California

Water Code

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

• § 5107 — (a) The making of any willful misstatement pursuant to this part is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exce
• § 511 — The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
• § 512 — “Water purveyor” means any person who furnishes water service to another person.
• § 51200 — The assessments levied by a district shall include all lands and rights of way within the district, owned by the State or by any city, county, public corporation, or utility district formed under the
• § 51201 — The assessments upon those lands or rights of way shall be levied in proportion to the benefits in the same manner as assessments are levied upon other lands or rights of way within the district.
• § 51202 — The governing body of the State, city, county, public corporation, or any utility district formed under the laws of this State owning land or rights of way on which an assessment has been levied by a
• § 51203 — No land or rights of way owned by the State, or any city, county, public corporation, or any utility district formed under the laws of the State shall be sold for nonpayment of an assessment.
• § 51204 — A district may take the procedure prescribed by Chapter 2, Title 1, Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure to compel the payment of any assessment lawfully levied by it upon the land or rights of way w
• § 51205 — When any parcel appearing on an assessment list is deeded in whole, the board may, by a minute order, cause to be made such changes in the assessment list as are necessary to show the name of the new
• § 51206 — (a) Prior to the levy of any installment upon an original or additional assessment, or the levy of an operation and maintenance assessment, in one or more installments, by a district pursuant to this
• § 51207 — Any costs associated with notices, public hearings, or filing charges with the board required pursuant to this division shall be recovered through charges, fees, or assessments.
• § 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 of supervisors shall appoint three asses
• § 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 according to the benefits that will accr
• § 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 the board of supervisors, or, if bonds o
• § 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, the board shall so report to the board of
• § 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 provided in Section 51230.
• § 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 of the district have been issued upon th
• § 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 description of each parcel assessed, by leg
• § 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 list, or if there is an error in any othe
• § 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 assessment.
• § 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 county.
• § 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 state the grounds of objections and be ve
• § 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 supervisors.
• § 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 reapportionment of the entire assessment.
• § 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 publish notice of the hearing as provide
• § 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 hear that objection in the same manner as up
• § 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 shall proceed in a similar manner until the
• § 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 charges were levied according to law, ex
• § 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 with the county treasurer.
• § 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 of the other counties.
• § 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 filing constitutes notice thereof to all pe
• § 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, except as provided in reference to the u
• § 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 proceeding, to perform its duties as requir
• § 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 approving the list may commence an action i
• § 51260 — If the action is not commenced within 30 days, no action or defense shall thereafter be maintained attacking the legality of the assessment.
• § 513 — “Person” means any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or public entity of any kind.
• § 51300 — If the original assessment is insufficient to provide for the complete reclamation of district lands, or if further assessments are required to provide for the protection, maintenance and repair of th
• § 51301 — If any part of the principal or interest of bonds or refunding bonds is unpaid after enforcement of the assessment securing such bonds, the board of supervisors shall order an additional or supplement
• § 51301.5 — Whenever the board shall call for redemption any bonds which by their terms are subject to call and redemption at the option of the district at a premium, then, unless district funds are otherwise ava
• § 51302 — An assessment levied pursuant to this article shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the original assessment.
• § 51320 — When the work contemplated by the original or any supplemental reclamation plan is completed, the board may so report to the board of supervisors, and petition the board of supervisors to appoint valu
• § 51321 — The report and petition shall state that the work contemplated by the original or supplemental reclamation plan is completed, and that hereafter the district will only require funds for the maintenanc
• § 51322 — Upon receipt of the report and petition the board of supervisors shall appoint three valuation assessment commissioners who shall qualify in the manner provided in Section 51230.
• § 51323 — The commissioners shall view and fix upon the district land an assessment valuation per acre for each parcel which is in proportion to the benefits to be derived from the continuance in operation of t
• § 51324 — The commissioners shall prepare an operation and maintenance assessment roll in duplicate containing the following information in separate columns: (a) A description of each parcel assessed by legal s
• § 51324.5 — In preparation of the operation and maintenance assessment roll, the commissioners may, as one of the means of determining the assessment valuation per acre of each parcel, establish a base value per
• § 51325 — No error in the name of the owner or supposed owner of any parcel assessed, and no error in any other particular, shall render the assessment thereof invalid.
