Chapter 5. Consent Of Landowners To Refunding And Reassessment of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 11. >> Chapter 5.

The written consent of the owners of a majority in area of the land subject to reassessment shall be filed with the clerk of the legislative body before the legislative body shall have jurisdiction to confirm any reassessment under this division.

Any owner of land subject to reassessment may file his consent in writing to the refunding and reassessment upon substantially the terms stated in the resolution provided for in Article 3 of Chapter 3. Such consent need not be in any particular form and no error or informality thereof shall in any manner vitiate the proceedings.

Owners of land within the meaning of this chapter are those and those only who appear to be such upon the records in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the district is situated on the day that the consents provided for in this chapter are filed with the clerk of the legislative body.

As to any land deeded to a city for delinquent taxes or for delinquent taxes and assessments, the legislative body of the city is authorized to consent to the refunding and reassessment.

As to tax deeded lands the State Controller may sign any consent or consents to the refunding and reassessment for the State, and the board of supervisors of the county in which the property lies may consent to the refunding and reassessment by resolution.

Executors, administrators, special administrators and guardians may consent for any property of the estate represented by them. Any trustee of an express trust of land other than as security for the payment of money may consent for all or any part of the land held in such trust. A trustee in bankruptcy may consent for all or any part of the property of the debtor. Such executors, administrators, guardians and trustees are deemed owners of land within the meaning of this division.

At the hearing on the refunding and reassessment the legislative body shall determine whether the written consent of the owners of a majority in area of the lands subject to reassessment has been filed or not and if it determines that such consent has been filed it has jurisdiction to confirm the reassessment.

The validity, sufficiency, or genuineness of any of the consents, or the finding and determination of the legislative body thereon, shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless commenced within three months after the determination of the legislative body has been made. Thereafter no person in any action or proceeding may plead or prove that said consents, or any thereof, or the finding and determination of the legislative body thereon, was in any way defective, invalid or insufficient.