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2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 1 - Corporate Power › Section 40163.

40163. All the provisions of the County Transportation Commissions Act (Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000)), regarding the powers and functions of the Orange County Transportation Authority shall be equally applicable to the Orange County Transit District as if set forth herein, and shall be in addition to the powers and functions set forth in this part. The board of directors shall determine which provisions are applicable to the conduct of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 752, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 2 - Contracts › Section 40165.

40165. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 2 - Contracts › Section 40166.

40166. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 4 - Property › Section 40175.

40175. 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, mortgage, sell, 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 4 - Property › Section 40176.

40176. Exercise of the powers provided under Section 40175 shall be undertaken in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedures as in the exercise of like powers by the County of Orange, except as may otherwise be expressly provided in this part.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40180.

40180. 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 or vehicles thereto and may acquire any interest in or rights to the joint use of any or all of the foregoing; provided that:
(a) Installations in state freeways shall be subject to the approval of the State Department of Public Works and installations in other state highways shall be subject to Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), Chapter 3, Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code.
(b) Installations in city streets, parks, or other property devoted to municipal use, shall be subject to the approval of the city council having jurisdiction thereof.
The district may acquire, contract and negotiate for the services of any and all employees of any public or private agency or corporation operating transit facilities within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40180.5.

40180.5. The district may make bulk purchases of passenger tickets for scheduled passenger rail services provided by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation during peak hours, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99260.2, on Monday through Friday, inclusive.
The district may resell to residents of the district the tickets at less than the cost to the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1002.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40181.

40181. 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 limitation 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40182.

40182. The district may acquire, construct, own, or operate air terminal facilities within the district and, with the consent of the county in which such facilities are located, outside of the district, and may accept contributions of money, labor, materials, and any other property from, and enter into any contract and cooperation with, the federal government or the state, or any department, instrumentality, or agency thereof, or any public agency for such purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1061.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40183.

40183. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40184.

40184. 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 governing body in charge of such streets, highways, stream, watercourse or lands.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40185.

40185. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40186.

40186. The rates and charges for service furnished pursuant to this part shall be fixed by the board and shall be reasonable.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 5 - Transit Facilities and Service › Section 40187.

40187. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 6 - Indebtedness › Section 40200.

40200. The district shall have the power to obtain temporary transfers of funds in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 31, Article IV of the State Constitution.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6 - Powers and Functions of District › ARTICLE 6 - Indebtedness › Section 40201.

40201. 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 or in financing 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40221.

40221. 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 acquired by the district.
(b) “Existing system” means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility situated entirely within Orange County, or at least 75 percent of whose revenue vehicle miles for the preceding calendar year were operated within Orange County, and has been in operation since at least January 1, 1982.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 493, Sec. 4.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40222.

40222. Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, before the district may propose to 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 the service or system.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 493, Sec. 5.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40222.5.

40222.5. The district shall not establish the proposed service or system, or maintain and operate the service or system until it has completed the purchase of the existing system or any part thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40223.

40223. The purchase price to be paid for the existing system, or any portion thereof to be purchased, shall be the reproduction cost new, including going concern value, at the date upon which the district commences negotiations for the purchase of the existing system, or the portion of the existing system, less depreciation, including wear, tear, and obsolescence, if any.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 493, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40223.5.

40223.5. 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. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 6.5 - Existing Systems › Section 40224.

40224. Section 851 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 has no jurisdiction with respect thereto.
(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 193, Sec. 108.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40225.

40225. 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 twenty percent (20%) of the assessed value of the taxable property of the district as shown by the last equalized assessment roll of the County of Orange.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40226.

40226. Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction, or completion by the district of any transit facilities or any works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, or powers of the district, the cost of which will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of the district, it may at any subsequent meeting of the board provide by ordinance for the submission of the proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness for the purpose set forth in the resolution to the voters of the district at a special bond election held for that purpose.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40231.

40231. The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election and of voting for or against incurring the indebtedness. It shall also recite the objects and purposes for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred, the estimated cost of the transit facilities, works, lands, structures, rights, equipment, or other property proposed to be acquired, constructed, or completed, the amount of the principal of the indebtedness to be incurred therefor, and the maximum rate of interest to be paid on the indebtedness, which shall not exceed 6 percent per annum, payable semiannually or annually the first year and thereafter semiannually.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40232.

40232. Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40233.

40233. Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the district may vote. If a special bond election is consolidated with any other election, the provisions of this chapter setting forth the procedure for the calling and holding of the special bond election shall be complied with, except that the ordinance calling the election need not set forth the election precincts, polling places, and officers of election, but may provide that the precincts, polling places, and officers of election shall be the same as those set forth in the ordinance, notice, or other proceedings calling the election with which the special bond election is consolidated, and shall refer to the ordinance, notice, or other proceedings by number and title, or by other definite description.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40234.

