SECTIONS 53700-53706 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 53700-53706

53700. 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.
(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.

53701. Notwithstanding any other law, except limitations imposed by
the Constitution, the legislative body of a county, city, district,
political subdivision, or a public or municipal corporation, may
accept grants or loans of funds made available by the Federal
Government or a federal department or agency to aid in financing
plans for, or construction of, public works.

53702. A county, city, district, political subdivision, or a public
or municipal corporation, may comply with all applicable
requirements of federal laws and regulations and orders issued
pursuant to the law relating to the awarding of contracts for public
work, the hours of labor, employment preferences, and other matters
covered by the law, regulation, or order, if such compliance is a
prerequisite to the loan or grant of federal funds.

53703. A county or city may do all acts necessary to participate in
all programs authorized by a federal housing act, including the
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 or any
other federal program whereby federal funds are granted to the county
or city or any of its residents for purposes of health, education,
welfare, public safety, law enforcement activities which have not
been preempted by state law, prevention or reduction of crime,
rehabilitation of persons convicted of crime or juvenile offenders,
public works or community improvement, including, without limitation
thereto, contracting and cooperating with the federal government, the
state and its agencies, other local public agencies and private
persons and corporations, and may make any expenditure of county or
city funds required for such participation.
A county or city may, through its officers and employees, also
provide any or all necessary services to any housing authority with
regard to which the governing body of the county or city has made a
declaration of necessity pursuant to Article 2, Chapter 1, Part 2,
Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code.
Where the authority to perform any act or service is delegated to
a city or county by this section, the city or county may perform such
act or service by means of a contract with an independent
contractor, which independent contractor may be a public or private
agency or private person.
This section shall not be construed to operate as a grant of
authority in compliance with any federal act or program requiring the
adoption of specific enabling legislation nor shall it be construed
to supersede any such legislation.

53704. A city, county or city and county which has entered into and
operated a federal grant program pursuant to the authority contained
within Section 53703 may continue the operation of such program for
a period not exceeding two years from the termination of any federal
grant or authority for such program. The board of supervisors or city
council may appropriate funds for such programs and may do all acts
necessary to continue the program in operation.

53705. A city, county or city and county may appropriate funds and
may do all acts necessary to assume and carry out or continue any
program, or part thereof, which is operated by any other public
agency, private person or corporation and whereby federal funds have
been granted to such public agency, private person or corporation for
purposes of health, education, welfare, public safety, law
enforcement activities which have not been preempted by state law,
prevention or reduction of crime, rehabilitation of persons convicted
of crime or juvenile offenders, or public works or community
improvements, where the federal funds for such programs are to be
terminated or substantially reduced by the federal government;
provided however, that no such program shall be operated pursuant to
this section for a period exceeding two years. A city, county or city
and county may perform any act or service authorized by this section
by means of a contract with an independent contractor. The
independent contractor may be a public agency, private person or
corporation.
The board of supervisors or city council may appropriate funds for
such programs and may do all acts necessary to continue the program
in action.

53706. "Priority expenditures" for which the State and Local Fiscal
Assistance Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-512) funds may be spent for
the purposes authorized by the act by a local agency are priority
expenditures serving the general interest of the citizens of the city
or the county in which they are spent whether the expenditure is
made by the city, the county, or by any other local governmental
agency authorized to perform those purposes within the city or the
county receiving the funds. The funds for the construction, removal,
relocation or replacement of any facility designed to provide water,
water treatment or sewer services may be allocated and appropriated
for such priority expenditures by the city or county receiving them
for expenditure by the agency itself or by the local governmental
agency which performs the service wholly or partially within the
boundaries of the city or the county making the allocation for such
purposes.