ARTICLE 2. Formation

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

§§ 4710–4718 · 15 sections

• § 4710 A board of supervisors desiring to form a county sanitation district shall adopt a resolution of its intention to do so. The resolution shall contain all of…
• § 4711 The district as formed may include unincorporated or incorporated territory, or both. The incorporated territory included in the district may include the whole…
• § 4711.5 The land proposed to be formed into a district need not consist of contiguous parcels.
• § 4712 The time to be fixed for the hearing of objections shall be not less than thirty days after the adoption of the resolution. The hearing shall be held at the…
• § 4713 Prior to the time of hearing, the resolution shall be published at length twice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the proposed district and…
• § 4714 At the time provided in the resolution of intention or at any time to which the hearing is continued, the board of supervisors shall hear any objections to the…
• § 4714.5 If the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to its final determination for formation of the district, by the owners of real property…
• § 4715 If written objection to the formation of the district, signed by 5 percent of the voters registered in the district if the district contains less than 2001…
• § 4716 At the election only voters registered in the proposed district may vote. Election precincts shall be established by the board of supervisors, and precinct…
• § 4716.1 Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail,…
• § 4716.2 The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of citizens entitled…
• § 4716.3 If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time…
• § 4716.4 The elections officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be…
• § 4717 At the conclusion of the hearing, or if an election is held and the canvass of the election returns shows that a majority of all the votes cast in the entire…
• § 4718 The order of formation shall contain the name of the district, and a description of the boundaries or otherwise indicate its territory. The order is conclusive…