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CA St & Hwy Code § 5530 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 19.2 - Additional Assessment|Section 5530.

5530.  In the event that the cost and expense of the improvement work payable by the real estate benefited by such work exceeds the construction costs set forth in the contract, because of an act or omission of the legislative body or its superintendent of streets, officers, or employees occurring prior to the award of the contract which subjects the legislative body to liability pursuant to Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810), Title 1 of the Government Code, the legislative body may settle this liability out of court, or may pay a judgment rendered by the court as to this liability, by a payment out of the General Fund or by an additional assessment.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1887.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5531 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 19.2 - Additional Assessment|Section 5531.

5531.  In the event payment is to be made by an additional assessment, the additional assessment shall be made and collected, and notice thereof shall be given in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as in the case of the original assessment. The superintendent of streets shall prepare and file with the additional assessment, a diagram showing the lots or parcels of land deemed by him to have been benefited by the work. The superintendent of streets shall assess the additional assessment upon the several lots or parcels of land shown in such diagram in the proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by each of the several lots or parcels of land.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1887.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5532 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 19.2 - Additional Assessment|Section 5532.

5532.  Sections 5366, 5367, 5368, 5369 and 5372 of this code shall apply to the additional assessment except that the objections, appeals or protests referred to in Section 5366 shall be limited to the matter of the cost of liability and not relate to the work, acquisition or improvement.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1887.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5533 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 19.2 - Additional Assessment|Section 5533.

5533.  The lien of an additional assessment, whether bonds issued to represent the additional assessment or otherwise, shall be subordinate to all special assessment liens previously imposed upon the property, but it shall have priority over all special assessment liens which may thereafter be created against the property; and from and after the date of the recording of any warrant, special assessment and diagram, all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents thereof.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1887.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5550 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5550.

5550.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the legislative body shall have power at any time before the assessments levied under this division are fully paid and discharged to order a reassessment under the terms and conditions set forth in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5551 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5551.

5551.  Whenever the legislative body determines that the work for which an assessment was previously made was for the construction, alteration, repair, improvement or betterment of any major traffic artery or sanitary sewer designed for or generally used by the people of the city as a whole, the legislative body may, in its discretion, determine to aid the same by appropriating any funds available for such purpose. It shall not be necessary to set forth or give notice of such contribution in the resolution of intention or other proceedings hereunder.(Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1600.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5551.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5551.5.

5551.5.  Whenever the legislative body determines that the work for which an assessment was previously made was for the construction, acquisition, alteration, repair, improvement or betterment of any lands or improvements which have been sold as surplus property, the legislative body may, in its discretion, determine to aid the project by appropriating the proceeds of the sale and contributing the same for such purpose. It shall not be necessary to set forth or give notice of such contribution in the resolution of intention or other proceedings hereunder.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 481.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5552 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5552.

5552.  Upon appropriating any such funds in aid of any work, the legislative body by resolution shall direct the street superintendent to apportion the sum thus appropriated pro rata between all properties assessed upon the original assessment or any reassessment made therefor, whichever is the latest in point of time. Such sum shall be apportioned in the same ratio that the original assessments bore to the total assessment against all properties assessed.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5553 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5553.

5553.  The street superintendent shall thereupon prepare a reassessment after deducting such apportionment rebate and return the same to the legislative body. The reassessment need not be in any prescribed form but shall refer to the original assessment filed, giving the date of filing of the original assessment, and shall state that it was made pursuant to the order of the legislative body and shall be accompanied by a diagram showing the lots to be reassessed and their relation to the work. Such diagram may be the original assessment diagram if it otherwise conforms to the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5554 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5554.

5554.  Upon receipt of the reassessment the legislative body shall fix a time and place when any and all persons objecting to the proposed reassessment may be heard. Such time must be at least 20 days after the reassessment has been presented. The clerk shall then advertise the time of such hearing before the legislative body by publishing a notice in the newspaper in which the notice of award of contract for the work for which the assessment was made was published, unless the legislative body directs publication in some other newspaper.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5555 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5555.

5555.  The notice shall contain a reference to the original assessment and diagram and reference shall also be made to the reassessment and diagram of the street superintendent for full particulars, as to the extent of the district affected by these proceedings and for all other particulars.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5556 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5556.

5556.  At the time fixed for the hearing or at such time or times to which the hearing may be continued the legislative body shall consider all objections to the reassessment and may correct inequalities or mistakes therein. When the legislative body is satisfied with the correctness of the reassessment it shall confirm the same.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5557 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5557.

