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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53043.

53043. No time warrants shall be issued, sold, or disposed of for less than the face amount thereof and accrued interest thereon to date of delivery.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53044.

53044. The proceeds from the issuance and sale of time warrants shall be deposited in the maintenance fund and shall be applicable to the payment of the expenses payable from that fund, or to the payment of outstanding warrants to the same extent as funds collected upon the operation and maintenance assessment levies.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53045.

53045. Time warrants shall be registered with the county treasurer prior to their issuance.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53046.

53046. Time warrants shall be paid upon their due date upon presentation and surrender to the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53047.

53047. If time warrants are not paid by reason of lack of funds, no further registration is required, and they shall continue to bear interest after their due date until paid, reissued, extended or canceled.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53048.

53048. Time warrants which are not paid on their due date because of lack of funds have priority and shall be paid out of the proceeds of the collection of the operation and maintenance assessment against which they have been issued, in preference to any demand warrants issued and registered after the date of regisration of such time warrants which are payable out of the same assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 3 - Time Warrants › Section 53049.

53049. The county treasurer, upon the request of the board, shall pay all time warrants before the maturity thereof, providing there are sufficient funds, after payment of all outstanding demand warrants, and all such time warrants shall be presented for payment.
(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 805.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 4 - Warrants Drawn on Maintenance Fund › Section 53070.

53070. A demand warrant on the maintenance fund pursuant to Section 51546 shall designate that it is so drawn and is to be paid therefrom, and is not required to be in the form specified in Article 2 of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 4 - Warrants Drawn on Maintenance Fund › Section 53071.

53071. A demand warrant drawn on the maintenance fund shall be presented to the county treasurer and, if there is insufficient money in the maintenance fund to pay it, endorsement of that fact shall be made on the warrant by the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 4 - Warrants Drawn on Maintenance Fund › Section 53072.

53072. A demand warrant unpaid for want of funds at the time of presentation shall be registered by the county treasurer separately from other warrants of the district and shall bear interest from date of registration at the rate which the board has adopted pursuant to Section 53300.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1109, Sec. 5. Effective September 28, 1983.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 4 - Warrants Drawn on Maintenance Fund › Section 53073.

53073. A demand warrant issued pursuant to this article, shall be paid only from the maintenance fund, and, when registered, either in the order of its registration or in the order agreed to, in writing, by all of the holders of the district’s outstanding demand warrants, if the county treasurer approves the agreement.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1109, Sec. 6. Effective September 28, 1983.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 4 - Warrants Drawn on Maintenance Fund › Section 53074.

53074. The provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Article 2, Chapter 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of a demand warrant apply to a warrant issued pursuant to this article.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 5 - Warrants Drawn on Irrigation Fund › Section 53090.

53090. A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall designate that it shall be paid therefrom, and is not required to be approved by the board of supervisors nor be in the form prescribed by Article 2 of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 5 - Warrants Drawn on Irrigation Fund › Section 53091.

53091. A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall be presented for payment to the county treasurer.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 5 - Warrants Drawn on Irrigation Fund › Section 53092.

53092. If there is insufficient money in the irrigation fund to pay a warrant when presented, endorsement of that fact shall be made thereon by the county treasurer, who shall register it separately from other warrants of the district, and it shall thereafter bear interest from date of registration at the rate of 8 percent per year until paid.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 1 - Issuance, Registration and Payment › ARTICLE 5 - Warrants Drawn on Irrigation Fund › Section 53093.

53093. All the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Chapter 2, Article 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of warrants apply to a warrant drawn on the irrigation fund.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 1 - Permissive › Section 53200.

53200. The board, at the request of the holder of any warrant, may cancel it and issue two or more warrants in lieu thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 1 - Permissive › Section 53201.

53201. If the canceled warrant has been registered each new warrant shall state that it is issued partly in lieu of a registered warrant, giving the dates of issuance and registration thereof, and upon registration of the new warrant it shall be considered as registered upon the date of registration of the canceled warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 1 - Permissive › Section 53202.

53202. New warrants issued pursuant to this article shall be issued for the principal only of the old warrant, but, upon registration, shall bear interest from the date of registration of the canceled warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53220.

53220. The board shall, on demand of the holder of any demand warrant outstanding one year or more, or any time warrant overdue one year of more, cancel the same and issue a new demand warrant for the face value of the old warrant, and a separate warrant for any interest then due thereon, or the board may allow a claim for the amount of any interest due on such warrant and may draw a warrant therefor.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53222.

