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(a) Employees have the right to self-organize, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. It is declared to be in the public interest that the district not express any preference for one union over another.

(1) (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, if a majority of the employees employed by a district in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicate a desire to be represented by a labor organization, then the district, after determining pursuant to subdivision (f) that the labor organization represents the employees in the appropriate unit, shall enter into a written contract with the accredited representative of those employees governing wages, salaries, hours, and working conditions.

(B) (i) If a dispute arises over wages, salaries, hours, or working conditions that is not resolved by negotiations conducted in good faith between the district and the labor organization, then upon the request of either party, the district and the labor organization may submit the dispute to an arbitration board. The decision of a majority of the arbitration board shall be final.

(ii) The arbitration board shall be composed of two representatives of the district, two representatives of the labor organization, and a fifth member to be agreed upon by the representatives of the district and labor organization.

(iii) If the representatives of the district and labor organization are unable to agree on the fifth member, then the names of five persons experienced in labor arbitration shall be obtained from the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service. The labor organization and the district shall, alternately, strike a name from the list supplied by the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service. The labor organization and the district shall determine by lot who shall first strike a name from the list. After the labor organization and the district have stricken four names, the name remaining shall be designated as the arbitrator. The decision of a majority of the arbitration board shall be final and binding upon the parties.

(iv) The expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the parties. Each party shall bear the party’s own costs.

(b) If the board and the representatives of the employees do not agree to submit the dispute to an arbitration board as provided in subdivision (a), either party may notify the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service that a dispute exists and that there is no agreement to arbitrate. The California State Mediation and Conciliation Service shall determine whether or not the dispute can be resolved by the parties and, if not, the issues that are the subject of the dispute. After making its determination, the service shall certify its findings to the Governor who shall, within 10 days of receipt of certification, appoint a factfinding commission consisting of three persons. The factfinding commission shall immediately convene and investigate the issues involved in the dispute. The commission shall report to the Governor within 30 days of the date of its creation.

(c) After the creation of the commission and for 30 days after the date the commission made its report to the Governor, the parties to the controversy shall not make any change, except by mutual agreement, in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. Service to the public shall be provided during that time.

(d) A contract or agreement shall not be made, or assumed, with any labor organization, association, group, or individual that denies membership to, or in any manner discriminates against, any employee on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the Government Code, as those bases are defined in Sections 12926 and 12926.1 of the Government Code. However, the organization may preclude from membership any individual who advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence.

(e) The district shall not discriminate with regard to employment against any person on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the Government Code, as those bases are defined in Sections 12926 and 12926.1 of the Government Code, except as otherwise provided in Section 12940 of the Government Code.

(f) (1) Any questions regarding whether a labor organization represents a majority of employees or whether the proposed unit is or is not appropriate, shall be submitted to the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service for disposition. The California State Mediation and Conciliation Service shall promptly hold a public hearing after due notice to all interested parties to determine the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining. In making that determination and in establishing rules and regulations governing petitions and the conduct of hearings and elections, the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service shall be guided by relevant federal law and administrative practice, developed under the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 141 et seq.).

(2) The California State Mediation and Conciliation Service shall provide for an election to determine the question of representation and shall certify the results to the parties. A certification of a labor organization to represent or act for the employees in any collective bargaining unit shall not be subject to challenge on the grounds that a new substantial question of representation within the collective bargaining unit exists until the lapse of one year from the date of certification or the expiration of any collective bargaining agreement, whichever is later. However, no collective bargaining agreement shall be construed to be a bar to representation proceedings for a period of more than two years.

(g) If the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings by eminent domain or otherwise, the district shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts.

(1) To the extent necessary for operation of facilities, all of the employees of the acquired public utility whose duties pertain to the facilities acquired shall be appointed to comparable positions in the district without examination, subject to all the rights and benefits of this act. Those employees shall be given sick leave, seniority, vacation, and pension credits in accordance with the records and labor agreements of the acquired public utility.

(2) Members and beneficiaries of any pension or retirement system, or other benefits established by the public utility, shall continue to have the rights, privileges, benefits, obligations, and status with respect to the established system. No employee of any acquired public utility may be subject to a reduction in wages, seniority, pension, vacation, or other benefits as a result of the acquisition.

(3) The district may extend the benefits of this section to officers or supervisory employees of the acquired utility.

(h) The district shall not do any of the following:

(1) Acquire any existing system or part of an existing system, whether by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise.

(2) Dispose of or lease any transit system or part of the transit system.

(3) Merge, consolidate, or coordinate any transit system or part of the transit system.

(4) Reduce or limit the lines or service of any existing system or of the district’s system unless the district has first made adequate provision for any employees who are or may be displaced. The terms and conditions of that provision shall be a proper subject of collective bargaining.

(i) Notwithstanding any provision of the Government Code, the district may make deductions from the wages and salaries of its employees who authorize the deductions for the following purposes:

(1) Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with a duly designated or certified labor organization, for the payment of union dues, fees, or assessments.

(2) For the payment of contributions pursuant to any health and welfare plan, or pension or retirement plan.

(3) For any purpose for which employees of any private employer may authorize deductions.

(j) (1) The obligation of the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and to execute a written collective bargaining agreement with that labor organization covering the wages, hours, and working conditions of the employees represented by that labor organization in an appropriate unit, and to comply with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, shall not be limited or restricted by any provision of law. The obligation of the district to bargain collectively shall extend to all subjects of collective bargaining that are or may be proper subjects of collective bargaining with a private employer, including retroactive provisions.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district shall make deductions from the wages and salaries of its employees, upon receipt of authorization to make those deductions, for the payment of union dues, fees, or assessments, for the payment of contributions pursuant to any health and welfare plan or pension plan, or for any other purpose for which employees of any private employer may authorize deductions, where those deductions are pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with a duly designated or certified labor organization.

(k) The district may provide for a retirement system, provided that the adoption, terms, and conditions of any retirement system covering employees of the district represented by a labor organization in accordance with this section shall be pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between the labor organization and the district.

(l) The district shall take any steps that may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under Title II of the Federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 401 et seq.), and the related provisions of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (26 U.S.C. Sec. 3101 et seq.).

