CHAPTER 2. Definitions

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 541, Sec. 3.

§§ 56010–56081 · 87 sections

§ 56010 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this division. The definition of a…
§ 56011 “Affected city” means any city that contains or would contain, or whose sphere of influence contains or would contain, territory for which a change of…
§ 56012 “Affected county” means any county that contains, or would contain, any territory for which a change of organization is proposed or ordered either singularly…
§ 56013 “Affected district” means any special district, as defined by Section 56036, that contains or would contain, or whose sphere of influence contains or would…
§ 56014 “Affected local agency” means any local agency that contains, or would contain, or whose sphere of influence contains or would contain, any territory for which…
§ 56015 “Affected territory” means any territory for which a change of organization, reorganization, or sphere of influence change is proposed or ordered, or any…
§ 56016 “Agricultural lands” means land currently used for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity for commercial purposes, land left fallow under a crop…
§ 56017 “Annexation” means the inclusion, attachment, or addition of territory to a city or district.
§ 56017.1 “Applicant” means a local agency or person or persons that submits an application, as defined by Section 56017.2.
§ 56017.2 “Application” means any of the following: (a) A resolution of application or petition initiating a change of organization or reorganization with supporting…
§ 56019 “Board of directors” means the legislative body or governing board of a district.
§ 56020 “Board of supervisors” means the legislative body or governing board of a county.
§ 56020.5 “Certificate of completion” means the document prepared by the executive officer and recorded with the county recorder that confirms the final successful…
§ 56020.6 “Certificate of filing” means the document issued by the executive officer that confirms an application for a change of organization or reorganization has met…
§ 56020.7 “Certificate of termination” or “certificate of termination of proceedings” means the document prepared by the executive officer and retained by the commission…
§ 56021 “Change of organization” means any of the following: (a) A city incorporation. (b) A district formation. (c) An annexation to a city. (d) An annexation to a…
§ 56023 “City” means any incorporated chartered or general law city, including any city the name of which includes the word “town.”
§ 56024 “City council” means the legislative body or governing board of a city.
§ 56025 “City officer” means the mayor or a member of the city council.
§ 56026 “Clerk” means the clerk or secretary of a commission, county, city, or district, or the clerk or secretary of the legislative body of a county, city, or…
§ 56027 “Commission” means a local agency formation commission.
§ 56028 “Commission proceedings” means proceedings which are taken by a commission pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 56650).
§ 56029 “Conducting authority” means the commission of the principal county, or the commission’s executive officer when authorized by the commission, when exercising…
§ 56030 “Consolidation” means the uniting or joining of two or more cities located in the same county into a single new successor city or two or more districts into a…
§ 56031 (a) “Contiguous” means territory that abuts or shares a common boundary with territory within a local agency. (b) Territory is not contiguous if the only…
§ 56032 “County officer” means a member of the board of supervisors.
§ 56032.5 “Dependent special district” or “dependent district” includes any special district that has a legislative body that consists, in whole or part, of ex officio…
§ 56033 “Detachment” means the exclusion, deletion, or removal from a city or district of any portion of the territory of that city or district.
§ 56033.5 “Disadvantaged unincorporated community” means inhabited territory, as defined by Section 56046, or as determined by commission policy, that constitutes all or…
§ 56034 “Disincorporation” means the dissolution, extinguishment, or termination of the existence of a city and the cessation of its corporate powers, except for the…
§ 56035 “Dissolution” means the disincorporation, extinguishment, or termination of the existence of a district and the cessation of all its corporate powers, except…
§ 56036 (a) “District” or “special district” are synonymous and mean an agency of the state, formed pursuant to general law or special act, for the local performance…
§ 56036.5 (a) For the purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 57000) to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 57176), inclusive, of Part 4 or Part 5 (commencing with…
§ 56036.6 (a) For the purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 57000) to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 57176), inclusive, of Part 4 or Part 5 (commencing with…
§ 56037.2 “Divestiture of power” means the termination of the power and authority to provide particular functions or classes of services within all or part of the…
§ 56037.5 “Elections official” shall have the same meaning as in Section 320 of the Elections Code.
§ 56038 “Executive officer” means the person appointed by a commission pursuant to Section 56384.
§ 56038.5 “Feasible” means capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, legal, social, and…
§ 56039 “Formation” means the creation of a district.
§ 56040 “Function” means any power granted by law to a local agency to provide designated governmental or proprietary services or facilities for the use, benefit, or…
§ 56041 “Improvement district” means an area or zone formed for the sole purpose of designating an area which is to bear a special tax or assessment for an improvement…
§ 56042 “Inactive district” means a special district that meets all of the following: (a) The special district is as defined in Section 56036. (b) The special district…
§ 56043 “Incorporation” means the creation or establishment of a city. Any area proposed for incorporation as a city shall have at least 500 registered voters residing…
§ 56044 “Independent district” or “independent special district” includes any special district having a legislative body all of whose members are elected by registered…
