SECTIONS 50950-50959 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 50950-50959

50950. A district may employ engineers and others to survey, plan,
locate and report on the works necessary for the reclamation of the
lands of the district, and estimate the cost thereof.

50951. A district may obtain such professional and other services
as is necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district and may
employ such assistance as the board deems necessary.

50952. A district may employ an expert in agriculture and related
matters and such assistants as may be deemed necessary to do any of
the following:
(a) Supervise the construction of works for the irrigation or
protection of district lands.
(b) Advise landowners, or any person engaged in farming district
land, of methods of increasing the productiveness of such land or as
to any matters of husbandry.
(c) Conduct experiments as prescribed by the board.
(d) Perform duties for the general welfare of the people of the
district as prescribed by the board.

50953. A district issuing warrants or levying or collecting
assessments may employ a clerk who, under the direction of the county
treasurer, shall attend to matters pertaining to the registration
and payment of warrants and to the levying and collecting of
assessments.

50954. The clerk shall receive for his or her services a yearly sum
equal to one and one-half cents ($0.015) per acre based on the net
acreage of the district as indicated by the records of the district,
or, if the net acreage is not obtainable from the records of the
district, based upon the records of the county elections official or,
if the district has outstanding bonds it shall pay the clerk three
cents ($0.03) per acre.

50955. Each claim for clerk hire must be approved by the county
treasurer.

50956. The board, upon presentation of a proper claim, shall draw
semiannually a warrant on the district funds for such clerk hire.

50957. If the board neglects or refuses to draw a warrant based
upon a proper claim for clerk hire, 10 percent of the amount of the
claim shall be added thereto, and thereafter 2 percent per month
shall be added to the claim until a warrant is issued.

50958. No county officer shall charge or receive any fee for
services which he is required to perform in relation to the
registration and payment of warrants or the collection of assessments
but reasonable and necessary expense actually incurred by a county
treasurer in connection with such acts shall be paid out of the funds
of the districts.

50959. No member of any board of supervisors, or clerk of such
board, shall receive compensation, other than his regular salary, for
services performed pursuant to this division.