California

Water Code

10,139 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 39010 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
• § 39011 — The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
• § 39012 — “District” means any water storage district formed pursuant to the California Water Storage District Act or this division.
• § 39013 — “Include,” except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district, does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
• § 39014 — “Land,” except in Chapter 2 of Part 10, means land in the district or proposed district involved.
• § 39015 — “Affected county” means any county in which land is situated.
• § 39016 — “Board” means the board of directors of a district.
• § 39017 — “President” means the president of the board.
• § 39018 — “Secretary” means the secretary of the board.
• § 39019 — “Treasurer” means the treasurer of a district.
• § 39020 — “Holder of title” includes a holder of evidence of title and, also, a holder of land under a possessory right acquired by entry or purchase from the United States or the State of California.
• § 39021 — “Property,” except in Part 9, embraces all real and personal property, including water, water rights, works, franchises, concessions and rights.
• § 39022 — “Works” includes water works, conduits, reservoirs, storage sites, water sheds, machinery, wells, pumps, dams, storage tanks, tunnels, hydrants, meters, other appliances, and their appurtenances.
• § 39023 — “Conduit” includes canals, laterals, ditches, flumes, pipes, and their appurtenances.
• § 39024 — “Acquire” includes construct, purchase, lease, exchange, condemn, jointly acquire when joint acquisition is permitted, and contract to acquire.
• § 39025 — “Dispose” includes sell, contract to lease, contract to sell, and the making of any instrument necessary therefor.
• § 39026 — “Operate” includes use, maintain, and repair.
• § 39027 — “General election” is the election required to be held in districts in each odd-numbered year.
• § 39028 — “Special election” means any election other than a general election.
• § 39030 — “Acknowledged” means acknowledged and certified in the same form and manner as is required for recording of conveyances of real property.
• § 39031 — “Office county” means the county in which the office of the district is kept.
• § 39033 — “Other district” means any district or other public agency formed under any law of the state.
• § 39034 — “Principal county” means the county in which the greater portion of the land of a district is located.
• § 39035 — “Board of supervisors” means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
• § 39050 — For all purposes of this division relating to signing petitions and voting at any election, and for all other purposes when the question of title to or value of land claimed to be owned by a petitione
• § 39051 — If any parcel of land is assessed on any assessment roll to unknown or fictitiously named owners or to unnamed owners in addition to any owners named thereon, the parcel of land shall be deemed for an
• § 39052 — The holder of title to an undivided interest in land affected by any of the provisions of this division may sign any petition or vote at any election provided for in this division, and such undivided
• § 39053 — If the assessment roll fails to indicate the extent of any undivided interest the holders of title whose undivided interests in any land are not specifically defined shall be deemed to have equal shar
• § 39054 — The certificate of the register of the United States Land Office for the district in which the land is situated, or of the State Lands Commission, is sufficient evidence of possessory right in any lan
• § 39055 — Guardians, conservators, personal representatives, and other persons holding land in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign any petition and may vote at any election in behalf of the est
• § 39056 — A certificate of acknowledgment taken before a notary public or justice of the peace of any state, or an affidavit by any person in the presence of whom a petition was signed, is sufficient evidence o
• § 39057 — Whenever any notice or publication, or notice of publication, or official advertising, or publication of process is required to be given or made by the provisions of this division, unless otherwise sp
• § 39058 — As to any land belonging to a person under guardianship or conservatorship or comprised in the undistributed estate of a decedent, the guardian or conservator of such person or executor or administrat
• § 39059 — The powers herein conferred upon the department and board are police and regulatory powers and are necessary to the accomplishment of a purpose that is indispensable to the public interest.
• § 39060 — The districts formed pursuant to this division are districts of the nature of irrigation, reclamation, or drainage districts in respect to all matters contemplated in the provisions of the Constitutio
• § 39080 — The department shall have the powers and duties conferred upon it by this division and further powers and authority necessary to enable it to fully perform the duties imposed upon it by this division,
• § 39081 — The department shall give information, so far as may be practicable, to persons contemplating the formation of a district.
