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DIVISION 5. SANITATION 4600-6127›PART 3. COMMUNITY FACILITIES 4600-6127›CHAPTER 3. County Sanitation Districts 4700-4859›ARTICLE 2. Formation 4710-4718

§ 4710

California Health and Safety Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A board of supervisors desiring to form a county sanitation district shall adopt a resolution of its intention to do so. The resolution shall contain all of the following:

(a) A statement of the intention to form a district.

(b) The boundaries of the proposed district or some other designation of its territorial extent.

(c) The name of the proposed district.

(d) The time and place where objections to the formation of the district or to its extent will be heard.

(e) Instructions to the clerk of the board to publish the resolution and notices of hearing.

(f) When the proposed district includes parcels of noncontiguous territory, a statement that the proposed district will be in accordance with the master plan of county sanitation service as adopted by the board of supervisors or if the county has not adopted such a master plan then a statement that the proposed district is within the same watershed. Watershed as used in this section means to include only that area drained by gravity to the trunk sewer or sewers.

(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 2130.)

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