text: Warrants drawn by the department shall be drawn upon the treasurer of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 91. Effective January 1, 1993.)

chapter: 2. Warrants

article: 1. Execution

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kind: section

code: WAT

text: Warrants drawn by the board shall be signed by its president or vice president and secretary or assistant secretary and countersigned by the treasurer.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

division: 14. CALIFORNIA WATER STORAGE DISTRICT LAW

article: 1. Execution


text: Warrants drawn by the board for payment of principal or interest on bonds shall be drawn upon the county treasurer of a county having funds belonging to the district in his possession, or upon a bank having funds belonging to the district on deposit, and upon the treasurer of the district or the county treasurer of such a county or upon such a bank, as the case may be, for payment of all other claims and demands.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 695.)

article: 1. Execution


text: The provisions of this article are applicable only to warrants payable on demand.

article: 2. Payment

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text: Whenever any warrant of the district is presented for payment when funds are not available for payment, it shall thereafter draw interest at a rate determined by resolution of the board, not to exceed 7 percent per year, until public notice is given that such funds are available.

article: 2. Payment


text:
Upon the presentation of warrants for payment when funds for payment are not available, the treasurer of the district or of the county, as the case may be, shall endorse on them all of the following:

(a) “Funds not available for payment.”

(b) The date of presentation.

(c) The interest that the warrants shall thereafter bear.

(d) His signature.

A warrant so registered is a registered warrant.

article: 2. Payment


text:
The treasurer shall keep a record showing all of the following:

(a) Number and amount of each registered warrant.

(b) Date of its issuance.

(c) Person in whose favor it was issued.

(d) Date of its presentation for payment.

article: 2. Payment


text: The registered warrant is a contract in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action based upon the warrant is four years from the date of issuance.

article: 2. Payment


text: Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury to pay all outstanding registered warrants or whenever the board orders that all registered warrants presented for payment prior to a certain date be paid and there is sufficient money available for payment, the proper treasurer shall give notice of this.

article: 2. Payment


text: The notice shall state that the treasurer is prepared to pay all registered warrants or all registered warrants presented for payment prior to the date fixed by the board. No further description of the warrants entitled to payment need be made in the notice.

article: 2. Payment


text: The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the office county.

article: 2. Payment


text: All warrants designated in the notice shall cease to draw interest at the time of the first publication of the notice.

article: 2. Payment


text: Upon the presentation of any warrant entitled to payment under the terms of the notice, the treasurer shall pay it together with interest due on it from the date of its original presentation for payment to the date of the first publication of the notice.

article: 2. Payment


text:
The treasurer shall enter all of the following in the record of registered warrants he is required to keep:

(a) Dates of the payment of all the warrants.

(b) Names of the persons to whom payments are made.

(c) Amount paid to each person.

article: 2. Payment


text: The proceeds of sale of district bonds shall be placed in the treasuries of the respective affected counties to the amount of the unpaid assessment in each county and credited to the bond fund of the district, except that any premium received upon the sale of district bonds shall be credited to the bond reserve fund of the district if the resolution of the board directing the sale of the bonds so provides. Said proceeds may be used for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized to be issued under Part 8 (commencing with Section 45100) of this division. Upon completion of an adopted project, or any unit thereof, any balance in said fund shall be used exclusively for the payment of principal of or interest on the bonds sold, or shall be deposited in the bond reserve fund or shall be used for the purchase at not more than par and cancellation of any such bonds.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 81.)

chapter: 3. Funds

article: 1. Proceeds of Bond Sales

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text: A proper record of the transaction shall be made upon the books of the district treasurer.

article: 1. Proceeds of Bond Sales


text:
The county treasurer shall deposit in the county treasury to the credit of the bond fund of the district all money collected upon any assessment upon which bonds have been issued, including all the following:

(a) Money derived from sale of land for delinquent installments.

(b) Money derived from redemption of land.

(c) Money derived from sale of land bought by the treasurer at a sale for delinquent installments as trustee of the district bond fund.

(d) Money derived from interest and penalties.

(e) The amount of purchase money paid in bonds or coupons on sales made under any assessment.

article: 2. Proceeds of Assessments

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text: Money collected upon any assessment upon which bonds have been issued shall be used exclusively for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds issued on the assessment.

article: 2. Proceeds of Assessments


text: The county treasurer shall transmit to the treasurer of the district all canceled bonds and coupons received in payment on any delinquent sale and a memorandum of all sums endorsed as paid upon account of purchase money on any specified bonds or coupons. All money collected by any county treasurer upon account of an assessment on which bonds shall not have been issued shall be similarly accounted for to the treasurer of the district, and shall be credited to the general fund of the district.

article: 2. Proceeds of Assessments


text: Any balance remaining in the bond fund after payment in full of the principal and interest of all outstanding bonds of the district shall be transferred by the county treasurer to the general fund of the district.

article: 2. Proceeds of Assessments


text: Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by any county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of the district may be sold and conveyed by him or his successor in office at any time after the expiration of the redemption period of three years, at public sale with notice, to the highest bidder. The trustee shall have the right to reject any and all bids.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land

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text: Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by any county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of the district as provided in this division may, without notice, be sold and conveyed by him or his successor in office at private sale to the owner of record at the date of the certificate of sale or to the owner’s successor in interest, upon his paying to such trustee the amount for which the same was struck off to said trustee with interest thereon at the rate of 7 percent per year, compounded yearly, from the date of the delinquent sale, together with any call that has been made upon any prior or subsequent assessment.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: Payment may be made either in cash or in matured bonds and coupons issued on the assessment, taken at their face value.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: The treasurer shall execute a deed to the purchaser upon the sale, conveying the property free of encumbrances, except as provided for deeds where no redemption is made.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: If any land held by a county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of a district remains unsold after the final installment of the assessment has been collected by payment or sale, each county treasurer shall sell all the land held by him at public auction to the highest bidder for cash.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: Notice of the sale shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the land is situated.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: The county treasurer shall deposit the proceeds of the sale in the treasury of the county to the credit of the bond fund of the district.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: Each county treasurer shall charge to the general fund of the district, or to the bond fund if he has no money to the credit of the general fund, the expense of publication of notices and of recording certificates of sale, and shall notify the treasurer of the district of the charge.

article: 3. Proceeds of Sale of Land


text: This article provides an alternative procedure for the deposit of all, or any part of, proceeds of bond sales, proceeds of assessments and proceeds of sale of land and of all, or any part of, other funds of a district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 695.)

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text: The board may at any time, by resolution, elect to proceed under this article with respect to the deposit of funds of the district, and the board may at any time thereafter terminate its election to proceed under this article, and thereafter, the provisions of this article shall no longer apply. No such resolution shall be effective until a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the auditor and treasurer of each county within which a district is located.

article: 4. Alternative Provisions for the Deposit of Funds


text: Any money belonging to a district may be deposited by the treasurer pursuant to the general laws governing the deposit of public money.


text: Where the deposit of money is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation no additional security need be required from the bank for the portion of the district’s deposits so insured.


text: If any contract or lease for the acquisition of property provides for any future payments by the district, warrants may be issued, on order of the board, for the payments, which warrants shall be made payable at the times provided in the contract or lease.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1367.)

chapter: 4. Warrants Payable at Future Times

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text: When a particular purpose or emergency assessment has been authorized, warrants in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment may be issued on order of the board to carry out the purpose for which the assessment was authorized. These warrants shall be made payable at the time or times that the board estimates that they can be paid from the proceeds of the assessment.


text: Any outstanding registered warrants and their accrued interest may be refunded by the issuance of warrants payable at stated times fixed by the board. These warrants may be exchanged for the registered warrants or sold for not less than their par value to provide funds for the payment of the registered warrants or any of them and their accrued interest.


