5910-5915

HARBORS AND NAVIGATION CODE
SECTION 5910-5915




5910.  Any harbor improvement district organized and existing
pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5800) of Division 8 may
improve, develop, protect, and maintain any or all harbors within its
boundaries in accordance with the procedure, and in the manner
provided, in this chapter and in the Public Contract Code, except
that nothing in this chapter or in the Public Contract Code affects
state-owned tidelands and submerged lands or the jurisdiction of the
State Lands Commission over tidelands and submerged lands.



5911.  The board of supervisors of any county in which the district
is situated may direct the harbor commission, appointed pursuant to
Section 5902 of this part, to prepare surveys for the improvement,
development or protection of any harbor or harbors within the
district, prepare plans therefor and estimates of cost thereof, and
to report to the board of supervisors thereon, with its
recommendations covering the necessity, advantages and benefits to be
derived by the improvement, development or protection of such harbor
or harbors.


5912.  Upon receiving the report and recommendation of the harbor
commission, the board shall fix a date for hearing on the report to
consider and determine the feasibility of the project or projects
submitted. The hearing shall be held not more than thirty (30) days
nor less than twenty (20) days after the filing of the report, and
the board shall cause notice of the fact that the report has been
filed and of the date fixed for the hearing to be published by at
least two (2) publications in a newspaper published within the
district.


5913.  The hearing, investigation, determination and findings of the
board of supervisors shall be conducted and made in accordance with
the provisions of Sections 5835 to 5841, inclusive, of this part,
which sections are incorporated herein to the extent that they are
not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.




5914.  Upon final hearing, if the board finds that the harbor or
harbors can be improved, developed and protected as generally
described in the report and recommendation of the harbor commission
at a cost not disproportionate to the benefits to be derived from the
proposed project, the board may order the development, improvement
or protection of the harbor or harbors in accordance with its
findings.



5915.  For the purpose of financing the improvement, development,
protection and maintenance of such additional harbor or harbors, the
board may issue bonds, borrow money, incur indebtedness and levy
taxes, all in the same manner and to the same extent as in the
improvement, development, protection and maintenance of the harbor
for which the district was originally formed, and shall in all other
respects have the same powers and duties with respect to the
improvement, development, protection and maintenance of such
additional harbor or harbors as it has with respect to the original
harbor for which the district was formed.
   The board may issue no bonds hereunder unless the incurring of the
bonded indebtedness for the improvement, development, protection and
maintenance of such additional harbor or harbors shall first have
been approved at an election held in the manner provided in Article
3, Chapter 1, Part 2 of Division 8 of this code, and pursuant to the
provisions of said article with reference to the incurring of bonded
indebtedness.