ARTICLE 1. Formation
Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.
§§ 1170–1185 · 22 sections
- § 1170 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) “District” means a memorial district organized under the provisions of this chapter. (b)…
- § 1171 A memorial district may be established, maintained, governed, supported, and operated in the manner and for the purposes herein provided, and may exercise the…
- § 1172 No district shall include territory not wholly in the same county. A district may include any incorporated territory of the county together with any contiguous…
- § 1173 By petition filed with the county clerk, registered electors residing within the boundaries of a proposed district, equal in number to at least eight per cent…
- § 1174 The petition shall be addressed to the board of supervisors of the county within which the proposed district is situated, shall be signed by the number of…
- § 1175 The petition may be filed in sections, each of which shall fully comply with all of the requirements for a petition, except that each section need not contain…
- § 1176 Within 30 days after the filing of the petition the county elections official shall find and certify whether the petition is signed by the requisite number of…
- § 1177 If the petition and certificate is presented to the board of supervisors at a regular meeting the board at that meeting shall ascertain whether the petition in…
- § 1177.5 The notice required in Section 1176 shall state the fact that the board has fixed the time and place, which shall be stated in the notice, for a hearing on the…
- § 1177.6 At any time prior to the time fixed for a hearing of the matter, any person interested may file with the clerk of the board written objections to the formation…
- § 1178 At the conclusion of the hearing, the board of supervisors shall either adopt an order abandoning the creation of the proposed district or shall by resolution…
- § 1178.5 Sample ballots shall be printed and mailed, together with a synopsis of the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing at Section 1170) of Division 6, to each…
- § 1179 The special election shall be held upon a date not later than the 130th day after the meeting of the board at which the petition was presented. At the special…
- § 1180 The special election shall be called, noticed, held, and conducted, election officers appointed, voting precincts designated, candidates nominated, ballots…
- § 1180.1 Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail,…
- § 1180.2 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…
- § 1180.3 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…
- § 1180.4 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…
- § 1181 For the purposes of this chapter the board of supervisors and the county elections official, respectively, shall have all the powers and duties that boards of…
- § 1182 If a majority of the votes cast at the special election are in favor of formation of the district, the county elections official shall, within ten days after…
- § 1183 Such certified copies when recorded shall, after sixty days from the date of the special election, be conclusive evidence against all persons, firms,…
- § 1185 A district may be formed in the manner prescribed by this article that is within an existing memorial district, if, in addition to the petition required by…