WaterStandby Assessments

Section § 71639

Explanation

This law applies to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District in California. It allows the district to set up an assessment with a schedule for yearly adjustments. They can do this by passing a resolution in line with certain tax laws.

Before adopting the assessment, the district must inform the public through a published notice, hold a hearing to listen to objections, and ensure that all conditions are met. The assessment can't exceed $29.41 per equivalent dwelling unit, and the funds must be used only for specific water service charges and their administrative costs. Additionally, the district must adjust water rates to retail agencies to avoid overfunding these charges.

Adjustments to the assessment are not considered an increase if done in accordance with existing tax adjustment methods.

(a)CA Water Code § 71639(a) This article applies to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District.
(b)CA Water Code § 71639(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district, by resolution, may adopt an assessment with a schedule of annual adjustments, and adjust the amount of an assessment in accordance with this section, if the adjustment is made in the same manner as provided for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government Code.
(c)CA Water Code § 71639(c) The district shall cause notice of the intent to adopt the resolution to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code prior to the date set for the adoption of the assessment, and shall hear any and all objections at the time and place set forth in the notice. The district, at the time and place specified in the notice, shall conduct the hearing and consider all objections to the assessment. Thereafter, the district may adjust the assessment, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1)CA Water Code § 71639(c)(1) The amount of the assessment does not exceed twenty-nine dollars and forty-one cents ($29.41) per equivalent dwelling unit.
(2)CA Water Code § 71639(c)(2) The revenue raised by the assessment, including its annual adjustments, is used exclusively to fund the readiness-to-serve charge, or equivalent charge, imposed upon the district by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and related administrative costs.
(3)CA Water Code § 71639(c)(3) The district adjusts its water rates to its retail agencies by an amount necessary to prevent surplus funding of the readiness-to-serve charge imposed upon the district by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
(d)CA Water Code § 71639(d) For the purposes of Article XIII C and Article XIII D of the California Constitution, the district has not increased an assessment if the district adjusts an assessment in the same manner as provided for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government Code.
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