such election, which must be within sixty days from the date of the order, and must show the boundaries of the proposed district, and must state that at such election persons to fill the offices provided by this act, viz., a sanitary assessor, and five members of the sanitary board, will be voted for. This order shall be entered in the minutes of the board, and shall be conclusive evidence of the due presentation of a proper petition, and of the fact that each of the petitioners was at the time of the signature and presentation of such petition a resident and freeholder within the limits of the proposed district.

SECTION 3. A copy of such order shall be posted for four successive weeks prior to the election, in three public places within the proposed district, and shall be published for four successive weeks prior to the election, in some newspaper published in the proposed district, if there be one, and if not, in some newspaper published in the county. It shall be sufficient if the order be published once a week.

SECTION 4. The board of supervisors, at any time prior to the election, shall select one polling place within the proposed district, and make all suitable arrangements for the holding of such election. The tickets shall contain the words "For a Sanitary District," or "Against a Sanitary District," as the case may be, and the name of a person for sanitary assessor, and the names of five persons for members of the sanitary board. Such election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state, so far as the same shall be applicable, except as herein otherwise provided. Every qualified elector, resident within the proposed district for the period requisite to enable him to vote at a general election, shall be entitled to vote at the election above provided for. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of a sanitary district, the board of supervisors shall make and cause to be entered in the minutes an order that a sanitary district of the name and with the boundaries stated in the petition (setting forth such boundaries) has been duly established, and said order shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and regularity of all prior proceedings of every kind and nature provided for by this act or by law, and of the existence and validity of the district. If a majority of the votes cast shall be against a sanitary district, the board shall, by order, so declare; no other proceedings shall be taken in relation thereto until the expiration of one year from the presentation of the petition.

SECTION 5. Every sanitary district formed under the provisions of this act shall have power to have and use a common seal, alterable at the pleasure of the sanitary board; to sue and be sued by its name; to construct and maintain and keep clean such sewers and drains as in the judgment of the sanitary board shall be necessary or proper, and for this purpose to acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation proceedings, or otherwise, such real and personal property and rights of way, either within or without the limits of the district, as in the judgment of the sanitary board shall be necessary or proper, and to pay for and hold the same; to make and accept any and all contracts, deeds, releases and documents of every kind which, in the judgment of the sanitary board, shall be necessary or proper to the exercise of any of the powers of the district, and to direct the payment of all lawful claims and demands against it; to issue bonds as hereinafter provided, and to assess, levy and collect taxes to pay

the principal and interest of the same, and the cost of laying and the expense of maintaining any sewer or sewers that may be constructed subsequent to the issuance of said bonds, or any lawful claims against said district, and the running expenses of the district; to employ all necessary agents and assistants, and pay the same; to lay its sewers and drains in any public street or road of the county, and for this purpose to enter upon the same and make all necessary and proper excavations, restoring the same to proper condition, but in case such street or road shall be in an incorporated city or town, the consent of the lawful authorities thereofshall first be obtained; to make and enforce all necessary and proper regulations for the removal of garbage and the cleanliness of the roads and streets of the district, and for the purpose of guarding against the spread of contagious and infectious diseases, and for the isolation of persons and houses affected with such diseases, and for the notification of the other inhabitants of the existence thereof, and all other sanitary regulations not in conflict with the constitution and laws of the state; to impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for any and all violations of its regulations and orders, and to fix the penalty thereof by fine or imprisonment, or both; but no such fine shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, and no such imprisonment shall exceed one month; to call, hold, and conduct all elections necessary or proper after the formation of the district; to prescribe, by order, the time, mode and manner of assessing, levying, and collecting taxes for sanitary purposes, except as is otherwise provided herein; to compel all residents and property owners within the district to connect their houses and habitations with the street sewers and drains; and generally to do and perform any and all acts necessary or proper to the complete exercise and effect of any of its powers, or the purpose for which it was formed.

SECTION 6. The officers of the district shall be a sanitary assessor and five members of the sanitary board.

