Chapter 2. Levy of California Water Code >> Division 13. >> Part 7. >> Chapter 2.

Within 10 days after the hearing on assessment is completed, duplicate copies of each of the following shall be signed by the president and secretary and attached to the last volume of each part of the assessment book:
  (a) The statement of the assessor showing the total valuation of the land assessed.
  (b) The order of the board of supervisors fixing the rate of assessment on the land.
  (c) The annual estimate of the board of directors. Thereupon the assessment is completed.

Within 10 days after the assessment is completed, the assessor shall do each of the following:
  (a) Compute and charge in the proper part of the assessment book in a place provided therefor in the record of each parcel of land assessed the assessment due on the parcel.
  (b) In the event the annual assessment for any parcel of land separately assessed, computed pursuant to (a) above, is less than two dollars ($2), a minimum annual assessment may be set by the board which shall not exceed two dollars ($2) for each separately assessed parcel of land, and upon such a determination the assessor shall enter that assessment for each separately assessed parcel of land for which the annual assessment is less than the amount set by the board.
  (c) If authorized by the board of directors by resolution, add to the assessment of each parcel of land any charges for water and other services, or either, which are unpaid. The amount so added shall be collected and shall constitute a lien as a part of the assessment levied on the parcel upon which the water for which the charges are unpaid was used and upon the lands subject to the unpaid charges for any other services.
  (d) File each separate part of the assessment book with the tax collector of the district.

After each separate part of the assessment book has been filed with the tax collector the assessments listed are due and payable to the tax collector of the district.

No action to determine the validity of any district assessment or assessment levied thereon shall be maintained unless the action is commenced within 30 days after all separate parts of the assessment book are filed with the tax collector.

In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the district be secured at any time by filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county, a certificate specifying the amount of such charges and the name and address of the person liable therefor. From the time of recordation of the certificate, the amount required to be paid together with interest and penalty constitutes a lien upon all real property in the county owned by the person or afterwards, and before the lien expires, acquired by him. The lien has the force, priority, and effect of a judgment lien and shall continue for 10 years from the date of the filing of the certificate unless sooner released or otherwise discharged. The lien may, within 10 years from the filing of the certificate or within 10 years from the date of the last extension of the lien in the manner herein provided, be extended by filing for record a new certificate in the office of the county recorder of any county and from the time of such filing the lien shall be extended to the real property in such county for 10 years unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.