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California Water Code Section 1
This act shall be known as the Water Code.
California Water Code Section 2
The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall...
California Water Code Section 3
All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
California Water Code Section 4
No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
California Water Code Section 5
Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this code.
California Water Code Section 6
Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
California Water Code Section 7
Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
California Water Code Section 8
Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is required or...
California Water Code Section 9
Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
California Water Code Section 10
"Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
California Water Code Section 11
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
California Water Code Section 12
The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
California Water Code Section 13
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
California Water Code Section 14
"County" includes city and county.
California Water Code Section 15
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
California Water Code Section 16
"Oath" includes affirmation.
California Water Code Section 17
"Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
California Water Code Section 18
"State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
California Water Code Section 19
"Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.
California Water Code Section 20
"United States" means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to...
California Water Code Section 21
If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
California Water Code Section 22
"Department," unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water Resources.
California Water Code Section 23
"Director," unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water Resources.
California Water Code Section 24
The standard miner's inch of water is equivalent to one and one-half cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice.
California Water Code Section 25
"Board," unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources Control Board.
California Water Code Section 26
For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section
California Water Code Section 100
It is hereby declared that because of the conditions prevailing in this State the general welfare requires that the water resources of the State be...
California Water Code Section 100.5
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this state that conformity of a use, method of use, or method of diversion of...
California Water Code Section 101
Riparian rights in a stream or watercourse attach to, but to no more than so much of the flow thereof as may be required or...
California Water Code Section 102
All water within the State is the property of the people of the State, but the right to the use of water may be acquired...
California Water Code Section 103
In the enactment of this code the Legislature does not intend thereby to effect any change in the law relating to water rights.
California Water Code Section 104
It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a paramount interest in the use of all the water of the State and...
California Water Code Section 105
It is hereby declared that the protection of the public interest in the development of the water resources of the State is of vital concern...
California Water Code Section 106
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of...
California Water Code Section 106.5
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that the right of a municipality to acquire and hold rights to the...
California Water Code Section 106.7
(a) It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this state to support and encourage the development of environmentally compatible small hydroelectric projects...
California Water Code Section 107
The declaration of the policy of the State in this chapter is not exclusive, and all other or further declarations of policy in this code...
California Water Code Section 108
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that in the development and completion of any general or co-ordinated plan prepared...
California Water Code Section 109
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the use of water in an efficient manner and...
California Water Code Section 112
(a) The efficiency of a reverse osmosis water treatment device means the percentage of water which passes through the water treatment device that is available...
California Water Code Section 120
There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Water Resources, which is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of...
California Water Code Section 122
The director, in addition to being subject to removal from office by the Governor, may be removed from office by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution...
California Water Code Section 123
Except as provided in Section 179, the department succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters...
California Water Code Section 124
Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this code, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title...
California Water Code Section 125
For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor in the manner he deems necessary to segregate...
California Water Code Section 126
There shall be one Deputy Director of Water Resources who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and serve...
California Water Code Section 127
The department may employ legal counsel who shall advise the director, represent the department in connection with legal matters before other boards and agencies of...
California Water Code Section 127.5
The department may utilize the program manager class series that was created for the California Bay-Delta Authority, for positions to manage vital departmental activities, including...
California Water Code Section 128
(a) In times of extraordinary stress and of disaster, resulting from storms and floods, or where damage to watershed lands by forest fires has created...
California Water Code Section 130
The department may prepare, publish, and issue such printed pamphlets and bulletins as the director deems necessary for the dissemination of information to the public...
California Water Code Section 131
The department may employ such assistance as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties, and may purchase or rent any necessary supplies,...
California Water Code Section 132
Where work to be performed, which would otherwise be subject to the State Contract Act, does not lend itself to the preparation of plans and...
California Water Code Section 133
The department may cooperate and contract with any agency of the State or of the United States in order to carry out its powers and
California Water Code Section 134
The department may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the enforcement of which is committed to the department. The department may expend...
California Water Code Section 134.5
The Director of Finance shall administratively establish positions necessary to implement activities funded by the appropriations made in Division 33 (commencing with Section 83000).
