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1-Senate Bill No. 1497 CHAPTER 24 An act to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies, and to provide limitations of time in which actions may be commenced, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. [ Approved by Governor June 01, 2018. Filed with Secretary of State June 01, 2018. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1497, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations. This bill would enact the First Validating Act of 2018, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.SEC. 2. As used in this act:(a) Public body means all of the following:(1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).Affordable housing authorities.Air pollution control districts of any kind.Air quality management districts.Airport districts.Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.Bridge and highway districts.California water districts.Citrus pest control districts.City maintenance districts.Community college districts.Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.Community facilities districts.Community rehabilitation districts.Community revitalization and investment authorities.Community services districts.Conservancy districts.Cotton pest abatement districts.County boards of education.County drainage districts.County flood control and water districts.County free library systems.County maintenance districts.County sanitation districts.County service areas.County transportation commissions.County water agencies.County water authorities.County water districts.County waterworks districts.Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.Distribution districts of any public body.Drainage districts.Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.Fire protection districts.Flood control and water conservation districts.Flood control districts.Garbage and refuse disposal districts.Garbage disposal districts.Geologic hazard abatement districts.Harbor districts.Harbor improvement districts.Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.Health care authorities.Highway districts.Highway interchange districts.Highway lighting districts.Housing authorities.Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.Industrial development authorities.Infrastructure financing districts.Integrated financing districts.Irrigation districts.Joint highway districts.Levee districts.Library districts.Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.Local agency formation commissions.Local health care districts.Local health districts.Local hospital districts.Local transportation authorities or commissions.Maintenance districts.Memorial districts.Metropolitan transportation commissions.Metropolitan water districts.Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.Multifamily improvement districts.Municipal improvement districts.Municipal utility districts.Municipal water districts.Nonprofit corporations.Nonprofit public benefit corporations.Open-space maintenance districts.Parking and business improvement areas.Parking authorities.Parking districts.Permanent road divisions.Pest abatement districts.Police protection districts.Port districts.Property and business improvement areas.Protection districts.Public cemetery districts.Public utility districts.Rapid transit districts.Reclamation districts.Recreation and park districts.Regional justice facility financing agencies.Regional park and open-space districts.Regional planning districts.Regional transportation commissions.Resort improvement districts.Resource conservation districts.River port districts.Road maintenance districts.Sanitary districts.School districts of any kind or class.School facilities improvement districts.Separation of grade districts.Service authorities for freeway emergencies.Sewer districts.Sewer maintenance districts.Small craft harbor districts.Special municipal tax districts.Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.Storm drain maintenance districts.Storm drainage districts.Storm drainage maintenance districts.Storm water districts.Toll tunnel authorities.Traffic authorities.Transit development boards.Transit districts.Unified and union school districts public libraries.Vehicle parking districts.Water agencies.Water authorities.Water conservation districts.Water districts.Water replenishment districts.Water storage districts.Watermaster districts.Wine grape pest and disease control districts.Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:(A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(3) Public body includes both of the following:(A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.(c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.(d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.(e) Now means the effective date of this act. SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.(b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.(b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.(c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.(d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.(e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.