text: Warrants payable at a future time or times may be issued in consideration of money loaned to the district for the purchase of any of its outstanding bonds or the refinancing or retiring of any outstanding contract. The annual interest payable on these warrants shall be less than the annual interest on the bonds purchased or contract refinanced or retired with the proceeds of the warrants.


text: Warrants payable at a future time or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 92. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: Any warrant authorized in the preceding sections of this article shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed 6 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as the board may prescribe.


text: Coupons payable to bearer in a form and signed as prescribed by the board may be attached to warrants payable at a future date to evidence their interest.


text: Warrants of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first district assessment, bearing interest fixed by the board at not more than 7 percent per year. These warrants shall be made payable on a date not later than the first day of July next after the first annual assessment in the district is levied.


text: If any district owns any property which it is authorized to lease or sell, its board may in the contract providing for the issuance of warrants payable at a future time, agree that the proceeds of the lease or sale of the property, not required by law to be used for other purposes, shall be allocated to the payment of these warrants.


text: No warrants issued pursuant to this article made payable more than five years from the date of issuance shall be valid unless their issuance is authorized by a majority of the voters voting at an election called by the board for the purpose of determining whether or not the warrants shall be authorized.


text: Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided for bond elections.


text: A district may issue revenue warrants pursuant to this chapter to obtain funds for any lawful purpose of the district, including the repayment of indebtedness of the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 36.)

chapter: 5. Revenue Warrants

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text: Revenue warrants shall be secured by all or part of the revenues received by the district from tolls or charges levied pursuant to Section 43006 or from any other source other than assessments, and any such revenues may be pledged to the payment of revenue warrants. In the resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, the board may subject such revenues as it specifies to a lien or charge to secure the payment of the principal of and interest on the revenue warrants, but such warrants shall not be secured by any lien or charge upon any assessment.


text: Revenue warrants shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually or in part annually and in part semiannually, as the board may prescribe.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)


text: Revenue warrants shall mature at such time or times as the board may prescribe, but not more than five years from the date of issuance.


text: Revenue warrants may be made subject to redemption prior to their fixed maturity date upon such terms, conditions and notice, and at such times and prices, as the board may determine prior to the issuance of such warrants.


text: Revenue warrants may be sold at either public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the board may determine. Such warrants may be sold at less than their par or face value, but no revenue warrant may be sold at a price which would yield to the purchaser an average of more than 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually, according to standard tables of bond values.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 188.)


text: The board may determine the form and denomination of revenue warrants, the manner of their execution, their registration and exchange privileges and the place or places of their payment.


text: The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for special funds for the deposit and application of the proceeds of the warrants and for the deposit and application of revenues pledged to secure their payment. The board may provide for the establishment of a reserve fund from the proceeds of the revenue warrants or from revenues pledged to their payment. The board may appoint a fiscal agent to hold any or all such funds in trust for the holders of revenue warrants and for the district.


text: The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may covenant to operate and maintain the facilities producing the revenues pledged for the security of the revenue warrants, may covenant to fix, maintain and collect tolls, charges, rates or fees which will produce revenues sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the revenue warrants and to provide such additional sums for the further security of the revenue warrants as the resolution may prescribe, and may make such other covenants, with respect to insurance, investments of funds, accounting records, independent audits, events of default, limitations upon competitive facilities and any other matters relating to the revenue warrants and their security as the board may deem necessary, convenient or desirable in order better to secure the revenue warrants or to make them more marketable.


text: The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for paying the interest on the revenue warrants for a period of not more than one year out of the proceeds of the sale thereof.


text: Except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, the holder of any revenue warrant may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding require and compel the performance of any of the duties imposed upon the board, or upon any officer or employee of the district, in connection with the collection, deposit, investment, application or disbursement of any revenues pledged for the security of the revenue warrants, or in connection with the deposit, investment or disbursement of the proceeds received from the sale of the revenue warrants, or in connection with any covenants contained in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the revenue warrants. The enumeration of such rights and remedies does not, however, exclude the exercise or prosecution of any other rights or remedies available to the holders of revenue warrants.


text: Revenue warrants shall not be issued under this chapter by any district in any one fiscal year in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000).


text: Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 44953 and 44962, revenue warrants may be issued prior to August 1, 1978, pursuant to this chapter for a term not to exceed 10 years from the date of issuance and for an amount not in excess of four million dollars ($4,000,000) in any one fiscal year.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 188.)


text: Whenever in any district any assessment has been levied and assessed upon land and remains unpaid in whole or in part, and in the judgment and opinion of the board it is for the best interest of the district or the landowners therein to issue bonds for the purpose of obtaining money to pay the costs of the proposed project, the indebtedness of the district, or any other lawful charge, or when a petition signed by the holders of title to more than one-fourth in assessed value of the land requesting it is filed with the secretary, the board shall by order entered upon its records call a special election to be held in the district. At the special election the question shall be submitted to the holders of title to assessed land whether or not bonds of the district shall be issued in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment, or the part of the assessment remaining unpaid. The amount shall be entered by the board in its records and stated in the order calling the special election.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 95. Effective January 1, 1993.)

chapter: 1. In General

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text:
Notwithstanding Section 45100, whenever in any district (1) a report and recommendation as to a project, or a report as to a contract with the United States, has been adopted by the voters at an election held pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) of this division, (2) an assessment to finance the project or the contract has been levied and assessed and remains unpaid in whole or in part, and (3) in the judgment of the board it is for the best interest of the district or the landowners therein to issue bonds for the purpose of obtaining money to pay the costs of the project, all or any part of the outstanding principal of direct assessment warrants heretofore or hereafter issued pursuant to Section 46381 for said project, or charges pursuant to the contract, the board may, by a resolution adopted by a two-thirds vote of its members, authorize the issuance of bonds in an amount not exceeding the amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, without calling or holding any special election pursuant to Section 45100 or Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 45250) of this part.

This section shall apply to all districts, including any district in which a report and recommendation as to a project, or a report as to a contract with the United States, has been adopted at an election held at any time heretofore, and shall apply in the case of any assessment at any time heretofore or hereafter levied and assessed, if the assessment remains unpaid in whole or in part at the time of adoption of the resolution of the board authorizing the issuance of bonds.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 96. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: If the district’s voters have approved a project pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) and the project authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds for the purpose of carrying out the project, the board may, by a two-thirds vote of the board, adopt a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds pursuant to the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. The district may sell the bonds at public or private sale. The resolution adopted pursuant to this section shall constitute the resolution required pursuant to Section 54387 of the Government Code. The district’s voters approval of the project shall constitute “the votes of a majority of all the voters voting” as that term is used in Section 54386 of the Government Code and no further vote of the voters shall be required.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 96.5. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: The notice of a special bond election shall state the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued.

chapter: 2. Bond Election

article: 1. Notice

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text: Only holders of title to land which has been assessed as provided in this division shall be qualified to vote at the election.

article: 2. Election

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text: To the right of or below the question on the ballot, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets.

history: (History: Repealed and added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 303, Sec. 57. (AB 1512) Effective January 1, 2026.)

article: 2. Election


text: A list of the ballots cast shall be made by the board of election, containing the name of each voter who has voted at the election, and if the ballot was cast by proxy also the name of the person casting it, and the number of votes cast by each voter.

article: 2. Election


text: At the close of the polls the board of election shall at once proceed to canvass the votes and declare the result.

