Cal. SHC § 5501
This is the official text of Cal. SHC § 5501, part of California’s Streets and Highways Code — governs the construction and maintenance of public roads.
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Official statutory text
The true intent and meaning of this chapter is to make the cost and expense of any work made through an attempted compliance with this division payable by the real estate benefited by such work by making a reassessment therefor.
Such power of reassessing embraces both a full and partial reassessment, and is not exhausted by a single attempted exercise thereof.
Such power of reassessing embraces both a full and partial reassessment, and is not exhausted by a single attempted exercise thereof.
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