SECTIONS 23530-23535 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 23530-23535

23530. Regardless of any findings made by the board if more than
one-third in number of the owners of title to land within a proposed
distribution district object at the hearing to its formation or to
the levy of the proposed ad valorem tax, the board shall deny the
petition, and no further proceeding shall be had on it.

23531. If at the hearing the board finds that it would not be for
the best interest of the district to form the distribution district
the board shall order the proceedings dismissed without prejudice to
their renewal.

23532. If the board finds that it would be for the best interests
of the district and the proposed distribution district to form the
distribution district, it shall make and enter in its minutes a final
order:
(a) Approving the petition.
(b) Forming the distribution district.
(c) Providing that an ad valorem assessment shall be levied each
year in the same manner as district assessments to meet the
obligations of the contract with the United States under the federal
reclamation laws.
(d) Describing the land in the distribution district.

23533. Assessments levied for the purpose of meeting obligations
accruing under a contract with the United States pursuant to the
reclamation laws shall be payable in the same manner and at the same
time as district assessments, and such distribution district
assessments shall be made in the number and amount sufficient to meet
the obligations accruing under such contract.

23534. The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order
creating the distribution district to be recorded in the office of
the county recorder in each county in which any land of the
distribution district is situated.

23535. All lands of the distribution district shall remain jointly
liable for all obligations accruing to the United States under any
contract between the distribution district and the United States
pursuant to the federal reclamation laws.