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2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 1 - Establishment › Section 98181.

98181. The district may maintain its own retirement fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group insurance, or other insurance, or by such means as in the opinion of the board will satisfactorily provide an adequate and sure method of meeting the payments contemplated by the retirement system.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 1 - Establishment › Section 98182.

98182. Before establishing any retirement system the board shall secure a report from a qualified actuary, which shall show the cost of the benefits provided by the system, and the prospective assets and liabilities of the system.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 1 - Establishment › Section 98183.

98183. The board may adopt all ordinances and resolutions and perform all acts necessary or convenient to the initiation, maintenance, and administrations of the retirement system.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 1 - Establishment › Section 98184.

98184. Nothing in this chapter prevents the district from participation in and making all or part of its employees members of the State Employees’ Retirement System by contract entered into between the district and the board of administration of the system under the State Employees’ Retirement Law or from participating in the Federal Social Security Act pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 22000), Division 5, Title 2 of the Government Code, and the district may perform all acts necessary or convenient for such participation. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the district from participating in and making all of its employees members of the Santa Cruz County Employees’ Retirement System.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 1 - Establishment › Section 98185.

98185. The board may classify and determine the officers and employees who shall be included as members in the retirement system and may change the classification from time to time. Membership of all officers and employees so classified and included in the retirement system is compulsory. The retirement system shall not apply to members of the board.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98190.

98190. The board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries shall be entitled to benefits and the amounts thereof provided, that said board shall have no such authority respecting the County Employees’ Retirement Act of 1937.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98191.

98191. The retirement allowance may be predicated in part upon service rendered the district by a member prior to the establishment of the retirement system, which service is known as “prior service”.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98192.

98192. The board shall provide that both the district and the members shall contribute to the retirement system. The rate of contribution by an officer or employee of the district becoming a member of the retirement system shall be so fixed as to provide, with accumulated interest and based on tables and assumptions adopted by the board, substantially one-half the value of any retirement allowance granted for service, exclusive of any credits allowed for prior service.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98193.

98193. All members of the retirement system shall contribute in the manner and amount fixed by the board and such contributions may be collected by deducting the amounts thereof from the salary, wages or compensation due such members.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98194.

98194. Liabilities accruing under the retirement system because of benefits other than such as are the equivalent of contributions by the members, with accumulated interests, shall be met by contributions by the district. Prior service or other liabilities of the district may be met by annual appropriation instead of by one appropriation for the total of the liabilities; but until the present value of regular contributions for current service, together with assets then available, equals the present value of all allowances and benefits granted or to be granted under the system, the appropriation for any one year when added to any unused balance of any previous appropriations for such purpose shall not be less than the amount disbursed during that year on account of prior service or other liabilities of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98195.

98195. If any member withdraws from the retirement system prior to retirement the total amount contributed by him with such interest as may be credited thereto, shall be returned to him, provided, however, that the board may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a member, whose district service has been terminated except by death or retirement, may elect to leave his contributions and interest thereon in the retirement fund, and the terms and conditions upon which a retirement allowance may be made to him after such termination based upon his contributions prior to such termination.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 2 - Benefits and Contributions › Section 98196.

98196. All money received by any person as an annuity, pension, retirement, allowance, disability payment or death benefit, from the retirement system, and all contributions and interest thereon returned to any member of the retirement system, whether in the actual possession of such member or deposited, loaned, or invested by him, is exempt from execution or any other process except to the extent permitted by Section 704.110 of the Code of Civil Procedure and is unassignable.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 497, Sec. 169. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 185 of Ch. 497.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 3 - Retirement Board › Section 98200.

98200. The board may create a retirement board of not more than five members, at least two members of which shall be the elected representatives of the employees, to administer the retirement system, and shall define its powers and duties and the tenure of the members.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 3 - Retirement Board › Section 98202.

98202. The retirement board shall determine the eligibility of officers, employees, and their dependents to participation in the system and shall be the sole authority and judge under such ordinances as may be adopted by the board as to the conditions under which persons may be admitted to and continue to receive benefits of any sort under the retirement system, and may modify allowances for service and disability. The determination of the retirement board shall be final and conclusive and shall not be modified or set aside except for fraud or abuse of discretion.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 3 - Retirement Board › Section 98203.

98203. If the district maintains its own retirement fund the retirement board shall have exclusive control of the administration, investment, and disbursement of such fund. Investment of the fund shall be subject to the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions imposed by the laws of this state upon savings banks in the making of investments by savings banks, and cash may be deposited in any licensed national bank or banks in this state or in any bank, banks, or corporations authorized or licensed to do a banking business and organized under the laws of this state.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 4 - Investigation and Penalties › Section 98204.

