California

Public Utilities Code - PUC

7,564 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 2895 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Telecommunications Customer Service Act of 1993.
• § 28950 — The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
• § 28951 — The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• § 28952 — The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose, as provided in Chapter 7 of this part.
• § 28953 — The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this part.
• § 28955 — The Public Utilities Commission of the State shall have and exercise power and jurisdiction to fix just compensation to be paid for the taking of any property of a public utility in eminent domain pro
• § 28956 — The district is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to the State or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any publi
• § 28957 — The district may be merged into or consolidated with any other public agency which may be established by law upon such terms as the board of directors shall specify in a resolution to be submitted to
• § 28958 — The board may authorize the temporary transfer of cash balances in any fund (except moneys in any fund which the district is required to set aside for the payment of bonds, notes or other evidence of
• § 28959 — Notwithstanding Sections 53090 and 53091 of the Government Code, commercial outdoor advertising signs located on property of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District shall be in conformance w
• § 2896 — The commission shall require telephone corporations to provide customer service to telecommunication customers that includes, but is not limited to, all the following: (a) Sufficient information upon
• § 2896.1 — A provider of commercial mobile radio service, as defined in Section 216.
• § 2897 — Consistent with other provisions of this code, orders, rules, and applicable tariffs of telecommunications service providers, the commission shall apply these policies to all providers of telecommunic
• § 28970 — The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting the generality of t
• § 28971 — The district may contract with any department or agency of the United States of America or of the State of California or with any public or private corporation upon such terms and conditions as the di
• § 28973 — The district may insure against any accident to or destruction of the system or any part thereof.
• § 28974 — The district may insure against loss of revenues from any cause whatsoever.
• § 28975 — The district may insure against public liability or property damage, or both.
• § 2898 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, upon receiving a request pursuant to subdivision (b), the mobile internet service provider shall not impair or degrade the lawful internet traffic
• § 2899 — (a) For purposes of this section, “incarcerated persons calling services” means communication services rendered to incarcerated persons, including, but not limited to, voice communications.
• § 2901 — Any municipal corporation may retain or surrender to the commission the powers of control vested in it to supervise and regulate the relationship between any one or more classes of public utilities, a
• § 29010 — The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property of every kind wit
• § 29010.1 — (a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “BART TOD place type” means the place type described in Table 1 and Figure 1 of the BART Transit-Oriented Development Guide
• § 29010.10 — (a) When the district enters into an exclusive negotiating agreement with a developer for the development of an eligible TOD project, that agreement shall confer a vested right to proceed with develop
• § 29010.11 — (a) Before July 1, 2027, the district shall submit a report to the Legislature assessing whether the provisions of this chapter effectively accelerate, and improve the quality of, TOD at district stat
• § 29010.12 — (a) This article shall not apply to a district station without unentitled or undeveloped land on July 1, 2018, unless that station entitlement expires.
• § 29010.3 — (a) The district may take by gift, or take or convey by grant, purchase, devise, or lease, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property of every kind within or without the district necessary for, in
• § 29010.5 — Notwithstanding Sections 53091 and 53094 of the Government Code, nor any zoning override which may have been previously exercised pursuant thereto by a school district, whenever the district leases or
• § 29010.6 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board of directors shall, consistent with Section 28793, adopt by ordinance TOD zoning standards for eac
• § 29010.7 — (a) (1) This section shall only apply to an eligible TOD project that meets both of the following requirements: (A) Has a height less than or equal to one story, or 15 feet, above the highest approved
• § 29010.8 — (a) The district shall do all of the following to avoid the loss of affordable housing units and to prevent the direct displacement of tenants: (1) Require that any eligible TOD project that involves
• § 29010.9 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 65913.
• § 29011 — Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof is of no further value to the district, the board
• § 2902 — This chapter shall not be construed to authorize any municipal corporation to surrender to the commission its powers of control to supervise and regulate the relationship between a public utility and
• § 2903 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 29030 — The district may provide a rapid transit system for the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage.
