Title WAT, California Water Code

The face of each revenue bond shall state: (a) That the payment or redemption of the bond and the payment of the interest thereon is secured solely by a first and direct charge and lien upon all or the portion, as prescribed by the district by order or by contract, of the revenue…

Revenue bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

Each issue of revenue bonds shall be numbered consecutively and the bonds of each issue shall be numbered consecutively from lower to higher as they mature and shall bear such date as may be prescribed by the board. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

The date appearing upon the face of a revenue bond shall be deemed to be the date of issuance irrespective of the subsequent delivery of the bond. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

Revenue bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretary, and interest coupons appertaining thereto shall be signed by the secretary. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

All the signatures on the bond or coupons may be printed, lithographed, engraved, or otherwise mechanically reproduced, except that one of the signatures shall be manually affixed. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

The seal of the district may be affixed to the revenue bonds by mechanical reproduction thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

If any officer whose signature appears on any revenue bond or coupon ceases to be such officer of the district before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, his signature on the bond or coupon is valid and sufficient for all purposes with like force and effect as though he h…

Revenue bonds shall be of such denomination or denominations as the board may prescribe. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 736.)

Revenue bonds shall be payable at such time and place as may be designated by the board, but in no case shall the maturity of any bond be more than 40 years from its date. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

Every revenue bond shall be payable at a given time for its entire amount and not for a percentage thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1756.)

Revenue bonds shall bear interest at a rate not in excess of 8 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually as may be prescribed by the board. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)

The weather resources management project operator shall keep a record of all operations conducted, showing the equipment, the methods, the types, amounts, times, and places of seeding agents employed, a statement as to the estimated effect of the operation in relation to its inte…

Where the district has acquired fee title to, or any interest in, land through condemnation proceedings and the board, pursuant to Section 43507, determines that said property or any part thereof or interest therein is no longer necessary for the uses and purposes of said distric…

Written notice of sale shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or if there is no such newspaper, then within the county in which the district or any part thereof is situated, pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code. The notice s…

At the time and place set for the sale the board shall open any bids received in response to the notice, announce such bids, and call for oral bids. When all persons present shall have ceased bidding, the board shall declare the bidding closed, subject to the preference right of …

The owners of contiguous land have a preference for a period of thirty (30) days after the highest bid is announced to purchase at such highest bid price. No right of preference shall be given in cases of owners of cornering land. Where there is a conflict between two or more own…

Upon the expiration of the 30-day period any sale and conveyance made pursuant to the board’s award of bid or any sale and conveyance made pursuant to the exercise of a preference by the owner of contiguous land pursuant to this article shall be conclusively presumed to be valid …

If a call of an assessment on any parcel sold and conveyed to the county treasurer as trustee for the district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, becomes delinquent during the periods the parcel is so held and the property is not again sold at a delinquency sale, neverth…

When the sinking fund contains at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the county treasurer shall, upon request of the board, by notice published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county where the office of the district is located and, in it…

The notice shall state the amount available for the redemption of bonds or refunding bonds and shall specify when and where the proposals will be opened. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

All proposals shall be opened at the office of the county treasurer at an open meeting of the board convened at the time specified in the notice or at some subsequent time to which the meeting is adjourned. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Any or all proposals may be rejected by the county treasurer, and shall be rejected by him if requested to do so in writing by a majority of the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

If no bids are received, or if the bids accepted are not sufficient to exhaust the money available for the purchase of outstanding bonds or refunding bonds, the county treasurer may, with the written assent of at least two members of the board, purchase at private sale with avail…

No proposal to sell bonds to the district at a price in excess of the par value thereof shall be accepted. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

All bonds purchased with sinking fund moneys shall forthwith be canceled. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board may, by resolution adopted prior to the time of issuing any refunding bonds, provide for the call and redemption thereof, in numerical order, or by lot, as prescribed in the resolution, on any interest payment date prior to their fixed maturity, at not exceeding the par…

Notice of redemption of callable refunding bonds shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the principal county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The first publication of the notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed in the refunding bonds for the redemption. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Interest on refunding bonds declared to be callable shall cease after the date fixed for redemption if the district has provided funds for the payment of the principal and interest thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The department shall immediately employ any remedial means necessary to protect life and property if either: (a) The condition of any dam or reservoir is so dangerous to the safety of life or property as not to permit of time for the issuance and enforcement of an order relative …

In applying the remedial means provided for in this article, the department may in emergency do any of the following: (a) Lower the water level by releasing water from the reservoir. (b) Completely empty the reservoir. (c) Take such other steps as may be essential to safeguard li…

The department shall continue in full charge and control of such dam or reservoir, or both, and its appurtenances until they are rendered safe or the emergency occasioning the action has ceased. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1225.)

The cost and expenses of the remedial means provided in this article, including cost of any work done to render a dam or reservoir or its appurtenances safe, shall be recoverable by the state from the owner by action brought by the department in the superior court of the county w…

The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of an improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1151.)

The board may repay the district for any advance of funds from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized for the purposes of the improvement district or as provided in Section 71616. To the extent that advances made for improvements for which such bonds were authorized are rep…

On or before 60 days after the effective date of this chapter, and on or before the third Wednesday in April of each year after 1975, the board shall adopt a budget and by resolution levy such two-dollar ($2)-per-acre-foot assessment, unless the board determines that the purposes…

Immediately after adopting its resolution levying the assessment, which levy shall thereupon be effective as to all production from the Chino Basin within the primary district, the board shall notify and direct the other Chino Basin districts to levy similar assessments on produc…

After the levy of a production assessment pursuant to this chapter the Chino Basin districts shall give notice thereof to all affected producers within the Chino Basin, within each of their respective boundaries, which notice shall state the rate of each assessment and shall requ…

Payment of the assessment shall accompany the filing of the annual report. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 165.)

If any producer after having been given notice as required by Section 72142.2 fails to pay a production assessment when due, such producer shall become liable to the assessing district for interest at the rate of 1 percent per month on the delinquent amount of the assessment. (Ad…

If sufficient objections are not presented to the board at the hearing, it shall call an election to be held in the district for the purpose of authorizing the assessment. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

Notice of the election shall be posted and published and the election shall be conducted, insofar as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 74790) of Part 6 of this division. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

Several purposes may be submitted at the same election. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

Only qualified electors of the district may vote at the election. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)