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1-Senate Bill No. 812 CHAPTER 38 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. [ Approved by Governor June 28, 2021. Filed with Secretary of State June 28, 2021. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 812, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Third Validating Act of 2021, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY 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 Third Validating Act of 2021.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.
1+Enrolled June 18, 2021 Passed IN Senate March 22, 2021 Passed IN Assembly June 17, 2021 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 812Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Durazo, Hertzberg, Nielsen, and Wiener)February 23, 2021 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. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 812, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Third Validating Act of 2021, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY 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 Third Validating Act of 2021.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.
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3- Senate Bill No. 812 CHAPTER 38 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. [ Approved by Governor June 28, 2021. Filed with Secretary of State June 28, 2021. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 812, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Third Validating Act of 2021, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
3+ Enrolled June 18, 2021 Passed IN Senate March 22, 2021 Passed IN Assembly June 17, 2021 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 812Introduced by Committee on Governance and Finance (Senators McGuire (Chair), Durazo, Hertzberg, Nielsen, and Wiener)February 23, 2021 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. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 812, Committee on Governance and Finance. Validations.This bill would enact the Third Validating Act of 2021, which would validate the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
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2938 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Third Validating Act of 2021.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.
3039
3140 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3241
3342 ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
3443
3544 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Third Validating Act of 2021.
3645
3746 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Third Validating Act of 2021.
3847
3948 SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Third Validating Act of 2021.
4049
4150 ### SECTION 1.
4251
4352 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.
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:
4857
4958 ### SEC. 2.
5059
5160 (a) Public body means all of the following:
5261
5362 (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:
5463
5564 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).
5665
5766 Affordable housing authorities.
5867
5968 Air pollution control districts of any kind.
6069
6170 Air quality management districts.
6271
6372 Airport districts.
6473
6574 Assessment districts, benefit assessment districts, and special assessment districts of any public body.
6675
6776 Bridge and highway districts.
6877
6978 California water districts.
7079
7180 Citrus pest control districts.
7281
7382 City maintenance districts.
7483
7584 Community college districts.
7685
7786 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.
7887
7988 Community facilities districts.
8089
8190 Community rehabilitation districts.
8291
8392 Community revitalization and investment authorities.
8493
8594 Community services districts.
8695
8796 Conservancy districts.
8897
8998 Cotton pest abatement districts.
9099
91100 County boards of education.
92101
93102 County drainage districts.
94103
95104 County flood control and water districts.
96105
97106 County free library systems.
98107
99108 County maintenance districts.
100109
101110 County sanitation districts.
102111
103112 County service areas.
104113
105114 County transportation commissions.
106115
107116 County water agencies.
108117
109118 County water authorities.
110119
111120 County water districts.
112121
113122 County waterworks districts.
114123
115124 Department of Water Resources and other agencies acting pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 6 of the Water Code.
116125
117126 Distribution districts of any public body.
118127
119128 Districts acting pursuant to Section 53395.82 of the Government Code.
120129
121130 Drainage districts.
122131
123132 Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.
124133
125134 Fire protection districts.
126135
127136 Flood control and water conservation districts.
128137
129138 Flood control districts.
130139
131140 Garbage and refuse disposal districts.
132141
133142 Garbage disposal districts.
134143
135144 Geologic hazard abatement districts.
136145
137146 Harbor districts.
138147
139148 Harbor improvement districts.
140149
141150 Harbor, recreation, and conservation districts.
142151
143152 Health care authorities.
144153
145154 Highway districts.
146155
147156 Highway interchange districts.
148157
149158 Highway lighting districts.
150159
151160 Housing authorities.
152161
153162 Improvement districts or improvement areas of any public body.
154163
155164 Industrial development authorities.
156165
157166 Infrastructure financing districts.
158167
159168 Integrated financing districts.
160169
161170 Irrigation districts.
162171
163172 Joint highway districts.
164173
165174 Levee districts.
166175
167176 Library districts.
168177
169178 Library districts in unincorporated towns and villages.
170179
171180 Local agency formation commissions.
172181
173182 Local health care districts.
174183
175184 Local health districts.
176185
177186 Local hospital districts.
178187
179188 Local transportation authorities or commissions.
180189
181190 Maintenance districts.
182191
183192 Memorial districts.
184193
185194 Metropolitan transportation commissions.
186195
187196 Metropolitan water districts.
188197
189198 Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.
