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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 4 - Federal Contract Assessments › Section 23244.

23244. Nothing in this chapter relieves any district from its obligation to pay as a district in case of the default of any land unless so provided by the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 4 - Federal Contract Assessments › Section 23245.

23245. All money collected in pursuance of the contract shall be paid into the district treasury and held in a fund to be known as the “United States Contract Fund” to be used for payments due to the United States under the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 5 - Construction of Works for United States › Section 23260.

23260. When the United States is authorized to construct works for the benefit of any district and the district is obligated to repay the construction cost in whole or in part to the United States, the district may by resolution of its board enter into a contract with the United States for the construction of the works or may submit bids for the construction of the works the same as any other person may submit bids for the construction of the works.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 5 - Construction of Works for United States › Section 23261.

23261. If a district is the successful bidder for the construction of the works or any part of them, the district may execute at its expense a bond for the faithful performance of the work and do any and all things required by the United States as would be required of any other successful bidder.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 5 - Construction of Works for United States › Section 23262.

23262. A district upon the execution with the United States of a contract for the construction of works by the district shall proceed with the work in the same manner and under the same laws and rules and regulations as would apply to the district in the construction of any works which it is authorized to construct.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 5 - Construction of Works for United States › Section 23263.

23263. For the purpose of providing the necessary money to carry on the construction work the district may borrow money for a term not exceeding five years at rates of interest, to be fixed by its board, not exceeding 7 per cent per year and issue notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness therefor. The aggregate amount of the indebtedness shall at no time exceed one-half of the total construction cost as provided in the construction contract.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 5 - Construction of Works for United States › Section 23264.

23264. Any money received by a district from the United States under the contract shall first be applied to the retirement of notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23280.

23280. In addition to other powers conferred by this chapter districts may pursuant to this article borrow or procure money from the United States for any of the following purposes:
(a) Financing any operations or purposes of the district.
(b) Financing or refinancing any or all of the obligations of the district.
(c) Refunding or purchasing bonds of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23281.

23281. When the United States has appraised the security underlying the indebtedness of any district or loans any district money to refund any of its indebtedness or to finance any of its operations, the district may in contracting for the loan agree that it will not during the life of the loan levy any assessment for an amount less than required by the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23282.

23282. Any district, upon being authorized so to do as provided by Article 3 of this chapter as modified in this article, may as evidence of the loan execute a contract with the United States.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23284.

23284. The bonds shall contain any terms and be payable in any manner and from any source of revenue that may be agreed upon between the district and the United States and may bind the district for the payment of the bonds according to the terms thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23285.

23285. The bonds may be serial or sinking fund bonds, may be made callable either by number or by lot, and may be made payable to bearer or to the United States. They shall be in the form and authorized and issued in the manner substantially as provided for refunding bonds of districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23288.

23288. The notice of election and ballot need contain only the information required in the case of ordinary bond elections.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 6 - Borrowing from United States › Section 23289.

23289. Proposals both to enter into a contract and to issue bonds may be voted upon as a single proposition.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 7 - County Water Districts as Irrigation Districts › Section 23300.

23300. As used in this article “county water district” means a county water district which has heretofore executed or shall hereafter execute a contract with the United States for any or all of the following purposes:
(a) Acquisition, extension, or operation of works for irrigation or drainage or flood control or the development of electric or other power.
(b) A water supply.
(c) Assumption as principal or guarantor of indebtedness to the United States.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 7 - County Water Districts as Irrigation Districts › Section 23301.

23301. Every such county water district shall, within the meaning of the act of Congress approved August 11, 1916, entitled “An act to promote the reclamation of arid lands” and of the act of Congress approved May 15, 1922, entitled “An act to provide for the application of the reclamation law to irrigation districts,” be deemed to be an irrigation district organized and created under the irrigation districts laws of this State.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 2 - Cooperation With United States › ARTICLE 7 - County Water Districts as Irrigation Districts › Section 23302.

