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2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification › Section 99564.3.

99564.3. A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether the employees wish to decertify an exclusive representative or to reconsider the appropriateness of a unit. The petition may allege that the employees in an appropriate unit no longer desire a particular employee organization as their exclusive representative. The petition shall include proof of a 30-percent showing of interest indicating support for another organization or lack of support for the incumbent exclusive representative.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification › Section 99564.4.

99564.4. (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 99564.2, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold hearings as it deems necessary in order to decide the questions raised by the petition. The determination of the board may be based upon the evidence adduced in the inquiries, investigations, or hearings. If the board finds on the basis of the evidence that a question of representation exists, or a question of representation is deemed to exist pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 99564.1, it shall order that an election shall be conducted by secret ballot placing on the ballot all employee organizations evidencing support of at least 10 percent of the members of an appropriate unit, and it shall certify the results of the election on the basis of which ballot choice received a majority of the valid votes cast. There shall be printed on the initial ballot the choice of “no representation.” If, at any election, no choice on the ballot receives a majority of the votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted. The ballot for the runoff election shall provide for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of valid votes cast in the election.
(b) No election shall be held and the petition shall be dismissed whenever either of the following exists:
(1) There is currently in effect a memorandum of understanding between the employer and another employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the petition, unless the petition is filed not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days prior to the expiration date of the memorandum. However, if the memorandum has been in effect for three years or more, there shall be no restriction as to time of filing the petition.
(2) Within the previous 12 months either an employee organization other than the petitioner has been lawfully recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the petition, or a majority of the votes cast in a representation election held pursuant to subdivision (a) were cast for “no representation.”
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification › Section 99564.5.

99564.5. The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach of this duty shall be deemed to have occurred if the employee organization’s conduct in representation is arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 6 - Unit Determination › Section 99565.

99565. (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all of the following criteria:
(1) The internal and occupational community of interest among the employees, including, but not limited to, the extent to which they perform functionally related services or work toward established common goals, the history of employee representation with the employer, the extent to which the employees belong to the same employee organization, the extent to which the employees have common skills, working conditions, job duties, or similar educational or training requirements, and the extent to which the employees have common supervision.
(2) The effect that the projected unit will have on the meet and confer relationships, emphasizing the availability and authority of employer representatives to deal effectively with employee organizations representing the unit, and taking into account factors such as work location, the numerical size of the unit, the relationship of the unit to organizational patterns of the transit district employer, and the effect on the existing classification structure or existing classification schematic of dividing a single class or single classification schematic among two or more units.
(3) The effect of the proposed unit on efficient operations of the employer and the compatibility of the unit with the responsibility of the transit district employer and its employees to serve the public.
(4) The number of employees and classifications in a proposed unit, and its effect on the operations of the employer, on the objectives of providing the employees the right to effective representation, and on the meet and confer relationship.
(5) The impact on the meet and confer relationship created by fragmentation of employee groups or any proliferation of units among the employees of the employer.
(b) The board shall not determine that any unit is appropriate if it includes, together with other employees, employees who are defined as peace officers pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 830.2 of the Penal Code.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security › Section 99566.

99566. Subject to the limitations set forth in this chapter, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security › Section 99566.2.

99566.2. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 99560.1, Section 99566, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body whose traditional tenets or teachings include objections to joining or financially supporting employee organizations shall not be required to join, maintain membership in, or financially support any employee organization as a condition of employment except as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) The employee may be required, in lieu of a service fee, to pay sums equal to the service fee either to a nonreligious, nonlabor organization, charitable fund exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code, chosen by the employee from a list of at least three such funds, designated in the organizational security arrangement, or if the arrangement fails to designate funds, then to any such fund chosen by the employee. Either the employee organization or the transit district employer may require that proof of the payments be made on an annual basis to the transit district employer as a condition of continued exemption from the requirement of financial support to the recognized employee organization. If the employee who holds conscientious objections pursuant to this section requests the employee organization to use the grievance procedure or arbitration procedure on the employee’s behalf, the employee organization is authorized to charge the employee for the reasonable cost of using that procedure.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security › Section 99566.3.