article: 2. Election


text: The board of election shall deliver a certificate showing the result and the number of votes cast for and against the issuing of the bonds to the county elections official of each county, and a duplicate to the board of directors.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 170. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 2. Election


text: The board of election shall deliver to the county elections official of each county all ballots cast at the election within that county and all documents and papers used at the election.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 171. Effective January 1, 2003.)

article: 2. Election


text: The county elections officials of the respective counties shall immediately upon receipt of the ballots, papers, and documents from the board of election certify to the board of directors at its office a statement of the result of the election held in each of the counties with a statement of the number of votes for the proposition and opposed to the proposition.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 303, Sec. 58. (AB 1512) Effective January 1, 2026.)

article: 2. Election


text: The board of directors shall certify in its minutes that the proposal to issue bonds has carried or has been defeated. The certificate shall state the vote cast throughout the entire district. A duplicate of the certificate shall be immediately transmitted to the department.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

article: 2. Election


text: Except as in this part specifically provided, the provisions of this division with reference to all matters pertaining to elections shall govern bond elections.

article: 2. Election


text: If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the issuance of bonds, or if a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds has been adopted and approved in accordance with Section 45102, the board shall cause bonds in the amount stated in the order calling the election or in such resolution, as the case may be, to be sold as herein provided and shall deliver the assessment list segregated as to affected counties to the treasurer.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 829.)

chapter: 3. Bond Issuance

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text: The treasurer shall place the proceeds of sale of any bonds sold to the credit of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 226.)


text: The board may divide the principal amount of any authorized issue of bonds into two or more series, and may fix different dates for the bonds of each series. When directed by resolution of the board, the treasurer shall sell the bonds or any series thereof for the best price obtainable, but in no event for less than 90 percent of the face value of the bonds and accrued interest.


text: Before making a sale of bonds, notice shall be given by the treasurer by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in the office county that he will sell a specified amount of bonds, and stating the day, hour, and place of sale, and asking sealed proposals for the purchase of any or all of the bonds.


text: At the time appointed, the treasurer shall open the bids and award the bonds to the highest responsible bidder.


text: The treasurer, upon written request of a majority of the directors, shall reject any or all bids.


text: Sale and delivery of bonds by the treasurer is conclusive evidence that the sale was made upon due authority and notice.


text: Upon a sale of any district bonds, the treasurer may accept in payment, in whole or in part, outstanding warrants of the district at face value plus accrued interest.


text: The bonds of any series of an authorized issue shall be equally and ratably secured with the bonds of any other series of such authorized issue.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 829.)


text: The bonds shall be in such denominations as the board may prescribe.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 36.)

chapter: 4. Bond Terms

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text: The bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the treasurer.


text: The bonds shall be numbered consecutively in order of their maturity. If the bonds are issued in two or more series, each series shall be lettered in alphabetical order, and the bonds of each series shall be numbered consecutively in order of their maturity within such series.


text: The bonds or any series thereof shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as may be prescribed by the board at the time of the issuance of the bonds at the office of the treasurer and at any other place within the United States which may be designated by the board, upon the presentation of the proper coupons.


text: Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds and shall bear the facsimile signature of the treasurer.


text: The principal of the bonds or any series thereof shall be made payable on such dates, in such years and at such places as the board may prescribe.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)


text: The bonds or any series thereof shall be payable within 40 years from their date, and not less than 10 percent of the aggregate face value of the bonds or any series thereof issued shall be payable within 15 years from their date.


text: The bonds shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.


text: The interest coupons shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.


text: When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1137.)


text: The board may determine to establish a bond reserve fund for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds. Such a bond reserve fund may be established from the premium, if any, received upon the sale of the bonds or from tolls or charges levied pursuant to Section 43006, or from both such sources. Except as otherwise provided by the board in the resolution determining to establish a bond reserve fund, any moneys deposited in such a fund shall be used solely for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds in the event that other available moneys of the district are insufficient therefor. When all of the principal of and interest on the bonds have been paid, the balance of the money remaining in the bond reserve fund may be applied to any lawful purpose of the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 56.)


text: If any district having authorized the issuance of any bonds shall issue additional bonds based on another assessment, the dates of maturity of the additional bonds or any series thereof shall be such that the latest maturity thereof shall not exceed 50 years from their date.

chapter: 5. Additional Bonds

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text: All provisions of this part relative to the original issue of bonds shall apply to any additional bonds.


text: A district may by resolution of its board adopted at or prior to the time of issuing any bonds then proposed to be issued, provide for the call and redemption prior to their fixed maturity of any of the bonds.

chapter: 6. Callable Bonds

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text: Bonds may be made subject to redemption prior to their fixed maturity at such times and prices, and upon such terms and conditions as the board may determine and set forth in the resolution.


text: Notice designating the bonds called for redemption shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the office county.


text: The first publication of the redemption notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for redemption.


text: If on the date fixed for redemption the district has provided funds available for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds called, interest on them ceases.


text: For the purpose of financing a district project or government contract which has been approved by the voters of the district, the board of directors may, by a two-thirds vote of its members, issue written obligations which may be denominated notes, certificates of indebtedness or warrants. The term “direct assessment warrants,” as used in this chapter, means such obligations, howsoever denominated.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 97. Effective January 1, 1993.)

chapter: 7. Direct Assessment Warrants

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text: Direct assessment warrants shall be signed by the president and secretary in face amount not exceeding in the aggregate the cost of the project or government contract, exclusive of interest and amounts paid prior to the issuance of these warrants on the assessment levied to pay for said district project or government contract.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 976.)

article: 1. Project and Government Contract Warrants


text: Direct assessment warrants shall be made payable in amounts and at the times corresponding substantially to the amounts and times of payment of the installments of the direct assessment.


text: Direct assessment warrants shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board at the time of sale thereof, not to exceed 7 percent per year, which interest may be made payable semiannually.


text: Coupons for the interest on these warrants may be attached to them.


text:
Direct assessment warrants may be made payable to any of the following:

(a) Bearer.

(b) Persons furnishing work, labor or material.

(c) The contractor if the work on the project is to be done under contract.


text: Direct assessment warrants may be sold by the district for not less than par at either public or private sale.


text: Any surplus funds and any money held by a district in a sinking or depreciation fund may in the discretion of its board be invested in direct assessment warrants of the district.


text: At any time before direct assessment warrants are issued, the amount of any assessment on any land, exclusive of interest and the 10 percent added for anticipated delinquencies, may be paid in money.

article: 2. Advance Payment of Assessments

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text: Land on which the amount of the assessment has been paid pursuant to Section 45920 shall not be subject to the annual installments of the assessments levied for the purposes of the project or contract, but it shall be and remain liable for any assessments levied for operation and for any supplemental or additional assessments levied.

article: 2. Advance Payment of Assessments


text: Any landowner who desires at any time to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any direct assessment may deliver to the district treasurer for cancellation warrants payable out of the assessment.

article: 2. Advance Payment of Assessments


text: The board may require warrants delivered to lessen or remove an assessment lien to be substantially of the average maturities of the issue of warrants.

article: 2. Advance Payment of Assessments


text: The treasurer shall notify the board of the amount of the principal and interest due and to become due on the warrants delivered for cancellation. The board shall thereupon cause the proper cancellation and proper record and credit to be made against the assessment on the land of the person delivering the warrants.

article: 2. Advance Payment of Assessments


text: All acts, proceedings, conclusions and findings of fact by a board of a district shall be conclusive except in an action or proceeding instituted within six months after the acts, proceedings, conclusions or findings were had or made.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 592.)

article: 3. Actions and Proceedings

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text: An action to determine the validity of any assessment or warrants may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

article: 3. Actions and Proceedings


text: No irregularity or omission not affecting the substantial rights of the landowners within a district shall affect the validity of any act done or proceeding taken in relation to the district.