(m) The district shall take any steps that may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the workers’ compensation (Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) and Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 6100) of the Labor Code), unemployment compensation disability (Part 2 (commencing with Section 2691) of Division 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code), and unemployment insurance (Part 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Division 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code) laws of the State of California.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 127. (SB 1038) Effective June 27, 2012.)

article: 5. Other Officers


kind: section

code: PUC

text: The district is empowered to contract with the State Employees’ Retirement System and may provide retirement and disability benefits for employees under the State Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to its rules and regulations.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2039.)

division: 10. TRANSIT DISTRICTS

part: 8. SAN DIEGO COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT

chapter: 5. Retirement System

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text:
Whenever the district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, either in proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, that has a pension plan in operation, members and beneficiaries of such pension plan shall continue to have the rights, privileges, benefits, obligations and status with respect to such established system.

Whenever any such facilities are acquired by the district, the board shall consider and take into account the outstanding obligations and liabilities of the publicly or privately owned public utility by reason of such pension plan and shall negotiate an allowance in the purchase price of such utility for the assumption of such obligations and liabilities when acquiring the facilities.


text: The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.

chapter: 6. Powers and Functions of District

article: 1. Corporate Power

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text: 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.

article: 1. Corporate Power


text:
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 act. The district, in exercising such power shall, in addition to the damage for the taking, injury, or destruction of property, also pay the cost of removal, reconstruction, or relocation of any structure, railways, mains, pipes, conduits, cables, or poles of any public utility which is required to be moved to a new location.

No such taking or acquisition by the district which would involve the abandonment, removal, relocation or use of the property of a railroad corporation, as defined in Section 230 of this code, shall be permitted, unless the Public Utilities Commission, after hearing, shall find and determine that the public interest and necessity require the abandonment, removal, relocation or use of such property and that such taking or acquisition will not unreasonably impair the ability of the railroad corporation involved to provide safe, adequate, economical and efficient service.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1176.)

article: 1. Corporate Power


text: 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 the foregoing, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and save harmless, to employ labor, and to do all acts necessary and convenient for the full exercise of the powers granted in this act.

article: 2. Contracts

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text: The district further shall be empowered to furnish contractual service outside of the district’s boundaries.

article: 2. Contracts


text: Neither the general manager nor any director 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. Any violation of this provision is a misdemeanor, and conviction shall work a forfeiture of office. This section has no application to contracts awarded to corporations in which such officer owns less than 1 percent of the entire capital stock.

article: 2. Contracts


text: 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 within or without the district necessary to the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The board may lease, mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property within or without the district when in its judgment it is for the best interests of the district so to do.

article: 4. Property

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text: 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 may authorize its sale, destruction, or other disposition.

article: 4. Property


text: 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 such other facilities necessary or convenient for transit service within or partly without the district, underground, upon, or above the ground and under, upon, or over public streets or other public ways or waterways, together with all physical structures necessary or convenient for the access of persons and vehicles thereto, and may acquire any interest in or rights to the joint use of any or all of the foregoing; provided, that installations in state freeways shall be subject to the approval of the State Department of Public Works and installations in other state highways shall be subject to Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), Chapter 3, Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service

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text: The negotiated purchase price of any existing facilities which are acquired by the district shall not exceed the fair market value of the tangible real and personal property which is acquired.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: 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 the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of transit facilities, and may without limitation by any other provisions of this part enter into any contracts and cooperation with and accept cooperation from the federal government, state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, or any public agency in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of, and in financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of, any such transit facilities.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: The district may plan for, establish, construct, finance and operate rapid transit facilities and service within or without the district’s boundaries, including making whatever contracts are necessary for the accomplishment of this purpose.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: 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 of the lands which are the property of the state, to the same extent that such rights and privileges appertaining thereto are granted to municipalities within the state. The district shall not use any street or public highway in a manner to unnecessarily impair its usefulness.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: 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 agreements with any city, public agency or public utility operating any transit facilities, either wholly or partially within, or without, the district, for the joint use of any property of the district or of such city, public agency or public utility, or the establishment of through routes, joint fares, transfer of passengers or pooling arrangements.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this act shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: 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 rates or charges fixed by the district and as to any proposal for fixing the location of facilities by the district. The request shall be in writing and shall state the subject matter on which a hearing is desired.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Section 90487 the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The time fixed shall not be less than 15 days nor more than 60 days from the date such request is filed. Notice of such hearing shall be given to the county or city requesting such hearing and shall be published by the board.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: 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 shall be entitled to be heard and to introduce evidence.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.

article: 5. Transit Facilities and Service


text: The district may borrow money and incur indebtedness, and may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. No indebtedness shall be incurred exceeding the ordinary annual income and revenue of the district without the approval of 60 percent of the voters voting on the proposition to incur such indebtedness, except that a further vote of the voters is not required for any indebtedness incurred within the purposes and not exceeding the available amount of any previously authorized bond issue, and as to such indebtedness the proceeds of any of the bonds unexpended in the treasury of the district, or the par value of any of the bonds which are unsold shall be deemed a part of the ordinary annual income and revenue of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 102.)

article: 6. Indebtedness

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text: 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 the fiscal year are received by the district, in a sum which shall not exceed five cents ($0.05) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation of taxable property in the district at the time the moneys are borrowed, and may evidence such borrowing by notes bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six (6) percent per annum. The notes shall be payable from the tax levy from the then current fiscal year, which levy shall contain a sum sufficient to provide for the payment of the notes and the interest thereon. The form of said notes and the proceedings relating to their issuance and sale, will be governed by the applicable provisions contained in Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.

article: 6. Indebtedness


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The board of directors of the district may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to a resolution adopted by it for the purpose, borrow money on certificates of indebtedness, promissory notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, in anticipation of the estimated tax revenue for the following fiscal year, to be repaid within four years from the date of borrowing with interest at a rate not to exceed 6 percent per annum, in order to enable the district to meet all of its necessary initial expenses of organization, construction, acquisition, maintenance, and operation. The total amount of money borrowed and indebtedness incurred under this section during this two-year period shall not exceed 50 percent of the total amount of estimated tax revenue as estimated by the county auditor of the county in which the district lies for the following fiscal year.

