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1-Senate Bill No. 929 CHAPTER 133 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 September 24, 2020. Filed with Secretary of State September 24, 2020. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 929, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Second Validating Act of 2020, 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 Second Validating Act of 2020.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.Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.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 shall become operative on September 1, 2020.SEC. 11. 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 September 04, 2020 Passed IN Senate June 11, 2020 Passed IN Assembly August 30, 2020 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 929Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Beall, Hertzberg, Hurtado, Moorlach, Nielsen, and Wiener)February 05, 2020 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 929, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Second Validating Act of 2020, 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 Second Validating Act of 2020.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.Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.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 shall become operative on September 1, 2020.SEC. 11. 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. 929 CHAPTER 133 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 September 24, 2020. Filed with Secretary of State September 24, 2020. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 929, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Second Validating Act of 2020, 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 September 04, 2020 Passed IN Senate June 11, 2020 Passed IN Assembly August 30, 2020 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 929Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Beall, Hertzberg, Hurtado, Moorlach, Nielsen, and Wiener)February 05, 2020 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 929, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Second Validating Act of 2020, 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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3140 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Second Validating Act of 2020.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.Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.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 shall become operative on September 1, 2020.SEC. 11. 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.
3241
3342 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3443
3544 ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3645
3746 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Second Validating Act of 2020.
3847
3948 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Second Validating Act of 2020.
4049
4150 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Second Validating Act of 2020.
4251
4352 ### SECTION 1.
4453
4554 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.Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.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.
4655
4756 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.Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.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.
4857
4958 SEC. 2. As used in this act:
5059
5160 ### SEC. 2.
5261
5362 (a) Public body means all of the following:
5463
5564 (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:
5665
5766 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).
5867
5968 Affordable housing authorities.
6069
6170 Air pollution control districts of any kind.
6271
6372 Air quality management districts.
6473
6574 Airport districts.
6675
6776 Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.
6877
6978 Bridge and highway districts.
7079
7180 California water districts.
7281
7382 Citrus pest control districts.
7483
7584 City maintenance districts.
7685
7786 Community college districts.
7887
7988 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.
8089
8190 Community facilities districts.
8291
8392 Community rehabilitation districts.
8493
8594 Community revitalization and investment authorities.
8695
8796 Community services districts.
8897
8998 Conservancy districts.
9099
91100 Cotton pest abatement districts.
92101
93102 County boards of education.
94103
95104 County drainage districts.
96105
97106 County flood control and water districts.
98107
99108 County free library systems.
100109
101110 County maintenance districts.
102111
103112 County sanitation districts.
104113
105114 County service areas.
106115
107116 County transportation commissions.
108117
109118 County water agencies.
110119
111120 County water authorities.
112121
113122 County water districts.
114123
115124 County waterworks districts.
116125
117126 Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.
118127
119128 Distribution districts of any public body.
120129
121130 Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.
122131
123132 Drainage districts.
124133
125134 Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.
126135
127136 Fire protection districts.
128137
129138 Flood control and water conservation districts.
130139
131140 Flood control districts.
132141
133142 Garbage and refuse disposal districts.
134143
135144 Garbage disposal districts.
136145
137146 Geologic hazard abatement districts.
138147
139148 Harbor districts.
140149
141150 Harbor improvement districts.
142151
143152 Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.
144153
145154 Health care authorities.
146155
147156 Highway districts.
148157
149158 Highway interchange districts.
150159
151160 Highway lighting districts.
152161
153162 Housing authorities.
154163
155164 Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.
156165
157166 Industrial development authorities.
158167
159168 Infrastructure financing districts.
160169
161170 Integrated financing districts.
162171
163172 Irrigation districts.
164173
165174 Joint highway districts.
166175
167176 Levee districts.
168177
169178 Library districts.
170179
171180 Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.
172181
173182 Local agency formation commissions.
174183
175184 Local health care districts.
176185
177186 Local health districts.
178187
179188 Local hospital districts.
180189
181190 Local transportation authorities or commissions.
182191
183192 Maintenance districts.
184193
185194 Memorial districts.
186195
187196 Metropolitan transportation commissions.
188197
189198 Metropolitan water districts.
190199
191200 Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.