99566.3. Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and to the employees who are members of the organization, within 60 days after the end of its fiscal year, a detailed written financial report of its financial transactions in the form of a balance sheet and an operating statement, signed and certified as to accuracy by its president and treasurer, or corresponding principal officers. In the event of noncompliance with this section, any employee within the organization may petition the board for an order compelling compliance, or the board may issue a compliance order on its motion.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 8 - Rights-Disputes Arbitration › Section 99567.

99567. (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration of disputes that may arise under the memorandum of understanding or between the parties.
(b) Where a party to a memorandum of understanding is aggrieved by the failure, neglect, or refusal of the other party to proceed to arbitration pursuant to the procedures provided in the memorandum, the aggrieved party may bring proceedings pursuant to Title 9 (commencing with Section 1280) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure for a court order directing that the arbitration proceed pursuant to the procedures provided in the memorandum of understanding.
(c) An arbitration award made pursuant to this section shall be final and binding upon the parties and may be enforced by a court pursuant to Title 9 (commencing with Section 1280) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(d) The board shall submit a list of names of arbitrators to employers and employee organizations upon their mutual request. Nothing in this subdivision shall preclude the parties from mutually agreeing to some other means of selecting an arbitrator. The board shall also, if mutually requested to do so, designate an arbitrator to hear and decide the rights dispute.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 9 - Impasse Procedures › Section 99568.

99568. The impasse procedures contained in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1137) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Labor Code shall govern any impasse proceedings under this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 10 - Public Notice › Section 99569.

99569. (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of transit district employers, that relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at a public meeting of the transit district employer and thereafter shall be public records.
(b) Meeting and conferring shall not commence on an initial proposal until a reasonable time has elapsed after the submission of the proposal to enable the public to become informed and the public has the opportunity to express itself regarding the proposal at a meeting of the transit district employer.
(c) After the public has had the opportunity to express itself, the transit district employer shall, at a meeting that is open to the public, adopt a proposal, including any changes to its initial proposal that the transit district employer deems appropriate based on the public’s comments.
(d) New subjects of meeting and conferring arising after the presentation of initial proposals shall be made public within 24 hours. If a vote is taken on a new subject by the transit district employer, the vote on the subject by each member voting shall also be made public within 24 hours.
(e) The board may adopt regulations for the purpose of implementing this section, which are consistent with the intent of the section, that the public be informed of the issues that are being met and conferred upon and have full opportunity to express their views on the issues to the transit district employer, and to know of the positions of the transit district employer.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous › Section 99570.

99570. The following proceedings set forth in this section are exempt from the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code), unless the parties mutually agree otherwise:
(a) Any meeting and conferring discussion between a transit district employer and a recognized or certified employee organization.
(b) Any meeting of a mediator with either party or both parties to the meeting and conferring process.
(c) Any hearing, meeting, or investigation conducted by a factfinder or arbitrator.
(d) Any executive session of the transit district employer or between the transit district employer and its designated representatives for the purpose of discussing its position respecting meeting and conferring or regarding any matter within the scope of representation or instructing its designated representatives.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous › Section 99570.1.

99570.1. No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting discrimination in employment.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous › Section 99570.2.

99570.2. If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous › Section 99570.3.

99570.3. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to deprive employees of their rights pursuant to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (49 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq.) and the agreements entered into pursuant to Section 5333(b) of Title 49 of that act.
(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to deprive employees of their rights pursuant Sections 130051.24 and 130110 of the Public Utilities Code.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations › ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous › Section 99570.4.

99570.4. For employees of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority covered under this chapter, this chapter shall supersede subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 30750 and Sections 30751 and 30755.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 8 - Administrative Enforcement for Fare Evasion and Prohibited Conducts › Section 99580.5.

99580.5. A transit district’s ordinance may be enforced outside of the transit district’s jurisdiction only where the local jurisdiction has adopted the transit district’s ordinance by reference as authorized by the local jurisdictions’ governing body.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 534, Sec. 4. (AB 1337) Effective January 1, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT › CHAPTER 8 - Administrative Enforcement for Fare Evasion and Prohibited Conducts › Section 99582.

