California

Water Code

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

• § 8630 — As used in this article the term “levee” means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
• § 8631 — The board may promote the construction, completion, maintenance and repair of levees along all rivers, streams, overflow channels, basins and by-passes where, in the opinion of the board, the levees a
• § 8632 — Whenever any levee is in the opinion of the board insufficient or necessary for flood control, the board shall publish notice to that effect.
• § 8633 — The published notice shall state that the levee is insufficient or necessary, that it is the intention of the board to construct, repair or complete the levee and pay the cost out of an assessment lev
• § 8634 — The notice shall be signed in the name of the board by its president and secretary and shall be published once a week for three weeks in some newspaper published in the county wherein the levee or the
• § 8635 — The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication.
• § 8636 — Any landowner, reclamation district, drainage district, levee district, municipal corporation or other organization or association authorized by law to construct, repair or complete a levee shall have
• § 8637 — The application shall be in writing and signed by the applicants or their respective executors, administrators, guardians, trustees or duly constituted and authorized officers.
• § 8638 — The application shall be filed in the office of the board.
• § 8639 — When an application is filed within the required 30 days, the applicants shall have 60 days after filing the application, or any further time that the board allows, within which to do the following: (
• § 8640 — The application for leave to construct, repair or complete a levee shall designate the name and post-office address of at least one and not more than three of the applicants as the person or persons t
• § 8641 — In case there are two or more applications filed in the office of the board within the required 30 days the board may determine which of such applications shall be recognized and may reject the others
• § 8642 — Any levee constructed or work done by the applicants, pursuant to notice from the board and according to plans and specifications approved by the board, shall be considered as constructed or done with
• § 8643 — If the application is not filed in the office of the board within 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication, or if the applicants fail to present to the board and obtain its appr
• § 8644 — The assessment may be either an assessment specially levied and assessed for that purpose, or any assessment levied and assessed by the board and applicable to the payment of such work.
• § 8645 — Notwithstanding anything in this article the board may determine a case of emergency exists requiring immediate action to preserve life or property or to protect or preserve the safety of any levee al
• § 8646 — The board may do the necesssary work immediately for the protection or preservation of the levee, without giving the notice provided for in this article.
• § 8647 — The board may pay the cost, including any damage that may result from the performance of the work, by an assessment to be levied and assessed as provided in this article or out of the funds of any ass
• § 8655 — The board may determine that any land acquired by the drainage district and deeded to the State for any right of way for river improvement work or flood control is in excess of what is or will be requ
• § 8656 — The Department of General Services upon request of the board may sell the excess land at a purchase price determined upon by the board.
• § 8657 — The Department of General Services when authorized by the board may execute and deliver in the name and on behalf of the state, a conveyance of such land to the purchaser upon payment of the purchase
• § 8658 — The purchase price when paid to the State Treasurer shall be credited to such fund as the board directs.
• § 8659 — All or any part of any land, right-of-way or easement required for any work of channel excavation, enlargement, rectification or control or for any site for the construction of any weir, forming part
• § 8660 — The Department of General Services may execute and deliver pursuant to the next preceding section a conveyance in the name and on behalf of the state upon payment to the State Treasurer of the purchas
• § 8661 — The purchase price, when paid to the State Treasurer, shall be credited back to the appropriation out of which the cost of acquiring the land, right of way, easement or weir site was paid by the State
• § 8662 — Any lease of property of the drainage district for the production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbons may be made upon such consideration or for such royalties as may be authorized by the board subject
• § 8663 — The board, before ordering the lease of any property pursuant to the next preceding section, shall, in a regular open meeting, adopt a resolution declaring their intention to lease the property.
• § 8664 — The resolution shall: (a) Describe the property proposed to be leased in such manner as to identify it.
• § 8665 — The meeting shall be held at the board’s regular place of meeting, at which meeting sealed proposals to lease the property will be received and considered.
• § 8666 — Notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the time and place for holding the meeting shall be given by publishing a notice containing the resolution not less than once a week for three successiv
• § 8667 — At the time and place fixed in the resolution for the meeting of the board, all sealed proposals which have been received shall, in public session, be opened, examined and declared by the board, and o
• § 8668 — Upon a call for oral bidding, at the session, any person may offer to lease the property upon the terms and conditions specified in the resolution for a rental or royalty exceeding by at least 5 per c
• § 8669 — The highest of any of the oral bids made by a responsible person shall be finally accepted.
