Section 100.96 - Allocation of revenue from property tax assessed on qualified property owned by public utility(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2011-12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, all of the following shall apply: (1) The revenue from the property tax assessed on qualified property, which is owned by a public utility and assessed by the State Board of Equalization, shall be allocated in accordance with subdivision (b) entirely within the county in which the qualified property is located.(2) The tax rate applied to the assessed value of qualified property shall be the rate calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 100.(b) The county auditor shall do both of the following with respect to the property tax revenues derived from applying the tax rate described in subdivision (b) of Section 100 to the qualified property: (1) Allocate the property tax revenues derived from applying the tax rate described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 100 as follows:(A) First, to the county in which the qualified property is located and to all of the school entities located in that county, the amount of property tax revenues that would have otherwise been allocated to the county and school entities or districts had this section not been enacted.(B) Second, to the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, an amount equal to 2 percent of the property tax revenues.(C) Third, to the City of Oakley, the balance of the property tax revenues.(2) Allocate the property tax revenues derived from applying the tax rate described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 100 as follows:(A) First, to taxing jurisdictions in those tax rate areas in the county in which the qualified property is located, an amount equivalent to the State Board of Equalization's assessed value of the qualified property for the year multiplied by any override rate adopted by the local agency for the year.(B) Second, the balance to taxing jurisdictions in accordance with subdivision (d) of Section 100.(3) In order to make the allocations required by this subdivision, the county auditor shall make any necessary pro rata reductions in the allocations of property tax revenues attributable to the qualified property to jurisdictions other than those receiving an allocation under this subdivision.(c) The City of Oakley shall reimburse the county auditor for the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the county auditor to administer this section.(d) For purposes of this section, all of the following shall apply:(1) "Qualified property" means both of the following:(A) All plant and associated equipment, including substation facilities and fee-owned land and easements, placed in service by a public utility in the City of Oakley on or after January 1, 2011, and related to the following: (i) Electrical substation facilities that meet either of the following conditions:(I) The high-side voltage of the facility's transformer is 50,000 volts or more.(II) The substation facilities are operated at 50,000 volts or more.(ii) Electric generation facilities that have a nameplate generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more.(iii) Electric transmission line facilities of 200,000 volts or more.(B) Any additions, modifications, reconductoring, or equivalent replacements to the plant and associated equipment made after the plant and associated equipment are placed into service.(2) A public utility shall provide to the State Board of Equalization a description of the qualified property in the form prescribed by the board so that a separate valuation can be determined. The State Board of Equalization shall transmit to the auditor of Contra Costa County the information necessary to identify the qualified property and the corresponding assessed value data necessary to make the property tax revenue allocations required by this section.(e)(1) The City of Oakley shall develop one new housing unit for each 40 jobs created on real property within the area that was, on September 1, 2010, owned by the DuPont Corporation, commonly and formerly known as the DuPont Antioch Plant, and consisting of approximately 378 acres. This obligation shall commence upon placing the qualified property in service.(2) All units newly developed pursuant to this section:(A) Shall be affordable to, and occupied by, extremely low income persons, as defined in the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).(B) Shall comply with the requirements of the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code), except as otherwise provided in this section.(C) Shall be completed and occupied no later than 10 years after any number of units required pursuant to paragraph (1) is determined pursuant to paragraph (3).(D) May be located anywhere within the City of Oakley.(E) May be used to satisfy the City of Oakley's regional housing needs allocation.(3) The number of jobs created in the area specified in paragraph (1) shall be determined as follows: (A) By January 1, 2014, and by January 1, each five years thereafter, the City of Oakley shall determine the number of jobs, full and part time, existing in the area described in paragraph (1). The City of Oakley shall use data from a state or federal agency in making the determination. The number of units required pursuant to this section shall be one-fortieth of the number of jobs calculated and shall be included in the City of Oakley's first applicable implementation plan.(B) For each subsequent implementation plan, the number of additional units shall be based on the increase, if any, in the number of jobs since the prior calculation.Ca. Rev. and Tax. Code § 100.96
Added by Stats 2011 ch 710 (SB 536),s 2, eff. 10/9/2011.