PART 3. THE MUNICIPAL LIGHTING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT ACT OF 1927 [18600. - 18781.]

Part 3 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.

§§ 18600–18781 · 33 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. General Provisions §§ 18600–18609 · 10 sections

   • § 18600 This part may be cited as the Municipal Lighting Maintenance District Act of 1927.
   • § 18601 This part shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes.
   • § 18602 This part provides an alternative system for the maintenance and operation of a street lighting system within cities, and the provisions of this part shall not…
   • § 18603 Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this chapter shall govern the…
   • § 18604 “City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes.
   • § 18605 “Street lighting system” or “system” includes any or all appliances, poles, posts, pipes, conduits, lamps and other necessary works or appliances used for…
   • § 18606 “Maintaining and operating” or any of its variants, when used with relation to a street lighting system, includes the cost of necessary repairs, replacements,…
   • § 18607 “City council” includes any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city.
   • § 18608 “Clerk” or “city clerk” means any person or officer who is or acts as clerk of the city council.
   • § 18609 “Public way” includes all public highways, roads, streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways and other rights of way of the public, or any portion thereof,…
2. CHAPTER 2. Authority to Create the District §§ 18630–18633 · 4 sections

   • § 18630 Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the city council of any city in which a street lighting system has been installed may order that the…
   • § 18631 The lands which will be benefited by, and which are to be assessed for, the maintenance and operation of the system shall form and be known as a lighting…
   • § 18632 Any number of public ways and one or more street lighting systems may be included in one district, but the district, the public ways and the street lighting…
   • § 18633 Before forming any district or ordering any part of the expenses of the maintenance and operation of any street lighting system to be assessed upon the lands…
3. CHAPTER 3. Preliminary Report and Resolution of Intention §§ 18660–18666 · 7 sections

   • § 18660 Before adopting a resolution of intention, the city council shall order the city engineer to prepare and file with it a report containing substantially the…
   • § 18661 The city council shall order the engineer to prepare and file with the report a map or plat of the district to be benefited by the maintenance and operation…
   • § 18662 The report and map shall be presented to the city council and examined by it and either the report or map, or both, may be modified by the city council at any…
   • § 18663 The resolution of intention shall contain: (a) A statement of the public ways to be lighted. (b) A general description of the lighting systems to be maintained…
   • § 18664 The city council may order in the resolution of intention that a certain percentage of the costs of such maintenance and operation shall be paid out of the…
   • § 18665 The resolution shall refer to the map or plat on file with the clerk for the boundaries of the district to be assessed, the public ways to be lighted and the…
   • § 18666 After the passage of the resolution of intention, the clerk shall publish it by at least two insertions in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation…
4. CHAPTER 4. Protest and Hearing §§ 18690–18692 · 3 sections

   • § 18690 At the time and place fixed for the hearing of protests or at any time to which the hearing is adjourned, the city council shall hear the evidence introduced…
   • § 18691 The city council may, by four-fifths vote, deny all protests finding that the public health and safety require that the improvements be made and its decision…
   • § 18692 If no protests are filed or if all protests filed are heard and denied, or if any of the authorized modifications are made and the city council after hearing…
5. CHAPTER 5. The Final Resolution §§ 18710–18711 · 2 sections

   • § 18710 The city council may, by final resolution, order the district formed. The final resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the district as finally…
   • § 18711 A certified copy of the final resolution shall be filed with the assessor who makes the assessment for general city taxes. Thereafter the assessor in making up…
6. CHAPTER 6. Levying and Collecting the Assessment §§ 18730–18734 · 5 sections

   • § 18730 Each year during the existence of the district and at least 30 days prior to the making of the general tax levy for city purposes, the city engineer shall…
   • § 18731 The special assessment tax shall be levied, computed, entered, collected and enforced at the same time, in the same manner, by the same persons and with the…
   • § 18732 The city council shall control and order the expenditure of the funds of the district for the purposes of maintenance and operation as provided in the final…
   • § 18733 Each year at the time of making the special assessment tax levy the city council shall appropriate from the fund designated in the resolution of intention or…
   • § 18734 The city council may also transfer from the general fund of the city to the fund of the district sufficient money to pay all or any part of the percentage of…
7. CHAPTER 8. Miscellaneous Provisions §§ 18780–18781 · 2 sections

   • § 18780 The sole acts necessary to confer jurisdiction upon the city council to order the formation of a district under the provisions of this part and the furnishing…
   • § 18781 No error, defect, irregularity, informality, neglect or omission of any officer of any city in any proceeding taken under the provisions of this part, which…