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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 4 - District Powers and Purposes › Section 56041.

56041. A county drainage district shall have the power:
(a) To sue and be sued in its own name;
(b) To adopt a seal;
(c) To take by grant, purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise and to hold, use and enjoy real or personal property of every kind within or without the district necessary to or convenient for the full exercise of its powers;
(d) To exercise the power of eminent domain to the full extent necessary to or convenient for the full exercise of its powers and to carry out the provisions of this act; provided, that if the exercise of such power requires the alteration or relocation of any facilities devoted to a public use, the cost of such alteration or relocation shall be borne by the district;
(e) To make and accept all contracts, deeds, releases and documents of any kind which will be necessary or proper to the exercise of any of the powers of the district;
(f) To direct the payment of all lawful claims and demands against the district;
(g) To levy and collect taxes as hereinafter provided;
(h) To issue bonds as hereinafter provided and provide for their payment;
(i) To employ such engineers, experts, surveyors, counsel and other persons as are needed to carry into effect any powers of the district;
(j) To acquire, construct, complete, operate and maintain a surface or underground drainage system or systems or combination thereof and such ditches, drains, conduits, pipelines, system of ditches, drains, conduits or pipelines or combinations thereof as may be determined necessary to accomplish the objects and purposes of the district;
(k) 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 shall have arisen out of the transaction of the affairs of the district;
(l) To sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any property of the district or any interest therein when 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;
(m) To do any other act to accomplish the objects and purposes of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 4 - District Powers and Purposes › Section 56042.

56042. All ordinances of a county drainage district shall be adopted by the board of directors of the district, and shall be certified to, recorded, and published in the same manner as ordinances of a county. The initiative and referendum powers are hereby granted to the electors of a county drainage district to be exercised in relation to the enactment or rejection of ordinances of a county drainage district in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of this state for the exercise of those powers in relation to counties.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1137, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56050.

56050. Before constructing any project and before calling any election for the issuance of bonds as hereinafter provided, the district board shall by resolution employ one or more engineers to make a survey of the problems of the district concerning the protection of the lands within the district from storm, overflow or waste waters and especially with reference to the construction of a drainage system or systems. The resolution shall direct the engineer or engineers to prepare and file with the district board a report setting forth:
(a) A general description of the work proposed to be done to carry out the objects of the district;
(b) A general plan and general specifications of the work;
(c) A general description of the property proposed to be acquired or damaged in carrying out the work;
(d) A map showing the boundaries of the district and in general the location and extent of the work proposed to be done, property taken or damaged, and any other information useful to the understanding of the proposed work;
(e) An estimate of the cost of the proposed work including acquisition, engineer and construction costs.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56051.

56051. 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.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56052.

56052. When the engineer’s 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 district board, it shall fix a time and place for hearing objections to the report and to doing all or any of the work referred to in the report.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56053.

56053. Notice of the hearing shall be published by the district board pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper circulated in the district. At the time and place so fixed, or at the time and place to which the hearing may be from time to time continued, the board shall hear all objections. Said objections may be oral or in writing.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56054.

56054. 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 further hearings shall be had until the district board approves and adopts the report.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56055.

56055. If the district board approves and adopts the report of the engineer or engineers, the board shall order the engineer or engineers to prepare precise plans and specifications for the work contained in said report. Said precise plans and specifications shall be in conformity with the general plans and specifications contained in said report as approved by the district board unless the district board by a four-fifths vote adopts a resolution declaring that the public interest requires a modification of or departure from the general plans and specifications, which resolution shall contain a statement of the manner in which the modification is required or departure is to be made.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56059.

56059. The engineer or engineers employed by the district board to prepare the precise plans and specifications shall be directed by the district board to superintend the doing of the work contained in said precise plans and specifications.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56060.

56060. 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 the doing of any of the work; provided, that if the exercise of the rights herein granted require the alteration or relocation of any facilities devoted to a public use, the district shall pay the cost of such alteration or relocation.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 5 - Preliminary Report and Survey › Section 56061.

56061. Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter to the contrary, in the event that prior to the formation of a district a report has been secured by the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is formed pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.2 of the Drainage District Improvement Act of 1919 concerning the protection of lands and other property within the district from storm or waste waters and containing substantially the same data and matter required by Section 56050 of this chapter, and if copies of said report are made available to the district board by the board of supervisors of such county, a new report need not be prepared by the district board under said Section 56050 and the hearing or hearings referred to in this chapter may be held on such report furnished by the board of supervisors of such county, and thereafter all of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to such report.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56070.

