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CA Pub Util Code § 99250.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 3 - Local Transportation Funds|Section 99250.5.

99250.5.  (a) (1) At any publicly noticed meeting of the governing body of an operator, a representative of a private transportation service provider may request the operator to perform a cost comparison analysis of public transit service provided by vehicles equipped with rubber tires before the governing body acts on a route restructuring or service addition under consideration. The operator may agree to perform a cost comparison analysis pursuant to this section or alternatively, may so agree on the condition that the private transportation service provider that requested the cost comparison analysis agrees to pay the operator’s actual cost of conducting the analysis. If the operator agrees to perform the cost comparison analysis, the private transportation service provider requesting the cost comparison analysis shall supply any information necessary and relevant to complete the analysis.(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require operators to perform a cost comparison analysis. At its sole discretion, the operator’s governing body may elect not to perform a cost comparison analysis. However, if the governing body determines not to perform a cost comparison analysis, it shall specify the reasons for that determination in a resolution adopted at a publicly noticed meeting.(b) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Cost comparison analysis” means a study of the route restructuring or service addition under consideration by the operator, that compares the cost to the operator of directly providing those services compared to the cost to the operator of procuring those services from private entities. The study shall utilize a full cost allocation method that is consistent with generally accepted cost allocation principles.(2) “Route restructuring” means a permanent change in routing that decreases or increases the total number of daily transit revenue service miles or hours by 25 percent or more.(3) “Service addition” means an increase in the total number of daily transit revenue service miles or hours on an existing route by 50 percent or more.(c) If the governing body performs a cost comparison analysis pursuant to this section, the results of the analysis shall be fully disclosed at a publicly noticed meeting.(d) This section does not apply to an operator in a county with less than 300,000 population or who operates less than 10 buses.(e) The operator may adopt appropriate procedures to implement the purposes of this section.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 722, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99251 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 3 - Local Transportation Funds|Section 99251.

99251.  No claim submitted by an operator pursuant to this chapter shall be approved unless it is accompanied by a certification completed within the last 13 months from the Department of the California Highway Patrol indicating that the operator is in compliance with Section 1808.1 of the Vehicle Code. The certification may be issued following a terminal inspection, or a terminal reinspection conducted within 60 days thereafter, by the Department of the California Highway Patrol.(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 726, Sec. 1. Operative July 1, 1988, by Sec. 11 of Ch. 726.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99260 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99260.

99260.  Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators under this article for the following purposes:(a) The support of public transportation systems.(b) Aid to public transportation research and demonstration projects.(c) Contributions for the construction of grade separation projects specified in Section 99318.3.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 161.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99260.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99260.2.

99260.2.  (a) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators to contract with common carriers of persons operating under a franchise or license to provide transportation services during peak hours.“Peak hours” means the period of time during a day which have a clearly greater-than-average level of patronage, typically the two periods of time which reflect the influx of home-work and work-home patronage on a transportation system. (b) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by a transit district to make bulk purchases of passenger tickets for passenger rail services, if it is authorized to make such purchases by its enabling legislation.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 161.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99260.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99260.5.

99260.5.  (a) Claims may also be filed with the transportation planning agency by a city and county or a transit district under this article for payments to be made to a railroad corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission and engaged in the transportation of persons, as defined in Section 208, for operating losses incurred in such transportation of persons between points within the city and county or the district, as the case may be, and for that portion of the operating losses incurred in such transportation of persons in the city and county or the district, as the case may be, whose origin or destination, or both, are outside the city and county or district.(b) A city and county or a transit district receiving funds under a claim filed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall use those funds for the purposes specified in that subdivision.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1216.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99260.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99260.6.

99260.6.  Public agencies authorized to file claims pursuant to Section 99234.9 may file claims under this article.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 995, Sec. 7.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99260.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99260.7.

99260.7.  In order to provide, or to contract to provide, transportation services using vehicles for the exclusive use of elderly or disabled persons, a city or a county, which is contributing funds it is eligible to receive under this article to a joint powers agency of which it is a member to operate a public transportation system, may also file a claim under this article and may also file a claim for funds made available pursuant to Section 99313.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 769, Sec. 13. (AB 2679) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99261 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99261.

