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Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 57002 — The agency shall conduct a study by surveying state, regional, and local agencies charged with implementing air quality, water quality, toxics, solid waste, and hazardous waste laws and regulations to
• § 57003 — (a) Before a board, department or office within the agency adopts chemical risk assessment guidelines or policies for evaluating the toxicity of chemicals or prepares a health evaluation of a chemical
• § 57004 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Rule” means either of the following: (A) A regulation, as defined in Section 11342.
• § 57005 — (a) Commencing January 1, 1994, each board, department, and office within the agency, before adopting any major regulation, shall evaluate the alternatives to the requirements of the proposed regulati
• § 57007 — (a) The agency, and the offices, boards, and departments within the agency, shall institute quality government programs to achieve increased levels of environmental protection and the public’s satisfa
• § 57008 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Agency” means the California Environmental Protection Agency.
• § 57010 — (a) On or before January 1, 2003, the California Environmental Protection Agency shall publish an informational document to assist citizen groups, community-based organizations, interested laypersons,
• § 57012 — (a) Each agency listed in subdivision (d) shall maintain a list of all instruments and agreements restricting land uses imposed by that agency under Section 1471 of the Civil Code or any provision of
• § 57013 — (a) The Department of Toxic Substances Control may require a person submitting a report, workplan, schedule, notice, request, application, or other document or data for purposes of compliance with thi
• § 57015 — There is in the department the assistant director for environmental justice.
• § 57018 — (a) For purposes of Sections 57019 and 57020, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Analytical test method” means a procedure used to sample, prepare, and analyze a specific matrix to determine
• § 57019 — (a) The California Environmental Protection Agency shall coordinate all requests for information from manufacturers made pursuant to this section on behalf of the state agencies.
• § 57020 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7924.
• § 57050 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The failure to properly repair and maintain commercial and industrial facilities or structures can pose a threat to public health or
• § 57051 — For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Consolidated permit” means a permit incorporating permits for a repair or maintenance project and issued in a single
• § 57053 — (a) Any responsible party may request the office to designate a consolidated permit agency for a repair or maintenance project to administer the processing and issuance of a consolidated permit for th
• § 57053.1 — (a) Within 15 working days of the date that the consolidated permit agency is designated, the consolidated permit agency shall convene a meeting with the consolidated permit applicant for the repair o
• § 57053.2 — The consolidated permit applicant may withdraw from the consolidated permit process by submitting to the consolidated permit agency a written request that the process be terminated.
• § 57053.3 — The consolidated permit agency shall coordinate the activities of the participating permit agencies in order that each participating permit agency is able to act on its component repair or maintenance
• § 57053.4 — Each repair or maintenance project permit incorporated in the consolidated permit shall have the legal status and the regulatory effect that is specified in the statute and regulations under which the
• § 57053.5 — (a) A consolidated permit agency may charge and collect a reasonable fee from any person seeking a consolidated permit to recover the estimated costs incurred by the consolidated permit agency and the
• § 57053.6 — A petition by the responsible party for review of a public agency action in issuing, denying, or amending a repair or maintenance project permit, or any portion of a consolidated permit, shall, to res
• § 57053.7 — If the consolidated permit applicant petitions for a significant amendment or modification to a consolidated permit application or any of its component repair or maintenance project permit application
• § 57053.8 — If the consolidated permit applicant fails to provide information required for the processing of the component repair or maintenance project permit applications for a consolidated permit or for the de
• § 57053.9 — (a) On or before December 31, 1997, the office shall adopt regulations establishing an expedited appeals process by which a petitioner or responsible party may appeal any failure by a public agency to
• § 5745 — All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 6 — Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• § 6096 — Claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 6120 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 6121 — The Legislature finds and declares that small rural communities are unable to take advantage of various local, state, and federal facility development programs due to their lack of technical expertise
• § 6122 — The department shall establish a Rural Community Facilities Technical Assistance Program, under which, subject to the availability of funds therefor, contracts shall be made by the department with pub
• § 6123 — The program shall be administered by the Director of Housing and Community Development.