• § 29031 — The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and all other facilities
• § 29032 — The district may lease or contract for the use of its facilities, or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases by such operator upon such terms and conditions as it deems in
• § 29033 — The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway or any stream, bay or watercourse, or over any o
• § 29034 — The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any public agency or public utility operating transit facilities; may enter into agreements with
• § 29034.5 — (a) The district may approve annexation of areas to the district pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 29500) or other forms of affiliation; however, the district shall meet its service commi
• § 29034.6 — (a) Not later than 1991, the district shall proceed to commence construction of an extension of its facilities to West Pittsburg, or to a point east of that location, if the funding described in subdi
• § 29034.7 — (a) Not later than December 31, 1991, the district shall proceed to commence construction of an extension of its facilities to Dublin if an agreement is then existing between the district and the Alam
• § 29035 — The district may operate such feeder bus lines and other feeder services as necessary.
• § 29035.5 — Metropolitan Transportation Commission Resolution 3434, in December 2001, established the following Regional Transit Expansion Program for the San Francisco Bay area: (a) BART to Warm Springs, sponsor
• § 29036 — The board of directors shall refer for recommendation the plans of routes, rights of way, terminals, stations, yards and related facilities and improvements to the city councils and boards of supervis
• § 29037 — The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within the district by any city or public agency, unless
• § 29038 — The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the board and shall be reasonable.
• § 29039 — The board of supervisors of a county or a city and county, or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before the district board
• § 2904 — “Municipal corporation” means a city and county or incorporated city.
• § 29040 — Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 29039 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing.
• § 29041 — At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not a party to the original request for hearing, may intervene and s
• § 29042 — The district, petitioner or petitioners, and the intervenors shall have the right to call and examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on any matter relevant to th
• § 29043 — Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation.
• § 29044 — A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the board at such hearing shall be taken down by a reporter appointed by the board.
• § 29045 — Within thirty (30) days after submission of the case the board shall render its decision in writing together with written findings of fact.
• § 29046 — Within forty (40) days after the mailing of the decision to the petitioner, the petitioner may apply for a writ of mandate in the manner provided in the Code of Civil Procedure.
• § 29047 — The district shall be subject to regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to safety appliances and procedures, and the commission shall inspect all work done pursuant to this part and m
• § 2905 — “Legislative body” means the board of supervisors, municipal council, commission, or other legislative or governing body of a municipal corporation.
• § 2906 — “Powers of control” means all powers of control vested in a municipal corporation to supervise and regulate (a) the relationship between public utilities and their present or prospective customers, co
• § 29060 — 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.
• § 2907 — “Railroad corporation,” “street railroad corporation,” “common carrier,” “gas corporation,” “electrical corporation,” “telephone corporation,” “telegraph corporation,” “water corporation,” and “public
• § 29080 — The district may accept, subject to the procedures and limitations provided in Chapter 8 of this part, contributions or loans from the United States, or any department, instrumentality, or agency ther
• § 29081 — The district may cooperate with and enter into agreements with the State of California or any public agency for the acquisition, construction, completion, maintenance, operation, or repair, joint or o
• § 29100 — Subject to any agreement or covenant between the district and the holders of any of its obligations limiting or restricting classes of investments, the district may invest any surplus money in its tre
• § 29101 — Such investment may be made by direct purchase of any issue of such bonds, treasury notes, or obligations, or part thereof, at the original sale or by the subsequent purchase of the bonds, treasury no
• § 29102 — Any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held as investments by the district may from time to time be sold and the proceeds reinvested in bonds, treasury notes, or obligations as provid
• § 29103 — Sales of any bonds, treasury notes, or obligations purchased and held by the district shall from time to time be made in season so that the proceeds may be applied to the purposes for which the money
• § 29120 — The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent taxes, with penalties, interest, and cost.