SECTION 7. There shall be an election for sanitary assessor on every even numbered year in which members of the sanitary board are elected, and at the same time, place and manner; and the person then elected shall hold office for two years next thereafter, and until the election and qualification of his successor. The person elected assessor at the election at which the district was formed shall hold office until the election and qualification of his successor; provided, that if at any time a vacancy occur in the office of assessor, the sanitary board shall appoint a suitable person to fill such vacancy until the next election at which an assessor may be elected under the provisions of this act.

SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the sanitary assessor to make out, before the first Monday in July of each year, a list of all the tangible, real and personal property within the district. Such list shall contain a brief and general description of the property, an assessment of the value thereof, the name or names of the owner or owners, and such other matters as may be ordered by the sanitary board and such matters as shall be necessary to make such list conform to the provisions of the general laws of the state of California. The land shall be assessed separately from the improvements thereon. No mistake in the name of the owner of any of the real or personal property assessed, or any informality in the description, or in other parts of the assessment, shall invalidate the same

The sanitary assessor shall verify said list by his oath before some officer authorized to administer oaths, and shall deposit the same with the sanitary board on the first Monday of July of each year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable. He shall have power to administer all oaths and affirmations necessary or proper in the performance of his duty as assessor, and shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the order of the board. He shall also perform such further duties and do such further acts as may be ordered or required by the sanitary board.

SECTION 9. There shall be an election for two members of the sanitary board in every even numbered year, beginning with the second even numbered year after the election at which the district was organized, and the two members then to be elected shall hold office until the election and qualification of their successors in the next even numbered year; and there shall be an election for three members of the sanitary board in every odd numbered year, beginning with the second odd numbered year after the election at which the district was organized, and the three members then to be elected shall hold office until the election and qualification of their successors in the next odd numbered year. The five members elected at the election at which the district was organized shall, at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, so classify themselves, by lot, that two of them shall go out of office in the second even numbered year after the election at which the district was organized, and upon the election and qualification of their successors, as provided by this act, and three of them in the second odd numbered year after the election at which the district was organized, and upon the election and qualification of their successors, as provided by this act. All elections for officers after the formation of the district shall be on the first Monday after the first Tuesday in the month of March. The members of the sanitary board shall receive no compensation whatever, either for general or special services.

SECTION 10. The sanitary board shall be the governing power of the district, and shall exercise all the powers thereof, except the making of an assessment list in the first instance, as herein provided. At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, the board shall choose one of its members as president and another of its members as secretary. And all contracts, deeds, warrants, releases, receipts and documents of every kind shall be signed in the name of the district by its president, and shall be countersigned by its secretary. The board shall hold such meetings, either in the day or in the evening, as may be convenient. In case of the absence or inability to act, of the president or secretary, the board shall, by order entered upon the minutes, choose a president, pro tem., or secretary, pro tem., or both, as the case may be.

SECTION 11. The sanitary board shall sit as a board of equalization as soon as it receives the asssessor's list, or as soon thereafter as practicable. and shall continue in session as such board, with convenient intermissions, until the entire list furnished by the assessor shall have been examined and rectified, if rectification be necessary. The board shall have power to hear complaints as to the proceedings of the assessor, and to adjudicate and determine the controversy thereon, and may of its own motion raise an assessment, after such reasonable notice to the party whose assessment is to be raised as may be ordered by the board. After the examination

and rectification of the assessor's list shall have been completed, the board shall, by resolution, fix the rate of taxation for sanitary purposes, designating the number of cents on each one hundred dollars to be levied for each fund, and shall designate the fund into which the same shall be paid; but no more than fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars shall be levied for all the sanitary purposes of any one year, besides what shall be required for the payment of the principal and interest of such year upon outstanding bonds. After the entry in the minutes of the resolution fixing the rate of taxation, the sanitary board shall cause the assessor to compute the amount of the tax upon each piece of real and personal property and enfer the same upon the assessment list in a suitable place. The list, when so completed, shall be verified by the assessor and signed by the president and secretary; and the amount of the tax shall thereupon become a lien upon the property upon which it is assessed, and shall have the effect of a judgment against the person of the owner thereof, and every such lien shall have the force and effect of an execution duly levied against all the property of the delinquent; and the judgment shall not be deemed satisfied or the lien extinguished until the taxes are paid or the property sold to satisfy the same, and no statute of limitation shall apply; but no more then seventy-five thousand dollars of bonds shall be voted for or issued at any one time, nor shall the bonded indebtedness of the district ever exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars at any one period, whether it be made up of one issue of bonds or of several periods.

