SECTIONS 51540-51547 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 51540-51547

51540. When the board has ordered an operation and maintenance
assessment levy and has fixed the installments the secretary shall
enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the
following form:
(Name of reclamation district, location of principal place of
business.)
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the board of trustees
held on the (date) an installment of (amount) was ordered paid within
60 days from (date assessment levy will be filed in office of county
treasurer) to ____ at ____. Any installment which shall remain
unpaid on the (day fixed) will be delinquent, together with accrued
interest (if any be due) and 10 percent will be added thereto and
collected for the use of the district.

51541. The notice shall be published, mailed, or personally served
upon each landowner in the manner provided in Section 51519.

51542. When the operation and maintenance assessment levy is to be
paid in more than one installment the secretary shall give notice for
60 days immediately preceding the due date of each installment in
substantially the form prescribed in this article.

51543. Except as otherwise specifically provided, unpaid
assessments for operation and maintenance levied pursuant to this
article shall be collected in the manner provided for the payment and
collection of original and additional assessments.

51544. The principal and interest of any operation and maintenance
assessment levy may be paid in lawful money of the United States or
approved warrants of the district payable from such assessment levy.

51545. The money collected on operation and maintenance assessments
shall be placed by the county treasurer to the credit of the
district in a separate fund designated "maintenance fund" of the
district.

51546. The maintenance fund, except as provided in Section 51547,
shall be disbursed only upon warrants of the board drawn in payment
of the cost or expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the
district reclamation works, incidental expenses as defined in Section
51336 and for the construction of reclamation works supplemental to,
or in replacement of, the reclamation works already possessed by the
district.

51547. When time warrants have been issued in anticipation of an
operation and maintenance assessment levy, money collected upon that
levy shall be used only for the payment of the principal and interest
on the time warrants so long as such time warrants are outstanding
and unpaid.