40520. Upon adoption of its budget for the next fiscal year, the
south coast district board shall apportion the amount that each
county included within the south coast district shall pay to finance
the operation of the south coast district in that fiscal year.
The apportionment to a county shall, as determined by the south
coast district board, be that proportion of the amount that the
population of the portion of the county included within the south
coast district bears to the total population of the south coast
district, either as determined from the latest federal decennial
census or as determined from the latest annual population estimate by
the Department of Finance made pursuant to subdivision (g) of
Section 13073.5 of the Government Code.
40521. (a) For each fiscal year, the percentage increase in the
county apportionments by the south coast district board may not
exceed the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index
as specified in Section 2212 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or
the percentage increase in the total county property tax revenues for
the counties included, in whole or in part, within the south coast
district, whichever is greater.
(b) The limitations specified in subdivision (a) shall not apply
to increases in apportionments resulting from the termination of
federal or state allocations to the south coast district, if the
south coast district board votes to continue the programs financed
with those funds.
40522. The south coast district board may adopt a fee schedule for
the approval of plans for the control of emissions of air
contaminants, if the plans are required by a district rule or
regulation, to cover the costs of review, planning, inspection, and
monitoring related thereto. To the extent that provisions of the
plans are enforceable against the person required to submit the plan,
an annual fee may be charged to cover the costs of annual review,
inspection, and monitoring related thereto. Every person required to
submit a plan, including, notwithstanding Section 6103 of the
Government Code, a person that is a publicly owned public utility,
shall pay the fees required by the schedule. The fees may not exceed
the estimated reasonable cost of planning, monitoring, and enforcing
the plans for which the fee is charged. A noticed public workshop
shall be held at least 30 days prior to any meeting of the south
coast district board at which the levying or revision of the fees is
scheduled for hearing. Supporting data on the actual or estimated
costs required to provide the service for which the fee is charged
shall be made available at the workshop.
40522.5. (a) In addition to any other fees authorized by this
article, the south coast district may adopt, by regulation, a
schedule of fees to be assessed on areawide or indirect sources of
emissions which are regulated, but for which permits are not issued,
by the south coast district to recover the costs of district programs
related to these sources.
(b) The south coast district shall not, however, impose any fee
under this section for either of the following:
(1) Wildland vegetative management burning, as described in
subdivision (c) of Section 39011.
(2) Emergency incident training necessary for the protection of
the community and public safety personnel.
40523. The total amount of fees collected by the south coast
district in any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of fees
collected by the district in the 1993-94 fiscal year, except that the
amount may be adjusted annually in the 1994-95 fiscal year and
subsequent fiscal years to reflect any increase in the California
Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, from January 1
of the prior year to January 1 of the current year, as determined by
the Department of Industrial Relations. This limitation shall not
affect or limit the fees which may be imposed and collected pursuant
to a state or a federal mandate imposed on or after January 1, 1994.
40526. (a) The south coast district board may borrow money and
incur indebtedness in anticipation of the revenue for the current
year in which the indebtedness is incurred or for the ensuing year.
Such indebtedness shall not exceed the total amount of the estimated
revenue for either the current year or the ensuing year.
(b) In addition to any other existing authority, the district may
borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Article 7.4
(commencing with Section 53835) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2
of Title 5 of the Government Code.
40527. The south coast district board shall appoint a treasurer,
who shall be the custodian of funds of the south coast district and
who shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed
by the person authorized by the south coast district board.
The treasurer shall keep an account of all receipts and
disbursements.
40528. The south coast district shall appoint a controller who
shall be the accounting officer for the south coast district and who
shall exercise general supervision over the accounting forms and
methods of keeping the accounts of the south coast district.
40529. The south coast district board may, by resolution, cause to
be drawn all warrants on the treasurer or checks on a bank against
all funds, except funds for debt service, of the south coast district
in the treasury or bank for the payment of salaries and expenses of
the south coast district.
40530. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to draw separate payroll warrants or checks in the
names of the individual south coast district employees for the
respective amounts due each employee so each employee may be
furnished with a statement of the amount earned and an itemization of
the amounts withheld.
40531. (a) Each payroll warrant or check shall show the closing
date of the pay period for which it is issued, the date of issue, and
a statement that it is drawn by order of the south coast district
board. The payroll warrants or checks shall bear the signature of the
controller.