• § 39082 — Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of proposed district projects shall be made at the expense of the State the department shall m
• § 39400 — A majority in number of the holders of title to land irrigated or susceptible of irrigation from a common source and by the same system of works, who are also the holders of title to a majority in val
• § 39401 — The proposed district may include land situated in other distinctive district agencies of the State, including other water storage districts having different plans and purposes and the object of which
• § 39402 — The land proposed to be formed into a district need not consist of contiguous parcels.
• § 39425 — A petition for the formation of a district shall set forth generally: (a) The boundaries of the proposed district or a description of the land.
• § 39426 — The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
• § 39427 — The petitioners shall file with the petition a list of the names and addresses of all persons holding title to land within the proposed district as shown by the last equalized assessment roll of each
• § 39428 — The petition shall also be accompanied by a sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the department, in double the amount of the probable cost of forming the district as estimated by the department,
• § 39429 — The department may require the furnishing of any additional undertaking or payment of money it deems necessary.
• § 39430 — The formation petition and accompanying documents shall be presented to and filed with the department.
• § 39431 — Signatures to the petition may be withdrawn at any time before its publication is commenced by filing a declaration signed and acknowledged by the petitioner with the department stating that it is the
• § 39440 — Upon the presentation and filing of the formation petition and undertaking the department shall forthwith fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition.
• § 39460 — The department shall publish the formation petition and a notice of the time and place of the hearing on the petition in each affected county once a week for three successive weeks before the hearing.
• § 39461 — The notice shall not be published until five days after the filing of the petition and undertaking in the office of the department.
• § 39462 — When the petition consists of a number of separate instruments, only one copy need be published, but the names attached to all of the instruments shall appear in the publication.
• § 39463 — The notice shall be issued by the department, shall refer to the petition, and shall be directed to the petitioners, all other persons holding title to land, and all other persons interested in or aff
• § 39464 — No defect in the form or contents of the published notice, title to it, or petition, nor failure to publish or error in publishing any signature to the petition shall vitiate the proceedings.
• § 39465 — The department shall give personal notice by registered mail to all holders of title to land whose names and addresses appear on the list filed pursuant to Section 39427.
• § 39466 — The department shall make and keep for public inspection an affidavit giving the date of mailing and the names and addresses of holders of title to land to whom notices were sent.
• § 39600 — The department shall determine the practicability, feasibility, and utility of the proposed project, and for that purpose may make all necessary studies, examinations, surveys, plans, and estimates of
• § 39601 — The department, for the purposes of the determination, may employ all necessary assistants, or acquire and use any existing estimates, surveys, and reports.
• § 39602 — The total of all expenses incurred pursuant to this chapter shall not exceed a sum in dollars equal in amount to one-fourth the number of acres in the proposed district and is a part of the expense of
• § 39603 — The department shall issue warrants to pay expenses incurred pursuant to this chapter, which warrants shall be considered and treated as warrants of the district and shall be payable out of the funds
• § 39604 — Provision may be made for payment of warrants issued pursuant to this article in any bond issue authorized for the purposes of the district.
• § 39605 — If the district is not organized, any warrants issued by the department shall be a charge upon the undertakings provided for in this part and shall thereupon become due and payable by the sureties on
• § 39750 — At the hearing the department shall determine and express by order whether or not the petition and notice complies with this part.
• § 39751 — The department shall hear all competent and relevant testimony offered in support of or in opposition to the sufficiency of the petition and the publication of the notice.
• § 39752 — The hearing may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding 30 days in all.
• § 39753 — If the department determines that any of the requirements of this part were not complied with, the petition shall be dismissed without prejudice to the right of the proper number of persons to present
• § 39775 — If the department determines that all requirements of Chapter 1 of this part were complied with, the department shall forthwith hear the petition and all evidence offered in its support and in support
• § 39776 — At the conclusion of the final hearing on the petition the department shall make an order containing all of the following: (a) Reaffirmance when it is consistent with its conclusions of the genuinenes
• § 39777 — The order on final hearing shall also divide the proposed district into five, seven, nine, or eleven divisions so as to segregate into separate divisions lands possessing the same general character of
• § 39778 — The order shall be entered in full upon the records of the department.
