CA Pub Util Code Section 99001

The Legislature finds and declares that:

(a)

It is necessary and in the best interest of the citizens of the state to authorize operators to levy special benefit assessments for needed eligible transit projects on the property that benefits from those transit projects.

(b)

The eligible transit projects provide special benefits to parcels of land, and improvements thereon, in the vicinity of transit stations, and provide general benefits to the community at large. The board of the operator shall be the conclusive judge of the proportion of special and general benefits produced by the eligible transit projects and of the distribution of the special benefits among parcels of property within the benefit assessment district.