Article 5. Improvement Districts of California Water Code >> Division 14. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 5.

The board may by resolution determine that it is likely that the project or unit will benefit only a portion of the district. If the board so determines, the board shall provide for a hearing on the questions whether the project or unit will benefit only a portion of the district and whether an improvement district consisting of that portion should be established.

The board shall fix the time and place for any such hearing, and shall cause notice of such hearing, setting forth the purpose, time and place thereof, to be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks. Such publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in each affected county, and, if in any such county there is no such newspaper, in a newspaper printed and published in an adjoining county.

At the time and place fixed for the hearing, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the hearing. Any person interested, including any person owning land within the district, may appear at the hearing and present any matters material to the questions which are the subject of the hearing.

At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether the whole or only a portion of the district will be benefited by the project or unit. If the board determines that only a portion of the district will be benefited by the project or unit, the board may by resolution establish an improvement district consisting of that portion of the district. The resolution shall describe the territory within the improvement district in a manner sufficient for identification, and shall designate the improvement district by a distinctive name or number. In accordance with the resolution, said portion of the district shall thereupon constitute and be known as "____ Improvement District of ____ Water Storage District" or as "Improvement District No. ____ of ____ Water Storage District."

The determination of the board establishing an improvement district shall be final and conclusive.

After the establishment of an improvement district within a district pursuant to this article:
  (a) All proceedings with respect to the project or unit for which the improvement district was established shall apply only to the improvement district.
  (b) Any election with respect to such project or unit or bonds therefor or warrants relating thereto, held pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 42300) of this part, Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 42500) of this part, Part 7 (commencing with Section 44400) of this division or Part 8 (commencing with Section 45100) of this division, shall be held only within the improvement district.
  (c) Any assessment with respect to such project or unit shall be levied only upon the land within the improvement district.
  (d) Any bonds or warrants issued with respect to such project or unit shall be bonds or warrants of the improvement district, secured by an assessment levied upon the land within the improvement district only, and that fact shall be indicated on the face of each such bond or warrant.

An improvement district shall be governed, and its business shall be conducted, by the board and officers of the district in the name of the improvement district. An improvement district shall not have its own officers or employees. The board and each of the officers of the district, respectively, shall have all the rights, powers and privileges as to an improvement district, its land and the proceedings in relation to the improvement district that each respectively has as to the district of which the improvement district is a part.

All of the provisions of this part, except Section 42280, all of the provisions of Part 6 (commencing with Section 43000) of this division, all of the provisions of Part 7 (commencing with Section 44400) of this division, all of the provisions of Part 8 (commencing with Section 45100) of this division, all of the provisions of Part 9 (commencing with Section 46000) of this division, and all of the provisions of Part 10 (commencing with Section 48000) of this division except Chapter 2.6 (commencing with Section 48350) shall apply to an improvement district in the same manner as they apply to the district which includes the improvement district and as though the term "improvement district" were used in place of the word "district" at each place where said word appears in any of said provisions except when said word is used as a part of the term "other district" and the improvement district and the board and officers of the district shall have all of the powers, with respect to the improvement district, that are stated in said provisions.