California Water Code Section 135
The Water Resources Revolving Fund in the State Treasury is continued in existence. With the approval of the Department of Finance, there shall be transferred...
California Water Code Section 135.1
All sums in the Water Resources Revolving Fund in the State Treasury, maintained pursuant to Section 135, in a sum not to exceed seven hundred...
California Water Code Section 136
The Department of Water Resources shall file against the Water Resources Revolving Fund all claims covering expenditures incurred in connection with services, new construction, major...
California Water Code Section 137
The Department of Water Resources shall keep a record of all expenditures chargeable against each specific portion of the revolving fund, and any unused balance...
California Water Code Section 138
The director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of fees, licenses, permits, tolls, or for rentals, property...
California Water Code Section 138.9
(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), commencing on January 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a...
California Water Code Section 138.10
(a) On or before January 1, 2006, the director, in collaboration with the Secretary of Interior or his or her designee, shall prepare a plan...
California Water Code Section 138.12
(a) Except as otherwise provided in a general obligation bond act, the maximum amount that may be allocated for administrative expenses shall not exceed 5...
California Water Code Section 139.2
The department shall evaluate the potential impacts on water supplies derived from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta based on 50-, 100-, and 200-year projections for each...
California Water Code Section 139.4
(a) The department and the Department of Fish and Game shall determine the principal options for the delta. (b) The department shall evaluate and comparatively...
California Water Code Section 141
(a) The department may establish a program to authorize private entities to lease space above or adjacent to appropriate conveyance facilities of the State Water...
California Water Code Section 141.5
The department shall proceed with the construction of the South Delta Improvements Program, but shall not commence the operational phase of the program until the...
California Water Code Section 142
(a) In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with water and energy usage, on and after January 1, 2008, the department shall do all...
California Water Code Section 147
(a) On or before January 10, 2010, and annually thereafter, the department shall prepare and submit to the chairpersons of the fiscal committees of the...
California Water Code Section 150
There is in the Department of Water Resources the California Water Commission.
California Water Code Section 151
The California Water Commission consists of nine members who are appointed by the Governor subject to the confirmation of the Senate, as provided in this
California Water Code Section 152
Seven members of the California Water Commission appointed by the Governor shall be selected and approved for appointment on the basis of their general educational...
California Water Code Section 153
(a) The terms of the members of the California Water Commission in office as of January 1, 1958, shall expire as follows: (1) One member...
California Water Code Section 153.5
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 153 and 154, the term of any member of the California Water Commission, whose appointment has been confirmed by the Senate and...
California Water Code Section 154
Appointments shall be for terms of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for the unexpired portion of the terms in which...
California Water Code Section 155
The appointments made by the Governor to membership on the California Water Commission shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate at the next regular...
California Water Code Section 156
The members of the California Water Commission may be removed from office by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority vote of all...
California Water Code Section 157
Each member of the California Water Commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day during which the member is engaged in the performance...
California Water Code Section 158
The California Water Commission shall maintain its headquarters at Sacramento and shall hold meetings at such times and at such places as shall be determined...
California Water Code Section 159
Special meetings may be called at any time by the chairman or by the executive officer at the request of any four members, upon notice...
California Water Code Section 160
The members of the California Water Commission shall select one of the members to serve as chairman, who shall hold office as chairman at the...
California Water Code Section 161
The California Water Commission shall confer with, advise, and make recommendations to the director with respect to any matters and subjects under his jurisdiction. The...
California Water Code Section 161.5
The California Water Commission shall have the power to name all facilities of the State Water Resources Development System owned by the state. The commission...
California Water Code Section 162
It is the intention of the Legislature that in the making of all major departmental determinations, policies and procedures, such as departmental recommendations to the...
California Water Code Section 163
The commission may employ an executive officer, exempt from civil service, under subdivision (e) of Section 4 of Article XXIV of the Constitution, and a...
California Water Code Section 163.5
The department shall furnish to the California Water Commission, at its request, such assistance, including technical, legal, and clerical services, as is required to the...
California Water Code Section 164
The commission may hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in it,...
California Water Code Section 165
The California Water Commission shall conduct an annual review of the progress of construction and operation of the State Water Resources Development System, and shall...