§ 56045 “Independent special district officer” means the presiding officer or a member of the legislative body of an independent special district.
§ 56045.5 “Indirect cost” has the same meaning as used in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 33338 of the Education Code.
§ 56046 “Inhabited territory” means territory within which there reside 12 or more registered voters. The number of registered voters, as determined by the elections…
§ 56047 “Initiate” or “initiation” means the issuance of a certificate of filing by the executive officer.
§ 56047.5 “Interested agency” means each local agency which provides facilities or services in the affected territory.
§ 56047.7 “Joint powers agency” or “joint powers authority” means an agency or entity formed pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Article 1 (commencing with…
§ 56048 “Landowner” or “owner of land” means any of the following: (a) A person or persons shown as the owner of land on the last equalized assessment roll prepared by…
§ 56049 “Landowner-voter” means any person entitled to vote in a landowner-voter district, or the legal representative of that person or, in the case of an election,…
§ 56050 “Landowner-voter district” means a district whose principal act provides that owners of land within the district are entitled to vote upon the election of…
§ 56050.5 “Latent service or power” means those services, facilities, functions, or powers authorized by the principal act under which the district is formed, but that…
§ 56051 “Last equalized assessment roll” means the listing in use by a county, city, or district for the purpose of the annual levy and collection of any taxes or…
§ 56052 “Legal representative” means an officer of a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company duly authorized to sign for, and on behalf of, the entity.…
§ 56053 “Legislative body” means the governing board of a city, county, or district.
§ 56054 “Local agency” means a city, county, or district.
§ 56055 “Member district” means any district which is included, in whole or in part, within another district, a metropolitan water district, or any of the entities…
§ 56056 “Merger” means the termination of the existence of a district when the responsibility for the functions, services, assets, and liabilities of that district are…
§ 56057 “Next equalized assessment roll” means the listing to be equalized and used by a city, county, or district for the purpose of the annual levy and collection of…
§ 56059 “Open space” means any parcel or area of land or water which is substantially unimproved and devoted to an open-space use, as defined in Section 65560.
§ 56060 “Open-space use” means any use as defined in Section 65560.
§ 56061 “Overlap” or “overlapping territory” means territory which is included within the boundaries of two or more districts or within one or more districts and a…
§ 56062 “Parent district” means any district, a metropolitan water district, or any of the entities enumerated in Section 56036.6, which includes all or any part of…
§ 56064 “Prime agricultural land” means an area of land, whether a single parcel or contiguous parcels, that has not been developed for a use other than an…
§ 56065 “Principal act” means, in the case of a district, the law under which the district was formed and, in the case of a city, the general laws or the city charter.
§ 56066 “Principal county” means the county having the greater portion of the entire assessed value, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county or…
§ 56067 “Proceeding,” “proceeding for a change of organization,” or “proceeding for a reorganization” means proceedings taken by the commission for a proposed change…
§ 56069 “Proposal” means a desired change of organization or reorganization initiated by a petition or by resolution of application of a legislative body or school…
§ 56069.5 “Protest proceedings” means proceedings taken by a commission, or its executive officer when authorized by the commission, as the conducting authority pursuant…
§ 56070 “Public agency” means the state or any state agency, board, or commission, any city, county, city and county, special district, or any agency, board, or…
§ 56071 “Registered voter” means any elector registered under, and pursuant to, the Elections Code.
§ 56072 “Registered-voter district” means a district whose principal act provides that registered voters residing within the district are entitled to vote for the…
§ 56073 “Reorganization” means two or more changes of organization contained within a single proposal.
§ 56073.1 “Resolution of application” means the document adopted by a local agency or school district initiating a change of organization or reorganization pursuant to…
§ 56074 “Service” means a specific governmental activity established within, and as a part of, a function of a local agency.
§ 56074.5 “Service review” means an analysis conducted by the commission documenting and analyzing the services in a particular geographic region or jurisdictional area…
§ 56075 “Special assessment district” or “assessment district” means an area fixed, established, and formed by a city, county, district, or the state, pursuant to…
§ 56075.5 “Special reorganization” means a reorganization that includes the detachment of territory from a city or city and county and the incorporation of that entire…
§ 56076 “Sphere of influence” means a plan for the probable physical boundaries and service area of a local agency, as determined by the commission.
§ 56077 “Subject agency” means each district or city for which a change of organization or reorganization is proposed or provided in a plan of reorganization.
§ 56078 “Subsidiary district” means a district in which a city council is designated as, and empowered to act as, the ex officio board of directors of the district.
§ 56078.5 “Successor Agency” means the local agency the commission designates to wind up the affairs of a dissolved district.
§ 56079.5 “Uninhabited territory” means territory within which there reside fewer than 12 registered voters. The number of registered voters, as determined by the…
§ 56080 “Urban service area” means developed, undeveloped, or agricultural land, either incorporated or unincorporated, within the sphere of influence of a city, which…
§ 56081 “Voter” means a landowner-voter or a registered voter.