40234. The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40235.

40235. The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which are applicable to any bond election held pursuant to this article.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 199. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40236.

40236. The votes of sixty percent (60%) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 1 - Issuance › Section 40237.

40237. If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after the election hold another special election for the submission of a proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness substantially the same as the proposition voted upon at the prior election unless a petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast at the last general statewide election is filed with the board, requesting that the proposition, or a proposition substantially the same, be submitted at an election to be called for that purpose.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 2 - Form and Content › Section 40240.

40240. Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10 years from the date thereof and shall be completed in not more than 50 years from that date.
The board may divide any issue of bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter into two or more series, and may fix different dates of issuance and different maturity dates for the bonds of each series. The bonds of each series shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board, and the board shall fix a date not more than 10 years from the date of issuance of each series for the earliest maturity of such series, and shall fix a date not more than 50 years from the date of issuance of each series for the final maturity of such series.
Pending the actual issuance or delivery of bonds, a district may issue temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denomination whatsoever, with or without coupon, and in such form as may be prescribed by the board, to be exchanged for definite bonds when ready for delivery.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 2 - Form and Content › Section 40241.

40241. The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and shall be payable on the day and at the place or places fixed in the bond, and with interest at the rate specified therein, payable semiannually, except that interest for the first year after the date of the bonds may be made payable at the end of that year.
(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 389.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 2 - Form and Content › Section 40242.

40242. The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all of the bonds on any interest payment date prior to their fixed maturity at not exceeding the par value and accrued interest plus a premium of not exceeding 5 percent upon the principal amount of the bonds, in which event the call price fixed by the board shall be set forth on the face of the bond. Notice of such redemption shall be published. If there is no newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the district, then the publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the county in which the district or any part thereof is situated. The first publication shall be at least 30 days prior to the date fixed for the redemption. After the date fixed for such redemption interest on the bonds thereafter shall cease.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 2 - Form and Content › Section 40243.

40243. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize and designate for that purpose. They shall also be signed by the treasurer, and be countersigned by the auditor. The coupons of the bonds shall be numbered consecutively and be signed by the treasurer. All signatures and countersignatures, except one of the signatures or countersignatures on the bonds, may be printed, lithographed or engraved. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the signature or countersignature is nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 3 - Issue and Sale › Section 40245.

40245. The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines. Before selling any bonds, or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner as the board may prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest responsible bidder. If no bids are received, or if the board determines that the bids received are not satisfactory as to price or responsibility of the bidders, the board may reject all bids received, if any, and either again give notice inviting bids or sell the bonds at private sale.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 3 - Issue and Sale › Section 40246.

40246. All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds. The remainder of the proceeds of the bonds shall be placed in the district treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be used exclusively for the objects or purposes for which the bonds were voted; provided that when such objects and purposes have been accomplished any moneys remaining shall be transferred to the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds, and that when all principal of and interest on the bonds shall have been paid, any balance of money then remaining shall be transferred to the general fund of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 4 - Status as Investments › Section 40260.

40260. All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, and trust companies, and for the State School Fund and for all sinking funds under the control of the State Treasurer. Whenever any money or funds may by law be invested in or loaned upon the security of bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties, or school districts, in the state, such money or funds may be invested in or loaned upon the security of the bonds of the district; and whenever bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties, or school districts by law may be used as security for the faithful performance or execution of any court or private trust or of any other act, bonds of the district may be so used.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 4 - Status as Investments › Section 40261.

40261. All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank or banks in the state as security for the deposit of funds of the state or of any county, city and county, city, municipality or other public or municipal corporation within the state.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 5 - Validation › Section 40263.

40263. An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 6 - Revenue Bonds › Section 40265.

40265. As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner provided by the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code), all of the provisions of which are applicable to the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 7 - Bonds › ARTICLE 6 - Revenue Bonds › Section 40266.

40266. The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code). The term “enterprise” as used in the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 shall, for all purposes of this part, include transit facilities and any and all parts thereof and all additions, extensions and improvements thereto and all other facilities authorized to be acquired, constructed or completed by the district. A district may issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, for any one or more facilities or enterprises authorized to be acquired, constructed, or completed by a district or, in the alternative, may issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, for the acquisition, construction and completion of any one of such facilities. Nothing in this article shall prevent the district from availing itself of, or making use of, any procedure provided in this part for the issuance of bonds of any type or character for any of the facilities or works authorized hereunder, and all proceedings may be carried on simultaneously or, in the alternative, as the directors may determine.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40300.

40300. 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 valuation within the district exclusive of any tax levied to meet the bonded indebtedness of the district and the interest thereon.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40301.

40301. 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.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40302.

40302. The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 40300 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 stated above, in an amount 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. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40303.

40303. The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent taxes, with penalties, interest, and cost.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40304.

40304. 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 district taxation and have its taxes collected by the tax collector of the county.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40305.

