Title WAT, California Water Code

In an irrigation district containing 500,000 acres or more, the board shall, when changing the boundaries of the divisions of the district pursuant to Section 21605, make such boundaries coincide with general county election precincts as nearly as may be practicable while keeping…

The board may: (a) Provide for and create divisions or departments for management and operating purposes. (b) Appoint department heads. (c) Classify and reclassify employees. (d) Fix the duties, terms, and time of employment. (e) Provide for and fix salaries, compensation, and ex…

All department heads, executives, and employees shall hold their employment at the will of the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The board shall: (a) Elect an assessor and a collector, and on and after 12 p.m. on December 31, 1971, elect a treasurer, each of whom shall hold office at the pleasure of the board. (b) Fix and alter their respective compensations. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 33.)

The treasurer, assessor, and collector shall each qualify by taking and filing with the secretary the oath of office and shall give a bond to the district as required by the board. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 33.)

The bond of the collector shall be in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more and shall be executed at the expense of the district by a surety company authorized to do business in the state, except if the gross revenue estimated by the board to be received by such dis…

The bond of the treasurer shall be in a sum determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 21140) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of this division. (Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 33.)

The board may: (a) Appoint one person to hold the offices of assessor, treasurer, and collector. (b) Segregate the offices and appoint a person to fill each office. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 33.)

The same person may hold the office of president, secretary, treasurer, assessor, and collector, or any of those offices. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 577, Sec. 2.)

The board of supervisors of the office county shall fill by appointment vacancies in the offices of directors, provided that any such appointed directors shall be required to run for election in the next succeeding general district election. If within 60 days after a vacancy on t…

If a district desires to extend the time or times of maturity of any or all of its bonds or warrants payable at stated times or to reduce the rate of interest thereon or to effect any combination of these, it may either: (a) Enter into an agreement in writing with the holders of …

The rate of interest specified in the agreement or plan shall not exceed 8 percent per year. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)

All interest coupons shall be payable on the first day of January or the first day of July. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The board may call an election to submit to the voters the question whether or not the bonds or warrants shall be modified as provided in the agreement or plan. Notice of the election shall be given and it shall be held and its result declared as nearly as practicable as in the c…

If a majority of the votes cast for and against the proposal is in favor of modifying the bonds or warrants, the proposal is approved. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

An agreement or plan may not be carried out pursuant to this article until a proposal therefor is approved by the voters, and a plan may not be carried out until it is either: (a) Agreed to in writing by all of the holders of bonds and warrants affected. (b) Confirmed in accordan…

Upon the presentation to the secretary of any of the bonds or warrants covered by the agreement or plan, he shall indorse on them the date to which their maturity is extended and shall attach to them coupons with his signature or a facsimile of it to evidence the semiannual inter…

If the agreement or plan provides for a reduction in the rate of interest on the bonds or warrants before the original time or times of their maturity, new coupons shall be attached to the bonds or warrants to evidence the reduced interest. Any old coupons evidencing the interest…

Each bond or warrant presented and indorsed shall continue as an obligation of the district and shall not become due until the date specified in the agreement or plan. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

This article does not amend, modify, or limit any other provision of law for changing the date or dates of maturity of outstanding obligations of a district, but provides an alternative method of extending any obligations whose date or dates of maturity may be changed under any o…

When assessments are not payable in installments, the collector shall commence to publish the list of delinquencies on or before the first day of February. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

When assessments are payable in installments, the first publication of the list of delinquencies shall not be made before the first day of July nor after the first day of September. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 34.)

The published list of delinquencies shall contain all of the following information relating to each parcel of land separately assessed on which the assessment is delinquent: (a) The name of the assessee. (b) The description of the land. (c) The total amount due, which shall be th…

There need be no delinquent list other than the published list of delinquencies. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The collector shall publish with the list of delinquencies a notice, specifying: (a) That each parcel separately assessed on which the amount due as shown on the list is not paid will be sold to the district. (b) The time and place of the sale. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The list of delinquencies and notice shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the delinquent property is situated but only information pertaining to and descriptions of land situated in the county need be set forth …

If any land assessed to the same person lies in more than one county, publication may be made in any county in which any portion of the land lies. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Publication of the list of delinquencies and notice shall be made in the newspaper designated by the board. If assessments are not payable in installments, the designation of the newspaper shall be made by the board on or before the fifteenth day of December of the year in which …

If any error should occur in the publication of the notice of the sale of any delinquent property or the list of delinquencies which might invalidate a sale and the error is discovered prior to sale, the collector shall at once republish the notice of the sale and the items of th…

Improvement districts may be formed to undertake projects to investigate, study, analyze, appraise, finance, acquire, and carry out any of the objects or purposes of this division of special benefit to such improvement districts, including, without limitation, projects to constru…

The formation of an improvement district shall be instituted by a resolution of the board which shall contain the following: (a) A description of the boundaries of the improvement district proposed to be formed; (b) A brief general description of the project to be undertaken with…

The secretary shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing by causing a notice thereof to be published for the time provided by Section 31371 in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the proposed improvement district, but if there is no such ne…

The notice shall contain a copy of the resolution and a designation of a public place within the district where a copy of a map of the proposed improvement district may be seen by any interested person. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 442.)

At the time and place fixed for the hearing, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the hearing and shall consider all written and oral objections to any matters set forth in the resolution. Any person may appear at the hearing an…

If prior to the conclusion of the hearing written protests against the formation of the proposed improvement district and the proposed project signed by a majority in number of the holders of title to taxable property within the proposed improvement district and who are also the …

In all matters referred to in this article, the last equalized assessment roll of the district, if any, otherwise of the county, shall be prima facie evidence as to the ownership of taxable property, the names and number of the persons who are the holders of title, or assessable …

(a) Each signature on a protest shall be acknowledged or proved in the manner required to entitle deeds to be recorded. (b) A guardian, executor, administrator, or other person holding property in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign a protest when authorized by t…

The board may inquire and take evidence for the purpose of identifying any person claiming the right to sign the protest as being the person shown on the assessment roll or otherwise as entitled thereto. Unless satisfactory evidence is furnished, the right to file said protest ma…

At the conclusion of the hearing if proceedings relating to the proposed improvement district have not been terminated in the manner set forth in Section 31600 the board may, by resolution, declare that the proposed improvement district is formed. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 442.)…

No improvement district shall be formed pursuant to this chapter unless the board shall, in the resolution declaring such improvement district to be formed, find and declare that all taxable property located within the improvement district is equally benefited by the project prop…

The resolution declaring an improvement district to be formed shall contain: (a) A description of the boundaries thereof and the name of such improvement district which shall thereupon constitute and be known as “Improvement District No. ____ of ____ County Water District.” (b) A…

The boundaries of an improvement district determined and established by the board in the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed may be the whole or a part of the proposed improvement district described in the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 31596 and ma…

The resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed shall become effective 30 days after its adoption. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 442.)

If a petition protesting against the adoption of the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed is presented to the board prior to its effective date, the resolution shall be suspended and the board shall reconsider it. The petition shall be signed by not less tha…

After the formation of an improvement district pursuant to this chapter and if any portion of the cost of the project proposed therefor is to be financed by the issuance of bonds by the district on behalf of the improvement district, proceedings may be taken by the board for the …

After the formation of an improvement district, additional lands may be included therein upon the written petition of the owners thereof and a resolution of the board. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 442.)