• § 6124 — The program shall be for the purpose of helping rural and low-income communities to take advantage of various local, state, and federal financing programs to develop community facilities, ensuring tha
• § 6125 — The Rural Community Facility Grant Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 6126 — The department shall grant funds by contract with eligible grantees under the following conditions: (a) That grantees shall have the ability to provide all aspects of technical assistance on at least
• § 6127 — The department shall develop and adopt rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter.
• § 6400 — “District,” as used in this part, means a district formed pursuant to this part or pursuant to any law which it supersedes.
• § 6401 — “Board” or “district board,” as used in this part, means the governing board of a district.
• § 6402 — “Secretary,” as used in this part, means the secretary of a district.
• § 6403 — “Assessor,” as used in this part, means the assessor of a district.
• § 6404 — “Tax collector,” as used in this part, means the tax collector of the county or counties in which a district is located.
• § 6405 — “Treasurer,” as used in this part, means the treasurer of the county or counties in which a district is located.
• § 6406 — “Garbage,” as used in this part, shall include all of the following: (a) animal, fruit and vegetable refuse; (b) offal; (c) leaves and cuttings, trimmings from trees, shrubs and grass; (d) inorganic r
• § 6408 — “Board of supervisors,” as used in this part, means the board of supervisors of the county in which the greatest portion of the area of the district, is situated at the time of the filing of the petit
• § 6420 — Whenever 25 persons in any county, or in two or more counties within the same natural watershed area, desire the formation of a sanitary district within the area, they may sign and present a petition
• § 6421 — The petition shall contain: (a) The name of the proposed district.
• § 6422 — Each petitioner shall be a resident and freeholder in the proposed district.
• § 6423 — The petition shall be verified by the affidavit of one of the petitioners.
• § 6424 — The petition shall be published for at least two weeks preceding the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which the district is located.
• § 6425 — With the petition there shall be published a notice stating the time when the petition will be presented to the board of supervisors, and that all persons interested may appear and be heard.
• § 6440 — At the time designated the board of supervisors shall hear the petition, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time.
• § 6441 — The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries of the proposed district as set forth in the petition so as to exclude from the proposed district any land which would be benefited by the form
• § 6442 — If the board of supervisors concludes that any land has been improperly omitted from the proposed district and the owner has not appeared at the hearing, it shall continue the further hearing of the p
• § 6443 — The notice shall be given either by publication in the same manner as the original petition and for the same period, or by personal service on each nonappearing owner.
• § 6444 — If the notice is given by personal service, it shall be given at least three days prior to the date fixed for the further hearing.
• § 6445 — The board of supervisors may grant further continuances, by order entered in its minutes, to the end that a full hearing may be had.
• § 6446 — Upon the final hearing of the petition, the board of supervisors, if it approves the petition as originally presented or in a modified form, shall make an order containing: (a) A description of the ex
• § 6447 — The order shall: (a) Fix the day of the election, which shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days from the date of the order.
• § 6448 — The order shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors, and is conclusive evidence of the due presentation of a proper petition, and of the fact that each of the petitioners was, at the
• § 6460 — Except as otherwise specifically provided in this article, the provisions of the chapter of this part on elections govern the election on the question of organizing a district and the election of the
• § 6461 — A copy of the order shall be posted for four successive weeks prior to the election in three public places in the proposed district at least one of which shall be in each county in which the district
• § 6461.1 — Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the election ca
• § 6461.2 — 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 to vote on the district formation proposit
• § 6461.3 — 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 prescribed, such election officials shall select on
• § 6461.4 — 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 printed and mailed to each voter entitled
• § 6462 — At least 15 days prior to the election, the board of supervisors shall select one, and may select two or more, polling places in the proposed district, and shall make suitable arrangements for the ele
• § 6463 — The ballots shall contain the words, “Shall the sanitary district be formed?” To the right of or below these words, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets.
• § 6464 — At the election there shall be elected an assessor and the members of the board who shall be resident electors of the district.
• § 6465 — If a majority of the votes cast in each county are in favor of formation of the district, the board of supervisors shall make and cause to be entered in its minutes an order that a district of the nam
• § 6466 — If a majority of the votes cast are against formation of the district, the board of supervisors shall by order entered in its minutes so declare, and no other proceeding shall be taken in relation the
• § 6480 — (a) The officers of the district are an assessor and five members of the board.