1+Enrolled May 21, 2018 Passed IN Senate April 12, 2018 Passed IN Assembly May 17, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1497Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Beall, Hernandez, Hertzberg, Lara, Moorlach, and Nguyen)March 01, 2018 An act to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies, and to provide limitations of time in which actions may be commenced, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1497, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations. This bill would enact the First Validating Act of 2018, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.SEC. 2. As used in this act:(a) Public body means all of the following:(1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).Affordable housing authorities.Air pollution control districts of any kind.Air quality management districts.Airport districts.Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.Bridge and highway districts.California water districts.Citrus pest control districts.City maintenance districts.Community college districts.Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.Community facilities districts.Community rehabilitation districts.Community revitalization and investment authorities.Community services districts.Conservancy districts.Cotton pest abatement districts.County boards of education.County drainage districts.County flood control and water districts.County free library systems.County maintenance districts.County sanitation districts.County service areas.County transportation commissions.County water agencies.County water authorities.County water districts.County waterworks districts.Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.Distribution districts of any public body.Drainage districts.Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.Fire protection districts.Flood control and water conservation districts.Flood control districts.Garbage and refuse disposal districts.Garbage disposal districts.Geologic hazard abatement districts.Harbor districts.Harbor improvement districts.Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.Health care authorities.Highway districts.Highway interchange districts.Highway lighting districts.Housing authorities.Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.Industrial development authorities.Infrastructure financing districts.Integrated financing districts.Irrigation districts.Joint highway districts.Levee districts.Library districts.Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.Local agency formation commissions.Local health care districts.Local health districts.Local hospital districts.Local transportation authorities or commissions.Maintenance districts.Memorial districts.Metropolitan transportation commissions.Metropolitan water districts.Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.Multifamily improvement districts.Municipal improvement districts.Municipal utility districts.Municipal water districts.Nonprofit corporations.Nonprofit public benefit corporations.Open-space maintenance districts.Parking and business improvement areas.Parking authorities.Parking districts.Permanent road divisions.Pest abatement districts.Police protection districts.Port districts.Property and business improvement areas.Protection districts.Public cemetery districts.Public utility districts.Rapid transit districts.Reclamation districts.Recreation and park districts.Regional justice facility financing agencies.Regional park and open-space districts.Regional planning districts.Regional transportation commissions.Resort improvement districts.Resource conservation districts.River port districts.Road maintenance districts.Sanitary districts.School districts of any kind or class.School facilities improvement districts.Separation of grade districts.Service authorities for freeway emergencies.Sewer districts.Sewer maintenance districts.Small craft harbor districts.Special municipal tax districts.Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.Storm drain maintenance districts.Storm drainage districts.Storm drainage maintenance districts.Storm water districts.Toll tunnel authorities.Traffic authorities.Transit development boards.Transit districts.Unified and union school districts public libraries.Vehicle parking districts.Water agencies.Water authorities.Water conservation districts.Water districts.Water replenishment districts.Water storage districts.Watermaster districts.Wine grape pest and disease control districts.Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:(A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(3) Public body includes both of the following:(A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.(c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.(d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.(e) Now means the effective date of this act. SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.(b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.(b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.(c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.(d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.(e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.
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3- Senate Bill No. 1497 CHAPTER 24 An act to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies, and to provide limitations of time in which actions may be commenced, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. [ Approved by Governor June 01, 2018. Filed with Secretary of State June 01, 2018. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1497, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations. This bill would enact the First Validating Act of 2018, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
3+ Enrolled May 21, 2018 Passed IN Senate April 12, 2018 Passed IN Assembly May 17, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1497Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Beall, Hernandez, Hertzberg, Lara, Moorlach, and Nguyen)March 01, 2018 An act to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies, and to provide limitations of time in which actions may be commenced, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1497, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations. This bill would enact the First Validating Act of 2018, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
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2838 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.SEC. 2. As used in this act:(a) Public body means all of the following:(1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).Affordable housing authorities.Air pollution control districts of any kind.Air quality management districts.Airport districts.Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.Bridge and highway districts.California water districts.Citrus pest control districts.City maintenance districts.Community college districts.Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.Community facilities districts.Community rehabilitation districts.Community revitalization and investment authorities.Community services districts.Conservancy districts.Cotton pest abatement districts.County boards of education.County drainage districts.County flood control and water districts.County free library systems.County maintenance districts.County sanitation districts.County service areas.County transportation commissions.County water agencies.County water authorities.County water districts.County waterworks districts.Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.Distribution districts of any public body.Drainage districts.Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.Fire protection districts.Flood control and water conservation districts.Flood control districts.Garbage and refuse disposal districts.Garbage disposal districts.Geologic hazard abatement districts.Harbor districts.Harbor improvement districts.Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.Health care authorities.Highway districts.Highway interchange districts.Highway lighting districts.Housing authorities.Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.Industrial development authorities.Infrastructure financing districts.Integrated financing districts.Irrigation districts.Joint highway districts.Levee districts.Library districts.Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.Local agency formation commissions.Local health care districts.Local health districts.Local hospital districts.Local transportation authorities or commissions.Maintenance districts.Memorial districts.Metropolitan transportation commissions.Metropolitan water districts.Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.Multifamily improvement districts.Municipal improvement districts.Municipal utility districts.Municipal water districts.Nonprofit corporations.Nonprofit public benefit corporations.Open-space maintenance districts.Parking and business improvement areas.Parking authorities.Parking districts.Permanent road divisions.Pest abatement districts.Police protection districts.Port districts.Property and business improvement areas.Protection districts.Public cemetery districts.Public utility districts.Rapid transit districts.Reclamation districts.Recreation and park districts.Regional justice facility financing agencies.Regional park and open-space districts.Regional planning districts.Regional transportation commissions.Resort improvement districts.Resource conservation districts.River port districts.Road maintenance districts.Sanitary districts.School districts of any kind or class.School facilities improvement districts.Separation of grade districts.Service authorities for freeway emergencies.Sewer districts.Sewer maintenance districts.Small craft harbor districts.Special municipal tax districts.Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.Storm drain maintenance districts.Storm drainage districts.Storm drainage maintenance districts.Storm water districts.Toll tunnel authorities.Traffic authorities.Transit development boards.Transit districts.Unified and union school districts public libraries.Vehicle parking districts.Water agencies.Water authorities.Water conservation districts.Water districts.Water replenishment districts.Water storage districts.Watermaster districts.Wine grape pest and disease control districts.Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:(A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(3) Public body includes both of the following:(A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.(c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.(d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.(e) Now means the effective date of this act. SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.(b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.(b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.(c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.(d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.(e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.