(b) The payroll procedure authorized by the south coast district
board shall specify the ending date of the pay period and the date of
issue for payroll warrants or checks, except that the issue date
shall be on or before the 10th calendar day following the end of the
pay period. The payroll procedure may provide for salary payments,
including salary advances, more frequently than once a month. The
payroll procedure may provide for payroll orders authorizing salary
payments to individual employees on a continuing basis until the time
a notification of changes or adjustments is made.
40532. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to issue warrants or checks in favor of the persons
entitled to payment of all claims chargeable against the south coast
district which have been legally examined, allowed, and ordered paid
by the south coast district board. The controller shall issue
warrants or checks for all those claims against the south coast
district.
40533. The form of the warrants shall be prescribed by the south
coast district board and approved by the treasurer.
40534. Except as specified in Section 40527, no county officer
shall be responsible for producing reports, statements, and other
data relating to or based upon payments of salaries or claims of the
south coast district pursuant to the procedure authorized in this
article.
40535. The south coast district shall provide the officials of the
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association and the San
Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association, in the form
prescribed by them, the data necessary to make retirement reports and
maintain records required by law.
40536. All warrants, checks, vouchers, and supporting documents
shall be kept by the south coast district if the procedure authorized
under this article is implemented.
40537. Notwithstanding Section 27005 of the Government Code, or any
other section requiring warrants or orders for warrants to be signed
by the county auditor, if the south coast district treasurer is a
county treasurer, the county treasurer shall pay the warrant if money
is available and a person authorized to sign the warrant has signed
it. The county treasurer may charge the south coast district for the
cost of fiscal services he or she renders.
40538. The controller shall execute an official bond in an amount
fixed by the south coast district board conditioned upon the faithful
performances of his or her duties.
A county auditor shall not be liable under the terms of his or her
bond or otherwise for a warrant issued pursuant to this article.
This section shall not be applied so as to impair the obligation
of any contract in the bond of the officers in effect on the
effective date of this section.
40539. If the auditor of the south coast district is a county
auditor, he shall be provided, upon his request, a monthly listing of
the warrants issued under this section reporting the warrant number,
the date and amount of the warrant, the name of the payee and the
fund on which the warrant is drawn and a statement showing for the
current fiscal year to date, for each required expenditure
classification, the amount budgeted, actual expenditures,
encumbrances, and unencumbered balances.
The form of the listing and statement shall be as prescribed by
the south coast district board and approved by the county auditor.
40540. Upon adoption of a resolution by the south coast district
board to implement the procedure to issue warrants pursuant to this
article, the procedure shall be implemented on the first day of the
second month following the date of adoption of the resolution. If, at
any time, the south coast district board determines that the
accounting controls of the south coast district have become
inadequate, it may revoke its authorization effective at the
beginning of the next fiscal year.
40520. Upon adoption of its budget for the next fiscal year, the
south coast district board shall apportion the amount that each
county included within the south coast district shall pay to finance
the operation of the south coast district in that fiscal year.
The apportionment to a county shall, as determined by the south
coast district board, be that proportion of the amount that the
population of the portion of the county included within the south
coast district bears to the total population of the south coast
district, either as determined from the latest federal decennial
census or as determined from the latest annual population estimate by
the Department of Finance made pursuant to subdivision (g) of
Section 13073.5 of the Government Code.
40521. (a) For each fiscal year, the percentage increase in the
county apportionments by the south coast district board may not
exceed the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index
as specified in Section 2212 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or
the percentage increase in the total county property tax revenues for
the counties included, in whole or in part, within the south coast
district, whichever is greater.
(b) The limitations specified in subdivision (a) shall not apply
to increases in apportionments resulting from the termination of
federal or state allocations to the south coast district, if the
south coast district board votes to continue the programs financed
with those funds.
40522. The south coast district board may adopt a fee schedule for
the approval of plans for the control of emissions of air
contaminants, if the plans are required by a district rule or
regulation, to cover the costs of review, planning, inspection, and
monitoring related thereto. To the extent that provisions of the
plans are enforceable against the person required to submit the plan,
an annual fee may be charged to cover the costs of annual review,
inspection, and monitoring related thereto. Every person required to
submit a plan, including, notwithstanding Section 6103 of the
Government Code, a person that is a publicly owned public utility,
shall pay the fees required by the schedule. The fees may not exceed
the estimated reasonable cost of planning, monitoring, and enforcing
the plans for which the fee is charged. A noticed public workshop
shall be held at least 30 days prior to any meeting of the south
coast district board at which the levying or revision of the fees is
scheduled for hearing. Supporting data on the actual or estimated
costs required to provide the service for which the fee is charged
shall be made available at the workshop.
