Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines or other works as may be necessary to conserve and put to beneficial use any water or sewage effluent recovered from the operation of the sewerage system, plant, or works, by sale or disposition for agricultural or industria…

It may issue bonds. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and operation, a district may incur indebtedness by the issuance of negotiable promissory notes pursuant to this section, without an election. The notes shall be general obligations of the district payable in the same ma…

(a) If the district board determines by resolution that funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and repair of damage caused by disaster, a district may borrow and repay county funds not to exceed 85 percent of the district’s anticipated revenue for the fiscal yea…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds, when borrowed by a sanitation district pursuant to Section 4746.2, shall forthwith increase the appropriations of the district for which they are needed. The board of supervisors may specify the date and manner in which the …

The district shall pay interest to the county on all funds borrowed pursuant to Section 4746.2 at the same rate that the county applies to funds of the district on deposit with the county.

It may cause to be levied and collected taxes upon all the taxable real property in the district sufficient to meet the obligations evidenced by its bonds, to maintain the works of the district, and to defray all other expenses incidental to the exercise of the district powers. (…

The district board shall, by resolution, employ one or more sanitation engineers to make a survey of the problems of the district concerning sanitation especially with reference to the matters of sewage collection, treatment, and disposal, and refuse transfer or disposal, or both…

The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction of the district board, employ such surveyors and others as may be necessary to prepare the report. The district board at any time may remove any or all engineers or other persons employed, and may fill all vacancies. (Enacte…

When the engineers’ report is filed the district board shall examine it and may thereupon (a) reject it and direct that a new report be prepared; (b) direct that changes be made in it; or (c) if it complies with the provisions of this chapter and is satisfactory to the board it s…

Notice of the hearing shall be given by the district board by publishing the notice for at least five times in a daily, or twice in a weekly, newspaper circulated in the district, as the district board may direct. At the time and place so fixed, or at the time and place to which …

At the conclusion of the hearing the district board shall either order the report changed to conform to some or all the objections made or shall approve and adopt the report as made. If changes in the report are ordered a further hearing shall be had upon it as amended and furthe…

The district board may, thereafter, have such portions of the report as are adapted to publication, or a resume, published for free public distribution. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The engineers employed by the district board to make the report required by this chapter, or other engineers, shall be directed by the district board to superintend the doing of the work recommended to be done in the report as approved and adopted. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60…

Any work recommended to be done in the report approved and adopted by the district board shall be done in conformity with the general plans and specifications contained in the report unless the district board, by a four-fifths vote, adopts a resolution declaring that the public i…

A right of way in or across any public highway, street, or property in the district is hereby granted to the district wherever the right of way is found by the district board to be necessary or convenient for doing any of the work. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

(a) There is granted to every district the right to construct, operate and maintain outfall, intercepting and trunk sewerlines, other than ocean outfall lines and other terminal outfall lines, together with pumps and like machinery necessary for sewage transportation, across, alo…

The district board may, by agreement with any city or other public agency, take possession of, or acquire by condemnation or in any other manner any sewerage system, or any sewage or refuse disposal or treatment plant, or any combination of the foregoing necessary or convenient t…

Any city or public agency in the district may enter into an agreement with the district for the use, or entire possession and operation, by the county sanitation district of any sewerage or refuse disposal system, or sewage or refuse disposal or treatment plant owned or operated …

Whenever any area in the district is provided with a sewerage system the governing body of the city in which the area lies may declare the further maintenance or use of cesspools or other local means of sewage disposal to be a public nuisance, and may require all buildings inhabi…

All connections of lateral or other sewerlines to the sewerage system of the district, whether within or without any city, shall be made at points and in the manner to be directed by the engineers of the district under instructions from the district board, subject to such terms a…

All powers of the district shall be exercised by the district board unless otherwise specified.

