Article 1.8. Alternative Method Of Publication of California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 1. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.8.

In each county where the tax collector or, if the county is a chartered county, the board of supervisors determines that the public interest, convenience and necessity require the local publication of the delinquent list required by Section 3371, or the published notice of power and intent to sell required by Section 3361, in order to afford adequate notice, all items required to be published shall be published as provided in this article. After the determination, the tax collector or, if the county is a chartered county, the board of supervisors shall divide and distribute the items to be published and cause the same to be published either within (a) the municipal corporations, (b) the elementary, high school, or junior college districts, (c) the supervisorial districts, (d) judicial districts, (e) tax districts, areas included in map books, or tax code areas, or (f) by any annexation or annexations of same, or any combination of same, or any combination of those districts, annexations, areas included in map books, and code areas, within the county as they shall determine most likely to afford adequate notice to owners of the property. Except as provided in this article, the publication shall be in the same manner as provided in Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 3371). The publication provided for in this article shall be made once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation. The publication shall be made in a newspaper published not less frequently than once a week.

Annually, the board of supervisors shall let the contracts for publication of the published delinquent list, or the published notice of power and intent to sell, and shall determine the rate to be paid for those publications or any portions thereof. The publication rate shall be based on a common denominator of measurement for all newspapers and may be graduated according to circulation.

The contracts for the publications shall include the publication of the proper portion of the published list and all other items relating to that portion of the published list required by law to be published.

The board of supervisors may provide by order for mailing to each assessee on the published delinquent list a copy of the items delinquent assessed to him and, if so ordered, the copy shall be mailed to the assessee at his address as shown on the roll. This section gives no one any right to receive the copy of items delinquent, and neither the county nor any office or employee is liable for failure of the assessee to receive the copy or for any mistake in connection with the mailing.

In ordering mailing of a copy of items delinquent, the board of supervisors may do either of the following:
  (a) Authorize the tax collector to perform the mailing.
  (b) Include, or authorize the inclusion of the mailing as an item in the contracts for publication of the published delinquent list.