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

• § 98166 — (a) Notwithstanding the Government Code, the board may authorize payment of any or all of the premiums on any group life, accident and health insurance, health and welfare plan, or pension or retireme
• § 98167 — (a) The obligation of the district is to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and, when an agreement is reached, to execute a written collective bargaining agre
• § 98168 — (a) The district shall not require any employee, who is a member of a bona fide religion, body, or sect which has historically held conscientious objections to joining or financially supporting labor
• § 98169 — It is unlawful for the district to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to inte
• § 98170 — It is unlawful for an employee organization to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwis
• § 98171 — (a) This chapter shall not displace, or supplant, the requirements of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 3610) of Division 4.
• § 98172 — (a) Any charging party, respondent, or intervenor aggrieved by a final decision or order of the Public Employment Relations Board in an unfair practice case, except a decision of that board not to iss
• § 98173 — This chapter, as amended by the act adding this section, shall not be interpreted as if it were in conflict with any collective bargaining agreement and shall not be implemented to abrogate an agreeme
• § 98174 — Chapter 11.
• § 98180 — The board may establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district and provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement allowances, disability payments, and death ben
• § 98181 — The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group insurance, or other insurance, or by such me
• § 98182 — Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by the system, and the prospective assets and lia
• § 98183 — The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administrations of the retirement system.
• § 98184 — Nothing in this chapter prevents the district from participation in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees’ Retirement System by contract entered into between the distr
• § 98185 — The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification from time to time.
• § 98190 — The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits and the amounts thereof provided, that said
• § 98191 — The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which service is known as “prior service”.
• § 98192 — The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system.
• § 98193 — All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting the amounts thereof from the salary, wages or com
• § 98194 — Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interests, shall be met by contributions by
• § 98195 — If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto, shall be returned to him, provided, however, t
• § 98196 — All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement, allowance, disability payment or death benefit, from the retirement system, and all contributions and interest thereon returned to
• § 982 — (a) The registration shall be deemed approved and a registration number issued no later than 45 days after the required information has been submitted, unless the commission’s executive director finds
• § 98200 — The board may create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of the employees, to administer the retirement system, and sha
• § 98201 — All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
• § 98202 — The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and judge under such ordinances as may
• § 98203 — If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund.
• § 98204 — At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement fund and
• § 98205 — Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the district, shall have any interest direct or indirect in the mak
• § 98210 — The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
• § 98211 — 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.
• § 98212 — 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.
• § 98213 — No action in eminent domain to acquire property or interests therein within any incorporated city or any county shall be commenced unless the legislative body of the affected city or county has consen
• § 98214 — No such taking or acquisition by the district which would involve the abandonment, removal, relocation, or use of property of a railroad corporation, as defined in Section 230 of this code, shall be p
• § 98220 — 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
• § 98221 — No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to be derived therefrom contra
• § 98233 — 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 with
• § 98234 — 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
• § 98240 — The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities necessary or co
• § 98241 — The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any other property for
• § 98242 — 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
• § 98243 — The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases by such operator upon such terms and conditions as it de
• § 98244 — 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
• § 98245 — The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public utility operating transit facilities; may enter into agreement
• § 98246 — The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
• § 98247 — The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before the district board as to the reasonableness of any r
• § 98248 — Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 98390) of this part, the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing.
• § 98249 — 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
• § 98250 — Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
• § 98251 — The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.
• § 98260 — The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but prior to the time moneys from the tax levy for
• § 98262 — The district shall not incur an indebtedness under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 98310) of this part which in the aggregate exceeds one (1) percent of the assessed value of all the real and perso
• § 98263 — The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this state, or any department, instr
• § 98270 — The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury.
• § 98280 — The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.
• § 98280.5 — If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy a tax for such purpose or purposes and fix the amount of mon
• § 98281 — The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 98280, levy and collect annually until the district’s bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district s
• § 98282 — The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district.
• § 98283 — The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of Equalization for the county and shall take such assessments as the
• § 98284 — In such case the 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, a
• § 98285 — The board shall on or before the first day of September fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100) using as a basis the value of property transmitted t
• § 98286 — The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board.
• § 98287 — The district’s taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
• § 98288 — Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the district by the county treasurer in the proportion which th
• § 98289 — The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors of the county and the board.
• § 98289.3 — All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied and shall become a lien at the same time as county taxes.
• § 98289.5 — (a) On and after the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance pursuant to Article 8.
• § 98290 — (a) A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.
• § 98291 — Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days after adoption of the ordinance.
• § 98292 — The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transactions and use tax ordinance.
