SECTIONS 51380-51383 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 51380-51383

51380. When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes is
adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, or is adjudged
invalid as to any parcel, or any parcel is not charged with the
assessment, a new assessment may be levied to raise the amount for
which the invalid assessment was levied and any further sum then
required, or a subsequent reassessment of the parcels may be made
separately for the purpose of charging each parcel with its proper
proportion of the reclamation costs.

51381. In the new assessment or subsequent reassessment each parcel
shall be charged with that proportion of the former assessment which
the benefits derived by the parcel from the reclamation for which
the former assessment was levied bear to the whole amount of the
former assessment.

51382. A new assessment or subsequent reassessment shall be made by
assessment commissioners appointed by the board of supervisors as
provided in Section 51230, and shall be made, approved, and collected
in the same manner as an original assessment.

51383. When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes upon
district lands is adjudged invalid as a whole or as to any parcel
upon which it was levied, and any landowner has paid any portion of
the amount assessed on any parcel before the assessment was adjudged
invalid, the amount paid by the landowner with legal interest thereon
from the date of such payment shall be credited by the treasurer of
the county where the assessment list is filed on any subsequent
assessment on the parcel on which the invalid assessment was paid.