2939
3040 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3141
3242 ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3343
3444 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.
3545
3646 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.
3747
3848 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the First Validating Act of 2018.
3949
4050 ### SECTION 1.
4151
4252 SEC. 2. As used in this act:(a) Public body means all of the following:(1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).Affordable housing authorities.Air pollution control districts of any kind.Air quality management districts.Airport districts.Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.Bridge and highway districts.California water districts.Citrus pest control districts.City maintenance districts.Community college districts.Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.Community facilities districts.Community rehabilitation districts.Community revitalization and investment authorities.Community services districts.Conservancy districts.Cotton pest abatement districts.County boards of education.County drainage districts.County flood control and water districts.County free library systems.County maintenance districts.County sanitation districts.County service areas.County transportation commissions.County water agencies.County water authorities.County water districts.County waterworks districts.Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.Distribution districts of any public body.Drainage districts.Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.Fire protection districts.Flood control and water conservation districts.Flood control districts.Garbage and refuse disposal districts.Garbage disposal districts.Geologic hazard abatement districts.Harbor districts.Harbor improvement districts.Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.Health care authorities.Highway districts.Highway interchange districts.Highway lighting districts.Housing authorities.Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.Industrial development authorities.Infrastructure financing districts.Integrated financing districts.Irrigation districts.Joint highway districts.Levee districts.Library districts.Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.Local agency formation commissions.Local health care districts.Local health districts.Local hospital districts.Local transportation authorities or commissions.Maintenance districts.Memorial districts.Metropolitan transportation commissions.Metropolitan water districts.Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.Multifamily improvement districts.Municipal improvement districts.Municipal utility districts.Municipal water districts.Nonprofit corporations.Nonprofit public benefit corporations.Open-space maintenance districts.Parking and business improvement areas.Parking authorities.Parking districts.Permanent road divisions.Pest abatement districts.Police protection districts.Port districts.Property and business improvement areas.Protection districts.Public cemetery districts.Public utility districts.Rapid transit districts.Reclamation districts.Recreation and park districts.Regional justice facility financing agencies.Regional park and open-space districts.Regional planning districts.Regional transportation commissions.Resort improvement districts.Resource conservation districts.River port districts.Road maintenance districts.Sanitary districts.School districts of any kind or class.School facilities improvement districts.Separation of grade districts.Service authorities for freeway emergencies.Sewer districts.Sewer maintenance districts.Small craft harbor districts.Special municipal tax districts.Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.Storm drain maintenance districts.Storm drainage districts.Storm drainage maintenance districts.Storm water districts.Toll tunnel authorities.Traffic authorities.Transit development boards.Transit districts.Unified and union school districts public libraries.Vehicle parking districts.Water agencies.Water authorities.Water conservation districts.Water districts.Water replenishment districts.Water storage districts.Watermaster districts.Wine grape pest and disease control districts.Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:(A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(3) Public body includes both of the following:(A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.(c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.(d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.(e) Now means the effective date of this act.
