SECTIONS 55370-55378 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 55370-55378

55370. A district may acquire property by purchase, gift, devise,
exchange, descent, and eminent domain. The title to all property
which may have been acquired for a district shall be vested in the
district.

55371. The board may sell, exchange, or lease any property, or any
interest in property, of the district, real or personal, if the board
determines that the property is no longer needed for the uses of the
district.

55371.5. If the board determines that the property is needed for
the uses of another county waterworks district governed by the same
board or another public agency with a service area or jurisdictional
boundary that overlaps the district, the property, or an interest in
the property, may be sold, exchanged, or leased to that district or
public agency at its reasonable market value without notice.

55372. If the board determines the value of the property, or
interest in the property, to be of a value of five thousand dollars
($5,000) or less, or is being leased for one year or less, it may be
sold, exchanged, or leased without notice.

55373. If the board determines the property, or interest in the
property, to have a value of more than five thousand dollars ($5,000)
or is being leased for more than one year, a notice of time and
place of sale or leasing shall be given by posting three notices in
three public places within the district five days before the date of
sale or leasing. At the time fixed for the sale or leasing, bids
shall be received and the board may sell or lease to the highest
bidder or may reject any or all bids.

55374. Whenever any portion of the territory of a district shall be
annexed to, or otherwise included within any one municipal
corporation which owns works for supplying its inhabitants with
water, the board may lease to the municipal corporation, for periods
not exceeding five years, the portion of the district's distributing
system that is in the portion of the district annexed to or included
in the municipal corporation.

55375. The municipal corporation may use the leased distributing
system for the purpose of distributing water directly to individual
consumers, with the same power of regulating the service of water,
and of charging and collecting for the service, as if the leased
distributing system were part of the municipally owned water plant.

55376. The board shall, in the lease, reserve the right to use the
leased distributing system, for the benefit of that portion of the
district not annexed to or included in the municipal corporation, to
the extent that the leased system is essential to the efficient
operation of the balance of the system.

55377. Any improvement provided for in this division may be
located, constructed and maintained in, along, or across any public
road or highway, or publicly owned right of way in the county, in
such manner as to afford security for life and property; but the
board shall restore, or cause to be restored, the road or highway, or
publicly owned right of way to its former state, as near as may be,
or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired unnecessarily its
usefulness.

55378. The board of supervisors of any county which employs a
purchasing agent may authorize the purchasing agent to sell or
dispose of any personal property of the district no longer needed for
the uses of the district, pursuant to Section 25505 of the
Government Code. Where such authorization is given, the provisions of
Sections 55371, 55372, and 55373 shall not apply.