California Code
PART 3 - COMMUNITY FACILITIES
CHAPTER 3 - County Sanitation Districts

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 4700. - 4700. This chapter shall be known and cited as the...

Section 4701. - 4701. “District,” as used in this chapter, means any county...

Section 4702. - 4702. “District board,” as used in this chapter, means the...

Section 4703. - 4703. Districts may be formed, maintained, and governed in any...

ARTICLE 2 - Formation

Section 4710. - 4710. A board of supervisors desiring to form a county...

Section 4711. - 4711. The district as formed may include unincorporated or incorporated...

Section 4711.5. - 4711.5. The land proposed to be formed into a district...

Section 4712. - 4712. The time to be fixed for the hearing of...

Section 4713. - 4713. Prior to the time of hearing, the resolution shall...

Section 4714. - 4714. At the time provided in the resolution of intention...

Section 4714.5. - 4714.5. If the board of supervisors finds that protests have...

Section 4715. - 4715. If written objection to the formation of the district,...

Section 4716. - 4716. At the election only voters registered in the proposed...

Section 4716.1. - 4716.1. Within five days after the district formation election has...

Section 4716.2. - 4716.2. The board of supervisors or any member or members...

Section 4716.3. - 4716.3. If more than one argument for or more than...

Section 4716.4. - 4716.4. The elections officials in charge of conducting the election...

Section 4717. - 4717. At the conclusion of the hearing, or if an...

Section 4718. - 4718. The order of formation shall contain the name of...

ARTICLE 3 - Officers

Section 4730. - 4730. The governing body of a sanitation district is a...

Section 4730.1. - 4730.1. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4730, the resolution...

Section 4730.2. - 4730.2. A sanitation district heretofore or hereafter established may elect...

Section 4730.4. - 4730.4. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4730, 4730.1 and 4730.2, the local...

Section 4730.5. - 4730.5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4730, 4730.1, and...

Section 4730.6. - 4730.6. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4730, 4730.1, and 4730.2 or any...

Section 4730.65. - 4730.65. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4730, 4730.1, and 4730.2, or any...

Section 4730.66. - 4730.66. (a) This section applies only to the consolidated sanitation...

Section 4730.68. - 4730.68. (a) This section applies only to county sanitation district...

Section 4730.7. - 4730.7. The governing board of the Delta Diablo Sanitation District...

Section 4730.8. - 4730.8. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4730, 4730.1, and 4730.2, or any...

Section 4730.9. - 4730.9. The governing board of the Napa Sanitation District shall...

Section 4730.10. - 4730.10. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4730, 4730.1, and 4730.2, or any...

Section 4730.11. - 4730.11. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the...

Section 4730.12. - 4730.12. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the...

Section 4731. - 4731. If additional territory is annexed to the district as...

Section 4732. - 4732. The county auditor of the county in which the...

Section 4733. - 4733. (a) The district board may fix the amount of...

Section 4733.5. - 4733.5. Where two or more county sanitation districts have joined...

Section 4734. - 4734. Where two or more county sanitation districts have joined...

Section 4735. - 4735. If the withdrawal of the city results in less...

ARTICLE 4 - District Powers

Section 4738. - 4738. A county sanitation district may sue and be sued...

Section 4739. - 4739. A county sanitation district may employ such sanitation experts,...

Section 4739.5. - 4739.5. By resolution, the board may change the name of...

Section 4740. - 4740. The district may acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or...

Section 4741. - 4741. A district may acquire, construct, and complete within or...

Section 4741.1. - 4741.1. A district board desiring to construct, maintain and operate...

Section 4741.2. - 4741.2. That portion of a political subdivision lying within a...

Section 4741.3. - 4741.3. At the expiration of not less than 90 days...

Section 4741.4. - 4741.4. The board of directors of a county sanitation district...

Section 4741.5. - 4741.5. When a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both,...

Section 4741.6. - 4741.6. The provisions of Sections 4741.1 through 4741.5 shall not...

Section 4741.7. - 4741.7. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter, or...

Section 4742. - 4742. It may join with any other district, city or...

Section 4742.1. - 4742.1. It may contract with any district, city, governmental agency,...

