ARTICLE 4. District Powers [4738. - 4767.5.]

Article 4 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.

§§ 4738–4767.5 · 53 sections

§ 4738 A county sanitation district may sue and be sued by its own name.
§ 4739 A county sanitation district may employ such sanitation experts, surveyors, counsel, and other persons as are needed to carry into effect any powers of the…
§ 4739.5 By resolution, the board may change the name of the district. The change of name shall be effective upon recording a certified copy in the office of the county…
§ 4740 The district may acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, in the name of the district, and own, control, manage, and dispose of any interest in…
§ 4741 A district may acquire, construct, and complete within or without the district, sewage collection, treatment and disposal works, including sewage treatment…
§ 4741.1 A district board desiring to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, within or without the district in addition to its…
§ 4741.2 That portion of a political subdivision lying within a district and having representation on the district board of directors, shall be excluded from the…
§ 4741.3 At the expiration of not less than 90 days after adoption of the resolution of intention to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or disposal…
§ 4741.4 The board of directors of a county sanitation district shall be the same for all district purposes, activities, and objectives, whether for collection,…
§ 4741.5 When a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, is established by a district pursuant to the provisions of this article, the district shall comply with the…
§ 4741.6 The provisions of Sections 4741.1 through 4741.5 shall not apply to any district whose resolution of intention pursuant to Section 4710 discloses that the…
§ 4741.7 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter, or of Article 4 (commencing with Section 5470) to the contrary, a district may fix and collect a fee or…
§ 4742 It may join with any other district, city or other governmental agency in the purchase, ownership, use, construction, maintenance, or operation of a sewerage…
§ 4742.1 It may contract with any district, city, governmental agency, or person, for the handling, treatment or disposal by the district of refuse, sewage, or…
§ 4742.3 Whenever a person installs sewers or other facilities for sewers and the district board determines that it is necessary that such sewers or other facilities be…
§ 4742.4 Any county sanitation district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing,…
§ 4742.5 It may make provision for street-cleaning and streetsweeping services upon the roads and streets within the boundaries of the district. It may contract with…
§ 4743 It may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any property of the district or any interest therein whenever it is no longer required for the purposes of the…
§ 4744 It may sell, or otherwise dispose of, any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewerage system, sewage…
§ 4745 It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines or other works as may be necessary to conserve and put to beneficial use any water or sewage effluent…
§ 4746 It may issue bonds.
§ 4746.1 If funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and operation, a district may incur indebtedness by the issuance of negotiable promissory notes…
§ 4746.2 (a) If the district board determines by resolution that funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and repair of damage caused by disaster, a…
§ 4746.3 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds, when borrowed by a sanitation district pursuant to Section 4746.2, shall forthwith increase the…
§ 4746.4 The district shall pay interest to the county on all funds borrowed pursuant to Section 4746.2 at the same rate that the county applies to funds of the…
§ 4747 It may cause to be levied and collected taxes upon all the taxable real property in the district sufficient to meet the obligations evidenced by its bonds, to…
§ 4748 The district board shall, by resolution, employ one or more sanitation engineers to make a survey of the problems of the district concerning sanitation…
§ 4749 The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction of the district board, employ such surveyors and others as may be necessary to prepare the report. The…
§ 4750 When the engineers’ report is filed the district board shall examine it and may thereupon (a) reject it and direct that a new report be prepared; (b) direct…
§ 4751 Notice of the hearing shall be given by the district board by publishing the notice for at least five times in a daily, or twice in a weekly, newspaper…
§ 4752 At the conclusion of the hearing the district board shall either order the report changed to conform to some or all the objections made or shall approve and…
§ 4753 The district board may, thereafter, have such portions of the report as are adapted to publication, or a resume, published for free public distribution.
§ 4754 The engineers employed by the district board to make the report required by this chapter, or other engineers, shall be directed by the district board to…
§ 4758 Any work recommended to be done in the report approved and adopted by the district board shall be done in conformity with the general plans and specifications…
§ 4759 A right of way in or across any public highway, street, or property in the district is hereby granted to the district wherever the right of way is found by the…
§ 4759.1 (a) There is granted to every district the right to construct, operate and maintain outfall, intercepting and trunk sewerlines, other than ocean outfall lines…
§ 4760 The district board may, by agreement with any city or other public agency, take possession of, or acquire by condemnation or in any other manner any sewerage…
§ 4761 Any city or public agency in the district may enter into an agreement with the district for the use, or entire possession and operation, by the county…
§ 4762 Whenever any area in the district is provided with a sewerage system the governing body of the city in which the area lies may declare the further maintenance…
§ 4762.1 All connections of lateral or other sewerlines to the sewerage system of the district, whether within or without any city, shall be made at points and in the…
§ 4763 All powers of the district shall be exercised by the district board unless otherwise specified.
§ 4764 It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and…
§ 4765 Any district, directly or through a representative, may attend the Legislature and any committees thereof and present information to aid the passage of…
§ 4766 The district board may adopt ordinances to carry out the provisions of Sections 5473 to 5473.11, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code and this chapter; the…
§ 4766.1 The board of supervisors of any county may adopt a model county sanitation district ordinance. The procedure for the adoption of said ordinance shall be the…
§ 4766.2 The district board is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance. The…
§ 4766.3 Prior to adoption of any ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance, the district board shall give…
§ 4766.4 Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to relieve any district from the requirement of publishing in full the ordinance which adopts by reference…
§ 4766.5 If at any time the model sanitation district ordinance is amended by the county board of supervisors, then the district board may adopt such amendment or…
§ 4766.6 If the board of directors of the district is the board of supervisors, the district may adopt the model county sanitation district ordinance and any amendments…
§ 4766.7 A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
§ 4767 Any county sanitation district may, in addition to its other powers, acquire, construct, control, operate, and maintain waterworks, conduits, reservoirs,…
§ 4767.5 A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by Section 4767. The terms of the contract shall be consistent…