98204. At least once in each four-year period after the establishment of the retirement system the board shall cause to be made an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement fund and upon the basis of such investigation and valuation shall make such revision or change of the rate of contribution, the periods and conditions of service, and amounts of retirement allowances as may be necessary.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 5 - Retirement System › ARTICLE 4 - Investigation and Penalties › Section 98205.

98205. Except as herein provided, no member of the board or of the retirement board, nor any member of the retirement system or employee of the district, shall have any interest direct or indirect in the making of any investment or in the gains or profits accruing therefrom, and no such person, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent or partner of others shall borrow any of its funds, nor shall any such person in any manner use the same except to make such current and necessary payments as are authorized by the retirement board, nor shall such a person become an endorser or surety as to, or in any manner an obligor for investments of the retirement fund.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 98210.

98210. The district has perpetual succession and may adopt a seal and alter it at its pleasure.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 98211.

98211. The district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided by law, in all actions and proceedings, in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 98212.

98212. The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this part. The district, in exercising such power, in addition to the damage for the taking, injury, or destruction of property, shall also pay the cost of removal, reconstruction, or relocation of any structure, railways, mains, pipes, conduits, cables, or poles of any public utility or public district which is required to be moved to a new location.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1176.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 98213.

98213. No action in eminent domain to acquire property or interests therein within any incorporated city or any county shall be commenced unless the legislative body of the affected city or county has consented to such acquisition by resolution.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 98214.

98214. No such taking or acquisition by the district which would involve the abandonment, removal, relocation, or use of property of a railroad corporation, as defined in Section 230 of this code, shall be permitted, unless the Public Utilities Commission, after hearing, shall find and determine that the public interest and necessity require the abandonment, removal, relocation, or use of such property and that such taking or acquisition will not unreasonably impair the ability of the railroad corporation involved to provide safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 2 - Contracts › Section 98220.

98220. The district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and hold harmless, to employ labor, and to do all acts necessary and convenient for the full exercise of the powers granted in this part.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 2 - Contracts › Section 98221.

98221. No officer or employee of the district shall in any manner be interested directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to be derived therefrom contrary to the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 1090), Chapter 1, Division 4, Title 1 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 4 - Property › Section 98233.

98233. The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or condemn in proceedings under eminent domain, or otherwise acquire, and hold and enjoy, real and personal property of every kind within or without the district necessary to the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The board may lease, sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property within or without the district when in its judgment it is for the best interests of the district so to do.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 4 - Property › Section 98234.

98234. Whenever the board by resolution determines that any record, map, book, or paper in the possession of the district or any officer or employee thereof is of no further value to the district, the board may authorize its sale, destruction, or other disposition.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98240.

98240. The district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control or use rights-of-way, rail lines, buslines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, and any and all other facilities necessary or convenient for transit service within or partly without the district, underground, upon, or above the ground and under, upon, or over public streets or other public ways or waterways, together with all physical structures necessary or convenient for the access of persons and vehicles thereto, and may acquire any interest in or rights to the joint use of any or all of the foregoing; provided, that installations in any street, road or other property devoted to a public use shall be subject to consent of the governing body in charge of such public use.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98241.

98241. The district may without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, accept contributions of money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and any other property for the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of transit facilities, and may without limitations by any other provisions of this part enter into any contracts and cooperation with and accept cooperation from the state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, or any public agency in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of, and in financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of, any such transit facilities.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98242.

98242. The district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned, and operated wholly or partly within the district by any city or public agency, unless by consent of such city or public agency and upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon between the board and such city or public agency.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98243.

98243. The district may lease or contract for the use of its transit facilities or any portion thereof, to any operator, and may provide for subleases by such operator upon such terms and conditions as it deems in the public interest. The word “operator” as used in this section means any city or public agency or any person, firm or private corporation.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98244.

98244. The district may construct and operate or acquire and operate works and facilities in, under, upon, over, across, or along any street or public highway or any stream, bay or watercourse, or over any of the lands which are the property of the state, to the same extent that such rights and privileges appertaining thereto are granted to municipalities within the state, and to install adequate bus stops, including the painting of curbs, subject to the consent of the governing body in charge of such streets, highways, stream, watercourse, or lands.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98245.

98245. The district may enter into agreements for the joint use of any property and rights by the district and any city, public agency or public utility operating transit facilities; may enter into agreements with any city, public agency or public utility operating any transit facilities, either wholly or partially within, or without, the district, for the joint use of any property of the district or of such city, public agency or public utility, or the establishment of through routes, joint fares, transfer of passengers or pooling arrangements.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98246.

98246. The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98247.

98247. The board of supervisors or the city council of a municipality having territory located within the district may file a request for a hearing before the district board as to the reasonableness of any rates or charges fixed by the district and as to any proposal for fixing the location of facilities by the district. The request shall be in writing and shall state the subject matter on which a hearing is desired.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98248.

