SECTIONS 32020-32028 - California Statutes

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE

SECTION 32020-32028

32020. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the interpretation of this division.

32021. "Authority" means the California Urban Waterfront Area
Restoration Financing Authority established pursuant to Section
32050, and any board, commission, department, or officer succeeding
to the functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon the
authority by this division shall be given.

32022. "Bonds" means bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes,
commercial paper, and any other evidences of indebtedness.

32023. "Coastal zone" means that area of the state defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 31006, except that it includes lands in
Contra Costa County from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge north and
east to the termination of the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay
Conservation and Development Commission, as described in Section
66610 of the Government Code, as well as any adjacent uplands,
managed wetlands, marshes, and diked lands that significantly affect
the environmental quality of the bay, or that are directly related to
the public use and enjoyment of the San Francisco Bay.

32024. "Conservancy" means the State Coastal Conservancy
established pursuant to Section 31100.

32025. "Cost," as applied to a project, or portion thereof,
financed under this division, means all, or any part of, the costs of
construction and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or
personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and
interests acquired or used for a project, the cost of demolition or
removal of any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including
the cost of acquiring any lands on which buildings or structures may
be removed, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing
charges, interest prior to, during, and for a period after completion
of the construction, as determined by the authority, provisions for
working capital, reserves for principal and interest, and for
extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations, and
improvements, the cost of architectural, engineering, financial, and
legal services, plans, specifications, estimates, administrative
expenses, and other expenses necessary or incident to determining the
feasibility of constructing any project, or incident to the
construction or acquisition or financing of any project.

32025.5. "Metropolitan statistical area" means any area so defined
by the federal Office of Management and Budget.

32026. "Participating party" means any public or private entity,
profit or nonprofit, including, but not limited to, any municipality,
county, district, joint powers agency, person, company, corporation,
partnership, firm, trust, or foundation, engaged in a project within
the State of California, which obtains financing pursuant to the
terms of this division.

32027. "Project" means an urban waterfront restoration activity
located wholly or partly within the coastal zone for which a plan of
urban waterfront restoration has been approved pursuant to Section
32059 and an urban waterfront restoration activity located within the
territory of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District, the Stockton Port
District, or on a river, lake, or reservoir located within a
metropolitan statistical area for which a plan of urban waterfront
restoration has been approved pursuant to Section 32059.5. Project
includes, but is not limited to, lands, buildings, or roads, and
improvements thereto, work, rehabilitation, structure, or property,
real or personal, located wholly or partly within the coastal zone or
within the territory of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District, the
Stockton Port District, or on a river, lake, or reservoir located
within a metropolitan statistical area, providing or designed to
provide visitor serving commercial facilities, transient visitor
accommodations, coastal or inland waterfront dependent industry,
public utility systems, mass transit facilities, and public
recreation and shoreline access facilities, including, but not
limited to, parks, stairways, piers, and wharves, boat berthing
facilities, parking facilities, visitor service centers, or
interpretive centers, shoreline protection and erosion control
facilities, and administrative facilities necessary for the operation
of coastal dependent activities. Project does not include new
permanent residential structures, office structures for nonmaritime
purposes on lands subject to the public trust for commerce,
navigation, and fisheries, noncoastal dependent industrial
facilities, or other noncoastal related uses, or industrial
facilities or other uses that are unrelated to an inland waterfront.
A project may include office structures on lands not subject to the
public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, or office
structures for maritime purposes on lands subject to the public trust
for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, if the State Coastal
Conservancy finds that the project physically includes all of the
elements specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section
32059.

32028. "Revenue" means all rents, receipts, purchase payments, loan
repayments, proceeds of bonds, and all other income or receipts
derived by the authority from the sale, lease, or other disposition
of projects, or the making of loans to finance projects, and any
income derived from the investment of any money in any fund or
account of the authority.