California Streets and Highways Code

§ 5899.4

SHC § 5899.4 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 7 · Part 3 · Ch. 29 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide homeowners and businesses with an affordable way to finance improvements to their homes and buildings that make those facilities more resistant to wildfire by permitting voluntary individual efforts to improve the wildfire resilience and safety of those facilities. The Legislature further intends that this chapter should be used to finance the installation of wildfire safety improvements that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property.

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

(3)A public purpose will be served by a voluntary contractual assessment program that provides the legislative body of any public agency with the authority to finance the installation of wildfire safety improvements that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real property.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 837, Sec. 12. (SB 465) Effective January 1, 2019. Repealed as of January 1, 2029, by its own provisions.