California Water Code ARTICLE 7 - Water Reuse

• Section 13550.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for nonpotable uses, including, but not limited to, cemeteries, golf courses, parks,...
• Section 13551.
  A person or public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, shall not...
• Section 13552.
  The amendments to Sections 13550 and 13551 of the Water Code made during the first year of the 1991–92 Regular Session are not intended to...
• Section 13552.2.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of residential landscaping is a waste or an unreasonable...
• Section 13552.4.
  (a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use...
• Section 13552.5.
  (a) (1) On or before July 31, 2009, the state board shall adopt a general permit for landscape irrigation uses of recycled water for which the State...
• Section 13552.6.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for floor trap priming, cooling towers, and air-conditioning devices is a waste...
• Section 13552.8.
  (a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use...
• Section 13553.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for toilet and urinal flushing in structures is a waste or an...
• Section 13553.1.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that certain coastal areas of the state have been using sea water to flush toilets and urinals as a...
• Section 13554.
  (a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use...
• Section 13554.2.
  (a) Any person or entity proposing the use of recycled water shall reimburse the State Department of Public Health for reasonable costs that department actually incurs...
• Section 13554.3.
  The State Water Resources Control Board may establish a reasonable schedule of fees by which it is reimbursed for the costs it incurs pursuant to...
• Section 13555.2.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that many local agencies deliver recycled water for nonpotable uses and that the use of recycled water is an...
• Section 13555.3.
  (a) Water delivery systems on private property that could deliver recycled water for nonpotable uses described in Section 13550, that are constructed on and after January...
• Section 13555.5.
  (a) If a recycled water producer determines that within 10 years the recycled water producer proposes to provide recycled water for use for state landscape irrigation...
• Section 13556.
  In addition to any other authority provided in law, any water supplier described in subdivision (b) of Section 1745 may acquire, store, provide, sell, and...
• Section 13557.
  (a) On or before December 31, 2009, the department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, shall adopt and submit to the California Building...

Last modified: October 22, 2018