The form of said notes and the proceedings relating to their issuance and sale, will be governed by the applicable provisions contained in Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: The district shall not incur an indebtedness for public works which in the aggregate exceeds 15 percent of the assessed value of all the real and personal property within the district.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: Indebtedness which has been incurred for the acquisition, construction, and operation of transit facilities, where the revenue from the transit facilities for three years or more next preceding has been sufficient to pay the interest and principal due on any bonds issued for its construction or acquisition, in addition to the cost of operation and maintenance, shall not be counted and included in ascertaining the limit of indebtedness.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this act requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency of either thereof, for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of transit facilities, and may enter into contracts and cooperate with, and accept cooperation from, the United States, this state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency of either thereof, in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation, and in financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation, of any such transit facilities in accordance with any legislation which Congress or the Legislature of the State of California may have heretofore adopted or may hereafter adopt, under which aid, assistance, and cooperation may be furnished by the United States or this state in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of any such transit facilities. The district may do any and all things necessary in order to avail itself of such aid, assistance, and cooperation under any federal or state legislation now or hereafter enacted. Any evidence of indebtedness issued under this section shall constitute a negotiable instrument.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: The district may purchase equipment such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, and rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates in the forms customarily used by private corporations engaged in the transit business appropriate to effect the purchase and leasing of rolling equipment and may dispose of the equipment trust certificates upon the terms and conditions as the board may deem appropriate. All money required to be paid by the district pursuant to the agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates provided for in this section shall be payable solely from the revenues or income to be derived from the transit facilities and from grants and loans as provided in Section 90504. Payment for equipment, or the rental of equipment, may be made in installments and the deferred installments may be evidenced by equipment trust certificates payable solely from revenue or income as provided in this section, and title to the equipment shall not vest in the district until the equipment trust certificates are paid.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: 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 California, as trustee, for the benefit and security of the equipment trust certificates and may direct the trustee to deliver the rolling equipment to one or more designated officers of the district and may authorize the district to simultaneously execute and deliver an installment purchase agreement or a lease of the equipment to the district.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgment of deeds. The agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall be authorized by resolution of the district and shall contain such covenants, conditions and provisions as may be deemed necessary or appropriate to insure the payment of the equipment trust certificates from the revenue or income to be derived from the transit system.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text: 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, notes or certificates of the district.

article: 6. Indebtedness


text:
The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury, including money in any sinking fund, in any of the following:

(a) Its own bonds.

(b) Treasury notes, certificates of indebtedness, bills, bonds of the United States, or any other evidence of indebtedness secured by the full faith and credit of the United States.

(c) Obligations issued pursuant to the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1421) or the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1701).

(d) Treasury notes or bonds of this state, or of any public corporation, municipal corporation, public district, or political subdivision within this state which are legal as security for the deposit of public funds.

article: 7. Investments

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text: 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 notes, or obligations.

article: 7. Investments


text: 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 provided in this article.

article: 7. Investments


text: A district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose.

article: 8. Taxation

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text: If, in the opinion of the board, the 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 money necessary to be raised therefor by taxation.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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 district’s bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district set apart for that purpose to meet all sums coming due for principal and interest on the bonds as they become due a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds and such part of the principal thereof as becomes due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the next general tax levy will be available. If the maturity of the indebtedness created by the issue of bonds begins more than one year after the date of the issuance thereof, the tax shall be levied and collected annually at the time and in the manner aforesaid, sufficient to pay the interest on the indebtedness as it falls due and to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal on or before maturity.

article: 8. Taxation


text: The taxes required to be levied and collected on account of interest, principal and sinking fund of district bonds shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for district purposes, and shall be collected at the time and in the same manner as other district taxes are collected and be used for no other purpose than the payment of the bonds and accruing interest.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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 basis for district taxation and have its taxes collected by the tax collector of the county.

article: 8. Taxation


text: In such case the county assessor 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, ascertained from the assessments referred to in Section 90545 as equalized.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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 or fractions thereof upon each hundred dollars, using as a basis the value of property transmitted to the board by the county assessor, which rate of taxation shall be sufficient to raise the amount previously fixed by the board, subject to a maximum limitation of five cents ($0.05) per one hundred dollars ($100) assessed valuation. These acts by the board shall constitute a value assessment of the property and a valid levy of the taxes so fixed.

article: 8. Taxation


text: The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county assessor of the county a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board.

article: 8. Taxation


text: The district’s taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount, ascertained as provided in this article, shall be paid to the treasurer of the district, under the general requirements and penalties provided by law for the settlement of other taxes.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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 the tax due to the district bears to the total tax for which the property was sold.

article: 8. Taxation


text: 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. The compensation shall in no event exceed one-half of 1 percent of all money collected for the district. The compensation collected by the county shall be placed to the credit of the county general fund.

article: 8. Taxation


text: All taxes levied under this act are a lien on the property on which they are levied. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes shall be in the same manner and by the same means provided by law for the enforcement of liens for county taxes, all the provisions of law relating to the enforcement of the latter being made a part of this act so far as applicable.

article: 8. Taxation


text: All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 700) of Division 3.5 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicable thereto.

article: 9. Claims

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text: 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, or for acquiring any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, or powers of the district.

chapter: 7. Bonds

article: 1. Issuance

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text: 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 of any transit facilities or any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, or powers of the district, the cost of which will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of the district, it may at any subsequent meeting of the board provide by ordinance for the submission of the proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness for the purpose set forth in the resolution to the voters of the district at a special bond election held for that purpose.

article: 1. Issuance


text: In lieu of a resolution passed by the board, proceedings for the issuance of bonds for the purposes provided in this chapter may be initiated by petition of the voters of the district.

article: 1. Issuance


text: Whenever any petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last general election is presented to the board asking for the acquisition, construction, or completion of the whole or any portion of any transit facilities or for acquiring any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, or powers of the district, and also asking that a bonded indebtedness be incurred to pay the cost thereof, the secretary of the district shall immediately examine and verify the signatures of the petition and certify the result of the examination to the board.

article: 1. Issuance


text: If the required number of signatures is found to be genuine, the secretary shall transmit to the board an authentic copy of the petition without the signatures.