article: 3. Actions and Proceedings


text: A preliminary assessment is an assessment levied by the board of an equal amount upon each acre of land in the district sufficient to pay all warrants issued by the department in accordance with this division, and to defray all other expenses as estimated by the board incurred and to be incurred for the general benefit of the district up to the time of the levy of assessments provided for in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 46150) of this part, including expenses incurred prior to the organization of the district but in the judgment of the board properly incurred for the general benefit of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 98. Effective January 1, 1993.)

chapter: 1. Preliminary Assessments

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text: At its first regular meeting, or within 90 days thereafter, the board shall levy a preliminary assessment.


text: The amounts required to be raised to pay warrants of the department and to pay expenses shall be separately stated in the resolution levying the preliminary assessment.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 99. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: In the event the first preliminary assessment is not sufficient, the board shall from time to time levy further preliminary assessments.


text: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the total of all preliminary assessments, exclusive of the amount assessed for the purpose of paying warrants of the department, shall not exceed fifty cents ($0.50) per acre.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 100. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: If after the total amount raised by all preliminary assessments shall have been expended or its expenditure authorized, that amount is found to be insufficient to meet all expenses of the district, the directors may, in the manner provided in this chapter, levy additional preliminary assessments up to an amount not in excess of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per acre.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 80.)


text: Before levying any additional preliminary assessment the board shall pass a resolution declaring its intention so to do, and in the resolution appoint a time not less than two weeks nor more than four weeks from the date of the resolution when the matter of levying the additional preliminary assessment will be considered in open meeting.


text: A copy of the resolution of intention shall be published once a week for at least two weeks before the time appointed by the board for the open meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in each affected county.


text: At the time appointed for the open meeting by the board, it shall consider the matter of levying the additional preliminary assessment and hear any objection. At or after the meeting, the board may levy the additional assessment, if in its judgment the levy is in the best interests of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 101. Effective January 1, 1993.)


text: Every preliminary assessment is a lien upon the land affected until the full amount of the assessment is paid. The lien is prior to all other liens, except state, county, and municipal taxes and assessments, or taxes levied or assessed by or under statutory authority. The preliminary assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 7 percent per year and shall be collected in the same manner, together with the same penalties for delinquencies, as other assessments provided for in this division. Interest commences to run 30 days after filing of the assessment roll with the county treasurer of an affected county.


text: If, after a project has been completed, the board determines that an additional project would be for the benefit of the entire district, the board may, in the manner provided in this chapter, levy a supplemental preliminary assessment up to an amount not in excess of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre. The approval of the department on an assessment levied under this section and Section 42752 shall not be required.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 2071.)


text: If a district project is adopted as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 42500) of Part 5 of this division, the board shall appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall be a civil engineer and one shall have a practical knowledge of irrigation.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 102. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 1. Commissioners

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text: No commissioner shall have any interest in any land in the district either directly or indirectly.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

chapter: 2. Original Assessments to Finance Projects

article: 1. Commissioners


text: Each commissioner before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested directly or indirectly in any land in the district and that he will perform the duties of commissioner to the best of his ability.

article: 1. Commissioners


text: The commissioners shall be paid as compensation for the services rendered by them the sum, or sums, as the board fixes, which is a part of the cost of the project.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 105. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 1. Commissioners


text: Compensation to the commissioners shall be paid out of the funds of the district, which may be included in any bond issue authorized for the purposes of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 106. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 1. Commissioners


text: The commissioners shall receive from the board a copy of the report with respect to the project adopted by the voters at the election held pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) of this division.

article: 1. Commissioners


text: In lieu of the appointment of the three commissioners as provided in Section 46150, the board by resolution may appoint a civil engineer to apportion the costs of the project or to reassess the costs thereof as provided by this chapter; provided, however, that if a protest is filed with the board within 10 days of the adoption of the resolution by the owners of 10 percent or more of the assessed value of the land in any division of the district, or by the owners of 2 percent or more of the assessed value of all of the land in the district, the resolution shall not be effective and the three commissioners shall be appointed as provided by Section 46150. The civil engineer may be an employee of the district. In the event of an appointment, the term “commissioners” as used in this chapter shall refer to that engineer. In all other respects the proceedings of this chapter shall remain the same.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 108. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 1. Commissioners


text: The commissioners appointed pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter shall assess the costs of the project, or in the event the board has divided the project into units of construction, the cost of the unit or units specified for immediate construction, upon the benefited land. In the event that the costs of the project are to be paid in part from the proceeds of a loan from the United States, the portion to be so paid may be separately assessed in the manner provided in Section 44031, and the portion of the costs of the project to be paid from other funds shall be assessed as provided in this chapter.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 181.)

article: 2. Apportionment of Costs

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text: The commissioners shall apportion the cost in accordance with the benefits that will accrue to each tract of land held in separate ownership by reason of the expenditures of the money and the completion of the project, or such units of it as have been specified for immediate construction. The assessment shall be payable in lawful money of the United States.

article: 2. Apportionment of Costs


text: If the project includes plans for the generation of electric power, the commissioners shall ascertain the total cost of all the properties which are necessary to be used in connection with the generation of electric power as set forth in the plan, and shall also ascertain what portion of the assessment of benefits to accrue to each tract consists of costs of the properties which are necessary to be so used.

article: 2. Apportionment of Costs


text: Where any tract of land consists of more than one section, the apportionment to that tract of land shall be made according to legal subdivisions or to other boundaries sufficient to identify the land in subdivisions not greater than one section in area. Any failure or defect in complying with this requirement shall not invalidate the apportionment or the assessment.

article: 2. Apportionment of Costs


text: If the district project as adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing at Section 42200) of this division, provides that all of the costs of the project are to be borne by certain designated lands within the district and there is on file with the board a written stipulation or agreement executed and acknowledged by the owners of all of such designated lands wherein the landowners consent to an apportionment of all costs of the project on their lands in a particular manner, then all of such costs shall be apportioned by the commissioners in accordance with such stipulation or agreement.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1136.)

article: 2. Apportionment of Costs


text:
The commissioners shall prepare and certify assessment rolls which shall contain:

(a) A description of each tract held in separate ownership by legal subdivisions, governmental surveys, or other boundaries sufficient to identify it. If any area composed of more than one tract held in separate ownership is not assessed because the land therein will not be benefited by the expenditure of the funds to be raised by the assessment, a description of the area as a whole without a description of each tract shall be sufficient.

(b) The number of acres in each tract.

(c) The name and address of the owner of each tract, if known, and if unknown, that fact. No mistake or error in the name of the owner or supposed owner of the property assessed, and no mistake in any other particular, shall render the assessment invalid.

(d) The rate per acre of the assessment upon each tract assessed, or if no assessment is made upon any tract or area composed of more than one tract, a statement of that fact.

(e) The rate per acre of the assessment upon each tract assessed for the costs of the properties that are necessary to be used in connection with the generating of electric power, or if no assessment of the costs is made upon any tract or area composed of more than one tract, a statement of that fact.

(f) The total amount of the assessment as computed.

(g) Any other statement which may be required by the board at the time of transmitting the plans and specifications and costs of the work for the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 3. Assessment Rolls

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text: The roll shall be separately made for each affected county.

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text:
When completed, the rolls shall be accompanied by the written report of the commissioners setting out with particularity all the following:

(a) The exact nature and quantum of the benefits assessed, apportioned, and allocated to each tract of land in the district, in respect to:

(1) The right in and to stored surplus waters, and

(2) The right to store water in the reservoirs of the district, and

(3) Any drainage or reclamation work connected with the tract, and

(4) A statement, if such be the case, that the costs are apportioned in accordance with a stipulation or agreement of landowners as provided for by Section 46179.

