In addition to other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) may issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article to pay the cost and expenses of acquiring or constructing a project or conducting a program for any or all of the following purposes:
(a) An exhibition building or other place for holding fairs or exhibitions for the display of agricultural, livestock, industrial, or other products, including movable equipment, entertainment facilities, and other facilities to be used in conjunction with holding a fair or exposition in several locations, including those projects and facilities specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 19606.1 of the Business and Professions Code, those projects and facilities specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 3205 of the Food and Agricultural Code, that project and facility authorized by Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 4161) of Chapter 6 of Part 3 of Division 3 of the Food and Agricultural Code, and for those purposes specified in an agreement pursuant to Section 6516 of the Government Code.
(b) A coliseum, a stadium, a sports arena or sports pavilion, or other building for holding sports events, athletic contests, contests of skill, exhibitions, spectacles, and other public meetings.
(c) Any other public buildings, including, but not limited to, general administrative facilities of a city, county, city and county, special district, or authority.
(d) A regional or local public park, recreational area, or recreational center, and all facilities and improvements related thereto.
(e) A facility for the generation or transmission of electrical energy for public or private uses and all rights, properties, and improvements necessary therefor, including fuel and water facilities and resources. As used in this chapter, “transmission of electric energy” does not include the final distribution of electric energy to the consumer.
(f) A facility for the disposal, treatment, or conversion to energy and reusable materials of solid or hazardous waste or toxic substances.
(g) Facilities for the production, storage, transmission, or treatment of water or wastewater.
(h) Local streets, roads, and bridges.
(i) Bridges and major thoroughfares construction pursuant to Sections 50029 and 66484.3.
(j) Mass transit facilities or vehicles.
(k) Publicly owned or operated commercial or general aviation airports and airport-related facilities.
(l) Police or fire stations.
(m) Public works facilities, including corporation yards.
(n) Public health facilities owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, special district, or authority.
(o) Criminal justice facilities, including court buildings, jails, juvenile halls, and juvenile detention facilities.
(p) Public libraries.
(q) Publicly owned or operated parking garages.
(r) Low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority.
(s) Public improvements authorized in a project area created pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law, Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code.
(t) Public improvements authorized pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911, Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Streets and Highways Code, the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 (commencing with Section 8500) of the Streets and Highways Code, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, Division 12 (commencing with Section 10000) of the Streets and Highways Code, and the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 53311) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5.
(u) Telecommunication systems or service, including, but not limited to, the installation, provision, or maintenance of that system or service.
(v) (1) Programs, facilities, rights, properties, and improvements for the management, conservation, reuse, or recycling of electric capacity or energy, natural gas, water, wastewater, or recycled water, including demand side or load management and other programs and facilities designed to reduce the demand for, or permit or promote the efficient use of, those resources.
(2) “Programs,” for the purpose of this subdivision, shall include activities only to the extent the costs thereof may be charged to a capital account under applicable generally accepted accounting principles or are of a type required to be charged to a capital account by entities subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission or other regulatory body of the state.
(w) Equipment necessary to support the above-listed facilities or necessary to deliver public services therefrom, including, but not limited to, telecommunications equipment, computers, and service vehicles.
(x) Bonds may be issued pursuant to this article if the joint powers entity, or its individual parties that contract pursuant to Section 6547.5, 6547.6, or 6547.7 to make payments to be applied to the payment of the indebtedness, have the power to acquire, construct, maintain, or operate one or more of the projects specified in this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 559, Sec. 73. (AB 2143) Effective January 1, 2025.)