Title WAT, California Water Code

Annually, the Desert View County Water District, San Bernardino County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy a bond tax on land only in the district or improvement district benefited by the purposes of the bonded debt. The bond tax levied pursuant to this section …

Annually, the Pinedale County Water District, Fresno County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, a bond tax on land only in Pinedale County Water District, Improvement District No. 2, benefited by the purposes of the bonded debt. The bond tax levied pursuant to …

Upon request of the Cucamonga County Water District, the board of supervisors shall levy an improvement district tax on land within any improvement district within Cucamonga County Water District for the purpose of financing improvements in such improvement district. The tax levi…

Annually, the El Dorado Hills County Water District, El Dorado County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, a bond tax on land only in the district or improvement district benefited by the purposes of the bonded debt. The bond tax levied pursuant to this section …

Annually, the Juniper Riviera County Water District, San Bernardino County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, any one, or all, bond or other taxes on land only within the district or improvement district benefited by the purposes of the bonded debt and other i…

Taxes levied by the Coachella Valley County Water District for payment of the principal of, or interest on bonded indebtedness, where the proceeds of such bonds were used for the construction and installation of sewer facilities to provide sewer service to an area, including eith…

All district taxes shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and form as county taxes and shall be paid to the district for which they were levied and collected. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Subject to the provisions of Section 31707.1, taxes for the payment of a bonded debt and the interest on it are a lien on all the property benefited thereby as stated in the resolution of the board of directors declaring the necessity to incur the debt. (Amended by Stats. 1955, C…

No bonded debt and no lien therefor is created or exists as to authorized bonds prior to issuance. Upon issuance a debt is created only as to the bonds issued and a lien is created therefor but only upon the property which on the date of bond issuance is then within the district …

(a) Taxes for the payment of all charges, claims, expenditures and expenses, other than a bonded debt, of any improvement district created pursuant to this division are a lien on all the property described in the resolution of the board creating such improvement district. (b) All…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the sale is conducted and the funds are accounted for as provided in Division 1 (commencing with Section 101) of the Revenue and Taxation Cod…

District taxes whether for the payment of a bonded indebtedness and the interest on it or for other purposes are of the same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection shall be enforced by the same means as provided for the enforcement of liens for state and …

Land not a part of the district whether or not contiguous to it or to other portions added to the district, and consisting of any portion of the county wherein the district was formed or of any municipality therein, or of land in any county contiguous to the county wherein the di…

The Coachella Valley Storm Water District of Riverside County was merged into the Coachella Valley County Water District on October 19, 1937, pursuant to Chapter 469 of the Statutes of 1937. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

The surviving district comprises all land in the county water district at the time of the merger plus inclusions, and less exclusions, of land thereafter made pursuant to law. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

The name of the surviving district is Coachella Valley County Water District. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

The surviving district is a public agency of the State. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Upon the merger of the two districts the storm water district for all purposes ceased to exist, and the offices of its trustees and officers thereupon terminated. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Upon the merger the directors and officers of the county water district then in office constituted the directors and officers of the surviving district. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

Upon the merger the surviving district succeeded to all properties, rights and contracts of each of the two districts. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 274.)

The Costa Mesa County Water District is hereby created, which includes the area of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, the Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, the Newport Mesa Irrigation District, and the portion of the City of Costa Mesa …

The name of the new district which succeeds the preceding districts and the city water system is “Costa Mesa County Water District.” (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1377.)

The new district is a public agency of the State and shall in all respects be operated, managed and governed as provided by law for county water districts generally. (Amended by Stats. 1962, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 57.)

The Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, and the Newport Mesa Irrigation District are hereby dissolved and for all purposes shall cease to exist as herein provided. The Costa Mesa County Water District shall …

The dissolution of the Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, the Newport Heights Irrigation District, and the Newport Mesa Irrigation District, and their merger into the Costa Mesa County Water District, shall occur and be considered completed fo…

The boards of directors of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, and the city council of the City of Costa Mesa, may adopt, any time prior to the first day of the second month following the sixty-first day…

As the Newport Mesa Irrigation District has been inactive for a number of years by reason of the formation of an overlapping district known as the Newport Mesa County Water District, action by its directors, if any, shall not be necessary for approval of this part. The Newport Me…

On the first day of the second month following the sixty-first day after the effective date of this part, and if the districts and the city have adopted the resolutions approving this part as herein provided, and if no petition bearing at least 5 percent of the signatures of the …

The boards of directors of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, and Newport Mesa County Water District, and the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, shall cause to be recorded with the Recorder of Orange County a certified copy of their reso…

Any assessments levied by or on behalf of the districts, or any bills or statements rendered by or on behalf of the districts, being dissolved and merged into the new Costa Mesa County Water District shall continue to be a debt or obligation of the person or property against whom…

Unless the context otherwise requires the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The definition of a word applies to any of its variants. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Include” except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“District” except as otherwise provided means a water district formed pursuant to the California Water District Act or to this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Land” means the solid material of the earth whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock, or other substance, but there shall not be included in the meaning of land improvements thereon or rights and privileges appertaining to minerals, oil, gas, o…

“Principal county” means the county in which the greatest portion of the area of the land is situated at the time of the filing of the petition for formation of the district or to which district records are transferred pursuant to Chapter 6 of Part 2. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 3…

“Affected county” means any county in which land is situated. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Office” means the office for the district selected by the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

Except as otherwise provided, “board” means the board of directors of a district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Elective officers,” irrespective of the method of selection in any instance, (1) are the members of the board and (2) may be an assessor and a tax collector. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 206.)

“President” means the president of the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Secretary” means the secretary of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Assessor” means the assessor of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Collector” means the tax collector of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Treasurer” means the treasurer of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“General district election” means the district election required to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)