SECTIONS 71630-71637 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 71630-71637

71630. The district by ordinance may, pursuant to the notice,
protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government
Code, fix on or before the third Monday of August, in each fiscal
year, a water standby assessment or availability charge in the
district, in any portion thereof, or in any improvement district, to
which water is made available by the district, whether the water is
actually used or not.

71631. The standby assessment or availability charge shall not
exceed ten dollars ($10) per acre per year for each acre of land on
which the charge is levied or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel
less than one acre.

71631.5. Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement district
situated within the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western
Municipal Water District of Riverside County, the Elsinore Valley
Municipal Water District, the Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water
District, the Ramona Municipal Water District, the Rainbow Municipal
Water District, or the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, the
standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty
dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which the charge is
levied or thirty dollars ($30) per year for a parcel less than one
acre. In any such improvement district, the proceeds from any standby
assessment or availability charge in excess of ten dollars ($10) per
acre per year or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel less than
one acre shall only be used for the purposes of such improvement
district.
This section, applicable only to the Eastern Municipal Water
District, the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County,
the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, the Rincon Del Diablo
Municipal Water District, the Ramona Municipal Water District, the
Rainbow Municipal Water District, and the Lake Hemet Municipal Water
District, is necessary because of the unique and special water
management problems of those areas included within those districts.

71631.6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71631, in any
improvement district situated within the Otay Municipal Water
District in San Diego County, the standby assessment or availability
charge shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30) per acre per year for
land on which the charge is levied or ten dollars ($10) per year for
a parcel less than one acre. In any such improvement district the
proceeds from any standby assessment or availability charge in excess
of ten dollars ($10) per acre per year shall only be used for the
purposes of such improvement district.
This section, applicable only to the Otay Municipal Water District
of San Diego County is necessary because of the unique and special
water management problems of the area included within such district.

71631.7. (a) Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement
district situated within the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District,
the standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty
dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which the charge is
levied or thirty dollars ($30) per year for a parcel less than one
acre. In the improvement district, the proceeds from any standby
assessment or availability charge in excess of ten dollars ($10) per
acre per year or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel less than
one acre shall only be used for the purposes of that improvement
district.
(b) This section, applicable only to the San Luis Rey Municipal
Water District, is necessary because of the unique and special water
management problems of those areas included within that district.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, which is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.

71632. The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability
charge shall be adopted by the board pursuant to the notice, protest,
and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code and
only after adoption of a resolution setting forth the particular
schedule or schedules of charges or assessments proposed to be
established by ordinance and after a hearing on said resolution.
If the procedures set forth in this section as it read at the time
a standby assessment or availability charge was established were
followed, the board may, by ordinance, continue the charge pursuant
to this article in successive years at the same rate. If new,
increased, or extended assessments are proposed, the board shall
comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section
53753 of the Government Code.

71633. The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability
charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land
uses, water uses, and degree of water availability.

71634. On or before the third Monday in August, the board shall
furnish in writing to the board of supervisors and the county auditor
of each affected county a description of each parcel of land within
the district upon which a standby charge is to be levied and
collected for the current fiscal year, together with the amount of
standby charge fixed by the district on each parcel of land.

71635. The board shall direct that, at the time and in the manner
required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes the
board of supervisors shall levy, in addition to any other tax it
levies, the standby charge in the amounts for the respective parcels
fixed by the board.

71636. All county officers charged with the duty of collecting
taxes shall collect district standby charges with the regular tax
payments to the county. Said charges shall be collected in the same
form and manner as county taxes are collected, and shall be paid to
the district.

71637. Charges fixed by the district shall be a lien on all the
property benefited thereby. Liens for said charges shall be of the
same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection
may be enforced by the same means as provided for the enforcement of
liens for state and county taxes.