4353
4454 SEC. 2. As used in this act:(a) Public body means all of the following:(1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).Affordable housing authorities.Air pollution control districts of any kind.Air quality management districts.Airport districts.Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.Bridge and highway districts.California water districts.Citrus pest control districts.City maintenance districts.Community college districts.Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.Community facilities districts.Community rehabilitation districts.Community revitalization and investment authorities.Community services districts.Conservancy districts.Cotton pest abatement districts.County boards of education.County drainage districts.County flood control and water districts.County free library systems.County maintenance districts.County sanitation districts.County service areas.County transportation commissions.County water agencies.County water authorities.County water districts.County waterworks districts.Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.Distribution districts of any public body.Drainage districts.Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.Fire protection districts.Flood control and water conservation districts.Flood control districts.Garbage and refuse disposal districts.Garbage disposal districts.Geologic hazard abatement districts.Harbor districts.Harbor improvement districts.Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.Health care authorities.Highway districts.Highway interchange districts.Highway lighting districts.Housing authorities.Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.Industrial development authorities.Infrastructure financing districts.Integrated financing districts.Irrigation districts.Joint highway districts.Levee districts.Library districts.Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.Local agency formation commissions.Local health care districts.Local health districts.Local hospital districts.Local transportation authorities or commissions.Maintenance districts.Memorial districts.Metropolitan transportation commissions.Metropolitan water districts.Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.Multifamily improvement districts.Municipal improvement districts.Municipal utility districts.Municipal water districts.Nonprofit corporations.Nonprofit public benefit corporations.Open-space maintenance districts.Parking and business improvement areas.Parking authorities.Parking districts.Permanent road divisions.Pest abatement districts.Police protection districts.Port districts.Property and business improvement areas.Protection districts.Public cemetery districts.Public utility districts.Rapid transit districts.Reclamation districts.Recreation and park districts.Regional justice facility financing agencies.Regional park and open-space districts.Regional planning districts.Regional transportation commissions.Resort improvement districts.Resource conservation districts.River port districts.Road maintenance districts.Sanitary districts.School districts of any kind or class.School facilities improvement districts.Separation of grade districts.Service authorities for freeway emergencies.Sewer districts.Sewer maintenance districts.Small craft harbor districts.Special municipal tax districts.Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.Storm drain maintenance districts.Storm drainage districts.Storm drainage maintenance districts.Storm water districts.Toll tunnel authorities.Traffic authorities.Transit development boards.Transit districts.Unified and union school districts public libraries.Vehicle parking districts.Water agencies.Water authorities.Water conservation districts.Water districts.Water replenishment districts.Water storage districts.Watermaster districts.Wine grape pest and disease control districts.Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:(A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.(3) Public body includes both of the following:(A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.(B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.(c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.(d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.(e) Now means the effective date of this act.
4555
4656 SEC. 2. As used in this act:
4757
4858 ### SEC. 2.
4959
5060 (a) Public body means all of the following:
5161
5262 (1) The state and all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities of the state. Except as provided in paragraph (2), public body also means all cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, authorities, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities, whether created by a general statute or a special act, including, but not limited to, the following:
5363
5464 Agencies, boards, commissions, or entities constituted or provided for under or pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).
5565
5666 Affordable housing authorities.
5767
5868 Air pollution control districts of any kind.
5969
6070 Air quality management districts.
6171
6272 Airport districts.
6373
6474 Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.
6575
6676 Bridge and highway districts.
6777
6878 California water districts.
6979
7080 Citrus pest control districts.
7181
7282 City maintenance districts.
7383
7484 Community college districts.
7585
7686 Community development commissions in their capacity to act as a housing authority for other community development purposes of the jurisdiction in which the commission operates, except for any action taken with respect to the commissions authority to act as a community redevelopment agency.
7787
7888 Community facilities districts.
7989
8090 Community rehabilitation districts.
8191
8292 Community revitalization and investment authorities.
8393
8494 Community services districts.
8595
8696 Conservancy districts.
8797
8898 Cotton pest abatement districts.
8999
90100 County boards of education.
91101
92102 County drainage districts.
93103
94104 County flood control and water districts.
95105
96106 County free library systems.
97107
98108 County maintenance districts.
99109
100110 County sanitation districts.
101111
102112 County service areas.
103113
104114 County transportation commissions.
105115
106116 County water agencies.
107117
108118 County water authorities.
109119
110120 County water districts.
111121
112122 County waterworks districts.
113123
114124 Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.
115125
116126 Distribution districts of any public body.
117127
118128 Drainage districts.
119129
120130 Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.
