SECTIONS 27251-27259 - California Statutes

PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE

SECTION 27251-27259

27251. Any territory contained within a district not being served
by any transit facilities of the district and not included within the
boundaries of any incorporated city and not benefited in any manner
by the district or by its continued inclusion therein may be excluded
therefrom by order of the board upon the verified petition of the
owners in fee of lands whose assessed value with improvements is in
excess of one-half of the assessed value of all the lands with
improvements held in private ownership in the territory sought to be
excluded.

27252. The petition shall describe the territory sought to be
excluded and shall set forth that the territory is not benefited in
any manner by the district or by its continued inclusion therein, and
shall pray that the territory be excluded from the district.

27253. The petition shall be filed with the secretary of the
district and shall be accompanied by a deposit with the secretary of
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) to meet the expenses of
advertising and other costs incident to the proceedings for the
exclusion of the territory, including the cost of recording a
certified copy of the order provided for in this chapter. Any
unconsumed balance of the deposit shall be returned to the
petitioners.

27254. Upon the filing of the petition the secretary shall cause it
to be set for hearing at a regular or adjourned regular meeting of
the board and shall cause a notice of the filing thereof to be
published. The notice shall also state the date of the filing of the
petition and that it will come on for hearing before the board and
shall state the time and place of the hearing. The time fixed for
hearing shall not be less than 30 days from the date of the first
publication of the notice. The property to be excluded may or may not
be specifically described in the notice, but if not described the
notice shall refer to the petition on file with the secretary for a
particular description of the property sought to be excluded.

27255. Any landowner or taxpayer within the district may appear at
the hearing either in behalf of or in opposition to the granting of
the petition.

27256. The petition shall come on for hearing before the board at
the time and place specified in the notice of hearing.

27257. If upon the hearing the board determines that it is for the
best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the
petition or some portion thereof be excluded from the district, or if
it appears that the lands or some portion thereof will not be
benefited by their continued inclusion in this district, then the
board shall make an order that the lands, or such portion thereof as
the board may determine, be excluded from the district, describing
specifically the lands so excluded.

27258. A copy of the order of exclusion certified by the secretary
of the district shall be recorded in the office of the county
recorder of the county in which the lands are situated. The record of
the certified copy is prima facie evidence of the exclusion from the
district of the lands purporting to be excluded thereby.

27259. From and after the making of the order of exclusion and the
record thereof the lands excluded are no longer included in the
district. The order of exclusion does not invalidate in any manner
any taxes or assessments theretofore levied or assessed against the
lands excluded nor relieve the property excluded from any outstanding
bonds which are a lien thereon at the time of exclusion, nor from
any taxes to pay the principal or interest thereof.