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AB-15 Seismic safety: public buildings.(1989-1990)

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Assembly Bill No. 15
CHAPTER 31

An act relating to earthquake safety, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  September 21, 1990. Approved by Governor  September 20, 1990. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 15, Cortese. Seismic safety: public buildings.
The Earthquake Safety and Public Building Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1990 authorizes the issuance of state general obligation bonds in the amount of $300,000,000 to provide funds for the reconstruction, repair, replacement, relocation, or seismic retrofitting of buildings owned by local governments or the state.
Existing law provides that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, up to 1% of the moneys deposited in the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990, pursuant to the issuance of the general obligation bonds, may be used by the Seismic Safety Commission, to research methods, techniques, and technologies to identify and analyze existing potentially hazardous buildings and facilities, including, but not limited to, unreinforced masonry construction. Existing provisions also authorize the commission to use those funds for purposes of researching and developing methods, techniques, and technologies for seismic safety retrofitting of the buildings, as well as helping to develop and prepare building standards and administrative regulations relating to the retrofitting of the buildings for seismic safety purposes.
This bill would, in accordance with this authority, appropriate from the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 to the commission, $140,000 for use during the 1990–91 fiscal year for the purpose of establishing guidelines for the administration and disbursement of funds.
This bill would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Appropriation: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 For the purposes of the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1990 (Chapter 12.47 (commencing with Section 8878.50) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and in accordance with subdivision (d) of Section 8878.55 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated one hundred forty thousand dollars ($140,000) from the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 to the Seismic Safety Commission for use during the 1990–91 fiscal year for the purpose of establishing guidelines for the administration and disbursement of funds.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order for the immediate commencement of the Proposition 122 earthquake hazards research program to begin so that research can be completed prior to and applied to the seismic retrofit of state and local government buildings and facilities, it is essential that this act take immediate effect.