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Title 12 — LOCAL IMPROVEMENT PROCEDURE CODE

Watsonville Municipal Code Ch. 3 Incidental Expenses

Watsonville Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-05 · Watsonville

Cite as: Watsonville Municipal Code Chapter 3 · Text as of 2026-10-05

12-3.01 Acquisitions.

“Incidental expenses”, when referring to proceeding for an acquisition, shall mean and shall include:

(a) The amounts awarded to the defendants by the interlocutory judgments;

(b) The costs of the defendants;

(c) The compensation and expenses of the referees as allowed by court;

(d) All other costs of the plaintiff in such action and expenses incurred by it in the trial thereof, including the compensation paid expert appraiser and witnesses;

(e) All expenses necessarily incurred in connection with such proceedings for the publication, mailing, and posting of resolutions, notices, and orders in any of the proceedings;

(f) All expenses incurred for maps, plots, surveys, searches, and certificates of the title to the property to be acquired;

(g) The compensation of the attorney;

(h) The compensation of the engineer;

(i) The clerical, stenographic, and printing expenses incident to the actions;

(j) The estimated cost of preparing and selling the bonds; and

(k) Any other expenses incurred by authority of this Code or incidental to the completion of the acquisition in the manner herein specified.

(§ 1, Ord. 339 C-M, eff. November 7, 1974)

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12-3.02 Improvements.

“Incidental expenses”, when referring to proceedings for an improvement, shall be deemed to mean and shall include all expenses necessarily incurred in the proceedings:

(a) For the publication, mailing, and posting of resolutions, notices, and orders in any such proceedings;

(b) The compensation of the attorneys;

(c) The compensation of the superintendent of work;

(d) The compensation of the engineers;

(e) The estimated cost of preparing the bonds; and

(f) Any other expenses incurred by authority of this Code or incidental to the completion of the improvement in the manner herein specified.

(§ 1, Ord. 339 C-M, eff. November 7, 1974)

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