article: 1. Issuance


text: Upon receiving a petition with the certificate of the secretary stating that it contains the required number of signatures, the board shall formulate for submission to the voters of the district at a special bond election called for that purpose the proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness for the purposes set forth in the petition. In its discretion the board may defer the calling of the election until the next general election to be held in the district in order to consolidate them.

article: 1. Issuance


text: 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. It shall also recite the objects and purposes for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred, the estimated cost of the transit facilities, works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property proposed to be acquired, constructed, or completed, the amount of the principal of the indebtedness to be incurred therefor, and the maximum rate of interest to be paid on the indebtedness, which shall not exceed 6 percent per annum, payable semiannually or annually the first year and thereafter semiannually.

article: 1. Issuance


text: Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.

article: 1. Issuance


text: Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the district may vote. If a special bond election is consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this chapter setting forth the precedure for the calling and holding of the special bond election shall be complied with, except that the ordinance calling the election need not set forth the election precincts, polling places, and officers of election shall be the same as those set forth in the ordinance, notice, or other proceedings calling the election with which the special bond election is consolidated, and shall refer to the ordinance, notice, or other proceedings by number and title, or by other definite description.

article: 1. Issuance


text: The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.

article: 1. Issuance


text: 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 this article. Wherever the words “county clerk” or “county elections official” appear in the Elections Code the words “secretary of the board” shall be substituted, for the purposes of this article, and wherever the words “board of supervisors” appear in the Elections Code, the words “board of directors” shall be substituted, and wherever the words “district attorney or county counsel” appear in the Elections Code, the words “attorney for the district” shall be substituted.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 204. Effective January 1, 1995.)

article: 1. Issuance


text: The votes of 60 percent of all the voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds under this chapter.

article: 1. Issuance


text: 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 submission of a proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness substantially the same as the proposition voted upon at a prior election unless a petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last general election is filed with the board, requesting that the proposition, or a proposition substantially the same, be submitted at an election to be called for that purpose.

article: 1. Issuance


text:
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 more than 50 years from that date.

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. The bonds of each series shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board, and the board shall fix a date not more than 10 years from the date of issuance of each series for the earliest maturity of such series, and shall fix a date not more than 50 years from the date of issuance of each series for the final maturity of such series.

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 as may be prescribed by the board to be exchanged for definite bonds when ready for delivery.

article: 2. Form and Content

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text: 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 hundred dollars ($100), nor of a greater denomination than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or any multiple thereof, and shall be payable on the day and at the place or places fixed in the bonds, and with interest at the rate specified therein, payable semiannually.

article: 2. Form and Content


text: 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 exceeding the par value and accrued interest plus a premium of not exceeding 5 percent upon the principal amount of the bonds, in which event the call price fixed by the board shall be set forth on the face of the bond. Notice of such redemption shall be published. If there is no newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the district, then the publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the county in which the district or any part thereof is situated. The first publication shall be at least 30 days prior to the date fixed for the redemption. After the date fixed for such redemption interest on the bonds thereafter shall cease.

article: 2. Form and Content


text: The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize and designate for that purpose. They shall also be signed by the treasurer, and be countersigned by the secretary. The coupons of the bonds shall be numbered consecutively and be signed by the treasurer. All signatures and countersignatures, except one of said signatures or countersignatures on the bonds, may be printed, lithographed, or engraved. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the signature or countersignature is nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds.

article: 2. Form and Content


text: The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner as the board may prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest responsible bidder. If no bids are received, or if the board determines that the bids received are not satisfactory as to price or responsibility of the bidders, the board may reject all bids received, if any, and either again give notice inviting bids or sell the bonds at private sale.

article: 3. Issue and Sale

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text: 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. The remainder of the proceeds of the bonds shall be placed in the district treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be used exclusively for the objects or purposes for which the bonds were voted; provided that when said objects and purposes have been accomplished any moneys remaining shall be transferred to the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds, and that when all principal of and interest on the bonds shall have been paid, any balance of money then remaining shall be transferred to the general fund of the district.

article: 3. Issue and Sale


text: 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 necessary to be raised by the bonds, include a sum sufficient to pay interest on all of the bonds or part thereof during the period of acquisition, construction, or completion, but for no period in excess of five years.

article: 3. Issue and Sale


text: 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 district the board may refund the bonded indebtedness or any portion thereof and issue refunding bonds of the district therefor.

article: 4. Refunding

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text: The issuance of refunding bonds shall not be construed as the incurring or increase of an indebtedness within the meaning of this part, and the approval of the voters is not required for the issuance of refunding bonds. The board may provide for the call and redemption of any or all of the bonds on any interest payment date prior to their fixed maturity in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the refunding bonds.

article: 4. Refunding


text: 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 of the foregoing, the form, execution, issuance, maturity, redemption, refunding, validation, the payment of interest from bond funds, and the status of the bonds as investments.

article: 4. Refunding


text: 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 complete in not more than 40 years from that date.

article: 4. Refunding


text: 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 refunding bonds were issued.

article: 4. Refunding


text: 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 so refunded.

article: 4. Refunding


text: Whenever 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 (whether by exchange or purchase, and the amount for which so purchased, if any) and by perforating through each bond and each coupon attached thereto the word “canceled” together with the date of cancellation.

article: 4. Refunding


text: 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, and for the State School Fund and for all sinking funds under the control of the State Treasurer. Whenever any money or funds may by law be invested in or loaned upon the security of bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties, or school districts, in the state, such money or funds may be invested in or loaned upon the security of the bonds of the district; and whenever bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties, or school districts by law may be used as security for the faithful performance or execution of any court or private trust or of any other act, bonds of the district may be so used.

article: 5. Status as Investments

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text: All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank or banks in the state as security for the deposit of funds of the state or of any county, city and county, city, municipality, or other public or municipal corporation within the state.

article: 5. Status as Investments


text: An action to determine the 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.

article: 6. Validating Proceedings

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text: As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district is authorized to issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by a district, in the manner provided by 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), all of the provisions of which are applicable to a district created pursuant to this part.

