Article 1. Petition And Hearing of California Harbors And Navigation Code >> Division 8. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.

Any portion of a county in this state, the exterior boundaries of which include a bay, harbor, inlet, or navigable water of the Pacific Ocean, may be formed into a district for the improvement or development of a harbor. The work may include the dredging of channels, shipways, ship berths, anchorage places, and turning basins, and the construction of jetties, breakwaters, bulkheads, seawalls, wharves, ferry slips, and warehouses.

Whenever fifty or more persons in any county of this State, the exterior boundaries of which include a harbor, desire to form a district within the county for the improvement or development of a harbor, they may present a petition in writing signed by them to the board of supervisors of the county.

The petition shall show:
  (a) The name of the proposed district.
  (b) The official name or name by which the harbor is commonly known.
  (c) Whether the improvement, development, protection, maintenance, management or control of the harbor, or any part of it, is vested in or exercised by a harbor commission.
  (d) The exterior boundaries of the proposed district, which may include incorporated territory, or both incorporated and unincorporated territory, but shall include the whole or some part of the harbor proposed to be improved or developed.
  (e) A general description of the proposed improvement and development work.
  (f) The estimated cost of the improvement or development, and the incidental expenses.

The petition shall contain a request that the territory included within the boundaries be formed into a harbor district for the purpose of the improvement or 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 at least two weeks preceding the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation printed in the county, together with a notice signed by not exceeding three of the petitioners. The notice shall state the day, hour and place at which the petition will be presented to the board of supervisors for hearing, and that all persons interested may appear and be heard at this time and place.