Article 1. Petition of California Harbors And Navigation Code >> Division 8. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.

A county or portion of a county or city or portion of a city or more than one city with or without a portion of the unincorporated territory of a county, the exterior boundary of which includes a harbor, may be formed into a harbor district for the improvement or development of the harbor upon proceedings being taken pursuant to this part.

Whenever fifty or more persons in any area which may be formed into a district pursuant to this part, desire the formation of a district for the improvement or development of a harbor, they may sign and present to the board of supervisors of the county in which the harbor is situated, a petition in writing.

The petition shall contain:
  (a) The name of the proposed district.
  (b) The official name or names by which the harbor is commonly known.
  (c) The exterior boundaries of the proposed district which shall include the whole or a portion of the harbor proposed to be improved or developed and which may include any of the following alternatives:
  (1) All or a portion of a county.
  (2) All or a portion of a city.
  (3) All of one or more cities.
  (4) All of one or more cities and unincorporated territory situated in any county.
  (d) A general description of the improvement and development work proposed to be done in the harbor, which work may include the dredging of channels, shipways, berths, anchorage places and turning basins, the construction of jetties, breakwaters, bulkheads, seawalls, wharves, ferry slips, warehouses, roads and spur tracks or belt line railways, together with any other work necessary for the development and improvement of the harbor.
  (e) A request that the territory included within such boundaries be formed into a district for the improvement and development of the harbor.

Each signer of the petition shall be a registered voter, resident and freeholder within the proposed district.

The petition shall be published for a least two weeks preceding the hearing thereon in a newspaper of general circulation printed in the proposed district, if there is such a newspaper so printed. If not, publication shall be so made in a newspaper published in the county. With the petition there shall be published a notice signed by not exceeding three of the petitioners, setting forth the day, hour and place at which the petition will be presented to the board of supervisors of the county for hearing, which date shall not be less than twenty nor more than forty days from the first publication. All persons interested may appear at that time and place before the board of supervisors and be heard.