SECTIONS 60095-60102 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 60095-60102

60095. If the certificates of the county elections officials of
each affected county as filed with the county elections official of
the principal county show the petition to be sufficient, the county
elections official of the principal county shall present the
petition, together with the certificates of the county elections
officials of the affected counties to the board of supervisors of the
principal county.

60096. Upon presentation of such petition and certificates, the
board of supervisors of the principal county shall immediately file a
copy of such petition with the department.

60097. Upon filing such petition with the department said
department shall set the same for a public hearing within sixty (60)
days, said hearing to determine whether or not other lands should be
included within the proposed district, or whether some lands which
are included should be excluded, and whether the proposed district,
as modified by inclusions and exclusions, will be of benefit
generally to all persons or property which rely directly or
indirectly upon the use of or right to use the ground water supplies
within such proposed district.

60098. The department shall publish one copy of said petition,
along with names of five of the persons signing such petition,
together with a notice of the time, place and purpose of such
hearing, and the same shall be published within each affected county
pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code.

60099. At said public hearing which may be adjourned from time to
time, the department shall hear all evidence relevant to the
inclusion of additional lands in or the exclusion of lands from the
proposed district, as well as all evidence relevant to the benefits
to be derived by the persons or property within said proposed
district by a ground water replenishment program.

60100. In the event the department determines that additional land
should be included in the proposed district, it shall forthwith set a
date for a public hearing to determine whether or not such land
should be included. Notice of such hearing shall be published
pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in each affected
county in which the proposed land is to be included, and said notice
shall contain time, place and purpose of such hearing, and shall
describe the land so proposed to be included in the proposed
district. In the event such hearing is held to consider the inclusion
of additional land the department shall hear all evidence relevant
to the inclusion of such additional land and the benefits to be
derived by the persons or property within said land so to be included
in the proposed district.

60101. Within thirty (30) days after concluding all said hearings,
but in any event within six (6) months of the filing of said petition
with said department, the department shall make its determination of
the lands to be included within the proposed district and state
whether or not the persons or property within such proposed district
will benefit directly or indirectly from the use or right to use the
ground water supplies within such proposed district and the
replenishment thereof, and this determination shall be filed with the
board of supervisors of the principal county.

60102. If the department determines that the persons or property
within the proposed boundaries of the district will not benefit
directly or indirectly from the use of or right to use the ground
water supply therein and the replenishment thereof, the board of
supervisors of the principal county will take no further action, but
the petition and report will be filed as a public record without
prejudice to the filing of a new petition for organization of a water
replenishment district, except that no such new petition shall be
filed within six months after any such adverse determination by the
department.