article: 7. Revenue Bonds

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text: 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). The term “enterprise” as used in the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 shall, for all purposes of this part, include transit facilities and any and all parts thereof and all additions, extensions and improvements thereto and all other facilities authorized to be acquired, constructed or completed by the district. A district may issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, for any one or more facilities or enterprises authorized to be acquired, constructed, or completed by a district or, in the alternative may issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, for the acquisition, construction and completion of any one of such facilities. Nothing in this article shall prevent a district from availing itself of, or making use of, any procedure provided in this part for the issuance of bonds of any type or character for any of the facilities or works authorized hereunder, and all proceedings may be carried on simultaneously, or in the alternative, as the directors may determine.

article: 7. Revenue Bonds


text: Any city not included within the boundaries of the district may be annexed thereto in the manner provided in this chapter, and if such annexation is successful, shall be entitled to seat one member on the district’s board of directors.

chapter: 8. Annexation of Cities

article: 1. Annexation Agreement

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text: The legislative body of the city proposed to be annexed shall agree in writing with the board upon the terms and conditions of annexation, which agreement, among other things, may provide for the levy and collection of special taxes within the city in addition to the taxes elsewhere in this act provided for, the fixing of rates, rentals, and charges differing from those fixed or existing elsewhere within the district, the incurring or assumption of indebtedness, or the making of a payment or payments, or the transfer of property, real and personal, and other assets to the district by the city.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by action of the legislative body of a city, a petition signed by voters within the city proposed to be annexed, equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total vote cast at the last general election, and asking that proceedings be taken for its annexation, may be addressed to the board and filed with the secretary of the district.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: The petition may include one or more separate documents, but each document shall contain the affidavit of the party who circulated it, certifying that each name signed thereto is the true signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The secretary of the district shall compare the signatures on the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and if he or she finds that the petition has been signed by the required number of voters he or she shall attach his or her signature thereto and present the petition to the board.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 110. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: If the board determines that the annexation of the city, whose voters have petitioned pursuant to Section 90773, would facilitate the acquisition or operation of any transit facilities for the district or be of advantage to the district, then the board shall also determine the terms and conditions upon which the annexation should be made. The terms and conditions of annexation shall be embodied in an annexation agreement. The annexation agreement may provide, among other things, for any or all of the items set forth in Section 90771.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text:
The agreement shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the city when approved in the manner set forth in this chapter.

The board shall by ordinance setting forth the agreement at length declare its intention of causing it to be executed by the district.

article: 2. Approval by District

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text: The ordinance, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of the publication of the ordinance.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the execution of the agreement.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: Upon the hearing the board shall determine whether or not the agreement will be carried into execution and shall hear and determine all objections thereto. Failure of any person interested in the district or in the matter of the proposed execution of the agreement to show cause in writing pursuant to Section 90792 constitutes an assent on his part to a change in the boundaries of the district and to the execution of the agreement.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: Any hearing on the agreement may be adjourned from time to time by the board without further notice other than an order to be entered upon the minutes of the meeting fixing the time and place of adjournment.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied, the board shall by resolution finally approve the agreement and authorize its execution, which shall become effective when executed by the city, duly authorized in the manner provided in this chapter.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: When executed by the district the agreement shall be dated and an executed copy filed with the secretary of the district. An executed copy shall also be filed with the clerk of the city to be annexed.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: At any time after the board has finally approved the agreement of annexation the legislative body of the city to be annexed shall cause an election to be held in the city to determine whether the city will be annexed to the district upon the terms and conditions stated in the agreement.

article: 3. Approval by City

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text: The city shall cause to be held, concurrent with the annexation election, an election for the purpose of selecting one board member for the district in the event the annexation is successful. The initial member elected to represent the city on the board of directors shall serve until a successor is elected at the next succeeding election of directors within the city and qualifies.

article: 3. Approval by City


text: Notice of election shall be published as provided in Section 6066 of the Government Code and shall either state that a copy of the annexation agreement is on file in the office of the secretary or clerk of the city proposed to be annexed, and open to the inspection of all persons interested, or set forth the terms and conditions of the agreement of annexation at length, in the discretion of the legislative body calling the election.

article: 3. Approval by City


text: The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition shall set forth the proposition of annexation substantially as follows:Shall the __________ (city) be annexed to the San Diego County Transit District in accordance with and subject to all of the terms and conditions of an agreement of annexation dated ______ now on file in the office of the clerk of ________ (city)?YESNO

article: 3. Approval by City


text: 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 conditions of the agreement of annexation shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters.

article: 3. Approval by City


text: If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body of the city.

article: 3. Approval by City


text: If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the governing body of the city shall enter in its minutes an order declaring the result of the election and shall thereupon cause the agreement of annexation to be executed by its duly authorized officers.

article: 3. Approval by City


text: Upon receipt by the district of a copy of the agreement of annexation properly executed by the district and the city proposed to be annexed, the board shall pass a resolution declaring the city annexed to the district, and shall cause a certified copy of the resolution to be filed with the Secretary of State. From and after the date of filing of the resolution with the Secretary of State, the annexation of the city to the district is complete.

article: 4. Establishment of Annexation

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text: Any territory annexed in accordance with law to any city included in the district shall, upon the completion of such annexation proceeding, be deemed incorporated into and annexed to the district, and thereafter is subject to taxation, along with the entire territory of the district in accordance with the assessable valuation of the property thereof, for general district purposes, and for the payment of any indebtedness theretofore or thereafter incurred by the district.

article: 5. Annexation of Territory to Cities

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text: From and after the date of annexation, the board shall levy upon all of the property in the city annexed, such taxes, tolls, or charges as are necessary to provide funds for the payment of the indebtedness assumed by the city or otherwise necessary to comply with the terms and conditions of the annexation agreement, all in addition to the general district taxes authorized elsewhere in this division to be levied and collected.

article: 6. Effect of Annexation

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text: No annexation of a city to a district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of the city annexed.

article: 6. Effect of Annexation


text: The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any city to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three months after the completion of the proceedings.

article: 7. Contest of Annexation

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text: Unincorporated territory may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement

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text: Unincorporated territory not contiguous to the district may not be annexed if the district does not possess facilities for supplying transit service to that territory.