• § 8670 — The board may make a final acceptance either at the same session or at any adjourned session of the same meeting held within the 10 days next following.
• § 8671 — The board may, at such session, if it deems the action to be for the best public interest, reject any and all bids either written or oral, and withdraw the property from lease.
• § 8672 — The resolution of acceptance of any bid shall provide for the proper execution of a lease upon behalf of the drainage district, and delivery of the lease upon performance and compliance by the lessee
• § 8673 — The board, in lieu of leasing property as provided in this article, if it deems such action to be for the best public interest, may lease lands for the production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbon sub
• § 8674 — No joint lease shall be entered into until after adoption of a resolution and publication of notice as provided in this article and after a public meeting of the board at which protests, if any, shall
• § 8675 — A joint lease shall provide for the payment of a minimum royalty to the drainage district of not less than 15 per cent of the value of the oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances produced from the pr
• § 8676 — Whenever the board has acquired or shall in the future acquire title in fee to any land in the name and in behalf of the district and whenever, in the judgment of the board, the purposes of the distri
• § 8677 — All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in the land are reserved to the State and shall be reserved from sale except on a rental and royalty basi
• § 8678 — Every lease, rental, letting or license to use real property owned in fee by the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, which is executed by the board shall be subject to the approval of the Di
• § 8679 — Revenues, rents, and proceeds from sale of crops from lands under control of the board shall be paid into the State Treasury as follows: (a) To the current appropriation for the support of the board a
• § 8685 — The board may determine that any construction, repair work, maintenance, or operation of flood control works or structures shall be done by the department.
• § 8686 — The plans and specifications for the work shall be prepared and approved by the board and delivered to the department with a request that the work be done by the department.
• § 8687 — The work shall be done under the sole charge and direct control of the department.
• § 8688 — The cost and expenses incurred by the department in connection with work under this article is a legal charge against the drainage district and shall be paid out of any applicable assessment or fund.
• § 8689 — Any contract let by the department for any work under this article shall be approved by the board before becoming effective.
• § 8690 — Any cash, bond, check or other security forfeited by any bidder or contractor for failure to enter into or to perform any contract for doing work under this article shall be forfeited to and recovered
• § 8691 — Any forfeiture, as soon as received or recovered, shall be paid to the State Treasurer and placed to the credit of the assessment out of which the cost of the work is to be paid.
• § 8692 — The board may furnish to the department any of its dredges, machines, appliances, tools, apparatus or other property which may be necessary or convenient for performing work delegated to the departmen
• § 8693 — The department shall advise and assist the board.
• § 8694 — The department shall be reimbursed by the board for any necessary expenses incurred by it under the direction of the board.
• § 8695 — The department may at its option appoint the chief engineer of the board to act also as its assistant in the performance of the duties required of it by this article.
• § 8696 — The compensation of the chief engineer while acting also as assistant to the department shall be apportioned as may be agreed upon between the board and the department.
• § 8697 — All maps, records and engineering data prepared or obtained by the department for the use of the board shall be deposited in the office of the board and remain part of its records.
• § 8698 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall cooperate with the department in all matters of mutual concern to the fullest extent practicable.
• § 8700 — (a) It is unlawful for any person or public agency to interfere with, obstruct the performance, maintenance, or operation of, or otherwise take actions that may adversely affect facilities of the Stat
• § 8701 — (a) If the board or the executive officer determines that any person or public agency has undertaken, is threatening to undertake, or maintains any encroachment, flood system improvement, or activity
• § 8701.2 — (a) If the board or executive officer determines that any person or public agency has failed to adequately respond to a notice of violation, the board or executive officer may issue an order directing
• § 8701.4 — (a) If the board or executive officer determines that any person or public agency has failed to correct a violation as outlined in a cease and desist order, the board shall hold an enforcement hearing
• § 8702 — (a) The board, following notice and opportunity for a hearing, may order the removal or modification of an encroachment that was previously issued a permit by the board if the board makes one of the f
• § 8703 — Notice and service required by this article shall be provided to the person or public agency believed to be responsible for the violation and the owner of the property on which the violation occurred
• § 8704 — (a) Civil penalties may be imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction against any person or public agency that undertakes an activity, flood system improvement, or encroachment that is in violation
• § 8704.1 — (a) Administrative penalties may be imposed by the board in the same manner as civil penalties described in Section 8704, upon an enforcement hearing and issuance of an enforcement order pursuant to S
• § 8704.2 — (a) Pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 8701.