• § 51326 — The assessment valuations shall be used as a basis for levying assessments against the parcels described in the operation and maintenance assessment roll for the purpose of raising funds for the maint
• § 51327 — The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors in the same manner as a report made under an original, supplemental or additional pl
• § 51328 — Operation and maintenance assessment rolls adopted by any district prior to September 19, 1939, may be used for any or all of the purposes provided for in this article.
• § 51329 — Upon receipt of the operation and maintenance assessment roll the board of supervisors shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing objections thereto.
• § 51330 — No objection to the assessment valuations shall be considered by the board of supervisors, or allowed in any other action or proceeding, unless the objection is made in writing to the board of supervi
• § 51331 — Notice of the hearing shall be given in the same manner and for the same time as the notice of the hearing of objections to an original assessment.
• § 51332 — At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections and may modify or amend the assessment valuations.
• § 51332.1 — The board of supervisors shall then make an order approving the assessment valuation or any modification thereof and shall endorse the order on the assessment roll.
• § 51332.2 — The decision of the board of supervisors in approving the assessment roll is final, and thereafter the endorsed assessment roll is conclusive evidence that the assessment valuations were determined an
• § 51333 — Within 30 days after an operation and maintenance assessment roll is approved by the board of supervisors, any person aggrieved by the decision may commence an action in the superior court of the prin
• § 51334 — If the action is not commenced within 30 days after approval of the operation and maintenance assessment roll, no action or defense shall thereafter be maintained attacking the legality of the assessm
• § 51335 — When the board determines that it is necessary to raise any sum for a purpose specified in Section 51326 it shall, by order entered in its minutes, state the total amount necessary to be raised and fi
• § 51335.5 — In the event the assessment for any parcel of land separately assessed, based upon the rate fixed pursuant to Section 51335, is less than twenty-five dollars ($25), a minimum assessment may be set by
• § 51336 — Incidental expenses, as used in this article and in Section 52560 include, among other things, the difference in amount between the par value of refunding bonds and the amount less than par for which
• § 51337 — In lieu of completing the operation and maintenance assessment roll, the board may, following each levy of assessment, cause a supplement to be prepared and filed with the county treasurer setting for
• § 51338 — The board, by order entered upon its minutes and endorsed on or made a part of the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement, may direct that the payment of the assessment be made in one
• § 51339 — If the board orders payment of the total assessment inserted in column (g) in installments over a period of years, the due date and the amount of each installment shall be endorsed by, or under the di
• § 51340 — When the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement has been completed by inserting the rate and assessment in columns (f) and (g), and an order has been entered providing for the payment
• § 51341 — An assessment levy is a lien upon the parcels against which it is levied from the date the completed operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement is filed in the office of the county treasu
• § 51342 — The rate of interest on unpaid operation and maintenance assessments is 1 1 2 percent per month commencing from the date of delinquency unless the board, by resolution, adopts a lesser rate and files
• § 51343 — Additional operation and maintenance assessment levies may be made by the board, as required, so long as the operation and maintenance assessment roll remains in effect.
• § 51344 — The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be returned to and held by the board except during such periods as it is filed in the office of the county treasurer during the period of assessment
• § 51345 — The operation and maintenance assessment roll referred to in Sections 51337 to 51344, inclusive, shall be the original operation and maintenance assessment roll or a copy thereof, certified by the sec
• § 51346 — The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be used for the purposes specified in Section 51326 until the board, or landowners representing at least 15 percent of the district lands, petition
• § 51346.5 — If the valuation assessment commissioners have utilized land use categories as a basis for the assessment valuation pursuant to Section 51324.
• § 51347 — Valuation assessment commissioners appointed to prepare a new operation and maintenance assessment roll shall have the same qualifications and take the same oath as the original assessment commissione
• § 51348 — The new operation and maintenance assessment roll when prepared by the valuation assessment commissioners shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and shall be subject to the same pr
• § 51349 — No bonds shall be issued nor funds for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness of the district raised on the basis of operation and maintenance assessments.