chapter: 9. Annexation of Unincorporated Territory

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: A petition signed by voters within the territory proposed to be annexed equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total vote cast, describing the territory and asking that proceedings be taken for its annexation, shall be addressed to the board and filed with the secretary of the district.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: The secretary shall compare the signatures on the petition with the affidavits of registration on file with the county elections official and if he or she finds that the petition has been signed by the required number of voters he or she shall attach his or her signature thereto and present the petition to the board.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 111. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: If the board determines that the annexation of the territory would facilitate the acquisition or operation of any transit facilities for the district, or be of advantage to the district, then the board shall also determine the terms and conditions upon which the annexation should be made.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: Provisions may be made, among other things, for payment of taxes within the territory to be annexed in addition to the taxes elsewhere in this act provided for, the fixing of rates, rentals, and charges differing from those fixed or existing elsewhere within the district, the incurring or assumption of indebtedness, or the making of a payment or payments, or the transfer of property, real and personal, and other assets to the district by the territory proposed to be annexed. The boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed need not be coterminous with any election precincts. The terms and conditions shall become effective and be binding upon the district and the territory to be annexed with approval in the manner set forth in this chapter.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: As an alternative to commencement of annexation proceedings by a petition by the voters within any unincorporated territory, proposed to be annexed, the legislative body of an unincorporated territory may agree in writing upon the terms and conditions of annexation, which agreement may contain, among other things, provisions as set forth in Sections 90934 and 90935.

article: 1. Annexation Agreement


text: The board shall by ordinance setting forth the terms and conditions at length declare its intention of causing the agreement to be approved by the district.

article: 2. Approval by District

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text: The ordinance together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. A copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the secretary of the district. The time fixed for hearing shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of the publication of the ordinance.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: At the hearing any person interested may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions will be approved and shall hear and determine all objections thereto. Failure of any person interested in the district or in the matter of the proposed annexation on the terms and conditions set forth in the ordinance to show cause in writing pursuant to Section 90952 constitutes an assent on his part to a change in the boundaries of the district upon the terms and conditions set forth.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: If no protests are filed or the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall by resolution finally approve the terms and conditions and proceed with the annexation in the manner provided in this chapter.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: If protests against the proposed annexation are sustained, all proceedings shall be dismissed and no proceedings shall be undertaken again concerning the territory or any part thereof until after the expiration of one year.

article: 2. Approval by District


text: Within 90 days after the board has finally approved the terms and conditions of annexation, the board shall cause an election to be held in the territory proposed to be annexed to determine whether the territory shall be annexed to the district upon the terms and conditions stated in the ordinance.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory

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text: Notice of election shall be published and shall either state that a copy of the ordinance containing the terms and conditions of annexation at length is on file in the office of the secretary of the district, and open to the inspection of all persons interested, or set forth the terms and conditions of annexation at length, in the discretion of the board.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition shall set forth the proposition of annexation substantially as follows:Shall the territory described in the petition filed with the Secretary of the San Diego County Transit District on the ____ day of ________ be annexed to the San Diego County Transit District in accordance with and subject to all of the terms and conditions set forth in that certain ordinance passed by the board of directors of the San Diego County Transit District on the ____ day of _______ a copy of which is now on file in the office of the Secretary of the San Diego County Transit District?YESNO

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: In the event that no unincorporated territory shall have been included in the original formation of the district, an election shall be held concurrent with the first annexation election of unincorporated territory for the purpose of selecting one board member for the district in the event the annexation is successful. The initial member elected to represent the unincorporated territory on the board of directors shall serve until a successor is elected at the next succeeding election of directors within the unincorporated territory and qualifies.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: 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 conditions set forth in the ordinance shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the board.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: If the proposition is defeated by the voters, no annexation proceeding shall be commenced involving the territory or any part thereof until after the expiration of one year.

article: 3. Approval by Unincorporated Territory


text: In the event the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the board shall pass a resolution declaring the territory annexed to the district, and shall cause a certified copy of the resolution to be filed with the Secretary of State, from and after the date of which filing with the Secretary of State the annexation of the territory to the district is complete.

article: 4. Establishment of Annexation

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text: Unincorporated territory may be annexed to a district without an election in the manner provided in this article.

article: 5. Annexation Without Election

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text: A petition describing the territory proposed to be annexed and requesting that proceedings be taken for its annexation shall be signed by all of the owners of the real property described therein, verified by the affidavit of one of the petitioners, addressed to the board, and filed with the secretary of the district. If a portion of the territory consists of public highways, streets, roads or paths, it shall not be necessary to secure the signatures to the petition of the owners only of the real property occupied by such public highways, streets, roads or paths.

article: 5. Annexation Without Election


text: Proceedings shall thereafter be taken and a hearing held in substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter relating to the annexation of unincorporated territory except that no election shall be held within the territory proposed to be annexed and the territory shall be deemed annexed to the district upon the passage of a resolution of the board declaring the territory annexed and the filing of a certified copy thereof with the Secretary of State.

article: 5. Annexation Without Election


text: From and after the date of annexation, the board shall levy upon all of the property in the territory annexed, such taxes, tolls, or charges as are necessary to provide funds for the payment of the indebtedness assumed by the territory or otherwise necessary to comply with the terms and conditions of the annexation, all in addition to the general district taxes authorized elsewhere in this act to be levied and collected.

article: 6. Effect of Annexation

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text: The validity of any proceedings for the annexation of any unincorporated territory to any district shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three months after the completion of the proceedings.

article: 7. Contest of Annexation

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text: If the district operates no transit facilities, or its exterior boundaries become coincident with the boundaries of a single city, the board may call an election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district will be dissolved. Upon the filing with the secretary of such a district of a petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total vote cast, asking that the question of dissolution of the district be submitted to the voters of the district, the board shall call such an election.

chapter: 10. Dissolution

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text: 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 within 60 days next succeeding the date on which the petition is filed.


text: 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. The date fixed for the election shall not be less than 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice.


text: The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition the following: Shall the San Diego County Transit District be dissolved?YESNO


text: No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this chapter need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to the voters.


