(a) This division shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized by this code, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of bonds and refunding bonds and the financing or refinancing of projects or the imposition and collection of tolls under this division need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds or the collection of tolls, including, but not limited to, Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (a), the financing of a project pursuant to this division shall not exempt a project from any requirement of law that is otherwise applicable to the project, and the project sponsor shall provide documentation, before the authority approves the issuance of bonds for the project, that the project has complied with Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code, or is not a project under that division.