Section 56813 Of Article 2. Property Tax Exchange From California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 5. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 2.
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. (a) If the proposal includes the disincorporation of a city,
as defined in Section 56034, the commission shall determine the
amount of property tax revenue to be exchanged by the affected city
and any successor or affected local agency pursuant to this section.
(b) The commission shall notify the county auditor of the
proposal, the affected local agencies to be extinguished, and the
services proposed to be transferred to new jurisdictions, and
identify for the auditor the changes to occur.
(c) If the proposal would not transfer all of the service
responsibilities of the disincorporating city to the affected county
or to a single affected agency, the commission and the county auditor
shall do all of the following:
(1) The county auditor shall determine the proportion that the
amount of property tax revenue derived by the city being
disincorporated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 93 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code bears to the total amount of revenue from
all sources, available for general purposes, received by the city
being disincorporated in the prior fiscal year and provide his or her
response within 15 days of receiving notification from the
commission pursuant to subdivision (b). For purposes of making this
determination and the determination required by paragraph (3), "total
amount of revenue from all sources available for general purposes"
means the total amount of revenue which the city being
disincorporated may use on a discretionary basis for any purpose and
does not include any of the following:
(A) Revenue that, by statute or ordinance, is required to be used
for a specific purpose.
(B) Revenue from fees, charges, or assessments that are levied to
specifically offset the cost of particular services and that do not
exceed the cost reasonably borne in providing these services.
(C) Revenue received from the federal government that is required
to be used for a specific purpose.
(2) The commission shall determine, based on information submitted
by the city being disincorporated, an amount equal to the total net
cost to that city during the prior fiscal year of providing those
services that an affected agency will assume within the area subject
to the proposal. For purposes of this paragraph, "total net cost"
means the total direct and indirect costs that were funded by general
purpose revenues of the city being disincorporated and excludes any
portion of the total cost that was funded by any revenues of that
agency that are specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of
paragraph (1).
(3) For the services to be transferred to each affected local
agency, the commission shall multiply the amount determined pursuant
to paragraph (2) by the proportion determined pursuant to paragraph
(1) to derive the amount of property tax revenue used to provide
services by the city being disincorporated during the prior fiscal
year within the area subject to the proposal. The county auditor
shall adjust the amount so determined by the annual tax increment
pursuant to the procedures set forth in Chapter 6 (commencing with
Section 95) of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, to the fiscal year in which the affected agency receives its
next allocation of property taxes.
(d) If the proposal for disincorporation would transfer all of the
service responsibilities of the city proposed for disincorporation,
other than those that are proposed to be discontinued, to a single
successor, the commission shall request the auditor to determine the
property tax revenue allocated to the city being disincorporated by
tax rate area, or portion thereof, and transmit that information to
the commission.
(e) The executive officer shall notify the auditor of the amount
determined pursuant to subdivision (c) or (d), as the case may be,
and, where applicable, the period of time within which and the
procedure by which the transfer of property tax revenues will be
effected pursuant to this section, at the time the executive officer
records a certificate of completion pursuant to Section 57203 for any
proposal described in subdivision (a), and the auditor shall
transfer that amount to the affected agency or agencies that will
assume the services as determined by the commission. Any property tax
not transferred to an affected agency pursuant to subdivision (c)
shall be transferred to the affected county.
(f) For purposes of this section, "prior fiscal year" means the
most recent fiscal year preceding the issuance of the certificate of
filing for which data is available on actual direct and indirect
costs and revenues needed to perform the calculations required by
this section.
(g) Any action brought by a city, county, or district to contest
any of the determinations of the county auditor or the commission
with regard to the amount of property tax revenue to be exchanged by
the affected local agencies pursuant to this section shall be
commenced within three years of the effective date of the
disincorporation.