99582. (a) Within 30 calendar days after the mailing or personal delivery of the decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 99581, the person may seek review by filing an appeal to be heard by the superior court where the same shall be heard de novo, except that the contents of the processing agency’s file in the case shall be received in evidence. A copy of the notice of fare evasion or passenger conduct violation shall be admitted into evidence as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein establishing a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence. A copy of the notice of appeal shall be served in person or by first-class mail upon the processing agency by the person filing the appeal. For purposes of computing the 30-calendar-day period, Section 1013 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be applicable. A proceeding under this subdivision is a limited civil case.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the fee for filing the notice of appeal shall be as provided in Section 70615 of the Government Code. The court shall request that the processing agency’s file on the case be forwarded to the court, to be received within 15 calendar days of the request. The court shall notify the appellant of the appearance date by mail or personal delivery. The court shall retain the fee regardless of the outcome of the appeal. If the court finds in favor of the appellant, the amount of the filing fee shall be reimbursed to the appellant by the processing agency. Any deposit of fare evasion or passenger conduct penalty shall be refunded by the processing agency in accordance with the judgment of the court.
(c) The conduct of the appeal under this section is a subordinate judicial duty that may be performed by a commissioner and other subordinate judicial officers at the direction of the presiding judge of the court.
(d) If a notice of appeal of the processing agency’s decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 99581 is not filed within the period set forth in subdivision (a), that decision shall be deemed final.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 738, Sec. 42. Effective January 1, 2008.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99600.

99600. This part shall be known as the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99601.

99601. The people of California find and declare all of the following:
(a) Rail transportation results in cleaner air, less energy use, more transportation opportunities for those who cannot drive, and less crowding on already overcrowded streets and highways.
(b) For these reasons, it is appropriate to use state general obligation bonds to finance rail infrastructure.
(c) This part will result in implementation of part of an overall transportation plan which will provide cleaner air and better transportation options for all Californians.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99602.

99602. For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings, unless expressly stated otherwise:
(a) “CalTrain” means the commuter rail service operated along the San Francisco Peninsula commute corridor.
(b) “Commission” means the California Transportation Commission.
(c) “Commuter rail service” and its derivative terms have the same meaning as the term “commuter service” and its derivative terms, as defined in paragraph (9) of subsection (a) of Section 502 of Title 45 of the United States Code.
(d) “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
(e) “Exclusive public mass transit guideway” means a transit capital improvement included in the definition of this term as applied and used in 70 Op. Atty. Gen. 119 or a transit capital improvement for which motor vehicle fuel tax funds from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund were actually allocated by the commission on or before January 1, 1989.
(f) “Fund” means the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund created by Section 99610.
(g) “Grade separations” means grade separations for either passenger or freight rail services.
(h) “Intercity rail” and its derivative terms means passenger rail service between urban areas of the state.
(i) “Local agency” means a county, city, city and county, county transportation commission, county transportation authority, transit development board, transit district, or any joint powers agency specified in this part.
(j) “Rail project” means a commuter passenger rail service project, an intercity passenger rail project, or a rail transit project, and includes exclusive public mass transit guideway projects and the project described in Section 99624.
(k) “Rail transit” means a rail mass transportation operation usually within an urban area, generally characterized by more frequent service over shorter distances than normally provided by commuter rail service or intercity rail service, and operating on a rail line without any or with very limited rail freight service.
(l) “Right-of-way” means right-of-way for rail purposes, including separate right-of-way alignments adjacent to existing freight lines.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99603.

99603. (a) The department shall establish an advisory committee to assist the department in developing specifications for standard state-of-the-art California commuter and intercity rail cars and locomotives. The committee shall consist of representatives from all affected local transportation agencies as well as the department’s Division of Mass Transportation and one consumer representative.
(b) The purpose of the standard equipment is to facilitate joint procurement in economic quantities, to further interchangeability of equipment among corridors, and to reduce maintenance costs by minimizing the need for spare parts inventories.
(c) To the extent possible, the committee shall rely on the department’s existing work in procuring new equipment for CalTrain.
(d) The committee shall investigate the feasibility of a uniform design of a rail car shell which could be deployed in both intercity and commuter rail applications, with car interiors to be appropriately outfitted for either intercity or commuter service.
(e) The committee shall consider two types of coach service, dining or cafe car service, or both, and economical sleeping car service for intercity applications.
(f) The committee shall consider inclusion of sanitary holding tanks and reasonable passenger amenities including, but not limited to, accommodations for a reasonable number of bicycles carried on board by passengers, for both intercity and commuter applications.
(g) Intercity equipment specifications shall not be adopted unless approved by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99604.

