AZ vs. CA:04 California Exhibits, Vol. IV; Nos. 151-192

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2 STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA. Assessments. Sec. 4. The board of directors of any such irrigation district shall within fifteen days after the close of its session as a board of equalization, levy an assessment sufficient to raise the annual interest on any outstanding bonds of such district and for any year in which any bonds shall fall due, must increase such assessment to an amount sufficient to raise a sum sufficient to pay the principal of the outstanding bonds as they mature, also, sufficient to pay in full all sums due or that shall become due from the district before the time for levying the next annual assessment, also, sufficient to pay in full, the amount of any other contract or obligation of the district due or to become due within the succeeding twelve months and such further sum as, with the other revenue of the district, will meet the estimated current expenses of the district including cost of flood prevention for the succeeding twelve months. How Sec. 5. Except as herein provided, every such irrigation gmemed. district shall be governed by the provisions of an act of the legislature of the State of California, entitled, "An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irrigation of lands embraced within such districts, and also to provide for the distribution of water for irrigation purposes," approved March 31, 1897, and the acts amendatory thereof. urgencr. Sec. 6. This act is hereby declared to be an urgency measure, within the meaning of section one, article four of the constitution of the State of California, and shall take effect immediately. The facts constituting such urgency are as follows: One irrigation district which will be affected and governed by the provisions of this act, and which contains a population of over thirty thousand people, is in serious danger of loss of life, and of a vast amount of property, by reason of threatened overflow of the Colorado river. There is no other public body authorized to make the expenditures necessary to secure protection from such threatened overflow and the protective work necessary in order to be effective, must be commenced before this act would take effect without the enactment of this section. It is therefore necessary for the immediate preservation of public safety, that this act take effect immediately.