ARTICLE 4. Assessments for Maintenance and Operation
Article 4 added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1800.
§§ 12878.25–12878.40 · 16 sections
- § 12878.25 The land within each zone, and the land within each maintenance area, if no zones are established therein, shall be conclusively presumed to be benefited by…
- § 12878.26 Each maintenance area is a district within which assessments are collected according to the value or to the benefit product as defined in Section 12878.40 of…
- § 12878.27 The department shall, prior to the first day of April of each year, estimate the cost of the operation and maintenance of each unit during the ensuing fiscal…
- § 12878.28 Following the first day of April of each year, the board or department shall hold a hearing at Sacramento on the matter of fixing the estimates and assessments…
- § 12878.29 Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in each maintenance area affected for at least once a week…
- § 12878.30 The notice shall set the time and place of the hearing which shall be held not less than 10 days following the completion of publication as to all maintenance…
- § 12878.31 At the hearing any owner of land in any maintenance area affected, or other interested person may offer, and the board or department shall receive, any…
- § 12878.32 Upon the final conclusion of such hearing the board or department shall fix the amount of the estimate for each such unit for all purposes of the assessments…
- § 12878.33 If any area or zone lies within more than one county, the department shall divide the amount of the estimate in the proportion of the acreage in each county,…
- § 12878.34 The department shall certify to the auditor and board of supervisors of each county in which each maintenance area, or part thereof, lies, the amount required,…
- § 12878.35 The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a maintenance area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time of levying county taxes,…
- § 12878.36 Each assessment shall be identified by the name and number, if any, of the area, and by the number of the zone, if a zone is involved.
- § 12878.37 The board of supervisors shall determine a rate of assessment sufficient to cover the amount of the estimate for each area or zone, making reasonable allowance…
- § 12878.38 Assessments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. So far as applicable, all provisions of…
- § 12878.39 All money raised by such assessments shall be accounted for separately as to each area and zone. All such money shall be transmitted by January 1st and July…
- § 12878.40 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a county may face substantial expense in maintaining a roll or system which reflects both current values of…