California Code
DIVISION 14 - STREET LIGHTING
PART 3 - THE MUNICIPAL LIGHTING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT ACT OF 1927

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 18600. - 18600. This part may be cited as the Municipal Lighting...

Section 18601. - 18601. This part shall be liberally construed in order to...

Section 18602. - 18602. This part provides an alternative system for the maintenance...

Section 18603. - 18603. Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires,...

Section 18604. - 18604. “City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal...

Section 18605. - 18605. “Street lighting system” or “system” includes any or all...

Section 18606. - 18606. “Maintaining and operating” or any of its variants, when...

Section 18607. - 18607. “City council” includes any body which by law is...

Section 18608. - 18608. “Clerk” or “city clerk” means any person or officer...

Section 18609. - 18609. “Public way” includes all public highways, roads, streets, avenues,...

CHAPTER 2 - Authority to Create the District

Section 18630. - 18630. Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the...

Section 18631. - 18631. The lands which will be benefited by, and which...

Section 18632. - 18632. Any number of public ways and one or more...

Section 18633. - 18633. Before forming any district or ordering any part of...

CHAPTER 3 - Preliminary Report and Resolution of Intention

Section 18660. - 18660. Before adopting a resolution of intention, the city council...

Section 18661. - 18661. The city council shall order the engineer to prepare...

Section 18662. - 18662. The report and map shall be presented to the...

Section 18663. - 18663. The resolution of intention shall contain: (a) A statement...

Section 18664. - 18664. The city council may order in the resolution of...

Section 18665. - 18665. The resolution shall refer to the map or plat...

Section 18666. - 18666. After the passage of the resolution of intention, the...

CHAPTER 4 - Protest and Hearing

Section 18690. - 18690. At the time and place fixed for the hearing...

Section 18691. - 18691. The city council may, by four-fifths vote, deny all...

Section 18692. - 18692. If no protests are filed or if all protests...

CHAPTER 5 - The Final Resolution

Section 18710. - 18710. The city council may, by final resolution, order the...

Section 18711. - 18711. A certified copy of the final resolution shall be...

CHAPTER 6 - Levying and Collecting the Assessment

Section 18730. - 18730. Each year during the existence of the district and...

Section 18731. - 18731. The special assessment tax shall be levied, computed, entered,...

Section 18732. - 18732. The city council shall control and order the expenditure...

Section 18733. - 18733. Each year at the time of making the special...

Section 18734. - 18734. The city council may also transfer from the general...

CHAPTER 8 - Miscellaneous Provisions

Section 18780. - 18780. The sole acts necessary to confer jurisdiction upon the...

Section 18781. - 18781. No error, defect, irregularity, informality, neglect or omission of...