• § 29121 — The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect annually until the general obligation bonds of the district are paid,
• § 29122 — The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal, and sinking fund of general obligation bonds of the district shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for distric
• § 29123 — The tax rate for taxes levied in any fiscal year for all district purposes other than taxes levied pursuant to Section 29121, shall not exceed five cents ($0.
• § 29124 — All assessments shall be made for the district by the State Board of Equalization and the county assessors, and all taxes shall be collected for the district by the tax collectors, of the counties in
• § 29125 — Each county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the total value of all property within the district as equalized.
• § 29126 — The board shall, on or before the first weekday in September, or if such weekday falls upon a holiday then on the first business day thereafter, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents
• § 29126.1 — If in the determination of any tax rate a fraction of a cent occurs, the board may adopt a rate ending in the next higher tenth of one cent ($0.
• § 29127 — The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district is situated a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by
• § 29128 — The district’s taxes levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
• § 29129 — Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of the provisions of Section 29124 has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be app
• § 29130 — The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this chapter shall be fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors of the county and the board.
• § 29131 — All taxes levied under this part are a lien on the property on which they are levied.
• § 29140 — (a) The board shall, by ordinance, impose transactions and use taxes in conformity with Part 1.
• § 29141 — Any transactions and use taxes ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 90 days after the effective date of thi
• § 29142 — (a) Revenues derived from the transactions and use taxes, not to exceed an aggregate principal amount of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000), plus the costs payable by the district to the
• § 29142.2 — Notwithstanding Section 7271 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, after deduction for the cost of the State Board of Equalization in administering the transactions and use tax, the amounts collected unde
• § 29142.4 — No funds shall be allocated to an entity pursuant to Section 29142.
• § 29142.5 — On and after July 1, 1984, for purposes of meeting the requirement of subdivision (b) of Section 29142.
• § 29142.6 — Upon determination by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission that an operator has met the conditions specified in Section 29142.
• § 29142.8 — (a) Any portion of the transactions and use tax revenues available for allocation and not allocated by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall be invested through the Surplus Money Investment
• § 29143 — (a) The district is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds, payable, in whole or in part, from revenues made available under this article.
• § 29150 — The district may borrow money, incur a bonded indebtedness in respect thereto, and levy taxes for the payment of principal and interest thereon, in the manner provided in Chapter 7 of this part, but n
• § 29151 — Before submitting a proposal to incur any bonded indebtedness, the district shall employ such engineers, economists, fiscal experts and others as is necessary to develop general plans, estimates and g
• § 29152 — Such engineers, economists, fiscal experts and others shall make reports to the district, which shall include: (a) A general description of the facilities to be acquired or constructed from the procee
• § 29153 — After receiving such reports, the board shall determine and declare by resolution whether or not the proposed plan of work is feasible and whether or not the project, as set forth in said reports, is
• § 29154 — After adoption by the board of the reports made pursuant to Section 29152 the board shall refer such reports to the boards of supervisors of the counties comprising the district for their approval.
• § 29155 — After receiving the reports, each board of supervisors shall fix a time and place for a public hearing to consider the reports.
• § 29156 — Within 15 days from the date of the public hearing held pursuant to Section 29155, each board of supervisors shall, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the board of supervisors, determine wh
• § 29157 — If a majority of any board of supervisors does not approve the reports, the district may make additional studies and changes and may refer the amended reports to the board of supervisors of the counti
• § 29157.1 — Whenever it appears to the board that bonded indebtedness heretofore authorized pursuant to the provisions of this article is insufficient to cover all costs of the acquisition and construction of fac
• § 29158 — When the district has received unanimous approval from the boards of supervisors of the counties comprising the district pursuant to Section 29156 of this code, or when the board has made its order pu
• § 29159 — The resolution calling the special election shall contain: (a) A statement of the general object and purpose of incurring the indebtedness.
• § 29160 — The provisions of Section 37.
