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. Within its boundaries, a district may do any of the
following:
(a) Supply water for any beneficial uses, in the same manner as a
municipal water district, formed pursuant to the Municipal Water
District Law of 1911, Division 20 (commencing with Section 71000) of
the Water Code. In the case of any conflict between that division and
this division, the provisions of this division shall prevail.
(b) Collect, treat, or dispose of sewage, wastewater, recycled
water, and storm water, in the same manner as a sanitary district,
formed pursuant to the Sanitary District Act of 1923, Division 6
(commencing with Section 6400) of the Health and Safety Code. In the
case of any conflict between that division and this division, the
provisions of this division shall prevail.
(c) Collect, transfer, and dispose of solid waste, and provide
solid waste handling services, including, but not limited to, source
reduction, recycling, and composting activities, pursuant to Division
30 (commencing with Section 40000), and consistent with Section
41821.2 of the Public Resources Code.
(d) Provide fire protection services, rescue services, hazardous
material emergency response services, and ambulance services in the
same manner as a fire protection district, formed pursuant to the
Fire Protection District Law, Part 2.7 (commencing with Section
13800) of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code.
(e) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate recreation
facilities, including, but not limited to, parks and open space, in
the same manner as a recreation and park district formed pursuant to
the Recreation and Park District Law, Chapter 4 (commencing with
Section 5780) of Division 5 of the Public Resources Code.
(f) Organize, promote, conduct, and advertise programs of
community recreation, in the same manner as a recreation and park
district formed pursuant to the Recreation and Park District Law,
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 5780) of Division 5 of the Public
Resources Code.
(g) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate street
lighting and landscaping on public property, public rights-of-way,
and public easements.
(h) Provide for the surveillance, prevention, abatement, and
control of vectors and vectorborne diseases in the same manner as a
mosquito abatement and vector control district formed pursuant to the
Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law, Chapter 1
(commencing with Section 2000) of Division 3 of the Health and Safety
Code.
(i) Provide police protection and law enforcement services by
establishing and operating a police department that employs peace
officers pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of
Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
(j) Provide security services, including, but not limited to,
burglar and fire alarm services, to protect lives and property.
(k) Provide library services, in the same manner as a library
district formed pursuant to either Chapter 8 (commencing with Section
19400) or Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 19600) of Part 11 of
the Education Code.
(l) Acquire, construct, improve, and maintain streets, roads,
rights-of-way, bridges, culverts, drains, curbs, gutters, sidewalks,
and any incidental works. A district shall not acquire, construct,
improve, or maintain any work owned by another public agency unless
that other public agency gives its written consent.
(m) Convert existing overhead electric and communications
facilities, with the consent of the public agency or public utility
that owns the facilities, to underground locations pursuant to
Chapter 28 (commencing with Section 5896.1) of Part 3 of Division 7
of the Streets and Highways Code.
(n) Provide emergency medical services pursuant to the Emergency
Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care
Personnel Act, Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the
Health and Safety Code.
(o) Provide and maintain public airports and landing places for
aerial traffic, in the same manner as an airport district formed
pursuant to the California Airport District Act, Part 2 (commencing
with Section 22001) of Division 9 of the Public Utilities Code.
(p) Provide transportation services.
(q) Abate graffiti.
(r) Plan, design, construct, improve, maintain, and operate flood
protection facilities. A district shall not plan, design, construct,
improve, maintain, or operate flood protection facilities within the
boundaries of another special district that provides those facilities
unless the other special district gives its written consent. A
district shall not plan, design, construct, improve, maintain, or
operate flood protection facilities in unincorporated territory
unless the board of supervisors gives its written consent. A district
shall not plan, design, construct, improve, maintain, or operate
flood protection facilities within a city unless the city council
gives its written consent.
(s) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate community
facilities, including, but not limited to, community centers,
libraries, theaters, museums, cultural facilities, and child care
facilities.
(t) Abate weeds and rubbish pursuant to Part 5 (commencing Section
14875) of the Health and Safety Code. For that purpose, the board of
directors shall be deemed to be a "board of supervisors" and
district employees shall be deemed to be the "persons" designated by
Section 14890 of the Health and Safety Code.
(u) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate
hydroelectric power generating facilities and transmission lines,
consistent with the district's water supply and wastewater
operations. The power generated shall be used for district purposes,
or sold to a public utility or another public agency that generates,
uses, or sells electrical power. A district shall not acquire
hydroelectric power generating facilities unless the facilities'
owner agrees.
(v) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate television
translator facilities.
(w) Remove snow from public streets, roads, easements, and
rights-of-way. A district may remove snow from public streets, roads,
easements, and rights-of-way owned by another public agency, only
with the written consent of that other public agency.
(x) Provide animal control services pursuant to Section 30501 of
the Food and Agricultural Code. Whenever the term "board of
supervisors," "county," "county clerk," or "animal control officer"
is used in Division 14 (commencing with Section 30501) of the Food
and Agricultural Code, those terms shall also be deemed to include
the board of directors of a district, a district, the general manager
of the district, or the animal control officer of a district,
respectively. A district shall not provide animal control services in
unincorporated territory unless the county board of supervisors
gives its written consent. A district shall not provide animal
control services within a city unless the city council gives its
written consent.
(y) Control, abate, and eradicate pests, in the same manner as a
pest abatement district, formed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing
with Section 2800) of Division 3 of the Health and Safety Code. A
district's program to control, abate, or eradicate local pine bark
beetle infestations shall be consistent with any required plan or
program approved by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(z) Construct, maintain, and operate mailboxes on a district's
property or rights-of-way.
(aa) Provide mail delivery service under contract to the United
States Postal Service.
(ab) Own, operate, improve, and maintain cemeteries and provide
interment services, in the same manner as a public cemetery district,
formed pursuant to the Public Cemetery District Law, Part 4
(commencing with Section 9000) of Division 8 of the Health and Safety
Code.
(ac) Finance the operations of area planning commissions formed
pursuant to Section 65101.
(ad) Finance the operations of municipal advisory councils formed
pursuant to Section 31010.
(ae) Acquire, own, improve, maintain, and operate land within or
without the district for habitat mitigation or other environmental
protection purposes to mitigate the effects of projects undertaken by
the district.
(af) If a private person or entity is unable or unwilling to
deploy broadband service, construct, own, improve, maintain, and
operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services. For
purposes of this section, broadband has the same meaning as in
subdivision (a) of Section 5830 of the Public Utilities Code. The
district shall first make a reasonable effort to identify a private
person or entity willing to deploy service. The authority granted by
this subdivision shall expire when a private person or entity is
ready, willing, and able to acquire, construct, improve, maintain,
and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services,
and to sell those services at a comparable cost and quality of
service as provided by the district. At that time, the district shall
do one of the following:
(1) Diligently transfer its title, ownership, maintenance,
control, and operation of those broadband facilities and services at
a fair market value to that private person or entity.
(2) Lease the operation of those broadband facilities at a fair
market value to that private person or entity.