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2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 15.5 - Dissolution Upon Annexation to Maintenance District or Establishment of a County Service Area, a Community Services District, or a City › Section 19280.

19280. (a) A district organized under this part may be dissolved by resolution of the board of supervisors if all of the territory in the district has been annexed to a maintenance district for street lighting organized pursuant to Chapter 26 (commencing with Section 5820), Part 3, Division 7 and which shall provide service to the area and shall assume all of the assets and liabilities of the dissolved district.
Subsequent to annexation into a maintenance district for street lighting, and the dissolution of the highway lighting district formed pursuant to this part, all of the property tax revenues that would have accrued to the highway lighting district formed pursuant to this part, if it had remained a highway lighting district, shall accrue to the annexing maintenance district.
(b) A district organized under this part may be dissolved by a resolution of the board of supervisors, after a public hearing, where a county service area has been established to provide service to all the territory in the district and will assume all the assets and liabilities of the dissolved district.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 207, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 15.5 - Dissolution Upon Annexation to Maintenance District or Establishment of a County Service Area, a Community Services District, or a City › Section 19280.5.

19280.5. A district organized under this part may be dissolved by a resolution of the board of supervisors, after a public hearing, where a community services district has been established, or a city has been formed, to provide service to all or part of the territory of the district and the community services district or the city, as the case may be, has elected to assume all the assets and liabilities of the dissolved district.
(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 166, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 15.5 - Dissolution Upon Annexation to Maintenance District or Establishment of a County Service Area, a Community Services District, or a City › Section 19281.

19281. If the board of supervisors finds that all of the facts set forth in Section 19280 exist, the board may dissolve the district by adopting a resolution which sets forth such facts. In the resolution, the board may fix a date upon which the dissolution shall become effective.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 295.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 15.5 - Dissolution Upon Annexation to Maintenance District or Establishment of a County Service Area, a Community Services District, or a City › Section 19282.

19282. The dissolution shall be effective upon the filing with the State Board of Equalization and the county assessor of a copy of the resolution of the board of supervisors declaring the district dissolved, or on such later date as may be fixed by the board of supervisors in such resolution.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 295.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 19290.

19290. Whenever any portion of a district is included within a city by reason of incorporation, annexation, or otherwise, such portion may be withdrawn from the district. Such withdrawal shall be effective upon the filing with the State Board of Equalization, the governing body of the district, and the county assessor, of copies of a resolution of the legislative body of the city, describing the included portion, and declaring such portion withdrawn. Upon the withdrawal of any territory of a district, all property acquired for the district and all unencumbered funds on the date of withdrawal, including all taxes levied and collected by the district in any year in which taxes are levied and collected by the district after the date of withdrawal on property withdrawn from the district, shall be divided between the city and the remaining district in proportion to the assessed value of the real property of the territory so withdrawn and the portion remaining. For the purpose of this article, the unencumbered funds are the sum of money, uncollected taxes, and other uncollected accounts belonging to or due such district, in excess of an amount sufficient to pay all claims and accounts against the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1562.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 19291.

19291. If a portion of the territory embraced in any district has been detached therefrom prior to the twenty-ninth day of July, 1927, either by annexation or incorporation proceedings, and the portion of the territory of such district remaining unannexed or unincorporated has been dissolved instead of continuing its existence as a lighting district, and thereafter moneys are paid into the fund of such district by reason of the collection of delinquent taxes or otherwise, such portion of the subsequent fund accretions, as was provided by law at the time of such annexation or incorporation, shall be paid to the city or cities within which the detached portion of such district was included. The remainder of such moneys shall be paid into the road fund of the road district within which the remaining unannexed or unincorporated portion of such district lay.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19300.