121131
122132 Fire protection districts.
123133
124134 Flood control and water conservation districts.
125135
126136 Flood control districts.
127137
128138 Garbage and refuse disposal districts.
129139
130140 Garbage disposal districts.
131141
132142 Geologic hazard abatement districts.
133143
134144 Harbor districts.
135145
136146 Harbor improvement districts.
137147
138148 Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.
139149
140150 Health care authorities.
141151
142152 Highway districts.
143153
144154 Highway interchange districts.
145155
146156 Highway lighting districts.
147157
148158 Housing authorities.
149159
150160 Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.
151161
152162 Industrial development authorities.
153163
154164 Infrastructure financing districts.
155165
156166 Integrated financing districts.
157167
158168 Irrigation districts.
159169
160170 Joint highway districts.
161171
162172 Levee districts.
163173
164174 Library districts.
165175
166176 Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.
167177
168178 Local agency formation commissions.
169179
170180 Local health care districts.
171181
172182 Local health districts.
173183
174184 Local hospital districts.
175185
176186 Local transportation authorities or commissions.
177187
178188 Maintenance districts.
179189
180190 Memorial districts.
181191
182192 Metropolitan transportation commissions.
183193
184194 Metropolitan water districts.
185195
186196 Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.
187197
188198 Multifamily improvement districts.
189199
190200 Municipal improvement districts.
191201
192202 Municipal utility districts.
193203
194204 Municipal water districts.
195205
196206 Nonprofit corporations.
197207
198208 Nonprofit public benefit corporations.
199209
200210 Open-space maintenance districts.
201211
202212 Parking and business improvement areas.
203213
204214 Parking authorities.
205215
206216 Parking districts.
207217
208218 Permanent road divisions.
209219
210220 Pest abatement districts.
211221
212222 Police protection districts.
213223
214224 Port districts.
215225
216226 Property and business improvement areas.
217227
218228 Protection districts.
219229
220230 Public cemetery districts.
221231
222232 Public utility districts.
223233
224234 Rapid transit districts.
225235
226236 Reclamation districts.
227237
228238 Recreation and park districts.
229239
230240 Regional justice facility financing agencies.
231241
232242 Regional park and open-space districts.
233243
234244 Regional planning districts.
235245
236246 Regional transportation commissions.
237247
238248 Resort improvement districts.
239249
240250 Resource conservation districts.
241251
242252 River port districts.
243253
244254 Road maintenance districts.
245255
246256 Sanitary districts.
247257
248258 School districts of any kind or class.
249259
250260 School facilities improvement districts.
251261
252262 Separation of grade districts.
253263
254264 Service authorities for freeway emergencies.
255265
256266 Sewer districts.
257267
258268 Sewer maintenance districts.
259269
260270 Small craft harbor districts.
261271
262272 Special municipal tax districts.
263273
264274 Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.
265275
266276 Storm drain maintenance districts.
267277
268278 Storm drainage districts.
269279
270280 Storm drainage maintenance districts.
271281
272282 Storm water districts.
273283
274284 Toll tunnel authorities.
275285
276286 Traffic authorities.
277287
278288 Transit development boards.
279289
280290 Transit districts.
281291
282292 Unified and union school districts public libraries.
283293
284294 Vehicle parking districts.
285295
286296 Water agencies.
287297
288298 Water authorities.
289299
290300 Water conservation districts.
291301
292302 Water districts.
293303
294304 Water replenishment districts.
295305
296306 Water storage districts.
297307
298308 Watermaster districts.
299309
300310 Wine grape pest and disease control districts.
301311
302312 Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.
303313
304314 (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:
305315
306316 (A) A community redevelopment agency formed pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).
307317
308318 (B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.
309319
310320 (C) A joint powers authority that includes a community redevelopment agency or a community development commission as a member, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.
311321
312322 (3) Public body includes both of the following:
313323
314324 (A) The successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code.
315325
316326 (B) A successor agency, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 34171 of the Health and Safety Code, solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of Section 34177.5 of the Health and Safety Code.
317327
318328 (b) Bonds means all instruments evidencing an indebtedness of a public body incurred or to be incurred for any public purpose, all leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements wherein the obligor is one or more public bodies, all instruments evidencing the borrowing of money in anticipation of taxes, revenues, or other income of that body, all instruments payable from revenues or special funds of those public bodies, all certificates of participation evidencing interests in the leases, installment purchase agreements, or similar agreements, and all instruments funding, refunding, replacing, or amending any thereof or any indebtedness.