5557.  The street superintendent shall record the confirmed reassessment and diagram, in his office, with a certificate at the end thereof executed by the clerk that it is the reassessment approved by the legislative body. He shall also note opposite the several assessments in the original assessment that have been displaced by the reassessment the fact that the reassessment has been made, giving its date and shall credit upon such reassessments all payments theretofore made upon the original assessment or upon the bonds issued to represent the original assessment.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5558 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5558.

5558.  The reassessment shall be collectible by and payable to the treasurer or such other officer as the legislative body may designate so far as practicable in the same manner as an original assessment and shall be enforceable by action in the manner provided in this division for enforcing an original assessment and shall have the same weight in evidence.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5559 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5559.

5559.  If bonds issued under or upon the security of the original assessment, no reassessment made pursuant to this chapter shall change the security or lien of any such bond in any manner whatsoever or the method of the enforcement thereof. The lien of such reassessment shall hold its relative rank as to other special assessment liens as of the date of filing of the original assessment. Upon confirming the reassessment, the city shall transfer into the bond and assessment redemption fund the amounts so apportioned among the several assessments.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5560 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5560.

5560.  Whenever prior to the confirmation of the reassessment any principal payments have been made on any assessment or on any bond issue to represent any such assessment, the owner of record of the property against which such assessment was levied, at the time such payment was made, or where a purchaser under a contract of purchase or a lessee under a lease, pursuant to the terms of which contract of purchase or lease, is required to and has made such payments upon the original assessment or bonds, then such purchaser or lessee shall be entitled to receive a refund of an amount of the difference between the original assessment and the reassessment in the proportion that such payments made by him bears to the original assessment, with respect to the lot or parcel of land for which such payments were made. The balance of any such appropriation, as determined by the reassessment, shall be credited pro rata to the bonds in payment thereof, applying such payment first to the interest due and then upon the principal. Thereafter the treasurer shall pay to the holder of each bond the payment so credited from the bond and assessment redemption fund. The treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to make all payments of refunds as authorized by this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5561 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5561.

5561.  Whenever it shall appear to the legislative body that payments have been made on any such assessments or bonds prior to the reassessment, it shall be its duty to cause to be published in the newspaper in which the ordinance or resolution of intention for the work was published, unless the legislative body directs publication in some other paper, a notice stating the fact of such reassessment and calling upon all property owners affected by the work to make claim for refund within two years from date of the first publication of the notice. Reference shall be made to the reassessment and diagram for all particulars. Such notice shall be published once a week for two weeks.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5562 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5562.

5562.  If claim for such refund is not made within the period specified, then all claims therefor shall be barred and the amount remaining unclaimed shall revert to the fund from which the supplemental appropriation was made by the legislative body.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5563 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5563.

5563.  No action shall be brought to contest, modify, annul, review or in any way attack the validity of the reassessment and the proceedings had under this chapter unless the same shall have been commenced within 30 days after the recording of the diagram and reassessment, and thereafter all persons shall be barred from any such action or any defense of invalidity of the reassessment and all bonds issued thereon.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5564 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5564.

5564.  In making the reassessment the street superintendent shall first deduct from the amount appropriated by the legislative body the estimated cost of the reassessment proceedings. If the estimate for any reason exceeds the actual cost thereof, then the excess of the fund reserved for the payment of costs shall revert to the fund from which the appropriation was made. If the estimate proves to be insufficient to meet the costs of the reassessment, the legislative body shall appropriate such additional sums as may be necessary to meet the excess costs and expenses thereof.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5565 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 20 - Reassessments to Relieve Owners|Section 5565.

5565.  The making of any reassessment pursuant to this chapter in any proceedings shall not constitute a bar or limit the right to make further reassessments as the legislative body may determine.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5580 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 21 - Miscellaneous Assessment Provisions|Section 5580.

5580.  The legislative body, instead of waiting until the completion of the work may, in its discretion, and not otherwise, upon the completion of two blocks or more of any work, order the street superintendent to make an assessment for the proportionate amount of the contract completed, and thereupon proceedings and rights of collection of that assessment shall be the same as provided in this part for the making and collection of other assessments.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5581 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 21 - Miscellaneous Assessment Provisions|Section 5581.

5581.  Any tenant or lessee of the lands or lots liable may pay the amount assessed against the property of which he is the tenant or lessee under the provisions of this division, or he may pay the price agreed on to be paid under the provisions of Section 5580, either before or after an action is brought, together with costs, to the contractor, or his assigns, or he may redeem the property, if sold on execution or decree for the benefit of the owner, within the time prescribed by law, and deduct the amount so paid from the rents due and to become due from him. For any sums so paid beyond the rents due from him, he shall have a lien upon and may retain possession of the land and lots until the amount so paid and advanced is satisfied, with legal interest, from accruing rents, or by payment by the owner.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5584 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 21 - Miscellaneous Assessment Provisions|Section 5584.

