Section 103341 Of Article 9. Taxation For Bond Redemption Purposes From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 10. >> Part 15. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 9.
103341
. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if
from any cause the revenues of the district are, or are expected to
be, inadequate in any year to pay the principal of, interest on, or
sinking fund payments for bonds of the district as they become due,
or to establish or maintain any reserve fund therefor, the board
shall levy for district purposes and collect upon all property in the
district taxable for county purposes a tax sufficient, together with
revenues already collected and available therefor, to pay the
interest on the bonds as they will become due and such part of the
principal thereof, including any sinking fund installments required
by any of the district's agreements with its bondholders, that will
become due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the next general
tax levy will be available for such purpose, and sufficient to
provide or to restore such reserve fund to the amount required by any
of the district's agreements with its bondholders.
(b) If the ordinance calling the election on the issuance of bonds
provides that all or any portion of the retail transaction and use
tax authorized under Article 10 (commencing with Section 103350) be
levied and used to the extent required to pay principal of and
interest on the bonds, the board, in order to provide for any sinking
fund payments required therefor and to create or maintain any
reserve fund required therefor, shall estimate the revenues of the
district which are expected to be available for such purposes and the
amount to be raised by such a tax as is required to be levied and
used for such purposes in order to provide for the payment of all
such obligations when due. The board may, in its regular annual
budget, or in a special budget which may be prepared at any time,
show the amounts needed for such purposes, estimate the revenue
available therefor, and thereafter fix the rates of and levy and
collect, or provide for the collection of, such a tax as will
provide, together with other revenues available therefor, at least
all sums necessary for such purposes insofar as such levies do not
exceed the maximum rates of such a tax stated in the ordinance
calling the bond election.
If from any cause the revenues of the district are, or are
expected to be, inadequate to pay the principal of and interest on
the bonds and sinking fund payments as they become due, and establish
or maintain any reserve fund required therefor, and if the proceeds
of such tax levied at the maximum rates authorized, together with
such revenues, are still estimated to be insufficient for such
purposes, the board shall levy and collect upon all property in the
district taxable for county purposes a tax at least sufficient, with
the revenues already collected and available therefor, together with
the anticipated proceeds of the special tax, to pay the interest on
the bonds that will become due and such part of the principal
thereof, including any sinking fund payments, that will become due
before the proceeds of a tax levied at the time of the next general
tax levy will be available for such purposes, and sufficient to
provide or to restore such reserve fund to the amount required by any
of the district's agreements with its bondholders.