ARTICLE 6. Warrants [8955. - 8982.]

Cal. Water Code - WAT 6.
in effect

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8955. Section 8955.

All money collected from assessments shall be paid out only on warrants issued for works or other expenses covered by the assessment from which the money was derived, to the end that all money raised by assessment upon any of the lands embraced in the drainage district, shall be expended only for works of reclamation or other expenses, beneficial to the lands so assessed, and for the payment of warrants issued for the construction of the works and other expenses for which the assessment was levied.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8957. Section 8957.

Drafts of the board may be presented to the Controller and warrants drawn against the funds to be raised by an assessment as soon as the board has passed its order or resolution for the levy of the assessment and appointed the assessors.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8958. Section 8958.

In case there are not sufficient funds applicable thereto for the payment of the warrants when presented to the State Treasurer, he shall indorse on the warrants the date of presentation and register the same, and thereafter the warrants shall bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, and shall be paid in the order of their registration.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8959. Section 8959.

All such warrants shall be considered as contracts in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action based upon any such warrants, or connected therewith, is four years from the date of the first publication of the notice specifying the warrants published by the State Treasurer pursuant to the provisions of this article.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8960. Section 8960.

No statute of limitations shall be deemed to have run against any action upon or affecting any warrant drawn against any assessment under this part by reason of the lapse of time during which funds adequate for the payment of the outstanding warrants against the assessment were not available.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8961. Section 8961.

The warrants shall, at any time within the period of four years, be received in payment of any assessment for work or expenses for which the warrants were issued.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8962. Section 8962.

The board may, at its option, at any time before payment of any warrant renew it upon application of the owner or holder thereof by an indorsement thereon of the fact and date of the renewal and notice thereof to the State Treasurer and Controller.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8963. Section 8963.

Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants of the drainage district, the State Treasurer shall give notice that there is money in the treasury to pay certain warrants, giving their numbers in the order of their registration.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8964. Section 8964.

The notice shall be published for 10 days in one newspaper published in the City of Stockton and one published in the City of Sacramento.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8966. Section 8966.

The board shall designate a paper in each of the cities of Stockton and Sacramento which shall be the official papers of the drainage district for the purpose of the publication.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8967. Section 8967.

All warrants of the drainage district when received by the board, Department of Finance, the respective county treasurers or any other officer authorized by law to accept them, for the cancellation or retirement thereof or in payment of assessments, shall be transmitted by the board, department, or officer to the Controller who shall give the board, department, or officer a receipt for the warrants.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8968. Section 8968.

The Controller upon demand by the board shall cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of the tender of the warrants to the board, department or officer receiving them, to the fund upon which the warrants were originally drawn and charge the fund with the accrued interest.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8969. Section 8969.

The Controller shall notify the State Treasurer of the cancellation and the State Treasurer shall then make the proper entries in his books.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8970. Section 8970.

Whenever any warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter has been presented to the State Treasurer and not paid for want of funds and has not been registered by the State Treasurer and bears interest as provided in this chapter, the Controller shall at any time, on presentation of the warrant to him for that purpose, certify on the warrant, over his signature, the amount of interest accrued thereon to that date, specifying the date.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8971. Section 8971.

When the State Treasurer pays a warrant he shall, in addition to the amount for which the warrant was drawn, pay the interest accrued thereon as certified to by the Controller.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8972. Section 8972.

Whenever any unpaid, outstanding and interest-bearing warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter is presented to the board by the owner or holder thereof for the purpose of having two or more warrants issued to him in lieu thereof, the board shall present the warrant properly indorsed to the Controller for credit to the fund upon which it was originally drawn together with a claim on the Controller setting forth the following: (a) The number and denomination of the warrant to be credited. (b) The number of substituted warrants, and denomination of each, to be issued in lieu thereof.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8974. Section 8974.

The Controller shall credit the original warrant to the fund upon which it was originally drawn and shall prepare and issue warrants in accordance with the claim so presented showing thereon that the substituted warrants are issued in lieu of warrant No.____ (giving the warrant number of the original warrant) and also showing the date of issuance and date of registration of the original warrant.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8975. Section 8975.

When, upon presentation to the State Treasurer, payment can not be made for want of funds the State Treasurer shall register the warrants as of the date of registration of the original warrant and the substituted warrants shall bear interest from the original date of registration at the rate of 7 per cent per annum as provided in this chapter.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8976. Section 8976.

The Department of Finance may, out of any funds of the State which it is authorized by law to invest, purchase at their face value and invest in any warrants of the drainage district drawn by the Controller as provided in this part and payable out of any assessment levied or to be levied by the board upon lands within the drainage district.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8977. Section 8977.

The Department of Finance may exchange any warrants purchased pursuant to the next preceding section for other warrants drawn against the same assessment, and sell all or any part of the warrants so purchased or taken in exchange.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8979. Section 8979.

All warrants purchased or acquired by exchange by the Department of Finance shall be registered by the State Treasurer, unless already registered.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8980. Section 8980.

The warrants shall be payable with interest in their proper order of registration, as provided in this part.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8982. Section 8982.

Upon payment of the warrants the proceeds thereof shall be returned into the fund out of which the purchase or investment was made.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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