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Title 6.9.TITLE 6.9. Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency
Part 1.PART 1. Formation of the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency and General Powers
Ch. 3.CHAPTER 3. Powers of the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency
This text of California § 64721. (64721. (Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 661, Sec. 1.)) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)If the agency or a qualified voter initiative proposes a measure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 64720 that will generate revenues, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors shall call a special election on the measure. The special election shall be consolidated with a statewide election and the measure shall be submitted to the voters of Los Angeles County.
(b)
(1)For the purpose of placement of a measure on the ballot, the agency is a district, as defined in Section 317 of the Elections Code. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a measure proposed by the agency or by a qualified voter initiative that requires voter approval shall be submitted to the voters of Los Angeles County, as determined
by the agency, in accordance with the provisions of the Elections
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(a)
If the agency or a qualified voter initiative proposes a measure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 64720 that will generate revenues, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors shall call a special election on the measure. The special election shall be consolidated with a statewide election and the measure shall be submitted to the voters of Los Angeles County.
(b)
(1)
For the purpose of placement of a measure on the ballot, the agency is a district, as defined in Section 317 of the Elections Code. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a measure proposed by the agency or by a qualified voter initiative that requires voter approval shall be submitted to the voters of Los Angeles County, as determined
by the agency, in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code applicable to districts, including the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9300) of Division 9 of the Elections Code.
(2)
Because the agency has no revenues as of the operative date of this section, the appropriations limit for the agency shall be originally established based on receipts from the initial measure that would generate revenues for the agency as described in subdivision (a), and that establishment of an appropriations limit shall not be deemed a change in an appropriations limit for purposes of Section 4 of Article XIII
B of the California Constitution.
(c)
(1)
Notwithstanding Section 10520 of the Elections Code, for any election at which the agency or a qualified voter initiative proposes a measure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
64720 that would generate revenues, the agency shall reimburse Los Angeles County for the incremental costs incurred by the county elections official related to submitting the measure to the voters with any eligible funds transferred to the agency.
(2)
For purposes of this subdivision, “incremental costs” include all of the following:
(A)
The cost to prepare, review, and revise the impartial analysis of the measure.
(B)
The cost to prepare a translation of ballot materials into a language other than English by the county.
(C)
The additional costs that exceed the costs incurred for other election races or ballot measures, if any, appearing on the same ballot in Los Angeles County, including both of the following:
(i)
The printing and mailing of ballot materials.
(ii)
The canvass of the vote regarding the measure pursuant to Division 15 (commencing with Section 15000) of the Elections Code.
(d)
Notwithstanding Section 9313 of the Elections Code, the legal counsel for the board shall prepare an impartial analysis of the measure. The impartial analysis prepared by the legal counsel for the board shall be subject to review and revision by the county counsel.
(e)
The summary of the annual expenditure plan shall be prepared by the board and include all of the following:
(1)
A description of the purpose and goals of the measure.
(2)
A description of the categories of eligible expenditures to be funded.
(3)
An estimate of the number of affordable housing units to be built or preserved by household income category served, and a description of any specific projects planned to be funded.
(4)
An estimate of minimum funding levels to be provided to different expenditure categories.
(5)
An overview of decisionmaking and oversight provisions applicable to the funds.
(f)
The county elections official for Los Angeles County shall serve as the elections official of the agency for purposes of administering the ballot measure process and any election for the purposes set forth in this chapter. In the alternative, the board, at
its discretion, may appoint an elections official to administer any election for the purposes set forth in this chapter. If the board appoints an elections official, the board may authorize that elections official to retain the services of the elections official of Los Angeles County to administer the ballot measure process and any election, and the elections official of Los Angeles County shall perform those services.