• § 98293 — Prior to the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all functions incident to the administration and oper
• § 98294 — If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transactions and use tax ordinance, it shall nevertheless so contract, and, in such ca
• § 98295 — Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption of the ordinance of repeal.
• § 98296 — Whenever a bond election is held to authorize a bonded indebtedness pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 98310) of Chapter 7, the ordinance calling the election may include a statement that
• § 983 — (a) The commission shall accept, compile, and attempt to informally resolve consumer complaints regarding core transport agents.
• § 983.5 — (a) (1) The commission may enforce Sections 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2107, 2108, and 2114 against a core transport agent as if the core transport agent is a public utility for purposes of those section
• § 983.7 — If a customer files a claim with a gas corporation for damages to property resulting from the curtailment of gas service due to the failure of the gas corporation to reasonably provide service or rest
• § 98300 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Establish” includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend or reroute.
• § 98301 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert, lessen, or compete for the patronage or revenues of any
• § 98302 — The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has offered to purchase the buses and such other facilities of the existing syst
• § 98303 — The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or that part thereof which the district desires to purchase, shall be the reasonable market value of the buses and other facilities of the existi
• § 98304 — The district and the public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is to be established by arbitration and upon the method of
• § 98305 — Section 851 of the Public Utilities Code does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and the Public Utilities Commission sh
• § 98310 — The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing the whole or any portion of any transit facilities,
• § 98311 — Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction, or completion by the district o
• § 98312 — The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election and of voting for or against incurring the indebtedness.
• § 98313 — Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• § 98314 — Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this chapter setting forth the procedure for the calling and holding of the special
• § 98315 — The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• § 98316 — The board shall comply with Article 3, (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which are applicable to any bond election held pursuant to thi
• § 98317 — The votes of two-thirds ( 2 3 ) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this chapter.
• § 98318 — If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after the election hold another special election for the s
• § 98330 — Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10 years from the date thereof and shall be completed in not
• § 98331 — The board may divide any issue of bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter into two or more series, and may fix different dates of issuance and different maturity dates for the bonds of each series.
• § 98332 — Pending the actual issuance or delivery of bonds, a district may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denomination whatsoever, with or without coupon, and in such form a
• § 98333 — The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and shall be payable on the day
• § 98334 — The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all of the bonds on any interest payment date prior to their fixed maturity at not e
• § 98335 — The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize and designate for that purpose.
• § 98340 — The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines.
• § 98341 — All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds.
• § 98342 — In lieu of the immediate levy of a tax to pay the interest or any part thereof on any bonded indebtedness incurred in accordance with this part the board may, in the estimate of the amount of money ne
• § 98350 — Whenever the board by resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the refunding of the whole or any portion of the bonded indebtedness will be of advantage to the dist
• § 98351 — The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this act, and the approval of the voters is not required for the issuance o
• § 98352 — Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this chapter shall substantially govern as to all matters pertaining to the issuance of refunding bonds, including and without limiting the generality o
• § 98353 — Refunding bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the interest rate on the refunded bonds, but payment of the refunding bonds shall begin not later than one year from the date thereof and be
• § 98354 — The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be applied only to the purchase, or retirement at not more than par and accrued interest, or the call price, of the bonded indebtedness for which the
• § 98355 — In lieu of selling refunding bonds and using the proceeds to purchase or retire the bonds to be refunded, the board may exchange refunding bonds at not less than par and accrued interest for the bonds
• § 98356 — Wherever outstanding bonds are refunded they shall be surrendered to the treasurer of the district, who shall cancel them by endorsing on their face the manner in which the refunding was effected, whe
• § 98360 — All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, and trust companies
• § 98361 — All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank or banks in the state as
• § 98370 — An action to determine validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• § 98380 — As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner pro
• § 98381 — The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).
• § 98390 — Territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• § 98391 — Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.
• § 98392 — The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board and shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed.
• § 98393 — The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper published in the territ
• § 98394 — On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to the annexation of the territory.
• § 98395 — After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall order the annexation of the territory so described.
• § 98396 — Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to all the benefits of the district.
• § 98397 — Territory within the district may be excluded from the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• § 98398 — After the petition is filed with the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors shall determine whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number of voters and if the petition is sufficient, t
• § 98399 — On the day fixed for the hearing, or any day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the local agency formation commission shall hear persons interested, and shall hear and consider any objections to t
• § 984 — In order to carry out essential elements of a sustainable and effective consumer protection program in connection with core transport agents offering gas service to core gas customers as intended by t
• § 984.5 — (a) The commission shall compile and regularly update the following information: names and contact numbers of a registered core transport agent, information to assist consumers in making service choic
• § 98400 — The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district will be dissolved.
