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.
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.
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.
Before any improvement is ordered to be made pursuant to this article the Council shall pass an ordinance declaring its intention do so, briefly describing the proposed improvement, stating the period of time, which shall not exceed three years, for which the improvement is to be made, and containing a description of the district to be benefited thereby and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof and to be known as the Assessment District.
The territory comprising said district may, but need not, include all, or be confined to, or extend beyond, the lots or lands fronting upon the improvement, or be contiguous. The district may consist of separate and distinct areas or sections, and the work performed in one section need not benefit the other section or sections. The district may be described by stating the exterior boundaries thereof, or by referring to the diagram accompanying the report of the Board of Public Works or to the assessment maps on file in the Bureau of Engineering, as provided in Sections 6.98 and 6.99 of this chapter.
The Council, in its discretion, may order, in said Ordinance of Intention, that a portion of said costs and expenses shall be paid out of the City Treasury from such funds as the Council may designate, the amount of which shall be specified in said Ordinance of Intention. The assessment proposed to be levied shall include only the remainder of the estimated costs and expenses of the improvement after deducting such amount. Said ordinance shall also contain those matters required by Section 6.102 of this chapter.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 129,118; 2nd Para., Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.
Before the Council passes such Ordinance of Intention the Board of Public Works shall file with the City Clerk a report in writing, proposing that the proceeding be commenced; designating the plans, detailed drawings, and specifications, or such of them as may be suitable and proper, for a complete description of the proposed improvement; and stating the estimated total costs and expenses of the proposed improvement and the amount thereof proposed to be assessed. Such plans, drawings and specifications shall be deemed sufficient with respect to the location of the lights to be maintained and/or to be furnished with electric current if the approximate location of such lights is shown or described thereon.
The report shall contain a description of the Assessment District, which may be by describing the exterior boundaries or by reference to a diagram, in which case the diagram shall accompany the report, or by reference to assessment maps showing lands previously approved for assessments, and such maps may be presented or may remain on file in the Bureau of Engineering.
The report shall also be accompanied by a proposed assessment of all of the estimated costs and expenses of the improvement proposed to be assessed upon the several lots or parcels of land in the Assessment District, in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by each such lot or parcel of land, respectively. Said assessment shall show the parcel number or other identification for each such lot or parcel of land as the respective identifications therefor appear on the assessment diagram or the assessment maps.
If any lands which are proposed to be assessed in the pending proceeding have not previously been approved by the Council for assessment for maintenance of any lighting system, systems or appliances to be serviced in such proceeding, or if lands previously assessed therefor are to be excluded from the Assessment District, the Board of Public Works shall describe such changes in the report or present either a diagram showing the proposed Assessment District or assessment maps, or pages thereof, showing the lands to be added to the district or omitted therefrom. The inclusion or omission of such lands shall be subject to the approval of the Council, and the Council’s approval of a proposed or revised boundary line of the district shall be sufficient therefor.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 117,944; 2nd Para., Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.
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