(b) The portion of the assessment, if any, attributable to the cost of the properties which are necessary to be used in connection with the generation of electric power.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1136.)

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: In the report of the commissioners, land embraced within a comprehensive area or a political subdivision of the State may be referred to generally as land lying within the area or subdivision without further description.

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: The commissioners shall transmit two copies of the rolls to the board. The board shall file one copy in its records and transmit to the county treasurer of each affected county that portion of the roll relating to land within the county.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 117. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: The board shall forthwith give notice of the filing of the assessment roll by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in each affected county, and shall state therein the time within which objections to the roll may be filed with the board, which shall be not less than 20 days after the completion of publication.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 2026.)

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: The objections to any assesment shall be in writing, verified, and filed with the secretary of the board, and shall set forth the grounds of the objection.

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: The verification shall be made by the affidavit of the objector or some other person familiar with the facts.

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: If no objections are filed with respect to a particular assessment roll, as provided in Sections 46206 and 46207, then upon the expiration of the time fixed by the board for the filing of objections the secretary of the board shall execute certificates in which he or she shall certify to the fact that no objections were so filed. The secretary of the board shall file one copy of the certificates with the county treasurer of each county in which lands appear on the assessment roll.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 118. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: Upon filing of the certificates of the secretary of the board as provided in Section 46209, the assessment roll and the assessments therein made shall be final and conclusive, and no action or defense shall ever be maintained attacking them in any respect, and the assessment roll shall be conclusive evidence before any court or tribunal that the assessment has been made and levied according to law.

article: 3. Assessment Rolls


text: In the event objections are filed with respect to a particular assessment roll, as provided in Sections 46206 and 46207, the department shall appoint two disinterested persons, who together with the president of the board constitute a board in the nature of a board of equalization which shall be known and designated as the “adjustment board” and whose functions shall be to consider and act upon objections presented as provided in this article to the assessment made by the district engineer. Each of the two appointed members of the board shall be paid as compensation for the services rendered by them the sum, or sums, as the department fixes. The president of the board shall be paid as compensation for his or her services rendered the sum, or sums, as the board may fix which shall not exceed the compensation fixed by the department. The compensation and expenses are a part of the cost of the project of the district for which the duties are performed.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 119. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board

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text: The adjustment board shall at once organize by the election from its members of a president and a secretary and shall appoint times and places not less than 30 days after the assessment rolls have been filed in the records of the board of directors when and where it will meet within each affected county for the purpose of hearing objections to the assessments.

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board


text: Notice of the hearing shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in each affected county.

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board


text: The adjustment board may postpone the hearings on objections to assessments from time to time.

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board


text: At the hearings, the adjustment board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment, and may modify, amend, or approve the assessment in any particular and may reapportion the whole or any part of it.

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board


text: No assessment shall be increased if the holder of title to land affected is known except after personal notice or notice by registered mail given to the holder of title by depositing the notice at least two weeks before the hearing in the postoffice at the place in which the office of the district is located, in a sealed postpaid envelope addressed to each of the holders of title at his last known place of residence or business. If the last known place of residence or business of the holder of title is unknown, the notice may be sent to the county seat of the county in which any portion of his land is situated. If the holder of title is unknown, the notice may be given by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in the county in which his assessed land is located. No assessment shall be increased except upon a hearing of objections made.

article: 4. Hearings Before Adjustment Board


text: After hearing of objections, the adjustment board shall make an order approving the assessment as finally fixed or modified. The apportionment and determination of the adjustment board shall be final and conclusive, and no action or defense shall ever be maintained attacking them in any respect.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 120. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 5. Approval of Assessment Roll

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text: Two copies of the assessment roll as finally fixed and approved by the adjustment board shall be certified by the secretary of the adjustment board and transmitted to the board. The board shall file one copy in its records and shall immediately transmit to the county treasurer of each affected county that portion of the roll relating to land in that county, together with a copy of the order of approval of the assessment roll by the adjustment board.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 121. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 5. Approval of Assessment Roll


text: The assessment roll as approved by the adjustment board shall be conclusive evidence before any court or tribunal that the assessment has been made and levied according to law.

article: 5. Approval of Assessment Roll


text: When the secretary of the board files the certificates as provided for by Section 46209, or if objections are filed, when the board files with the county treasurer of an affected county the assessment roll as finally approved by the adjustment board, the charges assessed thereby upon the several tracts of land in the county shall constitute a lien thereon which is prior to all other liens except state, county, and municipal taxes, and assessments or taxes levied or assessed by or under statutory authority. The filing in either case imparts notice to all persons.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 2026.)

article: 6. Lien of Assessment

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text: Where bonds of a district have been issued upon any assessment, no act or conduct on the part of the board or any officer shall invalidate the assessment after it has become a lien.

article: 6. Lien of Assessment


text: Upon adoption of a resolution by the board to construct additional units pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 42225), Chapter 1, Part 5 of this division, the same proceedings for levying, approving, and collecting an assessment to meet the cost of the unit or units to be constructed shall be had as provided in this chapter for an assessment to meet the cost of the unit or units first constructed.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 122. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 7. Additional Units of Project

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text: When any tract of land upon which any assessment provided for by this division has been levied is subdivided into smaller parcels the board shall, upon its own motion or upon written application therefor signed by all of the landowners of record within the subdivided tract, reapportion the assessment upon such tract in such manner as will, in the judgment of the board, charge each of the smaller parcels with a just portion of the assessment. Such reapportionment shall be entered in the minutes of the board and, upon such entry, shall then become final. If an application for reapportionment is signed by less than all of the landowners within the subdivided tract, or if reapportionment is upon motion of the board, the board may make such reapportionment only after a hearing for which notice to all persons interested shall have been given in the manner prescribed by the board.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments

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text: Supplementary assessment rolls showing the reapportionments shall be made separately for land lying within different counties.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments


text: The board shall file with the treasurer of each county in which any portion of the tract so subdivided is situated, the supplementary assessment roll relating to the land in that county.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 123.5. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments


text: After the supplementary assessment rolls have been filed the assessment is an assessment upon each of the smaller parcels in accordance with the reapportionment and not an assessment upon the tract as a whole.

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments


text: The supplementary assessment rolls are a part of and amendatory of the assessment rolls theretofore filed for all purposes.

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments


text: The reapportionment shall in nowise affect the assessment except as to the land included in the supplementary assessment rolls.

article: 8. Reapportionment of Assessments


text: At any time after the commissioners have assessed the cost of the project upon the benefited land within the district and the costs of the portion of the project used for the generation of electric energy, the board may direct the commissioners to reassess the costs of the project upon the benefited land. At the expiration of five years after the commissioners have originally assessed the cost of the project upon the benefited land within the district and the costs of the portion of the project used for the generation of electric energy, and thereafter at any time not less than five years after the next previous reassessment, the board, upon petition of holders of title to 10 percent of the land, shall direct the commissioners to reassess the costs of the project upon the benefited land.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 124. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 9. Reassessment of Cost

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text: The reassessment of costs of the project shall be made in the same manner as provided in this chapter for the original assessment of costs.

article: 9. Reassessment of Cost


text: At any time after a district project is adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) of this division, and before the original assessment to finance the project has become a lien, as provided in Section 46280, the board may levy one or more interim project assessments pursuant to this part for the purpose of paying costs of the project.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 181.)

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments

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text: Each interim project assessment shall be levied in an equal amount upon each acre of land in the district. The total amount of all interim project assessments for any district project shall not exceed five dollars ($5) per acre.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 105.)

