California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 4 - District Powers

• Section 4738.
  A county sanitation district may sue and be sued by its own name.(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1000.)
• Section 4739.
  A county sanitation district may employ such sanitation experts, surveyors, counsel, and other persons as are needed to carry into effect any powers of the...
• Section 4739.5.
  By resolution, the board may change the name of the district. The change of name shall be effective upon recording a certified copy in the...
• Section 4740.
  The district may acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, in the name of the district, and own, control, manage, and dispose of any interest...
• Section 4741.
  A district may acquire, construct, and complete within or without the district, sewage collection, treatment and disposal works, including sewage treatment plants, outfalls, intercepting, collecting...
• Section 4741.1.
  A district board desiring to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, within or without the district in addition to...
• Section 4741.2.
  That portion of a political subdivision lying within a district and having representation on the district board of directors, shall be excluded from the proposed...
• Section 4741.3.
  At the expiration of not less than 90 days after adoption of the resolution of intention to construct, maintain and operate a refuse transfer or...
• Section 4741.4.
  The board of directors of a county sanitation district shall be the same for all district purposes, activities, and objectives, whether for collection, treatment and...
• Section 4741.5.
  When a refuse transfer or disposal system, or both, is established by a district pursuant to the provisions of this article, the district shall comply...
• Section 4741.6.
  The provisions of Sections 4741.1 through 4741.5 shall not apply to any district whose resolution of intention pursuant to Section 4710 discloses that the district...
• Section 4741.7.
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter, or of Article 4 (commencing with Section 5470) to the contrary, a district may fix and collect...
• Section 4742.
  It may join with any other district, city or other governmental agency in the purchase, ownership, use, construction, maintenance, or operation of a sewerage system...
• Section 4742.1.
  It may contract with any district, city, governmental agency, or person, for the handling, treatment or disposal by the district of refuse, sewage, or industrial...
• Section 4742.3.
  Whenever a person installs sewers or other facilities for sewers and the district board determines that it is necessary that such sewers or other facilities...
• Section 4742.4.
  Any county sanitation district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing,...
• Section 4742.5.
  It may make provision for street-cleaning and streetsweeping services upon the roads and streets within the boundaries of the district. It may contract with any...
• Section 4743.
  It may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any property of the district or any interest therein whenever it is no longer required for the...
• Section 4744.
  It may sell, or otherwise dispose of, any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewerage system, sewage disposal...
• Section 4745.
  It may construct, maintain, and operate such pipe lines or other works as may be necessary to conserve and put to beneficial use any water...
• Section 4746.
  It may issue bonds.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
• Section 4746.1.
  If funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and operation, a district may incur indebtedness by the issuance of negotiable promissory notes pursuant...
• Section 4746.2.
  (a)  If the district board determines by resolution that funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and repair of damage caused by disaster,...
• Section 4746.3.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the funds, when borrowed by a sanitation district pursuant to Section 4746.2, shall forthwith increase the appropriations of the...
• Section 4746.4.
  The district shall pay interest to the county on all funds borrowed pursuant to Section 4746.2 at the same rate that the county applies to...
• Section 4747.
  It may cause to be levied and collected taxes upon all the taxable real property in the district sufficient to meet the obligations evidenced by...
• Section 4748.
  The district board shall, by resolution, employ one or more sanitation engineers to make a survey of the problems of the district concerning sanitation especially...
• Section 4749.
  The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction of the district board, employ such surveyors and others as may be necessary to prepare the...
• Section 4750.
  When the engineers’ report is filed the district board shall examine it and may thereupon (a) reject it and direct that a new report be...
• Section 4751.
  Notice of the hearing shall be given by the district board by publishing the notice for at least five times in a daily, or twice...
• Section 4752.
  At the conclusion of the hearing the district board shall either order the report changed to conform to some or all the objections made or...
• Section 4753.
  The district board may, thereafter, have such portions of the report as are adapted to publication, or a resume, published for free public distribution.(Enacted by...
• Section 4754.
  The engineers employed by the district board to make the report required by this chapter, or other engineers, shall be directed by the district board...
• Section 4758.
  Any work recommended to be done in the report approved and adopted by the district board shall be done in conformity with the general plans...
• Section 4759.
  A right of way in or across any public highway, street, or property in the district is hereby granted to the district wherever the right...
• Section 4759.1.
  (a)  There is granted to every district the right to construct, operate and maintain outfall, intercepting and trunk sewerlines, other than ocean outfall lines and...
• Section 4760.
  The district board may, by agreement with any city or other public agency, take possession of, or acquire by condemnation or in any other manner...
• Section 4761.
  Any city or public agency in the district may enter into an agreement with the district for the use, or entire possession and operation, by...
• Section 4762.
  Whenever any area in the district is provided with a sewerage system the governing body of the city in which the area lies may declare...
• Section 4762.1.
  All connections of lateral or other sewerlines to the sewerage system of the district, whether within or without any city, shall be made at points...
• Section 4763.
  All powers of the district shall be exercised by the district board unless otherwise specified.(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 596.)
• Section 4764.
  It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and also refund...
• Section 4765.
  Any district, directly or through a representative, may attend the Legislature and any committees thereof and present information to aid the passage of legislation which...
• Section 4766.
  The district board may adopt ordinances to carry out the provisions of Sections 5473 to 5473.11, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code and this...
• Section 4766.1.
  The board of supervisors of any county may adopt a model county sanitation district ordinance. The procedure for the adoption of said ordinance shall be...
• Section 4766.2.
  The district board is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance....
• Section 4766.3.
  Prior to adoption of any ordinance which adopts by reference all or any part of a model county sanitation district ordinance, the district board shall...
• Section 4766.4.
  Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to relieve any district from the requirement of publishing in full the ordinance which adopts by reference...
• Section 4766.5.
  If at any time the model sanitation district ordinance is amended by the county board of supervisors, then the district board may adopt such amendment...
• Section 4766.6.
  If the board of directors of the district is the board of supervisors, the district may adopt the model county sanitation district ordinance and any...
• Section 4766.7.
  A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.(Added by...
• Section 4767.
  Any county sanitation district may, in addition to its other powers, acquire, construct, control, operate, and maintain waterworks, conduits, reservoirs, storage sites, and other works...
• Section 4767.5.
  A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by Section 4767. The terms of the contract shall be consistent...

Last modified: October 22, 2018