40370-40377

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 40370-40377




40370.  A regional district 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 estimate of the tax income
for either the current year or the ensuing year.



40371.  Before the 15th day of June of each year, the regional
district board shall estimate and determine the amount of money
required by the regional district for its purposes during the ensuing
fiscal year and shall apportion this amount to the counties included
within the regional district, one-half according to the relative
value of the real property of each county, or that portion thereof,
within the regional district as determined by the regional district
board and one-half in the proportion that the population of each
county, or that portion thereof, within the regional district bears
to the total population of the regional district.
   For the purposes of this section, the regional district board
shall base its determination of the population on the latest official
information available to it.



40372.  On or before the 15th day of June of each year, the regional
district board shall inform the board of supervisors of each county
of the amount apportioned to the county.
   Each board of supervisors shall levy an ad valorem tax on the
taxable property, but not including intangible personal property,
within the county, or that portion thereof, included within the
regional district sufficient to secure the amount so apportioned to
it. Such taxes shall be levied and collected together with, and not
separately from, the taxes for county purposes and shall be paid to
the treasurer of each of the counties to the credit of the regional
district.



40373.  Taxes levied by a board of supervisors for the benefit of a
regional district shall be a lien upon all property within such
county, or that portion thereof, lying within the regional district
and shall have the same force and effect as other liens for taxes.
Their collection may be enforced in the same manner as liens for
county taxes are enforced.



40374.  (a) (1) At any time prior to the first receipt by a regional
district of revenues from taxation, the counties within the regional
district may loan any available money to the regional district for
purposes of organization and operation, and such expenditures shall
constitute a proper expenditure of county funds.
   (2) The regional district board shall add the sums of money so
borrowed from the counties to the first amount apportioned by the
regional district board pursuant to Section 40371, and shall repay
the counties for all money borrowed from the first revenues received
from taxation.
   (b) A regional district may contract, by a memorandum of
understanding, joint powers agreement, or other agreement, with a
county or counties in which the regional district is functioning, to
provide facilities and administrative, legal, health coverage, risk
management, clerical, and other support services, including, but not
limited to, those services that the county or counties provided to
the regional district prior to July 1, 1994.



40375.  The treasurers of the counties included, in whole or in
part, within a regional district shall pay into the regional district
treasury all funds held by them to the credit of the regional
district.


40376.  A regional district treasury shall be in the custody of the
county treasurer of a county in the regional district designated by
the regional district board, and such treasurer shall be the regional
district treasurer.


40377.  A regional district board shall, in carrying out the
provisions of this article, comply as nearly as possible with the
provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29000), Division 3,
Title 3 of the Government Code.