California Water Code Section 166
The California Water Commission shall hold public hearings on all additional facilities proposed to be added to the State Water Resources Development System by the...
California Water Code Section 174
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to provide for the orderly and efficient administration of the water resources of the state it...
California Water Code Section 175
(a) There is in the California Environmental Protection Agency the State Water Resources Control Board consisting of five members appointed by the Governor. One of...
California Water Code Section 175.5
(a) No member of the board shall participate in any board action pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320) of Chapter 5 of Division...
California Water Code Section 176
The annual salary of the members of the board is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing at Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3...
California Water Code Section 177
All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for the unexpired portion...
California Water Code Section 178
The members of the board may be removed from office by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority vote of all members elected...
California Water Code Section 179
The board succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department and Director of Public...
California Water Code Section 179.6
The board, or representatives authorized by the board to do so, may call, conduct or attend conferences or hearings, official or unofficial, within or without...
California Water Code Section 179.7
As to any matter involving the United States, its departments or agencies, which is within the scope of the power and duties of the board,...
California Water Code Section 181
The board shall maintain its headquarters at Sacramento and may establish branch offices in such parts of the state as the board deems necessary. The...
California Water Code Section 182
The Governor shall designate the chairperson of the board from the membership of the board. The person so designated shall hold the office of chairperson...
California Water Code Section 183
The board may hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in it,...
California Water Code Section 184
The Department of Water Resources shall have an interest and may appear as a party in any hearing held by the board and may commence...
California Water Code Section 185
The board shall adopt rules for the conduct of its affairs in conformity, as nearly as practicable, with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 186
(a) The board shall have any powers, and may employ any legal counsel and other personnel and assistance, that may be necessary or convenient for...
California Water Code Section 187
The board, regional water quality control boards, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies shall, to the fullest extent possible, exchange records, reports,...
California Water Code Section 188
The board may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the administration of which is committed to the board. Such expenditures by the...
California Water Code Section 188.5
The board shall publish biennial progress reports relating to the activities of the board and California regional water quality control boards.
California Water Code Section 190
Whenever the State of California is specifically invited by federal law to participate in any interstate commission to plan for the regional development of water...
California Water Code Section 205
The department may join associations of representatives of other States which have been established for not less than 10 years and which have for their...
California Water Code Section 225
The department may carry on topographic surveys and investigations into matters pertaining to the water resources of the State along the lines of hydrography, hydroeconomics,...
California Water Code Section 226
The department, either independently or in co-operation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, may do any of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 227
The department may investigate any natural situation available for reservoirs or reservoir systems for gathering and distributing flood or other water not under beneficial use...
California Water Code Section 228
The department shall gather and correlate information and data pertinent to an annual forecast of seasonal water crop, including the making of snow surveys, either...
California Water Code Section 229
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, to the extent that funds are allocated...
California Water Code Section 230
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, or upon the request of the State...
California Water Code Section 231
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal or other agency, shall investigate and survey conditions of damage...
California Water Code Section 233
No plans or proposal for authorization of a project for construction or operation by the State shall be submitted to the Legislature by the Department...
California Water Code Section 234
The department, either independently or in co-operation with or through any person or any county, state, federal or other agency, is authorized to investigate, excavate,...
California Water Code Section 235
The department, either independently or in co-operation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, to the extent that funds are allocated...
California Water Code Section 236
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, is authorized to collect hydrologic data necessary...
California Water Code Section 238
(a) The department shall conduct studies of the Sacramento River and the Feather River and their tributaries north of Sacramento, including watershed hydrologic inventories and...
California Water Code Section 250
In the name of the people of the State of California, the department may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary for state water and...
California Water Code Section 252
Subject to Sections 1240.670 and 1240.680 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the real property which the department may acquire by eminent domain, or otherwise,...
California Water Code Section 253
The department may acquire, either in fee or in any lesser estate or interest, any real property which it considers necessary for state water and...
California Water Code Section 257
The director may execute all deeds or conveyances necessary to convey any real property or interest therein to be sold or exchanged under the provisions...
California Water Code Section 258
The authority conferred by this code to acquire real property for state dam and water purposes includes authority to acquire for future needs. The department...
