Health and Safety Code section 4710

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.

Source: Section 4710, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=4710.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1961; accessed Jul. 7, 2025).

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§ 4710's source at ca​.gov