19300. A petition asking for the installation and maintenance of additional lights pursuant to Chapter 9 of this part may request the board of supervisors to establish a temporary zone consisting solely of contiguous territory within the district which will be benefited by said additional lights, for the purpose of levying a special tax therein to finance the cost of installation and temporary maintenance thereof. In such case, the petition shall contain:
(a) A general description of the nature of the proposed additional lights, together with a map showing the location thereof.
(b) An estimate of all costs or charges which will be incurred in connection with the installation thereof, together with a statement as to the period of time, not to exceed three years, proposed for the payment of said costs or charges.
(c) An estimate of the average monthly cost of maintenance of said lights.
(d) A description of the boundaries of the proposed temporary zone.
A proposal to form a temporary zone pursuant to this section shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3 of Title 6 of the Government Code to the same extent as a proposal to form a district.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19301.

19301. A petition for annexation filed pursuant to Chapter 12 of this part may, in addition to other matters required by that chapter, request that if the territory therein described, or any part thereof, is annexed to the district, the board of supervisors shall establish said annexed territory as a temporary zone for the purpose of levying a special tax therein to finance the cost of installation and temporary maintenance of the lights proposed to be installed in said annexed territory. In such case, the petition shall also contain:
(a) A general description of the nature of the lights proposed to be installed, together with a map showing the location thereof.
(b) An estimate of all costs or charges which will be incurred in connection with the installation thereof, together with a statement as to the period of time, not to exceed three years, proposed for the payment of said costs or charges.
(c) An estimate of the average monthly cost of maintenance of said lights.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19302.

19302. Upon the presentation of a petition pursuant to this chapter, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall immediately refer the same to an appropriate county officer, who shall certify to the board the number of owners of taxable property within the boundaries of the proposed zone whose names appear on said petition, together with the percentage of the total assessed valuation of all taxable property within the boundaries of the proposed zone, which said signatures represent.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19303.

19303. If the certifying officer certifies that the petition bears the signatures of the owners of taxable property within the proposed zone representing 60 percent or more of the total assessed value of all taxable property in the zone, the petition shall be filed, and the board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the petition and the protests of interested parties, and shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition and the time set for the hearing to be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in a newspaper designated by the board as most likely to give notice to the inhabitants of the district and the proposed zone. If there is no such newspaper, copies of the notice shall be posted in three conspicuous places in the proposed zone to be annexed, for three weeks prior to the date fixed for hearing the petition. The notice shall contain the text of the petition, but the names of the signers of the petition need not be published. Notice given pursuant to this section is a sufficient compliance with Section 19211.
If the certifying officer’s certificate shows that the petition does not bear the required number of signatures, the request for the formation of a temporary zone shall be denied, without prejudice to the filing of a new petition therefor, and the board of supervisors shall proceed to consider and act upon the petition as a petition filed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 19160) or Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 19210), as the case may be.
(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 106, Sec. 156.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19304.

19304. Upon the date fixed for the hearing, or at any time to which it is continued, the board of supervisors shall, in addition to any other proceedings required by law, consider the request for formation of a temporary zone and any objections which may be filed against it or against the formation of the proposed zone.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19305.

19305. If the board of supervisors determines, with respect to a petition for additional lights filed in conformity with this chapter, that
(a) It is just and equitable, and in the public interest, that the proposed temporary zone be formed, and
(b) The petition was signed by resident taxpayers representing 60 percent or more of the total assessed valuation of all taxable property within the territory proposed to be formed into a zone,
the board shall by resolution, entered in its minutes, fix and describe the boundaries of the proposed zone in such manner that any territory which will not be benefited by inclusion therein, or which is not contiguous thereto, or which is not described in the petition, shall not be included therein; shall declare the zone established, designating it by an identifying name or number; and shall specify the purposes and duration thereof, not to exceed three years from the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year in which a special tax levy or assessment may be made in the zone.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19306.

19306. If the board of supervisors determines, with respect to a petition for annexation filed in conformity with this chapter, that
(a) The petition for annexation should be granted in whole or in part, pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 19210), and
(b) It is just and equitable, and in the public interest, that the proposed temporary zone be formed, and
(c) That the petition was signed by resident taxpayers representing 60 percent or more of the total assessed valuation of all taxable property within the area therein proposed to be annexed,
the board, in addition to those proceedings required by Chapter 12, shall by resolution entered in its minutes, declare the annexed territory established as a temporary zone with boundaries coterminous with the boundaries of the territory annexed, designating the zone by an identifying name or number; and shall specify the purposes and duration thereof, not to exceed three years from the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year in which a special tax or assessment levy may be made therein.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19308.

