SECTIONS 75880-75887 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 75880-75887

75880. The board, at the time and place mentioned in the notice of
the filing of the petition for inclusion of lands, or at the time or
times to which the hearing of the petition may be postponed, shall
proceed to hear the petition and all the objections thereto presented
in writing by any person showing cause why the proposed change of
boundaries of the district should not be made.

75881. The failure of any person interested in the district, or in
the matter of the proposed change of its boundaries, to show cause in
writing why the proposed change of boundaries of the district should
not be made shall be deemed and taken as an assent by him to the
change of the boundaries of the district as prayed for in the
petition for the inclusion of lands, or to such a change of such
boundaries as will include a part of the lands; and the filing of
such petition shall be deemed and taken as an assent on the part of
each petitioner to such a change of the boundaries as may include the
whole or any portion of the lands described in the petition.

75882. If the board, after the hearing, determines that the
petition for inclusion of lands complies with the requirements of
Article 2 (commencing with Section 75860) of this chapter and that
the inclusion within the distict of the tract of land described in
the petition, or some portion or portions thereof, will be for the
best interests of the district, and if no protest against the
inclusion of such land is made, or if such protest is made and enough
signatures are withdrawn therefrom so that the protest is no longer
sufficient, the board shall order the boundaries of the district to
be changed so that the tract of land, or such portion or portions
thereof as the board deems it for the best interests of the district
to include, shall be included in the district.

75883. If the board determines that only a portion or certain
portions of the tract of land described in the petition for inclusion
of lands should be included, the petition shall be dismissed unless:
(a) The petitioners include a majority of the holders of title or
evidence of title of such portion, or of each of such portions, of
the tract, representing also at least one-half the area of such
portion, or of each of such portions; or
(b) Within 60 days from the time such determination is made, there
is filed with the board the consent in writing, acknowledged or
proved as required in Section 75861, of a majority of the holders of
title or evidence of title of such portion, or of each of such
portions, of the tract of land, representing also at least one-half
of the area of such portion or each of such portions.

75884. The order changing the boundaries shall describe the
boundaries of the land included within the district, and if such land
adjoins any portion of the district, the order shall also describe
that portion of the boundary of the district which coincides with the
boundary of the land included. For the purposes of the order, the
board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of such
boundaries as it deems necessary.

75885. If more than one petition for the inclusion of land has been
presented, the board may in one order include within the district
any number of separate tracts of land.

75886. Any public land of the United States may be included within
a district, except as may be provided otherwise by federal law.

75887. The board may require, as a condition precedent to the
granting of the petition for inclusion of lands, that the petitioners
severally pay to the district such respective sums, as nearly as
they can be estimated (the several amounts to be determined by the
board), as the petitioners or their predecessors in interest would
have been required to pay to the district as assessments had the
lands been included in the district at the time the district was
originally formed.