When the board has determined to issue bonds secured by benefit assessments, it shall, by resolution, employ a civil engineer, who shall have no interest, directly or indirectly, in any land in the district, to apportion the cost of the plan, to which shall be added the compensation to be paid the engineer, in accordance with benefit to each tract of land within the service area held in separate ownership.
(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 57, Sec. 1. Effective May 31, 1983.)