Title WAT, California Water Code

The county elections officials of the respective counties shall immediately upon receipt of the ballots, papers, and documents from the board of election certify to the board of directors at its office a statement of the result of the election held in each of the counties with a …

The board of directors shall certify in its minutes that the proposal to issue bonds has carried or has been defeated. The certificate shall state the vote cast throughout the entire district. A duplicate of the certificate shall be immediately transmitted to the department. (Add…

Except as in this part specifically provided, the provisions of this division with reference to all matters pertaining to elections shall govern bond elections. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The commissioners appointed pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter shall assess the costs of the project, or in the event the board has divided the project into units of construction, the cost of the unit or units specified for immediate construction, upon the benefited land. In t…

The commissioners shall apportion the cost in accordance with the benefits that will accrue to each tract of land held in separate ownership by reason of the expenditures of the money and the completion of the project, or such units of it as have been specified for immediate cons…

If the project includes plans for the generation of electric power, the commissioners shall ascertain the total cost of all the properties which are necessary to be used in connection with the generation of electric power as set forth in the plan, and shall also ascertain what po…

Where any tract of land consists of more than one section, the apportionment to that tract of land shall be made according to legal subdivisions or to other boundaries sufficient to identify the land in subdivisions not greater than one section in area. Any failure or defect in c…

If the district project as adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing at Section 42200) of this division, provides that all of the costs of the project are to be borne by certain designated lands within the district and there is on file with the board a written stipulation or agr…

At the time and place mentioned in the notice of filing of the inclusion petition, or at such other time or times to which the hearing of the inclusion petition may be adjourned, the board shall proceed to hear the petition and all the objections thereto presented in writing by a…

The failure of any interested person to show cause in writing as provided in this article shall be an assent on his part to a change of the boundaries of the district as prayed for in the petition, or to any such change thereof as will include a part of the land. (Added by Stats.…

The board shall order the boundaries of the district changed so as to include the land described in the inclusion petition, or such portion thereof as the board has found it feasible to serve by the system of works of the district and for the best interests of the district to inc…

The order of the board shall describe the boundaries as changed, and shall also describe the entire boundaries of the district as they will be after the change is made; and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of the boundaries as it deems nec…

A certified copy of the inclusion order shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which land to be included is situated. Thereupon the land becomes a part of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

If the board determines that it is not feasible and practicable to serve any of the land described in the petition or that it is not for the best interest of the district that any of the land be included, it shall make an order denying the petition. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 7…

No inclusion of land into any district impairs its existence, its rights, including those in or to property, or its obligations. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Districts may be formed pursuant to this division for the reclamation of any land within any city, which land is subject in any manner, to overflow or incursions from the tide or inland waters of the State. (Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)

When districts are formed in cities pursuant to Section 50110 the duties required by this division to be performed by county officers shall be performed by the officers of the city who usually perform like duties. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Each member of the election board, upon entering upon his duties, shall be sworn to a faithful performance thereof by some officer authorized to administer oaths. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

If the board of supervisors fails to appoint an election board, the voters present at the opening of the polls may appoint the election board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The election board shall canvass the votes cast and issue certificates of election to the persons elected, and shall place the ballots, when canvassed, in a sealed envelope and forward it to the county elections official. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 173. Effective Janu…

Each voter may cumulate his votes, and give one candidate a number of votes equal to the number of trustees to be elected multiplied by the number of votes he is entitled to cast, or to distribute them on the same principle among any number of candidates. (Amended by Stats. 1966,…

The board of directors of irrigation districts holding title to lands obtained through collectors’ deeds may cast the votes belonging to such lands. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Any qualified voter may challenge any vote, and the election board shall determine whether the person challenged is entitled to vote. Any member of the election board may administer oaths for the purposes of this section. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The candidates, of the number to be elected, receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 218.)

Any person who knowingly makes an untrue statement in establishing his right to vote in a district election shall incur all of the penalties provided in the Elections Code for persons illegally voting at elections. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)

If the ownership of any property in the district is changed after the making of the last equalized tax roll for the county wherein the property is situated, the owner thereof or his legal representative may vote at a district election upon the production of evidence of ownership …

No person shall vote by proxy at a district election unless authority to vote is evidenced by an instrument in writing acknowledged and certified in the same manner as grants of real property and filed with the election board. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)

If no part of a district is within the boundaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, the board shall report each plan for reclamation of district lands to the board of supervisors by filing with the county clerk two copies thereof with an estimate of the cost of…

If the original assessment is insufficient to provide for the complete reclamation of district lands, or if further assessments are required to provide for the protection, maintenance and repair of the reclamation works, the board may file with the clerk of the board of superviso…

If any part of the principal or interest of bonds or refunding bonds is unpaid after enforcement of the assessment securing such bonds, the board of supervisors shall order an additional or supplemental assessment to be made as provided in Section 51300, sufficient to pay the unp…

Whenever the board shall call for redemption any bonds which by their terms are subject to call and redemption at the option of the district at a premium, then, unless district funds are otherwise available for payment of such premium, the board shall request the board of supervi…

An assessment levied pursuant to this article shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the original assessment. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When directed by resolution of the board, the county treasurer may sell all or any designated number of the bonds for the best price obtainable, but in no event for less than 90 percent of the face value of the bonds and the accrued interest thereon. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 33…

The bonds shall be sold in the manner provided in Article 3 of Chapter 1 of this part. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The county treasurer may accept in full or partial payment for bonds, outstanding warrants of the district at face value plus the accrued interest thereon. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

When bonds have been authorized prior to payment of an assessment during the 30-day period allowed by Section 51510, the amount of bonds to be sold shall be reduced and canceled in an amount equal to the assessment paid during that period. (Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)

The reduction and cancellation of bonds not to be sold shall be only in the latest maturities and the minute order directing such reduction and cancellation shall be entered by the board and a copy thereof, certified by the president, filed with the county treasurer. (Amended by …

The proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the county treasury to the credit of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

A sale and delivery of the bonds by the county treasurer is conclusive evidence in favor of the purchaser and all subsequent holders of the bonds that the sale was made upon due authority and notice. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board may draw demand warrants upon the county treasurer against the funds provided by sale of bonds. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter which have been investigated and certified by any officer of this state authorized to make such investigation and certification, and declared to be legal for investments by savings banks of the state, may be purchased, or received in pledge f…

The board shall, on demand of the holder of any demand warrant outstanding one year or more, or any time warrant overdue one year of more, cancel the same and issue a new demand warrant for the face value of the old warrant, and a separate warrant for any interest then due thereo…

Warrants issued for interest pursuant to this article shall not bear interest. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Upon drawing an interest warrant the board shall endorse on the reverse of the old warrant the fact that interest has been paid to the date of drawing the interest warrant. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

An interest warrant shall state that it is drawn for interest on warrant No. ____ to ____ (date). (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The board shall notify the county treasurer upon drawing an interest warrant, and he shall note on his register of warrants the fact that interest has been paid on the warrant for which the interest warrant was issued. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)