SECTION 12. On or before the first Monday in July of each year, the board shall transmit, or cause the assessor to transmit, a duplicate of the list so made to the tax collector of the county, who shall collect the taxes shown by said list to be due, in the same manner as he collects the county taxes, and all the provisions of the laws of the state as to the collection of taxes and delinquent taxes, and the enforcement of the payment thereof, so far as applicable, shall apply to the collection of taxes for sanitary purposes; and said tax collector, and the sureties on his official bond, shall be responsible for the due performance of the duties imposed upon him by this act; provided, that the sanitary board may, in its discretion, direct the district attorney of the county to commence and prosecute suits for the collection of the whole or any portion of the delinquent taxes; and it shall be the duty of the district attorney to carry out such directions of the san itary board, and he, and the sureties upon his official bond, shall be responsible for the due performance of the duty imposed upon him by this act; and provided further, that the sanitary board may, at any time, by order entered in its minutes, provide a system for the collection of delinquent taxes, or make any change in the manner of their collection, which as to such taxes shall have the force of law. All money collected for sanitary purposes by the district attorney under this act shall be at once paid to the county treasurer.

SECTION 13. The tax collector shall pay over to the county treasurer all moneys collected by him for sanitary purposes, as fast as the same shall be collected, and the said treasurer shall keep the same in the county treasury as follows: In a fund called the bond fund for sanitary district (naming it) he shall place and keep the moneys levied by the sanitary board for such fund; and no part of the money in this fund shall be transferred to any other fund, or be used for any other purpose than the payment of the prin

cipal and interest of the bonds of the sanitary district, so long as any such bonds shall be unpaid; in a fund called the running expense of sanitary district (naming it) he shall place ard keep the moneys levied by the sanitary board for such fund. The whole or any part of the money in the running expense fund may be transferred to the bond fund, or to the other fund hereinafter provided for, upon the order of the sanitary board, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to comply with such order. The treasurer shall pay out moneys from either of said funds, or from the fund hereinafter mentioned, only upon the written order of the sanitary board, signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary, which order shall specify the name of the person to whom the money is to be paid and the fund from which it is to be paid, and shall state generally the purpose for which the payment is made, and such order shall be entered in the minutes of the sanitary board. The treasurer shall keep the order as his voucher, and shall keep a specific account of his receipts and disbursements of money for sanitary purposes. The treasurer and sureties upon his official bond shall be liable for the due performance of the duties imposed upon him by this act. The treasurer shall keep the money arising from the sale of bonds in the fund hereinafter mentioned.

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SECTION 14. At any time after the district is organized, the sanitary board may, by order entered in the minutes, call an election for the purpose of determining whether bonds shall be issued for the construction of Such order shall fix the day of the election, and shall specify the amount of money to be raised, and shall state in general terms the purpose for which it is to be raised. A copy of such order shall be posted for four successive weeks prior to the election in at least three public places within the district, and shall be published for four successive weeks prior to the election, in some newspaper published within the district, if there be one, and if not, in some newspaper published in the county. It shall be sufficient if the order be published once a week.

*SECTION 15. At any time prior to the day fixed for the election, the board shall select one, and may select two, polling places within the district, appoint officers of election, and make all necessary and proper arrangements for holding the election. The tickets shall contain the words, "For the issuance of bonds as proposed by the sanitary board," or "Against the issuance of bonds as proposed by the sanitary board." The election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state, so far as the same shall be applicable, except as herein otherwise provided. Every qualified elector, resident within the district for the length of time necessary to enable him to vote at a general election, shall be entitled to vote at the election above provided for. After the votes shall have been announced, the ballots shall be sealed up and delivered to the secretary or president of the sanitary board, which shall, as soon as practicable, proceed to canvass the same, and shall enter the result upon its minutes. Such entry shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and regularity of all prior proceedings of every kind and nature provided by this act or by law, and of the facts stated in such entry. If, at such election, two-thirds of the votes cast be in favor of the issuance of bonds as proposed by the sanitary board, the said board shall thenceforth have full power and authority to issue and dispose of bonds as proposed in the order calling the election.