Section 33001.5 Of Chapter 12. Special Benefit Assessment Districts From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 10. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 12.
33001.5
. (a) At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the
establishment of the benefit district, or at any time and place to
which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the
hearing. At the hearing, interested persons may appear and present
matters material to the proposed board action. At the conclusion of
the hearing, the board shall, by a resolution adopted by a two-thirds
vote of its members, determine whether to proceed with the proposed
action.
The resolution shall state, as appropriate, the maximum and
minimum rate of assessment, the amount of the special benefit
assessment and the purposes for which it is to be levied, the
estimated cost of accomplishing the purposes, and the dates or
approximate intervals at which the assessment shall be levied. The
resolution shall also state that the exterior boundaries of the
benefit district are set forth on a map on file with the secretary of
the district, which map shall govern for all purposes as to the
extent of the benefit district and zones, if any, therein and that
the area set forth on the map shall thereupon constitute and be known
as "Benefit District No. __ of the Southern California Rapid Transit
District," or as "Benefit Zone __ of the Benefit District No. __ of
the Southern California Rapid Transit District," as designated by the
board.
(b) The resolution shall be submitted to the governing body. The
governing body shall, after a public hearing conducted by the
governing body and prior to the creation of the benefit district,
approve, or amend and approve, as amended, or disapprove the
geographic boundaries of the benefit district and the method of
assessment. The resolution of approval or disapproval from the
governing body shall be returned to the board.
(c) The board shall, by a two-thirds vote of its members,
determine whether to create the benefit district as approved by the
governing body. If the board decides to proceed with creating the
benefit district as approved by the governing body, the board may, in
addition to any amendments made by the governing body, reduce the
size of the benefit district, but in so doing shall not include any
territory not included in the benefit district approved by the
governing body nor change the approved method of assessment. The
determination by the board is final and conclusive.
(d) For purposes of this section, "governing body" means the city
council of a city in which the proposed benefit district is located
or, if the benefit district is located in unincorporated territory,
the board of supervisors of the county in which the proposed benefit
district is located.
(e) The board may provide in the resolution, or in a later
resolution adopted by a two-thirds vote of the members of the board,
for changes in the assessment to particular real property within the
benefit district or any zone therein arising out of changes in the
parcel area or floor area of that real property.