Section 62001 Of Part 1. General Provisions From California Government Code >> Division 4. >> Title 6. >> Part 1.
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. (a) A community revitalization and investment authority is a
public body, corporate and politic, with jurisdiction to carry out a
community revitalization plan within a community revitalization and
investment area. The authority shall be deemed to be the "agency"
described in subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution for purposes of receiving tax increment
revenues. The authority shall have only those powers and duties
specifically set forth in Section 62002.
(b) (1) An authority may be created in any one of the following
ways:
(A) A city, county, or city and county may adopt a resolution
creating an authority. The composition of the governing board shall
be comprised as set forth in subdivision (c).
(B) A city, county, city and county, and special district, as
special district is defined in subdivision (m) of Section 95 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, or any combination thereof, may create an
authority by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1.
(2) (A) A school entity, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section
95 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, may not participate in an
authority created pursuant to this part.
(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section
34171 of the Health and Safety Code, may not participate in an
authority created pursuant to this part, and an entity created
pursuant to this part shall not receive any portion of the property
tax revenues or other moneys distributed pursuant to Section 34188 of
the Health and Safety Code.
(3) An authority formed by a city or county that created a
redevelopment agency that was dissolved pursuant to Part 1.85
(commencing with Section 34170) of Division 24 of the Health and
Safety Code shall not become effective until the successor agency or
designated local authority for the former redevelopment agency has
adopted findings of fact stating all of the following:
(A) The agency has received a finding of completion from the
Department of Finance pursuant to Section 34179.7 of the Health and
Safety Code.
(B) No former redevelopment agency assets which are the subject of
litigation against the state, where the city or county or its
successor agency or designated local authority are a named plaintiff,
have been or will be used to benefit any efforts of an authority
formed under this part unless the litigation, has been resolved by
entry of a final judgment by any court of competent jurisdiction and
any appeals have been exhausted.
(C) The agency has complied with all orders of the Controller
pursuant to Section 34167.5 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c) (1) The governing board of an authority created pursuant to
subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall be
appointed by the legislative body of the city, county, or city and
county that created the authority and shall include three members of
the legislative body of the city, county, or city and county that
created the authority and two public members. The appointment of the
two public members shall be subject to the provisions of Section
54974. The two public members shall live or work within the community
revitalization and investment area.
(2) The governing body of the authority created pursuant to
subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall be
comprised of a majority of members from the legislative bodies of the
public agencies that created the authority and a minimum of two
public members who live or work within the community revitalization
and investment area. The majority of the board shall appoint the
public members to the governing body. The appointment of the public
members shall be subject to the provisions of Section 54974.
(d) An authority may carry out a community revitalization plan
within a community revitalization and investment area. Not less than
80 percent of the land calculated by census tracts, or census block
groups, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, within the
area shall be characterized by both of the following conditions:
(1) An annual median household income that is less than 80 percent
of the statewide annual median income.
(2) Three of the following four conditions:
(A) Nonseasonal unemployment that is at least 3 percent higher
than statewide median unemployment, as defined by the report on labor
market information published by the Employment Development
Department in January of the year in which the community
revitalization plan is prepared.
(B) Crime rates that are 5 percent higher than the statewide
median crime rate, as defined by the most recent annual report of the
Criminal Justice Statistics Center within the Department of Justice,
when data is available on the California Attorney General's Internet
Web site.
(C) Deteriorated or inadequate infrastructure such as streets,
sidewalks, water supply, sewer treatment or processing, and parks.
(D) Deteriorated commercial or residential structures.
(e) As an alternative to subdivision (d), an authority may also
carry out a community revitalization plan within a community
revitalization and investment area established within a former
military base that is principally characterized by deteriorated or
inadequate infrastructure and structures. Notwithstanding subdivision
(c), the governing board of an authority established within a former
military base shall include a member of the military base closure
commission as a public member.
(f) An authority created pursuant to this part shall be a local
public agency subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9
(commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5),
the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1), and the Political Reform Act
of 1974 (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000)).
(g) (1) At any time after the authority is authorized to transact
business and exercise its powers, the legislative body or bodies of
the local government or governments that created the authority may
appropriate the amounts the legislative body or bodies deem necessary
for the administrative expenses and overhead of the authority.
(2) The money appropriated may be paid to the authority as a grant
to defray the expenses and overhead, or as a loan to be repaid upon
the terms and conditions as the legislative body may provide. If
appropriated as a loan, the property owners and residents within the
plan area shall be made third-party beneficiaries of the repayment of
the loan. In addition to the common understanding and usual
interpretation of the term, "administrative expense" includes, but is
not limited to, expenses of planning and dissemination of
information.