CHAPTER 3. District Powers [6890. - 6910.]
Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
§§ 6890–6910 · 25 sections
ARTICLE 1. General §§ 6890–6910 · 25 sections
- § 6890 Any district created pursuant to this part is a public corporation created for municipal purposes.
- § 6891 It has perpetual succession.
- § 6892 It may sue and be sued.
- § 6893 It may adopt a seal.
- § 6894 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…
- § 6894.1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6894, the board of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not do any of the following: (a) Sell or dismantle the…
- § 6894.2 (a) Moneys in the Riverfront Enhancement Fund, created by the Joint Port Governance Agreement dated January 15, 2006, shall be expended exclusively on projects…
- § 6895 A district may acquire, purchase, takeover, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering…
- § 6896 It may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to carry out any of its purposes.
- § 6897 It may incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for its purposes, and if any bonds issued for port improvement purposes by any part…
- § 6898 It may levy and collect or cause to be levied or collected taxes as in this part provided.
- § 6899 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…
- § 6900 It may contribute money to the Federal or the State government or to any county in which the district is located or to any city within the district, for the…
- § 6901 A district may do any work or make any improvement within or without the territorial limits of the district, if the doing of the work or the making of the…
- § 6901.1 It may by resolution hold and save harmless the State of California, the Reclamation Board of the State of California, and the Sacramento and San Joaquin…
- § 6902 A district may enact necessary police regulations providing for control of any waterway project of the United States, entering the district, and it may adopt…
- § 6903 A district may provide for the opening and laying out of streets leading to the waterfront.
- § 6904 A district may regulate and control the construction, maintenance, and operation, or use, of all wharves, warehouses, structures, improvements, or appliances…
- § 6905 It may fix, regulate, and collect the rates or charges for the use of wharves, warehouses, vessels, railroads and other facilities, structures and appliances…
- § 6906 It may lay out, plan and establish the general plan and system of harbor and harbor district improvements and modify such plan and prescribe the specifications…
- § 6907 It may act as warehousemen, stevedores, lighterers, reconditioners, shippers and reshippers of properties of all kinds.
- § 6908 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…
- § 6908.5 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…
- § 6909 Notwithstanding the enumeration and specific statement herein of particular powers, the district may do and perform all acts and things necessary and…
- § 6910 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not exercise the power of eminent domain in the County of Sacramento, the…