SECTIONS 74070-74076 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 74070-74076

74070. When a formation petition is presented, the board of
supervisors shall hear it, and may adjourn the hearing from time to
time. If any hearing or continued hearing is continued to a time more
than 60 days from the date of the order making the continuance, a
notice of the continued hearing shall be published in some newspaper
or newspapers printed and published in each of the counties in which
any portion of the proposed district lies once a week for at least
two weeks immediately prior to the time appointed for the continued
hearing.

74071. On the final hearing the board of supervisors shall make
such changes in the proposed boundaries as may be deemed advisable,
and shall define and establish such boundaries. The board of
supervisors shall not modify such boundaries so as to exclude from
the proposed district any territory which would be benefited by the
formation of the district; nor shall any land be included within the
proposed district which will not, in the judgment of the board, be
benefited by the formation of the district.

74072. Any person whose lands would be benefited by the district
may, upon his application and in the discretion of the board of
supervisors, have such lands included within the proposed district.

74073. Upon the hearing of the formation petition the board of
supervisors shall determine whether or not the petition complies with
the requirements of this division, and for that purpose shall hear
all competent and relevant testimony offered in support thereof or in
opposition thereto.

74074. No defect in the contents of the formation petition, or in
the title to or form of the notice, or signature, shall vitiate any
proceedings thereon; provided, such petition or petitions have a
sufficient number of qualified signatures attached thereto.

74075. The determination of the board of supervisors shall be
entered upon the minutes of the board.

74076. If the board of supervisors finds that protest has been made
prior to its final determination for formation of the district, by
the owners of land, or by the owners of real property in the event of
the applicability of the provisions of Section 74056, within the
proposed district the assessed value of which, as shown by the last
equalized assessment roll, constitutes more than one-half of the
total assessed value of the land or real property, as the case may
be, within the proposed district, the proceeding shall terminate. The
board of supervisors shall order the proceeding terminated when such
protests are received.