• § 39779 — A copy of the order certified by the department together with a map showing the exterior boundaries of the district and indicating the land, if any, excluded therefrom shall forthwith be filed for rec
• § 39800 — A finding of the department in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and the regularity and sufficiency of the notice shall be conclusive against all persons except the State upon s
• § 39900 — Upon filing the order on final hearing of the formation petition, the department shall within 60 days give notice of an election to be held in the proposed district for the purpose of determining whet
• § 39901 — The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district or the land included.
• § 39902 — The notice of the formation election shall be published once a week for at least three weeks prior to the election in each affected county.
• § 39903 — In the order calling the election, the department shall designate voting places and appoint three holders of title to land to act as a board of election at each voting place.
• § 39925 — Not less than 10 days before the formation election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the proposed district may file with the department a petition requesting that the name of a specified pers
• § 39926 — For the purposes of the formation election the department shall establish and define the boundaries of one or more election precincts for each division in the proposed district.
• § 39927 — The formation election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this division concerning general elections, but no particular form of ballot shall be required.
• § 39928 — At the formation election there shall be elected a board of directors corresponding in number to the number of divisions in the district.
• § 39929 — No director shall be elected by the district at large, but one director shall be elected by each division to represent that division.
• § 39930 — The directors shall qualify in the same manner as directors elected at a general election, as provided in this division.
• § 39931 — On the ballots provided for the formation election shall be printed: (a) To the right of or below the question on the ballot, the words “Yes” and “No” on separate lines, with voting targets.
• § 39932 — The department shall on the second Monday following the formation election canvass the votes cast thereat and if upon the canvass it appears that a majority of all the votes cast at the formation elec
• § 39933 — If upon the canvass it appears that a majority of all the votes cast are “Water storage district—No,” the result shall be declared and recorded in the records kept by the department.
• § 4 — No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the provisions of this code
• § 400 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Weather Resources Management Act of 1984.
• § 4000 — As used in this part, “service area” applies to watermaster districts heretofore established and to watermaster service areas hereafter established pursuant to this part.
• § 4001 — As used in this part, “conduit” includes ditches, pipe lines, and other means of diversion.
• § 4002 — Any duty or authority vested in a watermaster may be exercised by the watermaster directly or through the agency of a deputy watermaster, if there is one.
• § 4003 — As used in this part, “fiscal year” means the year beginning July 1 of any calendar year and ending June 30 of the following calendar year.
• § 401 — It is hereby declared that atmospheric water within the state which is caused to fall by weather resources management activities shall, for the purpose of water rights determinations, be considered as
• § 40100 — If a majority of all the votes cast at the formation election are “Water storage district—Yes,” the department shall by an order entered in the records kept by it, declare the territory formed as a di
• § 40101 — The department shall immediately file for record in the office of the county recorder of each affected county a certified copy of the order declaring the district formed.
• § 40102 — From the filing for record of the order declaring the district formed the formation of the district is complete.
• § 40103 — At the time the department declares the district formed it shall issue certificates of election to each person elected a director.
• § 40104 — The department shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district.
• § 402 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Weather resources management” means attempting to produce by physical means any of the following: cloud water conversion, light adjustment, or weather hazard suppression.
• § 4025 — The department shall divide the State into watermaster service areas so constituted and adjusted as to insure the most practical and economical supervision of the distribution of water on the part of
• § 4026 — Service areas shall be created from time to time as rights to water are ascertained and determined.
• § 4027 — The rights may be ascertained and determined by any or all of the following: (a) Under procedure provided for in this division; (b) Under procedure provided by law, other than this division; (c) By ag
• § 4028 — When rights are ascertained and determined by agreement, the agreement shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which is situated any water rights involved, and in the
• § 4028.5 — When rights are ascertained and determined by court decree, certified copies of the decree shall be recorded as agreements are required to be recorded by Section 4028.
