13.10.030 Definitions.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter.
“District” means any special tax district formed pursuant to this chapter.
“Facilities” means any or all facilities that a district may finance, purchase, construct, expand, improve, or rehabilitate pursuant to Government Code Section 53313.5.
“Mello-Roos Act” means the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 (Chapter 2.5, commencing with Section 53311, of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, as amended from time to time). Government Code sections referenced in this chapter shall mean that section as amended from time to time.
“Private residential purposes,” when considering property use, shall not include property used primarily for hotel or residential hotel purposes. Such property shall be deemed used for commercial and nonresidential use.
“Services” means any or all of the following:
1. Maintaining, servicing, or replacing: (a) any street, highway, road, alley, lane, boulevard, pedestrian mall, parkway, bike path, trail easement, or other way dedicated to public use or used by the public; and (b) all appurtenances and improvements therein including, but not limited to, medians, street signs, other signage, street lights, traffic signals, hydrants, soundwalls, drains, tunnels, sewers, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, conduits, culverts, and channels for drainage purposes, with necessary outlets, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, disposal plants, connection sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, landscaping, and hardscaping.
2. Maintaining or servicing any lakes, streams, rivers, creeks, channels or other bodies of water and the streambeds, riverbeds, creekbeds, channelbeds or lakebeds, or replacing infrastructure necessary to maintaining or servicing any of the foregoing.
3. Maintaining, servicing, or replacing any landscaping, hardscaping, lighting or signage next to any right-of-way or other way dedicated to public use or used by the public and described in (1), of this definition, or next to any canal, basin, or ditch.
4. Establishing and maintaining a reasonable reserve for replacement under (1) through (3), of this definition. The reserve for replacement shall be a service cost or expense and shall not be deemed payment for public facilities under Government Code Section 53321(d) when the property subject to the special tax is used for private residential purposes.
5. Maintaining health and safety services including, without limitation, police, fire, traffic signal control, and recreational services.
6. Maintaining, caring for, or preserving any facilities defined in this chapter.
7. Any other services allowed pursuant to Section 53313 of the Government Code. (Ord. 4314 § 1, 2006)