CHAPTER 10.2. California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1984 [13810. - 13845.]

Chapter 10.2 added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 378, Sec. 1.

§§ 13810–13845 · 37 sections

§ 13810 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1984.
§ 13811 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California that water…
§ 13812 The Legislature further finds and declares that a number of domestic water supply systems are inadequate and do not meet minimum bacteriological, chemical, or…
§ 13813 The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to assure…
§ 13814 The State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code) is adopted for the…
§ 13815 As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3…
§ 13816 The Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, the Director…
§ 13817 There is in the State Treasury the California Safe Drinking Water Fund, which fund is hereby created.
§ 13818 The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in an aggregate amount of seventy-five million dollars…
§ 13819 (a) The moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated and shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The department may enter into…
§ 13820 (a) The department may make state grants to suppliers that are political subdivisions of the state, from moneys in the fund available for that purpose pursuant…
§ 13821 Applications for grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting material as prescribed by the department.
§ 13822 The department shall prepare a report on each grant application pursuant to this chapter. The report shall be filed with the Legislature, if it is in session…
§ 13823 (a) Loans and grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The department may make reasonable allowance for future water supply needs and…
§ 13824 An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department, unless the department determines that the public agency is…
§ 13825 First priority for grants shall be granted to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health…
§ 13826 First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers which…
§ 13827 Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before a loan or grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall…
§ 13828 No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to this chapter. A public agency…
§ 13829 Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by the public agency unless…
§ 13830 For the purpose of administering of this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 4 percent…
§ 13831 As much of the moneys in the fund as may be necessary shall be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 16724.5…
§ 13832 Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding 10 years…
§ 13833 The department shall require the payment of interest on each loan that is made pursuant to this chapter at a rate equal to the average, as determined by the…
§ 13834 The department, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations…
§ 13835 The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this chapter and…
§ 13836 The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall, from time to time, establish a priority…
§ 13837 Upon approval by the State Department of Health Services of project plans submitted by a supplier on the priority list and upon issuance to the supplier of a…
§ 13838 Not more than twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract…
§ 13839 All bonds authorized, which have been duly sold and delivered pursuant to this chapter, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the…
§ 13840 All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under Section 13819 shall be deposited in the General Fund and, when so deposited, shall be…
§ 13841 There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of the following: (a) The…
§ 13842 For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or…
§ 13842.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of…
§ 13843 Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13819 for the purposes stated therein, the…
§ 13844 The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized at the time or times as fixed by the Treasurer.
§ 13845 All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, are available for the purpose provided in Section 13819, but are…