California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 7 - Rates and Collection

• Section 5040.
  The governing body shall establish just and equitable rates for the use and maintenance of the works, to be paid by the person leasing or...
• Section 5041.
  The governing body shall establish rates that, beyond all reasonable doubt, will bring in sufficient money to meet the interest and principal on all outstanding...
• Section 5042.
  Whenever it appears that the rates are insufficient to provide enough money to pay the principal and interest, in addition to the operating expenses, and...
• Section 5043.
  The governing body may establish variable rates for different classes of users, or for different parts of the area, where all or any portion of...
• Section 5044.
  However, the rates may only be imposed and collected from the users of all or any portion of such works as are constructed with money...
• Section 5045.
  If the users of all or any portion of any works previously acquired and financed by other methods receive any additional benefits from the construction...
• Section 5046.
  No rates shall be established until after a public hearing, at which all the users of the works and owners of property served or proposed...
• Section 5047.
  After introduction of the ordinance, resolution, or order fixing the rate, and before it is finally enacted, notice of the hearing, setting forth the proposed...
• Section 5048.
  After the hearing the ordinance, resolution, or order establishing rates, either as originally introduced or as modified and amended, shall be passed and put into...
• Section 5049.
  A copy of the schedule of the rates shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk, and shall be open to inspection...
• Section 5050.
  The rates for any class of users or property served may be extended to cover any additional premises thereafter served which fall within the same...
• Section 5051.
  Any change or readjustment of the rates shall be made in the same manner as the rates were originally established.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
• Section 5052.
  If the rate is not paid when due, on the first day of each calendar month thereafter a penalty of ten per cent of the...
• Section 5053.
  The rates and penalties may be collected in the following manner:(a)  An action may be brought in the name of the district against the person...
• Section 5054.
  The remedies specified for collecting and enforcing rates are cumulative and may be pursued alternatively or may be used consecutively when the governing body so...
• Section 5055.
  Until the principal and interest of the bonds are fully paid any holder of any bond outstanding at any time may compel the use of...
• Section 5056.
  After rates are fixed pursuant to this article, any person may pay such rates under protest and bring an action against the governing body in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018