• § 8704.4 — The remedies provided by this article are not exclusive of, but shall be concurrent with and in addition to, any other remedy, penalty, or sanction that may exist by law, civil or criminal.
• § 8705 — The Flood Risk Management Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 8706 — The board may maintain actions in the name of the state to compel by injunction the owner or owners of any bridge, trestle, wire line, viaduct, embankment, or other structure or obstruction that shall
• § 8706.5 — Any activity that does or may interfere with, obstruct the performance, maintenance, or operation of, or otherwise adversely affect facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control, designated floodways,
• § 8707 — If the board or Attorney General prevails in a civil action to enforce this part, or if a local agency prevails in a civil action to seek abatement costs under subdivision (c) of Section 8708 or modif
• § 8708 — (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the department, the board, the executive officer, or a levee-maintaining agency from taking any action to prevent an imminent failure of a lev
• § 8709 — The board shall adopt emergency regulations necessary to implement this article in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 8710 — Every plan of reclamation, flood control, drainage, improvement, dredging or work, that includes or contemplates the construction, enlargement, revetment or alteration of any levee, embankment, canal
• § 8710.1 — The provisions of Section 8710 shall not apply to any work of interior irrigation or drainage upon reclaimed land, which work is not actually on, through, or adjoining any flood control works under th
• § 8710.5 — Whenever any irrigation, drainage, levee, or flood control district makes application for the approval required by the next preceding section, all of the provisions of Division 15, Part 6, Chapter 2 o
• § 8711 — Any such plan is void until approved by the board, and no work shall be done without the permission of the board.
• § 8712 — No levee along a river or by-pass at any of the places mentioned in this article, nor any levee forming part of any of the plans of flood control adopted by this part or by the board, shall be cut or
• § 8713 — The owner of any existing levee at any of the places mentioned in this article may raise, widen, or strengthen the levee, if before work is commenced, the plans, specifications and method of construct
• § 8714 — No claim shall ever be made against the board or the drainage district for compensation, through or by assessment or otherwise, for any part of the work under Section 8713 in excess of the requirement
• § 8715 — Any existing levee may be protected or strengthened in case of emergency during the season of flood water, where it is in danger of injury or destruction from flood water.
• § 8716 — Notice of emergency work shall be immediately given to the board.
• § 8717 — All emergency work shall be subject to the subsequent approval of the board, and the board may require its removal or alteration if not approved.
• § 8718 — No levee, embankment or other structure within any by-pass or overflow channel adopted by the board shall be raised, widened, strengthened or altered without permission of the board.
• § 8719 — The doing of any act or construction of any work mentioned in this article, or permitting the work to remain after such construction, without the permission of the board and in violation of any of the
• § 8720 — Any person who does any act contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 8721 — Any plans or specifications adopted or approved by the board for any work to be done pursuant to this part may be changed or altered, with the consent of the board, at any time before commencement or
• § 8722 — The board may at any time change or alter the plans or specifications for work undertaken upon its own initiative.
• § 8723 — The board may refuse to approve any such plan if in the judgment of the board the plan will or may 1.
• § 8730 — Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made by the members, employees or special advisers of
• § 8730.1 — The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt.
• § 8730.2 — Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon.
• § 8730.3 — Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners.
• § 8731 — The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it.
• § 8732 — The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, before a qualified neutral hearing officer designated by the board president, or before the exec
• § 8732.5 — All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public.
• § 8733 — The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board.
• § 8734 — The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the applicant.
• § 8735 — The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the hearing, and a proportionate
• § 8736 — All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the State Treasury and credited to the balance remaining unexpended
• § 8737 — The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before the board.
• § 8738 — The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths.
• § 8739 — The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in civil actions.
• § 8740 — When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application.
