Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: return of improperly collected money.

Existing law authorizes the formation of a fire protection district and further authorizes an established district to raise revenues, including, but not limited to, levying assessments for fire suppression services pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing law also authorizes a district to charge fees to cover the costs of providing certain services or enforcing certain regulations and to waive those fees under specified conditions. This bill would authorize the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, until January 1, 2015, and notwithstanding any other law, to return money it improperly collected from payees due to a clerical error in the district's administration of a special tax levied from 2005 to 2012, inclusive. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the public purpose served by this act. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.