Document Citation: Cal Pub Util Code § 130234

Header:
CALIFORNIA CODES ANNOTATED
PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE
Division 12. County Transportation Commissions
Chapter 4. Powers and Functions
Article 2. Contracts


Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
Cal Pub Util Code § 130234 (2011)

§ 130234. Emergency expenditures in case of public calamity



In case of any great public calamity, such as an extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, or other disaster, or interruption of contracts essential to the provision of daily transit service or catastrophic failure of revenue-producing equipment or facilities, the commission may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all its members, declare and determine that public interest and necessity demand the immediate expenditure of public money to safeguard life, health, or property, and thereupon proceed to expend or enter into a contract involving the expenditure of any sum needed in the emergency without observance of the provisions in this article regarding contracts, bids, advertisement, or notice.