The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency is hereby created, as a local area planning agency, and not as a part of the executive branch of the state government, to provide regional transportation planning for the area of Placer County, exclusive of the Tahoe Basin, as that term is defined in Section 66800. The agency may be known by any other name it chooses.
Placer County Transportation Planning Agency
Section § 67910
The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency is set up to handle transportation planning for Placer County, except for the Tahoe Basin area. It's a local agency and not part of the state government. They can also choose a different name if they'd like.
Placer County Transportation Planning Local Agency
Section § 67911
This law section outlines how a specific agency is formed. It states that the county board of supervisors appoints three members, while each city council in the county appoints one member. It also allows for the appointment of alternate members who can step in when regular members are unavailable or unable to participate in meetings.
The agency shall be composed of three members appointed by the county board of supervisors and one member appointed by the city council of each incorporated city in the county. The appointing authority, for each regular member it appoints, may appoint an alternate member to serve in place of the regular member when the regular member is absent or disqualified from participating in a meeting of the agency.
agency composition county board of supervisors city council appointment
Section § 67912
The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency can create a tax for transportation improvements in Placer County, except the Tahoe Basin, up to 1%. This tax requires several steps: drafting an ordinance, voter approval, and compliance with existing tax regulations. Before voting, the agency must decide which parts of the county the tax will cover, ensuring it applies completely to city groupings and unincorporated areas. Revenue from the tax must fund local transportation projects and must provide additional resources, not replace existing funds.
The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency, acting as a local transportation authority so designated by the board of supervisors for the County of Placer pursuant to the Local Transportation Authority and Improvement Act (Division 19 (commencing with Section 180000) of the Public Utilities Code) and consistent with that act, may impose a transactions and use tax applicable to the entirety of, or a portion of, the County of Placer, excluding the
Tahoe Basin, at a rate not to exceed 1 percent if all of the following requirements are met:
(a)CA Government Code § 67912(a) The agency adopts an ordinance proposing the transactions and use tax subject to any applicable voting approval requirement.
(b)CA Government Code § 67912(b) The ordinance proposing the transactions and use tax is submitted to the electorate and is approved by the voters voting on the ordinance pursuant to Article XIII C of the California Constitution.
(c)CA Government Code § 67912(c) The transactions and use tax conforms to the Transactions and Use Tax Law (Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code).
(d)CA Government Code § 67912(d) The portion of the county to which the tax would apply
shall be determined by the agency before the electors vote on the measure.
(e)CA Government Code § 67912(e) If the tax only applies to a portion of the county, both of the following shall apply:
(1)CA Government Code § 67912(e)(1) The incorporated area of each city and of contiguous cities within the county shall be either wholly included within that portion or wholly excluded from that portion. For purposes of this paragraph, “contiguous cities” means two or more cities with shared borders.
(2)CA Government Code § 67912(e)(2) The entire unincorporated area of the county shall either be wholly included within that portion or wholly excluded from that portion.
(f)CA Government Code § 67912(f) The revenues derived from the tax shall be spent within, or for the
benefit of, the portion of the county to which the tax applies, and shall be spent only on transportation and transit infrastructure and services.
(g)CA Government Code § 67912(g) Any revenues derived from the tax shall supplement, and not supplant, other transportation and transit infrastructure and service revenues available to the portion of the county to which the tax applies.
Placer County Transportation Planning Agency transactions and use tax tax rate
