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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51337.

51337. In lieu of completing the operation and maintenance assessment roll, the board may, following each levy of assessment, cause a supplement to be prepared and filed with the county treasurer setting forth the rate and total assessment as determined by the board, and when so filed it shall be deemed a part of the original operation and maintenance assessment roll to the same extent and purpose as if said rate and total assessment had actually been inserted in said original operation and maintenance assessment roll.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51338.

51338. The board, by order entered upon its minutes and endorsed on or made a part of the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement, may direct that the payment of the assessment be made in one installment or in more than one annual or semiannual installment over a period not to exceed five years.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51339.

51339. If the board orders payment of the total assessment inserted in column (g) in installments over a period of years, the due date and the amount of each installment shall be endorsed by, or under the direction of, the board, on the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51340.

51340. When the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement has been completed by inserting the rate and assessment in columns (f) and (g), and an order has been entered providing for the payment of all or any part thereof, it shall be filed forthwith in the office of the county treasurer.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51341.

51341. An assessment levy is a lien upon the parcels against which it is levied from the date the completed operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement is filed in the office of the county treasurer until paid, and bears interest until paid from a date 60 days after the date of such filing.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51342.

51342. The rate of interest on unpaid operation and maintenance assessments is 1
1
/
2
percent per month commencing from the date of delinquency unless the board, by resolution, adopts a lesser rate and files a certified copy of the resolution with the county treasurer for insertion in the operation and maintenance assessment roll.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 417, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51343.

51343. Additional operation and maintenance assessment levies may be made by the board, as required, so long as the operation and maintenance assessment roll remains in effect.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51344.

51344. The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be returned to and held by the board except during such periods as it is filed in the office of the county treasurer during the period of assessment or installment collections or while any warrants of the district payable from such assessment levy are outstanding and unpaid, except warrants for the payment of which money has been deposited in the maintenance fund.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51345.

51345. The operation and maintenance assessment roll referred to in Sections 51337 to 51344, inclusive, shall be the original operation and maintenance assessment roll or a copy thereof, certified by the secretary of the board as correctly setting forth the subject matter of the original roll, together with all reapportioned assessment valuations of all subdivisions of any original assessment parcel.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51346.

51346. The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be used for the purposes specified in Section 51326 until the board, or landowners representing at least 15 percent of the district lands, petition the board of supervisors for an order directing the valuation assessment commissioners who made the original operation and maintenance assessment roll or new valuation assessment commissioners, to be named in the order, to prepare a new operation and maintenance assessment roll.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51346.5.

51346.5. If the valuation assessment commissioners have utilized land use categories as a basis for the assessment valuation pursuant to Section 51324.5, the board may, without petitioning for the preparation of a new roll under Section 51346, adjust, not more often than annually, the assessment valuations for each parcel of land or subdivided parcel of land within district boundaries to reflect changes in the land use category or type of land use category shown for that parcel on the records of the county assessor, in order to conform to the category currently shown on the records of the county assessor for the respective parcel, in conformity with the report of the commissioners. Any such adjustment to the assessment valuation shall be accomplished by the preparation and filing of a supplement to the operation and maintenance assessment roll to be filed in accordance with Section 51337 upon which shall be endorsed the statement “Adjusted to reflect changes in land use as of (date).”
(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 104, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51347.

51347. Valuation assessment commissioners appointed to prepare a new operation and maintenance assessment roll shall have the same qualifications and take the same oath as the original assessment commissioners.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51348.

51348. The new operation and maintenance assessment roll when prepared by the valuation assessment commissioners shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and shall be subject to the same provisions as an original operation and maintenance assessment roll.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51349.

51349. No bonds shall be issued nor funds for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness of the district raised on the basis of operation and maintenance assessments.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 5 - Subsequent Assessments and Reassessments › Section 51380.

51380. When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes is adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, or is adjudged invalid as to any parcel, or any parcel is not charged with the assessment, a new assessment may be levied to raise the amount for which the invalid assessment was levied and any further sum then required, or a subsequent reassessment of the parcels may be made separately for the purpose of charging each parcel with its proper proportion of the reclamation costs.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 5 - Subsequent Assessments and Reassessments › Section 51381.

51381. In the new assessment or subsequent reassessment each parcel shall be charged with that proportion of the former assessment which the benefits derived by the parcel from the reclamation for which the former assessment was levied bear to the whole amount of the former assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 5 - Subsequent Assessments and Reassessments › Section 51382.