• § 8741 — An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this part in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in S
• § 8742 — In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication, mailing or otherwise, of any of its assessments, orders, proce
• § 8750 — Whenever in the opinion of the board it is necessary to levy an assessment upon any lands within the drainage district for any of the purposes specified in this chapter, the board shall adopt plans an
• § 8751 — The estimate shall include the following: (a) The expenses of bonding the assessment if authorized by law, other than an assessment to pay the costs and expenses necessary for the maintenance, repair,
• § 8752 — The plans to be carried out shall be divided by the board into separate projects or units in such manner as will in its judgment best facilitate the levying of assessments for each particular project
• § 8753 — Each separate and particular project or unit shall include all by-passes, cuts, canals, sumps, levees, pumping plants and other works of flood control and drainage necessary to properly conduct the wa
• § 8754 — The board shall enter in the minutes of the board a resolution to the effect that the execution of each separate project or unit which they determine upon is a public necessity.
• § 8755 — Each project or unit shall be designated by the board in the resolution by name and number.
• § 8756 — All assessments, plans and funds intended for or connected with the execution of each project or unit shall be designated by name and number and kept separate and used only for the purpose of carrying
• § 8757 — In determining the benefits that will or may accrue to each particular tract of land by the construction or maintenance of the works contemplated by any project or unit, the works of the project or un
• § 8758 — No land shall be considered as benefited by the construction or maintenance of the works embraced in a project or unit, nor shall any land be assessed for the expense of the construction or maintenanc
• § 8759 — Whenever an assessment has been levied by the board upon land in the district for general administrative expenses and other expenses not pertaining to any particular project, and the boundaries of the
• § 8760 — The board shall levy and cause to be assessed, equalized and collected in the manner provided in this part, an assessment to the amount of the estimate upon land included in the district by the change
• § 8761 — Whenever in the opinion of the board it appears that the total amount of any assessment previously levied and assessed and which has become a lien upon land in the drainage district, including assessm
• § 8762 — The portions of the assessment to be first abandoned and released shall be such portions of the charges on each tract as are based upon flood control benefits or by-pass severance as those terms are d
• § 8763 — No assessment upon any tract shall be released or abandoned in pursuance to Section 8761 until all delinquent installments which have accrued thereon, together with interest and penalties, have been p
• § 8764 — The resolution shall be annexed by the county treasurer to the assessment list of the assessment for his county.
• § 8765 — When any payment has been made upon an assessment so abandoned and released, in whole or in part, the board may issue such warrants in the manner provided in this part as are necessary to secure a jus
• § 8766 — The board may in its discretion abandon any assessment in whole or in part at any time prior to the time when the lien of the assessment has accrued to the extent that the assessment is greater than r
• § 8767 — In all cases in which an assessment is levied upon land within the drainage district, and the assessment upon any tract is thereafter adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or, for a
• § 8768 — Instead of proceeding under the next preceding section a subsequent reassessment of the tract may be made separately for the purpose of charging the land with its proper proportion of the assessment.
• § 8769 — In case of any change of county boundary lines or creation of any new county, all acts and proceedings provided for in this chapter relating to any assessment upon land affected by the change of count
• § 8770 — The board has no power or authority to levy any assessment for any purpose upon property outside of the boundaries of the drainage district.
• § 8771 — Assessments shall be numbered consecutively.
• § 8772 — The Reclamation Board shall, by resolution entered in its minutes, order the release of the lien and abandonment of the charges against tracts assessed and owned by the United States, State, counties,
• § 8773 — In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to cause warrants to be issued
• § 8774 — In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to cause warrants to be issued
• § 8775 — When an assessment is to be levied, the board shall appoint three assessors.
• § 8776 — The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have no interest in any real estate within the drainage district.
• § 8777 — Each assessor before entering upon his duties, shall make and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested in any real estate within the drainage district, and that he will perform the du
• § 8778 — The compensation of assessors shall be fixed and allowed by the board.
