects and related operations and maintenance, or operations and
• § 6960 — All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 6961 — If there is not sufficient money in any fund to pay the claims made against the fund, the claim shall be registered in a book kept by the treasurer, showing its number, when presented, date, amount, n
• § 6962 — Wages and salaries shall be paid at such intervals as the board may direct, but at least once each month.
• § 6963 — The provisions of Chapter I, Division II of the District Organization Act relating to notices shall govern and control this part.
• § 7 — Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer or by a person authorized, pursuant to l
• § 70 — The department may prepare plans for, and acquire, construct, develop, and improve, small craft harbors, facilities in connection with the harbors, and connecting waterways.
• § 70.2 — (a) The department may prepare or contract for the preparation of plans for, acquire or contract for the acquisition of, construct or contract for the construction of, develop and improve, or contract
• § 70.3 — “Harbor of safe refuge” means a port, harbor, inlet, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.
• § 70.4 — No city, county, or district that has received, or is receiving, money under this division for the design, planning, construction, or improvement of a small craft harbor of refuge shall exclude, consi
• § 70.5 — (a) The following are harbors of safe refuge: (1) Bodega Bay Harbor.