SECTIONS 8775-8790 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 8775-8790

8775. When an assessment is to be levied, the board shall appoint
three assessors.

8776. The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have
no interest in any real estate within the drainage district.

8777. Each assessor before entering upon his duties, shall make and
subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested in any
real estate within the drainage district, and that he will perform
the duties of an assessor to the best of his ability.

8778. The compensation of assessors shall be fixed and allowed by
the board.

8779. After the assessors have examined the plan or plans of the
works contemplated and the estimates of the cost, they shall make a
preliminary report to the board indicating the exterior boundaries of
the land that in their opinion will be benefited by the
expenditures.

8780. The assessors, after performing their duties pursuant to
Section 8779, shall appoint a time and place in each county in which
any of the land proposed to be assessed is situated, when and where
they will hear objections to the report and evidence concerning the
manner in which the assessment shall be apportioned.

8781. The assessors shall give notice of the hearing in each of the
counties by publication in a newspaper published in the county once
a week for three weeks, the first publication to be not later than
the twenty-first day before the day of hearing.

8782. The notice shall contain a general designation of the land
which will in the assessors' opinion be benefited, and shall refer to
the preliminary report on file in the office of the board for the
exterior boundaries.

8783. The assessors, may amend, modify or change the exterior
boundaries of the land that, in their opinion, will be benefited by
such expenditures.

8784. The board shall levy an assessment pursuant to this chapter
if, within six months after the completion of the hearings there is
filed with the board, written consent to the contemplated project,
signed and acknowledged by the following:
(a) Owners of land representing 66 per cent or more of the value
of the land excluding improvements within the district, as described
in the preliminary report of the appraisers, or as modified
thereafter, as such value is shown by the last preceding county tax
assessment roll of the county in which the land is situated.
(b) Sixty-six per cent or more of the owners of land within the
district as described in the preliminary report, or as modified
thereafter.

8785. If consent in writing is not filed in the manner and at the
time provided, no further expenditures for the project shall be made,
nor shall any obligations be incurred therefor.

8786. If consent is not filed the board may cause an assessment to
be levied in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of
paying the necessary engineering and other expenses in preparing the
plans for the project, in making the preliminary report of the
assessors and in holding the hearings thereon.

8787. The assessors shall assess upon the lands within the drainage
district proposed to be assessed for the plans adopted by the board
the sums included in the estimates of the board, and shall apportion
the sums according to the benefits that will accrue to each tract of
land in the drainage district affected by any particular project or
unit by reason of the expenditure.

8788. The assessors in apportioning the assessment on each tract of
land shall, as information for the board set out, opposite each sum
assessed for each particular tract of land, in separate columns
respectively, the amount that they determine that each tract is so
assessed by reason of benefit from the flood control features of the
works involved in the plans, and also the amount that they deem each
tract of land is so assessed by reason of all other benefit from the
works.

8789. The assessors shall, in the case of all assessments of the
drainage district which may hereafter be levied by the board and all
assessments which have heretofore been commenced but on which the
assessment lists have not been made to conform with the decision of
the board after equalization hearings held pursuant to the provisions
of this part, state, as information for the board, in addition to
the amount assessed by reason of the flood control features, opposite
each sum assessed for each particular tract of land, in a separate
column, the amount that they determine each tract is so assessed by
reason of the severance of any lands not included in the assessed
area which would have been included but for the location of a by-pass
channel or channels provided for by another separate portion or
project of the drainage district, adopted by the board.

8790. The amounts stated and placed opposite each assessment shall
be no part of the assessment and shall in no way affect the
assessment charged against each tract of land as the same may be
fixed, but shall be subject to review and readjustment in the same
manner as the assessment itself.