Section 54340.

54340. A local agency may acquire any enterprise by gift, purchase, or eminent domain. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Section 54341.

54341. A local agency may construct or improve any enterprise wholly or partially within or wholly without the local agency. By gift, lease, purchase, eminent domain, or otherwise, it may acquire any real or personal property, or any interest in or improvement on any such property, or any water rights for an enterprise, except that […]

Section 54342.

54342. A local agency may operate, maintain, repair, or manage all or any part of any enterprise, including the leasing for commercial purposes of surplus space or other space which it is not economic to use for such enterprise. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 526.)

Section 54343.

54343. The local agency may adopt reasonable rules or regulations for the conduct of the enterprise. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 602.)

Section 54344.

54344. A local agency may prescribe, revise, and collect charges for the services, facilities, or water furnished by the enterprise. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 526.)

Section 54345.

54345. The local agency may provide that charges for any sewer enterprise or service shall be collected together with and not separately from the charges for any other utility service rendered by it, and that all charges shall be billed upon the same bill and collected as one item. (Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1506.)

Section 54346.

54346. (a) If all or part of the bill is not paid, the local agency may discontinue any and all service for which the bill is rendered. (b) Commencing January 1, 1982, if all or part of the bill is not paid, and the ratepayer states the reason for the nonpayment of a component or components of […]

Section 54346.1.

54346.1. The local agency may enter into a written contract with a privately owned public utility rendering other than gas or electric service, that the charges for any sewer enterprise or service shall be collected together with and not separately from the charges of said privately owned public utility for any other utility service rendered […]

Section 54346.2.

54346.2. If all or any part of the bill of any privately owned public utility on which any sewer enterprise or service charge is collected is not paid, the privately owned public utility may discontinue its utility service until said bill is paid. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1506.)

Section 54346.3.

54346.3. The local agency may enter into a written contract with any person, firm or public or private corporation providing for the billing and collection by such person, firm or corporation of the charges for the facilities, service or water furnished by any enterprise. If all or any part of any bill rendered by any […]

Section 54346.4.

54346.4. (a) A local agency whose jurisdiction is geographically coextensive with the county in which it operates, acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plan, works, facilities, or undertaking for the collection, treatment, or disposal of storm water, including drainage, may, with the concurrence of the county, provide for the collection of the agency’s charges in the […]

Section 54347.

54347. The local agency may provide for the collection of charges. Provisions may be made for, but are not limited to: (a) The granting of discounts for prompt payment of bills. (b) The requiring of deposits or the prepayment of charges in an amount not exceeding one year’s charges either from persons receiving service and using the […]

Section 54348.

54348. The local agency may provide for a basic penalty for nonpayment of the charges within the time and in the manner prescribed by it. Said basic penalty shall not be more than 10 percent of each month’s charges for the first month delinquent. In addition to the basic penalty it may provide for a […]

Section 54349.

54349. The local agency may issue bonds for funds to acquire, construct, improve or finance an enterprise. The bonds may be secured pursuant to this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 526.)

Section 54350.

54350. A local agency has police power over any enterprise acquired, constructed, or improved pursuant to this chapter and may make and enforce all necessary regulations to protect the public health in the operation and maintenance of the enterprise. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Section 54351.

54351. If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sanitation or garbage removal or disposal system, it may require its inhabitants to use the facilities exclusively. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Section 54352.

54352. If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sewer system pursuant to this chapter, it may declare that the further maintenance or use of cesspools or other local means of sewage disposal constitutes a public nuisance. If the buildings are within a reasonable distance, but not more than two hundred feet, from connection […]

Section 54353.

54353. As a remedy established for the collection of due and unpaid deposits and charges and the penalties thereon an action may be brought in the name of the local agency in any court of competent jurisdiction against the person or persons who occupied or, in the case of unoccupied property, who owned the property […]

Section 54354.

54354. A local agency that acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plant, works, facilities or undertaking for the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or for the obtaining, conserving, treating, and supplying of water, or for the collection, treatment, or disposal of storm water, including drainage, may declare in the resolution or ordinance prescribing or […]

Section 54354.5.

54354.5. A resolution or ordinance prescribing or revising charges for the services or facilities furnished by the enterprise and declaring that delinquent charges and penalties when recorded as provided in this chapter shall constitute a lien upon the real property served shall not be adopted until the legislative body has given notice of and held […]