CHAPTER 4. Formation Petition
Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.
§§ 71120–71134 · 15 sections
- § 71120 A petition for the formation of a district, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the county elections official.
- § 71121 The formation petition shall be signed by voters equal in number to at least 10 per centum of the voters registered within the boundaries of the proposed…
- § 71122 If only a portion of the corporate area of a city is included within a proposed district, and 12 or more registered voters reside within such portion of the…
- § 71123 The formation petition shall describe the boundaries of the proposed district and shall contain a prayer that the proposed district be formed pursuant to this…
- § 71124 Except as otherwise authorized in this part, the boundaries of the proposed district shall be described in the formation petition in the same manner as in the…
- § 71125 The circulation of a formation petition shall be commenced by the proponents within 30 days from the date of the filing of the declaration of intention with…
- § 71126 Within 30 days of the date of the filing of the formation petition, the county elections official shall examine the petition and determine whether it is signed…
- § 71127 When the county elections official has completed the examination of the formation petition, he or she shall attach to it the certificate, properly dated,…
- § 71128 If the county elections official finds from the examination that the formation petition is signed by the requisite number of voters residing within the…
- § 71129 If the county elections official certifies in the certificate that the formation petition is insufficient, he or she shall also certify therein to the number…
- § 71130 Within 30 days after the filing of any supplemental petition or petitions, the county elections official shall examine them and certify to the result of the…
- § 71131 If any supplemental petition is filed, all the signatures on the original and supplemental petitions shall be considered in determining the number of voters…
- § 71132 After the time for filing supplemental petitions has expired and all supplemental petitions have been examined, if the county elections official’s certificate…
- § 71133 If the county elections official’s certificate shows that the formation petition is sufficient, the county elections official shall present the petition to the…
- § 71134 After an election for the formation of a proposed district, the sufficiency of the formation petition shall not be subject to judicial review or be otherwise…