California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2 - Formation

• Section 4710.
  A board of supervisors desiring to form a county sanitation district shall adopt a resolution of its intention to do so. The resolution shall contain...
• Section 4711.
  The district as formed may include unincorporated or incorporated territory, or both. The incorporated territory included in the district may include the whole or part...
• Section 4711.5.
  The land proposed to be formed into a district need not consist of contiguous parcels.(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 2130.)
• Section 4712.
  The time to be fixed for the hearing of objections shall be not less than thirty days after the adoption of the resolution. The hearing...
• Section 4713.
  Prior to the time of hearing, the resolution shall be published at length twice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the proposed...
• Section 4714.
  At the time provided in the resolution of intention or at any time to which the hearing is continued, the board of supervisors shall hear...
• Section 4714.5.
  If the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to its final determination for formation of the district, by the owners of...
• Section 4715.
  If written objection to the formation of the district, signed by 5 percent of the voters registered in the district if the district contains less...
• Section 4716.
  At the election only voters registered in the proposed district may vote. Election precincts shall be established by the board of supervisors, and precinct boards,...
• Section 4716.1.
  Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
• Section 4716.2.
  The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
• Section 4716.3.
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
• Section 4716.4.
  The elections officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be...
• Section 4717.
  At the conclusion of the hearing, or if an election is held and the canvass of the election returns shows that a majority of all...
• Section 4718.
  The order of formation shall contain the name of the district, and a description of the boundaries or otherwise indicate its territory. The order is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018