56070. After the approval and adoption of an engineer’s report and before ordering the engineer to prepare precise plans and specifications as provided in Chapter 5, the district board may submit to the voters of the district the proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness to obtain funds with which to acquire the property and to do the work in whole or in part set forth in the report. For that purpose a special election shall be called by resolution.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56071.

56071. The resolution shall state all of the following:
(a) The general objects and purposes for which it is proposed to incur an indebtedness.
(b) A reference to the report filed with the district board for particulars.
(c) The amount of the bonds proposed to be issued; provided, that the district shall not incur any indebtedness which exceeds fifteen percent (15%) of the assessed value of all taxable real property in the district.
(d) The number of years not to exceed which the whole of the bonds are to run.
(e) The rate of interest or a maximum rate of interest to be paid, which rate shall not be more than the rate specified in this chapter, payable at the time specified in this chapter.
(f) The date of the election.
(g) The election precincts, polling places, and election officers.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56072.

56072. For the purposes of the bond election the district board may consolidate into one precinct several precincts established for general election purposes and describe the precinct by reference to the general election precincts.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56075.

56075. The resolution calling the election shall be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper having a general circulation in the district and designated by the district board. No other notice of the election need be given.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56076.

56076. If two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness as proposed, bonds of the district for the amount stated in the resolution calling the election shall be issued and sold.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56077.

56077. The validity of the bonds after their issuance shall not be questioned in any court except upon the ground that the provisions of this chapter authorizing their issuance are unconstitutional, or that the required hearing regarding the formation of the district was not legally held or proper notice of it was not given.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56078.

56078. The district board shall prescribe by resolution the form of the bonds, and interest coupons. The bonds shall be payable at such times and at a place to be fixed by the board, and designated in the bonds, together with interest on all sums unpaid on that date until the whole of the indebtedness has been paid. The term of bonds issued shall not exceed 40 years.
The district board may divide the principal amount of any issue into two or more series and fix different dates for the bonds of each series. The bonds of one series may be made payable at different times from those of any other series. The term of bonds of each issue or series shall not exceed 40 years from the date of the bonds.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1766.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56079.

56079. The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the district board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination less than one hundred dollars ($100) or greater than one thousand dollars ($1,000). They shall be payable on the day and at the place fixed in the bonds, and with interest at the rate specified in the bonds, which rate shall not be in excess of 8 percent per annum, and shall, after the first year, be payable semiannually.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56080.

56080. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the district board, and countersigned by the auditor of the district, and the seal of the district board shall be affixed. The interest coupons of the bonds shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the auditor of the district. All such signatures and countersignatures may be printed, lithographed, engraved, or otherwise mechanically reproduced, except that one of said signatures or countersignatures to said bonds shall be manually affixed. The auditor of the district under this section shall be the county auditor of the county in which the district is formed.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56081.

56081. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds ceases to be an officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, his signature or countersignature shall be as valid as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56082.

56082. The board may issue and sell the bonds of the district at not less than par value, and the proceeds shall be placed in the treasury of the county. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof, the legislative body shall give notice not less than 10 days prior to the date of sale by publication pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation circulating in the district inviting sealed bids in such manner as the legislative body shall prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest responsible bidder. If no bids are received, or if the legislative body determines that the bids received are not satisfactory as to price or responsibility of the bidders, the legislative body may reject all bids received, if any, and either readvertise or sell the bonds at private sale.
All premiums and accrued interest received shall be paid into the fund to be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds and the remainder of the proceeds of the sale shall be paid into the construction fund of the district, and proper records of the transactions shall be placed upon the books of the treasurer.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56083.

56083. The construction fund shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the resolution calling the bond election.
Payments from the construction fund shall be made upon the demands allowed by the district board, and prepared, presented and audited in the same manner as demands upon the funds of the county.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56084.

56084. When the purposes and objects mentioned in the resolution calling the bond election have been accomplished, any moneys remaining in the construction fund shall be transferred to the fund to be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56085.

56085. If the proposition of issuing bonds submitted at a bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the district board may, at the expiration of six months after that election, call or order another bond election, either for the same objects and purposes, or for any other object or purpose of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56086.

56086. If bonds have been issued by the district and the proceeds of the sale have been expended, and the district board by resolution passed by a vote of four-fifths of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity of the district demands the issuance of additional bonds for carrying out any of the objects of the district, the district board may again have a report made, and submit to the voters the question of issuing additional bonds in the same manner as for a first issue. All the provisions of this chapter for the issuance and sale of bonds, and for the expenditure of the proceeds, apply to the issuance of additional bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56087.