53222. Upon drawing an interest warrant the board shall endorse on the reverse of the old warrant the fact that interest has been paid to the date of drawing the interest warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53223.

53223. An interest warrant shall state that it is drawn for interest on warrant No. ____ to ____ (date).
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53224.

53224. The board shall notify the county treasurer upon drawing an interest warrant, and he shall note on his register of warrants the fact that interest has been paid on the warrant for which the interest warrant was issued.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53225.

53225. A demand warrant not paid or presented for reissuance within four years after its date, or a time warrant not paid within four years after its maturity may, upon the demand of the holder, be extended one or more times until repayment or reissuance, for a like period of four years from the date of each extension, upon presentation to the board, such extension being endorsed thereon by the board.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 2 - Mandatory › Section 53226.

53226. The board and the county treasurer may cancel all warrants which have not been paid or reissued, or which have not been extended one or more times, within four years after the date of demand warrants, or within four years after the date of maturity of time warrants.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53240.

53240. When the board is convinced by clear and unequivocal proof that a warrant of the district, without bad faith on the part of the holder, has been lost, destroyed, or so mutilated or defaced as to impair its value to the holder, and when such instrument is capable of being identified by number and description, the board may issue or cause to be issued a duplicate thereof having the same maturity, bearing like interest, and having the same number as the warrant proved to have been lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53241.

53241. A holder desiring to have a duplicate warrant issued shall make a written application to the board stating the facts, and shall accompany the application with a deposit of such a sum of money as is required by the board to cover the cost of preparing and issuing the duplicate.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53242.

53242. The holder of a lost or destroyed warrant shall file, with the application, a bond in double the face value of the lost or destroyed warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53243.

53243. The bond must be approved by the board and conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the district for any claim upon the lost or destroyed warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53244.

53244. The bond of indemnification shall be executed jointly and severally by the holder and a corporate surety approved by the board and duly authorized to do business, and doing business, in the State.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53245.

53245. The holder of a mutilated or defaced warrant shall, at the time of filing the application for a duplicate, deliver the mutilated or defaced warrant to the board for cancellation.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53246.

53246. The board, upon receipt of an application for the replacement of a lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced warrant, shall pass a resolution stating the facts, the filing of the application, the compliance with the conditions prescribed in this article and directing the officer who supervised the preparation and issuance of the original warrant to issue or cause to be issued a duplicate thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 2 - Cancellation and Reissuance › ARTICLE 3 - Lost, Destroyed, Mutilated or Defaced Warrants › Section 53247.

53247. The duplicate warrant shall be signed by the same officers and issued in all respects as nearly as possible as the original instrument, and shall have all the force, effect and validity of the original warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Interest Rate › Section 53300.

53300. The board may provide, by resolution entered in its minutes, such rate of interest upon warrants as it deems reasonable, not to exceed 12 percent per year.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1109, Sec. 7. Effective September 28, 1983.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Calling Warrants › Section 53320.

53320. When there is sufficient money in the hands of the county treasurer applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants which have not been presented for payment, the county treasurer may give notice by one publication in some newspaper of general circulation published in the principal county that there is money available to pay certain warrants, giving their numbers in the order of their registration, and stating that at midnight of the date of the publication the warrants mentioned shall cease to bear interest, and thereafter interest on such warrants shall cease.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Actions on Warrants › Section 53340.

53340. An action based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant shall be commenced within four years from the date of the warrant, and an action based upon, or connected with, a time warrant shall be commenced within four years from the date of maturity of the time warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Actions on Warrants › Section 53341.

53341. If an action or proceeding based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant is commenced within four years after the date of the warrant, or within four years after the maturity of a time warrant, and final judgment is in favor of the holder or owner thereof, the warrant shall be paid the same as if it had been paid before the expiration of four years from the date of the warrant.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 9 - WARRANTS › CHAPTER 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Actions on Warrants › Section 53342.

53342. In any proceeding to compel the board to issue a warrant, if a controversy arises as to the amount that is due to the plaintiff, the court shall determine the same in the manner provided for determining controversies in other civil actions, and shall cause a writ to issue for any sums found to be due.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Consolidation › Section 53500.

53500. A copy of any proposal for consolidation shall be forwarded to the State Lands Commission prior to the circulation of any petition or the adoption of any resolution making such proposal.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2043.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Consolidation › Section 53504.

