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2005 California Streets and Highways Code Sections 19160-19162 CHAPTER 9. INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL LIGHTS
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODESECTION 19160-19162
19160. Proceedings for the installation and maintenance of additional lights may be instituted by the governing body on its own initiative and shall be instituted by the governing body when: (a) A written request therefor, signed by two members of the governing body, is filed with the governing body; or (b) A petition therefor, signed by 20 or more taxpayers of the district, is filed with the governing body. The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments. 19161. Upon institution of proceedings pursuant to Section 19160, if the governing body determines that it will be just and equitable and in the public interest for the additional cost, if any, of installation and maintenance of additional lights to be paid by the district as a whole, it shall immediately estimate the cost of installing and maintaining the additional lights, and shall use such reserve funds as may have been accumulated for such purposes to the extent necessary. In the regular tax levy for the first fiscal year in which it is possible to do so, the governing body shall include a tax upon the taxable property within the district at the equalized value thereof, or an assessment on each parcel of real property within the district on the basis of the estimated benefit to the parcel, sufficient to pay the cost of installing and maintaining for one year the additional lights. If sufficient reserve funds are available or will be available from the tax or assessment levy already made, or after the tax or assessment levy has been made, the governing body shall proceed with the installation of the additional lights. 19161.1. Whenever the board of supervisors levies an assessment authorized by this chapter for the installation or maintenance of lights, the assessment shall be levied pursuant to Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 54701) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. 19162. If the governing body determines that it will not be just and equitable, or in the public interest, for the cost of installation and maintenance of said additional lights to be paid by the district as a whole, it shall terminate the proceedings without prejudice to the filing of a new petition pursuant to Chapter 17 of this part.
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