51382. A new assessment or subsequent reassessment shall be made by assessment commissioners appointed by the board of supervisors as provided in Section 51230, and shall be made, approved, and collected in the same manner as an original assessment.
(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 5 - Subsequent Assessments and Reassessments › Section 51383.

51383. When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes upon district lands is adjudged invalid as a whole or as to any parcel upon which it was levied, and any landowner has paid any portion of the amount assessed on any parcel before the assessment was adjudged invalid, the amount paid by the landowner with legal interest thereon from the date of such payment shall be credited by the treasurer of the county where the assessment list is filed on any subsequent assessment on the parcel on which the invalid assessment was paid.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51400.

51400. When the board has authorized the sale of refunding bonds at less than par value and has determined that it is necessary or advisable that an amount be made available to pay interest on the refunding bonds from the date of sale to the date of maturity of the bonds to be refunded, the board shall declare whether it is necessary or advisable that a supplemental assessment be levied to raise the amounts required under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 52560, or either thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51401.

51401. If the board determines that it is for the best interest of the district that the supplemental assessment be levied, it shall prepare and certify an assessment list for the supplemental assessment in the form prescribed by Section 51239 of this division.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51402.

51402. The amount of the supplemental assessment shall not exceed 10 percent of the principal of the refunding bonds to be sold, plus the amount to be raised by the supplemental assessment to pay interest on the refunding bonds to the date of maturity of the bonds to be refunded.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51403.

51403. The amount of the supplemental assessment shall be levied only upon the parcels upon which an assessment is then outstanding for payment of the bonds to be refunded and shall be levied on such parcels in proportion to the amounts then assessed thereon under the outstanding assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51404.

51404. The provisions of Article 1 of this chapter relating to the filing of assessment lists, hearings thereon and approval thereof, and actions to correct, modify, or annul the same apply to assessment lists prepared pursuant to this article, except:
(a) Assessment lists prepared pursuant to this article are not required to be prepared in duplicate.
(b) A copy of the assessment list need not be retained in the district office.
(c) Actions for the correction, modification or annulment of a supplemental assessment must be commenced within five days after the assessment list has been filed in the office of the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51405.

51405. When a supplemental assessment has been levied, approved, and filed, it shall be called for immediate payment and shall become delinquent by declaration made in the resolution at a specified date at least five days prior to the date fixed for the sale of the refunding bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51406.

51406. At least 30 days shall elapse between the date of call and the date of delinquency.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51407.

51407. The supplemental assessment shall not bear interest and shall be payable only in lawful money of the United States.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51408.

51408. Notice of the supplemental assessment and of the call thereon shall be served upon each owner of land in the district in the manner prescribed in Section 51519.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 6 - Supplemental Assessments › Section 51409.

51409. Upon delinquency a penalty of 10 percent shall be added.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51420.

51420. At least 90 days before the interest date of bonds or refunding bonds, the county treasurer shall estimate the amount necessary to pay interest and principal maturing on the interest date, crediting thereon the funds in the treasury applicable to the payment thereof, and excluding therefrom any funds deposited pursuant to Chapter 5, Article 4 of this part, or derived from the sale of lands by the county treasurer as trustee of the district under the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 5 of this part. The estimate shall include expenses of the county treasurer plus 15 percent of the aggregate sum to cover possible delinquencies.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51421.

51421. The county treasurer shall thereupon cause to be published once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which any of the district is situated a notice substantially in the following form:
(Name of reclamation district).
Notice is hereby given that an installment of assessment (describing it) of _____ dollars ($____), being ___ percent is payable within 30 days from (date) by all assessed landowners of said district in the County of (name of county) to the treasurer of said county. All or any part of said installment which shall remain unpaid on the day (day fixed) will be delinquent, together with 10 percent of such installment added as penalty.
Dated (date).
(Signed)
Treasurer of ______ County
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51422.

51422. If no newspaper is published in any county in which the district is situated, the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51423.

51423. The county treasurer shall credit to the bond fund of the district all money collected by him, by sale or otherwise, upon assessments against which bonds have been issued, including interest and penalties, and the amounts of purchase money paid in bonds or coupons on sales made for such assessments.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51424.

51424. No action contesting the validity of any call of an installment of an assessment pursuant to this article may be commenced, unless commenced within six months from the due date of the call.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 7 - Calling Bonded Assessments › Section 51425.

51425. No action to contest the validity of any credit on, or payment of, any portion of an assessment called pursuant to this article may be commenced unless commenced within six months from the date of such credit or payment.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 8 - Assessments for Water Charges › Section 51440.