• § 29161 — Any election submitting the proposition of incurring indebtedness and the issuance of bonds called pursuant to this part, may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authori
• § 29162 — Whenever a special bond election is called pursuant to this part and is not consolidated with any other election the board shall in its resolution calling such special bond election, in addition to al
• § 29163 — Notice of a special bond election shall be given by publication of the text of the resolution calling the election and except as provided below the text thereof shall be published once a week in each
• § 29164 — All the expenses of holding the election shall be borne by the district, except when the election is consolidated with another election pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 10400) of Division 1
• § 29165 — No error, irregularity or omission in the calling, holding or conducting of any special bond election which does not affect the substantial rights of the taxpayers within the district or the electors
• § 29166 — (a) The returns of the election shall be made and the votes shall be canvassed by the county elections official in each county contained in the district, within thirty (30) days after holding of the e
• § 29167 — At any special bond election called pursuant to this part, all residents of the district who are qualified electors possessing the qualifications prescribed by the general election laws of the State o
• § 29168 — At any special bond election two or more propositions for incurring indebtedness may be submitted at the same election in which event the votes cast for and against each proposition shall be counted s
• § 29169 — Whenever three-fifths of the votes cast at any special bond election or on any proposition submitted thereat are in favor of incurring the indebtedness set forth in such proposition, the board may by
• § 29170 — Bonds may be issued in form payable to bearer, with coupons attached for payment of interest and, if so issued, may be made subject to registration.
• § 29171 — Coupon bonds may be issued in denominations of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or multiples thereof, as the district may determine.
• § 29172 — Registered bonds may be issued without limitation as to principal amount, as may be determined by the district, except that registered bonds shall be in denominations of one thousand dollars ($1,000)
• § 29173 — Bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not to exceed 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that interest for the first year or any fraction thereof may be paid in one installment.
• § 29174 — The district may provide for redemption of bonds prior to maturity, on such notice and at such time or times and with such redemption provisions, including premiums, as the district may determine, pro
• § 29175 — The district may provide for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds at any place within the State of California, or at any other place within the United States, which the district may desi
• § 29176 — Bonds shall bear dates prescribed by the district.
• § 29177 — Bonds may be serial or sinking fund bonds, or in part serially and in part sinking fund bonds, with such maturities and in such amounts annually, semiannually or otherwise, as the district may determi
• § 29178 — No bond by its terms shall mature in more than fifty (50) years from its own date, and in the event any authorized issue is divided into two or more series or divisions, the maximum maturity herein au
• § 29179 — The district may divide any authorized issue into one or more series or division and fix different dates and different maturity dates for the bonds of each series or division.
• § 29180 — The district may prescribe the form of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, and of the interest coupons attached to those bonds.
• § 29181 — Pending the actual issuance or delivery of bonds, the district may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denomination whatsoever, with or without coupon, and in such form
• § 29182 — The district may provide that interest on bonds may be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds during the actual construction of any project, for the acquisition, construction, or completion
• § 29183 — The district shall provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds by the levy and collection of taxes upon all property in the district subject to taxation by the district witho
• § 29184 — Any general obligation bonds which shall be issued under the provisions of this part shall be legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, banks—both commercial and savi
• § 29200 — The district may by resolution at any time, or from time to time, provide for the authorization and issuance of any bonds authorized pursuant to this part and for the sale of the whole or any part the
• § 29201 — Before making a sale of any of the bonds, notice shall be given by publication once a week, for two weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the district, if there is one, and no sale shall be
• § 29202 — The published notice of sale shall describe the bonds and set forth the terms and conditions of sale.
• § 29210 — The district may provide for the funding or refunding of outstanding general obligation indebtedness pursuant to this article, if any of the following conditions exist: (a) The district has indebtedne
• § 29211 — The district by a two-thirds vote of the board may fund or refund its general obligation indebtedness at, after, or before maturity and issue refunding bonds of the district to refund the indebtedness
• § 29212 — Refunding general obligations may be issued and may be sold in accordance with Articles 2 (commencing with Section 29169) and 3 (commencing with Section 29200), except that no election need be called
• § 29213 — Refunding bonds issued pursuant to this article will have the same weight and force and may be used in the same manner as the bonds to be refunded.