• § 4029 — Upon the creation of a service area the department shall record in the office of the county recorder of each county in which a portion of the service area is situated a certified copy of the order cre
• § 4030 — From time to time the department shall record supplemental or revised descriptions as the descriptions are changed.
• § 40300 — Directors, irrespective of the method of their selection, take office as soon as they qualify, except that directors elected at a general election take office at the commencement of the regular meetin
• § 40301 — Within 10 days after receiving his certificate of election or being appointed, each director shall take and subscribe the official oath, and file it in the office of the district and execute the bond
• § 40302 — The members of the board elected at the formation election shall at their first meeting classify themselves by lot into two classes as nearly equal in number as possible.
• § 40303 — After such classification the board shall elect a president from their number and appoint a secretary and treasurer, each of whom shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.
• § 40304 — On the day of the regular meeting of the board in April next following each general election, the directors shall meet and organize as a board, elect a president and appoint a secretary and a treasure
• § 40305 — The board may elect a vice president and appoint an assistant secretary to serve during the pleasure of the board.
• § 40306 — The term of office of each director elected after the formation election shall be four years, and until his or her successor is elected and has qualified.
• § 40307 — In order to be nominated and eligible for the office of director, a candidate shall be a holder of title within the district.
• § 4032 — Service areas may be enlarged, reduced, consolidated, or abolished from time to time as convenience of administration may require.
• § 40330 — The amount of the bond to be given by the secretary for the faithful performance of his duties shall be fixed by the board.
• § 40331 — The treasurer of the district shall execute a bond in an amount to be fixed by the board, the minimum amount thereof not to be less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
• § 40332 — Each member of the board shall execute a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000).
• § 40333 — The bonds of the first directors of any district may be approved by a judge of the superior court of any affected county and recorded in the office of the recorder of such county.
• § 40334 — The bonds of the directors, other than the first directors, shall be approved by a judge of the superior court, recorded in the office of the recorder of the office county, and filed with the secretar
• § 40335 — All bonds shall be made payable to the district and be in the form prescribed for the official bonds of county officers.
• § 40336 — If any district is appointed fiscal agent of or by the United States in connection with any federal reclamation project, the directors and the treasurer shall each execute an additional bond in the su
• § 40355 — (a) A director, when sitting on the board or acting under its orders, shall receive not exceeding: (1) One hundred dollars ($100) per day, not exceeding six days in any calendar month.
• § 40356 — The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to all other officers and employees provided for in this division, to be paid out of the treasury of the district, except as otherwise provided by this
• § 40383 — For wilful violation of any express duty provided for in this division on the part of any officer named in this division, he shall be liable upon his official bond and subject to removal from office b
• § 4050 — (a) Upon written request submitted to the department by the owners or governing bodies of at least 15 percent of the conduits lawfully entitled to directly divert water from the streams or other sourc
• § 40500 — A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
• § 4051 — The department may from time to time discontinue watermaster service in any service area, if necessity therefor ceases, and revive the service whenever and as frequently as necessity exists.
• § 4052 — The watermaster shall be properly qualified and shall perform the duties imposed on him by this part as an employee under the general supervision and control of the department.
• § 4053 — Watermasters, in addition to compensation for their services, shall receive necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
• § 40650 — The directors elected at the formation election shall on the first Tuesday after their election and qualification meet and organize as a board and designate an office of the board, which shall also be
• § 40651 — The board shall hold a regular meeting each month at the place selected as the district office.
• § 40652 — The board may by resolution duly entered upon its minutes fix any other time or place for the regular monthly meeting, but no such change shall become effective until after the resolution making it ha
• § 40653 — Special meetings of the board may be held as required for the proper transaction of the business of the district, but shall be ordered by a majority of the board.
• § 40654 — The order calling a special meeting shall be entered of record and specify the business to be transacted.
• § 40655 — No other business than that specified in the order may be transacted at a special meeting unless all the members are present and consent to the consideration of any business not specified in the order
• § 40656 — All meetings of the board shall be public and a majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
• § 40657 — All records of the board shall be open to public inspection during business hours.
