Section 141005 Of Division 14. Coachella Valley Intermodal Transportation Authority From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 14.
141005
. The Coachella Valley Intermodal Transportation Authority is
hereby created to serve as the governing agency for its 11 separate
districts, recognized in that capacity by the Coachella Valley
Association of Governments, the Riverside County Transportation
Commission, and the United States Department of Transportation, for
the following purposes:
(a) Serving as the primary authority for managing and operating
intermodal passenger transportation and related infrastructure.
(b) Serving as the primary authority for intermodal
less-than-carload freight transportation and related infrastructure
within the Coachella Valley and eastern Riverside County.
(c) Serving as the primary authority for facilities and services
and related infrastructure.
(d) Establishing, maintaining, and operating an independent
political and administrative structure by which to implement
passenger and freight transportation initiatives.
(e) Completing planning and environmental studies to ascertain
project feasibility.
(f) Being available for designation as the lead agency for
purposes of environmental review, entitlement permitting, and public
participation.
(g) Acquiring, by grant, purchase, condemnation, gift, devise, or
lease, and holding, using, selling, leasing or disposing of, any real
and personal property necessary for the full exercise, or convenient
or useful for the carrying on of, any of the authority's powers.
(h) Fixing rates, parking fees, charges, or rents for the use of
any facilities acquired, constructed, operated, or maintained by the
authority or any of its districts, and modifying the same at its
pleasure, subject to any contractual obligation that may be entered
into by the authority with respect to the fixing of those rates,
fees, charges, or rents.
(i) Obtaining funds for, and sustaining the planning, development,
maintenance, and operation of, the Coachella Valley and City of
Blythe Intermodal Transportation Center.
(j) Accepting gifts, subventions, grants, rebates, and subsidies
from any source.
(k) Entering into indentures.
(l) Issuing tax-exempt revenue bonds and coupons.
(m) Spending moneys and incurring indebtedness to fulfill its
purposes.