ARTICLE 2. Powers of a Local Agency

Article 2 added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.

§§ 54340–54358 · 24 sections

§ 54340 A local agency may acquire any enterprise by gift, purchase, or eminent domain.
§ 54341 A local agency may construct or improve any enterprise wholly or partially within or wholly without the local agency. By gift, lease, purchase, eminent domain,…
§ 54342 A local agency may operate, maintain, repair, or manage all or any part of any enterprise, including the leasing for commercial purposes of surplus space or…
§ 54343 The local agency may adopt reasonable rules or regulations for the conduct of the enterprise.
§ 54344 A local agency may prescribe, revise, and collect charges for the services, facilities, or water furnished by the enterprise.
§ 54345 The local agency may provide that charges for any sewer enterprise or service shall be collected together with and not separately from the charges for any…
§ 54346 (a) If all or part of the bill is not paid, the local agency may discontinue any and all service for which the bill is rendered. (b) Commencing January 1,…
§ 54346.1 The local agency may enter into a written contract with a privately owned public utility rendering other than gas or electric service, that the charges for any…
§ 54346.2 If all or any part of the bill of any privately owned public utility on which any sewer enterprise or service charge is collected is not paid, the privately…
§ 54346.3 The local agency may enter into a written contract with any person, firm or public or private corporation providing for the billing and collection by such…
§ 54346.4 (a) A local agency whose jurisdiction is geographically coextensive with the county in which it operates, acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plan,…
§ 54347 The local agency may provide for the collection of charges. Provisions may be made for, but are not limited to: (a) The granting of discounts for prompt…
§ 54348 The local agency may provide for a basic penalty for nonpayment of the charges within the time and in the manner prescribed by it. Said basic penalty shall not…
§ 54349 The local agency may issue bonds for funds to acquire, construct, improve or finance an enterprise. The bonds may be secured pursuant to this chapter.
§ 54350 A local agency has police power over any enterprise acquired, constructed, or improved pursuant to this chapter and may make and enforce all necessary…
§ 54351 If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sanitation or garbage removal or disposal system, it may require its inhabitants to use the facilities…
§ 54352 If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sewer system pursuant to this chapter, it may declare that the further maintenance or use of cesspools…
§ 54353 As a remedy established for the collection of due and unpaid deposits and charges and the penalties thereon an action may be brought in the name of the local…
§ 54354 A local agency that acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plant, works, facilities or undertaking for the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or…
§ 54354.5 A resolution or ordinance prescribing or revising charges for the services or facilities furnished by the enterprise and declaring that delinquent charges and…
§ 54355 The lien provided by Section 54354 shall attach when the treasurer or other officer whose duty it is to collect the charge records a list of delinquent unpaid…
§ 54356 As a separate, distinct and cumulative remedy established for the collection of said charges and penalties thereon an action may be brought in the name of the…
§ 54357 Remedies for collecting and enforcing rates and charges set out in this chapter are cumulative and may be pursued alternately, or any thereof may be used…
§ 54358 The local agency may execute all instruments, perform all acts, and do all things necesssary or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted by this…