Title WAT, California Water Code

Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and their content and shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application. This section shall not apply …

The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, before a qualified neutral hearing officer designated by the board president, or before the executive officer or chief engineer of the board, at any place within the state. (Am…

All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the applicant. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the hearing, and a proportionate allowance, according to their usual rate of compensation, for the time of the m…

All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the State Treasury and credited to the balance remaining unexpended of any appropriation or assessment available for the general administrative expe…

The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in civil actions. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this part in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in Sections 2009 to 2015, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the affidav…

In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication, mailing or otherwise, of any of its assessments, orders, proceedings, hearings or other acts done or contemplated. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. …

In the event that the assessment is annulled as a whole by the judicial proceeding, the board shall cause a new assessment to be made as provided in Part 4 of this division, and thereafter the same proceedings shall be had in regard thereto as provided in this part. (Added by Sta…

When, if necesssary, the assessment lists have been modified and amended to conform to the requirements of the judgment and have been certified as provided in this part, the board shall file them in the offices of the county treasurers of the several counties in which are situate…

Each county treasurer shall indorse on the assessment list the time to the hour and minute when it was so filed in his office. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

From the time of filing as provided in the next preceding section the assessment constitutes a lien upon the lands in the county so assessed and imparts notice to all subsequent purchasers or encumbrancers or any person acquiring any interest in or lien upon the lands. (Added by …

At any time within 30 days after the assessment list is filed in the office of the county treasurer as provided in Section 9307, the whole amount of the assessment upon any tract of land therein separately assessed may be paid in cash to the county treasurer. (Added by Stats. 194…

Upon such payment the county treasurer shall issue his receipt and indorse the fact and date of payment upon the assessment list, and thereupon the lien of the assessment upon the tract of land ceases. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The report of payment of the assessment shall be made by the county treasurer at once to the secretary of the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The amount of assessments received by the county treasurer shall, within 30 days after receipt thereof by him, be deposited by him with the State Treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The State Treasurer shall credit the amount of assessments received by him to the construction fund of the assessment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All assessments not paid in full within the 30-day period bear interest thereafter at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

If the amounts raised by means of the assesssment as provided in this part prove insufficient to pay in full all of the bonds and the interest thereon, the board shall levy and collect in the same manner as provided in Part 4 of this division, and this part, a supplementary annua…

The supplemental assessment shall be levied by resolution of the board entered in its minutes. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board need not appoint assessors nor prepare new or additional assessment lists for any supplemental assessment, but the assessment shall be levied and apportioned according to benefits and in the same proportion as specified in the original assessment lists for the assessmen…

The board shall, for the purpose of collecting the supplemental assessment, prepare and certify to the county treasurers of the several counties annual assessment collection lists in the same manner and at the same times as provided for the annual assessment collection lists upon…

The supplemental assessment shall be collected by the county treasurers, and the same percentages, penalties and costs added for delinquency and the same proceedings had for sale of property and for redemption thereof and for disposition of the proceeds of sale, and in all other …

All money collected for or on account of any supplemental assessment shall be paid over to the State Treasurer in the manner provided in this part, and credited by the State Treasurer to the bond redemption fund of the assessment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)