SECTIONS 51020-51030 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 51020-51030

51020. If any part of a district is located within the Sacramento
and San Joaquin Drainage District the board of trustees shall report
each plan for the reclamation of district lands to the board of
supervisors by filing, with the county clerk, three copies thereof
with the estimate of the cost of the contemplated reclamation works,
including incidental expenses, maintenance and repair necessary for
the reclamation of the district lands in pursuance of such plan.

51021. Within five days after the copies of the plan and estimate
are filed with the county clerk he shall certify two of the copies
and transmit them to the Secretary of the Reclamation Board.

51022. Upon receipt of the certified copies of the plan, the
Secretary of the Reclamation Board shall immediately set a date when
the Reclamation Board will hold a hearing for considering any
objections thereto, which hearing shall be held not less than 20, nor
more than 60 days after the Secretary of the Reclamation Board
received the certified copies of the plan.

51023. The Secretary of the Reclamation Board shall publish a
notice of the hearing once a week for two weeks in some newspaper of
general circulation published within the district, or, if no
newspaper is published within the district, then in the county seat
of the principal county.

51024. The notice shall be in substantially the following form:
"Notice to the landowners of reclamation district No. ____. Notice
is hereby given to the landowners of reclamation district No. ____
that there has been filed with the county clerk of the County of ____
and with the Secretary of the Reclamation Board, an original
(supplemental or new, as the case may be) plan for the reclamation of
lands of the district; that the Reclamation Board will hold a
meeting at its office in the City of Sacramento, County of
Sacramento, State of California, on the ____ day of ____, 19__, at
____ o'clock, at which time any interested party may appear and
object to the said plan."

51025. At the hearing the Reclamation Board shall hear any evidence
offered with respect to the plan, and thereafter shall approve,
modify, amend or reject the plan.

51026. The Reclamation Board shall not modify, amend or reject any
plan on the ground that the plan provides for a levee which in its
judgment is of excessive strength either in height, slopes or crown
width, but no claim for compensation shall thereafter be made against
the Reclamation Board or the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage
District for any part of the levees which the Reclamation Board
considers in excess of what is required to comply with its plans for
flood control.

51027. The Reclamation Board may continue the hearing from time to
time and may cause such investigation and report of the plan to be
made by the engineers connected with the Reclamation Board or by such
other competent authority as the board deems necessary.

51028. When the Reclamation Board has approved, modified, or
rejected any reclamation plan after a hearing as provided in this
article, such action shall be final, and the sufficiency of the plan
shall not be subject to attack before the reclamation board or in any
court, but nothing in this section shall prevent the board from
filing with the county clerk any amendatory, additional or
supplemental plan of reclamation at any time.

51029. When an amendatory, additional or supplemental plan is filed
with the county clerk, two certified copies thereof shall be
transmitted to the Secretary of the Reclamation Board and thereafter
the same proceedings shall be had, and with like effect, with respect
to such plan as are provided for the original plan.

51030. No city or county shall proceed with the reclamation of any
lands located within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District
until the provisions of this article have been complied with.