• § 8779 — After the assessors have examined the plan or plans of the works contemplated and the estimates of the cost, they shall make a preliminary report to the board indicating the exterior boundaries of the
• § 8780 — The assessors, after performing their duties pursuant to Section 8779, shall appoint a time and place in each county in which any of the land proposed to be assessed is situated, when and where they w
• § 8781 — The assessors shall give notice of the hearing in each of the counties by publication in a newspaper published in the county once a week for three weeks, the first publication to be not later than the
• § 8782 — The notice shall contain a general designation of the land which will in the assessors’ opinion be benefited, and shall refer to the preliminary report on file in the office of the board for the exter
• § 8783 — The assessors, may amend, modify or change the exterior boundaries of the land that, in their opinion, will be benefited by such expenditures.
• § 8784 — The board shall levy an assessment pursuant to this chapter if, within six months after the completion of the hearings there is filed with the board, written consent to the contemplated project, signe
• § 8785 — If consent in writing is not filed in the manner and at the time provided, no further expenditures for the project shall be made, nor shall any obligations be incurred therefor.
• § 8786 — If consent is not filed the board may cause an assessment to be levied in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of paying the necessary engineering and other expenses in preparing the pl
• § 8787 — The assessors shall assess upon the lands within the drainage district proposed to be assessed for the plans adopted by the board the sums included in the estimates of the board, and shall apportion t
• § 8788 — The assessors in apportioning the assessment on each tract of land shall, as information for the board set out, opposite each sum assessed for each particular tract of land, in separate columns respec
• § 8789 — The assessors shall, in the case of all assessments of the drainage district which may hereafter be levied by the board and all assessments which have heretofore been commenced but on which the assess
• § 8790 — The amounts stated and placed opposite each assessment shall be no part of the assessment and shall in no way affect the assessment charged against each tract of land as the same may be fixed, but sha
• § 8795 — Whenever any tract of land upon which an assessment has been made, including assessments which have been bonded under and pursuant to the provisions of Part 5 of this division, is subdivided into smal
• § 8796 — Assessments and delinquencies on tracts of land which have become delinquent and which have been sold for delinquency pursuant to the provisions of this part and of Part 5 of this division, or either,
• § 8797 — Whenever application is made to the board for reapportionment, the board shall reapportion the assessment upon the tract or tracts in such manner as in their judgment will charge each of the smaller t
• § 8798 — Before the reapportionment becomes final, the board shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing objections to the reapportionment.
• § 8799 — Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the land or some portion thereof is situated.
• § 8800 — The notice need not describe the land with particularity, but it is sufficient to describe the tract or tracts of land subdivided as a tract or tracts assessed to the owner or owners giving his name o
• § 8801 — As many tracts may be embraced in one application as applicant is the owner of, or interested in.
• § 8802 — At the time appointed, or such other time to which the hearing may be postponed, or which may be appointed by the board, the board shall hear any objections to the reapportionment and shall approve, m
• § 8803 — When the reapportionment has been made by the board, it shall deposit, in the office of the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated, a list or lists of the charges assessed agains
• § 8804 — The filing of the lists shall be conclusive evidence that the requisite notice has been given, and that all acts required to be done before the filing of the lists have been duly done and performed, a
• § 8805 — The expenses of publication and such other expenses as the board may order shall be borne and paid by the applicant.
• § 8810 — The assessors shall make a separate list of the lands assessed in each county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
• § 8811 — The list shall contain a description of the tracts of land assessed by swamp land surveys, legal subdivisions, or other boundaries or references sufficient to identify the tracts.
• § 8812 — The list shall also contain the name of the owner, if known, or if unknown, that fact, and the amount of the charge assessed against each tract.
• § 8813 — The name of the owner of land which is or is supposed to be the property of the estate of a deceased person in course of administration may be stated as estate of (such person, naming him), deceased.
• § 8814 — When there are two or more owners or supposed owners of any tract of land, partly known and partly unknown, the assessment may be to the known owner or owners by name and to other owners unknown.
• § 8815 — No mistake in the name of the owner, or supposed owner, of any real estate invalidates the assessment.
• § 8816 — In the assessment list for any county the assessors may use any abbreviation in common use in that county, without explanation thereof.