53504. The State Lands Commission shall assign to the consolidated district the number of the original district containing the largest area of land, and the consolidated district shall thereafter be known by such number.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2043.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - Change of Boundaries › ARTICLE 3 - Inclusion › Section 53660.

53660. Land in compact form, capable of being embraced in a district, and not a part of another district, may be annexed to a district.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2043.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53800.

53800. When a district, by a legislative act changing county boundaries, is transferred wholly from one county to another, the board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, shall exercise all of the jurisdiction, power, and authority over the district theretofore exercised by the board of supervisors of the county wherein the district was originally formed.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53801.

53801. The board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, the officers thereof, and the officers of the district shall thereafter perform all acts required to be performed in connection with the district with the same authority and effect as though the district had been originally organized within that county.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53802.

53802. The auditor and treasurer of the county to which a district is transferred shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of the county within which the district was previously situated for all of the funds of the district in the treasury of such county, and the funds shall be so transferred into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53803.

53803. After a district is transferred to another county, all assessments shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53804.

53804. When, by any change of county boundaries made by the Legislature of this State, any district is transferred in whole or in part to another county than the one within which it was organized, then as to such part of the district so transferred to another county, the same power and authority shall exist, and the same proceedings shall be had in the conduct and management of the district, and in the levy and collection of assessments, and in all other ways with respect to its conduct and management, as though it had been originally organized in the county where it was organized and partially in the county to which it is transferred.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 10 - CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 4 - Transfer of Districts From One County to Another › Section 53805.

53805. When a district is transferred in whole or in part to another county from that in which it was organized, all proceedings, petitions or orders which should have been recorded in the county to which the district is in whole or in part transferred shall be copied and certified by the officer having custody thereof, transferred to, and recorded in, such county.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 11 - REPEALS › Section 53900.

53900. The following sections of the Political Code are repealed:
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(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS › PART 11 - REPEALS › Section 53901.

53901. The following acts are repealed:
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1893:147: 174
1895:174: 197
1899: 16:  13
1909:616: 933
1913: 72:  75
1913:365: 777
1917:562: 781
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 337.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 55012.

55012. “District” means any county irrigation district or county waterworks district formed pursuant to the County Waterworks District Act or any county waterworks district formed pursuant to this division.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Applicability of Division › Section 55030.

55030. This division shall not affect any other law relating to the same or a similar subject, but is intended to provide an alternative method of procedure governing the subject to which it relates. When proceeding under the provisions of this division its provisions and none other shall apply.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55100.

55100. Any portion of a county, containing unincorporated territory, or containing the whole or any portion of one or more incorporated cities and contiguous unincorporated territory, and not included in a district, may be formed into a district.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55101.

55101. A district may be formed of two or more parcels of noncontiguous territory within the same county if the board of supervisors determines that the single district may be more efficiently and economically operated than if separate districts were formed, but no parcel of noncontiguous territory which contains less than 10 acres may be included in any district.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 33.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55103.

55103. The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors and shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of the freeholders resident within the proposed district, or by not less than 25 percent of the freeholders resident and nonresident within the proposed district, including not less than 15 percent of such resident freeholders.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 148.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55104.

55104. The formation petition shall contain:
(a) The name and boundaries of the proposed district to be benefited by the improvement.
(b) A general description of the improvement desired for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the district with water, and which may embrace any or all of the following: the acquisition, construction, installation, completion, extension, repair, or maintenance of water works, structures, and appliances, and the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation, contract, lease, or otherwise, of lands, rights-of-way, water, water rights, and water service, necessary or convenient for such purpose.
(c) An estimate of the cost of the proposed improvement and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith.
(d) A request that an election be called in the district for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters thereof the proposition of forming the district and the incurring of any indebtedness by the issuance of bonds of the district to pay the cost and expenses of the proposed improvement or any part thereof except if the petition be signed by all of the owners of property within the proposed district as such owners are shown upon the last equalized assessment roll, an election need not be requested.
(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 839.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55105.

55105. The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the exterior boundaries of the proposed district, with relation to the territory immediately contiguous thereto, and contain a general description of the proposed improvement.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55106.

55106. There shall also be filed with the petition a good and sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the board of supervisors, in double the amount of the probable cost of forming the district, conditioned that the sureties shall pay the cost in case the formation of the district is not effected.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55107.

55107. The failure of the petition to contain any of the matters required to be contained therein shall not affect the legality of the organization of the district if it is thereafter organized.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55108.

