Title WAT, California Water Code

The bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The bonds shall be numbered consecutively in order of their maturity. If the bonds are issued in two or more series, each series shall be lettered in alphabetical order, and the bonds of each series shall be numbered consecutively in order of their maturity within such series. (A…

The bonds or any series thereof shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as may be prescribed by the board at the time of the issuance of the bonds at the office of the treasurer and at any other place within the United State…

Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds and shall bear the facsimile signature of the treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The principal of the bonds or any series thereof shall be made payable on such dates, in such years and at such places as the board may prescribe. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

The bonds or any series thereof shall be payable within 40 years from their date, and not less than 10 percent of the aggregate face value of the bonds or any series thereof issued shall be payable within 15 years from their date. (Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 829.)

The bonds shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

The interest coupons shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1137.)

The board may determine to establish a bond reserve fund for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds. Such a bond reserve fund may be established from the premium, if any, received upon the sale of the bonds or from tolls or charges levied pursuant to Section 430…

The county treasurer of any affected county, during the time for the collection of the assessments of the district, may require the board to provide and pay for such additional help as may be required to care for the matters relating to the collection of the assessments of the di…

An action to determine the legality of the existence of a district may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1532.)

The court shall not adjudge any district invalid when it appears that the district has for five years prior to the commencement of the proceeding been prosecuting or maintaining reclamation works in good faith. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1532.)

No proceeding in quo warranto, nor any similar action or proceeding shall be maintained in the name of the people of the State against any district that, continuously for five years next preceding the commencement of the proceeding, has been acting as a district and prosecuting o…

Unless otherwise provided by law the district shall keep an office in the principal county or in a county contiguous thereto for the transaction of the business of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

All district books, maps, papers, records, contracts and other documents shall be kept in the office and be open to inspection during all business hours by any person interested. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 158, Sec. 41. Effective January 1, 2006.)

When a district, by a legislative act changing county boundaries, is transferred wholly from one county to another, the board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, shall exercise all of the jurisdiction, power, and authority over the district theretof…

The board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, the officers thereof, and the officers of the district shall thereafter perform all acts required to be performed in connection with the district with the same authority and effect as though the district…

The auditor and treasurer of the county to which a district is transferred shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of the county within which the district was previously situated for all of the funds of the district in the treasury of such county, and the funds shall be so tr…

After a district is transferred to another county, all assessments shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When, by any change of county boundaries made by the Legislature of this State, any district is transferred in whole or in part to another county than the one within which it was organized, then as to such part of the district so transferred to another county, the same power and …

When a district is transferred in whole or in part to another county from that in which it was organized, all proceedings, petitions or orders which should have been recorded in the county to which the district is in whole or in part transferred shall be copied and certified by t…

Unless the board of supervisors proceeds pursuant to Section 55161, the board of supervisors shall, by ordinance or resolution adopted at a regular or special meeting after having acquired jurisdiction to proceed in the formation of a district, provide for and order the holding o…

The ordinance or resolution calling the special election shall also recite the objects and purposes for which any proposed indebtedness is to be incurred, the estimated cost of the proposed improvement, the amount of the principal of the indebtedness to be incurred therefor, and …

If a statement is made in the formation petition that taxes shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property, the board of supervisors shall recite the statement in any resolution, ordinance, or order adopted or entered pursuant to this chapter. (Added…

For the purposes of the election, the board of supervisors shall, in the ordinance or resolution, establish one or more precincts within the boundaries of the proposed district, designate a polling place, and appoint one inspector, one judge and one clerk for each precinct. (Adde…

The ordinance or resolution ordering the holding of the election shall, prior to the date set for the election, be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county and designated by the board of su…

Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the election call to the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the coun…

The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of citizens entitled to vote on the district formation proposition, or any combination of such voters and associations of citizens, may file a …

If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time prescribed, such election officials shall select one of the arguments for printing and distribution to the voters. In selecting the…

The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed and mailed to each voter entitled to vote on the district formation question. The ballot pamphlet shall contain the followin…

In all particulars not recited in the ordinance or resolution, the election shall be held as provided by law for holding general elections in the county. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the formation of the district and the incurring of the bonded indebtedness, if any is proposed, the board of supervisors shall enter an order to that effect upon its minutes, declaring the district formed, and the bo…

The county clerk of the county shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district. (b) The date of formation. (c) The county in which the district is located, and a description of the boundaries of the district, or reference to …

All acts and proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken by or on behalf of a county waterworks district for the formation of a district or for the annexation to an existing district and for the authorization, issuance, sale, or exchange of bonds of the district or for the annexed …

A district may acquire property by purchase, gift, devise, exchange, descent, and eminent domain. The title to all property which may have been acquired for a district shall be vested in the district. (Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 441.)

The board may sell, exchange, or lease any property, or any interest in property, of the district, real or personal, if the board determines that the property is no longer needed for the uses of the district. (Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 332, Sec. 90.2. (SB 113) Effective January…

If the board determines that the property is needed for the uses of another county waterworks district governed by the same board or another public agency with a service area or jurisdictional boundary that overlaps the district, the property, or an interest in the property, may …

If the board determines the value of the property, or interest in the property, to be of a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less, or is being leased for one year or less, it may be sold, exchanged, or leased without notice. (Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 332, Sec. 90.4. (…

If the board determines the property, or interest in the property, to have a value of more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or is being leased for more than one year, a notice of time and place of sale or leasing shall be given by posting three notices in three public places w…

Whenever any portion of the territory of a district shall be annexed to, or otherwise included within any one municipal corporation which owns works for supplying its inhabitants with water, the board may lease to the municipal corporation, for periods not exceeding five years, t…

The municipal corporation may use the leased distributing system for the purpose of distributing water directly to individual consumers, with the same power of regulating the service of water, and of charging and collecting for the service, as if the leased distributing system we…

The board shall, in the lease, reserve the right to use the leased distributing system, for the benefit of that portion of the district not annexed to or included in the municipal corporation, to the extent that the leased system is essential to the efficient operation of the bal…

Any improvement provided for in this division may be located, constructed and maintained in, along, or across any public road or highway, or publicly owned right of way in the county, in such manner as to afford security for life and property; but the board shall restore, or caus…

The board of supervisors of any county which employs a purchasing agent may authorize the purchasing agent to sell or dispose of any personal property of the district no longer needed for the uses of the district, pursuant to Section 25505 of the Government Code. Where such autho…