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CA Water Code § 74016 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 74016.

74016.  “Board of supervisors” means the board of supervisors of the principal county.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74017 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 74017.

74017.  “President” means the president of the board of directors of a district and “secretary” means the secretary of the board of directors.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74018 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 74018.

74018.  “Treasurer” means the treasurer of the principal county.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74019 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 74019.

74019.  “General district election” means the election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year, after the organization of the district, at which directors for the district shall be elected to fill the offices of the directors whose terms of office shall then expire, in accordance with the provisions of this division and the Uniform District Election Law. The election shall be called and conducted and the results canvassed, returned, and declared pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
CA Water Code § 74030 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 74030.

74030.  A district may be organized and established by the board of supervisors of any county in this state, as expressly provided in this part, when the conditions stated in this part are found to exist, and may exercise the powers expressly granted in this division, or necessarily implied.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74031 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 74031.

74031.  A district may be organized upon petition by the qualified electors in an area comprising the whole or a part or parts of one or more watersheds of any stream or streams of water or unnavigable river or rivers, or territory adjacent to such watershed or watersheds, or deriving such area’s water supply, in whole or in part, from such stream or streams, or river or rivers, or the subterranean supply of waters therefrom, for the conservation of the waters of such stream or streams or unnavigable river or rivers.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74032 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 74032.

74032.  A district may be entirely within unincorporated territory or partly within unincorporated and partly within incorporated territory, and may be within one or more counties.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74033 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 74033.

74033.  The territory to be included within a district need not be contiguous.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74050 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74050.

74050.  A petition for the formation of a district, signed by at least 20 percent or 500 of the qualified electors within the proposed district, shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the principal county. The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74051 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74051.

74051.  Any elector residing within the proposed district, whose name appears on the register of voters of the last general election, or on the register of voters at any time within 30 days preceding the presentation of a petition for the formation of a district, shall be deemed to be a qualified elector of the proposed district eligible to sign the petition.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74052 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74052.

74052.  The petition shall set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of the district, shall pray that the district be organized under the provisions of this division, and shall propose a name by which the district shall be known. The petition shall also request the board of supervisors, upon its definition and establishment of the proposed boundaries of the district, to divide the district into either three, five, or seven divisions.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74053 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74053.

74053.  The petition shall be published once a week for at least three weeks before the presentation to the board of supervisors in some newspaper printed and published in the principal county, together with a notice stating the date of the meeting of the board at which the petition will be presented.If any portion of the proposed district lies within another county, or counties, the petition and notice shall be likewise published in a newspaper printed and published in each of such counties.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74054 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74054.

74054.  The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, and, when contained upon more than one instrument, one copy only of the petition need be published, but the names of all the petitioners shall be published the same as if appended to the original petition.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74055 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74055.

74055.  All copies of the petition filed prior to the hearing of the petition shall be considered by the board of supervisors the same as though filed with the petition first placed on file.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74056 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition|Section 74056.

74056.  The petition may include a statement that all bonds of the district and all bonds of any improvement district created therein shall be payable from assessments to be levied upon all real property in the proposed district or in the improvement district created therein. If such a statement is included in the petition, the notice of hearing of the petition and the notice of election for the formation of the district shall so state, and, if the district is formed, all bonds thereafter issued by the district and all bonds of any improvement district organized therein shall be payable from assessments levied upon all real property in district or improvement district, as the case may be, and such real property shall be liable to be taxed for the payment of principal and interest of such bonded indebtedness until the bonds are fully paid. Any such assessment shall be levied in the manner provided in this division.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74070 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74070.

74070.  When a formation petition is presented, the board of supervisors shall hear it, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time. If any hearing or continued hearing is continued to a time more than 60 days from the date of the order making the continuance, a notice of the continued hearing shall be published in some newspaper or newspapers printed and published in each of the counties in which any portion of the proposed district lies once a week for at least two weeks immediately prior to the time appointed for the continued hearing.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74071 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74071.

74071.  On the final hearing the board of supervisors shall make such changes in the proposed boundaries as may be deemed advisable, and shall define and establish such boundaries. The board of supervisors shall not modify such boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which would be benefited by the formation of the district; nor shall any land be included within the proposed district which will not, in the judgment of the board, be benefited by the formation of the district.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74072 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74072.

74072.  Any person whose lands would be benefited by the district may, upon his application and in the discretion of the board of supervisors, have such lands included within the proposed district.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74073 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74073.

74073.  Upon the hearing of the formation petition the board of supervisors shall determine whether or not the petition complies with the requirements of this division, and for that purpose shall hear all competent and relevant testimony offered in support thereof or in opposition thereto.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74074 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74074.

74074.  No defect in the contents of the formation petition, or in the title to or form of the notice, or signature, shall vitiate any proceedings thereon; provided, such petition or petitions have a sufficient number of qualified signatures attached thereto.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74075 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74075.

74075.  The determination of the board of supervisors shall be entered upon the minutes of the board.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74076 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Hearing|Section 74076.

74076.  If the board of supervisors finds that protest has been made prior to its final determination for formation of the district, by the owners of land, or by the owners of real property in the event of the applicability of the provisions of Section 74056, within the proposed district the assessed value of which, as shown by the last equalized assessment roll, constitutes more than one-half of the total assessed value of the land or real property, as the case may be, within the proposed district, the proceeding shall terminate. The board of supervisors shall order the proceeding terminated when such protests are received.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74090 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74090.