• § 40657.5 — A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• § 40658 — The board shall manage and conduct the business of the district.
• § 40659 — The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or before January 1, 1964, listing: (a) The name of the district.
• § 40800 — The office of the board and its place of meetings may be changed by a majority vote of the board, but no such change shall become effective until after the resolution making it has been published once
• § 410 — Before commencing a weather resources management project, the project operator shall file with the department and cause to be published a notice of intention.
• § 4100 — The owner of every conduit subject to regulation by a watermaster shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable diversion dam or works in the channel
• § 41000 — Only the holders of title to land are entitled to vote at a general election.
• § 41001 — Each voter may vote in each precinct in which any of the land owned by him is situated and may cast one vote for each one hundred dollars ($100), or fraction thereof, worth of his land, exclusive of i
• § 41002 — Each male or female voter over the age of 18 years may vote in person or by proxy.
• § 41003 — Any guardian, conservator, administrator, or executor, of a person or estate owning land within the district shall be considered the holder of title to land for the purposes of this division, where th
• § 41004 — Any corporation holding title to land within the district is entitled to vote through any officer or agent authorized in writing under the seal of the corporation.
• § 41005 — No person shall vote by proxy unless his authority to cast such vote is evidenced by an instrument acknowledged and filed with the board of election.
• § 41006 — Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this division, if a holder of title to land enters into a contract for the sale of the land on deferred installments of the purchase price, the p
• § 41007 — At least 20 days prior to any district election, the secretary shall prepare a list for each precinct showing: (a) The names of the holders of title to land who enter into contracts of sale, as shown
• § 41008 — Each precinct list shall be delivered to the election board for the precinct prior to the election.
• § 41009 — At least five days prior to each election, the secretary shall notify in writing each holder of title to land named as the seller in any contract on file in his office that the contract has been filed
• § 4101 — The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable headgate in the conduit through which the water is diverted at or near the diver
• § 41010 — Any person entitled to vote at a district election may challenge the right of a purchaser to vote in accordance with the provisions of Section 41006.
• § 41011 — Where property has been conveyed prior to the election and the change of interest does not appear by the assessment roll, the original deed of conveyance or a copy thereof certified by the county reco
• § 41012 — Any person not legally qualified to vote who makes any false statement in respect to his right to vote shall incur all of the penalties provided in the Elections Code for persons illegally voting at e
• § 41013 — The department prior to the formation election, and at all subsequent elections the board, shall prepare, certify, and furnish to the election board at each voting place in the district a copy of each
• § 41014 — The department or the board shall likewise prepare and furnish to the election boards lists certified by the register of the United States Land Office or the State Lands Commission, as the case may be
• § 41015 — The lists shall contain the names of the persons entitled to possessory rights and the quantity of land held by each.
• § 41016 — The most recent county assessment rolls and lists, or, if applicable, the election roll prepared in accordance with Section 41027, shall be used by the election boards in determining the qualification
• § 41017 — Where a tract of land is situated partly within and partly without the boundaries of a precinct and the assessment roll contains a valuation of the tract as a whole, the tract must be apportioned acco
• § 41018 — If there is included in any assessment roll or list furnished to an election board any land which has no valuation assigned to it, the department or the board, as the case may be, shall request the co
• § 41019 — The value shall be arrived at as nearly as may be done in the same manner and upon the same basis as was the valuation for purposes of taxation assessed upon other lands in the precinct similarly situ
• § 4102 — The headgate shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the watermaster.
• § 41020 — The valuation made by the county assessor shall be furnished to the election board of the precinct in which the land is situated and shall be used by the election board in determining the number of vo
• § 41025 — As an alternative to using the most recent county assessment roll, the board may cause an election roll to be prepared and used for determining ownership and value of parcels for all purposes involvin
• § 41026 — (a) The board shall have a preliminary election roll prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) by a registered civil engineer.
• § 41027 — (a) The board shall hold a public hearing to receive any testimony regarding the preliminary election roll.