• § 51380 — When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes is adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, or is adjudged invalid as to any parcel, or any parcel is not charged with the assessment,
• § 51381 — In the new assessment or subsequent reassessment each parcel shall be charged with that proportion of the former assessment which the benefits derived by the parcel from the reclamation for which the
• § 51382 — A new assessment or subsequent reassessment shall be made by assessment commissioners appointed by the board of supervisors as provided in Section 51230, and shall be made, approved, and collected in
• § 51383 — When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes upon district lands is adjudged invalid as a whole or as to any parcel upon which it was levied, and any landowner has paid any portion of the amount
• § 514 — “Public entity” includes a city, county, city and county, whether general law or chartered, a district, board, commission, bureau, authority, agency, department, division, section, any other political
• § 51400 — When the board has authorized the sale of refunding bonds at less than par value and has determined that it is necessary or advisable that an amount be made available to pay interest on the refunding
• § 51401 — If the board determines that it is for the best interest of the district that the supplemental assessment be levied, it shall prepare and certify an assessment list for the supplemental assessment in
• § 51402 — The amount of the supplemental assessment shall not exceed 10 percent of the principal of the refunding bonds to be sold, plus the amount to be raised by the supplemental assessment to pay interest on
• § 51403 — The amount of the supplemental assessment shall be levied only upon the parcels upon which an assessment is then outstanding for payment of the bonds to be refunded and shall be levied on such parcels
• § 51404 — The provisions of Article 1 of this chapter relating to the filing of assessment lists, hearings thereon and approval thereof, and actions to correct, modify, or annul the same apply to assessment lis
• § 51405 — When a supplemental assessment has been levied, approved, and filed, it shall be called for immediate payment and shall become delinquent by declaration made in the resolution at a specified date at l
• § 51406 — At least 30 days shall elapse between the date of call and the date of delinquency.
• § 51407 — The supplemental assessment shall not bear interest and shall be payable only in lawful money of the United States.
• § 51408 — Notice of the supplemental assessment and of the call thereon shall be served upon each owner of land in the district in the manner prescribed in Section 51519.
• § 51409 — Upon delinquency a penalty of 10 percent shall be added.
• § 51420 — At least 90 days before the interest date of bonds or refunding bonds, the county treasurer shall estimate the amount necessary to pay interest and principal maturing on the interest date, crediting t
• § 51421 — The county treasurer shall thereupon cause to be published once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which any of the district is situated a notice su
• § 51422 — If no newspaper is published in any county in which the district is situated, the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
• § 51423 — The county treasurer shall credit to the bond fund of the district all money collected by him, by sale or otherwise, upon assessments against which bonds have been issued, including interest and penal
• § 51424 — No action contesting the validity of any call of an installment of an assessment pursuant to this article may be commenced, unless commenced within six months from the due date of the call.
• § 51425 — No action to contest the validity of any credit on, or payment of, any portion of an assessment called pursuant to this article may be commenced unless commenced within six months from the date of suc
• § 51440 — When the district has obtained an irrigation system pursuant to Section 50910, and the charges for furnishing water and making water available have been fixed pursuant to Section 50911, which remain u
• § 51441 — Water charges, included as a part of an operation and maintenance assessment, when collected shall be deposited in the irrigation fund.
• § 51460 — If there are unpaid matured warrants, other than warrants payable from operation and maintenance assessment levies, on January 1st in any year, the board shall call and collect such portion of the pri
• § 51461 — When, on the first day of January in any year there are outstanding unpaid matured warrants of the district, other than warrants payable from operation and maintenance assessment levies, and there is
• § 51462 — The board shall call and collect the assessment in the manner provided in this part in the amount necessary to pay the warrants.
• § 51463 — Nothing in this article shall prevent the board from making other arrangements with holders of district warrants.
• § 51485 — The district may levy an assessment to pay the expenses of its formation, or to pay any warrants issued therefor in an amount not exceeding 2 percent of the assessed valuation of the land within the d
• § 515 — “Water service” means the sale, lease, rental, furnishing, or delivery of water for beneficial use, and includes, but is not limited to, contracting for that sale, lease, rental, furnishing, or delive
• § 51500 — The interest due on any unpaid unbonded assessment, or any part or installment thereof, may be called by the board without calling any installment of the assessment.