• § 29214 — The proceeds of any sale of refunding bonds for cash shall be deposited with the chief financial officer or depositary, as determined by the district, to the credit of the Funding Fund, and applied on
• § 29215 — Any proceeds of the refunding bonds remaining after the indebtedness has been paid shall be deposited in the fund established for the payment of principal and interest on the refunding bonds and used
• § 29216 — At the time of making the general tax levy after incurring the bonded indebtedness and annually thereafter until the refunding bonds are paid or until there is a sum in the treasury set apart for that
• § 29217 — If the earliest maturity of the refunding bonds is more than one year after the date of issuance, the board shall levy and collect annually a tax sufficient to pay the interest as it falls due and to
• § 29218 — The taxes shall be levied and collected as other district taxes, and are in addition to all other taxes.
• § 29219 — Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for (a) the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be refund
• § 29220 — When sufficient money is in the Funding Fund to redeem one or more outstanding past due bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, or to redeem one or more of the outstanding bonds, notes, or o
• § 29221 — At the same time, the chief financial officer shall deposit in the post office a copy of the notice, enclosed in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to the registered owner of any such bond,
• § 29222 — When any outstanding bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness are surrendered and paid, the chief financial officer shall cancel them by endorsing on their faces the amount for which they are
• § 29223 — The chief financial officer shall keep a record of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness redeemed, and report the redemption to the board.
• § 29224 — Any money remaining in the Funding Fund, after all outstanding bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness proposed to be refunded have been taken up and canceled, shall be d
• § 29225 — Refunding of revenue bonds of the district may be accomplished in the manner provided by the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, all of the provisions of which are hereby made applicable to the district.
• § 29230 — The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying general administrative and preliminary expenses of the district, lawfully incurred, prior to the time moneys to be raised by the first tax le
• § 29231 — At any time prior to the first receipt by the district of revenues from taxation, the counties within the district may loan any available money to the district for the purposes of organization and ope
• § 29232 — The treasurers of the counties within the district shall pay into the treasury of the district all funds held by them to the credit of the district.
• § 29233 — The district may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (commencing at Section 53820), Chapter 4, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code, and these sections apply to a
• § 29234 — The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized to be issued, but which have not been sold and delivered, and may issue negotiable bond anticipation notes
• § 29235 — (a) The district may borrow money for the purchase of transit vehicles, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 99501, transit equipment, or transportation facilities, or for capital improvements, by
• § 29236 — In addition to any other existing authority, the district may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Article 7.
• § 29240 — As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district is hereby authorized to issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the distric
• § 29241 — The district is hereby declared to be a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941.
• § 29250 — The district shall have power to purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motor buses, rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates in the forms cus
• § 29251 — 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 of Cal
• § 29252 — The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgment of deeds and such agreements, lea
• § 29253 — The covenants, conditions 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,
• § 29260 — In addition to all other powers granted under this part, the district shall have the right to acquire, construct and complete any improvements authorized hereunder by special assessment proceedings.