California Water Code Section 259
When the department condemns the property of any common carrier railroad, other public utility, or state agency, or the appurtenances thereof, it shall be governed...
California Water Code Section 260
In any lease, easement, or right of entry agreement entered into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant of easement, right-of-way, or...
California Water Code Section 265
Notwithstanding any provisions of the State Contract Act, the department may award and enter into construction contracts which require expenditures in excess of funds presently...
California Water Code Section 275
The department and board shall take all appropriate proceedings or actions before executive, legislative, or judicial agencies to prevent waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of...
California Water Code Section 300
For the purposes of this article, an artesian well is any artifical hole made in the ground through which water naturally flows from subterranean sources...
California Water Code Section 301
For the purposes of this article, waste is the causing, suffering, or permitting any water flowing from an artesian well, to run either: (a) Into...
California Water Code Section 302
The use of any water flowing from an artesian well for the irrigation of land, whenever over 5 per cent of the water received on...
California Water Code Section 303
Nothing in this article prevents the running of artesian water into an artificial pond or storage-reservoir, if the water is used thereafter for a beneficial
California Water Code Section 304
A beneficial use under the next preceding section shall not exceed one tenth of one miner's inch of water per acre, perpetual flow, but the...
California Water Code Section 305
Any artesian well which is not capped or equipped with a mechanical appliance which will readily and effectively arrest and prevent the flow of any...
California Water Code Section 306
The owner, tenant, or occupant of the land upon which a well which is a public nuisance under the next preceding section is situated, who...
California Water Code Section 307
Any person owning, possessing, or occupying any land upon which is situated an artesian well, who causes, suffers, or permits water unnecessarily to flow from...
California Water Code Section 308
Each day's continuance of waste constitutes a new offense.
California Water Code Section 309
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is punishable for each offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars...
California Water Code Section 310
All prosecutions for the violation of any of the provisions of this article shall be instituted in the superior court of the county where the...
California Water Code Section 311
Any fine imposed under the provisions of this article may be collected as in other criminal cases, and the justice may also issue an execution...
California Water Code Section 340
Any funds appropriated for Yuba River debris control shall be used for construction, renewal, and repair of works for restraining, impounding and control of debris...
California Water Code Section 341
Funds withdrawn from such appropriation must be matched by an expenditure of like amount by the Federal Government for the same work.
California Water Code Section 342
All work paid for from such appropriation shall be executed by or under the direction of the California Debris Commission, according to plans approved by...
California Water Code Section 345
The Department of Water Resources shall (a) plan recreation development associated with state-constructed water projects in consultation with local public agencies and affected state and...
California Water Code Section 346
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 345, the department, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may acquire by eminent domain or otherwise, either...
California Water Code Section 348
(a) The department or the board may adopt emergency regulations providing for the electronic filing of reports of water diversion or use required to be...
California Water Code Section 350
The governing body of a distributor of a public water supply, whether publicly or privately owned and including a mutual water company, may declare a...
California Water Code Section 351
Excepting in event of a breakage or failure of a dam, pump, pipe line or conduit causing an immediate emergency, the declaration shall be made...
California Water Code Section 352
Notice of the time and place of hearing shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code at least seven days prior to...
California Water Code Section 353
When the governing body has so determined and declared the existence of an emergency condition of water shortage within its service area, it shall thereupon...
California Water Code Section 354
After allocating and setting aside the amount of water which in the opinion of the governing body will be necessary to supply water needed for...
California Water Code Section 355
The regulations and restrictions shall thereafter be and remain in full force and effect during the period of the emergency and until the supply of...
California Water Code Section 356
The regulations and restrictions may include the right to deny applications for new or additional service connections, and provision for their enforcement by discontinuing service...
California Water Code Section 357
If the regulations and restrictions on delivery and consumption of water adopted pursuant to this chapter conflict with any law establishing the rights of individual...
California Water Code Section 358
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit or prevent review by any court of competent jurisdiction of any finding or determination by a...
California Water Code Section 359
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law that requires an election for the purpose of authorizing a contract with the United States, or for incurring...
California Water Code Section 370
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The use of allocation-based conservation water pricing by public entities that sell and distribute...
