SECTIONS 9040-9048 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 9040-9048

9040. Any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district
in which there are lands within the boundaries of the drainage
district, which lands are subject to the lien of assessment number 6,
or supplemental assessment number 6, levied in connection with
project number 6, may present to any officer authorized by law to
collect such assessments, warrants of the drainage district owned by
it, and issued in connection with project number 6, in payment of the
assessment on the lands.

9041. Any officer authorized by law to collect the assessments
named in this article shall accept at the face value, plus accrued
interest, the warrant or warrants tendered in payment of the
assessment.

9042. Payment in warrants shall be made on a pro rata basis on all
lands in the district subject to such assessment.

9043. It is discretionary with the board of trustees of any such
reclamation district, levee district or drainage district to apply
such warrants in payment of the assessment, or to apply the same as
provided by Article 2 of this chapter.

9044. If any such warrants are delivered by the board of trustees
to the county treasurer having the custody of the funds of any
district, under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter or
otherwise, the county treasurer, shall upon the request of the board
of trustees return the warrants to the reclamation district, levee
district or drainage district to the end that the board of trustees
thereof may apply the same pursuant to the provisions of this
article.

9045. If the assessment, or any part of it has been paid in
warrants by the district on any lands in the district by funds other
than the funds of the district, the district shall deliver to the
owner of such lands a warrant of the drainage district, levied in
connection with project number 6, which in amount shall be equivalent
to the same pro rata of the assessment on the lands as the district
paid on other lands in the district.

9046. If it appears to the trustees of any such district that any
such warrants owned by it will be paid from any assessment thereafter
to be levied, and in their opinion 85 per cent, or more, of the
moneys necessary to pay the warrants will be raised by an assessment
on the lands within the district, the trustees may return the
warrants to the board for cancellation and the warrants shall be
canceled by the board and thereafter are inoperative and of no
effect.

9047. The trustees shall not return the warrants to the board for
cancellation, without the consent of the board, if an assessment is
then in process of being levied to pay the warrants.

9048. Any reclamation, levee, irrigation, drainage or other
district whatever, or any city, county, or political subdivision may
make any contract, expend any of its money, or do anything which its
governing body determines will directly or indirectly retire, reduce
or remove from any of the land owned by it or held in trust for it by
any county treasurer or other public officer, the lien of the
Sutter-Butte By-pass Assessment No. 6 of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin Drainage District, or will make it possible for the
Reclamation Board to order the release of the lien of and abandon any
part of said assessment. The trustees of a reclamation district or a
county treasurer or other public officer acting as trustee for a
reclamation district or other district shall have the right to expend
funds of the district, including rentals collected and moneys
received by the trustees of the district from lease of or for use or
occupation of any land referred to in Sections 51750 to 51757,
inclusive, of this code, in such amounts that may be necessary for
any of the purposes mentioned in this section.