SECTIONS 31500-31506 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 31500-31506

31500. Whenever, in the opinion of the board, the public interest
or convenience may require, it may order to be done in, under, or
upon the whole or any portion of any one or more of the streets or
public places of the district, or any property or rights of way owned
by the district, any work or improvement for supplying or
distributing an irrigation, domestic, or other water supply or for
fire protection, or for collecting, treating, and disposing of
sewage, waste, and storm waters, and provide that the cost thereof
shall be assessed upon the lots and lands fronting on the streets or
public places, or upon any district to be assessed therefor, which
district need not be composed of lands contiguous to each other.

31501. The work or improvement shall be done and the cost thereof
assessed and collected in accordance with the procedure and in
pursuance of the provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911.

31502. The Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 is also applicable to
districts.

31503. The Improvement Bond Act of 1915 is also so applicable for
use in conjunction with the Improvement Act of 1911 or with other
improvement acts.

31504. Such acts or any of them may be used in the discretion of
the board of directors in the contruction of any work to be done or
improvements made under this act and in the levying of assessments
and reassessments and the issuing of bonds to pay for costs and
expenses of the work and improvements done or to be done hereunder.

31506. A district may enter into an agreement with any municipality
within the district whereby any work or improvement constructed
pursuant to the provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911 may be
transferred to the municipality for operation and maintenance. The
power to make such an agreement is conditioned upon a finding by the
board that the residents of the district would be better served by
such municipal operation and maintenance.