2010 California Code
Water Code
Article 4. Emergency Assessments

25725.  In cases of emergency by which the flow of water in a canal
or other supply is interrupted, the amount of the cost of the repairs
not to exceed in any one year forty thousand dollars ($40,000) may,
in addition to any other assessments, be levied by the adoption of a
resolution by at least four-fifths of the members of the board at the
time of the levying of the annual assessment, without the submission
of a proposal for the levy to the voters.