ARTICLE 2. Formation

Article 2 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.

§§ 2822–2835 · 15 sections

• § 2822 The organization of a pest abatement district may be initiated by a petition, describing the exterior boundaries of the proposed district, and the nature of…
• § 2822.5 The petition shall state the basis on which the property in the district shall be taxed for district purposes. The petition may include a plan for zones of…
• § 2823 The petition may fix the maximum rate of assessments that may be levied by the district.
• § 2824 The petition shall be signed by registered voters residing in the proposed district equal in number to ten per cent of the votes cast in the proposed district…
• § 2825 The petition shall be presented to the clerk of the county in which the land in the proposed district is situated. The clerk shall compare the signatures on…
• § 2826 If the petition lacks sufficient signatures the county clerk shall certify that fact, and at any time within sixty days thereafter additional signatures may be…
• § 2827 If the petition contains the requisite number of signatures the clerk shall make a certificate to that effect, and shall present the petition and his…
• § 2828 If the board of supervisors finds that the petition has been properly presented, the board shall, by resolution, fix a time for hearing the petition, which…
• § 2829 At the time of the hearing, or at any time to which it may be adjourned, the board of supervisors shall hear and consider all competent and relevant testimony…
• § 2830 The board of supervisors may make such changes in the proposed boundaries of the district as it may consider advisable. It may exclude any land in the proposed…
• § 2831 If, upon the hearing, the board of supervisors determines that the public interest or welfare of the proposed territory and its inhabitants requires the…
• § 2832 The clerk of the board of supervisors shall immediately record a certified copy of the order in the office of the county recorder in which the district is…
• § 2833 If at any time after the board of supervisors has entered its order for organization good cause appears therefor, the district board may, by a two-thirds vote…
• § 2834 Upon receipt of the certified copy of the resolution the board of supervisors shall: (a) Enter an order changing the district’s name to the name set forth in…
• § 2835 Upon a petition adopted by a four-fifths vote of the district board, or upon its own motion following the notice the board of supervisors deems sufficient and…