23302. Public land of the United States within any such county water district is subject to assessment and taxation for all purposes of such district to the extent provided in said acts of Congress upon full compliance therewith by the county water district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23375.

23375. The provisions of this chapter do not extend the right of eminent domain to any public use in behalf of which it may not otherwise be exercised.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23376.

23376. Districts may enter into agreements with irrigation districts in adjoining States for the joint acquisition, management, and control of diverting, impounding, or distributing works for irrigating or draining land within the boundaries of the respective districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23377.

23377. Agreements pursuant to this article may be evidenced by written contracts executed on behalf of the board of directors or trustees of each respective district or by resolutions entered upon their respective minutes.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23378.

23378. The contracts or certified copies of them and certified copies of the resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the land of the districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property owned by the districts or acquired pursuant to this article.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23379.

23379. Agreements made pursuant to this article may provide for joint ownership, several ownership, or ownership in common of the property convenient for their joint purposes and may provide for the terms under which or the respective proportions in which the property shall be held.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23380.

23380. Any rights or disputes arising out of or from the agreements may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23381.

23381. Any meeting of a board regularly adjourned to or called substantially in the manner for calling special meetings may be held in conjunction with the board of the cooperating district in the cooperating district in the adjoining State with the same validity as if held at the district office in this State.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23382.

23382. For the purposes of cooperative action pursuant to this article either district may divert water from either or both States for either or both impounding in the adjoining State or for distribution to the land of either or both cooperating districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Cooperation With Districts in Other States › Section 23383.

23383. So far as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this article a cooperating district in an adjoining State may hold title to property in this State, and a cooperating district in this State may hold title to property in the adjoining State.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23450.

23450. As used in this article “districts” means one or more irrigation districts together with one or more county water districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23451.

23451. As used in this article “contract with the United States” means a contract made under the provisions of the Federal Reclamation Law for any or all of the following purposes:
(a) Acquisition, extension, or operation of works for irrigation, drainage, flood control, or development of electric or other power.
(b) A water supply.
(c) Assumption as principal or guarantor of indebtedness to the United States.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23452.

23452. As used in ths article “power rights” includes power possibilities, power resources, and power privileges.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23453.

23453. Districts may contract with each other pursuant to this article only when both:
(a) Each of the districts before or after contracting pursuant to this article makes a contract with the United States.
(b) All of the contracting districts propose to divert or carry water for use in the districts by means of a single main canal or system of works.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23454.

23454. Any contract between districts made before each of the districts has made a contract with the United States shall be effective when all of the districts have so contracted with the United States.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23455.

23455. In any contract between districts they may contract to compromise and settle any controversies existing between them as to the extent or priority of their respective rights and claims to the use of water and agree upon the limitation and definition of the areas within them respectively upon which such water shall be beneficially used.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23456.

23456. Districts may also contract that applications theretofore filed by either of them with the State Water Rights Board or its predecessor shall be amended to conform to the provisions of the contract between them and that permits and licenses be issued accordingly.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23457.

23457. Districts may also contract to compromise and settle any controversies existing between them as to power rights upon the canal or other water system, and for these purposes any of the districts may demise to another of the districts all of the power rights which the demising district has or thereafter obtains.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23458.

23458. The lease may be made for any term not exceeding 99 years and may vest in the lessee the operation, management, development, and control of the power rights and the use, sale, and control of power produced therefrom. The lease may provide for the payment of rentals and any other matters relevant to the leasing of the power rights as the districts may in their discretion deem advisable not in conflict with the Constitution of this State nor with the express terms of the statutes under which the districts are respectively organized and exist.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23459.

23459. Districts may also contract that when the lease has been executed, the lessor may be required upon any terms agreed upon to procure for the lessee district contracts or applications for electric power signed by consumers in the lessor district and that the lessee district shall serve electric power in the lessor distict at rates and upon terms and conditions prescribed in the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23460.