• § 98401 — The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held on the next established election date not less tha
• § 98402 — Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published.
• § 98403 — The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county electi
• § 98404 — The board shall canvass the vote.
• § 98405 — The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• § 98406 — Upon dissolution the right, title and interest to property owned or controlled by the district shall be divided among the cities within the district and the county according to the ratio which the ass
• § 98407 — The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of the dissolved district.
• § 985 — Rules that implement the following minimum standards shall be adopted by the commission for core transport agents offering gas services to core gas customers and the governing body of a public agency
• § 986 — (a) Except for a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned gas utility offering gas service to core gas customers within its service territory, a core transport agent offering gas service to core gas
• § 987 — (a) The commission shall maintain a list of core gas customers who do not wish to be solicited by telephone, by a gas corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator for gas service, to subscribe to or c
• § 988 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, requirements placed on a core transport agent shall not apply to gas services provided by a local publicly owned gas utility to customers within th
• § 989 — Unclaimed refunds ordered by the commission, and any accrued interest, may be used by the commission to fund additional consumer protection efforts.
• § 989.1 — (a) In addition to any other right to revoke an offer, core gas customers of gas service, have the right to cancel a contract for gas service until midnight of the third business day after the day on
• § 989.5 — (a) A consumer damaged by a violation of this chapter by a core transport agent is entitled to recover all of the following: (1) Actual damages.
• § 99150 — In locating its bus stops, park and ride service facilities, and special service terminal points and stations, a transit district shall consult with, and consider the recommendations of, the city if s
• § 99151 — Any transit district whose area is served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company line from the City of San Jose to the City and County of San Francisco may make a bulk purchase of passenger ti
• § 99152 — Any public transit guideway planned, acquired, or constructed, on or after January 1, 1979, is subject to regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to safety appliances and procedures.
• § 99153 — Any transit district or operator may adopt uniform standards to rate bidders, on the basis of questionnaires and required statements, with respect to contracts for railroad rolling stock upon which ea
• § 99153.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Continued use” means the continued operation of the diesel engine from the diesel-powered on-track equipment as an internal comb
• § 99154 — Any transit district or operator may require from prospective bidders for any contract answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire and financial statement, including a complete statemen
• § 99155 — (a) Each transit operator, whether publicly or privately funded all or in part, nonprofit or for profit, which offers reduced fares to senior citizens shall honor the federal Medicare identification c
• § 99155.1 — (a) There shall be close coordination between local transit providers and county welfare departments in order to ensure that transportation moneys available for purposes of assisting recipients of aid
• § 99155.2 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 99155, if the Sacramento Regional Transit District offers reduced fares to senior citizens, it shall not be required to also offer reduced fares to d
• § 99155.3 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Eligible persons” means persons who receive, or who are eligible to receive, paratransit services based on a disability and whos
• § 99155.5 — (a) The Legislature intends that dial-a-ride and paratransit services be accessible to disabled persons, as defined in Section 99206.
• § 99155.6 — (a) The Transportation Agency, in consultation with public transit operators, shall conduct an assessment of the procedures public transit operators use to provide dial-a-ride and paratransit services
• § 99156 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may provide compensation to a member of the governing board of the district only for attendance at a meeting of the board or for each day
• § 99157 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may not provide any life, accident, or health insurance plan to any member or former member of the governing board of the district who fi
• § 99158 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transit district may not establish or contribute to a pension or retirement benefits plan or purchase an annunity for any member of its governing board wh
• § 99159 — (a) Any retirement system established or maintained pursuant to this division for employees of a transit district who are members of a unit appropriate for collective bargaining shall be maintained pu
• § 99160 — Any public entity which plans the development of, or which operates, a rail transit system, shall, with respect to any current or future rail transit system, (a) develop motor vehicle parking faciliti
• § 99161 — (a) Space at a publicly owned transportation facility may be leased by competitive bid, taking into consideration affordability and quality of care, to a child care operator who has obtained licensure
• § 99162 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, one or more local agencies listed in subdivision (i) of Section 99602 may undertake a study or a joint study concerning the feasibility of extending the com
• § 99163 — On and after January 1, 2005, whenever a transit operator improves or replaces a ticket vending machine at a public transit station to include video instructions, the transit operator shall also equip
• § 99164 — (a) When installing new security systems, a transit agency operated by an operator as defined in Section 99210 shall only purchase and install equipment capable of storing recorded images for at least
• § 99165 — (a) For purposes of this section, “environmental and public health impacts” means those impacts that affect the health and environment of persons living, working, and attending school in the vicinity
• § 99166 — (a) If an evacuation order is issued that covers all or a portion of a public transit operator’s service area, the public transit operator shall authorize passengers to board public transit vehicles w
• § 99170 — (a) A person shall not do any of the following with respect to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district or the property, facilities, or vehicles upon which the San Francisco Bay Are
• § 99171 — (a) (1) A transit district may issue a prohibition order to any person to whom any of the following applies: (A) On at least three separate occasions within a period of 90 consecutive days, the person
• § 99172 — (a) Before exercising the authority given in subdivision (a) of Section 99171 to issue prohibition orders, a transit district shall do all of the following: (1) Establish an advisory committee for the
• § 99173 — (a) Before the procurement of a new bus to be used in revenue operations, a public transit operator shall take into consideration recommendations of, and best practices standards developed by, the exc
• § 99175 — (a) A public entity that operates, or contracts for the operation of, a commuter rail system shall ensure that each train has an automated external defibrillator (AED) as part of its safety equipment
• § 99176 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Lactation room” means a room or other location open to members of the public to express breast milk in a private and secure loca
• § 99177 — (a) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Institute” means the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University.
