California Code
CHAPTER 9 - Benefit Assessment Districts
Section 100602.13.

100602.13. Upon the hearing on an exclusion or reduction petition by the board, or upon the record of hearing by a hearing officer, the board shall order the petition be denied when the petitioner has not shown by a preponderance of the evidence that in an exclusion petition the real property is not benefited or in a reduction petition that the assessment exceeds the benefit to the property.

(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 645, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2005.)