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: The board may by resolution levy an interim project assessment, if in its judgment the levy is in the best interests of the district.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 125. Effective January 1, 1993.)

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: Every interim project assessment is a lien upon the land affected until the full amount of the assessment is paid. The lien is prior to all other liens, except state, county and municipal taxes and assessments, or taxes levied or assessed by or under statutory authority. The interim project assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 7 percent per year and shall be collected in the same manner, together with the same penalties for delinquencies, as other assessments provided for in this division. Interest commences to run 30 days after filing of the assessment roll with the county treasurer of an affected county.

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: The amount of any interim project assessment assessed against any tract of land in the district shall be credited against the original assessment to finance the project thereafter levied against said tract, and the amount of said original assessment to be collected shall be reduced accordingly.

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: If the amount of the interim project assessment or assessments credited with respect to any tract of land pursuant to Section 46379 exceeds the amount of the original assessment to finance the project with respect to said tract, said excess shall be credited against said interim project assessment or assessments, which, to that extent, shall cease to be a lien with respect to said tract. If the amount theretofore collected by the district on the interim project assessment or assessments with respect to any tract of land exceeds the amount of the original assessment with respect to said tract, such excess shall be a claim against and debt of the district, and the district shall issue a warrant in the amount of said excess to the then holder of title to said tract.

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: A district may issue direct assessment warrants payable from the proceeds of an interim project assessment pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 45900) of Part 8 of this division, but such warrants shall be made payable not more than five years from the date of issuance and may be made subject to call or redemption prior to their stated maturity date or dates at such premium, if any, as the board may determine, and the aggregate face amount thereof shall not exceed seventy-five percent (75%) of the amount of the interim project assessment from which such warrants are payable, exclusive of interest and amounts paid prior to the issuance of such warrants on said interim project assessment.

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: If there are no obligations outstanding which are secured by an interim project assessment, the board may, at any time and without notice or hearing, order that the uncalled balance of such interim project assessment be canceled and that the amount of the credit against the original assessment represented by such uncalled balance of said interim project assessment be annulled for each tract of land in the district. In such event, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 46379, the amount of said original assessment to be collected from each tract of land in the district shall be increased by the amount of the credit that was so annulled; provided, however, said amount shall be decreased by the amount of any payment made on the uncalled balance of said interim project assessment. Interest due on the recomputed collectible amount of said original assessment shall be computed as provided in Section 46671 or 47303 as the case may be.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

article: 10. Interim Project Assessments


text: The assessment list of each county shall remain open for payment in the office of the county treasurer of the affected counties for a period of 30 days and shall continue to remain open thereafter until such time, if ever, as the board makes an order calling a special election for the issuance of bonds to be secured by the assessment or until such time as the board files with the county treasurer a resolution, adopted and approved in accordance with Section 45102, authorizing the issuance of bonds to be secured by the assessment. If the result of the election, if any is called, is that the proposal to issue bonds is defeated, or if no bonds are issued within six months after such a resolution has been so filed, the assessment list shall again become open.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1607.)

chapter: 3. Payment of Assessments

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text: During the time the assessment lists are open any person may pay to the county treasurer in lawful money of the United States or in warrants of the district all or any part of the charge assessed against any tract of land.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 821.)


text: The county treasurer of any affected county, during the time for the collection of the assessments of the district, may require the board to provide and pay for such additional help as may be required to care for the matters relating to the collection of the assessments of the district.

chapter: 4. Additional Help for County Treasurer

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text: At the end of 30 days, the county treasurer shall make return to the board of all assessments paid.

chapter: 5. Collection of Original Assessments

article: 1. In General

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text: All unpaid assessments bear interest at the rate of 8 percent per year. Interest commences to run 30 days after the assessment list is filed with the county treasurer.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 830.)

article: 1. In General


text: All unpaid assessments and accrued interest shall be collected by the county treasurers when and as called. The county treasurers shall hold the money collected to the credit of the district.

article: 1. In General


text: Unless bonds have been authorized as provided in this division, all payments of assessments shall be made in such amounts or installments and at such times as the board from time to time in its discretion may direct by order entered in its minutes.

article: 1. In General


text: Except as otherwise provided in Section 46675, in the event the cost of any unit is less than the funds collected therefor, the excess shall be held and used for the benefit of such unit only and shall be applied to the bond fund of such unit, and if there is no bond fund, the excess shall be applied to the operation of such unit.

article: 1. In General


text: The board, pursuant to a resolution entered in its minutes, may distribute, among the landowners of the district, any funds in the treasury belonging to the district which were collected on an assessment on which no bonds are outstanding (or collected by way of interest or penalties on the assessment or by the rental, sale or redemption of delinquent land under the assessment) and which appear to the board to be greater than required to meet all obligations incurred or to be incurred for the purposes for which the assessment was levied, such distribution to the landowners to be made in the proportion that they were assessed on such assessment.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 821.)

article: 1. In General


text:
Upon making any order fixing and calling an installment or amount, the secretary shall also enter in the minutes of the board, and certify to each county treasurer for signature and mailing or publication in the affected counties, a notice in substantially the following form:

(Name) water storage district. (Location of the principal place of business.) Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the board of directors held on ____ an installment of ____ percent of assessment number ____ was ordered paid within 60 days from the date thereof to the respective county treasurers of the counties wherein lands of such district are situate. Any installment which shall remain unpaid on the (day fixed) will be delinquent, together with the accrued interest thereon, with 10 percent of such installment and interest added as penalty.

For any installment which remains unpaid after the date it becomes delinquent, the following procedure shall apply:

(a) Unless the assessments, penalties, and interest delinquent are paid by the date stated in a notice of sale, the delinquent property shall, on that date, be sold to the highest bidder for nonpayment of the delinquent assessments, penalties, and interest.

(b) Subsequent to the sale of the delinquent property to the highest bidder, the property may be redeemed by payment of the amount specified in Section 46786 of the Water Code and, if applicable, Section 46788.3 of the Water Code.

(c) The name, address, and telephone number of the official who will furnish all information concerning redemption is _______.

(d) After three years have elapsed from the date of sale of the delinquent property to the highest bidder, the right of redemption may be terminated upon execution and delivery to the district of a deed pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 46785) of Chapter 5 of Part 9 of Division 14 of the Water Code.(Signed)Treasurer of _______ County.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 1. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 2. Notice of Time for Payment

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text: The notice shall be sent through the mail, addressed to each holder of title to land at the address shown on the county assessment roll, together with a statement showing the amount due for the applicable parcel or parcels. The notice shall also be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in each affected county.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 2. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 2. Notice of Time for Payment


text: If any installment remains unpaid at the expiration of 60 days from the date of the order, it becomes delinquent, together with the accrued interest thereon, and a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of the installment and interest shall be added and collected for the use of the district.

article: 3. Penalty for Delinquency

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text: Immediately after the installment has become delinquent, the county treasurer shall prepare and publish once a week for two consecutive weeks in each affected county in one notice a list of all delinquencies in the county.

article: 4. Notice of Sale of Property

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text:
The notice shall contain all the following:

(a) A description of the property assessed.

(b) The name of the person to whom it is assessed or a statement that it is assessed to unknown owners if such is the fact.

(c) The amount then due on the property.

