California Streets and Highways Code

§ 5899

SHC § 5899 Effective Jan 1, 2012Div. 7 · Part 3 · Ch. 29 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1)It is the intent of the Legislature to address seismic safety needs throughout this state by permitting voluntary individual efforts to improve the seismic safety of homes and buildings. The Legislature further intends that this chapter should be used to finance the installation of seismic strengthening improvements that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property, including, but not limited to, the seismic strengthening of cripple walls and sill plate anchorage of light, wood-framed buildings.

(2)The upfront cost of making residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property more seismically safe prevents many property owners from making those improvements. To make those improvements more affordable and to promote the installation of those strengthening improvements, it is necessary to authorize an alternative procedure for authorizing assessments to finance the cost of seismic strengthening improvements.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 28, Sec. 2. (AB 184) Effective January 1, 2012.