Title WAT, California Water Code

The board may maintain any action for the protection of the district’s rights in the unredeemed parcels, to the same extent as any other owner and the costs and expenses of such action or actions shall be a charge against the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board may expend district funds necessary to retire liens against an unredeemed parcel superior to the title of the county treasurer as trustee for the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board shall manage and control, and may lease for such reasonable rental and upon such terms as it deems advisable, and receive and collect the rental for all unredeemed parcels which remain unsold. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board may apply all rentals collected or moneys received by it from the lease of unredeemed, unsold parcels, or for the use or occupation of such parcels, to: (a) The payment of the incidental expenses of holding and leasing the parcels. (b) The payment of any other incidenta…

The bonds or coupons purchased by the board shall be forthwith delivered to the county treasurer and canceled. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

All rentals collected or moneys received from lease of parcels sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 of this part or for the use or occupation of such parcels, less the expenditures authorized by subdivisions (a) and (d) …

An amount equal to the revenues derived from each parcel by reason of the leasing, use or occupation thereof, less the incidental expenses of leasing and holding same, shall be credited by the county treasurer on the assessment lists against the delinquent charges on the parcel. …

Upon receipt of any application other than an application provided for in Article 3 of this chapter the department shall give its consideration thereto and shall approve or disapprove the same within the time provided in this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

A defective application made in a bona fide attempt to conform to the law and rules and regulations of the department shall not be rejected but notice of defect shall be sent to the applicant by ordinary and registered mail. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

If within 30 days of the date of mailing the notice the applicant does not file an amended and perfected application, the application shall be rejected and canceled unless for good cause shown the department allows the applicant further time. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

No application shall be approved in less than 10 days from its receipt but all applications shall be approved or disapproved as soon as practicable after the receipt of all data and information found necessary by the department. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

Approvals may be granted under terms, conditions, and limitations necessary to safeguard life and property. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

Actual construction shall be commenced within one year after date of approval, otherwise the approval becomes void. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

The department may, upon written application and for good cause shown, extend the time for commencing construction. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

Notice shall be given to the department at least 10 days before construction is to be commenced and such other notices shall be given to the department as it may require. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

If a district undertakes to execute a contract pursuant to this chapter, no part of the annual payments for the obligations assumed therein, as principal or guarantor, or the interest thereon, or the costs of maintenance and operation of the works so acquired or constructed, over…

Upon the dissolution of a district, any and all real property belonging to the district shall become and be the property of the county in which the real property is situated. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

The personal property belonging to a district upon its dissolution shall be sold by the board of supervisors of the principal county, and the proceeds from such sale, together with all moneys of the district, remaining after the payment of all of the obligations of the district, …

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) (1) “Drainage water management units” means land and facilities for the treatment, storage, conveyance, reduction, or disposal of agricultural drainage water which, if di…

There is hereby created in the account the Drainage Management Subaccount. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the subaccount for the purpose of implementing this article. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Pr…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the sum of twenty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($27,500,000) in the subaccount is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board, for loans to local agencies to aid in the con…

(a) The board may loan an agency up to 100 percent of the total eligible costs of design and construction of an eligible project. (b) Any contract for an eligible project entered into pursuant to this article may include provisions as determined by the board to be necessary and s…

The board may, by contract or otherwise, undertake plans, surveys, research, development, and studies necessary, convenient, or desirable to carry out subdivision (a) of Section 78642. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, el…

(a) Any unallocated money remaining in the Agricultural Drainage Water Account in the 1986 Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Fund on November 6, 1996, and any unallocated money deposited into that account from the sale of any bonds that are sold after November 6, 1996, sh…

Not more than 3 percent of the total amount deposited in the subaccount for the use of the board may be used to pay for both of the following purposes: (a) To pay the costs incurred by the board in connection with the administration of this article. (b) For the purposes of Sectio…

Not more than 3 percent of the total amount deposited in the subaccount for the use of the Department of Food and Agriculture may be used to pay the costs incurred by that department in connection with the administration of this article. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Ap…

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Flood Control Subventions Subaccount. (b) For the purposes of this article, “subaccount” means the Flood Control Subventions Subaccount created by subdivision (a). (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at…

The sum of forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000) is hereby transferred from the fund to the subaccount. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)

(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, the money in the subaccount is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, to the department to pay for the state’s share of the nonfederal costs of flood control and flo…

The assessors shall make a separate list of the lands assessed in each county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The list shall contain a description of the tracts of land assessed by swamp land surveys, legal subdivisions, or other boundaries or references sufficient to identify the tracts. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The list shall also contain the name of the owner, if known, or if unknown, that fact, and the amount of the charge assessed against each tract. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The name of the owner of land which is or is supposed to be the property of the estate of a deceased person in course of administration may be stated as estate of (such person, naming him), deceased. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

When there are two or more owners or supposed owners of any tract of land, partly known and partly unknown, the assessment may be to the known owner or owners by name and to other owners unknown. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

No mistake in the name of the owner, or supposed owner, of any real estate invalidates the assessment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

In the assessment list for any county the assessors may use any abbreviation in common use in that county, without explanation thereof. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The assessors may also in the assessment list for any county make use of other abbreviations, if a schedule and explanation thereof with reasonable certainty is, unless printed on each page of the assessment list, prefixed to the assessment list and a reference thereto written, p…

In case any land in the assessment list for any county is described in whole or in part by reference to a map, plat or survey, which is on file or of record in any public office, it is sufficient in the description to designate the map, plat or survey by name, number or other des…

The schedule shall be prefixed to the assessment list and shall set forth with reasonable certainty where each such map, plat or survey may be found, and shall be referred to by a reference written, printed or stamped on each page of the assessment list whereon such method of des…

The assessment lists when completed shall be filed with the secretary of the board and the secretary shall forward to the county treasurer of each county in which any land so assessed is situated, the assessment list for the county. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The assessment list shall be open for inspection by the public for at least 60 days. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board shall appoint a time and place not less than 60 days after the assessment list has been filed with the county treasurer when and where it will meet in each county wherein any of the land assessed is situated for the purpose of hearing objections to the assessments. (Add…

The notice of hearing in each county shall be filed with the county treasurer and published once a week for four weeks in some newspaper published in the affected county. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

At any time before or during the hearing any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, may file in the office of the board or with any member thereof, written objections to the assessment, stating the grounds of the objections. (Added by Stats. 1943, …

The statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the person objecting or some other person who is familiar with the facts. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

At the hearing, the board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment or the manner of its apportionment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)