Section 10427.1 Of Chapter 5. Levying And Collecting The Assessment From California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 12. >> Chapter 5.
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. (a) If there is no supplemental assessment, the entire
amount of the surplus shall be applied as a credit to the assessment
or, as an alternative, any portion of the surplus may be used to call
outstanding bonds. If any supplemental assessment has been levied,
any portion of the surplus shall be applied as a credit to the
assessment or supplemental assessment, or both, or, as an
alternative, may be used to call outstanding bonds, as the
legislative body may determine. Any credit upon the assessment or any
supplemental assessment shall be made in the proportion which each
individual assessment, or installment of principal thereof, bears to
the total of all individual assessments in the assessment or
supplemental assessments upon which the surplus is to be credited.
Any bonds called pursuant to this section shall be selected in
accordance with Section 8768.
(b) Where an individual assessment, or any installment of the
principal thereof, has been paid in cash after January 1, 1991, the
credit shall be returned in cash to the person or persons owning the
property for which the assessment or installment has been paid upon
their furnishing satisfactory evidence of payment.
(c) Where all or any part of an individual assessment remains
unpaid, if the individual assessment is not payable in installments,
the credit shall be applied in its entirety upon the individual
assessment.
(d) Where all or any part of an individual assessment remains
unpaid and is payable in installments, the amount apportioned to each
parcel shall be credited against the next installment or
installments unpaid upon it after the two-year period specified in
this subdivision. When any of the surplus is to be applied as a
credit upon the assessment, payable in installments, no credit may be
paid or credited as provided in this section until after a period of
two years from the date of receipt of proceeds of the sale of bonds
by the legal entity conducting the proceedings.
(e) There shall be transferred to the general fund of the city (1)
any portion of the surplus which has not been paid to or claimed by
the persons entitled thereto within four years from the date of
recordation of the assessment and any supplemental assessment or, if
bonds have been issued, within four years after the due date of the
last installment upon the bonds or of the last principal coupon
attached thereto, and (2) any interest earned from the investment of
any moneys constituting all or any part of the surplus when the
surplus attributable to an individual remaining assessment is fifty
dollars ($50) or less. If the surplus attributable to an individual
remaining assessment is greater than fifty dollars ($50), any
interest earned thereon, less administrative cost of investing and
crediting, shall be applied as a credit to the assessment.