California Government Code 54251 – (a) A local agency may, pursuant to this article, authorize, …
(a) A local agency may, pursuant to this article, authorize, grant, or enter into one or more exclusive or nonexclusive franchise, license, or service agreements with a privatizer for the design, ownership, financing, construction, maintenance, or operation of a privatization project.
(b) A local agency may enact any measures necessary and convenient to carry out this article.
Terms Used In California Government Code 54251
- County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
- Local agency: means any city, county, city and county, special district, or county service area. See California Government Code 54250
- Privatization project: as used in this article , includes the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority's Arlington Basin Groundwater Desalter Project, which will treat groundwater contaminated by wastewater. See California Government Code 54250
- Privatizer: means any corporation, partnership, or natural person, excluding municipal corporations, which owns and operates a wastewater or sewerage project pursuant to a franchise, license, or service agreement with a local agency. See California Government Code 54250
- Project: includes , but is not limited to, financing, designing, constructing, repairing, replacing, maintaining, and operating collector systems, pumping stations, treatment plants, and lateral interceptors, and outfall sewers. See California Government Code 54250
(c) Pursuant to Section 25215.6, within a county service area, a county board of supervisors may charge a standby charge for sewer service for a privatization project pursuant to this article. If the procedures set forth in this section as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the county may, by resolution, continue the charge pursuant to this section in successive years at the same rate. If new, increased, or extended assessments are proposed, the county shall comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 158, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2009.)