Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

This article shall become inoperative five years from the date determined pursuant to Section 32 of the act adding this article, and on the January 1 following that date is repealed. (Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1192, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 1995. Operative on date prescribed…

A county sanitation district may sue and be sued by its own name. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1000.)

A county sanitation district may employ such sanitation experts, surveyors, counsel, and other persons as are needed to carry into effect any powers of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

By resolution, the board may change the name of the district. The change of name shall be effective upon recording a certified copy in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties in which the district is situated. (Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 829, Sec. 37. Effecti…

The district may acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, in the name of the district, and own, control, manage, and dispose of any interest in real or personal property necessary or convenient for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a sewerage system an…

A district may acquire, construct, and complete within or without the district, sewage collection, treatment and disposal works, including sewage treatment plants, outfalls, intercepting, collecting and lateral sewers, pipes, pumps, machinery, easements, rights-of-way, and other …

A district board desiring to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, within or without the district in addition to its sewage collection, treatment and disposal system shall adopt a resolution of its intention to do so. The resolution shall …

That portion of a political subdivision lying within a district and having representation on the district board of directors, shall be excluded from the proposed refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, and shall not be liable for any cost incurred by said district in acquiri…

At the expiration of not less than 90 days after adoption of the resolution of intention to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, the district board may, in its discretion, adopt a resolution declaring the system formed or may rescind its …

The board of directors of a county sanitation district shall be the same for all district purposes, activities, and objectives, whether for collection, treatment and disposal of sewage or the acquisition and operation of a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, and no direc…

When a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, is established by a district pursuant to the provisions of this article, the district shall comply with the provisions of Sections 54900 to 54903, inclusive, of the Government Code, by furnishing a statement and map or plat to e…

The provisions of Sections 4741.1 through 4741.5 shall not apply to any district whose resolution of intention pursuant to Section 4710 discloses that the district was formed for the purposes of constructing, maintaining and operating both sewage collection and disposal systems a…

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter, or of Article 4 (commencing with Section 5470) to the contrary, a district may fix and collect a fee or charge in connection with its refuse transfer or disposal system only pursuant to the provisions of Section 5471, and for…

It may join with any other district, city or other governmental agency in the purchase, ownership, use, construction, maintenance, or operation of a sewerage system or sewage disposal or treatment plant, or a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, either within or without t…

It may contract with any district, city, governmental agency, or person, for the handling, treatment or disposal by the district of refuse, sewage, or industrial wastes originating within the district or county or within areas outside of the district or county when, in the judgme…

Whenever a person installs sewers or other facilities for sewers and the district board determines that it is necessary that such sewers or other facilities be constructed so that they can be or will be used for the benefit of property other than that of the person making the ins…

Any county sanitation district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing, or relocating any facilities owned or to be owned by either party on the roads or other property of the other in such pro…

It may make provision for street-cleaning and streetsweeping services upon the roads and streets within the boundaries of the district. It may contract with any district, city, governmental agency or person for the operation of a street-cleaning and streetsweeping service upon th…

It may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any property of the district or any interest therein whenever it is no longer required for the purposes of the district, or when its use may be permitted without interfering with its use by the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.…

It may sell, or otherwise dispose of, any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewerage system, sewage disposal plant, refuse disposal plant or process, or treatment plant, and construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines a…

It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines or other works as may be necessary to conserve and put to beneficial use any water or sewage effluent recovered from the operation of the sewerage system, plant, or works, by sale or disposition for agricultural or industria…

It may issue bonds. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and operation, a district may incur indebtedness by the issuance of negotiable promissory notes pursuant to this section, without an election. The notes shall be general obligations of the district payable in the same ma…

(a) If the district board determines by resolution that funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and repair of damage caused by disaster, a district may borrow and repay county funds not to exceed 85 percent of the district’s anticipated revenue for the fiscal yea…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds, when borrowed by a sanitation district pursuant to Section 4746.2, shall forthwith increase the appropriations of the district for which they are needed. The board of supervisors may specify the date and manner in which the …

The district shall pay interest to the county on all funds borrowed pursuant to Section 4746.2 at the same rate that the county applies to funds of the district on deposit with the county. (Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 419.)

