Title WAT, California Water Code

As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context: (a) “Facilities” means any of the following: (1) Facilities for the collection, treatment, or export of waste when necessary to prevent water pollution. (2) Facilities to recycle wastewater and to convey recycle…

(a) The State Water Quality Control Fund is continued in existence. The following moneys in the fund are appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for expenditure by the state board in making loans to public agencies in accordance with this chapter: (1) The balance of the ori…

As prerequisite to the issuance of a permit to appropriate water the following facts must exist: (a) There must be an applicant. (b) The application must contain the matter and information prescribed by this division and be in the form required by the board. (c) The intended use …

(a) Property sold for delinquent assessments may be redeemed within five years from the date of sale, or thereafter before a collector’s deed of the property has been delivered. (b) If a collector’s deed has been delivered to the district, the period of redemption is extended unt…

On receipt of the redemption money plus the amount of the recorder’s fee fixed in this article the collector shall make out duplicate certificates of redemption reciting the payment and stating the date and number of the certificate of sale to which the redemption applies. If a c…

One of the duplicate certificates of redemption shall be given to the redemptioner. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

In case of a redemption of part of any property described in a certificate of sale, the part redeemed shall be described in the certificate of redemption. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The collector shall record the other duplicate certificate of redemption with the county recorder in whose office the certificate of sale was recorded and shall pay the recording fee provided for in Section 27361 of the Government Code. Such recorded certificate of redemption is …

When a certificate of sale has been assigned, the collector shall hold the redemption money for and on demand pay it to the holder of the certificate. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

No incorrect statement or estimate of assessments due or amount required to redeem is binding upon a district or its officers unless the incorrect statement or estimate was in writing signed by the collector and relied upon in good faith by the party paying the amount designated.…

Whenever, in the opinion of the board, the public interest or convenience may require, the board may order the acquisition or construction in, under, or upon the whole or any portion of any one or more of the streets or public places of the district, or any property or rights-of-…

The work or improvement shall be done and the cost thereof assessed and collected in accordance with the procedures of the Improvement Act of 1911 (Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Streets and Highways Code), the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 (Division 12 (com…

Such acts or any of them may be used in the discretion of the board of directors in the construction of any work to be done or improvements made under this act and in the levying of assessments and reassessments and the issuing of bonds to pay for costs and expenses of the work a…

As additional notice a certified copy of any assessment and the diagram attached thereto issued under any of said acts shall be recorded in the office of the county surveyor if the improvement district or any part thereof is in unincorporated territory and with the superintendent…

A district may enter into an agreement with any municipality within the district whereby any work or improvement constructed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be transferred to the municipality for operation and maintenance. The power to make such an agreement is con…

Any district may cooperate and contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States under any laws of the state or the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, or under any other act of Congre…

The cooperation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Construction, acquisition, purchase, extension, operation, or maintenance of works for irrigation, drainage, storage, flood control, generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy incidental th…

Any contract made between a district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States may designate and describe the land which is to be served with water from the waterworks or system contemplated under the contract and, in that case, only such land may be…

The board may provide by contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States for the delivery and distribution of water for the land of the district under any laws of the state or acts of Congress and under any rules and regulations established there…

The board shall perform all acts necessary to carry out the enlarged powers enumerated in this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Water Reuse Law of 1974. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 724, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1995.)

“Supplementary assessment”, as used in this chapter, means an assessment, in addition to the original assessment, for the purpose of raising an additional sum for the district project or any unit or combination of units of the project. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 830.)

If the original assessment for the project or any unit or combination of units thereof is insufficient to provide for the completion of the project or of a unit or combination of units, the board shall levy and collect supplementary assessments to cover the estimated cost of comp…

Each supplementary assessment shall be apportioned among the different tracts of land in the proportion which the amounts assessed against the tracts by the original assessment or assessments bear to one another. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 830.)

The supplementary assessment shall be made by order entered in the minutes of the board stating the total amount necessary to be raised and fixing the rate of assessment, which shall be the percentage of the total amount assessed by the original assessment or assessments required…

Upon making the assessment order, the board shall prepare a supplementary assessment roll showing all the following: (a) A description of each tract assessed. (b) The amount assessed against each tract by the original assessment or assessments. (c) The rate of assessment. (d) The…

Upon completion of the supplementary assessment roll, the board shall file with the county treasurer of each affected county a copy of so much of the assessment roll as pertains to land within that county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Upon the filing of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, the supplementary assessment constitutes a lien upon each tract shown to be assessed by the copy of the assessment roll so filed for the amount assessed against it. The lien is of the same character and has the sam…

At any time within 60 days from the filing of the copy of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, it may be amended by the board to correct errors, either on its own initiative or at the instance of any landowner affected. The amendment shall be made by endorsement upon th…

When a district has levied an assessment and it appears to the board that it is unnecessary to collect all, or some portion of it, and it also appears to the board that the assessment or some part thereof is greater than required to meet all obligations incurred or to be incurred…

The board shall specify in the resolution the portion of the assessment levied against each parcel which is to be canceled, describing each parcel as described in the assessment roll or by the number of the parcel as used in the assessment roll. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board of supervisors, upon receipt of the request, shall appoint a time when it will meet and hear any objections to the request. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in Section 51244. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Objections shall be written, verified, and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and no objection shall be considered by the board of supervisors or allowed in any other action or proceeding unless made in writing to the board of supervisors within 30 days after the f…

At the hearing the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections and may approve, reject, modify or amend the request in any particular. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When an order is made approving, rejecting, modifying or amending the request, a certified copy of the order shall be attached to the assessment roll by the county treasurer in whose office the assessment roll is filed. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When the order is attached to the assessment roll the secretary shall endorse upon the assessment roll after each parcel assessed the amount of the assessment as to each particular parcel which has been canceled. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When a landowner, in any district in which the board of supervisors has canceled any assessment or portion thereof, has paid the assessment levied against his land, the board shall issue a warrant of the district in favor of the landowner in an amount equal to that portion of his…

The warrants shall be payable out of the fund of the district into which the proceeds of the assessments had been paid. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 805.)

No assessment or part thereof shall be canceled pursuant to this article if bonds based thereon and secured thereby have been issued and remain unpaid and provision has not been made for the payment thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

If from the bond election returns it appears that more than two-thirds of the votes cast in such election were in favor of and assented to the incurring of the indebtedness, the board may, by resolution, at such time or times as it deems proper, issue bonds of the district for th…

The full amount of the authorized bonds may be divided into two or more series and different dates fixed for the bonds of each series. The maximum term which the bonds of any series shall run before maturity shall not exceed 40 years from the date of the series. (Added by Stats. …

The board shall, by resolution, prescribe the form of the bonds and of the coupons attached thereto and fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal shall become due and payable. The payment of the first installment of principal may be deferred for a period of not mor…

The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not to exceed 8 percent per year, payable semiannually, except that interest for the first year may be payable at the end of that year. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)

The board may provide for the call and redemption of bonds prior to maturity at such times and prices and upon such other terms as it may specify. A bond shall not be subject to call or redemption prior to maturity unless it contains a recital to that effect or unless a statement…

The denomination of the bonds shall be stated in the resolution providing for their issuance but shall not be less than one hundred dollars ($100). (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)