• § 6480.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 6480, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single sanitary district
• § 6480.5 — At any time within two years after a sanitary district consolidates with or annexes the territory of a district having powers and functions substantially identical to those of a sanitary district form
• § 6480.7 — If a consolidation involving the Capistrano Beach Sanitary District and the Dana Point Sanitary District is approved, the board of directors of the consolidated district shall initially consist of 10
• § 6481 — The board is the governing power of the district, and exercises all district powers, except the making of an assessment roll in the first instance.
• § 6482 — Except as to those members of the board who are elected at the election on formation, the term of office of each member of the board is four years and each holds office until the election and qualific
• § 6483 — Vacancies in the membership of the board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
• § 6484 — The members of the board elected at the election as a result of which the district was organized or, if the district is reorganized under this part, then the five members in office at the time of the
• § 6486 — At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, the board shall choose one of its members as president, and shall appoint a secretary who may be a member of the board.
• § 6487 — All contracts, deeds, warrants, releases, receipts, and documents shall be signed in the name of the district by its president, and countersigned by its secretary, except that the board may, by resolu
• § 6488 — The board shall hold such meetings, either in the day or in the evening, as may be convenient.
• § 6489 — (a) Subject to subdivision (b), each of the members of the board shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day’s attendance at meetings of the b
• § 6490 — (a) A general regulation of the board shall be entered in its minutes, and shall be published once in a newspaper published in the district, if there is one, and if not, then it shall be posted for on
• § 6491 — Unless otherwise provided by this part, orders not establishing a general regulation need not be published or posted, but shall be entered in the minutes and shall take effect upon adoption.
• § 6491.1 — The district board may, by general regulation, adopt codes or specifications controlling the manner of construction, repair, maintenance and operation of facilities referred to in Sections 6512 and 65
• § 6491.2 — The district board may, by general regulation, adopt a code by reference in the same manner as legislative bodies of local agencies are authorized to adopt primary and secondary codes by reference pur
• § 6491.3 — Ordinances of the district may be enacted in the same manner as general regulations of the board and shall have the same force and effect as such general regulations.
• § 6491.5 — A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• § 6492 — The board may instruct the district attorney of the county to commence and prosecute any or all actions and proceedings necessary or proper to enforce any of its regulations or orders, and may call up
• § 6492.5 — The board may provide, by resolution, that the health officer of the county in which the district is situated shall be the health officer of the district.
• § 6493 — The board may at any time employ special counsel for any purpose.
• § 6494 — There shall be an election for assessor in each even-numbered year in which members of the board are elected, and at the same time, place, and manner; provided, however, that if a district board has e
• § 6495 — The assessor’s duties are fixed by this part and he shall perform such other duties as are ordered or required by the board.
• § 6496 — The assessor shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the board.
• § 6497 — (1) The sanitary board of sanitary districts may classify all the places of employment in or under the district, and in or under all the offices and departments of the district, with reference to the
• § 6499 — Any county officer required to act as an officer of the district and perform services for the district by virtue of his office, or any county health officer who becomes the ex officio health officer o
• § 6500 — If a district has a boundary which is contiguous to the boundary of a city and the district has a contract with that city under which the city is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all f
• § 6501 — By resolution, the board may change the name of the district.
• § 6510 — A district may use a seal, alterable at the pleasure of the board.
• § 6511 — It may sue and be sued by its name.
• § 6512 — (a) A district may acquire, plan, construct, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, lay, renew, replace, maintain, and operate garbage dumpsites and garbage collection and disposal systems, sewers, drains, sept
• § 6512.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of furnishing water in the district for any present or future beneficial use, the Winton Sanitary District may exercise any of the powers of
• § 6512.6 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of furnishing water in the district for any present or future beneficial use, the Lost Hills Sanitary District may exercise any of the power
• § 6512.7 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 6512 and the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 5 of the Government Code), for the purp
• § 6513 — It may permit the use of any property of the district by any county or municipality, or any other district or governmental agency.
