California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Government Code - GOV |
Title 3. GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES |
Division 2. OFFICERS |
Part 2. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS |
Chapter 13.7. Orange County Regional Justice Facilities Act |
ARTICLE 4. Transactions and Use Taxes in the County of Orange |
Section 26298.20.
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(a) The commission shall establish a procedure for reviewing and evaluating requests by the county and the cities in the county for revenues of the commission to be used for the adult and juvenile detention facilities and courthouse facilities purposes specified in Section 26298.18, and shall review and evaluate, from time to time, those requests. After approving such a request of the county or any city in the county, the commission may allocate to the county or city any lawfully available moneys of the commission, including, but not limited to, the revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article and the proceeds of any limited tax bonds authorized by the voters pursuant to Section 26298.12, in amounts as the commission shall determine, to fund, in whole or in part, those detention or courthouse facilities purposes.
(b) In connection with any allocation of moneys to the county or any city in the county pursuant to subdivision (a), the commission shall enter into an allocation or funding agreement with the county or city pursuant to which the commission shall commit the moneys allocated under subdivision (a) to the county or city. The moneys shall be used solely for the purposes approved by the commission under subdivision (a). Each allocation or funding agreement shall contain terms and conditions as the commission shall determine and may provide, without limitation, the purpose or purposes for which the allocation may be used, that the amount to be allocated may be advanced by the commission in a lump sum or in a series of payments at a date or dates determined by the commission, which may be in one or more fiscal years of the commission, that the allocation will be in the form of a conditional or unconditional grant or contribution or as a loan or other advance against an obligation of the county or city to repay the same, and the terms and conditions relating the obligation to repay the same, including the interest rate to be paid and the date or dates that payments are to be made to the commission on account of that obligation.