99604. If bonds sufficient to fund the total aggregate of the amounts specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620) cannot be sold pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 99690), the allocation for each project shall be reduced proportionately.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 99605.

99605. Except as otherwise provided in this part, the Legislature may amend this part, by statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, four-fifths of the membership concurring, if the statute is consistent with, and furthers the purposes of, this part. No changes shall be made in the way in which funds are allocated pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620), except pursuant to Section 99684.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 2 - The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund › Section 99610.

99610. The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund is hereby created.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 2 - The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund › Section 99611.

99611. It is the intent of the people of California, in enacting this part, that bond funds shall not be used to displace existing sources of funds for rail and other forms of public transportation, including, but not limited to, funds that have been provided pursuant to Article XIX of the California Constitution, the Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund, the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 99200) of Part 11), and local transportation sales taxes; that any future comprehensive transportation funding legislation shall not offset or reduce the amounts otherwise made available for transit purposes by this act; and that funding for public transit should be increased from existing sources including fuel taxes and sales tax on fuels.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 2 - The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund › Section 99612.

99612. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all money deposited in the fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the commission, without regard to fiscal years, for allocation for grants to itself, the department, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and to local agencies pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620).
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 2 - The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund › Section 99613.

99613. (a) The commission shall allocate money from the fund in accordance with the allocations specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620) to the department, to the Department of Parks and Recreation, and to local agencies as grants for expenditure for the preservation, acquisition, construction, or improvement of any of the following:
(1) Rights-of-way for rail purposes.
(2) Rail terminals and stations.
(3) Rolling stock, including locomotives, passenger cars, and related rail equipment and facilities.
(4) Grade separations and other improvements along rail rights-of-way for rail purposes.
(5) Rail maintenance facilities.
(6) Other capital facilities deemed necessary for a specified rail service, including soundwalls.
(7) Capital expenditures for the purposes specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article XIX of the California Constitution.
(8) Paratransit vehicles, bicycle facilities, and water-borne ferry vessels and facilities.
(9) The project described in Section 99648.
(b) The commission shall require each applicant for a grant pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620), including the department, to demonstrate in its application that if the grant funds being applied for are awarded, no other funds which were previously planned, programmed, or approved for rail purposes will be used for other than rail purposes.
(c) Consistent with Section 99665, money from the fund may be used to satisfy any federal, state or local matching fund requirement for the project to be funded. Money from the fund may be used to provide local matching funds for grade separations pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1202 or Section 1202.5.
(d) Authorized expenditures listed in paragraphs (1) to (7), inclusive, of subdivision (a) are “rail projects” as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 99602.
(e) Grant funds shall be expended only for capital expenditures.
(f) Projects to be funded shall include, to the greatest extent possible, projects which integrate and facilitate transfers between rail lines, including all rail lines for which funding is provided by this part.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 2 - The Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund › Section 99614.

99614. (a) Notwithstanding Section 16312 of the Government Code and Section 99694.5 of this part, the interest on any loans made from the Pooled Money Investment Account to the fund for the purposes of carrying out the purposes of this part shall be paid from the General Fund.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 13440 of the Government Code, the amounts required to be paid pursuant to subdivision (a) are hereby continuously appropriated from the General Fund.
(c) The appropriations for interest payments pursuant to subdivision (b) are appropriations for debt service, as defined in Section 8 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, and are therefore exempt from the appropriations limit set by that article.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99620.

99620. This chapter sets forth the purposes and the amounts for which allocations shall be made from the fund. Money from the fund shall be awarded as grants by the commission pursuant to Sections 99622 to 99651, inclusive, for the purposes specified in those sections. The amount of a grant awarded pursuant to any of those sections shall not exceed the amount specified therein. The department and local agencies may implement service funded pursuant to this chapter on an incremental basis. Partial grants may be made for preliminary engineering and design purposes.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 181. Effective January 1, 2005. Note: This section was added on June 5, 1990, by initiative Prop. 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99622.

