Skip to content
ChatProjectCodes

Earlier editions: 2020-112018-112026-09

DIVISION 7. THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911 5000-6794›PART 3. PERFORMING THE WORK 5100-5954›CHAPTER 29. Contractual Assessments 5898.10-5899.4›ARTICLE 1. General Provisions 5898.10-5898.18

§ 5898.14

California Streets and Highways Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) The Legislature finds all of the following:

(1) Energy and water conservation efforts, including the promotion of energy efficiency improvements to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property are necessary to address the issue of global climate change.

(2) The upfront cost of making residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property more energy and water efficient prevents many property owners from making those improvements. To make those improvements more affordable and to promote the installation of those improvements, it is necessary to authorize an alternative procedure for authorizing assessments to finance the cost of energy and water efficiency improvements.

(b) The Legislature declares that a public purpose will be served by a voluntary contractual assessment program that provides the legislative body of any public agency with the authority to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources and energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property.

(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 444, Sec. 3. (AB 474) Effective January 1, 2010.)

Get a plain-English answer with a citation back to this text.

Ask AI about this code
Export this section
▸Contents — California Streets and Highways Code
California Streets and Highways Code

GoCodebook provides public access, search, citation, multilingual explanation, and practical interpretation of legally adopted building regulations. It is not a substitute for the official ICC or California code publications.