192201
193202 Multifamily improvement districts.
194203
195204 Municipal improvement districts.
196205
197206 Municipal utility districts.
198207
199208 Municipal water districts.
200209
201210 Nonprofit corporations.
202211
203212 Nonprofit public benefit corporations.
204213
205214 Open-space maintenance districts.
206215
207216 Parking and business improvement areas.
208217
209218 Parking authorities.
210219
211220 Parking districts.
212221
213222 Permanent road divisions.
214223
215224 Pest abatement districts.
216225
217226 Police protection districts.
218227
219228 Port districts.
220229
221230 Property and business improvement areas.
222231
223232 Protection districts.
224233
225234 Public cemetery districts.
226235
227236 Public utility districts.
228237
229238 Rapid transit districts.
230239
231240 Reclamation districts.
232241
233242 Recreation and park districts.
234243
235244 Regional justice facility financing agencies.
236245
237246 Regional park and open-space districts.
238247
239248 Regional planning districts.
240249
241250 Regional transportation commissions.
242251
243252 Resort improvement districts.
244253
245254 Resource conservation districts.
246255
247256 River port districts.
248257
249258 Road maintenance districts.
250259
251260 Sanitary districts.
252261
253262 School districts of any kind or class.
254263
255264 School facilities improvement districts.
256265
257266 Separation of grade districts.
258267
259268 Service authorities for freeway emergencies.
260269
261270 Sewer districts.
262271
263272 Sewer maintenance districts.
264273
265274 Small craft harbor districts.
266275
267276 Special municipal tax districts.
268277
269278 Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.
270279
271280 Storm drain maintenance districts.
272281
273282 Storm drainage districts.
274283
275284 Storm drainage maintenance districts.
276285
277286 Storm water districts.
278287
279288 Toll tunnel authorities.
280289
281290 Traffic authorities.
282291
283292 Transit development boards.
284293
285294 Transit districts.
286295
287296 Unified and union school districts public libraries.
288297
289298 Vehicle parking districts.
290299
291300 Water agencies.
292301
293302 Water authorities.
294303
295304 Water conservation districts.
296305
297306 Water districts.
298307
299308 Water replenishment districts.
300309
301310 Water storage districts.
302311
303312 Watermaster districts.
304313
305314 Wine grape pest and disease control districts.
306315
307316 Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.
308317
309318 (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:
310319
311320 (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).
312321
313322 (B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.
314323
315324 (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.
316325
317326 (3) Public body includes both of the following:
318327
319328 (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.
320329
321330 (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.
322331
323332 (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.
324333
325334 (c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.
326335
327336 (d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.
328337
329338 (e) Now means the effective date of this act.
330339
331340 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.
332341
333342 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.
334343
335344 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.
336345
337346 ### SEC. 3.
338347
339348 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.
340349
341350 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.
342351
343352 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.
344353
345354 ### SEC. 4.
346355
347356 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.
348357
349358 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.
350359
351360 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.
352361
353362 ### SEC. 5.
354363
355364 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.
356365
357366 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.
358367
359368 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.
360369
361370 ### SEC. 6.
362371
363372 (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.
364373
365374 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.
366375
367376 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.
368377
369378 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.
370379
371380 ### SEC. 7.
372381
373382 (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.
374383
375384 (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.
376385
377386 (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.
378387
379388 (e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.
380389
381390 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.
382391
383392 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.
384393
385394 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.
386395
387396 ### SEC. 8.
388397
389398 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.
390399
391400 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.
392401
393402 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.
394403
395404 ### SEC. 9.
396405
397406 SEC. 10. This act shall become operative on September 1, 2020.
398407
399408 SEC. 10. This act shall become operative on September 1, 2020.
400409
401410 SEC. 10. This act shall become operative on September 1, 2020.
402411
403412 ### SEC. 10.
404413
405414 SEC. 11. 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.
406415
407416 SEC. 11. 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.
408417
409418 SEC. 11. 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:
410419
411420 ### SEC. 11.
412421
413422 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.