23460. Districts may also contract that they shall cooperate to obtain permits and licenses to appropriate water for power purposes and to construct power facilities from the State Water Rights Board or any federal agency or both in the manner prescribed in the contract.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23462.

23462. Districts so contracting have full power to perform and observe the contracts in accordance with the tenor and spirit thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23463.

23463. Contracts made pursuant to this article shall be liberally construed to effectuate them according to their true intent.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6 - COOPERATION › CHAPTER 3 - Cooperation With Other Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Cooperation with County Water Districts › Section 23465.

23465. Any and all such contracts executed prior to September 13, 1941, by and between such districts and all acts of boards of directors and other officers of such districts leading up to and including the execution of such contract or contracts, are hereby legalized, ratified, confirmed and declared valid to all intents and purposes, and the power of such districts to execute, carry out, perform and observe such contracts and every provision thereof is hereby ratified, confirmed and declared valid and such contracts are hereby declared to be in all respects the legal and binding obligations of, against and in favor of each of such contracting districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23500.

23500. Contiguous land may be formed into a distribution district for the purpose of contracting with the United States, pursuant to the federal reclamation laws, for the construction of a distribution system separate from or supplemental to the works of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23501.

23501. As used in this part, “federal reclamation law” shall mean the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stats. 388), and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23502.

23502. The formation of a distribution district may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the holders of title to the land in the proposed distribution district appearing on the last equalized assessment roll of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23503.

23503. A petition for the formation of a distribution district shall contain all of the following:
(a) Statement of the plans of the proposed distribution system.
(b) Description of the land in the proposed distribution district.
(c) Names of the owners of all land within the proposed distribution district with their last known addresses.
(d) Description of the land owned in the proposed distribution district by each owner, which shall be according to the next preceding equalized assessment book of the district.
(e) Signatures of the petitioners.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23504.

23504. The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the distribution district, and the land in it shall be designated by a number.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23505.

23505. The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23506.

23506. A petition to form a distribution district shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all persons interested.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 2 - Plans and Estimate of Assessment › Section 23510.

23510. Upon receipt of a petition to form a distribution district the board shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed distribution system.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 2 - Plans and Estimate of Assessment › Section 23511.

23511. If the survey shows that the distribution system is feasible, the board shall cause to be prepared the following:
(a) An estimate of the cost of the proposed distribution system.
(b) A statement of the estimated rate of ad valorem tax which probably will be necessary to meet the distribution district’s obligation to the United States under the proposed contract or contracts.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 2 - Plans and Estimate of Assessment › Section 23512.

23512. The estimate of cost and the statement of the estimated rate of ad valorem tax shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all persons interested.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 3 - Hearing on Formation › Section 23520.

23520. After the filing of the formation petition and the estimate of cost and the statement of the estimated rate of ad valorem tax, the board shall give notice of a hearing on the petition.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 3 - Hearing on Formation › Section 23521.

23521. Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following:
(a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed distribution district.
(b) Publication of the notice once a week for two weeks in a newspaper published in the office county.
(c) Mailing a copy of the notice to the last known address of all of the owners of land in the proposed distribution district to the addresses appearing on the last equalized assessment roll of the district.
The notices shall be posted and mailed not less than twenty days prior to the date set for the hearing.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 3 - Hearing on Formation › Section 23522.

23522. At the hearing the board shall hear any objections coming before it to any of the following:
(a) The petition.
(b) The formation of the distribution district.
(c) The land to be included within the distribution district.
(d) The proposed distribution system.
(e) The estimate of cost.
(f) The estimate of the ad valorem tax.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 3 - Hearing on Formation › Section 23523.

23523. At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to matters set forth in Section 23522 as it considers proper. The board may exclude any part of the land described in the petition from the proposed distribution district and may include additional land.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 3 - Hearing on Formation › Section 23524.

23524. If any additional land is included within the proposed irrigation district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added land given personal notice of not less than twenty days of the addition of the land to the distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23530.

