A county, city, municipal corporation, or district may do any and all things necessary under federal law or rule of a federal department, agency, mandatory, or authority, to secure monetary aid either as a loan or as an outright appropriation:

(a) To reduce any of its indebtedness.

Terms Used In California Government Code 53700

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • assessed value: means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of full value for the 1981-82 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter. See California Government Code 25
  • City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(b) To fund or refund any such indebtedness, whether relating to general obligation bonds or to the obligations represented by special assessment bonds for the unpaid principal upon any assessment levied prior to September 15, 1935 pursuant to state law in which the lien is special as to a particular property described in the assessment or bond, or whether the bonds are to be paid and discharged from an annual levy in accordance with the assessed value of all of the lands in a district.

(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

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