40522.5. (a) In addition to any other fees authorized by this
article, the south coast district may adopt, by regulation, a
schedule of fees to be assessed on areawide or indirect sources of
emissions which are regulated, but for which permits are not issued,
by the south coast district to recover the costs of district programs
related to these sources.
(b) The south coast district shall not, however, impose any fee
under this section for either of the following:
(1) Wildland vegetative management burning, as described in
subdivision (c) of Section 39011.
(2) Emergency incident training necessary for the protection of
the community and public safety personnel.
40523. The total amount of fees collected by the south coast
district in any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of fees
collected by the district in the 1993-94 fiscal year, except that the
amount may be adjusted annually in the 1994-95 fiscal year and
subsequent fiscal years to reflect any increase in the California
Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, from January 1
of the prior year to January 1 of the current year, as determined by
the Department of Industrial Relations. This limitation shall not
affect or limit the fees which may be imposed and collected pursuant
to a state or a federal mandate imposed on or after January 1, 1994.
40526. (a) The south coast district board may borrow money and
incur indebtedness in anticipation of the revenue for the current
year in which the indebtedness is incurred or for the ensuing year.
Such indebtedness shall not exceed the total amount of the estimated
revenue for either the current year or the ensuing year.
(b) In addition to any other existing authority, the district may
borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Article 7.4
(commencing with Section 53835) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2
of Title 5 of the Government Code.
40527. The south coast district board shall appoint a treasurer,
who shall be the custodian of funds of the south coast district and
who shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed
by the person authorized by the south coast district board.
The treasurer shall keep an account of all receipts and
disbursements.
40528. The south coast district shall appoint a controller who
shall be the accounting officer for the south coast district and who
shall exercise general supervision over the accounting forms and
methods of keeping the accounts of the south coast district.
40529. The south coast district board may, by resolution, cause to
be drawn all warrants on the treasurer or checks on a bank against
all funds, except funds for debt service, of the south coast district
in the treasury or bank for the payment of salaries and expenses of
the south coast district.
40530. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to draw separate payroll warrants or checks in the
names of the individual south coast district employees for the
respective amounts due each employee so each employee may be
furnished with a statement of the amount earned and an itemization of
the amounts withheld.
40531. (a) Each payroll warrant or check shall show the closing
date of the pay period for which it is issued, the date of issue, and
a statement that it is drawn by order of the south coast district
board. The payroll warrants or checks shall bear the signature of the
controller.
(b) The payroll procedure authorized by the south coast district
board shall specify the ending date of the pay period and the date of
issue for payroll warrants or checks, except that the issue date
shall be on or before the 10th calendar day following the end of the
pay period. The payroll procedure may provide for salary payments,
including salary advances, more frequently than once a month. The
payroll procedure may provide for payroll orders authorizing salary
payments to individual employees on a continuing basis until the time
a notification of changes or adjustments is made.
40532. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to issue warrants or checks in favor of the persons
entitled to payment of all claims chargeable against the south coast
district which have been legally examined, allowed, and ordered paid
by the south coast district board. The controller shall issue
warrants or checks for all those claims against the south coast
district.
40533. The form of the warrants shall be prescribed by the south
coast district board and approved by the treasurer.
40534. Except as specified in Section 40527, no county officer
shall be responsible for producing reports, statements, and other
data relating to or based upon payments of salaries or claims of the
south coast district pursuant to the procedure authorized in this
article.
40535. The south coast district shall provide the officials of the
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association and the San
Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association, in the form
prescribed by them, the data necessary to make retirement reports and
maintain records required by law.
40536. All warrants, checks, vouchers, and supporting documents
shall be kept by the south coast district if the procedure authorized
under this article is implemented.