56087. Bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by revenue derived from an annual tax upon the real property in the district, and all the real property in the district shall be and remain liable to be taxed for such payments. Said bonds and the interest thereon shall not be taxable in this State.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56088.

56088. (1) An issue of bonds is hereby defined to be the aggregate principal amount of all of the bonds authorized to be issued in accordance with a proposal submitted to and approved by the electors of the district, but no indebtedness will be deemed to have been contracted until bonds shall have been sold and delivered and then only to the extent of the principal amount of bonds so sold and delivered.
(2) The board of directors of any district issuing any bonds heretofore or hereafter authorized may, in its discretion, divide the aggregate principal amount of such issue into two or more divisions or series and fix different dates for the bonds of each separate division or series. In the event any authorized issue is divided into two or more divisions or series, the bonds of each division or series may be made payable at such time or times as may be fixed by the legislative body of the district separate and distinct from the time or times of payment of bonds of any other division or series of the same issue.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56089.

56089. Bonds may be made payable on a date subsequent to the time fixed for the collection of the second installment of general district taxes with which the first levy of taxes for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds is to be collected. In such event, the first interest coupons shall be for interest from the date of said bonds of such issue or series or division to the maturity date of said coupons.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6 - Bonds › Section 56090.

56090. If the result of any election upon the question of the issuance of bonds is in favor of issuance, the board may, in its discretion, commence in the superior court of the county, a special proceeding to determine its right to issue the bonds and their validity, similar to the proceeding in relation to irrigation bonds, provided for by the “Irrigation District Law,” and all supplementary acts, and all their provisions apply to and govern the proceedings to be commenced by the board, so far as applicable.
The judgment has the same effect as a judgment in relation to irrigation bonds under the provisions of that act.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 6.5 - Drainage Fees › Section 56095.

56095. In addition to all of the powers enumerated in this part, a county drainage district shall have the power to adopt by resolution and carry out any definite plan or system for accomplishing, facilitating, or financing all work which may be lawfully accomplished by a county drainage district and to enforce the plan or system by resolution. In order to carry out the plan or system, a district shall have the power, by ordinance, to prescribe, revise, and collect fees and charges for providing storm drainage facilities, including drainage outfall facilities, furnished or to be furnished to any new building, improvement, or structure constructed or to be constructed in the district; and whenever a storm drainage problem is referred to the district by any county or city located in whole or in part within the boundaries of the district, to require the installation of drainage improvements necessary or convenient for the needs of the district, including, but not limited to, residential, subdivision, commercial, and industrial drainage needs. Any county or city is hereby authorized to refer all drainage control problems arising under the Subdivision Map Act (commencing with Section 66410 of the Government Code) or otherwise to a county drainage district for solution. Revenues derived by a district under this chapter shall be used only to acquire, construct, reconstruct, maintain, and operate storm drainage facilities, including drainage outfall facilities, consistent with the plan or system.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1137, Sec. 7.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 7 - Application of Other Statutes › Section 56100.

56100. The Improvement Act of 1911 and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to county drainage districts formed under this part. After approving and adopting the engineer’s report as provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 56050) of this part, the district board may order the work contained in the said report to be done in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911 or the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 and the costs thereof assessed upon the real property benefited, all in the manner provided by the Improvement Act of 1911 or the Improvement Bond Act of 1915.
(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 426.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 7 - Application of Other Statutes › Section 56101.

56101. In the application of those acts to proceedings under this part, the terms used in those acts shall have the following meanings:
(a) “City council” and “council” mean board.
(b) “City” and “municipality” mean district.
(c) “Clerk” and “city clerk” mean secretary.
(d) “Superintendent of streets,” “street superintendent,” and “city engineer” mean the engineer of the district, or any other person appointed to perform such duties.
(e) “Tax collector” means county tax collector.
(f) “Treasurer” and “city treasurer” mean any person or official who has charge of and makes payment of the funds of the district.
(g) “Right of way” means any parcel of land through which a right of way has been granted to the district for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a sewer.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 7 - Application of Other Statutes › Section 56102.

56102. The powers and duties conferred by those acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards, officers, and agents of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 7 - Application of Other Statutes › Section 56103.

56103. No assessment or bond hereafter levied or issued shall become a lien and no person shall be deemed to have notice thereof until a certified copy of said assessment and the diagram thereto attached shall be recorded in the office of the county surveyor, if the improvement district or any part thereof is in unincorporated territory, and with the superintendent of streets of the city or cities, if the improvement district or any part thereof is in incorporated territory.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 7 - Application of Other Statutes › Section 56104.