99622. Two hundred thirty million dollars ($230,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for all of the following:
(a) Improvements to the Los Angeles-Fresno-San Francisco Bay Area passenger rail corridor and extension of the corridor to Sacramento, one hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000), including at least sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) for rail rehabilitation and other rail improvements to provide intercity rail service between Fresno and Oakland via Madera, Merced, Turlock, and Modesto, and not more than thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) for rehabilitation and other rail improvements to provide intercity rail service between Stockton and Sacramento via Lodi and Galt.
(b) Preliminary engineering and feasibility studies of a high speed passenger rail link between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, five million dollars ($5,000,000).
(c) Implementation of intercity rail service from Placer County to Santa Clara County, eighty five million dollars ($85,000,000), of which not more than thirty five million dollars ($35,000,000) shall be for commuter rail service between Auburn and Davis, including funding for right-of-way acquisition. Service to Woodland may also be provided, if deemed practicable by the department.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99623.

99623. (a) Eighty one million dollars ($81,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for intercity and commuter rail projects along the Los Angeles-Santa Barbara rail corridor to be allocated for expenditure as follows:
(1) In Ventura County, thirty one million dollars ($31,000,000).
(2) In Santa Barbara County, seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000).
(3) In Los Angeles County, thirty three million dollars ($33,000,000).
(b) The funds allocated for expenditure in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties may be expended in coordination with a joint powers agency required to be established for commuter rail service pursuant to Section 130255 within that segment of the corridor.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99624.

99624. (a) Eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) to the department for grade separations along the Alameda-San Pedro branch rail line connecting the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors with downtown Los Angeles and paralleling Alameda Street, to alleviate vehicle traffic congestion, conserve energy, reduce air pollution in the area, and facilitate the more efficient and expeditious shipment of freight to and from the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors. The current owner of the Alameda-San Pedro branch line may, at its option, continue to own and operate the line and related right-of-way.
(b) The allocation and granting of funds pursuant to this Section shall be exempt from Sections 99653 and 99663. The allocation and granting of funds pursuant to this section shall also be exempt from subdivision (c) of Section 1202, and Sections 1202.5 and 99317.8 of the Public Utilities Code, and Sections 2450 to 2461, inclusive, of the Streets and Highways Code if the affected railroad corporation contributes ten (10) percent of the costs of constructing the grade separations funded pursuant to this section. Notwithstanding any provision of this code or the Streets and Highways Code, no city on the Alameda-San Pedro branch line shall be assessed costs for the grade separations. The department is the sole state agency responsible for designing, determining priorities, and implementing the construction of those grade separations. The department shall coordinate its planning with any joint powers agency established to represent affected cities, local agencies, or commissions. The department shall further coordinate and cooperate with any such joint powers agency so that the expenditure of any federal, local, and private funds including those for tracks, switching, and interconnection improvements, and the possible construction of a proposed Alameda Street truck corridor is accomplished in an efficient and well-planned manner.
(c) For the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code), grade separations funded pursuant to this section and all related track and switching improvements and rail interconnections shall be considered to be one project.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99625.

99625. (a) Six million dollars ($6,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for the improvement of rail service, including rail freight service and tourist-related services, important to the regional economy of Humboldt County.
(b) The commission shall not approve a grant for purposes of this section unless the Board of Supervisors of the County of Humboldt makes a finding that the project proposed for funding is in the public interest and vital to the economy of the county and the commission determines that the proposed project will serve a public purpose.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), the grant authorized by this section may be used by the Humboldt County Association of Governments, at its request, for any of the purposes specified in Section 99628.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99626.

99626. (a) Four million dollars ($4,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for the improvement of rail service, including rail freight service and tourist-related services, important to the regional economy of Mendocino County.
(b) The commission shall not approve a grant for purposes of this section unless the Board of Supervisors of the County of Mendocino makes a finding that the project proposed for funding is in the public interest and vital to the economy of the county and the commission determines that the proposed project will serve a public purpose.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), the grant authorized by this section may be used by the Mendocino Council of Governments, at its request, for any of the purposes specified in Section 99628.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99627.

99627. (a) If the Legislature establishes a railroad transportation authority which includes, or which is subsequently expanded to include, within its jurisdiction, Humboldt County or Mendocino County, or both of them, the authority shall be substituted for the department and affected councils of government as the applicant and the grantee agency for purposes of Sections 99625 and 99626.
(b) If the authority includes, or is expanded to include, within its jurisdiction, Del Norte County, the authority shall be substituted for the county as the applicant and grantee agency for purposes of Section 99628.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99628.

