Article 3. Election of California Water Code >> Division 12. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.

The board shall fix a date when an election shall be held to authorize the bonded indebtedness described in the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 31391.

The board shall provide for holding the election on the day fixed therefor in the same manner as provided by law in respect to general water district elections so far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

The board shall give notice of the election to authorize the bonded indebtedness, which notice shall contain all of the following:
  (a) The resolution adopted pursuant to Section 31391 calling the election.
  (b) The boundaries of voting precincts, which shall include only the portion of the district specified in the resolution.
  (c) The location of polling places.
  (d) The names of the officers selected to conduct the election in each precinct, who shall consist of one judge, one inspector, and two clerks.

Every voter residing within the voting precincts, but no others, may vote at the election.

In the Pleasant Valley County Water District, every owner of land within the district, but no others, may vote at the election. The special provisions of this section are necessary because in the Pleasant Valley County Water District much of the land is owned by persons living in the nearby communities of Oxnard, Ventura, Camarillo, and other nearby towns and many of the persons residing on the land are not the owners of the land and the owners may wish to undertake financing through a bond issue. The owners of the land within the district are the ones primarily concerned with the district and the ones who will bear the cost of financing and not the resident nonowners.

The notice shall be published for two weeks in at least one newspaper, designated by the board, printed and published in the district.

If there is no newspaper printed and published in the district, the notice shall be posted in three public places in whichever of the following is to be benefited:
  (a) The district.
  (b) An improvement district therein.

The returns of the election shall be made to and the votes canvassed by the board on the first Monday which is six or more days after the election.

The results of the election shall be ascertained and declared pursuant to the general water district election laws so far as they may be applicable, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

As soon as the result is declared, the secretary shall enter in the records of the board a statement of the result.

No informalities in the conduct of the election shall invalidate the election if fairly conducted.

All the expenses of holding the election shall be borne by the district, but said expenses may be included in the amount of the debt to be incurred, as provided in Section 31392, and the district may be reimbursed for bond election expenditures from the proceeds of the sale of bonds.

Whenever the electors of a district which has no bonded indebtedness, is not operating a water system, and has not bona fide contracted for the construction of an adequate water system for the district, have refused to authorize the issuance of bonds at three elections, the last of which was held in 1948 or thereafter, no further bond elections shall be held until the question of dissolution has been submitted to the electors as provided in Section 32858 of this division.