Article 5. Land Subject To Lien Of Assessment No. 6 of California Water Code >> Division 5. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 5.

Any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district in which there are lands within the boundaries of the drainage district, which lands are subject to the lien of assessment number 6, or supplemental assessment number 6, levied in connection with project number 6, may present to any officer authorized by law to collect such assessments, warrants of the drainage district owned by it, and issued in connection with project number 6, in payment of the assessment on the lands.

Any officer authorized by law to collect the assessments named in this article shall accept at the face value, plus accrued interest, the warrant or warrants tendered in payment of the assessment.

Payment in warrants shall be made on a pro rata basis on all lands in the district subject to such assessment.

It is discretionary with the board of trustees of any such reclamation district, levee district or drainage district to apply such warrants in payment of the assessment, or to apply the same as provided by Article 2 of this chapter.

If any such warrants are delivered by the board of trustees to the county treasurer having the custody of the funds of any district, under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter or otherwise, the county treasurer, shall upon the request of the board of trustees return the warrants to the reclamation district, levee district or drainage district to the end that the board of trustees thereof may apply the same pursuant to the provisions of this article.

If the assessment, or any part of it has been paid in warrants by the district on any lands in the district by funds other than the funds of the district, the district shall deliver to the owner of such lands a warrant of the drainage district, levied in connection with project number 6, which in amount shall be equivalent to the same pro rata of the assessment on the lands as the district paid on other lands in the district.

If it appears to the trustees of any such district that any such warrants owned by it will be paid from any assessment thereafter to be levied, and in their opinion 85 per cent, or more, of the moneys necessary to pay the warrants will be raised by an assessment on the lands within the district, the trustees may return the warrants to the board for cancellation and the warrants shall be canceled by the board and thereafter are inoperative and of no effect.

The trustees shall not return the warrants to the board for cancellation, without the consent of the board, if an assessment is then in process of being levied to pay the warrants.

Any reclamation, levee, irrigation, drainage or other district whatever, or any city, county, or political subdivision may make any contract, expend any of its money, or do anything which its governing body determines will directly or indirectly retire, reduce or remove from any of the land owned by it or held in trust for it by any county treasurer or other public officer, the lien of the Sutter-Butte By-pass Assessment No. 6 of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, or will make it possible for the Reclamation Board to order the release of the lien of and abandon any part of said assessment. The trustees of a reclamation district or a county treasurer or other public officer acting as trustee for a reclamation district or other district shall have the right to expend funds of the district, including rentals collected and moneys received by the trustees of the district from lease of or for use or occupation of any land referred to in Sections 51750 to 51757, inclusive, of this code, in such amounts that may be necessary for any of the purposes mentioned in this section.