• § 41028 — The final election roll shall be used for all purposes relating to elections, until subsequently modified in accordance with the procedures set forth in this chapter, or until the board elects at leas
• § 4103 — The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain such water flow measuring devices at such points along the conduit as may be required and approved by the department for the purpose of assisting th
• § 4104 — If the owner of any conduit refuses or neglects to construct and maintain the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days’ notice by the d
• § 411 — The project operator shall cause the notice of intention to be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper having a general circulation and published within any county whe
• § 41150 — The board shall establish a convenient number of election precincts in the district and define the boundaries thereof.
• § 41151 — The board may at any time, but not less than 60 days before an election to be held in the district, change the boundaries of any election precinct.
• § 41153 — The redivision order of the board shall be filed in the office of the secretary and a copy certified by the secretary shall be filed with the department.
• § 41154 — The board shall at its next regular meeting establish a convenient number of election precincts in each of the new divisions.
• § 41155 — The directors in office at the time new divisions are established shall continue in office for the divisions from which they were elected until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected,
• § 412 — Proof of publication shall be by copy of the notice as published attached to and made a part of the affidavit of the publisher or foreman of the newspaper publishing the notice.
• § 4125 — The owner of every reservoir which is subject to regulation by a watermaster and which is located across or upon the bed of a natural stream or requires the use of a natural stream channel shall const
• § 4126 — If the owner of any reservoir neglects or refuses to construct and maintain the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days’ notice by the department, the watermaster may open the out
• § 41300 — An election, known as the general water storage district election, shall be held in each district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each odd-numbered year, at which a successor s
• § 41301 — Prior to the election, the board shall appoint for each precinct, from the voters thereof, one inspector and two judges, who constitute an election board for the precinct.
• § 41302 — Not less than 24 days before a general election, the secretary shall give notice of the election by causing a notice to be published once a week for three successive weeks in each affected county and
• § 41303 — Affidavits of the publication and posting of the election notices shall be filed with the county elections official of each affected county, together with a copy of the order calling the election, cer
• § 41304 — The board shall, by order made more than 24 days before the time for election, designate a convenient place within each precinct as the polling place of the precinct.
• § 41305 — Not less than 60 days before the election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the district may file with the board a petition requesting that the name of a specified person be placed on the ball
• § 41306 — The petitions shall be preserved in the office of the secretary.
• § 41307 — If, by the 59th day prior to the election, only one person has been nominated as provided in Section 41305 for any elective office to be filled at that election, or no one has been nominated for that
• § 41308 — Not less than 84 days before a general election, the secretary shall give notice of the provisions of Sections 41305 and 41307 by causing a notice to be published one time in each affected county stat
• § 41330 — The ballots used at the election shall be provided by the board.
• § 41331 — One of the judges of the election shall deliver to each of the voters one ballot for the votes to which the voter is entitled by this division.
• § 41332 — Each ballot cast shall contain the number of votes it represents, which number shall be written or stamped upon it by an election officer and initialed by him when handed to the voter.
• § 41333 — Each ballot shall have a perforated tab which shall be marked with the initials of a member of the board of election of the precinct immediately before being handed to the voter.
• § 41334 — The perforated tab shall be torn from the ballot by the inspector immediately before the voted ballot is placed in the ballot-box, and shall be preserved by him and sent with the ballots to the secret
• § 41335 — The ballots shall have printed on them the names of all candidates whose names have been filed as provided in this division, with a voting square to the right of each name.
• § 41336 — The names shall be arranged in groups under the designation of the office for which each person named is a candidate, in order determined by random drawing following the procedures provided by the Ele
• § 41337 — The ballots in each division of the district shall contain names of persons to be voted for as director to represent that division only.
• § 41338 — No director shall be elected by the district at large, unless a court of competent jurisdiction has determined or hereinafter so determines.
• § 41360 — If the board fails to appoint an election board or the members appointed do not attend at the opening of the polls on the morning of election, the voters of the precinct present at that hour may appoi