Bill Text: CA AB3139 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State highways: property leases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 443, Statutes of 2018. [AB3139 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB3139-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3139

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bonta

February 16, 2018

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An act to amend Section 18030 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to street lighting.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3139, as introduced, Bonta. Street Lighting Act of 1919.

Existing law, the Street Lighting Act of 1919, authorizes a city council to order a street lighting system, as defined, to be maintained in or along city streets and to assess the lands abutting the streets for the cost of the system. Existing law authorizes the city council of any city when in its opinion the public interest or convenience requires to take one or more actions, including, to order any street lighting system to be maintained in or along the whole or any part of any one or more of the streets in such city, or to order electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent to be furnished for such street lighting system.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 18030 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:

18030.

 Whenever When in the opinion of the city council of any a city the public interest or convenience may require, that body may do one or more of the following:

(a) Order any a street lighting system to be maintained in or along the whole or any part of any one or more of the streets in such the city.

(b) Order electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent to be furnished for such a street lighting system.

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(c) For any of the purposes expressed in subdivision (a) or (b) of this section, the city council may determine and declare the district to be benefited by any such improvement and fix the exterior boundaries thereof and assess, either partly or wholly, the costs and expenses (including all incidental expenses) expenses, including all incidental expenses, of such the improvement, or of any one or more of the items thereof, upon the lands in the district.