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. (a) Every district may do all of the following:
(1) Provide and maintain memorial halls, assembly halls,
buildings, or meetingplaces, together with suitable indoor and
outdoor park and recreation facilities, including swimming pools,
picnic areas, and playgrounds, for the use of persons or
organizations other than veterans, pursuant to paragraphs (8) and
(9), and veteran soldiers, sailors, and marines who have honorably
served the United States in any wars or campaigns recognized by law
for the purposes of Section 3 of Article XIII of the California
Constitution, or for the use of patriotic, fraternal, or benevolent
associations of those persons. However, no district shall provide and
maintain indoor and outdoor park and recreation facilities,
including swimming pools, picnic areas, and playgrounds, unless these
projects have been approved by a majority of the voters at either
the general district election or at a special election called for
that purpose. The question of whether the district shall provide and
maintain indoor and outdoor park and recreation facilities may be
submitted to the registered voters of the district by the board on
its own motion and shall be submitted by the board upon petition
signed by 8 percent of the registered voters of the district, at
either the general district election or at a special election called
for that purpose. If submitted at a special election, the election
shall be called, conducted, governed, and regulated in the same
manner as the general district election.
All plans for indoor and outdoor park and recreation facilities,
including swimming pools, picnic areas, and playgrounds, shall be
approved initially by the board of supervisors.
(2) Purchase, receive by donation, condemn, lease, or acquire real
or personal property necessary or convenient for the construction or
maintenance of halls, buildings, meetingplaces, and facilities, and
improve, preserve, manage, and control these facilities.
(3) Purchase, construct, lease, build, furnish, or repair halls,
buildings, meetingplaces, and facilities upon sites owned or leased
by the district or made available to the district, and provide
custodians, employees, attendants, and supplies for the proper
maintenance, care, and management of those halls, buildings,
meetingplaces, and facilities.
(4) Furnish sites for halls, buildings, meetingplaces, or
facilities, to be built either by the district or by or for
patriotic, fraternal, or benevolent associations of veterans, if the
funds for these sites are supplied by the district or from other
sources.
(5) Enter into agreements with county, municipal, school, park, or
other public authorities or agencies conveying, leasing, or making
available to the district, either gratuitously or for compensation,
sites upon public land for the construction, maintenance, and
management by the district of assembly or memorial halls, buildings,
meetingplaces, or facilities, and construct and maintain on those
sites halls, buildings, meetingplaces, or facilities.
(6) Sell or lease any district property to the highest responsible
bidder, as determined by the board, except as provided by Section
1191.3. The board shall, prior to any sale, make a call for bids and
advertise that call pursuant to Section 6062 of the Government Code
in a newspaper of general circulation in the district, inviting
sealed bids for the sale or lease of the property. The board may
either accept the highest responsible bid or reject all bids. The
board may require the successful bidder to file with the board good
and sufficient undertaking to be approved by the board to insure
faithful performance of the contract of sale or lease. No sale or
lease shall be transacted, however, if a petition has been filed with
the board requesting it not to enter into the sale or lease of the
property.
The petition shall have affixed to it, as petitioners, the
signatures, indicating place of residence and place of signing, of
the registered voters of the district in a number equal to at least
10 percent of the votes cast in the district at the last preceding
general election held in the state.
If the petition meets these requirements, as determined by the
records of the county elections official for the county or counties
in which the district is situated, the board either shall not convey
the property or shall submit the matter to the registered voters of
the district to be voted upon at the next primary or general
election, or at a special election called for the purpose of
ratifying or rejecting the action of the district to sell or lease
the property.
(7) Sell or lease any district property to any political
subdivision, or portion thereof, in which the district is situated
for purposes of roads, streets, or highways, or for the improvement
of roads, streets, or highways, without regard to the highest
responsible bidder but otherwise meeting the petition requirements of
paragraph (6).
(8) Adopt, from time to time, reasonable rules and regulations for
the use of halls, buildings, meetingplaces, and facilities by
veterans or by organizations of veterans, and to allow the halls,
buildings, meetingplaces, and facilities to be used for lawful
purposes consistent with the objects of this section by persons or
organizations other than veterans either free of charge or for stated
compensation to aid in defraying the cost of maintenance of the
facilities, if that use will not unduly interfere with the reasonable
use of the facilities by veterans' associations.
(9) Enter into a joint powers agreement for recreational or senior
citizens' services within the district.
(b) In conformance with this section, a district may provide
recreational facilities or services at any location within the
district regardless of the location of district-owned facilities. A
district may not increase its tax levy for the purpose of providing
recreational services for persons other than veterans unless that
increase is first approved by a majority of the registered voters of
the district who vote upon the proposal.