California Water Code ARTICLE 3 - Levees

• Section 8630.
  As used in this article the term “levee” means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
• Section 8631.
  The board may promote the construction, completion, maintenance and repair of levees along all rivers, streams, overflow channels, basins and by-passes where, in the opinion...
• Section 8632.
  Whenever any levee is in the opinion of the board insufficient or necessary for flood control, the board shall publish notice to that effect.(Added by...
• Section 8633.
  The published notice shall state that the levee is insufficient or necessary, that it is the intention of the board to construct, repair or complete...
• Section 8634.
  The notice shall be signed in the name of the board by its president and secretary and shall be published once a week for three...
• Section 8635.
  The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
• Section 8636.
  Any landowner, reclamation district, drainage district, levee district, municipal corporation or other organization or association authorized by law to construct, repair or complete a levee...
• Section 8637.
  The application shall be in writing and signed by the applicants or their respective executors, administrators, guardians, trustees or duly constituted and authorized officers.(Added by...
• Section 8638.
  The application shall be filed in the office of the board.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
• Section 8639.
  When an application is filed within the required 30 days, the applicants shall have 60 days after filing the application, or any further time that...
• Section 8640.
  The application for leave to construct, repair or complete a levee shall designate the name and post-office address of at least one and not more...
• Section 8641.
  In case there are two or more applications filed in the office of the board within the required 30 days the board may determine which...
• Section 8642.
  Any levee constructed or work done by the applicants, pursuant to notice from the board and according to plans and specifications approved by the board,...
• Section 8643.
  If the application is not filed in the office of the board within 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication, or...
• Section 8644.
  The assessment may be either an assessment specially levied and assessed for that purpose, or any assessment levied and assessed by the board and applicable...
• Section 8645.
  Notwithstanding anything in this article the board may determine a case of emergency exists requiring immediate action to preserve life or property or to protect...
• Section 8646.
  The board may do the necesssary work immediately for the protection or preservation of the levee, without giving the notice provided for in this article.(Added...
• Section 8647.
  The board may pay the cost, including any damage that may result from the performance of the work, by an assessment to be levied and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018