Bond Elections and Harbor Improvement Bonds

Division 7, Chapter 2, Article 2 deals with bond elections for harbor improvement bonds in California.

Section 4060 requires the commission to complete four specified tasks.

Section 4061 provides that, if the commission, after a careful survey, investigation and examination, finds and reports to the board that the improvement, development or protection of the harbor is not practicable, or that it would involve too great an expense, its report must be filed, and if it is approved by the board, the harbor commission shall cease to exist.

Section 4062 requires the board to fix a date for hearing the report which is not more than 30 nor less than 20 days after the filing, and it must 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 publications in one or more newspapers published in the county.

Section 4063 states that, if the plans and specifications and report are finally approved by the board, it must adopt a resolution to that effect. The resolution must set forth three specified items.

Section 4064 requires the board to immediately call an election to determine whether the bonds of the county are to be issued and sold in the amount estimated by the commission in its report and set forth in the resolution of the board adopting it.

Section 4065 requires the election to be conducted, and the bonds issued and sold and paid for, pursuant to the law concerning the issuance, sale and payment of county bonds, and all proceedings had in regard to the bonds shall be in accordance with these laws.

Section 4066 specifies that every election held for the purpose of submitting the question of the issuance and sale of bonds, authorized by this chapter, must be a special election and no question other than propositions relating to the issuance and sale of bonds for one or more purposes may be submitted.

Section 4067 provides that, for the holding of the special election the board may form bond election precincts by adopting the precincts established for general election purposes, or by consolidating such precincts inside of incorporated cities and towns, to a number not exceeding six in each bond election precinct. 

Section 4068 states that it is sufficient to set forth the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued and sold, to state that they are for the improvement, development or protection of ____ harbor, naming the harbor by the name by which it is commonly called. Any defect or irregularity in the proceedings prior to the calling of the election does not affect the validity of the bonds.