56104. Notwithstanding any other provision contained in the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931 to the contrary, in the event the district board shall order the work contained in the report prepared by the district engineer pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 56050) of this part to be done in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911 or the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, the provisions of the said Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931 shall not be applicable to such work if the district board so declared by resolution duly adopted by four-fifths vote after a finding that said work is necessary for the public welfare, which finding shall not be made by the district board if, prior to the conclusion of the hearing on said report as provided in Chapter 5, the owners of more than 20 percent of the total assessed value of the taxable property within the district file written protests against the doing of said work.
(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 426.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56110.

56110. Annually, at least 15 days before the first day of the month in which the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is located is required by law to levy the amount of taxes required by law for county purposes, the district board shall furnish to the board of supervisors a written statement of the amount necessary to pay the interest on bonds for that year, and the portion of the principal that is to become due before the time for making the next general tax levy.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56111.

56111. The board of supervisors of the county shall annually, at the time and in the manner of levying other county taxes, levy and cause to be collected a tax upon the taxable real property in the district, based upon the last equalized assessment roll of the county sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds for that year and such portion of the principal as is to become due before the time for making the next general tax levy.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56112.

56112. If the district board fails to furnish to the board of supervisors the written statement of the amount necessary, the board of supervisors of the county shall ascertain the amount necessary to pay the interest on the bonds for that year and the portion of the principal that is to become due before the time for making the next general tax levy, and shall levy and cause to be collected the necessary amount.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56113.

56113. The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and when collected shall be paid into the treasury of the county to the credit of the district, and shall be used for the payment of the principal and interest upon the bonds, and for no other purpose.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56114.

56114. The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the treasurer of the county in the manner now or hereafter provided by law for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds of the county.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56115.

56115. In any year, at least 15 days before the first day of the month in which the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is located, is required by law to levy the amount of taxes required by law for county purposes, the district board may furnish to the board of supervisors a written statement of the amount necessary to maintain, operate, extend, or repair any work or improvements of the district, and to defray all other expenses incidental to the exercise of any of the district’s powers, and the board of supervisors of the county shall at the time and in the manner of levying other county taxes, levy and cause to be collected a tax upon the taxable real property in the district based upon the last equalized assessment roll of the county sufficient to pay the cost of maintaining, operating, extending, or repairing any work or improvements of the district and of defraying all other expenses incidental to the exercise of any of the district’s powers. The tax authorized by this section shall not exceed twenty-five cents ($0.25) for each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed value on taxable real property in any one year.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56116.

56116. The tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and the revenue derived from the tax shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the operating fund of the district, and the district board shall control and order its expenditure.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56117.

56117. Payment from the operating fund shall be made upon claims allowed by the district board. Claims for money or damages against the district are governed by the provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code, except as provided therein. Claims not governed thereby or by other statutes or by ordinances or regulations authorized by law and expressly applicable to such claims, shall be prepared and presented to the board and all claims shall be audited and paid, in the same manner and with the same effect as are similar claims against the county.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1715.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 8 - Finance and Taxation › Section 56118.

56118. The cost of preparing the engineer’s report, including the compensation paid engineers and other employees of the district, is a charge against the district and shall be paid from the first available funds of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 17 - DRAINAGE › PART 1 - COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 9 - Annexation › Section 56130.

56130. Territory, whether incorporated or unincorporated, contiguous to a district, and not included in any other county drainage district or other district formed for similar purposes, may be annexed, if the additional territory will be benefited by annexation.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2043.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60003.

60003. “District” means a water replenishment district formed under the provisions of the Water Replenishment District Act, or this division.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60008.

60008. “General water replenishment district election” means the election required to be held in each district at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year.
(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 7, Sec. 1. Effective February 8, 1984.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60010.

60010. “Elector,” “voter,” and “precinct board” have respectively the same meaning as in the Elections Code, but an “elector” or “voter” shall also be a resident of the district or proposed district involved.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60011.

60011. “Person” means any public agency or public corporation, whether federal, state, or local, or any private corporation, firm, partnership, individual, or group of individuals.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60013.

60013. “Water year” means the period commencing on October 1st of one calendar year and ending on September 30th of the calendar year immediately following.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60014.

60014. “Fiscal year” means the period commencing on July 1st of one calendar year and ending on June 30th of the calendar year immediately following.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60015.

60015. “Ground water” means nonsaline water beneath the surface of the ground, whether or not flowing through known and definite channels.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 585.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60016.

