ARTICLE 1. Original Assessments

Article 1 added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.

§§ 51230–51260 · 31 sections

• § 51230 When a plan of reclamation has been adopted by a district located entirely outside the boundaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District the board…
• § 51231 The assessment commissioners shall view and assess upon the district land the sum estimated to be the cost of the reclamation plan, and shall apportion the sum…
• § 51232 The assessment shall be collected and paid into the county treasury in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of this part.
• § 51233 Money collected on assessments levied pursuant to Section 51231 shall be paid out for reclamation works upon the warrants of the board of trustees, approved by…
• § 51234 When any part of the district is located within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, and the reclamation board has approved the reclamation plan,…
• § 51235 Upon receipt of the petition from the board, the board of supervisors shall appoint assessment commissioners within 60 days, who shall qualify in the manner…
• § 51236 The assessment commissioners shall assess the estimated cost of the reclamation plan upon the district land in the manner provided in Section 51231.
• § 51237 The sums assessed shall be collected in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of this part and paid into the county treasury to the credit of the district.
• § 51238 The money collected on assessments levied pursuant to Section 51236 shall be paid out for the reclamation works upon the warrants of the trustees, or, if bonds…
• § 51239 The assessment commissioners appointed pursuant to Sections 51230 and 51235 shall make a list of the charges assessed against each parcel, containing: (a) A…
• § 51240 If the list of charges contains any error in the description of the land or the name of the owner, or if any land which should be assessed is omitted from the…
• § 51241 No error in the list of charges assessed shall render the assessment of a parcel invalid.
• § 51242 The list of charges assessed, when completed, shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors.
• § 51243 Upon receipt of the list of charges, the board of supervisors shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing any objections to the…
• § 51244 Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the principal…
• § 51245 Any time before the hearing, any person interested in land upon which any charge has been assessed may file a written objection to the assessment, which shall…
• § 51246 No objection shall be considered by the board of supervisors, or allowed in any other action or proceeding, unless it is made in writing to the board of…
• § 51247 At the hearing the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of written objections and may modify or amend the assessment, or make a…
• § 51248 If the amount of any assessment in the list is changed, the board of supervisors shall set a day for hearing objections to the assessment as changed, and shall…
• § 51249 At the hearing on the changes in the assessment an objection in writing may be made by any person interested, and the board of supervisors shall proceed to…
• § 51250 If the amount of any assessment is again changed the board of supervisors shall proceed as before to give notice and to hear objections to the changes, and…
• § 51251 The board of supervisors shall then make an order approving the assessment, and shall endorse the order upon the assessment list.
• § 51252 The endorsement shall be signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors and attested by the clerk thereof.
• § 51253 The decision of the board of supervisors in approving the assessment list is final, and thereafter the endorsed assessment list is conclusive evidence that the…
• § 51254 The assessment list shall be prepared in duplicate, and one original shall be retained in the office of the district, and the second original shall be filed…
• § 51255 If the district is situated in more than one county, a copy of the assessment list certified by the county treasurer, shall be filed with the treasurer of each…
• § 51256 When the second original assessment list is filed as provided in Section 51254, the charges assessed thereby upon parcels constitute a lien thereon, and the…
• § 51257 The lien of an unpaid assessment upon which bonds have been issued continues until the bonds, and any refunding bonds which have been issued, are paid in full,…
• § 51258 No subsequent act or conduct of the board shall invalidate an assessment after it becomes a lien, and the board may be compelled by mandate, or other proper…
• § 51259 At any time within 30 days after the assessment list is filed with the county treasurer, any person aggrieved by the decision of the board of supervisors in…
• § 51260 If the action is not commenced within 30 days, no action or defense shall thereafter be maintained attacking the legality of the assessment.