California Water Code Section 371
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Allocation-based conservation water pricing" means a retail water rate structure that meets...
California Water Code Section 372
(a) A public entity may employ allocation-based conservation water pricing that meets all of the following criteria: (1) Billing is based on metered water use....
California Water Code Section 373
(a) Revenues derived from allocation-based conservation water pricing shall not exceed the reasonable cost of water service including basic costs and incremental costs. This chapter...
California Water Code Section 374
(a) Allocation-based conservation water pricing under this chapter may be used on an ongoing basis and shall not require any finding of emergency or other...
California Water Code Section 375
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, any public entity which supplies water at retail or wholesale for the benefit of persons within the...
California Water Code Section 375.5
(a) A public entity, as defined by Section 375, may undertake water conservation and public education programs in conjunction with school districts, public libraries, or...
California Water Code Section 376
(a) Any ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to Section 375 is effective upon adoption. Within 10 days after its adoption, the ordinance or resolution shall...
California Water Code Section 377
From and after the publication or posting of any ordinance or resolution pursuant to Section 376, violation of a requirement of a water conservation program...
California Water Code Section 378
A public entity may enter into agreements with other public entities, businesses, community associations, or private entities to provide water conservation services and measures and...
California Water Code Section 380
The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) The various regions of the state differ widely in the availability of water supplies and in...
California Water Code Section 381
The authority of local or regional public agencies pursuant to this chapter shall control over any other provision of law which contains more stringent limitations...
California Water Code Section 382
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every local or regional public agency authorized by law to serve water to the persons or entities within...
California Water Code Section 383
For the purposes of this chapter, water that is surplus to the needs of the agency's water users shall mean any of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 384
Prior to serving water to any person for use outside the agency, the agency shall comply with all provisions of the general laws of this...
California Water Code Section 385
No water may be transferred pursuant to this chapter for use within the boundaries of a local or regional public agency that furnishes the same...
California Water Code Section 386
The board may approve any change associated with a transfer pursuant to this chapter only if it finds that the change may be made without...
California Water Code Section 387
Any agreement for the transfer of water under the provisions of this chapter shall be for a period not to exceed seven years unless a...
California Water Code Section 389
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term water standby charge and the term water availability charge have the same meaning. (b) Subdivision (a)...
California Water Code Section 400
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Weather Resources Management Act of 1984.
California Water Code Section 401
It is hereby declared that atmospheric water within the state which is caused to fall by weather resources management activities shall, for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 402
As used in this chapter: (a) "Weather resources management" means attempting to produce by physical means any of the following: cloud water conversion, light adjustment,...
California Water Code Section 410
Before commencing a weather resources management project, the project operator shall file with the department and cause to be published a notice of intention.
California Water Code Section 411
The project operator shall cause the notice of intention to be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper having a...
California Water Code Section 412
Proof of publication shall be by copy of the notice as published attached to and made a part of the affidavit of the publisher or...
California Water Code Section 420
The weather resources management project operator shall keep a record of all operations conducted, showing the equipment, the methods, the types, amounts, times, and places...
California Water Code Section 450
The Governor, or such state official or agency as he may designate, shall receive both the preliminary documents developed by, or the formal reports of,...
California Water Code Section 451
Within 10 days after the receipt of any such preliminary document or formal report, the Governor or his designee shall transmit copies thereof to both...
California Water Code Section 452
Any legislative committee to which such a preliminary document or formal report has been assigned may submit written comments thereon to the Governor or his
California Water Code Section 453
The Governor or his designee shall transmit, within the time period specified in the applicable federal law, to the appropriate federal agency, together with his...
California Water Code Section 460
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Water Reuse Law of 1974.
California Water Code Section 461
It is hereby declared that the primary interest of the people of the state in the conservation of all available water resources requires the maximum...
California Water Code Section 462
The department shall conduct studies and investigations on the availability and quality of wastewater and the uses of reclaimed water for beneficial purposes, including, but...
California Water Code Section 463
The department shall study and investigate the technology of the reuse of reclaimed water and further the development of the technology of the reclamation of
California Water Code Section 465
The department may assist local agencies and public utilities providing water service in applying for, and in obtaining approval of, federal and state funding and...
