Title 10: ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES [725a - 871.30] | Chapter 4.6: Actions Concerning Real Property Titles Affected by Public Improvement Assessments
California Code of Civil Procedure – 2026
§ 801.1
An action may be brought to determine adverse interests in, liens or clouds upon title to real property arising out of any public improvement assessme…
§ 801.2
The action may be brought as a separate action or joined as a cause with other causes of action to determine adverse claims to and clouds upon title t…
§ 801.3
The complaint shall include as defendants to the action (a) all persons known to the plaintiff owning or claiming an interest under such public improv…
§ 801.4
The complaint shall also include, as defendants, unknown persons owning or claiming an interest in such bond, special assessment or certificate of sal…
§ 801.5
Within ten days after the filing of the complaint, plaintiff shall file or cause to be filed in the office of the recorder of the county where the pro…
§ 801.6
Within three years after the filing of the complaint, a summons shall be issued which shall contain the matters required by Section 412.
§ 801.7
Within thirty days after the issuance of the summons, the plaintiff shall post, or cause to be posted, a copy thereof in a conspicuous place on the pr…
§ 801.8
All known defendants shall be served in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons in a civil action.
§ 801.9
In addition to the matters required to be set forth in the affidavit by the plaintiff for publication of summons, it shall appear by the affidavit tha…
§ 801.10
All unknown defendants, including the heirs and devisees designated in the complaint, shall have the same rights as are provided by law for other defe…
§ 801.11
On the trial of the action, the court shall determine the rights of all the parties thereto and shall require proof of the facts alleged.
§ 801.12
If the court determines that none of the defendants have any right, title, interest, lien or estate in the property, it shall render its final decree …
§ 801.13
If the court orders a sale of the property or a partition thereof, the same shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Title 10.
§ 801.14
The decree, after it has become final, is conclusive against all persons named in the complaint who have been served and all unknown persons and the h…
§ 801.15
After the judgment has become final, a certified copy thereof shall be delivered to the public officer having the record of the assessment, bond or ce…