ARTICLE 3. Levees [8630. - 8647.]
Article 3 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.
§§ 8630–8647 · 18 sections
- § 8630 As used in this article the term “levee” means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
- § 8631 The board may promote the construction, completion, maintenance and repair of levees along all rivers, streams, overflow channels, basins and by-passes where,…
- § 8632 Whenever any levee is in the opinion of the board insufficient or necessary for flood control, the board shall publish notice to that effect.
- § 8633 The published notice shall state that the levee is insufficient or necessary, that it is the intention of the board to construct, repair or complete the levee…
- § 8634 The notice shall be signed in the name of the board by its president and secretary and shall be published once a week for three weeks in some newspaper…
- § 8635 The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication.
- § 8636 Any landowner, reclamation district, drainage district, levee district, municipal corporation or other organization or association authorized by law to…
- § 8637 The application shall be in writing and signed by the applicants or their respective executors, administrators, guardians, trustees or duly constituted and…
- § 8638 The application shall be filed in the office of the board.
- § 8639 When an application is filed within the required 30 days, the applicants shall have 60 days after filing the application, or any further time that the board…
- § 8640 The application for leave to construct, repair or complete a levee shall designate the name and post-office address of at least one and not more than three of…
- § 8641 In case there are two or more applications filed in the office of the board within the required 30 days the board may determine which of such applications…
- § 8642 Any levee constructed or work done by the applicants, pursuant to notice from the board and according to plans and specifications approved by the board, shall…
- § 8643 If the application is not filed in the office of the board within 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication, or if the applicants fail to…
- § 8644 The assessment may be either an assessment specially levied and assessed for that purpose, or any assessment levied and assessed by the board and applicable to…
- § 8645 Notwithstanding anything in this article the board may determine a case of emergency exists requiring immediate action to preserve life or property or to…
- § 8646 The board may do the necesssary work immediately for the protection or preservation of the levee, without giving the notice provided for in this article.
- § 8647 The board may pay the cost, including any damage that may result from the performance of the work, by an assessment to be levied and assessed as provided in…