Section 31602 Of Article 2. Formation And Projects From California Water Code >> Division 12. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 2.
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. (a) Each signature on a protest shall be acknowledged or
proved in the manner required to entitle deeds to be recorded.
(b) A guardian, executor, administrator, or other person holding
property in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign a
protest when authorized by the proper court, which authorization may
be made without notice. A certified copy of such authorization shall
be filed with such protest.
(c) Where property is assessed in the name of a trustee or
trustees, such trustee or trustees shall be deemed to be the person
entitled to sign the protest.
(d) The protest of any public or quasi-public corporation, private
corporation, or unincorporated association may be signed by any
person authorized by the board of directors or trustees or other
managing body thereof, which authorization shall be in writing,
attested by its seal, and duly acknowledged, and shall be filed with
the board.
(e) The owner of any property or interest therein, appearing upon
the assessment role, which has been assessed in the wrong name or to
unknown owners, or which has passed from the owner appearing as such
on the last equalized assessment roll, since the same was made, shall
be entitled to sign the protest represented thereby, either by the
production of a proxy executed and acknowledged by such former owner,
or by furnishing evidence of his ownership by a conveyance duly
acknowledged showing the title to be vested in the person claiming
the right to sign the protest, accompanied by a certificate of a
competent searcher of titles, certifying that a search of the
official records of the county since the date of the conveyance
discloses no conveyance or transfer out from the grantee or
transferee named in the conveyance.
(f) Where the property has been contracted to be sold, the vendee
shall be entitled to sign the protest, unless such real property is
assessed in the name of the vendor, in which event the vendor shall
be entitled to do so, unless the contract of sale otherwise expressly
provides.