text: If upon a canvass of the election, it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in favor of the dissolution, the dissolution shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters. The board shall meet on Monday next succeeding the election and canvass the votes cast.


text: Upon dissolution of any district which has boundaries that are coincident with the corporate limits of a city, the district property wherever situated vests absolutely in the city, and upon the dissolution of any district operating no transit facilities and which has boundaries that extend beyond the boundaries of a single city the property of the district wherever situated vests in the county in which the whole or greater portion of the district is situated.


text: If at the time of dissolution, there is any outstanding indebtedness of the district the legislative authority of the city, where the limits of the district lie wholly within the corporate limits of a city, and in all other cases, the board of supervisors of the county in which the whole or greater portion of the district is situated are ex officio the board of directors of the district for the purpose only of the levy and collection of taxes for the payment of the indebtedness of the district existing at the time of dissolution and the interest thereon. The board or legislative authority shall levy the taxes and perform such other acts as are necessary to raise the money necessary for the payment of the indebtedness and the interest thereon.


text: In the event that the proposition for dissolution fails to carry, no subsequent election for the dissolution of the district shall be called until after the expiration of one year from the date of the prior election.


text: The district may be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District organized and operating pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 30000) of this division, in the manner provided in this chapter.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 102.)

chapter: 11. Consolidation With Other Districts

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text:
Whenever the board finds and determines that:

(a) The Southern California Rapid Transit District is willing to annex the territory comprising the district;

(b) The annexing district has adequate facilities for and is able to supply transit service to the district in a manner equal to or superior to that presently rendered by the district;

(c) Annexation will not result in assumption of financial obligations by the taxpayers of the district disproportionate to the services which they will receive; the board shall thereafter negotiate an agreement with the annexing district specifying the terms and conditions of annexation and such other matters as are necessary and incidental thereto.


text: The board shall thereafter, by resolution setting forth the terms and conditions of the proposed contract at length, declare its intention to cause the agreement to be approved and effect consolidation of the district with the Southern California Rapid Transit District.


text: The resolution, 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. The time fixed for hearing shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of publication of such notice.


text: At the hearing any interested person may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions of the proposed contract or the consolidation, or both the proposed contract and the consolidation.


text: Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions of the contract will be approved and the consolidation effected, and shall hear and determine all objections thereto.


text: Any hearing on the agreement and consolidation may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further notice other than an order entered upon the minutes of the meeting fixing the time and place of adjournment.


text: If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the terms and conditions of the agreement and proceed with the consolidation.


text: At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall cause an election to be held in the district to determine whether the San Diego County Transit District will be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District upon the terms and conditions stated in the agreement.


text: Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district, and shall either state that a copy of the consolidation agreement is on file in the office of the Clerk of San Diego County, and open to the inspection of all persons interested, or set forth the terms and conditions of the consolidation agreement at length, in the discretion of the board of supervisors calling the election.


text: The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition shall set forth the proposition of consolidation substantially as follows: Shall the San Diego County Transit District be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District in accordance with and subject to all the terms and conditions of a consolidation agreement dated ____ now on file in the office of the Clerk of San Diego County?YESNO


text: 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 consolidation, the proposition and all of the terms and conditions of the consolidation agreement shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters.


text: If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County.


text: If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall enter in its minutes an order declaring the result of the election and shall thereupon cause the consolidation agreement to be executed by its duly authorized officers.


text: Upon receipt by the Southern California Rapid Transit District of a copy of the consolidation agreement properly executed by the district and San Diego County the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall pass a resolution declaring the San Diego County Transit District consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District, and shall cause a certified copy of the resolution to be filed with the Secretary of State. From and after the date of filing of the resolution with the Secretary of State the consolidation of the San Diego County Transit District with the Southern California Rapid Transit District is complete.


text: From and after the date of consolidation the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall levy upon all of the property in the former San Diego County Transit District such taxes, tolls, or charges as are necessary to provide funds for the payment of the indebtedness assumed by the former district or otherwise necessary to comply with the terms and conditions of the consolidation agreement, all in addition to the general district taxes authorized elsewhere in Part 3 (commencing with Section 30000) of this division to be levied and collected.


text: The validity of any consolidating proceedings shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion of the proceedings.


text: Upon the completion of such consolidation procedure, the San Diego County Transit District shall be deemed to be dissolved. Thereafter, all property and assets of the district which are not subject to the negotiated contract pertaining to consolidation shall be distributed to the County of San Diego.


text: This act shall be known and cited as the “Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District Act of 1965.”

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1835.)

chapter: 1. General Provisions

article: 1. Definitions

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text: Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.

part: 9. THE SANTA BARBARA METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT

article: 1. Definitions


text: “District” means the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District formed under this act.

article: 1. Definitions


text: “Board” means the board of directors of this district.

article: 1. Definitions


text: “Voter” means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.

article: 1. Definitions


text: “Transit” means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle not on an individual passenger fare-paying basis. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the district from leasing its buses to private certified public carriers or to prohibit the district from providing schoolbus service for the transportation of pupils between their homes and schools.

article: 1. Definitions


text: “Transit works” or “transit facilities” means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit service.

article: 1. Definitions


text: It is necessary that a transit district be established in the Santa Barbara metropolitan area which includes the City of Santa Barbara and adjacent territory, including but not limited to the Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito and Goleta areas, all situated in Santa Barbara County, in order to meet the public transit problem of the area. The geographic location of the city in relation to the adjacent territory requiring transportation services makes it necessary to develop a single transit system to protect the public interest and welfare.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 595.)

article: 2. General Provisions

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text: The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District may be created as provided in this act and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.

article: 2. General Provisions


text: Except as otherwise provided in this act elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in, all respects as nearly as practicable in conformity with the general elections laws of the state.

article: 2. General Provisions


text: Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code.

article: 2. General Provisions


text: Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee of the retirement system is authorized or required under the provisions of this act, except in the single instance provided in Section 96443, the signature may be made by the use of a plate bearing facsimiles of such signatures.

article: 2. General Provisions


text:
The boundaries of the district shall not be affected by reason of the incorporation of any territory wholly or partly within the boundaries of the district, or by reason of annexation to or detachment from any city of territory wholly or partly within the boundaries of the district, except as provided in this part.