It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and also refund or retire any public indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any property therein which s…

Any district, directly or through a representative, may attend the Legislature and any committees thereof and present information to aid the passage of legislation which the district deems beneficial to the district or to prevent the passage of legislation which the governing boa…

The district board may adopt ordinances to carry out the provisions of Sections 5473 to 5473.11, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code and this chapter; the procedure for the adoption of said ordinances shall be the same as is provided for in Article 7 (commencing with Section…

The board of supervisors of any county may adopt a model county sanitation district ordinance. The procedure for the adoption of said ordinance shall be the same as is provided for in Article 7 (commencing with Section 25120) of Chapter 1, Part 2, Division 2, Title 3 of the Gover…

The district board is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance. The adopting ordinance may also enact provisions to add to or amend the model sanitation district ordinance as it is applied to…

Prior to adoption of any ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance, the district board shall give notice that copies of the model ordinance being considered for adoption are on file with the clerk of the district and are o…

Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to relieve any district from the requirement of publishing in full the ordinance which adopts by reference the model sanitation district ordinance; and all provisions applicable to such publication shall be fully carried out. Such…

If at any time the model sanitation district ordinance is amended by the county board of supervisors, then the district board may adopt such amendment or amended model sanitation district ordinance by reference as provided in this article; or an ordinance may be enacted in the re…

If the board of directors of the district is the board of supervisors, the district may adopt the model county sanitation district ordinance and any amendments thereto by reference without following the procedures contained in Section 4766.3.

A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.

Any county sanitation district may, in addition to its other powers, acquire, construct, control, operate, and maintain waterworks, conduits, reservoirs, storage sites, and other works and facilities for the production, treatment, storage and distribution of a water supply for do…

A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by Section 4767. The terms of the contract shall be consistent with this chapter. Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, the term of the contract may extend up to 30 years.

Section 19990 of the Government Code shall apply to employees of the district.

Except as to State highways where the State Highway Engineer refuses to issue a permit, with the consent of the legislative body having jurisdiction of the territory within which it is proposed so to do, expressed by resolution of such governing body, the board of any district or…

The Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to districts.

In the application of those acts to proceedings under this article the terms used in those acts shall have the following meanings: (a) “City council,” and “council,” mean board. (b) “City,” and “municipality,” mean district. (c) “Clerk,” and “city clerk,” mean secretary. (d) “Sup…

The powers and duties conferred by those acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards, officers, and agents of the district.

The improvements authorized to be constructed or acquired under this article are restricted to those permitted to be constructed or acquired by such districts under Article 4 of this chapter.

After the approval and adoption of an engineers’ report the district board shall submit to the voters of the district the proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness to obtain funds with which to acquire the property and do the work set forth in the report. For that purpose a …

The resolution shall state all of the following: (a) The general objects and purposes for which it is proposed to incur an indebtedness. (b) A reference to the report filed with the district board for particulars. (c) The amount of the bonds proposed to be issued. (d) The number …

For the purposes of the bond election the district board may consolidate into one precinct several precincts established for general election purposes and describe the precinct by reference to the general election precincts. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

An election board consisting of one inspector, one judge, and one clerk shall be appointed by the district board for each precinct. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Only voters registered in the district are eligible to vote at the bond election. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The resolution calling the election shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper having a general circulation in the district and designated by the district board. No other notice of the election need be given. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness as proposed, bonds of the district for the amount stated in the resolution calling the election shall be issued and sold. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The validity of the bonds after their issuance shall not be questioned in any court except upon the ground that the provisions of this chapter authorizing their issuance are unconstitutional, or that the required hearing regarding the formation of the district was not legally hel…

The district board shall prescribe by resolution the form of the bonds, and interest coupons. The bonds shall be payable at such times and at a place to be fixed by the board, and designated in the bonds, together with interest on all sums unpaid on that date until the whole of t…

The bonds shall be issued in such denomination or denominations as the district board may determine. They shall be payable on the day and at the place fixed in the bonds, and with interest at the rate specified in the bonds, which rate shall not be in excess of 8 percent per annu…