319329
320330 (c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.
321331
322332 (d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.
323333
324334 (e) Now means the effective date of this act.
325335
326336 SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.
327337
328338 SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.
329339
330340 SEC. 3. All public bodies heretofore organized or existing under any law, or under color of any law, are hereby declared to have been legally organized and to be legally functioning as those public bodies. Every public body, heretofore described, shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obligations, of those public bodies regularly formed pursuant to law.
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332342 ### SEC. 3.
333343
334344 SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.
335345
336346 SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.
337347
338348 SEC. 4. The boundaries of every public body as heretofore established, defined, or recorded, or as heretofore actually shown on maps or plats used by the assessor, are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally established.
339349
340350 ### SEC. 4.
341351
342352 SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.
343353
344354 SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.
345355
346356 SEC. 5. All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by any public body or bodies under any law, or under color of any law, for the annexation or inclusion of territory into those public bodies or for the annexation of those public bodies to any other public body or for the detachment, withdrawal, or exclusion of territory from any public body or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies are hereby confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of any public body and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the annexation or inclusion or of the withdrawal or exclusion of territory or the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of those public bodies.
347357
348358 ### SEC. 5.
349359
350360 SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.(b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.
351361
352362 SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.(b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.
353363
354364 SEC. 6. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore taken by or on behalf of any public body under any law, or under color of any law, for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds of any public body for any public purpose are hereby authorized, confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective. This shall include all acts and proceedings of the governing board of public bodies and of any person, public officer, board, or agency heretofore done or taken upon the question of the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds.
355365
356366 ### SEC. 6.
357367
358368 (b) All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore issued shall be, in the form and manner issued and delivered, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore awarded and sold to a purchaser and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with the contract of sale and other proceedings for the award and sale shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued by ordinance, resolution, order, or other action adopted or taken by or on behalf of the public body and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. All bonds of, or relating to, any public body heretofore authorized to be issued at an election and hereafter issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body. Whenever an election has heretofore been called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of any public body the question of issuing bonds for any public purpose, those bonds, if hereafter authorized by the required vote and in accordance with the proceedings heretofore taken, and issued and delivered in accordance with that authorization, shall be the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the public body.
359369
360370 SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.(b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.(c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.(d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.(e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.
361371
362372 SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.(b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.(c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.(d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.(e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.
363373
364374 SEC. 7. (a) This act shall operate to supply legislative authorization as may be necessary to authorize, confirm, and validate any acts and proceedings heretofore taken pursuant to authority the Legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which those acts or proceedings were taken.
365375
366376 ### SEC. 7.
367377
368378 (b) This act shall be limited to the validation of acts and proceedings to the extent that the same can be effectuated under the California Constitution and the United States Constitution.
369379
370380 (c) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter being legally contested or inquired into in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined or that is pending and undetermined during the period of 30 days from and after the effective date of this act.
371381
372382 (d) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize any act, proceeding, or other matter that has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void, or ineffective.
373383
374384 (e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.
375385
376386 SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.
377387
378388 SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.
379389
380390 SEC. 8. Any action or proceeding contesting the validity of any action or proceeding heretofore taken under any law, or under color of any law, for the formation, organization, or incorporation of any public body, or for any annexation thereto, detachment or exclusion therefrom, or other change of boundaries thereof, or for the consolidation, merger, or dissolution of any public bodies, or for, or in connection with, the authorization, issuance, sale, execution, delivery, or exchange of bonds thereof upon any ground involving any alleged defect or illegality not effectively validated by the prior provisions of this act and not otherwise barred by any statute of limitations or by laches shall be commenced within six months of the effective date of this act, otherwise each and all of those matters shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable. This act shall not extend the period allowed for legal action beyond the period that it would be barred by any presently existing valid statute of limitations.
381391
382392 ### SEC. 8.
383393
384394 SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.
385395
386396 SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.
387397
388398 SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to render the creation of any public body, or any change in the boundaries of any public body, effective for purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or plat, required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, is filed within the time and substantially in the manner required by those sections.
389399
390400 ### SEC. 9.
391401
392402 SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.
393403
394404 SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.
395405
396406 SEC. 10. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
397407
398408 ### SEC. 10.
399409
400410 In order to validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of public bodies as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take immediate effect.