98248. Upon the filing of a request for hearing as provided in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 98390) of this part, the district board shall fix the time and place for hearing. The time fixed shall not be less than 15 days nor more than 60 days from the date such request is filed. Notice of such hearing shall be given to the county or city requesting such hearing and shall be published by the board.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98249.

98249. At the time fixed for any hearing before the board any board of supervisors or city council eligible to file a request for hearing, not a party to the original request for hearing, may intervene and shall be entitled to be heard and to introduce evidence.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98250.

98250. Within 30 days after submission of the case, the board shall render its decision and its decision shall be final.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 98251.

98251. The district shall be subject to the provisions of Division 14.8 (commencing with Section 34500) of the Vehicle Code with respect to the operation of buses and to the rules and regulations prescribed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol pursuant to that chapter regulating the safe operation of buses.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 6 - Indebtedness › Section 98260.

98260. The district may borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district lawfully incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but prior to the time moneys from the tax levy for the fiscal year are received by the district, in an amount, including interest to be paid thereon, which shall not exceed its estimated tax revenues for the fiscal year, and may evidence such borrowing by notes bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 6 percent per annum. The notes shall be payable from the tax levy from the then current fiscal year, which levy shall contain a sum sufficient to provide for the payment of the notes and the interest thereon. The form of the notes and the proceedings relating to their issuance and sale, shall be governed by the applicable provisions contained in Article 7 (commencing with Section 53820) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 6 - Indebtedness › Section 98262.

98262. The district shall not incur an indebtedness under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 98310) of this part which in the aggregate exceeds one (1) percent of the assessed value of all the real and personal property within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 6 - Indebtedness › Section 98263.

98263. The district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this part requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions or loans from the United States, this state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency of either thereof, for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of transit facilities, and may enter into contracts and cooperate with and accept cooperation from, the United States, this state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency of either thereof, in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation, and in financing the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation, of any such transit facilities in accordance with any legislation which Congress or the Legislature of the State of California may have heretofore adopted or may hereafter adopt, under which aid, assistance, and cooperation may be furnished by the United States or this state in the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of any such transit facilities. The district may do any and all things necessary in order to avail itself of such aid, assistance, and cooperation under any federal or state legislation now or hereafter enacted. Any evidence of indebtedness issued under this section shall constitute a negotiable instrument.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 7 - Investments › Section 98270.

98270. The district may invest any surplus money in its treasury. The county treasurer shall act as treasurer of the district and he shall handle such investments as the board determines to make in accordance with the same policies and procedures that he follows in the investment of surplus county funds.
The board shall pay a reasonable fee to the county for the investment services of the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98280.

98280. The district may levy, and collect or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.05) per one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed value of all real estate and personal property within the district; provided, however, that the district shall have the further power to levy, collect or cause to be collected, said property taxes to a maximum limit of ten cents ($0.10) if the matter is first submitted to the voters in the district and a majority of those voting vote in favor of raising the maximum tax limit.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98280.5.

98280.5. If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes the board shall levy a tax for such purpose or purposes and fix the amount of money necessary to be raised therefor by taxation as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 98280.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98281.

98281. The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 98280, levy and collect annually until the district’s bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district set apart for that purpose to meet all sums coming due for principal and interest on the bonds as they become due a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds and such part of the principal thereof as becomes due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the next general tax levy will be available. If the maturity of the indebtedness created by the issue of bonds begins more than one year after the date of the issuance thereof, the tax shall be levied and collected annually at the time and in the manner aforesaid, sufficient to pay the interest on the indebtedness as it falls due and to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal on or before maturity.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98282.

98282. The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98283.

98283. The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of Equalization for the county and shall take such assessments as the basis for the district taxation and have its taxes collected by the tax collector of the county, as part of the annual tax bill.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98284.

98284. In such case the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the total value of all property within the district, ascertained from the assessments referred to in Section 98283 as equalized.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98285.

98285. The board shall on or before the first day of September fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100) using as a basis the value of property transmitted to the board by the county auditor, which rate of taxation shall be sufficient to raise the amount previously fixed by the board. These acts by the board shall constitute a valid assessment of the property and a valid levy of the taxes so fixed but the rate of taxation shall not exceed the limit imposed by this article.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98286.

98286. The board shall immediately after fixing the rate of taxes as above provided transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98287.

98287. The district’s taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected the net amount, ascertained as provided in this article, shall be paid to the treasurer of the district, under the general requirements and penalties provided by law for the settlement of other taxes.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98288.

98288. Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the district by the county treasurer in the proportion which the tax due to the district bears to the total tax for which the property was sold.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98289.

98289. The compensation to be charged by and paid to any county for the performance of services under this article shall be fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors of the county and the board. The compensation shall in no event exceed one-half of 1 percent of all money collected for the district. The compensation collected by the county shall be placed to the credit of the county general fund.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98289.3.