99628. (a) Seventy three million dollars ($73,000,000) for allocation by the commission on a per capita basis to the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Imperial, Inyo, Lake, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, and Yuba, for railroad grade crossing improvements, acquisition of railroad rights-of-way for rail transportation purposes, rail passenger or other rail stations, railroad soundwalls, and other local rail improvements for safety; purchase of paratransit vehicles; and other capital facilities for public transportation. Funds may not be allocated for street or highway improvements, operations, maintenance, or construction.
(b) Application for grants shall be submitted to the commission by the transportation planning agency having jurisdiction in the county.
(c) If the commission has not received applications by December 31, 1992, for all of the funds available for allocation pursuant to this section, it may reallocate the remaining funds on the basis of a competitive grants program to the counties specified in subdivision (a). The commission shall adopt regulations or guidelines governing the competitive program allocations to proposals which best serve the purposes of this part.
(d) Funds allocated pursuant to this section and Section 99639 may be pooled by any combination of the recipient counties and used with private funds to acquire existing railroad rights-of-ways for passenger and freight rail projects, or for other rail projects.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99629.

99629. Two hundred two million dollars ($202,000,000) shall be allocated to the Los Angeles-San Diego Rail Corridor Agency for intercity and commuter rail projects for expenditure as follows:
(a) In San Diego County, forty five million dollars ($45,000,000).
(b) In Orange County, eighty two million dollars ($82,000,000).
(c) In Los Angeles County, seventy five million dollars ($75,000,000).
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99630.

99630. Two hundred twenty nine million dollars ($229,000,000) shall be allocated to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, for expenditure on rail projects within Los Angeles County as follows:
(a) Not less than eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) thereof shall be allocated for Metro Rail.
(b) Not less than eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) thereof shall be allocated for rail projects other than Metro Rail within Los Angeles County.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99631.

99631. (a) Seventy nine million dollars ($79,000,000) shall be allocated to the joint powers agency required to be established pursuant to Section 130255, for the San Bernardino-Riverside-Orange County rail corridor, for expenditure for commuter rail projects as follows:
(1) In Riverside County, forty seven million dollars ($47,000,000).
(2) In Orange County, twenty seven million dollars ($27,000,000).
(3) In San Bernardino County, five million dollars ($5,000,000).
(b) If full or partial funding for the project in Riverside County becomes available from other sources, application may be made by the Riverside County Transportation Commission to use the portion of the grant not needed for the project for other rail projects in the county.
(c) If full or partial funding for the project in San Bernardino County becomes available from other sources, application may be made by the San Bernardino County Transportation Commission to use the portion of the grant not needed for the project for other rail projects in the county.
(d) If full or partial funding for the project in Orange County becomes available from other sources, application may be made by the Orange County Transportation Commission to use the portion of the grant not needed for the project for other rail projects in the county.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99632.

99632. (a) Ninety eight million dollars ($98,000,000) shall be allocated to the joint powers agency required to be established pursuant to Section 130255, for the San Bernardino-Los Angeles rail corridor, for expenditure for commuter rail projects as follows:
(1) In Los Angeles County, forty two million dollars ($42,000,000).
(2) In San Bernardino County, fifty six million dollars ($56,000,000).
(b) If full or partial funding for the project in Los Angeles County becomes available from other sources, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission may make application to use the portion of the grant not needed for the project for other rail projects in the county.
(c) If full or partial funding for the project in San Bernardino County becomes available from other sources, application may be made by the San Bernardino County Transportation Commission to use the portion of the grant not needed for the project for other rail projects in the county.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99633.

99633. Sixty-one million dollars ($61,000,000) shall be allocated to the Alameda County Transportation Commission for expenditure on rail projects of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and other rail projects within Alameda County, as determined by the authority. Projects funded pursuant to this section shall be consistent with the new rail starts and extensions plan of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 491, Sec. 9. (SB 1318) Effective January 1, 2011. Note: This section was added on June 5, 1990, by initiative Prop. 116.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 11.5 - CLEAN AIR AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1990 › CHAPTER 3 - Grants › Section 99634.

99634. Thirty seven million dollars ($37,000,000) shall be allocated to the Contra Costa Transportation Authority for expenditure on rail projects of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and other rail projects within Contra Costa County, as determined by the authority. Projects funded pursuant to this section shall be consistent with the new rail starts and extensions plan of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)