California Water Code ARTICLE 3 - Preferred Priorities of Municipalities

• Section 1460.
  The application for a permit by a municipality for the use of water for the municipality or the inhabitants thereof for domestic purposes shall be...
• Section 1461.
  The application for, or the granting of, a permit to any municipality to appropriate water does not authorize the appropriation of any water for other...
• Section 1462.
  Where permission to appropriate is granted to any municipality for any quantity of water in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor, the board may,...
• Section 1463.
  When the municipality desires to use the additional water granted in its application it may do so upon making just compensation for the facilities for...
• Section 1464.
  In lieu of the granting of such temporary permits for appropriation, the board may authorize the municipality to become as to such surplus a public...

Last modified: October 22, 2018