• § 51501 — All interest paid on any unbonded assessment shall be deposited with the county treasurer in the “warrant interest fund” and be used only for the payment of interest on warrants unless the board reque
• § 51502 — At least 90 days before any installment of interest is due on any time warrants the board shall estimate the amount necessary to pay the interest, after crediting thereon the funds in the “warrant int
• § 51503 — All provisions of this division relative to the making of calls on any unbonded assessment, or installment thereof, and the sale of property for nonpayment thereof, and redemption thereof, are applica
• § 51510 — For 30 days after the filing of the second original assessment list in the office of the county treasurer pursuant to Section 51254 the assessment shall not bear interest, except as provided by Sectio
• § 51511 — Unpaid assessments on which bonds have been issued shall bear interest at the rate of 1 1 2 percent per month from the date of the bonds originally issued thereon until the bonds and any refunding bon
• § 51512 — If a district is situated partly in different counties the assessment shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the particular parcel is situated.
• § 51513 — When the district is situated in more than one county the county treasurers of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated shall report to the county treasurer of the principal county a
• § 51514 — After the period of 30 days, all unpaid original assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 1 1 2 percent per month unless the board, by resolution, adopts a lesser rate and files a certified copy
• § 51515 — Assessments unpaid after 30 days and accrued interest thereon shall be collected by and paid to the county treasurer of the county wherein the parcel is situated, or the board may designate an agent t
• § 51516 — The board shall require that an agent give a bond in the amount it considers sufficient for the faithful performance of his duties.
• § 51517 — All payments on unpaid original assessments shall be made in separate installments, of such amounts, and at such times as the board, by order entered in its minutes, may direct.
• § 51518 — Upon making the order the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the following form: (Name of reclamation district, location or principal place of business.
• § 51519 — The notice shall be personally served upon each owner of land in the district, or in lieu of personal service, shall be mailed to the owner at his place of residence, if known or entered upon the asse
• § 51520 — The county treasurer of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated, shall, immediately following the expiration of the period of 60 days from the date of the order, report to the count
• § 51521 — (a) Any installment of an assessment for which no bond or time warrant has been issued, which is unpaid after 60 days from the date of the order, is delinquent with the accrued interest thereon, and a
• § 51522 — All money, including interest and penalties, derived by sale or otherwise, from original and additional assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer of the principal county to the credit of the
• § 51540 — When the board has ordered an operation and maintenance assessment levy and has fixed the installments the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the following for
• § 51541 — The notice shall be published, mailed, or personally served upon each landowner in the manner provided in Section 51519.
• § 51542 — When the operation and maintenance assessment levy is to be paid in more than one installment the secretary shall give notice for 60 days immediately preceding the due date of each installment in subs
• § 51543 — Except as otherwise specifically provided, unpaid assessments for operation and maintenance levied pursuant to this article shall be collected in the manner provided for the payment and collection of
• § 51544 — The principal and interest of any operation and maintenance assessment levy may be paid in lawful money of the United States or approved warrants of the district payable from such assessment levy.
• § 51545 — The money collected on operation and maintenance assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer to the credit of the district in a separate fund designated “maintenance fund” of the district.
• § 51546 — The maintenance fund, except as provided in Section 51547, shall be disbursed only upon warrants of the board drawn in payment of the cost or expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the distri
• § 51547 — When time warrants have been issued in anticipation of an operation and maintenance assessment levy, money collected upon that levy shall be used only for the payment of the principal and interest on
• § 51560 — The installment of an assessment called to pay principal or interest on bonds pursuant to Section 51420 may be paid in cash or in bonds of the district, or their interest coupons, issued upon the asse
• § 51561 — Bonds and interest coupons received in payment for the assessment shall be accepted at face value.
• § 51562 — Any bond or coupon received in payment for such an installment shall be canceled forthwith by the county treasurer and filed in his office.
• § 51563 — Any part of the installment or any interest thereon which is unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the notice calling the installment, is delinquent, and 10 percent of the unpaid amount
• § 51570 — Any landowner who desires to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any assessment on which bonds have been issued may deliver to the county treasurer for cancellation any bonds payable out of the
• § 516 — “Water meter” includes any suitable water measuring device or facility which measures or determines the volumetric flow of water.
