BILL NUMBER: SB 1527 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 20, 2008
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 22, 2008
INTRODUCED BY Senator Yee
(Principal coauthor: Senator Denham)
(Coauthor: Senator Wyland)
FEBRUARY 22, 2008
An act to add Section 19622.5 to the Business and Professions
Code, and to add Section 11011.27 to the Government Code, relating to
state property, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1527, as amended, Yee. State property: surplus
property sale .
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to
dispose of state surplus property, subject to specified conditions,
including authorization by the Legislature.
This bill would require the director, prior to January 1, 2009, to
sell, for fair market value upon those terms and conditions
determined by the director, a specified parcel of state property
located in the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San
Francisco. The net proceeds of the conveyance would be paid into the
Fair and Exposition Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for the
benefit of a specified district agricultural association, as
provided, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require
reimbursement to the Department of General Services for any cost or
expense incurred in the disposition of the property from the
net proceeds of the disposition. City of Daly City or
the Daly City Redevelopment Agency. This bill would also declare the
Legislature's findings that the sale of this state property does not
constitute a sale of surplus state property, as set forth in
specified existing law.
The bill would declare that it would take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 19622.5 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
19622.5. (a) Pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 19622.3,
within 30 days of enactment of this section, the Department of Food
and Agriculture, until June 1, 2013, shall assume only the rights,
duties, and powers of the board of directors of the District 1-A
Agricultural Association associated with negotiating the sale of the
real property of the District 1-A Agricultural Association.
(b) The Department of Food and Agriculture in coordination with
the Department of General Services, no later than June 1, 2013, shall
provide to the Legislature a report analyzing the business
operations of the District 1-A Agricultural Association for the
previous five years and make recommendations identifying the best use
of the property. Recommendations may include, but are not limited
to, continued operation as a district agricultural association or the
sale or lease of any and all parcels.
SEC. 2. Section 11011.27 is added to the Government Code, to read:
11011.27. (a) The Director of General Services in consultation
with the Department of Food and Agriculture, prior to January 1,
2009, shall enter into negotiations to sell at fair market value to
the Daly City Redevelopment Agency or to the City of Daly City upon
those terms and conditions and subject to those reservations and
exceptions that the director determines are in the best interests of
the state, the following real property:
Parcel A: Beginning at a point on the southerly line of Walbridge
Street, now Geneva Avenue, with the easterly line of Carter Street
(in the City and County of San Francisco); thence running easterly
along the southerly line of Walbridge Street 980 feet; thence at a
right angle south 19*35' west 600 feet; thence at a right angle north
70*25' west 720 feet; thence at a right angle south 19*35' west 60
feet; thence at a right angle north 70*25' west 260 feet; thence at a
right angle north 19*35' east 660 feet along the easterly line of
Carter Street to the point of beginning.
(b) Notwithstanding the terms and conditions negotiated pursuant
to subdivision (a), the director shall not sell the property
identified in subdivision (a) for less than its fair market value.
(c) An agreement for the sale of the property identified in
subdivision (a) shall require the purchaser to retain title to the
entire property sold to it for uses consistent with the general plan
of the City of Daly City, any amendment to that general plan, any
specific plan amendments to any specific plan, and the Bayshore
revitalization redevelopment plan.
(d) The Department of General Services shall be reimbursed for any
cost or expense incurred in the disposition of the property
described in subdivision (a) from the City of Daly City or the Daly
City Redevelopment Agency.
(e) The net proceeds of any moneys received from the disposition
of any parcel of property described in subdivision (a) shall be paid
into the Fair and Exposition Fund for the benefit of the District 1-A
Agricultural Association.
SEC. 3. The Legislature finds and declares that
the disposition of state property authorized in Section 2 of this act
does not constitute a sale or other disposition of surplus state
property as set forth in Section 9 of Article III of the California
Constitution or subdivision (g) of Section 11011 of the Government
Code.
SEC. 3. SEC. 4. This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
In order for the Director of General Services to sell the property
described in Section 2 of this act at the earliest possible time, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.