51440. When the district has obtained an irrigation system pursuant to Section 50910, and the charges for furnishing water and making water available have been fixed pursuant to Section 50911, which remain unpaid at the time the board orders an operation and maintenance assessment, the board may order that such charges be included as a part of the operation and maintenance assessment levied upon the parcels to which water has been furnished and when so levied, shall be a lien against the land.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1108.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 8 - Assessments for Water Charges › Section 51441.

51441. Water charges, included as a part of an operation and maintenance assessment, when collected shall be deposited in the irrigation fund.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1229.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 9 - Warrant Assessments › Section 51460.

51460. If there are unpaid matured warrants, other than warrants payable from operation and maintenance assessment levies, on January 1st in any year, the board shall call and collect such portion of the principal and interest of any available outstanding unbonded assessment, other than an operation and maintenance assessment, as is necessary to pay such warrants and any other warrants, other than operation and maintenance warrants, which shall mature within 90 days after January 1st.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 9 - Warrant Assessments › Section 51461.

51461. When, on the first day of January in any year there are outstanding unpaid matured warrants of the district, other than warrants payable from operation and maintenance assessment levies, and there is no available outstanding unbonded assessment, the board shall proceed at once to have an assessment levied in the manner provided in Article 1 of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 9 - Warrant Assessments › Section 51462.

51462. The board shall call and collect the assessment in the manner provided in this part in the amount necessary to pay the warrants.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 9 - Warrant Assessments › Section 51463.

51463. Nothing in this article shall prevent the board from making other arrangements with holders of district warrants.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 2 - Levy of Assessments › ARTICLE 11 - Assessments for Formation Expenses › Section 51485.

51485. The district may levy an assessment to pay the expenses of its formation, or to pay any warrants issued therefor in an amount not exceeding 2 percent of the assessed valuation of the land within the district as shown on the last equalized county assessment roll, and such expenses shall be considered incidental expenses of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1035.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 51500.

51500. The interest due on any unpaid unbonded assessment, or any part or installment thereof, may be called by the board without calling any installment of the assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 51501.

51501. All interest paid on any unbonded assessment shall be deposited with the county treasurer in the “warrant interest fund” and be used only for the payment of interest on warrants unless the board requests the county treasurer to transfer all or a part of the fund to the general fund or maintenance fund of the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 51502.

51502. At least 90 days before any installment of interest is due on any time warrants the board shall estimate the amount necessary to pay the interest, after crediting thereon the funds in the “warrant interest fund” applicable to the payment thereof, and shall add thereto 15 percent of the aggregate sum to cover possible delinquencies, and make a call on interest due on any unpaid unbonded assessment equivalent to the amount so estimated.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 51503.

51503. All provisions of this division relative to the making of calls on any unbonded assessment, or installment thereof, and the sale of property for nonpayment thereof, and redemption thereof, are applicable to the making of calls for interest.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51510.

51510. For 30 days after the filing of the second original assessment list in the office of the county treasurer pursuant to Section 51254 the assessment shall not bear interest, except as provided by Section 51511, and, if bonds have not been authorized and sold on the basis of the assessment, any landowner may pay in lawful money of the United States, or approved warrants of the district, all or any part of the principal and interest of the assessment on any parcel.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51511.

51511. Unpaid assessments on which bonds have been issued shall bear interest at the rate of 1
1
/
2
percent per month from the date of the bonds originally issued thereon until the bonds and any refunding bonds issued thereon are fully paid, and the interest due at any time on the unpaid assessment may be called without calling any installment of the assessment. The word installment as used in this section shall be construed as applying to interest as well as the principal as the case may be.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 417, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51512.

51512. If a district is situated partly in different counties the assessment shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the particular parcel is situated.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51513.

51513. When the district is situated in more than one county the county treasurers of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated shall report to the county treasurer of the principal county all payments of assessments on all parcels, whether in cash or warrants, immediately upon such payments being made and shall effect immediate transfer of all funds and warrants so paid to the treasurer of the principal county.
(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51514.

51514. After the period of 30 days, all unpaid original assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 1
1
/
2
percent per month unless the board, by resolution, adopts a lesser rate and files a certified copy of the resolution with the county treasurer.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 38, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1993.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51515.

51515. Assessments unpaid after 30 days and accrued interest thereon shall be collected by and paid to the county treasurer of the county wherein the parcel is situated, or the board may designate an agent to effect such collection who shall file with the treasurer of such county a detailed report of any and all collections thereon and who shall deposit the money with that county treasurer to the credit of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51516.