23530. Regardless of any findings made by the board if more than one-third in number of the owners of title to land within a proposed distribution district object at the hearing to its formation or to the levy of the proposed ad valorem tax, the board shall deny the petition, and no further proceeding shall be had on it.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23531.

23531. If at the hearing the board finds that it would not be for the best interest of the district to form the distribution district the board shall order the proceedings dismissed without prejudice to their renewal.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23532.

23532. If the board finds that it would be for the best interests of the district and the proposed distribution district to form the distribution district, it shall make and enter in its minutes a final order:
(a) Approving the petition.
(b) Forming the distribution district.
(c) Providing that an ad valorem assessment shall be levied each year in the same manner as district assessments to meet the obligations of the contract with the United States under the federal reclamation laws.
(d) Describing the land in the distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23533.

23533. Assessments levied for the purpose of meeting obligations accruing under a contract with the United States pursuant to the reclamation laws shall be payable in the same manner and at the same time as district assessments, and such distribution district assessments shall be made in the number and amount sufficient to meet the obligations accruing under such contract.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23534.

23534. The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order creating the distribution district to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which any land of the distribution district is situated.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 4 - Formation and Assessment › Section 23535.

23535. All lands of the distribution district shall remain jointly liable for all obligations accruing to the United States under any contract between the distribution district and the United States pursuant to the federal reclamation laws.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 1 - Inclusion of Land › Section 23540.

23540. If at any time it is desired to include additional land in a distribution district, a petition for inclusion signed by the owners of the land to be included and by two-thirds in number of the holders of title to the land in the distribution district may be filed with the board.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 1 - Inclusion of Land › Section 23541.

23541. The inclusion petition shall describe the land in the distribution district as enlarged by the proposed inclusions and give the names and addresses of the owners of the additional land in substantially the same manner as in the original petition for forming a distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 1 - Inclusion of Land › Section 23542.

23542. The same proceedings shall be had on the distribution district inclusion petition as upon the original petition for the formation of a distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 2 - Exclusion of Land › Section 23545.

23545. At any time before a district has incurred any indebtedness or obligation, or after all indebtedness and obligations have been discharged, two-thirds or more in number of the holders of title to an area of land in the distribution district, as appears on the last equalized assessment roll, desiring to be excluded therefrom may by verified petition filed with the board of the district, request that the area be excluded from the distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 145.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 2 - Exclusion of Land › Section 23546.

23546. The secretary of the district, upon the filing of the petition, shall examine it and if, in his opinion, the petition has been signed by the requisite number of landowners, he shall set it for hearing at the first regular meeting of the board of the district held after the expiration of 30 days after the filing of the petition.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 145.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 2 - Exclusion of Land › Section 23547.

23547. The secretary of the board shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing to be posted for a period of two weeks next preceding the hearing (a) in three public places in the area requested to be excluded, and (b) in three public places in the area of the distribution district which has not been requested to be excluded, and to be published once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which any portion of the distribution district is located.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 145.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 2 - Exclusion of Land › Section 23548.

23548. At the time and place of the hearing, anyone interested in the petition for exclusion may appear before the board of the district and urge or oppose its approval. After the hearing, if the board of the district determines that it is for the best interests of the distribution district that the land requested to be excluded, or any portion thereof, should be excluded, the board of the district shall make an order excluding the land, or portion thereof, and cause it to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which the excluded land is located.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 145.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 2 - Inclusion and Exclusion of Land › ARTICLE 2 - Exclusion of Land › Section 23549.

23549. All expenses incurred in connection with a petition to exclude lands from a distribution district shall be paid by the petitioners.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 145.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Distribution District Management › Section 23550.

23550. In a district containing a distribution district the board and all of the officers of the district each respectively has all of the rights, powers, and privileges as to the distribution district, its land, and the proceedings in relation to the distribution district that each respectively has for the district of which the distribution district is a part, including the right of the district to acquire, own, hold, and dispose of property, and to contract in the name of the distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Distribution District Management › Section 23551.