74090.  When the boundaries of the proposed district are defined and established by the board of supervisors, it shall make an order dividing the district into three, five, or seven divisions, as requested in the formation petition. Such divisions shall be as nearly equal in area as practicable and shall be numbered consecutively.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74091 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74091.

74091.  One director, who shall be an elector of the division, shall be elected from each division by vote of the electors of the division in which such director resides. In order to qualify to be elected a director, a person shall be a qualified elector of the district and shall be a resident of the county, or of one of the counties, in which the district is situated.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74092 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74092.

74092.  When the order dividing the proposed district into divisions has been made, the board of supervisors shall call an election within the proposed district to determine whether the district shall be formed and also to elect the first board of directors if the district is formed.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74093 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74093.

74093.  The formation election shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days after the date of filing the formation petition.(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1146.)
CA Water Code § 74094 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74094.

74094.  The board of supervisors shall divide the district, and the divisions thereof, into convenient precincts and fix a polling place in each precinct. There shall be at least one precinct in each division of the district.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74095 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74095.

74095.  The board of supervisors shall appoint an inspector, a judge, and two clerks for each of the precincts established to conduct the election. The inspector, judge, and clerks of election in each precinct shall constitute the board of election for such precinct.If the board of election, or any member thereof, fails to appear at the opening of the polls on the morning of the election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint a board or supply the place of an absent member thereof.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74096 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74096.

74096.  The inspector shall be chairman of the election board, and may appoint judges and clerks, if, during the progress of the election, any judge or clerk cease to act. The chairman or any member of the board of election may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of the election.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74097 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74097.

74097.  The formation election shall be called by publication of notice thereof in a daily or weekly paper in each of the counties in which the district is situated, if there is one, at least once a week for three weeks previous to the election, and by posting notice thereof in three public places.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74098 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74098.

74098.  The notice of the formation election shall designate a name for the proposed district and describe the boundaries thereof. The notice shall also designate the respective election precincts and the polling place in each, the election officers, the time of the election, and the hours during which the polls will be kept open; provided, that the polls shall be opened not later than 8 o'clock a.m. and kept open until 7 o'clock p.m.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74099 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74099.

74099.  The board of supervisors shall require the clerk of the board to provide and furnish ballots for the formation election. No particular form of ballot shall be required except that the ballot shall contain the words “Water conservation district—Yes” or “Water conservation district—No,” or words equivalent thereto, and shall also contain the names of candidates for the position of director of the district who shall have been endorsed by petitions to the board of supervisors in the manner prescribed in Section 74100.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74100 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74100.

74100.  A nominating petition for a director in any division shall be signed by 10 or more electors entitled to vote in such division and shall be filed with the board of supervisors calling the formation election within 15 days from the first publication of the notice calling the election.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74101 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74101.

74101.  The ballots shall contain instructions that the voters shall write, print, or stamp a cross after the words that indicate his choice.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74102 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74102.

74102.  The ballots shall contain as many blank spaces for the names of directors as there are directors to be elected, and the writing of the name of any qualified person in any of the spaces shall be deemed to be a vote for such person.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74103 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74103.

74103.  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the formation election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this state so far as applicable.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74104 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74104.

74104.  The election officers shall publicly count the votes immediately after the close of the formation election, and shall make a report of the result of the election to the board of supervisors within five days subsequent to the holding thereof.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74105 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74105.

74105.  The board of supervisors shall, on the first Monday succeeding the formation election, if then in session, or at its next meeting, general or special, proceed to canvass the votes cast at the election.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74106 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election|Section 74106.

74106.  Where a vote to form a district is lost, no petition for the formation of a district comprising any portion of the same territory shall be presented or considered for a period of 12 months thereafter.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74120 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District|Section 74120.

74120.  If a majority of all the votes cast at the formation election are “Water conservation district—Yes,” the board of supervisors shall by an order entered in its minutes declare the territory duly formed as a water conservation district, under the designated name, and shall declare the persons receiving, respectively, the highest number of votes for director to be duly elected to such offices.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74121 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District|Section 74121.

74121.  The board of supervisors shall immediately cause a copy of the order declaring the district formed, duly certified by the clerk of the board, to be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of any county in which any portion of the lands embraced in the district is situated, and shall also immediately forward a copy thereof to the clerk of the board of supervisors of each of such counties. From and after such filing, the formation of the district is complete.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74122 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District|Section 74122.

74122.  The clerk of the board of supervisors shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing:(a) The name of the district.(b) The date of formation.(c) The county or counties in which the district is located, and a description of the boundaries of the district, or reference to a map showing such boundaries, which map shall be attached to the certificate, or reference to the county recorder’s office where a description of such boundaries has been recorded.If the order declaring the district formed contains all of the information required to be in the certificate, the clerk of the board may file a copy of the order in lieu of the certificate.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74130 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election|Section 74130.

74130.  The formation election may be contested by any person holding property within the proposed district liable to be assessed for the raising of funds to carry out the purposes of the district.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74131 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election|Section 74131.

74131.  The directors elected at the formation election shall be made parties defendant in the election contest.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74132 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election|Section 74132.

74132.  The election contest shall be brought in the superior court of the principal county. If more than one contest is pending, they shall be consolidated and tried together.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
CA Water Code § 74133 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election|Section 74133.

74133.  The court shall immediately try the election contest, and determine, upon the hearing, whether the election was fairly conducted and in substantial compliance with the requirements of this division. The court shall enter its judgment accordingly.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)