CHAPTER 5. Protest and Hearing [18070. - 18077.]

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC 5.

in effect

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 18070. Section 18070.

(a) After the adoption of the resolution of intention, the city council shall direct the clerk to give notice and set the time and date for a public meeting and public hearing pursuant to Section 54954.6 of the Government Code. (b) If assessments are to be levied as contemplated by Section 18041, then the notice procedures shall comply with Section 53753 of the Government Code.

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 18074. Section 18074.

(a) Any person interested who objects to the proposed improvement may file a written protest, stating his or her objections, with the clerk at or before the hour set for the hearing of protests. The clerk shall indorse on every protest the date and time of its reception by him or her, and at the time appointed for the hearing shall present to the governing body all protests so filed. (b) If assessments are to be levied, the protest procedures shall comply with Section 53753 of the Government Code.

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 18075. Section 18075.

The city council shall hear, consider, and pass upon the protests against the proposed improvement at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearings may be adjourned, and its decision on all matters of protest shall be final and conclusive. If those protests are sustained, the proceedings shall be abandoned but may be renewed at any time. If those protests are denied or if no protests are filed the proposed assessment as the same shall have been modified or corrected shall be confirmed, and the city council shall thereupon acquire jurisdiction to proceed with the improvement and may by resolution order the proposed improvement to be made.

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 18076. Section 18076.

If there is a majority protest by the landowners in any zone to the improvement in that zone, or if the officer or person designated reports that it is practical to subdivide a zone and a majority of the landowners in that subdivided zone protest the improvement in that subdivided zone, the city council shall strike that zone or subdivided zone from the proceedings and correct the proposed assessment accordingly, unless that body, by a four-fifths affirmative vote of all its members finds that the public interest and convenience require that street lights in that zone or subdivided zone be improved. The determination of the city council shall be final and conclusive.

Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 18077. Section 18077.

If a zone or subdivided zone is struck from the proceedings, the city council may proceed the same as though that zone or subdivided zone was not a part of the original proceedings.

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