(a) The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be used for any lawful purpose of the district.
(b) During the first three years the taxes are imposed pursuant to this article, 25 percent of the revenues generated from such taxes shall be allocated by the district to Orange County and the cities therein in the proportion that the population of the county or city, as the case may be, bears to the total population of the district. For purposes of this subdivision, the population of the county shall be the population of the unincorporated territory of the county.
(c) The revenues allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be used by the county and the cities to finance public transit services, which shall be coordinated with the public transit services operated by the district. The county or any city may also use the revenues to finance public transit services operated by the district.
(d) At the end of four years, as measured from the initial imposition of the taxes pursuant to this article, any of the revenues allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) which has not been expended for public transit services shall revert to the district.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 508.)