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30052
. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, the two accounts in the
Local Public Safety Fund created in Section 30051 are hereby
continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the
Controller for allocation to each qualified county in proportion to
its share of the total taxable sales in all qualified counties during
the most recent calendar year for which sales have been reported by
the State Board of Equalization. The amounts so allocated shall be
available only for public safety services, and shall be allocated in
each qualified county in the manner and amount determined pursuant to
Section 30054.
(b) For purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Public safety services" includes, but is not limited to,
sheriffs, police, fire protection, county district attorneys, county
corrections, and ocean lifeguards. "Public safety services" does not
include courts.
(2) "Qualified county" means:
(A) With respect to the Interim Public Safety Account, any county
in which the board of supervisors, on or before August 1, 1993,
adopts a resolution that does both of the following:
(i) Requests an allocation of revenue from the Local Public Safety
Fund.
(ii) Ratifies the statewide imposition of an additional 1/2
percent rate of sales and use tax pursuant to Senate Constitutional
Amendment 1 on the November 2, 1993, special election ballot.
(B) With respect to the Public Safety Account, any county in which
the board of supervisors has adopted a resolution as described in
subparagraph (A) or in which the tax levied pursuant to Section 35 of
Article XIII of the California Constitution is approved by a
majority of the county's voters voting on the issue at the November
2, 1993, special election.
(c) The board of supervisors of a qualified county shall send a
copy of the resolution adopted pursuant to subdivision (b) to the
Controller.