California Water Code Section 470
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Costa-Isenberg Water Transfer Act of 1986.
California Water Code Section 475
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that voluntary water transfers between water users can result in a more efficient use of water, benefiting both the...
California Water Code Section 480
The department shall establish an ongoing program to facilitate the voluntary exchange or transfer of water and implement the various state laws that pertain to...
California Water Code Section 481
The department shall create and maintain a list of entities seeking to enter into water supply transfers, leases, exchanges, or other similar arrangements. In addition,...
California Water Code Section 482
The department shall prepare a water transfer guide which shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) A review of existing...
California Water Code Section 483
The department shall consult and coordinate its activities with other state boards, departments, agencies, or offices whose assistance may be desirable or necessary in carrying...
California Water Code Section 484
(a) The temporary transfer of any water or water right that otherwise would have been consumptively used or stored by the transferor in the absence...
California Water Code Section 500
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Water Measurement Law.
California Water Code Section 510
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 511
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 512
"Water purveyor" means any person who furnishes water service to another person.
California Water Code Section 513
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or public entity of any kind.
California Water Code Section 514
"Public entity" includes a city, county, city and county, whether general law or chartered, a district, board, commission, bureau, authority, agency, department, division, section, any...
California Water Code Section 515
"Water service" means the sale, lease, rental, furnishing, or delivery of water for beneficial use, and includes, but is not limited to, contracting for that...
California Water Code Section 516
"Water meter" includes any suitable water measuring device or facility which measures or determines the volumetric flow of water.
California Water Code Section 520
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, pursuant to the primary interest of the people of the state to put the limited available supplies of...
California Water Code Section 521
The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) Water furnished or used without any method of determination of the quantities of water...
California Water Code Section 522
The Legislature further finds and declares that waste or unreasonable use of water imposes unnecessary and wasteful consumption of energy to deliver or furnish the...
California Water Code Section 523
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the California goal for measurement of water use is the achievement by January 1, 1992, of the installation...
California Water Code Section 525
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every water purveyor who sells, leases, rents, furnishes, or delivers water service to any person shall require, as...
California Water Code Section 526
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an urban water supplier that, on or after January 1, 2004, receives water from the federal Central Valley...
California Water Code Section 527
(a) An urban water supplier that is not subject to Section 526 shall do both of the following: (1) Install water meters on all municipal...
California Water Code Section 528
Notwithstanding Sections 526 and 527, any water purveyor that becomes an urban water supplier on or after January 1, 2005, shall do both the following:...
California Water Code Section 529
(a) This article addresses a subject matter of statewide concern. (b) Subject to subdivision (c), this article supersedes and preempts all enactments, including charter provisions...
California Water Code Section 529.5
On and after January 1, 2010, any urban water supplier that applies for financial assistance from the state for a wastewater treatment project, a water...
California Water Code Section 529.7
This article does not limit the authority of a water purveyor that promotes conservation through volumetric water pricing, including, but not limited to, an urban...
California Water Code Section 530
Domestic cold water meters shall be in compliance with relevant standards of the American Water Works Association and shall be of the type approved by...
California Water Code Section 531
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this article. (a) "Aggregated farm-gate delivery data" means information...
California Water Code Section 531.2
The department, the board, and the State Department of Public Health shall coordinate the collection, management, and use of agricultural and urban water measurement information...
California Water Code Section 531.5
(a) The board, in collaboration with the department, the authority or its successor agency, and the State Department of Public Health, shall prepare and submit...
California Water Code Section 531.10
(a) An agricultural water supplier shall submit an annual report to the department that summarizes aggregated farm-gate delivery data, on a monthly or bimonthly basis,...
California Water Code Section 531.15
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, state agencies shall carry out the duties described in this article only to the extent that funds are...
California Water Code Section 531.20
To the extent that the provisions of this article conflict with the requirements of Chapter 4800 of the State Administrative Manual, the requirements of that...
California Water Code Section 535
(a) A water purveyor shall require as a condition of new retail water service on and after January 1, 2008, the installation of separate water...
California Water Code Section 540
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a water district, as defined in Section 20200, may serve as an aggregator to facilitate direct transactions within the...
