Title WAT, California Water Code

After the filing of the formation petition, and if any, the plans and specifications, the estimate of cost, and statement of the proposed assessment, the board shall give notice of a hearing upon the petition, and if a special assessment is to be levied in the improvement distric…

Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following: (a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed improvement district. (b) Publication of the notice once a week for two weeks in a newspaper published in the office county. (c) Mailing a copy of the not…

At the hearing the board shall hear any objections coming before it to any of the following: (a) The petition. (b) The formation of the improvement district. (c) The land to be included within the improvement district. (d) The plans and specifications. (e) The estimate of cost. (…

At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to the matters set forth in Section 23647 as it considers proper. The board may exclude any part of the land described in the petition from the proposed improvement district and may include additional land. (Added by St…

If any additional land is included in the proposed improvement district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added land given personal notice of not less than 20 days of the addition of the land to the improvement district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Any of the following conditions specified in the plans and specifications of any improvement district heretofore or hereafter formed imposed upon the respective parcels of land in the improvement district are binding and may be enforced: (a) Limitations, based on the amount of as…

All such tolls, connection charges, and additional assessments shall be held and applied upon and reduce the last call or calls of the improvement district assessment, or held, and used, or distributed as provided for in Section 24529. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 718.)

Upon receiving the assessment book from the assessor the secretary shall immediately give notice of its receipt and of the time, fixed by the board, when the board acting as a board of equalization will meet to equalize assessments. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The notice shall be given by publication at least twice in a newspaper published in each affected county and if the office county is not an affected county, also in a newspaper published in the office county. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The notice shall be first published at least 20 days and not more than 30 days before the time fixed for the first meeting of the board as a board of equalization. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Failure to publish the equalization notice in any county other than the office county shall not affect the validity of any assessment on land in a county in which notice was published. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Until the equalization is finished, the assessment book shall remain in the district office in the possession of the secretary for the inspection of all persons interested. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

On the day specified in the notice of equalization, the board shall meet as a board of equalization to hear and determine objections to the valuation, acreage, or any matter pertaining to the assessment coming before it. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The board acting as a board of equalization shall continue in session from time to time as long as may be necessary but not to exceed 10 days exclusive of Sundays. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The board acting as a board of equalization shall order any changes in the assessment that it deems just. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The secretary shall be present during the equalization proceedings and shall make all changes ordered in the assessment book. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Within 10 days after the close of the equalization session the secretary shall add the total values and determine the gross assessed valuation of the lands after final equalization by the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

(a) The board shall, at its first meeting or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint by a majority vote a general manager and a secretary. (b) The board shall also, by majority vote, do either of the following: (1) Appoint an auditor or treasurer to carry out the duties requir…

A director shall not be the general manager, secretary, treasurer, or auditor. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 454, Sec. 4.)

The general manager, secretary, treasurer, and auditor shall each receive the compensation determined by the board and shall serve at its pleasure. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 454, Sec. 5.)

The same person may serve as general manager and secretary, secretary and auditor, or secretary and treasurer. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 454, Sec. 6.)

The board may at any time appoint or employ and prescribe the authorities and duties of other officers, employees, attorneys, and engineers necessary or convenient for the business of the district, each of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the board. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. …

The general manager, secretary, auditor, treasurer, and other employees or assistants of the district, as required by the board, shall each give a bond to the district conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties as the board may provide. (Amended by Stats. 1991,…

Any regular employee of a district who is a deputy sheriff, or who has successfully completed the peace officer training course described in subdivision (a) of Section 832 of the Penal Code, and is designated by appropriate resolution of the board, has the authority to issue cita…

(a) A district may employ a suitable security force. The employees of the district that are designated by the general manager as security officers shall have the authority and powers conferred by Section 830.34 of the Penal Code upon peace officers. The district shall adhere to t…

A district may take any property necessary to carry out the business of the district by grant, purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or lease with or without the privilege of purchase. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 582.)

A district may hold, use, enjoy, lease, or dispose of property within or without the district necessary to the full exercise of its powers. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

A district may construct, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire works, water rights, land, rights, and privileges useful or necessary to convey, supply, store, or otherwise make use of water for any purposes authorized by this division. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

A district may, on terms and conditions agreed upon by the board and the board of directors of a municipal water district formed pursuant to the Municipal Water District Act of 1911: (a) Transfer, sell, lease, or convey to the municipal water district any works, land, or structur…

A district may sell or lease the mineral or hydrocarbon rights in any land belonging to it when deemed by the board for the best interest of the district. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water, including sewage and storm waters, for the beneficial use or uses of the district or its inhabitants or the owners of rights to water therein. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 695.)…

A district may cooperate, act in conjunction and contract with the State of California or any agency thereof, municipalities, public and private corporations of any kind, and persons with respect to the salvage, control, storage, spreading, distribution, treatment, purification, …

A district may make and perform any agreement with the State of California or any agency thereof, any public or private corporation of any kind, and any person, or any of them for the joint construction, acquisition, disposition or operation of any property or works of a kind whi…

A district may acquire by any means stock of any mutual water company or corporation for the purpose of furnishing a supply of water for public, municipal or governmental purposes. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1652.)

The North Marin County Water District may purchase devices for generation of energy from solar radiation and may resell such devices for use within the district. Resales shall be on reasonable terms and conditions, which may include warranties and guarantees by the district of pa…

No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which is subject to the lien of a general obligation bonded indebtedness or which was the subject of a lease-purchase, revenue, or other type of debt incurred fo…

No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which is subject to a lien of an indebtedness arising under any contract between the district and the United States of America incurred or contracted by th…

As used in this article “surplus money” means any money in any sinking fund established for the purpose of payment of any bonded or other indebtedness or any money in the treasury not required for the immediate necessities of the district. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

A district may invest such surplus money, as its board deems wise or expedient in any of the following: (a) Bonds issued by the district. (b) Bonds issued by any school district any part of which is in a county containing any part of the county water district. (c) Bonds issued by…

The investment may be made by purchase of the bonds or registered warrants or part thereof at the original sale or by purchase after they have been thus issued. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Any bonds or registered warrants purchased pursuant to this article and held may, from time to time, be sold and the proceeds reinvested pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Sales of bonds or registered warrants purchased pursuant to this article and held shall be made in season so that the proceeds may be applied to the purposes for which the money with which the bonds or registered warrants were originally purchased was placed in the treasury of th…

Within the Kings County Water District, the board may by ordinance provide for the establishment of special rates of taxation, for general fund purposes and for purposes of paying principal and interest upon general obligation bonds, for relatively low water using, nonfarm, heavy…

The clerk of the board shall cause a notice to be published at least once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each affected county. The notice shall state each of the following: (a) That the petition has been presented to the board…

The first publication of the notice shall be at least 21 days before the day set for the hearing. If at the hearing it appears that the notice is defective in any material respect, the board shall set another time for the hearing and cause notice again to be published. (Added by …

No clerical error in the published text of the petition and no error or omission in the publication of the names attached to the petition invalidates any action on the petition or deprives the board of jurisdiction to proceed in the matter. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)