5584.  If a county is conducting the proceedings under this division the legislative body may also purchase all or any part of the materials to be used in doing any of the work mentioned in this division and furnish the same therefor. The purchase may be made from such funds of the county as the legislative body may designate.If the county has a purchasing agent, the materials shall be purchased by him; otherwise the materials shall be purchased by the legislative body by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice calling for bids has been published at least five days in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. If the county is to furnish materials the resolution of intention shall so provide. When such provision is made, the execution of the contract for the improvements shall create a liability on the part of the county to furnish the materials provided for in the resolution.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5585.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 21 - Miscellaneous Assessment Provisions|Section 5585.1.

5585.1.  In the event the city conducting the proceedings designates the county treasurer or tax collector to perform any service relating to collecting or receiving money, including but not limited to, printing, servicing and collecting any bonds, neither the treasurer nor the tax collector so designated shall perform any such service until there shall have been paid to him his estimate of the cost of service or services, provided, however, the city conducting the proceedings, in lieu of the prior payment of the estimated cost, may enter into a written agreement with the county treasurer or tax collector. Such agreement shall provide for the payment of the cost or estimated cost of any service rendered by the designated county officer.In the event such cost or estimated cost is not included in the assessment, the city conducting the proceedings shall be liable for payment thereof from the general fund.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 777.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5660 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 24 - Limitation of Actions|Section 5660.

5660.  No action, suit, or proceeding to set aside, cancel, avoid, annul or correct any assessment or reassessment, or to review any of the proceedings, acts, or determinations therein, or to question the validity of, or to enjoin the collection of the assessments or reassessments, or to enjoin the issuance of bonds to represent the same, shall be maintained by any person unless such action is commenced within 30 days after the recording of the warrant, diagram and assessment or reassessment, and thereafter all persons shall be barred from any such action or any defense of invalidity of the assessment or of bonds issued thereon or of the reassessment if such is made and of bonds issued thereon.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5661 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 24 - Limitation of Actions|Section 5661.

5661.  No proceedings taken or had under this division shall ever be held to be invalid on the ground that the street, right-of-way, public property or any portion thereof, upon which the work or any part thereof is or was done has not been lawfully dedicated or acquired; provided, the same is lawfully dedicated or acquired, or an order for possession prior to judgment has been obtained.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1240.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5820 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 26 - Maintenance Districts|Section 5820.

5820.  As used in this article, “maintenance district” means an assessment district which a county board of supervisors or the legislative body of a city has created pursuant to this chapter.This chapter, except Sections 5850 to 5853, inclusive, applies to the creation of maintenance districts by, and maintenance districts created by, the legislative body of a city. For such purpose, the references in this chapter to a county or a county officer shall be deemed to refer, respectively, to a city or a city officer performing the same duties.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 142.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5821 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 26 - Maintenance Districts|Section 5821.

5821.  The board of supervisors may, in its resolution declaring its intention to order work done or improvements made or by separate resolution, declare its intention to order that the expenses of maintaining and operating any or all of said improvements or any or all other improvements such as are permitted to be constructed herein, including the cost of necessary repairs, replacements, fuel, power, electrical current, care, supervision, and any and all other items necessary for the proper maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed, either partly or wholly, upon the real property or upon the land only lying within the district to be benefited by and to be assessed to pay the cost of the construction of said improvement, or upon such district as the board of supervisors shall determine will be benefited by the maintenance and operation of the improvements proposed to be maintained; the amounts so assessed to be levied and collected in the same manner and by the same officers as taxes for county purposes are levied and collected.(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 467.)
CA St & Hwy Code § 5821.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Streets and Highways Code - SHC|DIVISION 7 - THE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1911|PART 3 - PERFORMING THE WORK|CHAPTER 26 - Maintenance Districts|Section 5821.1.

5821.1.  The board of supervisors may, in its resolution declaring its intention to order work done or improvements made, declare its intention to order the territory within which the work is to be done or improvements constructed annexed to an existing maintenance district formed under the provisions of this chapter or under the provisions of Chapter 4, Part 3, Division 5, of the Health and Safety Code.The resolution of intention may describe the territory to be annexed as having the same boundaries as those of the district to be assessed for the cost of constructing the improvements.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 829.)