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CHAPTER 3
STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENTS
 
 
Article
   1   Lighting District Procedures
 
 
 
ARTICLE 1
LIGHTING DISTRICT PROCEDURES
 
 
Section
6.95   General Provisions.
6.96   Definitions.
6.97   Ordinance of Intention: Contents.
6.98   Preliminary Report of Board of Public Works.
6.99   Diagrams and Assessment Maps.
6.100   Publicly Owned and Publicly Used Property.
6.101   Payments by Governmental Bodies after Delinquency of Assessments.
6.102   Approval by City Council.
6.103   Publication of Notice.
6.104   Protest.
6.105   Contesting Validity of Assessment.
6.106   Recordation.
6.107   Alternative Method of Collecting Assessments.
6.108   Publication of Notice of Recordation.
6.109   Installment of Payments.
6.110   Time for Payment.
6.111   Effective Date of Payment.
6.112   Application for Amendment of Assessment.
6.113   Publication of Delinquent List.
6.114   Sale of Delinquent Property.
6.115   Redemption of Sold Property.
6.116   Execution of Deed.
6.117   Effect of a Deed of the Board of Public Works.
6.118   Special Fund.
6.119   Unexpended Balance.
6.120   Removal of Lighting Systems.
6.121   Contracts for Improvements.
6.122   Interdepartmental Purchase Order.
6.123   Multiple Improvement in One Ordinance.
6.124   Waiver of Penalty.
6.125   Intention of the City Council.
6.126   Construction of Article.
6.127   Description.
 
 
Sec. 6.95. General Provisions.
 
   Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the Council of the City of Los Angeles, acting under the authority conferred upon it by the City Charter, shall have full power and authority to order any street lighting system, systems and/or appliances, including poles, posts, electroliers, transformers, lighting units, lamps, cables, wires, pipes, conduits, and/or other suitable or necessary works or appliances for street lighting purposes, or any thereof, to be maintained in or along the public streets, alleys or other public places in said City, and/or to order electric current to be furnished thereto; and to determine and declare the district to be benefited by such improvement, and to assess, either partly or wholly, the costs and expenses (including all incidental expenses) of such improvement, or of any one or more of the items, thereof, upon the lands in said district all in the manner and under the proceedings hereinafter provided.
 
   The provisions of this article shall not be limited to the maintenance of street lighting system or appliances owned only by the City and/or to furnish electric current for lighting systems so owned, but such improvement may be made with and by means of such systems or appliances provided and installed by, and remaining the property of the public utility, public corporation, or other party with whom any contract now or hereafter may be entered into for such maintenance and such furnishing of electric current.
 
SECTION HISTORY
 
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
 
 
Sec. 6.96. Definitions.
 
   The words “Works” and “Improvement” as used herein shall include the furnishing of electric current, any work, services, supplies, material, fixtures, apparatus, work or improvements authorized to be done, placed, serviced, repaired, maintained, altered, supplied or purchased under the provisions of Section 6.95 hereof.
 
   The phrase “Public Streets, Alleys, and Other Public Places” shall be deemed to also include any rights of way owned by the City.
 
   The word “Occupant” as used herein shall include any and all persons holding any estate or interest in real property less than the fee thereof and in physical occupation of any lot, piece or parcel of land.
 
   The word “Maintenance” as used herein shall include the inspection, repair, replacement, cleaning, and painting of the electroliers, posts, standards, luminaries, lanterns, globes, conduits, cables, wires, and other appurtenances, and appurtenant work, and the maintenance, securing, dismantling and storing of any portion or all of any lighting system which may be removed from service.
 
   The words “Maintenance” or “Improvement” also includes the replacement of any obsolete equipment with new modern equipment necessary for the proper operation of any system. No assessments for the costs and expenses of such replacements of obsolete equipment in any system, as maintenance, shall be levied for any amount greater than twenty per cent (20%) of the total estimated costs and expenses of operation for all districts for the period.
 
   The phrase “Street Lighting System” shall be deemed to also include the lighting of trees and flood lighting in or along public streets.
 
SECTION HISTORY
 
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 132,478; Ord. No. 138,476, Eff. 5-8-69.
 
 
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