(d) A notice that the property assessed will be sold on the date therein stated in front of the county courthouse to pay the amount then due on the property.

article: 4. Notice of Sale of Property


text: The date of the sale of assessed property shall not be less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice of sale.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment

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text: At the time stated in the notice, or such other time to which the sale may have been postponed, the county treasurer shall sell the property to the highest bidder for lawful money of the United States.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: Out of the proceeds of sale, the county treasurer shall deposit the amount due on the property as shown in the notice in the proper fund of the district.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: The county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the property any surplus remaining after the deposit to the credit of the district, after first deducting any expense of sale.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board may direct the county treasurer to postpone the sale from time to time, for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days at one time, by a written notice posted at the place of sale.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board of directors may, by resolution filed with the county treasurer of the affected county on or before the time for the sale, order the treasurer to sell all the property to the district for the amount due. Upon receipt of the resolution the treasurer shall, at the time and place of the sale, post a notice that no sale will be held in front of the county courthouse and that the property is sold to the district in accordance with the terms of the resolution.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: Upon filing of a resolution pursuant to Section 46759.5 or if no bid is made for the property equal to the amount due thereon, the property shall be sold to the district for the amount due.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the purchaser, and this certificate of sale shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder.

article: 5. Sale for Nonpayment


text: Any person interested in property sold for nonpayment of assessments may redeem it at any time within three years after the date of the sale even though the district may be in process of dissolution or may have already been dissolved.

article: 6. Redemption

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text: The redemptioner shall pay to the county treasurer the amount for which the property was sold, interest on the sum at the rate of 9 percent per year from the date of the sale (but not less than three-fourths of 1 percent for any portion of a month), recorder’s fees in recording the certificate of sale and certificate of redemption, and costs of publication required by Section 46730. The amount shall be credited to the proper fund of the district or paid to the person holding the certificate of sale to the property sought to be redeemed.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 3. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: If no redemption is made within three years from the date of sale, the purchaser or the district, if the property shall have been sold to the district, or the assignees or transferees of the district, shall be entitled to a deed executed by the county treasurer even though the district may be in the process of dissolution or may have already been dissolved, after having made demand upon the county treasurer as required by Section 46788.1 and after the county treasurer has given the notice required by Section 46788.1. The right of redemption shall terminate upon recording of the deed to the property.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 5. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 6. Redemption


text:
After receiving a demand for a deed pursuant to Section 46788, and not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days before delivery of a deed pursuant to that demand, the county treasurer shall publish once a week for two consecutive weeks in each affected county a notice which shall contain all of the following:

(a) The date of the notice.

(b) A statement that as of a stated date, three years or more will have elapsed since the property or properties described in the notice were sold pursuant to this chapter.

(c) A statement that on the stated date, the purchaser demanded delivery of a deed to the property.

(d) A statement that unless sooner redeemed, a deed to the property will be delivered to the purchaser.

(e) The date and time at which the deed will be executed and delivered.

(f) A statement that if the deed is executed and delivered, the right of redemption will terminate.

(g) The name, address, and telephone number of the official who will furnish all information concerning redemption.

(h) The fiscal year or years for which the delinquent assessments were levied.

(i) A description of the property.

(j) The amount required to redeem, which shall include the amount specified in Section 46788.3.

(k) The name of the assessee on the current assessment book of the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 6. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: After the first publication of the notice required by Section 46788.1, and not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days before the date specified in that notice for the delivery of a deed, the county treasurer, or the district, if it was the purchaser, shall send by certified mail to each of the parties of interest, as specified in this section, at his or her last known address, a copy of the notice published pursuant to Section 46788.1. The county treasurer, or the district, if it was the purchaser, shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain the names and addresses of each of the parties of interest. For the purposes of this section, a “party of interest” is the holder of any interest in the delinquent property which would be terminated by execution and delivery of a deed.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 7. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 6. Redemption


text:
Upon first publication of the notice required by Section 46788.1, there shall be added to the amount to redeem as provided in Section 46786 the sum of the following:

(a) The cost of publication of the notice required by Section 46788.1.

(b) The cost of ascertaining the parties of interest, including the cost of any title reports.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 793, Sec. 8. Effective September 18, 1987.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: The effect of the deed shall be to convey the property free and clear of all liens and encumbrances except state, county, and municipal taxes, assessments or taxes levied or assessed by or under statutory authority, and any district assessment or portion thereof remaining unpaid at the date of the sale, each installment of which may be called and collected as provided in this division.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: In any district having no outstanding bonds issued prior to September 15, 1935, any parcel of land heretofore deeded to the district by the county treasurer, as provided in this division, the title to which still remains in the district, and any parcel of land which is hereafter deeded to the district by the county treasurer may, without notice, be sold and conveyed by the board at private sale to the owner of record at the date of the treasurer’s deed to the district or to the owner’s successor in interest, upon his paying to the district the amount for which the same was struck off to the district with interest thereon at the rate of 7 percent per year from the date of the delinquent sale, together with any call that has been made upon any prior or subsequent assessment.

article: 6. Redemption


text: The deed executed by the district shall convey the property free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, except as provided in this article for a deed by the county treasurer to the district.

article: 6. Redemption


text: The district may sell property deeded to it for nonpayment of assessments at any time at a public auction after notice given for the same period and in the same manner as provided in Article 4 of this chapter for sale of delinquent assessments. The district shall have the right to reject any or all bids.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: The deed executed by the district shall convey the property free from all encumbrances except as provided in this article for a deed by the county treasurer to the district.

article: 6. Redemption


text: The district may also dispose of property acquired by it for nonpayment of assessments at a private sale, without any notice, when the district is in the process of dissolution and such sale is deemed for the best interests of the district. The consideration received from such sale may be past or present consideration, but shall not be less than the sum for which the property was sold to the district with interest at 7 percent per year.

article: 6. Redemption


text: In any case where a district in the process of dissolution has sold and transferred any of its property at such a private sale prior to August 14, 1931, for valuable consideration, such sale and transfer is hereby validated and approved.

article: 6. Redemption


text: Any action or proceeding, based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of a deed executed by the county treasurer to the district or based on the alleged ineffectiveness of the deed to convey the absolute title to the property described in it, may be commenced only within 180 days after the recordation of the deed.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 779, Sec. 11. Effective October 10, 1999.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: An action or proceeding based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any agreement of sale, deed, lease, or option executed by a district in connection with land deeded to it by the county treasurer or based on the alleged ineffectiveness of the instrument to convey or affect the title to the land described in it may be commenced only within 180 days after the execution of the instrument by the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 779, Sec. 12. Effective October 10, 1999.)

article: 6. Redemption


text: “Supplementary assessment”, as used in this chapter, means an assessment, in addition to the original assessment, for the purpose of raising an additional sum for the district project or any unit or combination of units of the project.

article: 1. Levy

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text: If the original assessment for the project or any unit or combination of units thereof is insufficient to provide for the completion of the project or of a unit or combination of units, the board shall levy and collect supplementary assessments to cover the estimated cost of completion.

chapter: 6. Supplementary Assessments for Completion of Project

article: 1. Levy


text: Each supplementary assessment shall be apportioned among the different tracts of land in the proportion which the amounts assessed against the tracts by the original assessment or assessments bear to one another.

article: 1. Levy


text: The supplementary assessment shall be made by order entered in the minutes of the board stating the total amount necessary to be raised and fixing the rate of assessment, which shall be the percentage of the total amount assessed by the original assessment or assessments required to produce the amount necessary to be raised.

article: 1. Levy


text:
Upon making the assessment order, the board shall prepare a supplementary assessment roll showing all the following:

(a) A description of each tract assessed.

(b) The amount assessed against each tract by the original assessment or assessments.

(c) The rate of assessment.

