SECTIONS 6010-6014 - California Statutes

HARBORS AND NAVIGATION CODE

SECTION 6010-6014

6010. A county or portion of a county or city or portion of a city
or more than one city with or without a portion of the unincorporated
territory of a county, the exterior boundary of which includes a
harbor, may be formed into a harbor district for the improvement or
development of the harbor upon proceedings being taken pursuant to
this part.

6011. Whenever fifty or more persons in any area which may be
formed into a district pursuant to this part, desire the formation of
a district for the improvement or development of a harbor, they may
sign and present to the board of supervisors of the county in which
the harbor is situated, a petition in writing.

6012. The petition shall contain:
(a) The name of the proposed district.
(b) The official name or names by which the harbor is commonly
known.
(c) The exterior boundaries of the proposed district which shall
include the whole or a portion of the harbor proposed to be improved
or developed and which may include any of the following alternatives:
(1) All or a portion of a county.
(2) All or a portion of a city.
(3) All of one or more cities.
(4) All of one or more cities and unincorporated territory
situated in any county.
(d) A general description of the improvement and development work
proposed to be done in the harbor, which work may include the
dredging of channels, shipways, berths, anchorage places and turning
basins, the construction of jetties, breakwaters, bulkheads,
seawalls, wharves, ferry slips, warehouses, roads and spur tracks or
belt line railways, together with any other work necessary for the
development and improvement of the harbor.
(e) A request that the territory included within such boundaries
be formed into a district for the improvement and development of the
harbor.

6013. Each signer of the petition shall be a registered voter,
resident and freeholder within the proposed district.

6014. The petition shall be published for a least two weeks
preceding the hearing thereon in a newspaper of general circulation
printed in the proposed district, if there is such a newspaper so
printed. If not, publication shall be so made in a newspaper
published in the county.
With the petition there shall be published a notice signed by not
exceeding three of the petitioners, setting forth the day, hour and
place at which the petition will be presented to the board of
supervisors of the county for hearing, which date shall not be less
than twenty nor more than forty days from the first publication. All
persons interested may appear at that time and place before the board
of supervisors and be heard.