SECTIONS 19320-19328 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 19320-19328

19320. At any time after the establishment of two or more districts
in any county, the board of supervisors may determine that any two
or more of such districts which contain similar type lighting
systems, whether or not they are contiguous, should be consolidated.

19321. The board shall fix a time and place for hearing the matter
of consolidation of the districts and shall direct its clerk to
publish a notice once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper
or newspapers circulated in each of the districts which it proposes
to consolidate, and which the board deems most likely to give notice
to the inhabitants of the districts.

19322. The notice shall be headed "Notice of the proposed
consolidation of ____ Highway Lighting District and ____ Highway
Lighting District," stating the names of the districts proposed to be
consolidated and shall contain a statement of the time and place
fixed by the board for hearing the matter.

19323. The notice shall state that it is proposed to consolidate
into one district all of the territory within the named districts.

19324. At the time and place fixed for hearing or at any time to
which the hearing may be continued, the board shall hear any person
objecting to the consolidation.

19325. At the conclusion of the hearing the board may refuse to
consolidate any of the districts or it may order the consolidation of
any or all of the districts proposed to be consolidated.

19326. If the board determines to consolidate any of the districts
it shall so declare by resolution stating the name by which the
consolidated district shall be known.

19327. The district resulting from the consolidation of two or more
districts shall become liable for all outstanding liabilities of the
districts consolidated.

19328. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district
resulting from the consolidation of two or more districts shall
assume all of the assets of the separate districts so consolidated
and shall be entitled to all of the property tax revenues to which
each of the separate districts so consolidated would have been
entitled had the districts not been consolidated.