40537. Notwithstanding Section 27005 of the Government Code, or any
other section requiring warrants or orders for warrants to be signed
by the county auditor, if the south coast district treasurer is a
county treasurer, the county treasurer shall pay the warrant if money
is available and a person authorized to sign the warrant has signed
it. The county treasurer may charge the south coast district for the
cost of fiscal services he or she renders.
40538. The controller shall execute an official bond in an amount
fixed by the south coast district board conditioned upon the faithful
performances of his or her duties.
A county auditor shall not be liable under the terms of his or her
bond or otherwise for a warrant issued pursuant to this article.
This section shall not be applied so as to impair the obligation
of any contract in the bond of the officers in effect on the
effective date of this section.
40539. If the auditor of the south coast district is a county
auditor, he shall be provided, upon his request, a monthly listing of
the warrants issued under this section reporting the warrant number,
the date and amount of the warrant, the name of the payee and the
fund on which the warrant is drawn and a statement showing for the
current fiscal year to date, for each required expenditure
classification, the amount budgeted, actual expenditures,
encumbrances, and unencumbered balances.
The form of the listing and statement shall be as prescribed by
the south coast district board and approved by the county auditor.
40540. Upon adoption of a resolution by the south coast district
board to implement the procedure to issue warrants pursuant to this
article, the procedure shall be implemented on the first day of the
second month following the date of adoption of the resolution. If, at
any time, the south coast district board determines that the
accounting controls of the south coast district have become
inadequate, it may revoke its authorization effective at the
beginning of the next fiscal year.
40520. Upon adoption of its budget for the next fiscal year, the
south coast district board shall apportion the amount that each
county included within the south coast district shall pay to finance
the operation of the south coast district in that fiscal year.
The apportionment to a county shall, as determined by the south
coast district board, be that proportion of the amount that the
population of the portion of the county included within the south
coast district bears to the total population of the south coast
district, either as determined from the latest federal decennial
census or as determined from the latest annual population estimate by
the Department of Finance made pursuant to subdivision (g) of
Section 13073.5 of the Government Code.
40521. (a) For each fiscal year, the percentage increase in the
county apportionments by the south coast district board may not
exceed the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index
as specified in Section 2212 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or
the percentage increase in the total county property tax revenues for
the counties included, in whole or in part, within the south coast
district, whichever is greater.
(b) The limitations specified in subdivision (a) shall not apply
to increases in apportionments resulting from the termination of
federal or state allocations to the south coast district, if the
south coast district board votes to continue the programs financed
with those funds.
40522. The south coast district board may adopt a fee schedule for
the approval of plans for the control of emissions of air
contaminants, if the plans are required by a district rule or
regulation, to cover the costs of review, planning, inspection, and
monitoring related thereto. To the extent that provisions of the
plans are enforceable against the person required to submit the plan,
an annual fee may be charged to cover the costs of annual review,
inspection, and monitoring related thereto. Every person required to
submit a plan, including, notwithstanding Section 6103 of the
Government Code, a person that is a publicly owned public utility,
shall pay the fees required by the schedule. The fees may not exceed
the estimated reasonable cost of planning, monitoring, and enforcing
the plans for which the fee is charged. A noticed public workshop
shall be held at least 30 days prior to any meeting of the south
coast district board at which the levying or revision of the fees is
scheduled for hearing. Supporting data on the actual or estimated
costs required to provide the service for which the fee is charged
shall be made available at the workshop.
40522.5. (a) In addition to any other fees authorized by this
article, the south coast district may adopt, by regulation, a
schedule of fees to be assessed on areawide or indirect sources of
emissions which are regulated, but for which permits are not issued,
by the south coast district to recover the costs of district programs
related to these sources.
(b) The south coast district shall not, however, impose any fee
under this section for either of the following:
(1) Wildland vegetative management burning, as described in
subdivision (c) of Section 39011.
(2) Emergency incident training necessary for the protection of
the community and public safety personnel.
40523. The total amount of fees collected by the south coast
district in any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of fees
collected by the district in the 1993-94 fiscal year, except that the
amount may be adjusted annually in the 1994-95 fiscal year and
subsequent fiscal years to reflect any increase in the California
Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, from January 1
of the prior year to January 1 of the current year, as determined by
the Department of Industrial Relations. This limitation shall not
affect or limit the fees which may be imposed and collected pursuant
to a state or a federal mandate imposed on or after January 1, 1994.
