SECTIONS 44030-44032 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 44030-44032

44030. If a contract with the state, the department, any other
district, or the United States requires the payment by the district
of periodic service charges, the amount shall be levied from time to
time as an assessment on land in the district, to the extent that
funds are not otherwise available for the payment of such charges.
Upon request of the board, assessment commissioners shall be
appointed under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 46150) of Part 9
of this division who shall determine the portion of the total
benefits to accrue to the district under the contract which will be
realized by each parcel of land in separate ownership in the
district. The determination shall be stated in apportionment rolls
substantially in form and manner as provided in Chapter 2 of Part 9
of this division, except that the apportionment of benefits shall be
stated in percentages of benefits to the district as a whole, or in
such other manner as may be determined upon by the commissioners.
Thereafter all assessments levied in order to meet the payments due
or to become due under the contract shall be apportioned among the
respective tracts of land in accordance with the rolls. Any such
assessment shall be collected in the same manner as an original
assessment.

44031. If a contract with the state, the department, any other
district, or the United States requires the payment by the district
of capital charges in periodic installments, the total amount of such
charges may be levied in the same manner as an original assessment
pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 46150) of Part 9 of
this division, or the respective amounts of such installments may be
levied from time to time in the same manner as periodic service
charges, as provided in Section 44030, but an assessment or
assessments shall in any event be levied in such a manner as to
provide for the payment of all such charges, for which funds are not
otherwise available, as they become due under the contract.

44032. If a contract with the state, the department, any other
district, or the United States requires the establishment of a
reserve fund for the payment by the district under the contract of
periodic service charges or capital charges, or both, or if the board
finds it to be necessary or desirable in the interest of the
district, the board may determine to levy an assessment to provide
such a reserve fund. In that event the board shall also determine the
amount of the initial deposit or deposits to be made in the reserve
fund and the amount of the balance, if any, to be maintained therein.
The total amount of the initial deposit or deposits to be made in
the reserve fund may be levied at one time, or in a series of
installments from time to time, in the same manner as periodic
service charges, as provided in Section 44030. Any later deposits
necessary in order to maintain a required balance in the reserve fund
shall be levied in the same manner. The reserve fund shall be used
solely for the payment of the charges for which it is established,
until all the charges have been paid. Any balance then remaining in
the reserve fund shall be transferred to the general fund of the
district.