Section 4742.3. - 4742.3. Whenever a person installs sewers or other facilities for...

Section 4742.4. - 4742.4. Any county sanitation district and any county may enter...

Section 4742.5. - 4742.5. It may make provision for street-cleaning and streetsweeping services...

Section 4743. - 4743. It may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any...

Section 4744. - 4744. It may sell, or otherwise dispose of, any water,...

Section 4745. - 4745. It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines...

Section 4746. - 4746. It may issue bonds. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch....

Section 4746.1. - 4746.1. If funds are needed to meet current expenses of...

Section 4746.2. - 4746.2. (a) If the district board determines by resolution that...

Section 4746.3. - 4746.3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds, when...

Section 4746.4. - 4746.4. The district shall pay interest to the county on...

Section 4747. - 4747. It may cause to be levied and collected taxes...

Section 4748. - 4748. The district board shall, by resolution, employ one or...

Section 4749. - 4749. The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction...

Section 4750. - 4750. When the engineers’ report is filed the district board...

Section 4751. - 4751. Notice of the hearing shall be given by the...

Section 4752. - 4752. At the conclusion of the hearing the district board...

Section 4753. - 4753. The district board may, thereafter, have such portions of...

Section 4754. - 4754. The engineers employed by the district board to make...

Section 4758. - 4758. Any work recommended to be done in the report...

Section 4759. - 4759. A right of way in or across any public...

Section 4759.1. - 4759.1. (a) There is granted to every district the right...

Section 4760. - 4760. The district board may, by agreement with any city...

Section 4761. - 4761. Any city or public agency in the district may...

Section 4762. - 4762. Whenever any area in the district is provided with...

Section 4762.1. - 4762.1. All connections of lateral or other sewerlines to the...

Section 4763. - 4763. All powers of the district shall be exercised by...

Section 4764. - 4764. It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee...

Section 4765. - 4765. Any district, directly or through a representative, may attend...

Section 4766. - 4766. The district board may adopt ordinances to carry out...

Section 4766.1. - 4766.1. The board of supervisors of any county may adopt...

Section 4766.2. - 4766.2. The district board is hereby authorized to enact an...

Section 4766.3. - 4766.3. Prior to adoption of any ordinance which adopts by...

Section 4766.4. - 4766.4. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to...

Section 4766.5. - 4766.5. If at any time the model sanitation district ordinance...

Section 4766.6. - 4766.6. If the board of directors of the district is...

Section 4766.7. - 4766.7. A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter...

Section 4767. - 4767. Any county sanitation district may, in addition to its...

Section 4767.5. - 4767.5. A district may contract with any state agency to...

ARTICLE 4.1 - District Employees

Section 4768. - 4768. Section 19990 of the Government Code shall apply to...

ARTICLE 4.5 - Application of Other Statutes

Section 4770. - 4770. Except as to State highways where the State Highway...

Section 4771. - 4771. The Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act...

Section 4772. - 4772. In the application of those acts to proceedings under...

Section 4773. - 4773. The powers and duties conferred by those acts and...

Section 4774. - 4774. The improvements authorized to be constructed or acquired under...

ARTICLE 5 - Bonds

Section 4780. - 4780. After the approval and adoption of an engineers’ report...

Section 4781. - 4781. The resolution shall state all of the following: (a)...

Section 4782. - 4782. For the purposes of the bond election the district...

Section 4783. - 4783. An election board consisting of one inspector, one judge,...

Section 4784. - 4784. Only voters registered in the district are eligible to...

Section 4785. - 4785. The resolution calling the election shall be published once...

Section 4786. - 4786. If two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor...

Section 4787. - 4787. The validity of the bonds after their issuance shall...

Section 4788. - 4788. The district board shall prescribe by resolution the form...

Section 4789. - 4789. The bonds shall be issued in such denomination or...

Section 4790. - 4790. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of...

Section 4791. - 4791. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on...

Section 4792. - 4792. The board may issue and sell the bonds of...

Section 4792.1. - 4792.1. When the board of supervisors is the district board...

Section 4793. - 4793. The construction fund shall be applied exclusively to the...

Section 4793.1. - 4793.1. When the purposes and objects mentioned in the resolution...