51516. The board shall require that an agent give a bond in the amount it considers sufficient for the faithful performance of his duties.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51517.

51517. All payments on unpaid original assessments shall be made in separate installments, of such amounts, and at such times as the board, by order entered in its minutes, may direct.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51518.

51518. Upon making the order the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the following form:
(Name of reclamation district, location or principal place of business.) Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the board of trustees held on the (date), an installment of (amount) was ordered paid within 60 days from date thereof to ____ at ____. Any installment which shall remain unpaid on the (day fixed) will be delinquent together with the accrued interest thereon.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51519.

51519. The notice shall be personally served upon each owner of land in the district, or in lieu of personal service, shall be mailed to the owner at his place of residence, if known or entered upon the assessment roll of the county, and if not known, at the place where the principal office of the district is situated, or be published once a week for two weeks successively in some newspaper of general circulation devoted to the publication of general news within the district and, if no such newspaper is published within the district, published in a newspaper published in the county seat of the principal county.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51520.

51520. The county treasurer of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated, shall, immediately following the expiration of the period of 60 days from the date of the order, report to the county treasurer of the principal county all payments of assessments on each parcel and shall also report all parcels which are delinquent, and the amount of delinquencies thereon.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51521.

51521. (a) Any installment of an assessment for which no bond or time warrant has been issued, which is unpaid after 60 days from the date of the order, is delinquent with the accrued interest thereon, and a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of the installment and interest shall be added thereto and collected for the use of the district.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the board may, for good cause, collect the unpaid installment described in subdivision (a) and waive the penalty or interest.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 38, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1993.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 2 - Original and Additional Assessments › Section 51522.

51522. All money, including interest and penalties, derived by sale or otherwise, from original and additional assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer of the principal county to the credit of the general fund of the district or, if bonds of the district have been issued upon the assessment and remain unpaid and provision has not been made for the payment thereof, shall be deposited in a separate fund for the sole purpose of paying the principal and interest of the bonds and the expenses of the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 879.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51540.

51540. When the board has ordered an operation and maintenance assessment levy and has fixed the installments the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the following form:
(Name of reclamation district, location of principal place of business.)
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the board of trustees held on the (date) an installment of (amount) was ordered paid within 60 days from (date assessment levy will be filed in office of county treasurer) to ____ at ____. Any installment which shall remain unpaid on the (day fixed) will be delinquent, together with accrued interest (if any be due) and 10 percent will be added thereto and collected for the use of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51541.

51541. The notice shall be published, mailed, or personally served upon each landowner in the manner provided in Section 51519.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51542.

51542. When the operation and maintenance assessment levy is to be paid in more than one installment the secretary shall give notice for 60 days immediately preceding the due date of each installment in substantially the form prescribed in this article.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51543.

51543. Except as otherwise specifically provided, unpaid assessments for operation and maintenance levied pursuant to this article shall be collected in the manner provided for the payment and collection of original and additional assessments.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51544.

51544. The principal and interest of any operation and maintenance assessment levy may be paid in lawful money of the United States or approved warrants of the district payable from such assessment levy.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51545.

51545. The money collected on operation and maintenance assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer to the credit of the district in a separate fund designated “maintenance fund” of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51546.

51546. The maintenance fund, except as provided in Section 51547, shall be disbursed only upon warrants of the board drawn in payment of the cost or expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the district reclamation works, incidental expenses as defined in Section 51336 and for the construction of reclamation works supplemental to, or in replacement of, the reclamation works already possessed by the district.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 3 - Operation and Maintenance Assessments › Section 51547.

51547. When time warrants have been issued in anticipation of an operation and maintenance assessment levy, money collected upon that levy shall be used only for the payment of the principal and interest on the time warrants so long as such time warrants are outstanding and unpaid.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 4 - Installments Called to Pay Bonds › Section 51560.

51560. The installment of an assessment called to pay principal or interest on bonds pursuant to Section 51420 may be paid in cash or in bonds of the district, or their interest coupons, issued upon the assessment, which are matured or will mature within 90 days from the date of the calling of the installment, or part in cash and part in bonds or coupons.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 4 - Installments Called to Pay Bonds › Section 51561.

51561. Bonds and interest coupons received in payment for the assessment shall be accepted at face value.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 4 - Installments Called to Pay Bonds › Section 51562.

51562. Any bond or coupon received in payment for such an installment shall be canceled forthwith by the county treasurer and filed in his office.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 4 - Installments Called to Pay Bonds › Section 51563.