• § 29261 — An assessment district formed or proposed to be formed under this part, on the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement thereby, shall not be subject to any of the provisions
• § 29262 — An assessment district formed or proposed to be formed under this part, on the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement thereby, shall not be subject to any of the provisions
• § 29270 — If lost or completely destroyed, any bond, note, coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness may be reissued in the form and tenor of the lost or destroyed bond, note, coupon, or other evidence of indeb
• § 29271 — If defaced, mutilated, or partially destroyed, any bond, note, coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness may be reissued in the form and tenor of the defaced or partially destroyed bond, note, coupon,
• § 29280 — When a bond, note, interest coupon, or other evidence of indebtedness payable from funds in the custody of the chief financial officer of the district is presented to the chief financial officer for p
• § 29281 — Upon receipt of the first money in the treasury applicable to their payment, the chief financial officer shall set apart the amount necessary to pay the past due bonds, notes, coupons, or other eviden
• § 29282 — If the registered bonds, notes, coupons, and other evidences of indebtedness are not presented for payment within 30 days from mailing of the notice, the chief financial officer shall apply the fund s
• § 29290 — All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the district under the provisions of this part, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt from all taxation within the State of California,
• § 29291 — An action to determine the validity of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• § 29292 — Any person who, without probable cause, institutes in any court, state or federal, any action or proceeding contesting the validity of the issuance or sale by the district of any bonds or other eviden
• § 29293 — Notwithstanding any other statutory provision to the contrary, the district may pledge all or any part of income received under Section 29123 to the payment of any revenue bonds to be issued pursuant
• § 2931 — The question whether any municipal corporation shall retain its powers of control respecting one or more classes of public utilities may be submitted to the qualified electors of the municipal corpora
• § 2932 — The ordinance of intention or the petition, as the case may be, shall contain the propositions proposed to be so submitted, as set forth in Section 2965.
• § 2933 — The petition shall be signed by qualified electors of the municipal corporation, equal in number to 10 per centum of the qualified electors, computed upon the total number of votes cast in the municip
• § 2934 — The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the legislative body of the municipal corporation.
• § 2935 — Upon completion of the examination, the clerk shall forthwith attach to the petition his certificate, properly dated, showing the result of the examination.
• § 2936 — If, by the certificate of the clerk, the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended by filing a supplemental petition within 10 days from the date of the certificate.
• § 2937 — The clerk shall, within 10 days from the filing of the supplemental petition, make a like examination of the supplemental petition and certify to the result of the examination as provided in Section 2
• § 2938 — The sufficiency or insufficiency of the petition shall not be subject to review by the legislative body.
• § 2939 — In any city and county having a board of election commissioners and a registrar of voters, the clerk of the legislative body thereof shall immediately upon the filing of any petition with him, transmi
• § 29500 — Any county not included within the boundaries of the district, including a county which has withdrawn from the district pursuant to Chapter 10 of this part, may be annexed thereto in the manner provid
• § 29501 — The board of supervisors of the county proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board of directors of the district upon the terms and conditions of annexation, which agreement (among oth
• § 29502 — As a condition of annexation, the district shall require any county seeking to annex to the district to reimburse the district for the county’s equitable share of the previously incurred cost of finan
• § 29503 — As an alternative method of annexation, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors of a county proposed to be annexed, signed by qualified electors of the county, in number to at least te
• § 29504 — Upon receipt of a petition pursuant to Section 29503, the board of supervisors shall communicate with the board and negotiate an annexation agreement and hold an election as provided in this part.
• § 29520 — The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the county when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter.
• § 29521 — The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district.
• § 29522 — At the hearing any person interested may file with the board of directors of the district written objections to the execution of the agreement.
• § 29523 — Upon the hearing the board of directors of the district shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear and determine all objections thereto.
• § 29524 — Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board of directors of the district without further notice other than an order to be entered upon the minutes of the meeting fixin
• § 29525 — If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied, the board of directors of the district shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the agreement and authorize its executi
• § 29526 — When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district.
• § 29540 — At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement of annexation the board of supervisors of the county to be annexed shall cause an election to be held in the
• § 29541 — Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the county, and shall either state that a copy of t
• § 29542 — The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county electi
• § 29543 — If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast in favor of the annexation, the proposition and all of the terms and condit
• § 29544 — If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the board of supervisors of the county.
• § 29545 — If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the board of supervisors of the county shall enter in its minutes an order declaring the result of the election and shall ther
• § 29560 — Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the county proposed to be annexed the board of directors of the district shall pass a resolu
• § 29570 — From and after the date of annexation the board of directors of the district shall levy upon all of the property in the county annexed such taxes, tolls, or charges as are necessary to provide funds f
• § 29580 — The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any county to the district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion of the p