Title WAT, California Water Code

The petition shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of the registered voters who reside within the district, but shall contain a minimum of 25 signatures. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 643.)

The petition shall be substantially in the following form: The secretary of the ____ Water District having heretofore certified to the board of directors of the district that at least 50 percent of the assessable area within the district is devoted to and developed for residentia…

Duplicate copies of the petition form shall constitute one petition when filed. If the district is in more than one county, signatures shall be obtained on separate copies of the petition in each county so that such petitions shall contain the signature only of residents of the c…

Each petition shall be signed and dated by registered voters who reside within the district and shall show their residence address. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 643.)

Each page of the petition which contains the signature of one or more registered voters shall show thereon the affidavit of the circulator in the following form: The undersigned circulator of the above petition hereby declares under penalty of perjury that the circulator of this …

All signatures on the petition shall be obtained within the six-month period immediately preceding the filing thereof. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 643.)

The petition shall be filed with the county elections official of the principal county at least six months prior to the date of the next general district election. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 163. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The signatures to the petition shall be verified as follows: (a) If the district is wholly in one county, the county elections official shall examine the signatures and from the records of registration ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of reg…

If the number of signatures is not sufficient, a supplemental petition, in the form of a duplicate petition, but bearing additional signatures, may be filed with the county elections official of the principal county within 10 days from the date on which the county elections offic…

If the petition contains at least 25 valid signatures and if the total number of valid signatures on the petition constitutes 25 percent or more of the registered voters within the district as of the date of filing the petition, the county elections official of the principal coun…

At the next regular meeting following the delivery by the county elections official of the petition and the certificate to the secretary of the district, the board of directors shall adopt a resolution reciting the delivery of the petition and certificate and specifying that all …

The secretary of the district shall file with the county elections official of each county in which any portion of the district is located, a certified copy of the resolution. The secretary shall cause a copy of the resolution to be published once a week for three successive week…

After adoption of the resolution by the board of directors, all elections within the district for elective offices, bonds, or other purposes shall be conducted under laws relating to resident voting districts and all provisions of this article shall prevail over any contrary prov…

All directors thereafter elected shall be residents of the district, and shall be registered voters at the time of their election and during their term of office. Such directors need not be landowners. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 643.)

(a) After the establishment of a resident voting district, the provisions set forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 35025) of this chapter are no longer applicable. The board of directors may at any time establish divisions within the district. (b) Notwithstanding any other…

At the first election of directors following the adoption of the resolution by the board establishing a resident voting district, the number of directors to be elected shall correspond with the number of directors whose terms expire. The directors whose terms have not expired sha…

The adoption, in accordance with the provisions of this article, of a resolution changing the method of voting shall in no way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, officers, and employees, made or performed while the district was operating as a landowner voting dist…

Any bonds of the district, authorized or issued in any manner provided by law, and any proceedings taken by the district in connection therewith, prior to the adoption of the resolution changing the method of voting, shall not be affected by such resolution, and the bonds shall c…

After establishment of a resident voting district, the provisions of Sections 35305 and 35306 shall no longer be applicable. The board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the bylaws by a majority vote. Any alteration, repeal, or amendment to the bylaws shall be r…

After the filing of the formation petition, 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, which said notice shall also state that the hearing is called to determine whether …

Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following: (a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed distribution 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 no…

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 distribution district. (c) The land to be included within the distribution district. (d) The plans and specifications. (e) The estimate of cost.…

At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to matters set forth in Section 36482 as it considers proper. The board may exclude any part of the land described in the petition from the proposed distribution district and may include additional land. (Added by Stats…

If any additional land is included within the proposed distribution 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 distribution district. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1935.)…

If any land is not charged with its portion of any assessment or if the assessment on any land is adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, that land shall at any subsequent assessment hearing be assessed, in addition to the then current assessment, by the board of…

Upon the presentation and filing of the formation petition and undertaking the department shall forthwith fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition. The place shall be either the office of the department at Sacramento or some place within an affected county. The time s…

(a) A director, when sitting on the board or acting under its orders, shall receive not exceeding: (1) One hundred dollars ($100) per day, not exceeding six days in any calendar month. (2) Actual and necessary expenses while engaged in official business under the order of the boa…

The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to all other officers and employees provided for in this division, to be paid out of the treasury of the district, except as otherwise provided by this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

If the board proposes to acquire property for the purposes or use of the district by purchase or lease, or in any manner other than by condemnation proceedings, that fact shall be stated in its report. A true copy of any instrument evidencing the proposed acquisition of the prope…

Except where it is proposed to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings, no property belonging to any water corporation which is a public utility shall be acquired by a district, nor shall any property of such public utility be included in the report of the board unless and unti…

A certified copy of any order of authority made by the Public Utilities Commission shall be made a part of and filed with the report of the board. Unless the order of the Public Utilities Commission in effect finds and declares that the sale and abandonment or curtailment of serv…

All claims against the district shall be paid by warrants of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

To provide a fund for payment of claims, the board may from time to time draw from the general fund deposited and kept to the credit of the district in the office of the county treasurer of a county having funds belonging to the district in his possession such sums as may be nece…

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicabl…

If there are outstanding bonds of the district at the time of the filing of the exclusion petition, the holders of the outstanding bonds may give their assent, in writing, to the effect that they severally consent that the land mentioned in the petition, or such portion thereof a…

The assent shall be acknowledged by the several holders of the bonds, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect as evidence as the acknowledgment of a conveyance of real property. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The assent shall be filed with the board and be recorded in its minutes. The minutes, or a copy thereof, certified by the board, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the assent. The certified copy may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the coun…

The petition, with the order of the board of supervisors endorsed thereon or attached thereto, shall be recorded by the county recorder. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 51.)

When a district is situated partly in different counties, the board, after the petition has been granted, shall forward a copy of the petition and the order approving the same to the clerk of the board of supervisors of each of the counties in which any portion of the district is…

A copy of the petition and order of the board of supervisors approving the same, certified by the county clerk, shall be forwarded to the State Lands Commission which shall thereupon forward to the county treasurer a statement showing the names of purchasers of public land in the…

The State Lands Commission, upon the receipt of a copy of a petition, or certificate of the county clerk that a district has been formed, shall number the district and send a notice containing the number so assigned to the county recorder of the county from which the copy or cert…

The county recorder, upon receipt of the notice from the State Lands Commission, shall record the same, and the district shall thereafter be known and designated by the number shown in said notice. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 51.)

Districts organized before May 28, 1868, may retain their respective numbers. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The county treasurer shall publish notice of the sale of bonds, at least once a week for two weeks prior to the sale, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the principal county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The notice shall state that the county treasurer will sell a specified amount of bonds at the time and place specified therein, and ask sealed proposals for the purchase of the bonds, or any part thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

At the time stated in the notice of sale, the county treasurer shall open the bids and award the bonds to the highest responsible bidder as provided in Article 2, Chapter 2 of this part with respect to the sale of bonds or Article 3, Chapter 3 of this part with respect to the sal…