PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS [5000. - 5026.]
Part 1 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.
§§ 5000–5026 · 27 sections
- § 5000 This division may be cited as the Improvement Act of 1911.
- § 5001 Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this part shall govern the construction…
- § 5002 This division provides an alternative system for doing the work authorized by this division and the provisions of this division shall not apply to or affect…
- § 5003 This division shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. No error, irregularity, informality, and no neglect or omission of any officer,…
- § 5004 Whenever in any proceedings under this division, a time and place for any hearing by the legislative body is fixed and, from any cause, the hearing is not then…
- § 5005 “City” includes counties, cities, cities and counties and all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes, together with resort districts…
- § 5006 “Legislative body” when used with reference to a county means the board of supervisors, and when used with reference to a city means the body which by law…
- § 5007 “Clerk” when used with reference to a county means the person or officer who is the clerk of the legislative body of the county, and when used with reference…
- § 5008 “Treasurer” when used with reference to a county means the county treasurer, and when used with reference to a city means the city treasurer. “Treasurer” also…
- § 5009 “Mayor” when used with reference to a county means the chairman of the board of supervisors, and when used with reference to a city means the mayor, or if the…
- § 5010 “Council chambers” refers to the place where the regular meetings of the legislative body of the county or city are held.
- § 5011 “Street superintendent” or “superintendent of streets” when used with reference to a county means the county surveyor, and when used with reference to a city…
- § 5012 If there is no street superintendent or superintendent of streets in any city, the legislative body thereof may appoint a person to perform the duties imposed…
- § 5012.5 In a city in which there is a superintendent of streets or street superintendent, the legislative body of the city may nevertheless appoint another person to…
- § 5013 “Engineer” when applied to a county means the county surveyor, and when applied to a city means the city engineer.
- § 5014 “Street” includes avenues, highways, lanes, alleys, crossings, or intersections and courts which have been dedicated and accepted according to law or which…
- § 5018 “Place” includes any public park or pleasure ground and common which has been dedicated and accepted according to law.
- § 5019 “Paved” or “repaved” includes pavement of stone, paving blocks or macadamizing, or of bituminous rock or asphalt, or of iron, wood or other material, whether…
- § 5020 “Contractor” means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization or business trust, and includes contracting owners or their agents, to…
- § 5021 “Owner” means the person owning the fee, or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears, by deed duly recorded in the county recorder’s…
- § 5022 “Lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land” whether used singly or in combination include property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right of way…
- § 5022.5 “Lot,” “portion of lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land,” whether used singly or in combination, may, in the discretion of the superintendent of streets,…
- § 5023 “Work” or “improvement” whether used singly or in combination mean and include any work which is authorized to be done or any improvement which is authorized…
- § 5023.1 “Acquisition,” or any of its variants, means one or more of the following: (a) Any works, improvements, appliances, or facilities which are authorized to be…
- § 5024 “Incidental expense” includes all of the following: (a) Compensation for work done by the engineer, and attorney’s fees or services in proceedings pursuant to…
- § 5025 In all resolutions, notices, orders and determinations, subsequent to the resolution of intention it shall not be necessary to describe the work, and any…
- § 5026 The legislative body of a county, city or city and county, may by resolution adopt a name for any street, boulevard, park or place which is to be improved…