• § 6514 — It may, for the purposes specified in this part, acquire by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation proceedings, or otherwise, such real and personal property and rights of way, either within or without
• § 6514.1 — (a) A district may lease, for a term not exceeding 99 years, subject to periodic review, district property that will not be needed for district purposes during the term of the lease, as a means of pro
• § 6515 — It may make and accept contracts, deeds, releases, and documents that, in the judgment of the board, are necessary or proper in the exercise of any of the powers of the district.
• § 6516 — It may pay lawful claims and demands against it.
• § 6517 — It may employ and pay necessary agents and assistants.
• § 6518 — It may lay its sewers and drains in any public street or road in the county, and for this purpose enter upon it and make all necessary and proper excavations, restoring it to proper condition.
• § 6518.5 — It may collect waste and garbage.
• § 6519 — It may call and conduct all necessary or proper elections.
• § 6520 — It may compel all residents and property owners in the district to connect their houses and habitations and structures requiring sewerage or drainage disposal service with the sewers and storm drains
• § 6520.1 — It may prohibit any resident or property owner in the district from connecting any house, habitation, or structure requiring sewerage or drainage disposal service to any privately owned sewer or storm
• § 6520.10 — On or before August 10, the board may certify to the board of supervisors and county auditor a statement of any delinquent and unpaid charges for sewer and other services, or either, requested in writ
• § 6520.11 — A district shall notify the assessee shown on the latest equalized assessment roll whenever delinquent and unpaid charges for sewer and other services, or either, which could become a lien on the prop
• § 6520.12 — In the event any charges for sewer and other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the district be secured at any time by recording in the office
• § 6520.2 — It may require any resident or property owner in the district who desires to have any house, habitation, or structure connected to a sewer or drainage disposal line owned by the district to pay his pr
• § 6520.3 — Any sanitary district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing, or relocating any facilities owned or to be owned
• § 6520.5 — It may, by an order approved by a two-thirds vote of the members of the board, prescribe, revise and collect, fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges for services and facilities furnished by it
• § 6520.6 — The district board may, by resolution, abandon action for the collection of any district tax assessment, connection charge, service charge, penalty, cost, fee, assessment, fine, or other money owed th
• § 6520.7 — It may sell, or otherwise dispose of, any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other byproduct resulting from the operation of a sewerage system, sewage disposal plant, refuse disposal plant or proc
• § 6520.9 — It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipelines or other works as may be necessary to conserve and put to beneficial use any water or recycled effluent recovered from the operation of the waste
• § 6521 — It may make and enforce all necessary and proper regulations for: (a) The removal of garbage.
• § 6521.5 — Any district may exercise the power granted to sanitation districts by Section 4765 of this code.
• § 6522 — It may do any act necessary or proper to the complete exercise and effect of any of its powers, or for the purposes for which it is formed.
• § 6522.1 — No regulation or ordinance of a district which regulates or prescribes standards for the installation of plumbing inside of buildings and structures, shall be effective within any county, city and cou
• § 6523 — A violation of a regulation or ordinance of a district is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 30 days, or by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), o
• § 6523.1 — It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and also refund or retire any public indebted
• § 6523.2 — In order to effect its powers, it may enter upon private property for the purpose of inspection and maintenance of sanitary and waste disposal facilities and may terminate service to property in which
• § 6523.3 — In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, the district may correct any violation of an ordinance of the district.