California Water Code Section 1000
As used in this division, "water" includes the term "use of water."
California Water Code Section 1001
Nothing in this division shall be construed as giving or confirming any right, title, or interest to or in the corpus of any water.
California Water Code Section 1002
This division shall not be held to bestow upon any person, except as expressly provided in it, any right where no such right existed prior...
California Water Code Section 1003
As used in this division, "Water Commission Act" means Chapter 586, Statutes of 1913, as amended.
California Water Code Section 1004
As used in this division, "useful or beneficial purposes" shall not be construed to mean the use in any one year of more than 2...
California Water Code Section 1005
Nothing in this division shall be construed as depriving any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, or lighting district of the benefit...
California Water Code Section 1005.1
Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water by the owner of a right to extract, as the result of the use of...
California Water Code Section 1005.2
Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water, to permit the replenishment of such ground water by the use of water from an...
California Water Code Section 1005.3
During the pendency of an action to adjudicate substantially all water rights in a ground water basin situated in whole or in part within the...
California Water Code Section 1005.4
(a) Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water, to permit the replenishment of such ground water by the use of water from...
California Water Code Section 1006
Nothing in this division affects or limits in any manner whatsoever the right or power of any municipality which, prior to December 19, 1914, had...
California Water Code Section 1007
Nothing in this division shall be construed to deprive the State or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, political...
California Water Code Section 1008
Nothing in this division shall be construed as depriving any person of the right of appeal conferred under the laws of this State.
California Water Code Section 1009
Any supplier of water in this state for municipal use, including the state, or any city, county, city and county, district, individual, partnership, corporation, or...
California Water Code Section 1009.5
(a) A water district and the district attorney of any county in which the water district is located may enter into an agreement authorizing the...
California Water Code Section 1010
(a) (1) The cessation of, or reduction in, the use of water under any existing right regardless of the basis of right, as the result...
California Water Code Section 1011
(a) When any person entitled to the use of water under an appropriative right fails to use all or any part of the water because...
California Water Code Section 1011.5
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the use of water in an efficient manner and...
California Water Code Section 1012
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where any person, public agency, or agency of the United States undertakes any water conservation effort, either separately or...
California Water Code Section 1013
(a) The Imperial Irrigation District, acting under a contract with the United States for diversion and use of Colorado River water or pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 1014
The transfer of water, or the offer of water for transfer, shall not cause, or be the basis for, a forfeiture, abandonment, or modification of...
California Water Code Section 1015
During the term of a temporary change, as defined in Section 1728, if an enforcement action or other proceeding is commenced that alleges that the...
California Water Code Section 1016
(a) At the conclusion of the term of a water transfer agreement, all rights in, and the use of, the water subject to the agreement...
California Water Code Section 1017
The beneficial use of water pursuant to a transfer or exchange authorized pursuant to Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 1435) of, Chapter 10 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 1020
Water may be leased for a period not to exceed five years to assist water conservation efforts pursuant to the terms and conditions of this...
California Water Code Section 1021
(a) The water subject to a water lease agreement shall be water that is subject to a water right of the lessor. The amount of...
California Water Code Section 1022
If the water subject to the lease is held by a water district, a water company, or a mutual water company, hereafter collectively referred to...
California Water Code Section 1024
(a) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the sale of any water right or the modification of any water right or contract. (b) No right in...
California Water Code Section 1024.5
This chapter does not limit any review of the lessee's use of the leased water.
California Water Code Section 1025
If the lessor or lessee is a water district, the water lessor shall file a notice with the state board of the water lease agreement...
California Water Code Section 1025.5
(a) If both the lessor and lessee are private parties, the lessor shall file an application with the board for approval of the lease agreement...
California Water Code Section 1025.7
Water leases pursuant to this chapter are not subject to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1700) or Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 1725) of Part
California Water Code Section 1026
The lead agency shall not approve a water lease until 30 days after the state board provides written public notice, including notice by personal delivery...
California Water Code Section 1027
(a) Any water lease agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter involving the transfer of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta shall provide outflow consistent...
California Water Code Section 1028
In any proceeding pursuant to Section 1029, the court shall determine issues relating to the lease and the effects of the water transfer pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 1029
Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code applies to water lease agreements authorized by this chapter. For purposes of that division,...
