2005 California Government Code Sections 26299.000-26299.014 Article 1. General Provisions

26299.000.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
County Regional Justice Facilities Financing Act.
26299.001.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
existing state of overcrowding in jail facilities in counties is so
great as to significantly impede the administration of justice and
create a situation wherein persons who are a danger to society may be
required to be released into that society for lack of adequate
facilities to house them.
   The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the
public interest to create county regional justice facilities
financing agencies so that regional adult and juvenile detention
facilities, countywide law enforcement facilities, court facilities,
and prevention program needs may be addressed in an expeditious and
appropriate fashion.
   The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the
public interest to allow the voters in each county the opportunity to
approve a general tax for the general governmental purposes of
county regional justice facilities financing agencies.
26299.002.  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the
definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this
chapter. The definition of a word applies to any of that word's
variants.
26299.003.  "Agency" means a county regional justice facilities
financing agency.
26299.004.  "Board of directors" means the board of directors of a
county regional justice facilities financing agency established
pursuant to this chapter.
26299.005.  "Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of
a county.
26299.006.  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind or
class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and
commercial paper.
26299.007.  "County" means Humboldt, Los Angeles, Riverside, San
Bernardino, Stanislaus, and Ventura Counties.
26299.008.  "Court facilities" means the municipal and superior
courts of the county, as well as any other facilities used for adult
or juvenile court matters, criminal prosecutions, handling inmates,
or a combination thereof.
26299.009.  "Master plan" means the plan for construction and
acquisition of juvenile and adult detention facilities, countywide
law enforcement facilities, court facilities, and other structures
necessary or convenient thereto.  The plan shall be developed and
approved, and may be amended from time to time, by the board of
supervisors.  The master plan may include, but is not limited to, the
following:
   (a) The number of adult and juvenile detention facilities,
countywide law enforcement facilities, court facilities, and other
structures necessary or convenient thereto to be constructed,
furnished, or acquired.
   (b) The geographic areas in which the facilities referenced in
subdivision (a) shall be sited.
   (c) The time schedule according to which the facilities referenced
in subdivision (a) shall be constructed, furnished, or acquired.
   (d) Construction and design standards which shall apply to
facilities constructed, furnished, or acquired pursuant to this
chapter.
   (e) Those other requirements as the board of supervisors, in
carrying out its responsibility for the provision of regional
detention services, deems necessary and appropriate.
26299.010.  "Outstanding," when used as of any particular time with
reference to bonds issued by the agency, means all bonds theretofore
and thereupon being authenticated and delivered by an authenticating
agent duly appointed by the agency or its authorized designee except:
   (a) Bonds theretofore canceled by an authenticating agent or
surrendered to such authenticating agent for cancellation.
   (b) Bonds that are owned or held by or for the account of the
agency or any other obligor on the bonds, or any person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect
common control with, the agency or any  other obligor on the bonds.
   (c) Bonds for the transfer or exchange of or in lieu of or in
substitution for which other bonds shall have been authenticated and
delivered.
   (d) Refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 26299.073, except
to the extent that the principal amount of the refunding bonds
exceeds the principal amount of the bonds to be refunded with the
proceeds of those refunding bonds.
26299.011.  "Prevention program" means a program designed to
decrease the number of inmates incarcerated in county juvenile and
adult detention facilities by providing alternatives to
incarceration, or by providing counseling diversion, or intervertion
programs, work furlough programs, halfway houses, and own
recognizance services.  Counseling, diversion, or intervention
programs, include, but are not limited to, drug and alcohol
counseling, probation counseling, pretrial screening, and community
programs intended to reduce or prevent juvenile criminal activity.
26299.013.  "Qualifying facilities" means any of the adult and
juvenile detention facilities, countywide law enforcement facilities,
court facilities, and other structures necessary or convenient
thereto, which may be constructed, furnished, or acquired pursuant to
this chapter.
26299.014.  This chapter shall be liberally construed in order to
effectuate its purposes.  No inadvertent error, irregularity,
informality, or the inadvertent neglect or omission of any officer,
in any procedure taken under this division, other than fraud, shall
void or invalidate that proceeding or any levy imposed to finance
regional justice facilities needs or improvements.