4915-4927

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 4915-4927




4915.  A district may be dissolved by the board as provided in this
chapter.


4916.  A petition for dissolution, signed by 50 or more freeholders
and residents of the district, or by a majority of the freeholders
and residents if there are less than 100 freeholders and residents in
the district, may be filed with the board to initiate dissolution
proceedings, or the board may by resolution initiate dissolution
proceedings.



4917.  Upon receiving a petition for dissolution, or adopting a
resolution to initiate dissolution proceedings, the board shall fix a
time for a hearing of the petition or resolution, which shall not be
less than 15 nor more than 30 days after its receipt or adoption.



4918.  At least ten days prior to the time fixed, the board shall
publish a notice of the hearing by one insertion in a newspaper
circulated in the district.


4919.  At the time appointed for the hearing or at any time to which
it is continued, the board shall hear and pass upon the petition or
resolution and may grant or deny the proposed dissolution, and its
decision is final.


4920.  If the proposed dissolution is granted, the board shall by
resolution order the dissolution of the district and the district is
thereupon dissolved. The property of the district remains the
property of the county in which the district is located.
   If at the time of the dissolution there is any indebtedness of the
district outstanding, the district shall be dissolved for all
purposes except the levy and collection of taxes for the payment of
such outstanding indebtedness. From the time the district is thus
dissolved until the indebtedness is fully paid, the board of
supervisors of the county wherein the district is located shall be
the ex officio governing body of the district. That body shall levy
such taxes and perform such other acts as may be necessary to pay the
outstanding indebtedness of the district.



4921.  Upon the inclusion of all the territory of a district in one
or more cities, either by reason of annexation or by reason of the
incorporation of one or more cities, all funds paid into the county
treasury to the credit of the district shall be paid over by the
board as provided in this article.



4922.  If all of the district is included in one city, the fund
shall be paid to the treasurer of the city and administered by the
governing body of the city.


4923.  If a part only of the district is so included in one city and
the remaining part of the district is included in one or more other
cities then such proportionate part of the funds shall be paid to the
treasurer of each city as the assessed valuation of the real
property of the portion of the district included in each city bore,
before being so included, to the total assessed valuation of the real
property of the district.



4924.  The funds paid over by the district to a city shall be
administered by its governing body for the benefit of such portions
of the district as are included in the city, and for the purpose of
operating and maintaining the sewers in it formerly maintained by the
district.



4925.  When all territory in a district has been included in a city
the district is thereupon, by reason of the inclusion, dissolved.



4926.  If less than the whole of a district is included in a city
either by reason of annexation or by reason of incorporation
proceedings, the territory so included within the city shall continue
to remain a part of the district for all purposes until a copy of a
resolution adopted by the city requesting exclusion of such territory
from the district is received by the board. Upon receipt of such a
resolution requesting exclusion of the territory contained within the
city, such territory shall be excluded from the district and the
remaining territory shall continue as a district. But the exclusion
of such territory from the district shall not be effective until all
outstanding contracts of the districts have expired or the contracts,
with the consent of the parties, have been modified or canceled so
as to relieve the district of further obligation to pay for future
maintenance in the affected territory.



4927.  If all of the district is included within a sanitary
district, the district is dissolved upon the filing with the
Secretary of State of a resolution adopted by the district board of
the sanitary district and approved by the board of supervisors which
states that the sanitary district is able to provide the same service
as is being provided by the sewer maintenance district and declares
that the sewer maintenance district is dissolved. A copy of the
resolution shall be filed with the board of supervisors.
   Upon the dissolution of the sewer maintenance district, the
property and funds which are held by the county for the sewer
maintenance district vest in the sanitary district and the county
shall convey such property and pay over such funds, to the sanitary
district. The sanitary district shall also succeed to any liability
or outstanding obligation of the sewer maintenance district at the
time of its dissolution.