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Article 2. Polling Places, Notices And Board Of Election of California Water Code >> Division 5. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 2.
The board shall, in its order providing for the election,
specify the day on which the election is to be held and shall specify
and designate one or more polling places in each supervisor district
wherein are situated any of the lands affected by the assessment.
In case the board considers it necessary or proper to provide
more than one polling place in any supervisor district for the
holding of the election, the board shall in its order divide the
lands in the supervisor district and within the drainage district,
into separate voting districts.
The board shall designate and provide one polling place
within each voting district at which shall be cast the votes of the
owners of land within the voting district.
The board may combine contiguous portions of different
supervisor districts into one voting district in cases where the
lands in the voting district are not assessed to more than 100
different owners, counting one owner for each tract assessed to
unknown owners and counting the estate of a deceased person as one
owner.
The board shall in the order providing the election, appoint
a board of election for each polling place.
The board of election shall consist of three owners of land
assessed in and by the assessment and situated within the voting
district where the polling place is located.
Each member of the board of election, whether appointed by
the board or whether acting as a substitute as provided in this part,
is entitled to the sum of five dollars ($5) for his services.
The compensation of the election officers shall be paid by
the board out of any funds of the drainage district or of the board
applicable thereto.
If any person appointed as a member of the board of election
fails to attend at the opening of the polls, the voters then present
at the polling place may appoint in his place any landowner of the
district then present and entitled to vote at the election.
Each member of the board of election before entering upon the
discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an official oath,
which may be administered by any officer authorized by law to
administer oaths, or by any landowner in the drainage district.
The oath shall be to the effect that he will support the
Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State
and that he will faithfully perform his duties as member of the
election board to the best of his ability.
Notice of the election shall be given by the board by posting
notices thereof in at least three public places in each voting
district at least 21 days prior to the election, and also by
publication for the same length of time in some newspaper of general
circulation published in each county in which any portion of the land
assessed in and by the assessment is situated.
The notice shall specify the time and place of holding the
election, the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued,
and the names of the persons appointed to act as the board of
election.
Affidavits of publication and posting of the notices shall be
filed with the county elections official of the county in which the
notices have been posted or published, together with a copy of the
order calling the election certified to by the secretary or assistant
secretary of the board.
Duplicate original affidavits of publication and posting of
the notice, shall be filed in the office of the board.