It may cause to be levied and collected taxes upon all the taxable real property in the district sufficient to meet the obligations evidenced by its bonds, to maintain the works of the district, and to defray all other expenses incidental to the exercise of the district powers. (…

The district board shall, by resolution, employ one or more sanitation engineers to make a survey of the problems of the district concerning sanitation especially with reference to the matters of sewage collection, treatment, and disposal, and refuse transfer or disposal, or both…

The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction of the district board, employ such surveyors and others as may be necessary to prepare the report. The district board at any time may remove any or all engineers or other persons employed, and may fill all vacancies. (Enacte…

When the engineers’ report is filed the district board shall examine it and may thereupon (a) reject it and direct that a new report be prepared; (b) direct that changes be made in it; or (c) if it complies with the provisions of this chapter and is satisfactory to the board it s…

Notice of the hearing shall be given by the district board by publishing the notice for at least five times in a daily, or twice in a weekly, newspaper circulated in the district, as the district board may direct. At the time and place so fixed, or at the time and place to which …

At the conclusion of the hearing the district board shall either order the report changed to conform to some or all the objections made or shall approve and adopt the report as made. If changes in the report are ordered a further hearing shall be had upon it as amended and furthe…

The district board may, thereafter, have such portions of the report as are adapted to publication, or a resume, published for free public distribution. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The engineers employed by the district board to make the report required by this chapter, or other engineers, shall be directed by the district board to superintend the doing of the work recommended to be done in the report as approved and adopted. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60…

Any work recommended to be done in the report approved and adopted by the district board shall be done in conformity with the general plans and specifications contained in the report unless the district board, by a four-fifths vote, adopts a resolution declaring that the public i…

A right of way in or across any public highway, street, or property in the district is hereby granted to the district wherever the right of way is found by the district board to be necessary or convenient for doing any of the work. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

(a) There is granted to every district the right to construct, operate and maintain outfall, intercepting and trunk sewerlines, other than ocean outfall lines and other terminal outfall lines, together with pumps and like machinery necessary for sewage transportation, across, alo…

The district board may, by agreement with any city or other public agency, take possession of, or acquire by condemnation or in any other manner any sewerage system, or any sewage or refuse disposal or treatment plant, or any combination of the foregoing necessary or convenient t…

Any city or public agency in the district may enter into an agreement with the district for the use, or entire possession and operation, by the county sanitation district of any sewerage or refuse disposal system, or sewage or refuse disposal or treatment plant owned or operated …

Whenever any area in the district is provided with a sewerage system the governing body of the city in which the area lies may declare the further maintenance or use of cesspools or other local means of sewage disposal to be a public nuisance, and may require all buildings inhabi…

All connections of lateral or other sewerlines to the sewerage system of the district, whether within or without any city, shall be made at points and in the manner to be directed by the engineers of the district under instructions from the district board, subject to such terms a…

All powers of the district shall be exercised by the district board unless otherwise specified. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 596.)

It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and also refund or retire any public indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any property therein which s…

Any district, directly or through a representative, may attend the Legislature and any committees thereof and present information to aid the passage of legislation which the district deems beneficial to the district or to prevent the passage of legislation which the governing boa…

The district board may adopt ordinances to carry out the provisions of Sections 5473 to 5473.11, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code and this chapter; the procedure for the adoption of said ordinances shall be the same as is provided for in Article 7 (commencing with Section…

The board of supervisors of any county may adopt a model county sanitation district ordinance. The procedure for the adoption of said ordinance shall be the same as is provided for in Article 7 (commencing with Section 25120) of Chapter 1, Part 2, Division 2, Title 3 of the Gover…