• § 6524 — Any district organized under the provisions of this act may become a part of a county sanitation district after the board of supervisors of the county within which the district is located, has, after
• § 6525 — A sanitary district which becomes a part of a county sanitation district as hereinabove provided for is not thereby dissolved, but may continue to function, except as herein otherwise provided, in the
• § 6526 — When a sanitary district is not included in a county sanitation district at the time of formation of the latter, it may subsequently become included within such county sanitation district, upon its sa
• § 6527 — Following the formation of such county sanitation district it shall have no jurisdiction within such sanitary district until the legislative body of such sanitary district shall, by resolution adopted
• § 6528 — Copies of the resolutions herein mentioned, duly certified by the clerk or secretary of the respective legislative bodies, shall be filed with the county clerk, in the respective files of such sanitar
• § 6529 — Nothing herein shall prevent any territory within a county sanitation district from being formed into or annexed to any sanitary district, and such territory shall thereafter become subject to this ar
• § 6530 — At any time after the sewer or other sanitary system is constructed the governing body of any city lying within the limits of the district may elect to keep and maintain the lateral sewer lying within
• § 6530.1 — Whenever any portion of a district has been included within a city by annexation, incorporation, or otherwise, the governing body of such city may elect, upon agreement by the district, to construct n
• § 6531 — Where an entire district shall have heretofore become located within the boundaries of a city by reason of the incorporation thereof, and said district shall have continued thereafter to function as a
• § 6540 — The governing board may order the construction of sewers, drains, septic tanks, and sewerage collection, outfall, treatment works and other sanitary disposal systems, and storm water drains and storm
• § 6541 — The Improvement Act of 1911, the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, and the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 are applicable to districts.
• § 6542 — In the application of those acts to proceedings under this article the terms used in those acts shall have the following meanings: (a) “City council” and “council” mean board.
• § 6543 — The powers and duties conferred by those acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards, officers, and agents of the district.
• § 6544 — The improvements authorized to be constructed or acquired by this article are restricted to those permitted to be constructed or acquired by such districts under Article 1 of this chapter.
• § 6550.1 — An improvement district may be formed to undertake any project for any one or more of the purposes stated in Section 6512 that is of special benefit to the area of such improvement district, including
• § 6550.10 — Except as otherwise provided in this article, notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as elections for the authorization of bonds of the e
• § 6550.11 — No irregularities or informalities in conducting such election shall invalidate the same, if the election shall have otherwise been fairly conducted.
• § 6550.12 — Any moneys required to be raised from taxes for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on bonds of the district for an improvement district shall be derived exclusively from an annual tax
• § 6550.13 — Subject to such limitations as may be contained in the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed, the district board shall have the power in any year to cause taxes to be levied and c
• § 6550.14 — The procedure for levying and collecting taxes in any improvement district shall be the same as is provided in Chapter 7 (commencing at Section 6695) of this part for taxes on property in districts.
• § 6550.15 — All taxes collected pursuant to this article shall be expended only for the payment of bond principal and interest, or only for the improvement district project for which levied, except that any surpl
• § 6550.16 — For the purpose of any tax levied under this article, the properties within any improvement district shall be deemed to be equally benefited.
• § 6550.17 — Territory within a district, but not a part of an improvement district created pursuant to this article, may be annexed to such improvement district whether or not contiguous thereto.
• § 6550.18 — Annexation of territory to an improvement district shall be initiated by a resolution of the district board which shall contain at least all of the following: (a) A description of the territory propos
• § 6550.19 — The resolution shall be published and notice of the hearing on the proposed annexation shall be given, in the manner required by Section 6550.
• § 6550.2 — The formation of an improvement district shall be initiated by a resolution of the district board which shall contain all of the following: (a) A description of the proposed boundaries of the improvem
• § 6550.20 — The hearing on the proposed annexation shall be held in the manner required by Section 6550.
• § 6550.21 — The district board shall have the power to change the boundaries of territory proposed to be annexed to an improvement district, but shall not include any territory which, in its judgment, will not be
• § 6550.22 — If the district board proposes to change the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed by adding territory thereto, it shall give notice thereof in the manner provided in Section 6550.
• § 6550.23 — At the conclusion of the hearing, the district board may, by resolution, order the annexation to the improvement district of such territory as it determines will be benefited by inclusion therein.
• § 6550.24 — If all the owners of land within the territory proposed to be annexed have given their written assent to such annexation, the board may, by resolution, order such an annexation without notice and hear
• § 6550.25 — After the adoption of a resolution ordering such annexation, or a resolution confirming an order of annexation following an election thereon, the secretary shall file a certified copy thereof with a m
• § 6550.26 — Territory annexed to an improvement district shall be subject to existing bond issues and indebtedness of the improvement district from and after the filing with the county assessor specified in Secti
• § 6550.3 — The secretary shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing by causing a copy of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 6550.