• § 8817 — The assessors may also in the assessment list for any county make use of other abbreviations, if a schedule and explanation thereof with reasonable certainty is, unless printed on each page of the ass
• § 8818 — In case any land in the assessment list for any county is described in whole or in part by reference to a map, plat or survey, which is on file or of record in any public office, it is sufficient in t
• § 8819 — The schedule shall be prefixed to the assessment list and shall set forth with reasonable certainty where each such map, plat or survey may be found, and shall be referred to by a reference written, p
• § 8820 — The assessment lists when completed shall be filed with the secretary of the board and the secretary shall forward to the county treasurer of each county in which any land so assessed is situated, the
• § 8821 — The assessment list shall be open for inspection by the public for at least 60 days.
• § 8822 — The board shall appoint a time and place not less than 60 days after the assessment list has been filed with the county treasurer when and where it will meet in each county wherein any of the land ass
• § 8823 — The notice of hearing in each county shall be filed with the county treasurer and published once a week for four weeks in some newspaper published in the affected county.
• § 8824 — At any time before or during the hearing any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, may file in the office of the board or with any member thereof, written objections t
• § 8825 — The statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the person objecting or some other person who is familiar with the facts.
• § 8826 — At the hearing, the board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment or the manner of its apportionment.
• § 8827 — The board may modify or amend the assessment, and may reapportion all or any part of the entire assessment.
• § 8828 — Unless the aggregate amount of the whole of the assessment is modified or amended by the board so as to cause a difference of more than 2 1 2 per cent greater or less than the original total amount of
• § 8829 — If the assessment is reapportioned the board shall give two weeks notice as provided in this article and proceed to hear objections in each county affected and shall then reconsider the assessment and
• § 8830 — The decision of the board shall be final, and thereafter the assessment list shall be conclusive evidence, except in the suit provided in this article, that the assessment has been levied and apportio
• § 8831 — Any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, who is aggrieved by the decision of the board approving the assessment, may commence an action against the district in the su
• § 8832 — The action shall be commenced within 60 days after the board has approved the assessment and the assessment list for the county has been deposited in the office of the county treasurer.
• § 8833 — This action shall have preference over all civil actions in fixing the time of trial.
• § 8835 — As used in this article map means a map or maps prepared by the assessors appointed for any assessment.
• § 8836 — The assessors appointed for any assesssment may prepare or cause to be prepared a map for the whole or any part or parts of the land to be assessed with sufficient detail to indicate thereon and ident
• § 8837 — Each of the separate tracts shall be designated on the map by a distinctive number.
• § 8838 — Each of the maps shall be inscribed and designated as “reclamation board assessment map No.
• § 8839 — Any map may consist of any number of sheets attached together and designated as one map.
• § 8840 — The map when approved by the board, shall be certified by the secretary of the board as having been so approved.
• § 8841 — The approved map shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county wherein the land indicated on the map is situated.
• § 8842 — For the purpose of any assessment levied by the board, the assessment list for any county may, for the description of any tract of land indicated on any map, refer to the map and to the number by whic
• § 8843 — Any reference to a map and tract is a sufficient description of the tract for the purposes of an assessment list, and for the purposes of the notice of delinquent sale, certificate of sale and deed in
• § 8844 — No provision of any other statute of this State relative to the filing or recording of maps in the office of the county recorder shall apply to the maps referred to in this article.
• § 8845 — The maps referred to in this article shall have no legal effect for any purpose except for the convenient reference to and description of the tract of land indicated thereon for the purposes of descri
• § 8846 — No fee shall be charged by any county recorder for the filing for record of any map as provided in this article.
• § 8850 — After the board has held the hearings in each county pursuant to this chapter and the assesssment lists have been made to conform with its decision, the lists shall be certified by the secretary of th
• § 8851 — The county treasurer shall indorse upon the assesssment list the date and time to the hour and minute when it was filed in his office; and thereafter the assessment constitutes a lien upon the land so
• § 8852 — The assessment shall be paid to the respective county treasurers in one or more installments of such amounts, and at such time, respectively, as the board, from time to time, may, by order entered in
• § 8853 — At any time within 30 days after the assessment list has been filed in the office of the county treasurer, the whole amount of the assessment upon any tract of land therein separately assessed may be
• § 8854 — The county treasurer shall issue his receipt and shall endorse the fact and date of the payment in full upon the assessment list, and thereupon the lien of the assessment upon the tract of land ceases
• § 8855 — No interest shall be charged on any assessment paid in full within this 30-day period.