Where territory outside the district is annexed to any city included in the district, said territory shall, upon the completion of such annexation proceeding, be deemed incorporated into and annexed to the district; provided that, where territory which is incorporated as a new city is partly within and partly outside the district, that territory which is outside the district shall, upon the completion of such incorporation proceeding, be deemed incorporated into and annexed to the district; and provided further that no incorporated city now lying entirely outside the boundaries of the district shall be included within the district without the consent of the legislative body of said city, and any territory annexed by such city, if such annexed territory is then within the district, shall be automatically excluded from the district, unless the legislative body of the city shall otherwise declare in its ordinance of annexation.

Whenever territory is deemed incorporated into and annexed to the district pursuant to this section, such territory shall be subject to taxation, in accordance with the assessable valuation of the property thereof, for general district purposes and for the payment of any indebtedness theretofore or thereafter incurred by the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 595.)

article: 2. General Provisions


text: The City of Santa Barbara, together with unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District.

chapter: 2. Formation of District

article: 1. General Provisions

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text: The request for the formation of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.

article: 1. General Provisions


text: The legislative body, the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara, may pass a resolution declaring that in its opinion public interest or necessity demands the creation and maintenance of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District.

article: 2. Request by Resolution

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text: The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of the district. The resolution shall set forth and describe the boundaries of the proposed district.

article: 2. Request by Resolution


text: Certified copies of the resolution shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County requesting the board of supervisors to call an election without delay for determining whether the district will be created.

article: 2. Request by Resolution


text: Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within the proposed district equal in number to at least 25 percent of the total vote cast at the last general election.

article: 3. Request by Petition

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text: The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution presented to the board of supervisors under this chapter, including the description of the boundaries, and declare that, in the opinion of the petitioners, public interest or necessity demands the creation and maintenance of the metropolitan transit district.

article: 3. Request by Petition


text: The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed thereto is a true signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

article: 3. Request by Petition


text: The County Elections Official of the County of Santa Barbara shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to their sufficiency or insufficiency.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 112. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 3. Request by Petition


text: Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolution or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of forming a Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District. The hearing shall be held not less than 20 days nor more than 60 days following the filing of such resolution or petition. A notice of such hearing shall be published at least twice in newspapers of general circulation in the proposed district.

article: 4. Election

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text: The board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude unincorporated areas which, in the board’s determination, would not receive reasonable benefit from inclusion in the district.

article: 4. Election


text:
At the conclusion of the hearing, if the board of supervisors approves the resolution or petition as originally presented or in modified form, it shall by resolution entered upon its minutes:

(a) Fix and describe the exterior boundaries of the proposed district as determined by the board of supervisors.

(b) Fix the date on which an election will be held in the proposed district and the hours during which the polls will be open.

(c) State the purpose for which the election is held.

article: 4. Election


text: The election shall be held not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution prescribed by Section 95192.

article: 4. Election


text:
The election shall be called by publishing notice calling the election pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code not less than 20 days before the election. The notice need only specify the time and place of the election, the hours during which the polls will be open, the purpose of the election, and the description of the exterior boundaries of the proposed district as determined by the board of supervisors.

No notice of the election other than the notice prescribed by this section need be given except that the county elections official shall mail notice of the polling place and the purpose of the election to each qualified elector of the proposed district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 4. Election


text: The ballot for the election shall contain such instructions as are required by law to be printed thereon and in addition thereto the following: Shall the “Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District” be created and established?YESNO

article: 4. Election


text: No person shall be entitled to vote at the election unless he is a voter of the territory included in the proposed district.

article: 4. Election


text: The election may be held on the same day as any other state, county, or city election and be consolidated therewith.

article: 4. Election


text: The board of supervisors shall meet on the Tuesday next succeeding the day of the election and canvass the returns.

article: 4. Election


text: The board of supervisors shall make all provisions for the holding of the election throughout the entire district as proposed, and shall pay the cost thereof.

article: 4. Election


text: If a special election is held exclusively on the proposition of organizing the district, the expenditure therefor shall be reimbursed to the county by means of a tax on all the taxable property within the district, and this tax shall be added to the next county tax bills by the proper official of the county.

article: 4. Election


text: If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of the creation and establishment of the district, the board of supervisors shall cause a certified copy of the order declaring the result of the election to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, from and after which the establishment of the district shall be deemed complete.

article: 5. Establishment of the District

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text: No informality in any proceeding or in the conduct of the election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held to invalidate the incorporation of the district. Any proceedings wherein the validity of incorporation is denied shall be commenced within three months from the date of filing the order declaring the result of the election with the Secretary of State, otherwise the incorporation and the legal existence of the district shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable.

article: 6. Contest of Incorporation

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text: The government of the district shall be vested in a board of seven members. Two of the directors shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara. Two of the directors shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara. One of the directors shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Carpinteria. One of the directors shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Goleta. The six directors so appointed shall choose and appoint the seventh director. The board shall elect its chairman, and a majority vote is necessary for the election of the chairman of the board.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 103, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.)

chapter: 3. Internal Organization of District

article: 1. Government

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text: These appointments shall be made within 30 days after the formation of the district.

article: 1. Government


text:
Any vacancy on the board, including any caused by the death or resignation of a member, shall be filled by the body which appointed the director whose office is vacated and the new appointee shall hold his office for the unexpired term.

Any vacancy created by the expiration of a term shall likewise be filled by the body which appointed the director whose term has expired.

article: 1. Government


text: Each director shall, within 10 days after his appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of his duties of his office, take and subscribe to an oath in the form set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. The oaths shall be filed in the office of the district.

article: 1. Government


text: A person shall not be appointed to or be a member of the board unless he is a resident of the district and has resided within the district at least one year immediately prior to his appointment to the board.

article: 1. Government


text: The term of office of each director is four years from the time of his appointment, except that for the board first appointed, the director appointed by the board as herein provided shall hold office for two years, and the remaining directors first appointed to the board shall classify themselves by lot, so that the two appointed by the board of supervisors shall hold office for one and three years and the two appointed by the city council shall hold office for two and four years.

article: 2. Terms of Office

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