SECTIONS 20790-20793 - California Statutes

PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE

SECTION 20790-20793

20790. The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by
sewer maintenance districts as provided for in the Sewer Maintenance
District Act pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4860) of
Part 3 of Division 5 of the Health and Safety Code.

20791. "Maintenance of sewers" as used in this chapter includes the
extension and enlargement of sewers, within a district.

20793. The district may contract with the federal government of the
United States or any branch thereof, or with any county, city and
county, municipal corporation, district or other public corporation
or with any person, firm or corporation, for the joint acquisition or
construction or use of any sewer or sewers or other works or
facilities for the handling, treatment, or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste from the district and such other area as may be
designated in said contract, when, in the judgment of the legislative
body of said district, it is for the best interests of the district
so to do. Any such contract may provide for the construction and
maintenance of such sewer or sewers, or such other works or
facilities, and for the payment by or for the parties thereto of such
proportionate part of the cost of the acquisition, construction or
maintenance of such sewer or sewers or other works or facilities as
may be stated in said contract, the payments to be made at such times
and in such amounts as may be provided by said contract. Any such
contract may provide for the joint use of any sewer or sewers, works
or facilities for the handling, treatment or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon
by the parties thereto, and for the flowage, treatment or disposal
of sewage or industrial waste from such area for each of the parties
thereto as may be described in the contract.
Any district which has acquired or constructed or which proposes
to acquire or construct, any sewer or sewers, or works or other
facilities for the handling, treatment or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste, may contract with the federal government of the
United States or any branch thereof, or with any county, city and
county, municipal corporation, district or other public corporation
or with any person, firm or corporation for the use of any such sewer
or sewers, works or facilities by any such county, city and county,
municipal corporation, district or other public corporation, or for
the flowage, treatment or disposal of sewage or industrial waste from
any area designated by such person, firm or corporation so
contracting, upon such terms and conditions as may be provided in
said contract.