• § 51600 — (a) After any installment of an unpaid assessment on which bonds have not been issued has become delinquent, the county treasurer may, only upon the request of the district, publish once a week for tw
• § 51601 — The notice shall contain the following: (a) A description of the parcels assessed, as described in the assessment list or operation and maintenance assessment roll or by reference number as set forth
• § 51602 — The date of the sale shall be not less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice.
• § 51603 — The county treasurer may postpone the sale for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days at any one time by a written notice posted at the place of sale.
• § 51604 — If, for any reason, a parcel upon which an assessment or any installment thereof is delinquent in whole or in part is not sold at the time or place specified in the notice of sale or to which the sale
• § 51605 — At the time of the sale, the county treasurer shall sell the parcel to himself or herself and his or her successors in office, as trustee for the district, for the amount due on the installment, accru
• § 51606 — If more than one installment of an assessment or more than one assessment on the same parcel is delinquent at the time of the sale, the county treasurer may sell the parcel for the total amount of all
• § 51607 — The owner of any parcel offered for sale to pay a delinquent assessment or installment thereof may designate in writing to the county treasurer prior to the sale the portion he or she wishes first sol
• § 51608 — If the owner fails to designate the portion of the parcel he or she wishes sold for a delinquent assessment, the county treasurer may sell the whole or the least portion of the land that will bring th
• § 51611 — A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the county treasurer, as trustee for the district, and the certificate of sale shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder
• § 51612 — The certificate of sale is prima facie evidence that: (a) The parcel was assessed and the assessment duly apportioned as required by law.
• § 51612.5 — The county treasurer, at least 60 days prior to the expiration of the redemption period, shall give notice by registered mail of the fact of sale, the purchase price paid, the date of termination of t
• § 51613 — Any person interested in the parcel may redeem it at any time within one year after the sale by paying to the county treasurer the amount for which it was sold, with interest thereon at the rate of 1
• § 51614 — When the parcel is redeemed a certificate of redemption shall be issued by the county treasurer to the redemptioner, and the certificate shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder.
• § 51615 — If no redemption is made within one year, the district is entitled to a deed executed by the county treasurer.
• § 51616 — The deed shall convey the parcel free of all liens and encumbrances excepting any prior or subsequent district assessment.
• § 51616.1 — Each installment of an assessment remaining unpaid at the time of the delinquency sale may be called and collected in the manner provided in this part, except that no parcel sold and conveyed to the c
• § 51616.2 — If a call on an assessment on any parcel sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district becomes delinquent during the redemption period, the parcel shall be again sold as provided in this ar
• § 51617 — No sale, certificate of sale, or deed made for a valid delinquent assessment shall be adjudged invalid, unless the amount of the delinquent assessment, penalties, interest and costs has been refunded
• § 51618 — If, prior to the redemption, the parcel has been sold at a delinquency sale, the money paid by the county treasurer at the sale shall be refunded to him or her upon redemption of the parcel.
• § 51630 — When any installment of an assessment called to pay principal and interest on bonds is delinquent, the county treasurer shall publish once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation pu
• § 51631 — If no newspaper of general circulation is published in the county where the delinquent land is situated, publication shall be made in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
• § 51632 — The notice shall contain: (a) A description of each parcel on which the installment is delinquent, as the description appears on the assessment list or by reference number as set forth in the assessme
• § 51633 — If the notice is published in more than one county, each respective notice need include only the matters and things provided in Section 51632 in reference to the delinquent parcel located in the count
• § 51634 — The date of the sale shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of delinquency.
• § 51635 — The county treasurer may continue the sale from day to day by written notice posted at the place of sale to a day not later than the due date of bond principal or interest next following the date of t
• § 51636 — The county treasurer shall sell each parcel described in the notice to the highest bidder at the time stated in the notice, or at the time to which the sale is postponed, unless prior thereto he has r
• § 51637 — The county treasurer shall not accept any bid for any parcel less than the aggregate sum then due on the installment thereon, with penalty.
• § 51638 — Payment for parcels purchased at the sale shall be made in cash or in bonds or interest coupons of the district issued on the assessment and then matured or to mature within 60 days after the sale.
• § 51639 — Bonds or interest coupons tendered in payment for a parcel purchased at a delinquency sale, or the redemption of such a parcel, pursuant to this article shall be accepted at face value.
