SECTIONS 30000-30007 - California Statutes

PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE

SECTION 30000-30007

30000. This part shall be known as the Southern California Rapid
Transit District Law.

30001. The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(a) There is an imperative need for a comprehensive mass rapid
transit system in the southern California area, and particularly in
Los Angeles County. Diminution of congestion on the streets and
highways in Los Angeles will facilitate passage of all Californians
motoring through the most populous area of this state and will
especially benefit domiciliaries of that county who reside both
within and without the rapid transit district. It is, further, the
declared policy of the state to foster the development of trade and
the movement of people in and around the Los Angeles area for the
benefit of the entire state, and one of the purposes of the Southern
California Rapid Transit District is to further this policy.
(b) In view of the limited powers of the Los Angeles Metropolitan
Transit Authority (herein sometimes referred to as "authority") it
has become apparent that the authority is unable to solve the transit
problems of the southern California area and provide the needed
comprehensive mass rapid transit system.
(c) It is, therefore, necessary to provide a successor corporation
to the authority, to wit: a transit district, and to establish such
transit district governed by representatives of the governmental
agencies in the southern California area so that there will be
sufficient power and authority to solve the transportation problems
in the southern California area and to provide the needed
comprehensive mass rapid transit system.
(d) It is evident, therefore, that such a transit district may
plan to meet the transit needs and problems of the whole southern
California area; and that the estimates of future population growth
for the southern California area make it imperative that a
comprehensive plan for rapid transit contain projections of
population trends extending over the next 30 years.

30002. The part shall be liberally construed to carry out the
objects and purposes and the declared policy of the State of
California as in this part set forth.

30003. Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of
this chapter govern the construction of this part.

30004. "District," as used in this part, means the Southern
California Rapid Transit District.

30005. (a) "Rapid transit," as used in this part, means the
transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by
means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, taxi, or any
other motor vehicle not on an individual passenger fare paying basis,
except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b).
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
district from any of the following:
(1) Leasing its buses to private certified public carriers.
(2) Providing school bus service for the transportation of pupils
between their homes and schools.
(3) Providing charter bus services to governmental agencies, if
comparable service is unavailable through privately operated bus
companies, and to special events, other than regular and preseason
scheduled professional and amateur sporting events.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or paragraph (3) of
subdivision (b), nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit the district from providing charter bus services, which are
incidental to the holding of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, to any
party or to any event during the period from May 1, 1984, to
September 30, 1984, inclusive, if the district does not curtail
existing, regularly scheduled services.

30006. "Board of directors," "board," or "directors," as used in
this part, means the board of directors of the district.

30007. "Public agency," as used in this part, includes the State of
California, and any county, city and county, city, district, or
other political subdivision or public entity of, or organized under
the laws of, this State.