• § 99178 — (a) For purposes of this section, the terms “street harassment,” “survey data,” and “transit operator” have the same meanings as defined in Section 99177.
• § 99200 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act.
• § 99201 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions given in this article shall govern construction of this chapter.
• § 99203 — “Claimant” or any derivative term, such as “applicant,” means an operator, city, county, or consolidated transportation service agency.
• § 99204 — “City” means a city within the county having the fund from which the disbursement will be made.
• § 99204.3 — “Commission” means the California Transportation Commission.
• § 99204.5 — “Consolidated transportation service agency” means an agency designated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 15975 of the Government Code.
• § 99204.6 — “Controller” means the Controller of the State of California.
• § 99205 — “County” includes a city and county.
• § 99205.5 — “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
• § 99205.6 — “Director” means the Director of Transportation.
• § 99205.7 — “Fare revenues” means the revenue object classes 401, 402, and 403 as specified in Section 630.
• § 99206 — “Fund” means the local transportation fund established by a county under Article 11 (commencing with Section 29530) of Chapter 2 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the Government Code.
• § 99206.5 — “Disabled person” means any individual who by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, including, but not limited to, any indiv
• § 99207 — (a) “Included municipal operator” means a city or county which is included, in whole or in part, within a transit district or which has been extended the authority to join a transit district by that d
• § 99207.5 — In Los Angeles County, an “eligible municipal operator” is a transit operator that has been designated eligible to receive formula-equivalent funds allocable for transit operating purposes, other than
• § 99208 — “Included transit district” means any of the following which has operated a public transportation system since at least January 1, 1971: (a) A transit district whose boundaries are contained entirely
• § 99209 — “Municipal operator” means a city or county, including any nonprofit corporation or other legal entity wholly owned or controlled by the city or county, which operates a public transportation system,
• § 99209.1 — “Municipal operator” also means any county which is located in part within a transit district and which operates a public transportation system in the unincorporated area of the county not within the
• § 99209.5 — “Operates” for purposes of Sections 99209 and 99215, and “operation” for purposes of paragaraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 99289, mean that the operator owns or leases the equipment, establishe
• § 99210 — “Operator” means any transit district, included transit district, municipal operator, included municipal operator, or transit development board.
• § 99210.1 — “Operator” also means the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission for operation of commuter rail services.
• § 99211 — “Public transportation system” means any system of an operator which provides transportation services to the general public by any vehicle which operates on land or water, regardless of whether operat
• § 99211.5 — “Ridesharing services” means a comprehensive organizational effort which is designed to reduce the number of vehicles on the highways during peak travel periods within a defined area by encouraging th
• § 99212 — “Secretary” means the Secretary of Transportation.
• § 99213 — “Transit district” means a public district organized pursuant to state law and designated in the enabling legislation as a transit district or a rapid transit district.
• § 99214 — (a) “Transportation planning agency” means the entity designated in Section 29532 of the Government Code.
• § 99215 — “Transit development board” means a public entity created pursuant to state law and designated in the enabling legislation as a transit development board, including, solely for purposes of submission
• § 99217 — “Urbanized area” means such an area as defined by Section 101 of Title 23 of the United States Code.
• § 99220 — The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Public transportation is an essential component of the balanced transportation system which must be maintained and developed so as to permit the effi