40305. 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 40304 as equalized.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40306.

40306. 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. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40307.

40307. The board shall immediately, after fixing the rate of taxes as provided in Section 40306, transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40308.

40308. 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. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40309.

40309. 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. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 1 - Property Taxation › Section 40310.

40310. All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied. 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 Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40330.

40330. Transactions and use taxes (to be designated in the ballot proposition set forth in Section 40334 as a “sales tax”) may be imposed 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, except that the rate shall be as set forth in Section 40335.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40331.

40331. Any transactions and use taxes ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 120 days after the approval of such ordinance by the electors as provided in this article.
Prior to the operative date of the 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. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40332.

40332. (a) The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be used for any lawful purpose of the district.
(b) During the first three years the taxes are imposed pursuant to this article, 25 percent of the revenues generated from such taxes shall be allocated by the district to Orange County and the cities therein in the proportion that the population of the county or city, as the case may be, bears to the total population of the district. For purposes of this subdivision, the population of the county shall be the population of the unincorporated territory of the county.
(c) The revenues allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be used by the county and the cities to finance public transit services, which shall be coordinated with the public transit services operated by the district. The county or any city may also use the revenues to finance public transit services operated by the district.
(d) At the end of four years, as measured from the initial imposition of the taxes pursuant to this article, any of the revenues allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) which has not been expended for public transit services shall revert to the district.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40333.

40333. The taxes authorized by this article shall not be imposed unless the board shall have authorized it by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all members of the board and the ordinance shall be approved by two-thirds of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the district voting on the proposition at an election called for that purpose. The board, in the ordinance, shall state the nature of the tax to be imposed, shall provide the tax rate or rates or the maximum tax rate or rates, and shall specify the purposes for which the revenue derived from the tax will be used.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 345, Sec. 4. (AB 2752) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40334.

40334. The actual wording of the proposition on any short form of ballot card, label, or other device, regardless of the system of voting used, shall read as follows:
TRANSIT
Authorizes the Orange County Transit District to impose a ____ percent sales tax for transit purposes.
Yes
No
The proposition shall set forth the actual percent of the transaction and use taxes upon which the electors are voting.
The sample ballot to be mailed to the voters, under Section 13303 of the Elections Code, shall be the full proposition as set forth in the ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 40333.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 200. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40335.

40335. The board is authorized to impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this article and the board may state the maximum tax rate in terms of not to exceed 1 percent, or any lesser percentage thereof. The district shall not levy the tax at a rate other than 1,
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percent, unless specifically authorized by the Legislature. The board, in the ordinance, may provide for limitations upon the time when the tax shall be in effect, or the board may provide that the tax shall be in effect until repealed. Any tax rate or maximum tax rate adopted pursuant to this article, unless otherwise prohibited, may be increased when authorized by the board by ordinance adopted in the manner and by the vote stated in Section 40333 and approved by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the district voting at an election called for that purpose.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 8 - Taxation › ARTICLE 2 - Transactions and Use Taxes and Revenue Bonds › Section 40336.

40336. The district is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds, payable, in whole or in part, from revenues made available under this article. Such revenues are hereby declared to be revenues of the enterprise for all purposes of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300), Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code), and the restrictions therein provided against the securing of bonds by the taxing power or the proceeds of taxation shall not apply. The district shall be deemed a “local agency” and the planning, acquiring, constructing, operating, or maintaining of the district’s transit facilities, or any part thereof, shall be deemed an “enterprise” within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941. The provisions of such law not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this article are hereby made applicable to the district, except that no election shall be required for the issuance of bonds under such law which are secured, in whole or in part, by the revenues of the tax imposed pursuant to this article. The resolution or indenture authorizing the issuance of any revenue bonds secured, in whole or in part, by the revenues of the tax imposed pursuant to this article shall provide that use of such revenues by the district to redeem such bonds shall be continued in effect until such bonds are fully paid or provision has been made for their payment in full.
The district may borrow money in anticipation of the revenues made available under this article and may, from time to time, issue negotiable notes for that purpose.
In addition to pledging revenues for the payment of any revenue bonds, the district may pledge for the payment of such bonds all other income or receipts of the district which are not required by law to be used for other purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 9 - Dissolution › Section 40500.

40500. The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district will be dissolved. Upon the filing with the clerk of the district of a petition signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total vote cast within the district at the last general statewide election asking that the question of dissolution of the district be submitted to the voters of the district, the board shall call such an election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 9 - Dissolution › Section 40501.

40501. The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days next succeeding the date on which the petition is filed.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1146.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 9 - Dissolution › Section 40502.

40502. Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published. The date fixed for the election shall not be less than 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT › CHAPTER 9 - Dissolution › Section 40503.

40503. The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition the following:
Shall the Orange County Transit District be dissolved?
YES
NO
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1899.)