Special assessments
Property assessments for local improvements and assessment districts.
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Key statute sections
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- Government Code § 53753
Notice, protest and hearing required before a new or increased assessment (Proposition 218 implementation).
- Government Code § 53931
A special assessment apportioned to a parcel is a lien on that parcel.
- Streets and Highways Code § 5180
Improvement Act of 1911: the expense of the work is charged to an assessment district.
- Streets and Highways Code § 10000
Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, which governs assessment districts, assessments and improvement bonds for public improvements.
- Streets and Highways Code § 8502
Improvement Bond Act of 1915: bonds that represent and are secured by the assessments levied to pay for the work.
- Streets and Highways Code § 22500
Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, under which assessment districts pay for landscaping, public lighting and their maintenance.
- Streets and Highways Code § 36621
Property and business improvement districts are initiated on a petition by owners who will pay more than half of the proposed assessments.
- Streets and Highways Code § 36631
Those district assessments on real property may be collected with the ad valorem property tax.
Related code chapters
- Government Code, Article 4.6 — Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (§§ 53750–53758)
- Government Code, Article 13 — Priority of Special Assessment Liens (§§ 53930–53937)
- Government Code, Article 13.5 — Payment and Apportionment of Special Assessment Liens (§§ 53938–53939)
- Government Code, Article 1 — Collection of Special Assessments by County Officer (§ 51800)
- Government Code, Article 3 — Chartered City Special Assessment Procedure (§ 43240)
- Government Code, Article 3.1 — Habitat Maintenance Assessment Districts (§§ 50060–50070)
- Government Code, Article 9 — Sale of Improvements Financed by Special Assessments (§§ 50550–50564)
- Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 4.5 — Change of Work, Boundaries of Assessment District, Amounts of Assessments or Proceedings (§§ 10350–10358)
- Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 6.1 — Loan Repayment Assessment Districts (§§ 10550–10555)
- Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 7 — Improvement Bonds (§§ 10600–10610)
- Streets and Highways Code, Article 1 — Formation of an Assessment District (§§ 22585–22595)
- Streets and Highways Code, Article 2 — Changes of Organization for Assessment Districts (§§ 22605–22613)
- Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 3 — Levy of Annual Assessments After Formation of an Assessment District (§§ 22620–22631)
- Health and Safety Code, Article 3 — Special Assessments (§§ 32240–32243)
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