19308. A statement regarding the boundaries of a zone established pursuant to this chapter shall be filed as provided by Chapter 8, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code, together with a statement as to the period of duration of said zone specified in the resolution establishing it.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19309.

19309. In order that the lights proposed to be installed and maintained in a zone may be installed therein immediately after its formation, the governing body may authorize the immediate installation of the proposed lights in said zone, and may contract to pay any costs or charges incurred by reason of such installation in equal periodic payments over a period not to exceed the period of duration of said zone specified in the resolution establishing it.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1704.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19310.

19310. The board of supervisors may, from time to time, transfer moneys to the district, for the benefit of the zone, from any available funds of the county. Any moneys so transferred shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board of supervisors and are hereby appropriated, and shall be used, for the payment of any currently payable expenses incurred by reason of the installation of the lights proposed for the zone, and for the cost of maintenance thereof prior to December 1st of the first fiscal year in which a special tax or assessment may be levied in and on behalf of the zone. All costs of maintenance of the lights, subsequent to that date, shall be budgeted and included in the general levy of taxes or assessments, as the case may be, in and on behalf of the district as a whole.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19310.5.

19310.5. Any area of the district, or of a zone in the district, which is included in a city by annexation or incorporation after a loan has been made shall continue to be taxed or assessed for the repayment of its proportionate share of the unpaid balance of the loan.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19311.

19311. The board of supervisors shall, in the first fiscal year in which a special tax or assessment, as the case may be, may be levied in and on behalf of the zone, levy a special tax or assessment upon the taxable property therein for the purposes of the zone, and shall include in the levy a sum sufficient to repay to the county the amounts transferred to the district pursuant to Section 19310. The amounts so transferred shall be retransferred to the county treasury from the first available receipts from the special levy in the zone.
Thereafter, in the succeeding fiscal year or years during which the temporary zone remains in existence, the board of supervisors shall levy a special tax or assessment therein sufficient to pay any additional costs or charges incurred by reason of the installation of the lights therein, which may by contract be made payable in such year or years.
All special taxes or assessments levied in and on behalf of a zone, pursuant to this section, are in addition to any taxes or assessments levied therein for and on behalf of the district as a whole.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19311.1.

19311.1. (a) The board of supervisors shall not levy assessments pursuant to Section 19311 unless it has adopted an ordinance to do so. The board of supervisors shall place before the voters of the zone, either before the initial ordinance takes effect or within one year thereafter, the question whether the district shall be authorized to levy assessments.
If the majority of those voting disapprove of such authority, no subsequent ordinance levying assessments for any succeeding fiscal year shall be adopted by the board of supervisors without the prior approval of the voters of the zone.
Subsequent election or elections to secure such approval shall not be held more than once a year.
(b) The approval of the voters may be secured at a district or countywide election, or by a ballot mailed to each property owner or registered voter of the zone.
(c) The proposition is approved if a majority of those voting approve the proposition.
(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19312.

19312. A zone shall remain in existence for the period of time specified in the resolution of the board of supervisors which established it, and shall thereafter automatically terminate; provided, there are then no outstanding obligations payable from special taxes or assessments to be levied in the zone.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19313.

19313. Where the board of supervisors or legislative body has so declared in its resolution of intention to order the formation of a lighting district or any annexation thereto, the board of supervisors or legislative body may, in its resolution ordering the formation of a lighting district or any annexation thereto, order the district divided into tax assessment zones. Tax assessment zones may be formed at a time other than at the formation of the district or any annexation thereto if pursuant to the same procedure of resolution, notice, and hearing as are applicable under this chapter to the annexation of territory.
No district shall be divided into zones unless the board of supervisors or legislative body finds that a tax assessment zone requires special services or special facilities in addition to those provided generally by the lighting district or the replacement of obsolete equipment, and that the tax levy is commensurate with the special benefits to be provided in the zone. The boundaries of tax assessment zones may be changed or a zone may be dissolved in the same manner that a zone may be formed in an existing district.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 157.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 17 - Temporary Zones › Section 19314.