55108. If the petitioners so desire, the petition may also contain a statement that the taxes provided for in this division shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - Petition › Section 55109.

55109. Upon the request of 25 or more freeholders, or a majority of the freeholders, if less than 50 in number, needing water service within a given area, the board of supervisors may instruct any county officer to prepare a report recommending means of providing such service, including a plan for financing, constructing, operating and maintaining facilities essential to such service and a petition for the formation of or annexation to a district, and to prepare improvement petitions, including maps, preliminary estimates, legal descriptions, and all things necessary for the completion of the petition.
The board of supervisors may instruct any qualified county officer or may engage a qualified person, firm or corporation to prepare groundwater studies and reports, plans and estimates for water systems and engineering feasibility reports for water systems, reservoirs, conduits, treatment plants, conservation and reuse of water.
(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 92.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Notice of Hearing › Section 55130.

55130. Upon the presentation of a formative petition the board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing thereon, and protests of interested parties, not less than 21 nor more than 30 days after the date of the meeting at which the petition is presented.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Notice of Hearing › Section 55131.

55131. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause notices of the filing and hearing of the petition to be posted in three of the most public places in the district.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Notice of Hearing › Section 55132.

55132. The notice shall be headed “Notice of the formation of __________ County Waterworks District No. __________” (stating name of county in which the district is located and the number of the proposed district) in letters not less than one inch in length, and shall, in legible characters, state the fact and date of the filing of the petition, the date and hour set for hearing the petition and any protests, briefly describe the proposed improvement, specify the exterior boundaries of the district to be benefited by the improvement and to be taxed to provide for the improvement, and refer to the petition, map, and general description of the proposed improvement for further particulars.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Notice of Hearing › Section 55133.

55133. The clerk shall also cause a notice, similar in substance, to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county in which the proposed district is located, and designated by the board of supervisors for that purpose.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55150.

55150. Any person interested, including any freeholder or qualified voter resident within the proposed district or the owner of any real or personal property located in the proposed district, objecting to the formation of the district, to the extent of the district, to the proposed improvement, or to the inclusion of his property in the district, may file a written protest, setting forth his objections, with the clerk of the board of supervisors at or before the time set for the hearing of the petition.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 285.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55151.

55151. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall endorse on each protest the date of its receipt and, at the time appointed for the hearing, shall present to the board all protests filed with him.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55152.

55152. The board shall hear and pass upon the petition and protests at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. If protests are made to the formation of the proposed district or to the proposed improvement by any of the qualified voters of the proposed district as of the date of the petition or by the owners of any property which will be subject to taxation for district purposes if the proposed district is formed, then, notwithstanding the denial of any of such protests by the board of supervisors or the fact that the petition is signed by all of the owners of the real property within the proposed district, the board of supervisors shall, if it acquires jurisdiction pursuant to Section 55160, call an election pursuant to Section 55180.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 285.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55153.

55153. If any of the protests against the formation of the district or against the proposed improvement is sustained, no further proceedings shall be had or taken pursuant to the petition, but a new petition for the same or a similar purpose may be filed at any time.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 309.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55154.

55154. If any of the protests are against the extent of the district or against the inclusion of property in the district, the board of supervisors may make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed district as it finds to be proper and advisable and shall define and establish boundaries as changed.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55155.

55155. The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which will be benefited by the improvement, and any territory which will not, in the judgment of the board, be benefited by the improvement shall not be included within the proposed district.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55156.

55156. The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries except after notice of such intention is published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county and designated by the board for that purpose, describing the proposed modification, and specifying a time for hearing objections to the modification, which time shall be at least 10 days after the publication of the notice.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55157.

55157. Written objections to the proposed modification may be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors by any interested person at or before the time set for hearing the objections.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55158.

55158. The board of supervisors shall hear and pass upon the objections to the proposed modification at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55159.

55159. If any objection is sustained, no further proceedings pursuant to the petition shall be taken, but a new petition for the same or a similar purpose may be filed at any time.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55160.

55160. The board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to proceed further with respect to the formation of a district under any of the following circumstances:
(a) If no protests to the formation of the district are filed at or before the time set for hearing on the formation petition.
(b) If protests are filed and, after hearing, are denied.
(c) If modification of the boundaries of the district is proposed and no objections thereto are filed at or before the time set for hearing objections.
(d) If objections to the modification are filed, and after hearing, are denied.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55161.