(d) The exact amount assessed against each tract by the supplementary assessment.

article: 1. Levy


text: Upon completion of the supplementary assessment roll, the board shall file with the county treasurer of each affected county a copy of so much of the assessment roll as pertains to land within that county.

article: 1. Levy


text: Upon the filing of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, the supplementary assessment constitutes a lien upon each tract shown to be assessed by the copy of the assessment roll so filed for the amount assessed against it. The lien is of the same character and has the same incidents as the lien of the original assessment or assessments.

article: 1. Levy


text: At any time within 60 days from the filing of the copy of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, it may be amended by the board to correct errors, either on its own initiative or at the instance of any landowner affected. The amendment shall be made by endorsement upon the assessment roll by the county treasurer upon the certification of the error to him by the board.

article: 1. Levy


text: The supplementary assessment shall be collected in the manner provided for the collection of original assessments, and the board may call the assessment as a whole or in installments from time to time.

article: 2. Collection

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text: The board may determine upon the acquisition of property or the construction of work not contemplated in the report and recommendation, with accompanying plans and specifications, originally adopted.

article: 3. Additional Property or Work

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text: The same proceedings for the preparation and adoption or rejection of the report and recommendation as to the acquisition of additional property or construction of additional work, and in case of the adoption of the report and recommendation, the levying and collection of the assessments to meet the cost, shall be taken in connection with the property and work to be acquired or constructed as provided in this division for the acquisition or construction of the property or work contemplated by the original project.

article: 3. Additional Property or Work


text: “Supplementary assessment” as used in this chapter means an assessment, in addition to the original assessment, for the purpose of raising an additional sum for the operation of the district works or for the conduct and management of the district or its works.

history: (History: Added by Stats, 1951, Ch. 391.)

article: 1. Report and Hearing

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text:
Whenever after completion of the works of a district in whole or in part it becomes necessary in the opinion of its board to raise any sum for the operation of its works or for the conduct and management of the district or its works, the board shall prepare and adopt a report showing all the following:

(a) The stage to which the works have been completed and paid for.

(b) The sums that will be required for the operation of the works or for the conduct or management of the district or its works.

(c) Any plans and specifications for any work to be done.

(d) An estimate of the aggregate cost of the proposed work.

chapter: 7. Supplementary Assessments for Maintenance

article: 1. Report and Hearing


text:
The board shall file with the secretary a copy of the report and the plans and specifications, and a notice of the filing of the report stating all the following:

(a) The purpose of the report.

(b) Where the report may be inspected by any person interested.

(c) The time within which protests against the adoption of the report and the levying of any assesment thereunder may be filed.

(d) The time and place when a hearing on any protests will be had.

article: 1. Report and Hearing


text: The hearings shall be public, and held at the ordinary place of business of the board.

article: 1. Report and Hearing


text: At the hearing all protestants shall be permitted to appear in person or by attorney and present their objections to the report.

article: 1. Report and Hearing


text:
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board may either:

(a) Adopt the report.

(b) Modify the report.

(c) Cause a new report to be made to be again set for hearing as in the first instance.

(d) Abandon, either in whole or in part, the levying of any assessment pursuant to the report.

(e) Determine that the assessment is necessary and make an order of supplementary assessment.

article: 1. Report and Hearing


text: The supplementary assessment shall be apportioned among the respective tracts of land in the proportions which the total amounts assessed against the tracts by the original and all subsequent assessments for construction purposes bear to one another.

article: 2. Levy

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text: The order making the supplementary assessment shall be entered in the minutes of the board, shall state the total amount necessary to be raised, and shall fix the rate of assessment, which shall be the percentage of the total amount assessed by the original and all subsequent assessments for construction purposes which is required to produce the amount necessary to be raised.

article: 2. Levy


text:
Upon making the assessment order, the board shall prepare a supplementary assessment roll showing all the following:

(a) A description of each tract assessed.

(b) The total of assessments against each tract for construction purposes.

(c) The rate of assessment.

(d) The exact amount assessed against each tract by the supplementary assessment.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 714, Sec. 461.)

article: 2. Levy


text: Upon the completion of the supplementary assessment roll, the board shall file with the county treasurer of each county in which is situated land subject to the assessment, a copy of so much of the assessment roll as pertains to land within that county.

article: 2. Levy


text: The supplementary assessment is a lien upon each tract shown to be assessed by the copy of the assessment roll filed with the county treasurer for the amount assessed against it. The lien is of the same character and has the same incidents as the lien of an original assessment for purposes of construction.

article: 2. Levy


text: At any time within 60 days from the filing of the copy of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, it may be amended by the board to correct errors either on its own initiative or at the instance of any land owner affected. The amendment shall be made by endorsement upon the assessment roll by the county treasurer upon the certification of the error to him by the board.

article: 2. Levy


text: The supplementary assessment shall be collected in the manner provided in this division for the collection of original assessments and the board may call the same as a whole or in installments from time to time.

article: 3. Collection

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text: The report of the commissioners allocating or spreading the original assessment levied for construction purposes and all assessment rolls for the original assessment or for supplementary assessments for construction purposes shall continue in force as the basis for allocating and spreading assessments for operation of the works of the project, or for the management and conduct of the works or of the district.

article: 3. Collection


text: All provisions of this division with respect to the levy and collection of assessments shall, so far as appropriate, be applicable to supplementary assessments.

article: 3. Collection


text: For the purpose of the care, operation, management, or improvement of such portions of the project as are in use, including salaries of officers and employees, and all other operating expenses, the board may in lieu (either in part or in whole) of levying assessments as in this chapter provided for, fix rates of tolls and charges for irrigation or available irrigation and other services rendered by the district, including the use of ground water, and collect the same from all persons receiving the benefit of the irrigation or other services. The tolls and charges shall be proportional as nearly as possible to the service rendered.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 260.)

article: 4. Charges

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text: Whenever any tolls or charges for the use of the water or for other services rendered by the district provided for by this division have been fixed by the board, they may be made payable in advance.

article: 4. Charges


text: In case any tolls or charges remain unpaid for a period of 30 days after they become payable, they become delinquent and a penalty of 10 percent shall be added thereto, and they bear interest at the rate of 12 percent per year.

article: 4. Charges


text:
After any toll or charge becomes delinquent, the board may file in the office of the county recorder of the county in which is situated the land as to which such tolls or charges are delinquent, a list showing:

(a) The names of the owners of the land, if known, and if not known, a statement of that fact.

(b) A description of the land sufficient for identification.

(c) The amounts of tolls and charges which are delinquent.

Upon the filing of the list, the tolls and charges so listed, together with the penalties and interest thereon, shall become a lien upon the land as to which such tolls and charges are delinquent in the same manner and of the same character as the lien of a district assessment.

article: 4. Charges


text: The board may, at any time after any toll or charge provided for in this division has become delinquent, direct that proceedings be not taken to enforce the lien therefor, and in place of such proceedings bring suit in the name of the district against the delinquent to enforce collection of the delinquent toll or charge.

article: 4. Charges


text: In the suit the district may recover the amount of the toll or charge, together with penalties and interest, and costs of suit.

article: 4. Charges


text: The lien of any unpaid assessment upon which bonds have been issued continues until all the bonds have been paid in full.

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments

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text: If for any reason any part of the principal or interest of the bonds remains unpaid after enforcement of the assessment as provided in this division, the board shall order an additional or supplemental assessment to be made as provided in this division sufficient to pay the unpaid principal and interest.

chapter: 8. Assessments Upon Which Bonds Have Been Issued

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments


text: The additional or supplemental assessment shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as the original assessment.

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments


text: Where bonds of the district have been authorized to be issued on the assessments, all unpaid assessments bear interest at the rate of 7 percent per year from the date of the bonds issued thereon until the bonds have been fully paid and discharged.

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments


text: The interest due at any time on unpaid assessments may be called without calling any installment of the assessment.

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments


text: The word installment as used in this chapter shall be construed as applying to interest as well as to principal, as the case may be.

article: 1. Lien and Additional Assessments