19314. If a highway lighting district is divided into tax assessment zones, the board of supervisors or legislative body may determine what portion of the amount of money to be secured from the levy of taxes shall be secured from such zone within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 157.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19320.

19320. At any time after the establishment of two or more districts in any county, the board of supervisors may determine that any two or more of such districts which contain similar type lighting systems, whether or not they are contiguous, should be consolidated.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19321.

19321. The board shall fix a time and place for hearing the matter of consolidation of the districts and shall direct its clerk to publish a notice once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper or newspapers circulated in each of the districts which it proposes to consolidate, and which the board deems most likely to give notice to the inhabitants of the districts.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19322.

19322. The notice shall be headed “Notice of the proposed consolidation of ____ Highway Lighting District and ____ Highway Lighting District,” stating the names of the districts proposed to be consolidated and shall contain a statement of the time and place fixed by the board for hearing the matter.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19324.

19324. At the time and place fixed for hearing or at any time to which the hearing may be continued, the board shall hear any person objecting to the consolidation.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19325.

19325. At the conclusion of the hearing the board may refuse to consolidate any of the districts or it may order the consolidation of any or all of the districts proposed to be consolidated.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19326.

19326. If the board determines to consolidate any of the districts it shall so declare by resolution stating the name by which the consolidated district shall be known.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19327.

19327. The district resulting from the consolidation of two or more districts shall become liable for all outstanding liabilities of the districts consolidated.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 759.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 4 - THE HIGHWAY LIGHTING DISTRICT ACT › CHAPTER 18 - Consolidation › Section 19328.

19328. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district resulting from the consolidation of two or more districts shall assume all of the assets of the separate districts so consolidated and shall be entitled to all of the property tax revenues to which each of the separate districts so consolidated would have been entitled had the districts not been consolidated.
(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 261.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 5 - STREET LIGHTING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE › Section 19400.

19400. From federal funds available for promoting public safety on the streets, the department may allocate to cities, cities and counties, and counties up to 50 percent of the cost of constructing, repairing, or improving street lighting facilities or up to 50 percent of the cost of contracting for street lighting services.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1314.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING › PART 5 - STREET LIGHTING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE › Section 19401.

19401. In allocating funds for such purposes, the department shall give priority to those cities, cities and counties, and counties which submit in their requests for such funds the most convincing evidence that the proposed construction, repair, or improvement of street lighting facilities will aid in the reduction of the crime rate in the proposed lighted area.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1314.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22000.

22000. This part may be cited as the Tree Planting Act of 1931.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22001.

22001. This part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22002.

22002. This part provides an alternative system for the planting, maintaining or removing of trees in cities, and the provisions of this part shall not apply to or affect any other provisions of this code. When any proceedings are commenced under this part, the provisions of this part and no other shall apply to all such proceedings.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22003.

22003. Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22004.

22004. The city charter of any city adopting the provisions of this part shall control if any provision of this part is contrary to or in conflict with the charter, or if any provision of the charter requires any matter or thing specified in this part to be done in a particularly described manner.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22005.

22005. “City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22006.

22006. “Improvement” includes the planting, maintenance, or removal of trees, and any and all acts necessarily incident thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 169.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22007.

22007. “City council” and “council” include any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22008.

22008. “Board” means a board of park commissioners, park department, or other similar municipal authority, whether composed of one or more individuals, having control of or jurisdiction over, or charged with the duty of superintending, directing, planting, maintaining, removing and otherwise caring for the parks, trees, shrubs and vegetation within a city.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22009.

22009. “Tree” includes all varieties of trees, shrubs and other ornamental vegetation.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22010.

22010. “Street” means all or any portion of territory within a city set apart and designated for the use of the public as a thoroughfare for travel, and includes the sidewalks, the center and the side plots thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22011.

22011. “Lot line” means the boundary line separating that portion of a lot or parcel of land set apart for individual use and occupancy from the street.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22012.

