Section 33486 Of Article 16. Merger Of Project Areas From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 24. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 16.
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. (a) For the purpose of allocating taxes pursuant to Section
33670 and subject to the provisions of this article, redevelopment
project areas under the jurisdiction of a redevelopment agency for
which redevelopment plans have been adopted pursuant to Article 5
(commencing with Section 33360), may be merged, without regard to
contiguity of the areas, by the amendment of each affected
redevelopment plan as provided in Article 12 (commencing with Section
33450). Before adopting the ordinance amending each affected
redevelopment plan, the legislative body shall find, based on
substantial evidence, that both of the following conditions exist:
(1) Significant blight remains within one of the project areas.
(2) This blight cannot be eliminated without merging the project
areas and the receipt of property taxes.
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), taxes attributable to
each project area merged pursuant to this section that are allocated
to the redevelopment agency pursuant to Section 33670 may be
allocated to the entire merged project area for the purpose of paying
the principal of, and interest on, indebtedness incurred by the
redevelopment agency to finance or refinance, in whole or in part,
the merged redevelopment project.
(2) If the redevelopment agency has, prior to merger of
redevelopment project areas, incurred any indebtedness on account of
a constituent project area so merged, taxes attributable to that area
that are allocated to the agency pursuant to Section 33670 shall be
first used to comply with the terms of any bond resolution or other
agreement pledging the taxes from the constituent project area.
(c) After the merger of redevelopment projects pursuant to
subdivision (a), the clerk of the legislative body shall transmit a
copy of the ordinance amending the plans for projects to be merged to
the governing body of each of the taxing agencies that receives
property taxes from or levies property taxes upon any property in the
project.