Article 3. Collection of California Water Code >> Division 11. >> Part 10. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 3.

Where the district has elected to transfer the duties of collector to the county tax collector, the delivery of duplicate assessment rolls shall not be required, but the county auditor shall furnish to the directors the statement of assessed values as provided in Section 26627.

Annually before September 1st, the district's directors shall levy an annual assessment upon the lands within the district for all district purposes in the manner provided in Chapter 2 of this part, and fix the rate of assessment as provided in Chapter 3, and shall thereupon transmit to the county auditor a statement of the rates fixed. The rate shall be sufficient to recover the expense of collection in addition to other amounts required by law. If different portions of the district require different rates of assessment the statement shall include the applicable rates for such portions. The rate shall be designated in the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100), using as a basis the value of the land as assessed and equalized. The statement shall include the amount of any charges which may be added to the assessment pursuant to this division and a description of the property to which the charge applies as such property is described upon the county rolls.

The county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the district assessment on all lands assessed as being in the district using the rates fixed by the district's board of directors and the assessed value of the lands in the assessment book at the time and in the manner he computes and enters county taxes.

The assessment so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and paid into the county treasury. The net amount of the taxes, after the deduction of the county's compensation for the services of its treasurer, assessor and tax collector shall be paid to the district by warrant of the county auditor.

The compensation paid to the county for assessing or collecting assessments for a district shall be that fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors and the district's board of directors.

Unpaid district assessments are delinquent on the same hour and day that county taxes are delinquent and the lands subject thereto shall either be sold to the district or be declared tax-defaulted in the manner, at the time, and upon the penalties of default of property for nonpayment of county taxes.

Lands sold for delinquent district assessments may be redeemed within five years from date of sale in the same manner as the redemption of property after sale for nonpayment of county taxes.

The county auditor shall apportion to the district the money paid for redemption in the manner provided by Division 1, Part 8, Chapter 1(c) of the Revenue and Taxation Code.

Lands sold to the district remaining unredeemed after five years have elapsed from the date of their sale for delinquent district assessments shall be deeded to the district by the county tax collector. The deed shall be substantially in the form provided for collector's deeds by Section 26276 of the Water Code and shall have the same effect and be recorded in the same manner as irrigation district's collector's deeds under the provisions of Articles 4 and 5 of Chapter 6 of this part. Land which has been declared to be tax-defaulted remaining unredeemed after five years have elapsed from the date of the tax-default for delinquent district assessments shall become subject to the tax collector's power of sale pursuant to Section 3691 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.