99261.  The transportation planning agency may adopt rules and regulations supplemental to, and consistent with, those of the department to further delineate procedures for the submission of claims and stating criteria by which they will be analyzed and evaluated.The criteria may include a statement of intent to disallow any portion of an operator’s claim which calls for moneys to finance unreasonable or arbitrary increases in executive level salaries based on consideration of executive level salaries in other public agencies and in the public transportation industry, both nationally and within the state.To the extent necessary to perform its duties under this article, the transportation planning agency has full access to the books, records, and accounts of claimant operators.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 579, Sec. 19.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99261.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99261.5.

99261.5.  The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board shall adopt rules and regulations for its area of jurisdiction.The transportation planning agency may include in its rules and regulations any rule and regulation of the transit development board.(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1055, Sec. 6.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99262 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99262.

99262.  Claims for public transportation systems may include claims for money for all purposes necessary and convenient to the development and operation of the system, including planning and contributions to the transportation planning process, acquisition of real property, construction of facilities and buildings, purchase and replacement of vehicles (including those usable by disabled persons), and system operation, maintenance, and repair, payment for any of which purposes may take the form of direct expenditures or payment of principal and interest on equipment trust certificates, bonded or other indebtedness, or any amounts in accomplishment of a defeasance of any outstanding revenue bond indenture.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 769, Sec. 14. (AB 2679) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99263 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99263.

99263.  An approved claim may include an amount to pay the principal and interest on bonds of the applicant for a public transportation system.This section shall not be construed as an authorization to any applicant to pledge revenues received from the county’s local transportation fund, unless approved by the voters of the county under Article 7 (commencing with Section 99320) of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1400.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99264 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99264.

99264.  An operator shall not be eligible for allocation under this article if it routinely staffs with two or more persons a vehicle for public transportation purposes designed to be operated by one person.(Added by renumbering Section 99266.7 by Stats. 1979, Ch. 161.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99266 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99266.

99266.  No moneys may be allocated to an operator whose claim includes funds for an increase in operating budget in excess of 15 percent above the preceding year or substantial increase or decrease in scope of operations or capital budget provisions for major new fixed facilities, unless the operator’s claim is accompanied by statements, reports, and such other supporting data as may be reasonably required to substantiate such change.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1408.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99267 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99267.

99267.  If an operator ceases operations, any capital acquisitions made by that operator from funds allocated to it pursuant to this article may be transferred to any claimant to provide transportation services under this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 630, Sec. 7.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.

99268.  The expenditure of the funds received under this article by an operator may in no year exceed 50 percent of the amount required to meet operating, maintenance, and capital and debt service requirements of the system after deduction therefrom of approved federal grants estimated to be received and funds estimated to be allocated pursuant to Section 99314.5.Notwithstanding the 50-percent limitation, the amount budgeted for capital requirements in any year or other period up to five years, less the amount of federal and other state funds granted or approved therefor, may be allocated and expended for capital improvements to a grade-separated mass transit system, if construction of such facilities has been found to be not inconsistent with the regional transportation plan of the transportation planning agency. Within such five-year period, the transportation planning agency may order the amount of the allocation in any year to be set aside and accumulated for accomplishment of the particular project.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 161.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.1.

99268.1.  Commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, an operator that was in compliance with Section 99268 during the 1978–79 fiscal year in order to be eligible for funds under this article shall be eligible for such funds in any fiscal year, if it remains in compliance with that section during the fiscal year. The determination of compliance for any fiscal year shall be made in the same manner as the determination was made for the 1978–79 fiscal year, except for the exemption provided under Section 99267.5. An allowance for depreciation shall be made in the same manner as provided in the 1978–79 fiscal year.For purposes of this section, an operator granted a waiver from the requirements of Section 99268 pursuant to Section 99268.8, as it read on January 1, 1979, shall not be deemed in compliance with that section.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1124, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.2.

99268.2.  In the case of an operator required to be in compliance with Section 99268 under Section 99268.1, the operator may be allocated additional funds that could not be allocated to it because of those requirements, if it maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, at least equal to one-fifth if serving an urbanized area or one-tenth if serving a nonurbanized area.(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 716, Sec. 4. (SB 508) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.20 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.20.

