CHAPTER 4. Transfer of Districts From One County to Another [53800. - 53805.]

Cal. Water Code - WAT 4.

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Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53800. Section 53800.

When a district, by a legislative act changing county boundaries, is transferred wholly from one county to another, the board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, shall exercise all of the jurisdiction, power, and authority over the district theretofore exercised by the board of supervisors of the county wherein the district was originally formed.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53801. Section 53801.

The board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, the officers thereof, and the officers of the district shall thereafter perform all acts required to be performed in connection with the district with the same authority and effect as though the district had been originally organized within that county.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53802. Section 53802.

The auditor and treasurer of the county to which a district is transferred shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of the county within which the district was previously situated for all of the funds of the district in the treasury of such county, and the funds shall be so transferred into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53803. Section 53803.

After a district is transferred to another county, all assessments shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53804. Section 53804.

When, by any change of county boundaries made by the Legislature of this State, any district is transferred in whole or in part to another county than the one within which it was organized, then as to such part of the district so transferred to another county, the same power and authority shall exist, and the same proceedings shall be had in the conduct and management of the district, and in the levy and collection of assessments, and in all other ways with respect to its conduct and management, as though it had been originally organized in the county where it was organized and partially in the county to which it is transferred.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 53805. Section 53805.

When a district is transferred in whole or in part to another county from that in which it was organized, all proceedings, petitions or orders which should have been recorded in the county to which the district is in whole or in part transferred shall be copied and certified by the officer having custody thereof, transferred to, and recorded in, such county.

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