Section 22280 - Charges in lieu of assessmentsAny district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying assessments fix and collect charges for any service furnished by the district, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a)(1) Use, sale, or lease of water, which may include, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, a standby charge whether the water is actually used or not.(2) If the procedures set forth in this section as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the district may, by resolution, continue the charge pursuant to this section in successive years at the same rate. If new, increased, or extended assessments are proposed, the district shall comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code.(b) Delivery of water for irrigation in excess of a specified quantity per unit of land.(c) Water and the service thereof required by law or provisions of agreements under which all or part of the water supply of the district was acquired to be furnished outside its boundaries to consumers whose rights to service were at the time the supply of water was acquired by the district enforceable by reason of their status as persons of the class for whose benefit the water was appropriated or dedicated.(d) Use of water for power purposes.(e) Sale of electric power.(f) Connections to new pipelines or extensions of existing pipelines required to serve water to lands in the district not adjacent to existing distribution works and which have been constructed in whole or in part at the expense of the district.(g) Services performed under contracts made pursuant to Section 22234.(h) Use of water for groundwater recharge.Amended by Stats 2007 ch 27 (SB 444),s 19, eff. 1/1/2008.