190199
191200 Multifamily improvement districts.
192201
193202 Municipal improvement districts.
194203
195204 Municipal utility districts.
196205
197206 Municipal water districts.
198207
199208 Nonprofit corporations.
200209
201210 Nonprofit public benefit corporations.
202211
203212 Open-space maintenance districts.
204213
205214 Parking and business improvement areas.
206215
207216 Parking authorities.
208217
209218 Parking districts.
210219
211220 Permanent road divisions.
212221
213222 Pest abatement districts.
214223
215224 Police protection districts.
216225
217226 Port districts.
218227
219228 Property and business improvement areas.
220229
221230 Protection districts.
222231
223232 Public cemetery districts.
224233
225234 Public utility districts.
226235
227236 Rapid transit districts.
228237
229238 Reclamation districts.
230239
231240 Recreation and park districts.
232241
233242 Regional justice facility financing agencies.
234243
235244 Regional park and open-space districts.
236245
237246 Regional planning districts.
238247
239248 Regional transportation commissions.
240249
241250 Resort improvement districts.
242251
243252 Resource conservation districts.
244253
245254 River port districts.
246255
247256 Road maintenance districts.
248257
249258 Sanitary districts.
250259
251260 School districts of any kind or class.
252261
253262 School facilities improvement districts.
254263
255264 Separation of grade districts.
256265
257266 Service authorities for freeway emergencies.
258267
259268 Sewer districts.
260269
261270 Sewer maintenance districts.
262271
263272 Small craft harbor districts.
264273
265274 Special municipal tax districts.
266275
267276 Stone and pome fruit pest control districts.
268277
269278 Storm drain maintenance districts.
270279
271280 Storm drainage districts.
272281
273282 Storm drainage maintenance districts.
274283
275284 Storm water districts.
276285
277286 Toll tunnel authorities.
278287
279288 Traffic authorities.
280289
281290 Transit development boards.
282291
283292 Transit districts.
284293
285294 Unified and union school districts public libraries.
286295
287296 Vehicle parking districts.
288297
289298 Water agencies.
290299
291300 Water authorities.
292301
293302 Water conservation districts.
294303
295304 Water districts.
296305
297306 Water replenishment districts.
298307
299308 Water storage districts.
300309
301310 Watermaster districts.
302311
303312 Wine grape pest and disease control districts.
304313
305314 Zones, improvement zones, or service zones of any public body.
306315
307316 (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a public body does not include any of the following:
308317
309318 (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).
310319
311320 (B) A community development commission, with respect to its exercise of the powers of a community redevelopment agency.
312321
313322 (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.
314323
315324 (3) Public body includes both of the following:
316325
317326 (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.
318327
319328 (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.
320329
321330 (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.
322331
323332 (c) Hereafter means any time subsequent to the effective date of this act.
324333
325334 (d) Heretofore means any time prior to the effective date of this act.
326335
327336 (e) Now means the effective date of this act.
328337
329338 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.
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.
336345
337346 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.
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.
344353
345354 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.
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.
352361
353362 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.
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.
358367
359368 ### SEC. 6.
360369
361370 (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.
362371
363372 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.
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.
368377
369378 ### SEC. 7.
370379
371380 (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.
372381
373382 (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.
374383
375384 (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.
376385
377386 (e) This act shall not operate to authorize, confirm, validate, or legalize a contract between any public body and the United States.
378387
379388 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.
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.
386395
387396 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.
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.