Las Virgenes Municipal Water District v. Dorgelo

Opinion

ROTH, P. J. J.—

The question in this original mandamus proceeding is whether the remaining portion of a water district’s bonds, the initial issuance of which was statutorily authorized in 1964 by an “absence of landowner protest” plan, may now be issued consistently with the mandates of Proposition 13. The 1964 authorization permitted petitioner water district to issue $3.2 million in bonds. Prior to the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, it had issued $1.7 million of those bonds. The district now seeks to issue the remaining $1.5 million of those previously authorized but heretofore…