Title WAT, California Water Code

Sale and delivery of bonds by the treasurer is conclusive evidence that the sale was made upon due authority and notice. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Upon a sale of any district bonds, the treasurer may accept in payment, in whole or in part, outstanding warrants of the district at face value plus accrued interest. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The bonds of any series of an authorized issue shall be equally and ratably secured with the bonds of any other series of such authorized issue. (Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 829.)

The assessment list of each county shall remain open for payment in the office of the county treasurer of the affected counties for a period of 30 days and shall continue to remain open thereafter until such time, if ever, as the board makes an order calling a special election fo…

During the time the assessment lists are open any person may pay to the county treasurer in lawful money of the United States or in warrants of the district all or any part of the charge assessed against any tract of land. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 821.)

Any district organized pursuant to this division may be dissolved as provided by law. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 129. Effective January 1, 1993.)

In case a contract authorized by law has been made between a district and the United States pertaining to the construction, maintenance, or operation of the works of the district, or the delivery or supply of water therefor, no such district shall be dissolved nor shall any proce…

When any land, susceptible of one mode of reclamation, is entirely owned by parties who desire to reclaim the land, and to manage the reclamation without a board or the establishment of by-laws, they may file the petition provided for in Chapter 1 of this part, and state therein …

When the petition is granted, the district is organized and the owners of the lands have all the rights, immunities, privileges, and duties granted to boards and in all proceedings the names of the owners shall be used instead of the names of trustees. (Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch…

The existence of a district formed to operate without a board shall not prevent the owners of the land included therein from forming a district to operate with a board by presenting to the board of supervisors the petition provided for in Chapter 1 of this part. (Added by Stats. …

The presentation of a petition for formation of a district to operate with a board is an abandonment of the rights, immunities, and privileges conferred upon the owners or their predecessors in interest in the land by the creation of the original district. (Added by Stats. 1951, …

The board is the governing body of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The powers of the district enumerated in this division shall, except as therein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board shall exercise general supervision and complete control over the construction, maintenance and operation of the reclamation works, and generally over the affairs of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board shall receive from the reclamation board any money allowed on account of uncollected assessments previously levied on lands purchased by the board for rights of way, and shall distribute the money among the landowners of the district in proportion to their payments on t…

The board, pursuant to an order entered in its minutes, may distribute, among the landowners of the district, any surplus funds in the treasury belonging to the district not needed for reclamation purposes, in the proportion that the landowners were assessed on the last assessmen…

The board may adopt and alter a seal. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 699, Sec. 39. (SB 894) Effective January 1, 2011.)

All documents requiring approval by the board shall bear the signature of either a trustee or the secretary. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 699, Sec. 40. (SB 894) Effective January 1, 2011.)

The board may create a revolving fund by an order entered in its minutes and shall file a copy of the order, certified by the president, with the county treasurer. (Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)

No warrant for the creation or replenishment of a revolving fund shall be paid by the county treasurer unless the order creating the revolving fund includes the assumption by the district of the responsibility for the disbursement of the fund and contains an agreement to hold and…

A revolving fund shall be disbursed only by checks or drafts, signed by at least two members of the board, or by some person who is authorized to do so by unanimous vote of the board. No person shall be so authorized until the person has filed with the board a bond in the amount …

The county treasurer shall be deemed the ex officio treasurer of the district unless the board, by resolution, and with the written consent of the county treasurer, appoints a district treasurer. If the resolution is adopted and a district treasurer is appointed, all references t…

A district may acquire, by purchase, condemnation, gift, lease or other legal means, such real or personal property as is necessary for accomplishing the purposes of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

A district may sell, convey, transfer, lease, or otherwise dispose of such of its property as the board determines is no longer necessary for the construction, maintenance or operation of the reclamation works of the district, and lease or operate for hire any district tools or m…

A district may construct, maintain and operate such drains, canals, sluices, bulkheads, water gates, levees, embankments, pumping plants, dams, diversion works, or irrigation works, and all things reasonably necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purposes of the district. …

A district may construct, maintain, and operate ferry boats, bridges, road systems, and related facilities to provide access to the district’s levee, drainage, and irrigation systems, and to provide access to the lands within the district. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 268, Sec. 1. …

This division shall not affect any other law relating to the same or a similar subject, but is intended to provide an alternative method of procedure governing the subject to which it relates. When proceeding under the provisions of this division its provisions and none other sha…

The provisions of this division shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

Any person interested, including any freeholder or qualified voter resident within the proposed district or the owner of any real or personal property located in the proposed district, objecting to the formation of the district, to the extent of the district, to the proposed impr…

The clerk of the board of supervisors shall endorse on each protest the date of its receipt and, at the time appointed for the hearing, shall present to the board all protests filed with him. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

The board shall hear and pass upon the petition and protests at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. If protests are made to the formation of the proposed district or to the proposed impr…

If any of the protests against the formation of the district or against the proposed improvement is sustained, no further proceedings shall be had or taken pursuant to the petition, but a new petition for the same or a similar purpose may be filed at any time. (Amended by Stats. …

If any of the protests are against the extent of the district or against the inclusion of property in the district, the board of supervisors may make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed district as it finds to be proper and advisable and shall define and establish boun…

The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which will be benefited by the improvement, and any territory which will not, in the judgment of the board, be benefited by the improvement shall not be included wit…

The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries except after notice of such intention is published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county and designated by the board for that purpose, desc…

Written objections to the proposed modification may be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors by any interested person at or before the time set for hearing the objections. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

The board of supervisors shall hear and pass upon the objections to the proposed modification at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

If any objection is sustained, no further proceedings pursuant to the petition shall be taken, but a new petition for the same or a similar purpose may be filed at any time. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

The board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to proceed further with respect to the formation of a district under any of the following circumstances: (a) If no protests to the formation of the district are filed at or before the time set for hearing on t…

If the board of supervisors determines that the formation petition was signed by all of the owners of the real property in the proposed district and if protests are not made to the formation of the proposed district by any of the qualified voters of the proposed district as of th…

Notwithstanding anything in this division to the contrary, if the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to the close of the hearing for the formation of the district, by the owners of real property within the proposed district the assessed value of which …

The board of supervisors may in any year levy a tax upon the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the cost and expenses of maintaining, operating, extending and repairing the waterworks of the district for the ensuing fiscal year. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

The board of supervisors shall levy a tax, each year, upon the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds for that year authorized at the time of formation of the district, and that portion of the principal which is to become due before the time…

Where the petition for formation contained a statement that taxes shall be levied only upon the land within the district, all taxes levied under the provisions of this division in a district shall be levied upon the land within the district, and in any extension or additions ther…

If the maturity of the indebtedness created by the issue of the bonds is made to begin more than one year after the date of issue, the tax shall be levied and collected each year, sufficient to pay the interest on the indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking…

All taxes pursuant to this chapter shall be levied and collected at the time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and when collected shall be paid into the county treasury to be used for the payment of the principal and interest on bonds, or paid in…