40526. (a) The south coast district board may borrow money and
incur indebtedness in anticipation of the revenue for the current
year in which the indebtedness is incurred or for the ensuing year.
Such indebtedness shall not exceed the total amount of the estimated
revenue for either the current year or the ensuing year.
(b) In addition to any other existing authority, the district may
borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Article 7.4
(commencing with Section 53835) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2
of Title 5 of the Government Code.
40527. The south coast district board shall appoint a treasurer,
who shall be the custodian of funds of the south coast district and
who shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed
by the person authorized by the south coast district board.
The treasurer shall keep an account of all receipts and
disbursements.
40528. The south coast district shall appoint a controller who
shall be the accounting officer for the south coast district and who
shall exercise general supervision over the accounting forms and
methods of keeping the accounts of the south coast district.
40529. The south coast district board may, by resolution, cause to
be drawn all warrants on the treasurer or checks on a bank against
all funds, except funds for debt service, of the south coast district
in the treasury or bank for the payment of salaries and expenses of
the south coast district.
40530. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to draw separate payroll warrants or checks in the
names of the individual south coast district employees for the
respective amounts due each employee so each employee may be
furnished with a statement of the amount earned and an itemization of
the amounts withheld.
40531. (a) Each payroll warrant or check shall show the closing
date of the pay period for which it is issued, the date of issue, and
a statement that it is drawn by order of the south coast district
board. The payroll warrants or checks shall bear the signature of the
controller.
(b) The payroll procedure authorized by the south coast district
board shall specify the ending date of the pay period and the date of
issue for payroll warrants or checks, except that the issue date
shall be on or before the 10th calendar day following the end of the
pay period. The payroll procedure may provide for salary payments,
including salary advances, more frequently than once a month. The
payroll procedure may provide for payroll orders authorizing salary
payments to individual employees on a continuing basis until the time
a notification of changes or adjustments is made.
40532. The south coast district board may authorize, in writing,
the controller to issue warrants or checks in favor of the persons
entitled to payment of all claims chargeable against the south coast
district which have been legally examined, allowed, and ordered paid
by the south coast district board. The controller shall issue
warrants or checks for all those claims against the south coast
district.
40533. The form of the warrants shall be prescribed by the south
coast district board and approved by the treasurer.
40534. Except as specified in Section 40527, no county officer
shall be responsible for producing reports, statements, and other
data relating to or based upon payments of salaries or claims of the
south coast district pursuant to the procedure authorized in this
article.
40535. The south coast district shall provide the officials of the
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association and the San
Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association, in the form
prescribed by them, the data necessary to make retirement reports and
maintain records required by law.
40536. All warrants, checks, vouchers, and supporting documents
shall be kept by the south coast district if the procedure authorized
under this article is implemented.
40537. Notwithstanding Section 27005 of the Government Code, or any
other section requiring warrants or orders for warrants to be signed
by the county auditor, if the south coast district treasurer is a
county treasurer, the county treasurer shall pay the warrant if money
is available and a person authorized to sign the warrant has signed
it. The county treasurer may charge the south coast district for the
cost of fiscal services he or she renders.
40538. The controller shall execute an official bond in an amount
fixed by the south coast district board conditioned upon the faithful
performances of his or her duties.
A county auditor shall not be liable under the terms of his or her
bond or otherwise for a warrant issued pursuant to this article.
This section shall not be applied so as to impair the obligation
of any contract in the bond of the officers in effect on the
effective date of this section.
40539. If the auditor of the south coast district is a county
auditor, he shall be provided, upon his request, a monthly listing of
the warrants issued under this section reporting the warrant number,
the date and amount of the warrant, the name of the payee and the
fund on which the warrant is drawn and a statement showing for the
current fiscal year to date, for each required expenditure
classification, the amount budgeted, actual expenditures,
encumbrances, and unencumbered balances.
The form of the listing and statement shall be as prescribed by
the south coast district board and approved by the county auditor.
40540. Upon adoption of a resolution by the south coast district
board to implement the procedure to issue warrants pursuant to this
article, the procedure shall be implemented on the first day of the
second month following the date of adoption of the resolution. If, at
any time, the south coast district board determines that the
accounting controls of the south coast district have become
inadequate, it may revoke its authorization effective at the
beginning of the next fiscal year.