• § 51640 — Any bond or coupon received in payment for a parcel purchased at the delinquency sale shall be canceled forthwith by the county treasurer and filed in his office.
• § 51641 — If the entire amount of a bond or coupon tendered in payment for a parcel at the delinquency sale is not required to complete payment of the purchase money, the county treasurer shall endorse thereon
• § 51642 — If no bid is made for a parcel equal to the amount of the installment delinquent thereon with penalty, the county treasurer shall sell the parcel to himself, as trustee for the district, for the amoun
• § 51643 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 51644 all money derived from sale of land for delinquent installments of assessments on which bonds have been issued, or from redemption thereof, or from sale o
• § 51644 — After crediting the amount due on the parcel, as shown in the notice of sale, to the bond fund, the county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the parcel any surplus remaining.
• § 51645 — The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser, including himself, a certificate of sale, a duplicate of which shall be recorded in the county recorder’s office of the county in which the land i
• § 51646 — Any person interested in the parcel may redeem it within one year after the date of sale, by paying to the county treasurer for the purchaser a sum equal to the purchase price stated in the certificat
• § 51647 — If no redemption is made within one year, the treasurer, upon demand and surrender of the certificate of sale, shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, or to himself as trustee of the dis
• § 51648 — The deed shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited, and of ownership by the grantee of the lands therein described.
• § 51649 — Each installment of an assessment remaining unpaid at the time of the delinquent sale may be called and collected in the manner provided in this part, except that no parcel sold and conveyed to the co
• § 51650 — If a call of an assessment on any parcel sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district becomes delinquent during the redemption period the parcel shall be again sold as provided in this art
• § 51652 — When the parcel is redeemed a certificate of redemption shall be issued by the county treasurer to the redemptioner, and the certificate shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder.
• § 51653 — If, prior to the redemption, the parcel has been sold at a delinquency sale, the money paid by the purchaser at such sale shall be refunded to him upon redemption of the parcel.
• § 51654 — No sale, certificate of sale, or deed made for a valid delinquent assessment shall be adjudged invalid, unless the amount of the delinquent assessment, penalties, interest, and costs has been refunded
• § 51656 — If a call of an assessment on any parcel sold and conveyed to the county treasurer as trustee for the district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, becomes delinquent during the periods the par
• § 51660 — Any parcel purchased by a county treasurer at delinquency sale, as trustee for the district, may, after approval of the board, be sold and conveyed by him at any time after the expiration of the redem
• § 51661 — When the parcel has been purchased for delinquency of a bonded assessment, payment may be made in cash or in matured bonds and coupons issued on the assessment, taken at their face value.
• § 51662 — The county treasurer shall convey parcels purchased by him at a sale for the delinquency of an unbonded assessment, free of all liens and encumbrances except any prior or subsequent district assessmen
• § 51663 — The county treasurer shall convey parcels purchased by him at a sale for the delinquency of a bonded assessment, free of encumbrance except the unpaid balance of the assessment and any other district
• § 51664 — After the lapse of one year from the expiration of the redemption period the county treasurer may sell the parcel pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter in lieu of selling the parcel as provided in thi
• § 51665 — The proceeds of sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer at delinquency sale for bonded assessments, as trustee for the district, shall be deposited in the bond fund.
• § 51666 — The proceeds of the sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for unbonded original and additional assessments shall be credited to the general
• § 51667 — The proceeds of a sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for operation and maintenance assessments shall be credited to the maintenance fund
• § 51680 — After one year from the expiration of the period of redemption of any parcel sold to the county treasurer at a delinquency sale as trustee for the district, the county treasurer, when directed by the
• § 51681 — Parcels purchased at delinquent sale by the county treasurer as trustee for the district shall be offered for sale within three years from the expiration of the redemption period, or before October 1,
• § 51682 — Notice describing the parcel to be sold and stating the time and place of the sale shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the parcel
• § 51683 — It shall be sufficient to describe the parcel to be sold in the notice by reference number as set forth in the assessment lists to which reference is made, by the date and time of filing for further p
• § 51684 — One or more parcels may be included in the same notice and sold severally at the time and place set forth in the notice.