Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

It is in the public interest and to the benefit of the state that watershed lands are rehabilitated to conserve water and soil and to prevent destructive floods. In furtherance of this policy, the department may conduct surveys and studies, formulate plans, and perform all acts i…

(a) The director may authorize any work for any purpose authorized by Section 4675 as an exercise of the director’s emergency powers and may request the assistance of any federal agency or person in connection with that work if any of the following conditions exist: (1) Natural v…

For purposes of cooperating with landowners or any other agency or for purposes of cooperating with the United States under provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Chapter 656, Public Law 566, 83rd Cong., 2nd Session), and all acts amendatory thereof or s…

As used in connection with improvement districts: (a) “Improvement” includes operation, maintenance, change, and acquisition of existing works, and the construction, operation, and maintenance of new works. (b) “Construction” includes, but is not limited to, the preparation and e…

The formation of an improvement district shall be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the owners of real property in the proposed improvement district. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

A petition for the formation of an improvement district shall contain all of the following: (a) Statement of the plans of the proposed improvement. (b) Description of the land of the proposed improvement district. (c) Names of the owners of all real property within the proposed i…

The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the improvement district, and the real property in it shall be designated by a number. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

A petition to form an improvement district shall be filed with the secretary of the district and may be inspected by all persons interested. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

Upon receipt of a petition to form an improvement district the directors shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed improvements, if any. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

If the survey shows that the improvements are feasible, the directors shall cause to be prepared the following: (a) Plans and specifications of the improvements proposed to be constructed when the petition proposes the construction of improvements. (b) An estimate of the cost of …

If there are any, the plans and specifications, estimate of cost, and the statement of the proposed assessment shall be filed with the secretary of the district and may be inspected by all persons interested. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

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 directors shall give notice of a hearing upon the petition, and if a special assessment is to be levied in the improvement dis…

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 pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in the principal county of the district. (c) Mailing a…

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

At the hearing the directors shall make any changes in reference to the matters set forth in Section 9813 as they consider proper. The directors may exclude any part of the real property described in the petition from the proposed improvement district and may include additional r…

If any additional real property is included in the proposed improvement district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added real property given personal notice of not less than 20 days of the addition of the land to the improvement district. (Added by Stats. 1975…

The directors may include in the plans and specifications such terms and conditions as to the respective parcels of real property in the improvement district with respect to tolls, charges, assessments, or the conservation or use of soil and water or any other matters as the dire…

Regardless of any findings made by the directors if more than one-third in number of the holders of title to the real property within a proposed improvement district object at the hearing to its formation or the levy of the proposed assessment, the directors shall deny the petiti…

If at the hearing the directors find that it would not be for the best interests of the district and the proposed improvement district to form the improvement district the directors shall order the proceedings dismissed without prejudice to their renewal. (Added by Stats. 1975, C…

If the directors find that it would be for the best interests of the district and the proposed improvement district to form the improvement district, they shall make and enter in their minutes a final order: (a) Approving the petition. (b) Forming the improvement district. (c) Le…

The order shall contain a description of the lands within the improvement district. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order creating the improvement district to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which any land of the improvement district is situated. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

State nurseries shall be maintained under the management of the department for all of the following purposes: (a) Operation of a state seed bank to provide facilities for the processing and storage of adequate supplies of high-quality seed necessary to protect the genetic integri…

The department shall construct and maintain such buildings, improvements, and equipment, and shall employ and fix the compensation of such employees as may be necessary to carry out this article. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)

The department may purchase nursery stock and seed, and may distribute stock or seed for the following purposes: (a) Public planting or reforestation of public lands, giving emphasis to forest and watershed land which has been substantially damaged by fire, flood, insects, diseas…

Trees, plants, nursery stock, and seeds which are sold pursuant to this article shall be sold at prices that are established by the department and approved by the board. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)

Notwithstanding Section 4684, the director may give such forest seedlings or native plants for the purposes of reforestation or soil erosion control at the end of each season’s sales as are, in his determination, surplus, to private persons or nonprofit organizations for planting…

The Governor, on behalf of the state, may receive all conveyances or donations of real or personal property necessary to vest in the state the title to any site for a state nursery and to any equipment and supplies that are donated for a state nursery. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. …

Any assessment levied pursuant to Section 9819 shall include both of the following sums: (a) An amount equal to interest on any deferred payments at a rate not exceeding 7 percent each year. (b) An amount equal to 10 percent more than all other sums to be raised by the assessment…

The assessment may be made payable in not more than 10 annual installments. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

The directors, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, shall furnish the auditor and board of supervisors of each county in which any portion of the improvement lies a statement in writing of the amounts of the installments of the improvement district assessment, if any…

Each annual installment of the improvement district assessments shall be collected by county officers in the same manner and at the same times as county taxes. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

The provision of law relating to the collection of county taxes and the duties of county officers with respect thereto, insofar as they are applicable and not in conflict with this chapter, are hereby adopted and made a part of this chapter. Said officers are liable on their seve…

The treasurers of each of the counties, other than the principal county, shall, not less than twice a year or upon order of the directors, settle with the directors and pay to the principal county all money belonging to the improvement district and in their possession. (Amended b…

The assessment and each installment of it shall be and remain a lien on the real property in the improvement district in the same manner as and in addition to the annual assessment of the district. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

Upon a change or resubdivision of any parcel of real property in an improvement district, the directors upon their own initiative or upon a petition of the owner of the parcel so changed or resubdivided, may reapportion the improvement district assessment upon the parcel, and the…

If the actual cost of the improvements is substantially less than the estimated cost the assessment may be reduced proportionately on each parcel by recomputing it based on actual costs with the percentage and interest provided for in Section 9831 added thereto. The reapportionme…

If the assessments levied upon real property in an improvement district are insufficient to pay the cost of improvements or the warrants issued for the improvements, a supplemental assessment shall be levied upon all of the real property in the improvement district sufficient to …

The procedure followed in making the supplemental levy shall be substantially the same as for making the original levy, except that no petition is required. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 513.)

Whenever it is desired to do additional work or acquire additional property in or for an improvement district, upon the petition of two-thirds in number of the owners of real property in the improvement district, an additional assessment may be levied substantially in the same ma…

It is hereby declared to be in the interest of the welfare of the people of this state that the need for wood, lumber, poles, piling, wood pulp and other forest products, augmented by the growth of population, requires all forest lands to be kept in a fully productive condition. …

The department may make surveys and prepare maps setting forth the areas of nonrestocking forest lands. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)

The department may undertake experiments and studies, on lands owned by the state or made available by private owners through cooperative agreements pertinent to determining costs and feasible methods of reforestation by planting, seeding, release of natural seedlings from compet…

Experimentation and studies shall be conducted with the advice and cooperation of the University of California School of Forestry. (Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 56, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 1994.)

The department may collect the additional seed required, increase the capacity of state nurseries, purchase the necessary equipment and employ the necessary personnel to effectuate the purposes of this article. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)