23551. The board may also hold or dispose of property used or acquired in connection with the distribution district in the name of the directors and their successors in office as trustees for the distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Distribution District Management › Section 23552.

23552. The board of the district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying ad valorem assessments for repayment of construction costs under a contract with the United States pursuant to the federal reclamation laws, fix and collect charges for the use of water or for any other service furnished by means of the distribution system in the same manner and with the same effect as charges are made and collected by districts for the use of water or for services.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 1 - Distribution District Management › Section 23553.

23553. The board of the district may provide for any maintenance and operation of the distribution system of a distribution district that may be required by the provisions of the contract between the distribution district and the United States under the federal reclamation laws, from funds of the irrigation district in lieu of levying further distribution district assessments for such purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 2 - Distribution District Warrants › Section 23560.

23560. A district may issue distribution district warrants signed by its president and secretary from receipts of distribution district assessments and charges in such amounts and to the United States or such persons as may be required to carry out the provisions of a contract between a distribution district and the United States, executed under the federal reclamation laws.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 3 - Actions and Proceedings › Section 23570.

23570. All acts, proceedings, conclusions, and findings of fact, including the levy of assessments or charges, by a board of a district concerning a distribution district therein shall be conclusive except in an action or proceeding instituted within six months after the acts, proceedings, conclusions, or findings were had or made.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 3 - Functioning of Distribution Districts › ARTICLE 3 - Actions and Proceedings › Section 23571.

23571. An action to determine the validity of an assessment may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1540.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 4 - Dissolution of Distribution Districts › Section 23580.

23580. At any time prior to incurring any indebtedness or obligation, or upon the full payment of all indebtedness or obligations of a distribution district a petition, signed and acknowledged by not less than the number of owners of land constituting the distribution district required to sign a petition to form the distribution district, may be filed with the board requesting that the distribution district be dissolved.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 6.5 - DISTRIBUTION DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 4 - Dissolution of Distribution Districts › Section 23581.

23581. A hearing on dissolution shall be had in the same manner and after the same notice as is required for the formation of a distribution district.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 169.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23600.

23600. Land which need not be contiguous may be formed into an improvement district for one or more of the following:
(a) Irrigation or domestic water service by a system of pumps or conduits or both.
(b) Drainage or flood control.
(c) Acquisition of existing works incidental to a water distribution system separate from or supplemental to the works of the district.
(d) Change or improvement of the water distribution system of the district.
(e) Maintenance of irrigation works of the district and works for water supply or drainage or both in or for the improvement district.
(f) Control of weeds in or along conduits.
(Amended by Stats. 1947, Ch. 536.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23601.

23601. As used in connection with improvement districts:
(a) “Improvement” includes acquisition of existing works, construction of new works, and change of existing works and excludes operation, maintenance, and weed control.
(b) “Construction” includes change of existing works.
(c) Both “operation” and “maintenance” include weed control.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23602.

23602. The formation of an improvement district may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the holders of title to the land in the proposed improvement district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23603.

23603. A petition for the formation of an improvement district shall contain all of the following:
(a) Statement of the plans of the proposed improvement.
(b) Description of the land in the proposed improvement district.
(c) Names of the owners of all land within the proposed improvement district with their last known addresses.
(d) Description of the land owned in the proposed improvement district by each owner, which shall be according to the next preceding equalized assessment book of the district. District owned land in the proposed improvement district shall be described whether or not it appears on the next preceding assessment book of the district.
(e) Signatures of the petitioners.
(Amended by Stats. 1947, Ch. 536.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23604.

23604. The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the improvement district, and the land in it shall be designated by a number.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23605.

23605. The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 7 - IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › CHAPTER 1 - Formation › ARTICLE 1 - Petition for Formation › Section 23606.

23606. A petition to form an improvement district shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all persons interested.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)