Section 4794. - 4794. If the proposition of issuing bonds submitted at a...

Section 4795. - 4795. If the district board by resolution passed by a...

Section 4796. - 4796. Bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by...

Section 4797. - 4797. In determining the amount of bonds to be issued,...

Section 4799. - 4799. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the validity of,...

Section 4801. - 4801. (1) An issue of bonds is hereby defined to...

Section 4802. - 4802. Bonds may be made payable on a date subsequent...

Section 4803. - 4803. An action to determine the validity of bonds may...

ARTICLE 5.5 - Revenue Bonds

Section 4805. - 4805. The provisions of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941...

ARTICLE 5.6 - Bonds for Improvement of a Portion of a District

Section 4806. - 4806. As an alternative method of issuing bonds the district...

Section 4806.5. - 4806.5. As an alternative method of issuing bonds the district...

Section 4807. - 4807. Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing...

Section 4808. - 4808. At the time and place so fixed, or at...

Section 4808.5. - 4808.5. At the time and place so fixed, or at...

Section 4809. - 4809. When the board has made its determinations as provided...

Section 4809.1. - 4809.1. Except as otherwise provided in this article, notice of...

Section 4809.2. - 4809.2. No irregularities or informalities in conducting such election shall...

Section 4809.3. - 4809.3. Bonds issued as bonds of the district for an...

ARTICLE 6 - Finance and Taxation

Section 4810. - 4810. Annually, on or before the first day of August...

Section 4811. - 4811. The board of supervisors of the county shall annually,...

Section 4812. - 4812. If the district board fails to furnish to the...

Section 4813. - 4813. The tax shall be collected at the same time...

Section 4814. - 4814. The principal and interest on the bonds shall be...

Section 4815. - 4815. In any year, at least 15 days before the...

Section 4816. - 4816. The tax shall be levied and collected at the...

Section 4817. - 4817. Claims for money or damages against the district are...

Section 4818. - 4818. The cost of preparing the engineer’s report, including the...

Section 4819. - 4819. The cost of the engineer’s report, employees’ salaries, costs...

Section 4820. - 4820. The board of directors of a county sanitation district...

ARTICLE 7 - Annexation

Section 4830. - 4830. Territory, whether situated within the same or another county...

Section 4831. - 4831. If a refuse transfer or disposal system of the...

Section 4831.5. - 4831.5. Property contiguous to a sanitation district but which is...

Section 4832.5. - 4832.5. Whenever any territory in another county is annexed to...

Section 4832.6. - 4832.6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4832.5, whenever territory of...

Section 4833. - 4833. Taxes for a district which is situated in more...

Section 4834. - 4834. Territory already a part of a county sanitation district...

Section 4835. - 4835. The district board shall adopt a resolution initiating proceedings...

Section 4836. - 4836. The clerk of the district shall give notice of...

Section 4837. - 4837. A majority protest shall be deemed to exist, and...

Section 4838. - 4838. At the hearing, all interested persons shall be given...

Section 4839. - 4839. If the district board approves the proposed annexation, or...

ARTICLE 8 - Joint Operation

Section 4840. - 4840. Whenever two or more sanitation districts find and declare...

Section 4841. - 4841. The agreement shall specify the proportionate amount to be...

Section 4842. - 4842. For the purpose of facilitating the payment of the...

Section 4843. - 4843. The district may contract with the Federal Government of...

ARTICLE 9 - Special Zones

Section 4850. - 4850. The district board may, by resolution, establish zones within...

Section 4851. - 4851. The resolution declaring the intention to form a special...

Section 4852. - 4852. The resolution declaring the intention to annex territory to...

Section 4853. - 4853. Notice of a hearing shall be given by publication...

Section 4854. - 4854. Any interested person, at or before the hearing, may...

Section 4855. - 4855. A copy of the resolution ordering the formation of...

Section 4856. - 4856. The district board shall thereafter in each year, prior...

Section 4857. - 4857. The board of supervisors shall fix a special tax...

Section 4858. - 4858. Any special zone may be abolished or territory withdrawn...

ARTICLE 10 - Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District

Section 4859. - 4859. (a) Paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 54954...