Article 1. General Provisions of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 11. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.

The refunding of bonds issued under the "Improvement Bond Act of 1915" so as to restore property to the tax rolls and make it available for development is declared to be an important policy of this State and all necessary authority, power, and jurisdiction to impose a valid reassessment upon lands deeded to the State or to any city therein for delinquent taxes or for delinquent taxes and assessments, and to enforce the lien of such reassessment is hereby granted, and any and all acts and proceedings of every kind and nature necessary for the levy of the valid reassessment and for the enforcement of the lien of such reassessment are hereby authorized.

The legislative body of any city in this State may refund bonds issued under the "Improvement Bond Act of 1915," under and subject to the provisions of this division, and may provide for the extension of the liens of assessments and the levy and collection of assessments and reassessments to pay such bonds.

It is the intention of this division that the original bonds and the original assessments shall remain in full force and effect until superseded and supplanted by reassessments and refunding bonds validly and legally issued, upon which the city is validly subject to the liability to pay the refunding bonds.

Any action or determination made necessary by reason of constitutional requirements or otherwise, or any action or determination which is convenient in the making of the reassessment, or in the refunding and reassessment proceedings, which is not expressly set forth in this division is hereby authorized and the same when made shall be valid and sufficient.

Any city may employ any qualified person to perform any work provided for or authorized by this division or in connection with the refunding of any indebtedness authorized to be refunded under this division.

The incidental expenses of any refunding and reassessment authorized by this division shall be paid by the city in which the district lies.

When proceedings are commenced under this division, the provisions of this division only shall apply thereto.

This division does not affect any other act or acts now existing or which may hereafter be passed covering the same subject matter, nor apply to any proceedings thereunder, but is intended to and does provide an alternative system for the refunding of bonds.

The remedies provided for the enforcement of any reassessment levied under the provisions of this division are not exclusive and additional remedies may be provided at any time.

The curative clauses of this division are cumulative and each of them is to be given full force and effect.

This division and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed, to the end that the purposes thereof may be made effective.

Whenever the requisite number of property owners have filed their written consent to the refunding and reassessment under this division, any city may perform any of the following acts:
  (a) File a petition and take all steps and proceedings required, permitted, or authorized under any bankruptcy law of the United States, or bring any action or proceeding authorized under the powers of any court for the composition or readjustment of the indebtedness to be refunded.

In any action to foreclose or in any action to quiet title brought by the purchaser at a sale for delinquency under this division, or by his successor in interest, the State of California may be made a party defendant, and in that event it shall be sufficient service of process to serve the Attorney General.

In the event of foreclosure or action to quiet title process shall be served upon the same person or persons as in other cases of suits against the city.

The purchaser, whether at tax collector's sale or at resale by the city in the event of the city having become the purchaser, or at foreclosure sale by order of court, takes the property subject to all unpaid installments, interest and penalties under the same proceeding.