Cal. SHC § 36525
This is the official text of Cal. SHC § 36525, part of California’s Streets and Highways Code — governs the construction and maintenance of public roads.
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Official statutory text
(a) If written protests are received from the owners of businesses in the proposed area which will pay 50 percent or more of the assessments proposed to be levied and protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the protests to less than that 50 percent, no further proceedings to create the specified parking and business improvement area or to levy the proposed assessment, as contained in the resolution of intention, shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the finding of a majority protest by the city council.
(b) If the majority protest is only against the furnishing of a specified type or types of improvement or activity within the area, those types of improvements or activities shall be eliminated.
(b) If the majority protest is only against the furnishing of a specified type or types of improvement or activity within the area, those types of improvements or activities shall be eliminated.
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