Section 99000 Of Chapter 1. Benefit Assessment Districts From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 10. >> Part 11. >> Chapter 1.
99000
. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(a) "Benefit district" means a special benefit assessment district
established pursuant to this chapter, the area of which shall lie
not more than one-half mile from the center point of any transit
station or proposed transit station.
(b) "Board" means the governing board of the operator.
(c) "Eligible transit project" means transit stations and rail
facilities and associated services, but excludes operating costs of
rail or transit services.
(d) (1) For purposes of this chapter, "legal representative" means
an official of a corporation owning real property in the benefit
district.
(2) For purposes of this chapter, "legal representative" also
means a guardian, conservator, executor, or administrator of the
estate of the holder of title to real property in the benefit
district who is all of the following:
(A) The person is appointed under the laws of this state.
(B) The person is entitled to the possession of the estate's real
property.
(C) The person is authorized by the appointing court to exercise
the particular right, privilege, or immunity which he or she seeks to
exercise.
(e) "Operator" means a transit district, municipal operator, or
other public agency operating or contracting for the operation of
transit, commuter rail, or intercity rail services.
(f) "Rail" means rail transit, commuter rail, or intercity rail.
(g) "Rail facilities" means land, buildings, and equipment, or any
interest therein, whether or not the operation thereof produces
revenue, which has, as its primary purpose, the operation of the rail
system or the providing of services to the passengers of the rail
system, but does not mean any land, buildings, or equipment, or
interest therein, which is used primarily for the production of
revenue not arising from the operation of the rail system.
(h) "Transit station" means a rail station, or a ferry terminal,
or a bus transfer station as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(b) of Section 65460.1 of the Government Code.