55161. If the board of supervisors determines that the formation petition was signed by all of the owners of the real property in the proposed district and if protests are not made to the formation of the proposed district by any of the qualified voters of the proposed district as of the date of the petition or by the owners of any property which will be subject to taxation for district purposes if the proposed district is formed, and if there are no other good and sufficient protests to the formation of the district or if there is no other cause for denying the petition, then the board of supervisors may declare the district formed and direct the issuance of bonds as provided for in the petition.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1882.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 55162.

55162. Notwithstanding anything in this division to the contrary, if the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to the close of the hearing for the formation of the district, by the owners of real property within the proposed district the assessed value of which as shown by the last equalized assessment roll constitute more than one-half of the district’s assessed value of the real property within the proposed district or by the owners of more than one-half of the total acreage within the proposed district, the proceedings shall terminate.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 500.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55180.

55180. Unless the board of supervisors proceeds pursuant to Section 55161, the board of supervisors shall, by ordinance or resolution adopted at a regular or special meeting after having acquired jurisdiction to proceed in the formation of a district, provide for and order the holding of a special election in the proposed district to submit to the qualified voters thereof the proposition of forming the district and incurring a debt by the issuance of bonds of the district for the purposes set forth in the petition for the formation of the district, if a bonded indebtedness is to be incurred.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 285.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55181.

55181. The ordinance or resolution calling the special election shall also recite the objects and purposes for which any proposed indebtedness is to be incurred, the estimated cost of the proposed improvement, the amount of the principal of the indebtedness to be incurred therefor, and the rate of interest to be paid on the indebtedness, and shall fix the date on which the special election shall be held, the manner of holding it, and the manner of voting for or against the proposition.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55182.

55182. If a statement is made in the formation petition that taxes shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property, the board of supervisors shall recite the statement in any resolution, ordinance, or order adopted or entered pursuant to this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55183.

55183. For the purposes of the election, the board of supervisors shall, in the ordinance or resolution, establish one or more precincts within the boundaries of the proposed district, designate a polling place, and appoint one inspector, one judge and one clerk for each precinct.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55184.

55184. The ordinance or resolution ordering the holding of the election shall, prior to the date set for the election, be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county and designated by the board of supervisors for that purpose, and shall be posted in three of the most public places in the proposed district at least 10 days prior to the date set for the election. No other notice of the election need be given.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55184.1.

55184.1. Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the election call to the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the county or principal county in which the territory or major portion of the territory of the proposed district is located. Such written notice shall include the name and a description of the proposed district, and may be in the form of a certified copy of the resolution adopted by the legislative body calling the district formation election.
The executive officer, within five days after being notified that a district formation election has been called, shall submit to the commission, for its approval or modification, an impartial analysis of the proposed district formation.
The impartial analysis shall not exceed 500 words in length and shall include a specific description of the boundaries of the district proposed to be formed.
The local agency formation commission, within five days after the receipt of the executive officer’s analysis, shall approve or modify the analysis and submit it to the officials in charge of conducting the district formation election.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 736.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55184.2.

55184.2. The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of citizens entitled to vote on the district formation proposition, or any combination of such voters and associations of citizens, may file a written argument for or a written argument against the proposed district formation.
Arguments shall not exceed 300 words in length and shall be filed with the officials in charge of conducting the election not less than 54 days prior to the date of the district formation election.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 736.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55184.3.

55184.3. If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time prescribed, such election officials shall select one of the arguments for printing and distribution to the voters.
In selecting the arguments, the election officials shall give preference and priority in the order named to the arguments of the following:
(a) The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board.
(b) Individual voters or bona fide associations of citizens or a combination of such voters and associations.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 736.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55184.4.

55184.4. The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed and mailed to each voter entitled to vote on the district formation question.
The ballot pamphlet shall contain the following in the order prescribed:
(a) The complete text of the proposition.
(b) The impartial analysis of the proposition prepared by the local agency formation commission.
(c) The argument for the proposed district formation.
(d) The argument against the proposed district formation.
The election officials shall mail a ballot pamphlet to each voter entitled to vote in the district formation election at least 10 days prior to the date of the election. The ballot pamphlet is “official matter” within the meaning of Section 13303 of the Elections Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 256. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 16 - COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Election › Section 55186.

55186. If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the formation of the district and the incurring of the bonded indebtedness, if any is proposed, the board of supervisors shall enter an order to that effect upon its minutes, declaring the district formed, and the board may thereupon issue bonds of said district for the amount specified in the proceedings, payable out of funds of the district, provided as prescribed in this division.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)