CHAPTER 4. Improvement of Other Harbor or Harbors Within the District [5910. - 5915.]

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC 4.

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Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5910. Section 5910.

Any harbor improvement district organized and existing pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5800) of Division 8 may improve, develop, protect, and maintain any or all harbors within its boundaries in accordance with the procedure, and in the manner provided, in this chapter and in the Public Contract Code, except that nothing in this chapter or in the Public Contract Code affects state-owned tidelands and submerged lands or the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission over tidelands and submerged lands.

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5911. Section 5911.

The board of supervisors of any county in which the district is situated may direct the harbor commission, appointed pursuant to Section 5902 of this part, to prepare surveys for the improvement, development or protection of any harbor or harbors within the district, prepare plans therefor and estimates of cost thereof, and to report to the board of supervisors thereon, with its recommendations covering the necessity, advantages and benefits to be derived by the improvement, development or protection of such harbor or harbors.

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5912. Section 5912.

Upon receiving the report and recommendation of the harbor commission, the board shall fix a date for hearing on the report to consider and determine the feasibility of the project or projects submitted. The hearing shall be held not more than thirty (30) days nor less than twenty (20) days after the filing of the report, and the board shall cause notice of the fact that the report has been filed and of the date fixed for the hearing to be published by at least two (2) publications in a newspaper published within the district.

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5913. Section 5913.

The hearing, investigation, determination and findings of the board of supervisors shall be conducted and made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 5835 to 5841, inclusive, of this part, which sections are incorporated herein to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5914. Section 5914.

Upon final hearing, if the board finds that the harbor or harbors can be improved, developed and protected as generally described in the report and recommendation of the harbor commission at a cost not disproportionate to the benefits to be derived from the proposed project, the board may order the development, improvement or protection of the harbor or harbors in accordance with its findings.

Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 5915. Section 5915.

For the purpose of financing the improvement, development, protection and maintenance of such additional harbor or harbors, the board may issue bonds, borrow money, incur indebtedness and levy taxes, all in the same manner and to the same extent as in the improvement, development, protection and maintenance of the harbor for which the district was originally formed, and shall in all other respects have the same powers and duties with respect to the improvement, development, protection and maintenance of such additional harbor or harbors as it has with respect to the original harbor for which the district was formed. The board may issue no bonds hereunder unless the incurring of the bonded indebtedness for the improvement, development, protection and maintenance of such additional harbor or harbors shall first have been approved at an election held in the manner provided in Article 3, Chapter 1, Part 2 of Division 8 of this code, and pursuant to the provisions of said article with reference to the incurring of bonded indebtedness.

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