22012. “Maintain” or any of its variants when used in reference to trees includes clipping, spraying, fertilizing, irrigating, propping, treating for disease or injury, and other similar acts which promote the life, growth, health and beauty of trees.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22013.

22013. “Tax collector” includes any body, board, bureau or officer charged with the duty of collecting assessments for a city.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 22014.

22014. No publication or notice other than that provided for in this part shall be necessary to give validity to any proceedings had hereunder.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22030.

22030. The board in addition to the authority otherwise conferred upon it shall have full power and authority over the trees planted, or to be planted, pursuant to the provisions of this part, and may plant, maintain and remove such trees.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22031.

22031. The board may establish rules and regulations relating to the planting, maintenance and removal of the said trees and may recommend to the city council the enactment of any ordinances the board deems necessary to protect such trees.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22032.

22032. The board may appoint and employ a qualified person to be designated as city forester or by some similar title, to take charge of and direct, subject to the supervision and control of the board, all of the work authorized to be done under this part. The board may, if a city forester has not been appointed, fix the term of and compensation for the position of city forester, and determine the qualifications and fitness of applicants for the position and remove at pleasure persons so appointed and employed. If the method of employing and compensating a city forester is otherwise regulated by law or ordinance the law or the ordinance shall govern and control as to such matters.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22033.

22033. The board may:
(a) Employ, or authorize the city forester to employ, as many assistants as it deems necessary to carry on the work.
(b) Fix the compensation of the assistants.
(c) Purchase the necessary machinery, tools and implements, for the proper conduct of the work, such purchases to be made in the manner provided by law or ordinance, and only out of funds available for expenditure by the board for that purpose.
(d) Incur such other expenses as it deems necessary for the conduct of the work.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22034.

22034. The board, or the city council, shall include in the annual budget of the board the amount of money necessary to meet the expenses of doing the work during the following fiscal year, including the compensation of the city forester and other employees, but excepting so much of the expense of doing the work as is assessable to abutting property, in accordance with the provisions of this part. The taxes levied for such purposes shall be in addition to any other taxes for park or street improvement purposes. If these expenditures are already provided for by law or by ordinance, then the law or the ordinance shall govern and control.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 2 - Administration › Section 22035.

22035. The city forester shall take charge of and direct, subject to the supervision and control of the board, all of the work authorized to be done by the board and may plant, maintain, and remove all trees over which the board is given power and authority by this part.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 3 - Removal of Trees › Section 22060.

22060. The board may remove any tree or any part thereof which appears to be dead, is liable to fall, is dangerous or is an obstruction to public travel, whether or not the tree is on any private property and overhangs or projects into any street or is in any street, park, parkway or other public grounds of the city.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 3 - Removal of Trees › Section 22061.

22061. Except in the case of manifest public danger and immediate necessity, no such tree shall be wholly cut down or removed unless 10 days’ notice in writing is given to the owner, tenant, or occupant, or agent of the owner, tenant or occupant of the land upon which the tree is situate.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 3 - Removal of Trees › Section 22062.

22062. If the owner, tenant, occupant, or agent, within seven days after the giving of the notice, files with the board his objections in writing to the removal, the tree shall not be cut down or removed unless the board gives the owner, tenant, occupant, or agent a reasonable opportunity to be heard and shall thereafter approve in writing the removal of the tree.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22080.

22080. When the board proposes the planting, maintenance or removal of any trees in any streets of the city, the city forester, under the direction of the board, shall present the proposal in writing to the city council. The proposal shall:
(a) Specify in detail the streets upon which the improvement is proposed to be made.
(b) Describe the general nature of the improvement.
(c) Give the estimated total cost of the improvement.
(d) Specify the kinds of trees to be planted, if any.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22081.

22081. The proposal shall be accompanied by a diagram showing:
(a) The streets to be improved.
(b) The abutting lots or parcels of land and the front footage of each.
(c) The legal description of each such lot or parcel of land.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22082.

22082. Each lot or parcel of land shall be separately assessed in proportion to its frontage at a rate per front foot sufficient to cover that proportion of the total cost and expense of the work which is to be paid for by means of special assessments.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22083.