60016. “Nonsaline water” means water which has less than 1,000 parts of chlorides to 1,000,000 parts of water.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 585.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60017.

60017. “Production” or “producing” means the extraction or extracting of ground water, by pumping or any other method, from shafts, tunnels, wells (including, but not limited to, abandoned oil wells), excavations, or other sources of such ground water, for domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial use, except that such terms shall not mean or include the extraction or extracting of ground water incidentally produced with oil in the production of oil or gas nor the extraction or extracting of ground water incidentally produced in a bona fide mining operation or in the bona fide construction of a tunnel for railroad, highway, aqueduct, pipeline, or other useful purpose (except the production of ground water for use or sale) unless the ground water so extracted shall be used or sold by the producer for domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial purpose.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60018.

60018. “Water-producing facility” means any device or method, mechanical or otherwise, for the production of ground water from the ground water supplies within a replenishment district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60019.

60019. “Owner” means the person or persons owning any water-producing facility or any interest therein other than a lien to secure the payment of a debt or other obligation.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60020.

60020. “Operator” means the person or persons operating a water-producing facility; the owner thereof shall be conclusively presumed to be such operator unless satisfactory showing be made to the board of directors of the replenishment district that such water-producing facility actually is operated by some other person or persons. “Operator” shall mean any “person” mentioned in Section 60011 of this act who is operating a water-producing facility, it being the purpose of this act to include any such person within the provisions hereof.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60022.

60022. “Annual overdraft” means the amount, as determined by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during the water year exceeds the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water year by any natural or artificial means other than replenishment under the provisions of Part 6 of this act or by any other governmental agency or entity.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 585.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60023.

60023. “Accumulated overdraft” means the aggregate amount, as determined from time to time by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during all preceding water years shall have exceeded the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water years by any natural or artificial means, the respective determination to be based upon reports, records, and other data or evidence found by such board of directors to be adequate for the purpose of making such determination.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60024.

60024. “Principal county” means the county in which the greater portion of the land in a district or a proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county. If the district is situated in only one county then “principal county” shall mean that county.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60025.

60025. “Participating county” is any county other than the principal county in which the district or proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60027.

60027. “Replenishment assessment” means any assessment levied pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 60300).
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 389, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60028.

60028. “Contaminant” means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance, or substances, of a concentration which, if contained in water, will cause a significant impairment to a domestic drinking water supply.
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 389, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 60029.

60029. “Existing agency” shall mean any public corporation, agency, district, or political subdivision created prior or subsequent to the formation of a replenishment district under this law and which has any of the same powers as a replenishment district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60041.

60041. The inclusion in or annexation or addition to a replenishment district, of the corporate area of any existing agency, shall not destroy the identity or legal existence or impair the powers of any such existing agency, notwithstanding the identity of purpose, or substantial identity of purpose, of such replenishment district.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60042.

60042. Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number of weeks, the notice need be published on only one day of each week, and for only the same number of times as the number of weeks designated.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60043.

60043. Whenever any act is required to be done or proceeding taken on or set for a particular day or day of the week in any month, the act may be done or proceeding set for and acted upon on a day of the month otherwise specified for a regular meeting of the board.
(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 536, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60044.

60044. A district may be organized entirely within unincorporated territory, or partly within unincorporated territory and partly within incorporated territory, and within one or more counties in this State.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60045.

60045. No area included within any existing agency or annexations thereto, one of the purposes of which is replenishing the ground water supplies within such existing agency and which agency is empowered to levy assessments or charges upon the production of water from such ground water supplies, shall be included within any replenishment district or annexations thereto created or annexed under this division.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60047.

60047. The provisions of this division apply to the replenishment of ground water within all areas in this state, except those areas therein now or hereafter included within the Orange County Water District as provided by the Orange County Water District Act. The Legislature finds and declares that the problems of providing replenishment of the underground basin in the area of the Orange County Water District are peculiar to that area and for that reason it is necessary to deal specially with such area, and that this fact was recognized by the Legislature when it enacted the Orange County Water District Act and the amendments thereto to provide for such problems in that area.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 389.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions › Section 60048.

60048. No informality in any proceeding or informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held to invalidate any incorporation, annexation, exclusion, or other action under this act. Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of any such incorporation, annexation, exclusion or disincorporation is denied or questioned, shall be commenced within three (3) months from the date of the certificate of incorporation, annexation or exclusion issued by the Secretary of State, or from the date of the order of the board of supervisors declaring the disincorporation, as the case may be; otherwise, said actions and/or proceedings in respect thereto shall be held to be valid, and in every respect legal and incontestable.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)