6810-6823

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 6810-6823




6810.  A district organized under Chapter 161, Statutes of 1891, or
under the Sanitary District Act of 1919 may be reorganized as a
district under this part.


6811.  To effect the reorganization a petition, signed by not less
than twenty-five residents and freeholders within the district, and
also by a majority of the members of the district board, shall be
presented to the board of supervisors.




6812.  The petition shall be verified by at least one of the
petitioners in the manner prescribed by law for the verification of
pleadings, and shall set forth the boundaries and name of the
district and pray that it be reorganized under this part.




6813.  The petition shall be published for at least two weeks
preceding the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation published
in the county, together with a notice stating the time when the
petition will be presented to the board of supervisors, and that all
persons interested may appear and be heard.



6814.  At that time the board of supervisors shall hear the
petition.
   The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries of the
district as set forth in the petition so as to exclude from the
district any land which would be benefited by the reorganization of
the district under this part, nor shall any lands which will not in
the judgment of the board of supervisors be benefited by the
reorganized district be included within the district.



6815.  If the board of supervisors finds, upon the final hearing of
the petition, that the statements therein are correct the board shall
make an order approving the petition, describing the boundaries of
the territory included within the district, and declaring that the
territory is organized as a district under this part.




6816.  From and after the making of the order of reorganization by
the board of supervisors, the district is organized under this part
with all the powers conferred by this part.
   The persons in office at the time of the reorganization are
entitled immediately to enter upon the duties of the like offices of
the reorganized district and shall continue to serve until the
election and qualification of their respective successors in
accordance with this part.


6817.  A district reorganized under this part is for all purposes
the district previously existing.



6818.  Reorganization shall not affect or impair the title to any
property owned or held by or in trust for the district, or any debt,
demand, liability, or obligation existing in favor of or against the
district, or any proceeding then pending.



6819.  Reorganization shall not operate to repeal or affect in any
manner any ordinance previously passed or adopted and remaining
unrepealed, or to discharge any person from any liability then
existing for any violation of the ordinance. Proceedings commenced
before reorganization shall, after reorganization, be conducted in
accordance with this part.



6823.  The district may contract with the Federal Government of the
United States or any branch thereof, or with any county, city and
county, municipal corporation, district or other public corporation
or with any person, firm or corporation, for the joint acquisition or
construction or use of any sewer or sewers or other works or
facilities for the handling, treatment or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste from the district and such other area as may be
designated in said contract, when in the judgment of the legislative
body of said district it is for the best interests of the district so
to do. Any such contract may provide for the construction and
maintenance of such sewer or sewers, or such other works or
facilities, and for the payment by or for the parties thereto of such
proportionate part of the cost of the acquisition, construction or
maintenance of such sewer or sewers or other works or facilities as
may be stated in said contract, the payments to be made at such times
and in such amounts as may be provided by said contract. Any such
contract may provide for the joint use of any sewer or sewers, works
or facilities for the handling, treatment or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon
by the parties thereto, and for the flowage, treatment or disposal
of sewage or industrial waste from such area for each of the parties
thereto as may be described in the contract.
   Any district which has acquired or constructed or which proposes
to acquire or construct, any sewer or sewers, or works or other
facilities for the handling, treatment or disposal of sewage or
industrial waste, may contract with the Federal Government of the
United States or any branch thereof, or with any county, city and
county, municipal corporation, district or other public corporation
or with any person, firm or corporation for the use of any such sewer
or sewers, works or facilities by any such county, city and county,
municipal corporation, district or other public corporation, or for
the flowage, treatment or disposal of sewage or industrial waste from
any area designated by such person, firm or corporation so
contracting, upon such terms and conditions as may be provided in
said contract.