BILL NUMBER: AB 737	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huber

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 54712 to the Government Code, relating to
local agencies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 737, as introduced, Huber. Local agencies: benefit assessments.

   Existing law authorizes local agencies to levy a benefit
assessment pursuant to the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982 to finance
specified costs.
   This bill would authorize any local agency levying a benefit
assessment pursuant to this act to bring an action to determine the
validity of the assessment pursuant to specified provisions of
existing law relating to validating proceedings.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 54712 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   54712.  Any local agency levying a benefit assessment pursuant to
this chapter may bring an action to determine the validity of the
assessment pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of
Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.