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California Code, Government Code - GOV § 54716

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) For the first fiscal year in which a benefit assessment is proposed to be imposed pursuant to this chapter, the legislative body shall cause a written report to be prepared and filed with the clerk of the local agency which shall contain all of the following information:

(1) A description of the service proposed to be financed through the revenue derived from the assessment.

(2) A description of each lot or parcel of property proposed to be subject to the benefit assessment.  The assessor's parcel number shall be a sufficient description of the parcel.  The area proposed to be subject to the benefit assessment may be less than the entire area of the local agency.

(3) The amount of the proposed assessment for each parcel.  In the case of an assessment to be collected in installments pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 54711, the report shall set forth the number of annual installments and the fiscal years during which they are to be collected, and fix the maximum amount of each annual installment.

(4) The basis and schedule of the assessment.

(5) In the case of an assessment levied pursuant to Section 54710.3, an identification of the assessment districts for which the local agency has assumed responsibility for redemption fund deficiencies and for which it proposes to rely on assessments levied pursuant to this chapter, and a statement of the conditions under which the assessment will actually be levied and collected in any year.

(b) The clerk shall cause notice of the filing of the report and of a time, date, and place of hearing thereon to be published pursuant to Section 6066 and posted in at least three public places within the jurisdiction of the local agency.

(c) With respect to any new or increased assessment proposed to be levied pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 54710 or Section 54710.3, the legislative body of the local agency shall comply with the notice, hearing, and protest procedures in Section 53753.

(d) At the hearing, the legislative body shall hear and consider all protests.  At the conclusion of the hearing, the legislative body may adopt, revise, change, reduce, or modify the proposed assessment.  The legislative body shall make a determination upon the assessment as described in the report or as determined at the hearing, and shall, by ordinance or resolution, determine the proposed assessment.

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