Amended  IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1734

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

February 17, 2023

An act to amend Section 24356 54230 of the Government Code, relating to local government.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1734, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. County officers: fees. Surplus land.
Existing law requires each county and each city, on or before December 31 of each year, to make a central inventory of all of its surplus land, as defined, and all lands in excess of its foreseeable needs located within its jurisdiction. Existing law also requires each county and city to make a description of each of parcel described above and the present use of the parcel a matter of public record and to report this information to the Department of Housing and Community Development no later than April 1 of each year, in a form prescribed by the department, as part of its annual progress report.
This bill would revise this provision to instead require each county or city to provide this information to the department no later than March 1 of each year. The bill would make related, conforming changes to this law.

Existing law requires each salaried officer of a county to charge and collect for the use of their county and pay into the county treasury on or before the 5th day of each month the fees allowed by law in all cases, except as specified. Existing law requires each officer of a county authorized to collect money to pay into the county treasury all money collected by the officer, or under their control, that is payable into the treasury in a timely manner, and to remit fee, fine, and forfeiture data within 35 days after the end of the month in which they are collected to the county auditor and treasurer in the form they require. Existing law requires the auditor to file in their office the forms required for these provisions, among others, and authorizes the auditor to dispose of the forms after 5 years, as specified.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 54230 of the Government Code is amended to read:

54230.
 (a) (1) On or before December 31 of each year, each county and each city shall make a central inventory of all surplus land, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 54221, and all lands in excess of its foreseeable needs, if any, identified pursuant to Section 50569, located in all urbanized areas and urban clusters, as designated by the United States Census Bureau, within the jurisdiction of the county or city that the county or city or any of its departments, agencies, or authorities owns or controls.
(2) (A) Subject to subparagraph (C), each county and each city shall make a description of each parcel described in paragraph (1) and the present use of the parcel a matter of public record and shall report this information to the Department of Housing and Community Development no later than April March 1 of each year, beginning April 1, 2021, in a form prescribed by the department, as part of its annual progress report submitted pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 65400.
(B) The information reported pursuant to this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, the following information with respect to each site:
(i) Street address, or similar location information.
(ii) Assessor’s parcel number.
(iii) Existing use.
(iv) Whether the site is surplus land or exempt surplus land.
(v) Size in acres.

(C)The Department of Housing and Community Development may, in its discretion, delay implementation of this paragraph until April 1, 2022.

(3) Each county and each city, upon request, shall provide a list of its surplus land and excess land to an individual, limited dividend corporation, housing corporation, or nonprofit corporation without charge.
(b) The Department of Housing and Community Development shall provide the information reported to it by a city or county pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) to the Department of General Services for inclusion in a digitized inventory of all state-owned parcels that are in excess of state needs.
(c) The Department of Housing and Community Development may review, adopt, amend, and repeal standards, forms, and definitions in order to implement this section. Any standards, forms, or definitions adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to this subdivision are hereby exempt from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2).

SECTION 1.Section 24356 of the Government Code is amended to read:
24356.

The auditor shall file in their office the forms required by this chapter, and may dispose of them after five years in accordance with Section 26907.