§ 8757 Land Benefit Assessment Rules

Water Code·California

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Key Takeaways

•If a big project (like building a dam or roads) helps some land, the landowners have to pay for it.
•The cost is split based on how much each piece of land actually benefits from the whole project.
•You only pay for the part of the project that helps your land, not the whole thing.

Example

A new road is built near a farm and a store.

The farm gets a little help from the road, but the store gets a lot more customers. So the store pays more for the road than the farm.

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§ 8757 Land Benefit Assessment Rules

In determining the benefits that will or may accrue to each particular tract of land by the construction or maintenance of the works contemplated by any project or unit, the works of the project or unit shall be considered as a whole and land shall be assessed for the works embraced in the project or unit only in the proportion that it will or may be benefited by the construction of the entire works embraced in the project or unit. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

Key Terms

benefits tract of land works project or unit assessed

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Water Code. Section 8757.

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