44900-44910
WATER CODE
SECTION 44900-44910
44900. If any contract or lease for the acquisition of property provides for any future payments by the district, warrants may be issued, on order of the board, for the payments, which warrants shall be made payable at the times provided in the contract or lease. 44901. When a particular purpose or emergency assessment has been authorized, warrants in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment may be issued on order of the board to carry out the purpose for which the assessment was authorized. These warrants shall be made payable at the time or times that the board estimates that they can be paid from the proceeds of the assessment. 44902. Any outstanding registered warrants and their accrued interest may be refunded by the issuance of warrants payable at stated times fixed by the board. These warrants may be exchanged for the registered warrants or sold for not less than their par value to provide funds for the payment of the registered warrants or any of them and their accrued interest. 44903. Warrants payable at a future time or times may be issued in consideration of money loaned to the district for the purchase of any of its outstanding bonds or the refinancing or retiring of any outstanding contract. The annual interest payable on these warrants shall be less than the annual interest on the bonds purchased or contract refinanced or retired with the proceeds of the warrants. 44904. Warrants payable at a future time or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of the district. 44905. Any warrant authorized in the preceding sections of this article shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed 6 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as the board may prescribe. 44906. Coupons payable to bearer in a form and signed as prescribed by the board may be attached to warrants payable at a future date to evidence their interest. 44907. Warrants of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first district assessment, bearing interest fixed by the board at not more than 7 percent per year. These warrants shall be made payable on a date not later than the first day of July next after the first annual assessment in the district is levied. 44908. If any district owns any property which it is authorized to lease or sell, its board may in the contract providing for the issuance of warrants payable at a future time, agree that the proceeds of the lease or sale of the property, not required by law to be used for other purposes, shall be allocated to the payment of these warrants. 44909. No warrants issued pursuant to this article made payable more than five years from the date of issuance shall be valid unless their issuance is authorized by a majority of the voters voting at an election called by the board for the purpose of determining whether or not the warrants shall be authorized. 44910. Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided for bond elections.