SECTIONS 35500-35509 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 35500-35509

35500. A district may acquire, construct, operate, and furnish
facilities and services, within or without the district, for the
collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm water
and may contract with any persons, firms, public or private
corporations or public agencies or other users concerning facilities
and services for said purposes. The district may only furnish such
services outside the district by means of facilities designed
primarily to serve inside the district. Before a district may so
furnish such services without the district and within the boundaries
of another district or a municipality which has the same or similar
powers, including a California water district, with respect to such
facilities and services, it shall secure the consent of the governing
body of such other district or municipality to do so. This section,
to the extent it relates to service outside the district, shall only
apply in the case of California water districts where two California
water districts are contiguous to each other.

35501. The district may prescribe, revise, and collect rates or
other charges for the services and facilities furnished pursuant to
this article.

35502. The district may provide that such rates or other charges
may be collected with the water rates of the district and that all
rates shall be billed upon the same bill and collected as one item,
and that in the event of failure to pay the whole or any part
thereof, the district may discontinue any and all service for which
such bill is rendered, but this provision shall not be construed to
prohibit the collection of rates or charges by the district in any
other lawful manner.

35503. Upon providing a sewer system in any area of the district,
the district may declare the further maintenance or use of cesspools,
septic tanks, or other local means of sewage disposal in such area
to be a public nuisance and may require all buildings used by human
beings to be connected with the sewer system within such period, not
less than 120 days from the completion of the sewer system, as may be
prescribed by the district; provided that such buildings to be
connected are within 150 feet of the system.

35504. A district may not exercise any of the powers granted a
district by this article unless the board first submits to the voters
of the district at an election a proposition as to whether or not
the powers may be exercised by the district and a majority of the
votes cast on the proposition are in favor of the proposition. Such
proposition may be submitted at, or at an election consolidated with,
the election at which a proposition to issue bonds of the district,
or for an improvement district therein, for the purposes specified in
this article is submitted. A proposition to issue bonds of the
district, or for an improvement district therein, for the purposes
specified in this article which has been submitted at, or at an
election consolidated with, an election under this section before the
effective date of the amendment of this section enacted at the 1964
First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature is hereby ratified and
confirmed and any bonds authorized at said election may be issued as
legal obligations of the district or improvement district. Only one
election need be held to authorize a district to exercise any of the
powers granted by this article or any later amendments thereof.

35504.5. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 35504, a
district may exercise the powers granted a district by this article
after a hearing by the board on the question of whether or not the
district shall exercise any or all the powers granted by this
article. Notice of such hearing shall be given in the manner
specified in Section 36254. At the time of the hearing, the board
shall hear all interested persons and receive any written protests by
any owner of property within the district. Protests shall be made in
the manner provided in Section 36255. The board shall not exercise
any of the powers granted by this article if a majority written
protest is filed against the exercise of such powers. Whether or not
a majority protest is made shall be determined in the manner provided
in Section 36256.

35505. If 75 percent or more of the territory of one or more county
sanitation districts is located within the boundaries of a
California water district situated in one county, the board of
supervisors of the county, or the governing body of the county
sanitation district or districts, may, if the board of directors of
the California water district gives its consent in writing, delegate
the powers and functions of the governing bodies of the county
sanitation districts to the board of directors of the California
water district, which shall thereafter perform such powers and
functions.

35506. In order to carry out the powers and purposes granted under
this article a district may exercise or use any of the powers or
procedures otherwise granted to a district under this division to the
extent such powers or procedures may be made applicable.

35507. The powers or procedures referred to in Section 35506 shall
include, but shall not be limited to, the following: bonds pursuant
to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 35950) of Part 6, Chapter 3
(commencing with Section 36150) of Part 6 and Chapter 4 (commencing
with Section 36300) of Part 6; warrants pursuant to Chapter 4.5
(commencing with Section 36400) of Part 6; formation of improvement
districts and bonds therefor pursuant to Chapter 4.9 (commencing with
Section 36410) of Part 6 and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
36450) of Part 6; eminent domain pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 3
(commencing with Section 35625) of Part 5; and contracts with other
agencies pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 35850) of
Part 5.

35508. The powers or procedures referred to in Section 35506 shall
include all powers or procedures either necessary, useful or
desirable to carry out the powers and purposes of this article.

35509. In the event that the boundaries of any district, which is
authorized to exercise the powers granted by this article, are
altered pursuant to the District Reorganization Act of 1965, Division
1 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 6 of the Government Code,
such powers may continue to be exercised only within that portion of
the district originally authorized to exercise such powers, when
provided by terms and conditions adopted pursuant to Section 56470 of
the Government Code.