98289.3. All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied and shall become a lien at the same time as county taxes. The enforcement of the collection of such taxes shall be in the same manner and by the same means provided by law for the enforcement of liens for county taxes, all the provisions of law relating to the enforcement of the latter being made a part of this article so far as applicable.
(Added by renumbering Section 98290 by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8 - Property Taxation › Section 98289.5.

98289.5. (a) On and after the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance pursuant to Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 98290) of this chapter, none of the provisions of this article shall be operative except this section and Section 98289.3.
(b) That portion of any property tax installment payable to the district is canceled if the installment may be paid without a delinquent penalty pursuant to Chapter 2.1 (commencing with Section 2700) of Part 5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code on or after the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98290.

98290. (a) A retail transactions and use tax ordinance may be adopted by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, provided that two-thirds of the electors voting on the measure vote to authorize its enactment at a special election called for that purpose by the board.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 7251.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, a transactions and use tax rate imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) on or before January 1, 2020, shall not be considered for purposes of the combined rate limit established by that section.
(c) (1) In addition to any other taxes imposed pursuant to this section, the board may impose a retail transactions and use tax pursuant to subdivision (a) after January 1, 2024, if both of the following conditions are met:
(A) The board adopts the ordinance approving the tax before January 1, 2035.
(B) The total tax rate under this subdivision is set at a rate of no more than 0.5 percent.
(2) Notwithstanding Section 7251.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, a transactions and use tax rate imposed pursuant to this subdivision shall not be considered for purposes of the combined rate limit established by that section.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 296, Sec. 1. (SB 862) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98291.

98291. Any transactions and use tax ordinance adopted shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing not less than 180 days after adoption of the ordinance.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98292.

98292. The district may contract with the State Board of Equalization for its service in the preparations necessary to administer a transactions and use tax ordinance. The costs to be covered by the contract are to be for services of the types described in Section 7272 of the Revenue and Taxation Code for preparatory work up to the date of the adoption of the ordinance. Any dispute as to the amount of the costs shall be resolved in the same manner as provided in that section.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98293.

98293. Prior to the operative date of the transactions and use tax ordinance, the district shall contract with the State Board of Equalization to perform all functions incident to the administration and operation of the ordinance.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98294.

98294. If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transactions and use tax ordinance, it shall nevertheless so contract, and, in such case, the operative date shall be the first day of the first calendar quarter following the execution of the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98295.

98295. Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption of the ordinance of repeal.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 8.5 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax › Section 98296.

98296. Whenever a bond election is held to authorize a bonded indebtedness pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 98310) of Chapter 7, the ordinance calling the election may include a statement that the transactions and use taxes, or a stated portion thereof, shall be levied, or continued to be levied, and used to the extent required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds as they become due, to provide any sinking fund payments required therefor, and to create or maintain any reserve fund required therefor.
A vote in favor of the issuance of the bonds shall authorize the use of such taxes for such purposes. The transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be repealed until all bonds payable from the revenues derived from such taxes have been fully paid or provision has been made for their payment in full.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 672.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98300.

98300. As used in this chapter:
(a) “Establish” includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend or reroute. It does not, however, include the maintenance and operation of any existing system by the district.
(b) “Existing system” means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility situated entirely within the district or at least 75 percent of whose revenue vehicle miles for the preceding calendar year were operated within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98301.

98301. Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may establish any transit service or system which may at any time divert, lessen, or compete for the patronage or revenues of any existing system, the district shall give a written notice to the public utility which is operating the existing system. The written notice shall describe the transit service or system which the district proposes to establish and shall state the time within which the district proposes to establish such service or system.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98302.

98302. The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has offered to purchase the buses and such other facilities of the existing system as it will have need of and use for, and such offer has either been rejected or the purchase completed.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98303.

98303. The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or that part thereof which the district desires to purchase, shall be the reasonable market value of the buses and other facilities of the existing system on the date that the district commences negotiations for such purchase.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98304.

98304. The district and the public utility operating the existing system may agree upon the purchase price or they may agree that the purchase price is to be established by arbitration and upon the method of naming arbitrators and the method of conducting such arbitration. If they do not, the purchase price may be fixed and judgment entered thereon in a suit brought either by the public utility or the district in the superior court in and for the county in which is located that portion of the existing system to be acquired by the district which has the highest value.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 98305.

98305. Section 851 of the Public Utilities Code does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and the Public Utilities Commission shall have no jurisdiction with respect thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 10 - SANTA CRUZ METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 98310.

98310. The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing the whole or any portion of any transit facilities, or for acquiring any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, or powers of the district. The total amount of bonds issued and outstanding shall not exceed 1 percent of the assessed value of the taxable property of the district as shown by the last equalized assessment roll of the County of Santa Cruz.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 978.)