California Water Code ARTICLE 1 - Delinquency Sales on Unbonded Assessments

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 51602.
  The date of the sale shall be not less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice.(Added by Stats. 1951,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 51612.
  The certificate of sale is prima facie evidence that:(a) The parcel was assessed and the assessment duly apportioned as required by law.(b) The assessment was not paid.(c) Proper...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 51615.
  If no redemption is made within one year, the district is entitled to a deed executed by the county treasurer. The district shall reimburse the...
• Section 51616.
  The deed shall convey the parcel free of all liens and encumbrances excepting any prior or subsequent district assessment.(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018