Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32500. Section 32500.
This part may be cited as the Parking Law of 1949.
CHAPTER 1. General Provisions [32500. - 32514.]
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC 1.
in effectCal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32501. Section 32501.
The supplying of additional parking facilities and the performance of all undertakings incidental or advantageous thereto are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired, and are governmental functions.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32502. Section 32502.
This part shall not affect any other provision of law relating to the same or a similar subject but provides an alternative method of procedure governing the subject to which it relates; and it shall not abridge, modify or otherwise affect the right of any city to exercise any power given to it by the Constitution.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32503. Section 32503.
Parking facilities of an authority are subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which they are situated. In the planning and location of any parking facility, an authority is subject to the relationship of the facility to any officially adopted master plan or sections of such master plan for the development of the area in which the authority functions to the same extent as if it were a private entity.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32504. Section 32504.
If any provision of this part, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the part, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32505. Section 32505.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32506. Section 32506.
“Authority” or “parking authority” means any of the public corporations created by Chapter 2 of this part.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32507. Section 32507.
“City” means any city or city and county, or in the case of a county parking authority, means any county, including incorporated portions thereof. “The city” means the particular city, county, or city and county, for which a particular authority is created.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32508. Section 32508.
“Legislative body” means, in the case of a city, that body in which the general legislative powers of the city are vested, and in the case of a county or a city and county, the board of supervisors.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32509. Section 32509.
“Mayor” means the mayor of the city or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of the city. In the case of a county parking authority “mayor” means the chairman of the board of supervisors.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32510. Section 32510.
“Clerk” means the clerk of the city or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk. In the case of a county parking authority “clerk” means the clerk of the board of supervisors.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32511. Section 32511.
“Obligee of the authority” or “obligee” means any of the following:
(a)
Any bondholder or trustee for any bondholders.
(b)
Any lessor demising to the authority property used in connection with a parking facility or any assignee of all or part of such lessor’s interest.
(c)
The State or the United States, or any agency of either, when a party to any contract with an authority by which aid or a loan is given or made to the authority.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32512. Section 32512.
“State public body” means the State, or any city, city and county, county, district, authority, or any other subdivision or public body of the State.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32513. Section 32513.
“Project” means any acquisition, improvement, construction, or undertaking of any kind authorized by this part.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 32514. Section 32514.
“Parking facilities” includes public transportation terminal facilities and other facilities related thereto.
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