51563. Any part of the installment or any interest thereon which is unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the notice calling the installment, is delinquent, and 10 percent of the unpaid amount of the installment shall be added thereto and collected by the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 3 - Payment and Collection › ARTICLE 5 - Removal of Lien › Section 51570.

51570. Any landowner who desires to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any assessment on which bonds have been issued may deliver to the county treasurer for cancellation any bonds payable out of the assessment, and the treasurer shall credit against the assessment on his land the principal and accrued interest of the bonds.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 805.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51600.

51600. (a) After any installment of an unpaid assessment on which bonds have not been issued has become delinquent, the county treasurer may, only upon the request of the district, publish once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county where delinquency exists a notice containing a list of all delinquencies in the county. At the same time as the publication, the county treasurer shall mail the notice to the last known address of the property owner, as shown on the latest county tax roll.
(b) No property may be sold pursuant to this article in the absence of publication and notice to the owner pursuant to subdivision (a).
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 322, Sec. 1. Effective August 22, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51601.

51601. The notice shall contain the following:
(a) A description of the parcels assessed, as described in the assessment list or operation and maintenance assessment roll or by reference number as set forth in the assessment list or roll on file in the office of the county treasurer (stating the date and time the list or roll was so filed), or by other appropriate reference thereto sufficient to identify the parcel, and shall refer to the assessment list or roll for further particulars.
(b) The name of the person to whom the parcel is assessed or a statement that it is assessed to unknown owners if that is the case.
(c) The amount of the delinquent installment, interest, and penalty due on the parcel calculated from the date of the call to the date of the sale if the delinquency is on an original unbonded assessment or from the date of delinquency to the date of sale if the delinquency is on an installment of an operation and maintenance assessment, together with a fee, to be determined by the district and the county treasurer, not to exceed the amount necessary to cover the costs incurred by the district and the county treasurer in conducting the sale.
(d) A notice that the parcel assessed will be sold by the county treasurer on the date therein stated, in front of the courthouse of the principal county to pay the amount of the installment with accrued interest, penalty, and costs.
(e) A notice that the sale may be avoided by payment prior thereto of the delinquent installment, penalty, and interest to the date of sale, plus a fee, to be determined by the district and the county treasurer, not to exceed the amount necessary to cover the costs incurred.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 417, Sec. 5.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51602.

51602. The date of the sale shall be not less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51603.

51603. The county treasurer may postpone the sale for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days at any one time by a written notice posted at the place of sale.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51604.

51604. If, for any reason, a parcel upon which an assessment or any installment thereof is delinquent in whole or in part is not sold at the time or place specified in the notice of sale or to which the sale was postponed, the county treasurer shall publish a new notice of sale and sell the parcel in the manner provided herein for delinquent sales.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51605.

51605. At the time of the sale, the county treasurer shall sell the parcel to himself or herself and his or her successors in office, as trustee for the district, for the amount due on the installment, accrued interest, penalty, and costs.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 322, Sec. 2. Effective August 22, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51606.

51606. If more than one installment of an assessment or more than one assessment on the same parcel is delinquent at the time of the sale, the county treasurer may sell the parcel for the total amount of all installments and assessments then delinquent on the parcel in one sale.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51607.

51607. The owner of any parcel offered for sale to pay a delinquent assessment or installment thereof may designate in writing to the county treasurer prior to the sale the portion he or she wishes first sold if less than the whole.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 322, Sec. 3. Effective August 22, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51608.

51608. If the owner fails to designate the portion of the parcel he or she wishes sold for a delinquent assessment, the county treasurer may sell the whole or the least portion of the land that will bring the amount due for the assessment, accrued interest, penalty and costs.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 322, Sec. 4. Effective August 22, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51611.

51611. A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the county treasurer, as trustee for the district, and the certificate of sale shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in the county where the parcel described in the certificate is situated. The district shall reimburse the county treasurer for any costs incurred pursuant to this section.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 322, Sec. 7. Effective August 22, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - ASSESSMENTS › CHAPTER 4 - Delinquency Sales › ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments › Section 51612.

51612. The certificate of sale is prima facie evidence that:
(a) The parcel was assessed and the assessment duly apportioned as required by law.
(b) The assessment was not paid.
(c) Proper notice of the sale was given and published by the county treasurer.
(d) The sale was had at the time and place specified in the notice or at the time to which the sale was regularly continued.
(e) All steps and proceedings required to be taken by the county treasurer to make a valid sale were taken.
(f) The deed thereafter made by the county treasurer, duly acknowledged, if no redemption is made, shall be prima facie evidence of the same facts as the certificates.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)