99268.20.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as specified in subdivision (b), Sections 99268, 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, 99268.6, 99268.7, 99268.8, 99268.9, 99268.11, 99268.12, 99268.16, 99268.17, 99268.18, 99268.19, 99269, 99270.1, 99270.2, 99270.5, and 99270.6 do not apply to an operator for a fiscal year in which the operator expended from local funding an amount for transit operations not less than the amount the operator expended from local funding for transit operations during the 2018–19 fiscal year. As used in this subdivision, “local funding” means any nonstate grant funds or other revenues generated by, earned by, or distributed to, an operator.(b) (1) For purposes of verifying the expenditures described in subdivision (a), the Controller may request fiscal data from the operator or conduct an audit of the operator.(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the operator fails to comply with the Controller’s request for fiscal data within 120 days of receiving the request, as determined by the Controller, the sections listed in subdivision (a) apply to the operator.(3) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the Controller, through an audit of the operator, determines that the operator did not meet the requirements of subdivision (a), the sections listed in subdivision (a) apply to the operator.(4) An operator to which the sections listed in subdivision (a) apply pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3) shall reimburse the state for any funds spent unlawfully.(c) The Controller shall not require an operator to which the sections listed in subdivision (a) do not apply pursuant to subdivision (a) to report data submitted or collected only for purposes of complying with those sections.(d) (1) On or before November 30, 2025, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature on the revenue vehicle hours, ridership, and passenger mile impacts on the services offered by operators to which the sections listed in subdivision (a) do not apply pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.(e) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2026, and, as of January 1, 2027, is repealed.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 81, Sec. 9. (AB 149) Effective July 16, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2026, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2027, by its own provisions.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.3.

99268.3.  (a) In the case of an operator that is serving an urbanized area, and that was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not required to be in compliance with Section 99268 or that commenced operation after that fiscal year, the operator shall be eligible for those funds in any fiscal year, commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, if it maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, at least equal to one-fifth.(b) In the case of an operator that is serving an urbanized area, and that was in operation during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not then eligible for funds under this article, but that has since become eligible for those funds, the operator shall be eligible for the funds in any fiscal year, commencing with the 1980–81 fiscal year, if it complies with either of the following:(1) The requirements of Section 99268.(2) The requirements of subdivision (a).(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 716, Sec. 5. (SB 508) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.4.

99268.4.  In the case of an operator that is serving a nonurbanized area, and that was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not required to be in compliance with Section 99268 or that commenced operation after that fiscal year, the operator shall be eligible for those funds in any fiscal year, commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, if it maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, at least equal to one-tenth.(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 716, Sec. 6. (SB 508) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.5.

99268.5.  (a) Commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, no funds shall be allocated under this article in any fiscal year to an operator providing services using vehicles for the exclusive use of elderly and disabled persons, unless the operator maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, for those services at least equal to one-tenth or to the ratio it had for those services during the 1978–79 fiscal year, whichever is greater.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an operator which provides both exclusive transportation services for elderly and disabled persons and regular scheduled public transportation services may be allocated funds under this article for the exclusive service if the combined services qualify under Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, or 99268.4, as the case may be, and the ratio of fare revenues to operating cost for the combined service shall not be less than the ratio required in order to make allocations to the operator for its regular scheduled services.(c) In a county which had less than 500,000 population as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census and more than 500,000 in population as determined by the 1980 or 1990 federal decennial census, an operator in the county shall maintain a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, at least equal to one-fifth if serving an urbanized area or one-tenth if serving a nonurbanized area.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 769, Sec. 15. (AB 2679) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99268.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 4 - Transportation Development|ARTICLE 4 - Claims for Funds|Section 99268.6.

99268.6.  (a) If a joint powers entity providing public transportation services was funded at any time under this article and is subsequently dissolved, any succeeding entity providing such services shall not be eligible for funding, unless it conforms to Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, 99268.5, or 99268.9, as the case may be, which applied to its predecessor.(b) Except a city or a county filing a claim pursuant to Section 99260.7, no public agency providing public transportation services, after withdrawing from, or while remaining in, a joint powers entity providing public transportation services, shall be eligible for funding under this article, unless it conforms to Section 99268.1, 99268.2, 99268.3, 99268.4, or 99268.9, as the case may be, that the joint powers entity is required to conform with in order to be eligible for such funding at the time the public agency commences its public transportation services. The public agency is an operator and shall be subject to Section 99268.9.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1002.)