SECTIONS 75860-75864 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 75860-75864

75860. The holder of title or evidence of title, to any tract of
land, or if there is more than one holder of title or evidence of
title to such tract, the majority of such holders who are also the
holders of title or evidence of title to at least one-half of the
area of such land, may file in the office of the board a petition
praying that such tract of land be included within the district.
A petitioner who is the owner of an undivided interest in such
land, or any of it, shall be deemed the owner of such proportion of
the area of the land in which he has an interest as his interest
bears to the whole of such land.

75861. Each signature to the petition for inclusion of lands shall
be acknowledged or proved as provided by law for signatures to an
instrument to entitle it to be recorded.

75862. The secretary shall cause a notice of the filing of the
petition for inclusion of lands to be given and published in the same
manner and for the same time as notices of elections for the
issuance of bonds are required to be given and published.

75863. The notice of the filing of the petition for inclusion of
lands shall state the purpose of the petition, describe the
boundaries of the tract of land proposed to be included, and give the
names of the petitioners. It shall also notify all persons
interested in, or who may be affected by, the proposed inclusion of
the land within the district to appear at the office of the board at
a time named in the notice for the hearing of the petition and
objections thereto and show cause, in writing, if any they have, why
the land or any of it should not be included as proposed in the
petition. The time to be specified in the notice for the hearing
shall be the regular meeting of the board next after the expiration
of the time for the publication of the notice.

75864. The petitioners shall advance to the secretary sufficient
money to pay for the publication of the notice of the filing of the
petition for the inclusion of lands, which shall be refunded to the
petitioners if the petition is granted in whole or in part.