• § 6550.4 — The hearing on the proposed improvement district shall be held by the board of directors upon the date and at the time specified in the resolution initiating proceedings.
• § 6550.5 — The district board shall have power to change the boundaries of the proposed improvement district, the project to be undertaken, the estimate of the cost of the project, the method by which the projec
• § 6550.6 — If the district board proposes to change the boundaries of the proposed improvement district by adding territory thereto, the project, the estimate of cost, or the method by which the project is to be
• § 6550.7 — If prior to the conclusion of the hearing written protests against the formation of the proposed improvement district or the proposed project signed by the current holders of title to taxable property
• § 6550.8 — At the conclusion of the hearing, if the proceedings are not terminated pursuant to Section 6550.
• § 6550.9 — When the district board has made its determinations as provided in Section 6550.
• § 6560 — The election on the question of formation of a district shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the Uniform District Election Law.
• § 6561 — Every voter resident within the district or a proposed district for the period requisite to enable him to vote at a general election, is entitled to vote at district elections.
• § 6562 — At an annexation election every qualified voter resident in the territory proposed to be annexed for the length of time necessary to enable him to vote at a general election may vote.
• § 6563 — At district elections the last great register of the county shall be used, and any person otherwise entitled to vote whose name is not upon the register is entitled to vote upon producing and filing w
• § 6580 — Except as provided in Sections 6580.
• § 6580.1 — The election of officers may be consolidated with the direct primary election if the board of directors passes a resolution to that effect on or before the first day of August of the preceding odd-num
• § 6580.2 — An officer elected or appointed pursuant to Section 6580.
• § 6585 — The nominating petition may be upon one or more sheets of paper.
• § 6590 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this article shall apply only to the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District.
• § 6591 — (a) In the case of an elected district board, the directors may be elected by divisions if a majority of the voters voting upon the question are in favor of the question at a general district or speci
• § 6592 — In the case of a district board elected by election divisions, the district board shall adjust the boundaries of the election divisions before November 1 of the year following the year in which each d
• § 6593 — (a) Before circulating any petition pursuant to Section 6591, the chief petitioners shall publish a notice of intention which shall include a written statement not to exceed 500 words in length, setti
• § 6594 — (a) Sections 100 and 104 of the Elections Code shall govern the signing of the petition and the format of the petition.
• § 6595 — (a) Within 30 days after the date of filing a petition, the secretary of the district board shall cause the petition to be examined and shall prepare a certificate of sufficiency indicating whether th
• § 6610 — Notice of bond elections shall be given by posting notices, signed by not less than a majority of the board, in three public places in the district, at least one of which shall be in each county in wh
• § 6611 — The notice shall contain: (a) Time and place of holding the election.
• § 6612 — The vote shall be by ballot, without reference to the general law in regard to form of ballot.
• § 6613 — After the votes have been announced the ballots shall be sealed and delivered to the secretary or president of the board, which board shall on the seventh day after the election meet and canvass the r
• § 6640 — A district may issue bonds as provided in this part.
• § 6641 — A district may issue bonds to raise money for any of the purposes stated in Section 6512 hereof.
• § 6642 — By order entered in its minutes, when in its judgment it is advisable, the board may and shall, upon a petition of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the district, call an election and s
• § 6643 — The order calling the election may submit as one proposal the question of issuing bonds to make all of the outlays, or so many of them as may be selected, or the order may submit at the election as se
• § 6644 — If, at the election, two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of bonds, the board may issue and dispose of the bonds as proposed in the order calling the election.
• § 6645 — Bonds issued by the district under the provisions of this part shall be of such denomination or denominations as the board determines.
• § 6646 — The bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer and bear interest at a rate not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable semiannually in like lawful money.
• § 6647 — No bonds shall be payable in installments, but each shall be payable in full on the date specified therein by the board, which need not be an anniversary of the date of the bond.
• § 6648 — Each bond shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary.
• § 6649 — The bonds shall be sold by the board in such manner and in such quantities as may be determined by it in its discretion but not less than 95 percent of the par value thereof.