SECTIONS 71639 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 71639

71639. (a) This article applies to the Three Valleys Municipal
Water District.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district, by
resolution, may adopt an assessment with a schedule of annual
adjustments, and adjust the amount of an assessment in accordance
with this section, if the adjustment is made in the same manner as
provided for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of
paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government
Code.
(c) The district shall cause notice of the intent to adopt the
resolution to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government
Code prior to the date set for the adoption of the assessment, and
shall hear any and all objections at the time and place set forth in
the notice. The district, at the time and place specified in the
notice, shall conduct the hearing and consider all objections to the
assessment. Thereafter, the district may adjust the assessment, if
all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The amount of the assessment does not exceed twenty-nine
dollars and forty-one cents ($29.41) per equivalent dwelling unit.
(2) The revenue raised by the assessment, including its annual
adjustments, is used exclusively to fund the readiness-to-serve
charge, or equivalent charge, imposed upon the district by the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and related
administrative costs.
(3) The district adjusts its water rates to its retail agencies by
an amount necessary to prevent surplus funding of the
readiness-to-serve charge imposed upon the district by the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
(d) For the purposes of Article XIII C and Article XIII D of the
California Constitution, the district has not increased an assessment
if the district adjusts an assessment in the same manner as provided
for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph
(2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government Code.