22083. A proceeding for the planting, maintenance, or removal of trees may also be instituted by a petition to the council of property owners whose property will be among that to be assessed to pay the cost of the proposed improvement. Upon such petition being filed the city forester shall file with the city council a diagram similar to the one accompanying a written proposal of the board for similar improvements, which shall describe the improvement proposed by the petition.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22084.

22084. The board or the city forester may plant, maintain, or remove any trees in any street of the city by private arrangement for reimbursement with the owner of any lot or parcel of land upon which or fronting upon which the trees are situate.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22085.

22085. The board or the city forester may expend any funds which it may have on hand to plant, maintain, or remove trees. The board or city forester may expend such funds if in its judgment the expenditures will not embarrass or affect the efficient discharge of its duties as defined by this part, or any other law or ordinance, and are advisable and for the best interests of the public. Any planting, maintenance, or removal done under the circumstances specified in this section shall not require the initiation of any proceedings as elsewhere specified in this part, or any other proceedings, or any formal action by the board or by the city council.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22086.

22086. Before ordering any improvement specified in either the written proposal of the board or in the petition of property owners, the city council shall adopt a resolution of intention declaring its intention so to do, briefly describing the improvement, the streets which are to be improved, the general nature and the estimated costs and expenses thereof, the kinds of trees to be planted, if any, and fixing a time when the city council shall hear and pass upon protests against the improvement.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22087.

22087. If the proposal or the petition contains a provision for the maintenance of trees which are already planted or are proposed to be planted, the resolution shall provide for the maintenance of the trees for the period specified in the proposal, but in any event not to exceed five years.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22088.

22088. The city council may order in the resolution of intention, or thereafter, that all or a specified portion of the costs and expenses of the improvement shall be paid out of the treasury of the city from any funds which the city council may designate.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22089.

22089. Owners of property which will be assessed to pay the cost of the proposed improvement may protest against the improvement by filing their objections in writing with the city council at any time before the time fixed for the hearing thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22090.

22090. The city council shall cause notice to be mailed and set the time and date for a public meeting and public hearing pursuant to Section 54954.6 of the Government Code. If new or increased assessments are proposed, the city council shall comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 262, Sec. 48. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22092.

22092. If the owners of a majority of the front footage involved in the improvement object to the improvement, all further proceedings shall be terminated. If there is a majority protest the proceeding shall not be renewed for a period of six months, and then shall only be renewed by the adoption of another resolution of intention. If a new or increased assessment is proposed, the city council shall comply with the protest procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 262, Sec. 49. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22093.

22093. On the date fixed by the resolution of intention for the hearing of protests, the city council shall proceed to hear and pass on all protests filed with it, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22094.

22094. After the hearing, the city forester, under the direction and supervision of the board, shall abandon the improvement or proceed with it, according to the decision of the city council.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22095.

22095. If the council decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall, by resolution order the improvement to be made according to the resolution of intention, or with such alterations or changes as it may deem best.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 4 - Undertaking the Improvement › Section 22096.

22096. After deducting any contribution to be made by the city, the balance of the entire assessable cost of the improvement between the lot lines, in front of any lot or parcel of land abutting on a street which is to be improved, shall be chargeable to and assessed upon those lots or parcels of land.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 262, Sec. 50. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 5 - Performing the Work › Section 22110.

22110. The city forester, under the direction of the board, shall do, or cause to be done, all of the work ordered to be done by the city council under this part.
(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 170.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 6 - Levying and Collecting the Assessment › Section 22130.

22130. If the council orders the improvement to be made, it shall levy an assessment upon the lots or parcels of land specified in the diagram provided for in this part for the total amount required to pay for the improvement, less any sums allotted by the city council therefor in its resolution of intention or otherwise.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
2023 California Code › Streets and Highways Code - SHC › DIVISION 15 - TREE PLANTING, LANDSCAPING, AND LIGHTING › PART 1 - TREE PLANTING ACT OF 93 › CHAPTER 6 - Levying and Collecting the Assessment › Section 22131.

22131. Upon the levying of the assessment, the clerk of the council shall transmit to the city tax collector the diagram and assessment upon which the levy is based.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)