CHAPTER 3. District Powers [6290. - 6311.]
Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
§§ 6290–6311 · 27 sections
ARTICLE 1. General §§ 6290–6311 · 27 sections
- § 6290 A district created under this part is a public corporation created for municipal purposes.
- § 6291 It has perpetual succession.
- § 6292 It may sue and be sued.
- § 6293 It may adopt a seal.
- § 6294 It may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease or otherwise acquire and hold and enjoy, and lease or dispose of, real and personal property of every…
- § 6295 A district may acquire, purchase, takeover, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering…
- § 6296 It may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to carry out any of the objects or purposes of the district.
- § 6297 It may incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for its purposes. If any bonds issued for port improvement purposes by any part of…
- § 6298 It may levy and collect or cause to be levied or collected taxes as in this part provided.
- § 6299 It has exclusive jurisdiction over, and it may provide for and supervise pilots and the pilotage of sea-going vessels from the end of jurisdiction of existing…
- § 6300 It may contribute money to the Federal or the State Government or to the county in which it is located or to any city within the district, for the purpose of…
- § 6301 A district may do any work or make any improvement within or without the territorial limits of the district, which will aid in the development or the…
- § 6302 A district may enact necessary police regulations providing for control of any waterway project of the United States, entering the district, and adopt rules…
- § 6302.5 (a) This section is applicable only within the Santa Cruz Port District. The Legislature finds and declares that this section is necessary to meet a serious…
- § 6303 A district may provide for the opening and laying out of streets leading to the waterfront.
- § 6304 A district may regulate and control the construction, maintenance, and operation or use of all wharves, warehouses, structures, improvements, or appliances…
- § 6304.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any port district which has received, or is receiving, money pursuant to the provisions of Division 1 (commencing…
- § 6305 It may fix, regulate and collect the rates or charges for the use of wharves, warehouses, vessels, railroads and other facilities, structures and appliances…
- § 6306 It may lay out, plan and establish the general plan and system of harbor and harbor district improvements and modify the plan and prescribe the specifications…
- § 6307 It may perform the functions of warehousemen, stevedores, lighterers, reconditioners, shippers and reshippers of properties of all kinds.
- § 6308 It may manage the business of the district and promote the maritime and commercial interests by proper advertisement of its advantages, and by the solicitation…
- § 6309 Except as otherwise provided in Section 660, the board may adopt all ordinances necessary for the regulation of the district with respect to the parking of…
- § 6309.2 Before any ordinance may be adopted, the ordinance shall be published in its entirety on three separate occasions in a newspaper of general circulation…
- § 6309.4 Every person who violates any of the provisions of a district ordinance adopted pursuant to Sections 6309 and 6309.2 is guilty of an infraction and shall be…
- § 6309.6 The district’s manager, harbormaster or wharfinger, or any duly authorized representative of one of these persons, shall have the power to issue citations for…
- § 6310 Notwithstanding the enumeration and specific statement herein of particular powers, the district may do and perform all acts and things necessary and…
- § 6311 Upon a four-fifths vote of all the members of the board, it may issue negotiable promissory notes bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding 7 percent per…