California Water Code Section 1030
During the term of the water lease, the state board shall monitor the lease, as appropriate. The state board shall initiate proceedings, if appropriate, to...
California Water Code Section 1031
A water lease pursuant to this chapter shall not take effect until the first annual fee, set pursuant to Section 1525, is paid, and the...
California Water Code Section 1050
This division is hereby declared to be in furtherance of the policy contained in Section 2 of Article X of the California Constitution and in...
California Water Code Section 1051
The board for the purpose of this division may: (a) Investigate all streams, stream systems, portions of stream systems, lakes, or other bodies of water....
California Water Code Section 1051.5
In furtherance of its powers and duties under Parts 2 (commencing with Section 1200) and 3 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division, the board...
California Water Code Section 1052
(a) The diversion or use of water subject to this division other than as authorized in this division is a trespass. (b) Civil liability may...
California Water Code Section 1053
A full and accurate record of business or acts performed or of testimony taken by the board and the department in pursuance of the provisions...
California Water Code Section 1054
The board and the department may certify to all of their official acts and may certify copies of all official documents and orders filed in...
California Water Code Section 1055
(a) The executive director of the board may issue a complaint to any person or entity on which administrative civil liability may be imposed pursuant...
California Water Code Section 1055.2
A person or entity shall not be subject to both civil liability imposed under Section 1055 and civil liability imposed by the superior court under...
California Water Code Section 1055.3
In determining the amount of civil liability, the board shall take into consideration all relevant circumstances, including, but not limited to, the extent of harm...
California Water Code Section 1055.4
After the time for review under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1120) has expired, the board may apply to the clerk of the appropriate court...
California Water Code Section 1056
The board and the department may fix reasonable charges for publications issued under their respective authorities.
California Water Code Section 1057
All fees charged and collected under this chapter shall be paid, at least once each month, accompanied by a detailed statement thereof, into the State
California Water Code Section 1058
The board may make such reasonable rules and regulations as it may from time to time deem advisable in carrying out its powers and duties...
California Water Code Section 1058.5
(a) This section applies to any emergency regulation adopted by the board for which the board makes both of the following findings: (1) The emergency...
California Water Code Section 1059
The board and the department, as to matters under each of their respective jurisdictions, may designate one or more of their employees who shall have...
California Water Code Section 1060
(a) All fees collected by the State Water Resources Control Board or by a California regional water quality control board, and deposited in the State...
California Water Code Section 1075
As used in this chapter, "proceeding" means any inquiry, investigation, hearing, ascertainment, or other proceeding ordered or undertaken by the board pursuant to this code.
California Water Code Section 1076
As used in this chapter, "evidence" means any paper, book, map, account, or document.
California Water Code Section 1080
The board may administer oaths and issue subpenas for the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses and for the production of evidence in any...
California Water Code Section 1081
Each witness who appears by order of the board shall receive for his attendance the same fees and mileage allowed by law to witnesses in...
California Water Code Section 1082
When any witness who has not been required to attend at the request of any party is subpenaed by the board his fees and mileage...
California Water Code Section 1083
Any witness subpenaed, except one whose fees and mileage are payable from the funds of the board, may, at the time of service, demand the...
California Water Code Section 1084
If the witness demands the fees to which he is entitled at the time of service and they are not at that time paid or...
California Water Code Section 1085
All fees and mileage to which any witness is entitled under the provisions of this chapter may be collected by action therefor instituted by the...
California Water Code Section 1086
No witness shall be compelled to attend as a witness before the board under this division out of the county in which he resides, unless...
California Water Code Section 1090
The superior court of the county in which any proceeding is held by the board may compel the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses...
California Water Code Section 1091
In case of the refusal of any witness to attend or testify or produce any evidence required by a subpena issued by it, the board...
California Water Code Section 1092
The petition shall set forth the following: (a) That due notice has been given of the time and place of attendance of the witness or...
California Water Code Section 1093
The petition shall ask an order of court compelling the witness to attend, testify, and produce the evidence before the board.
California Water Code Section 1094
The court, upon the petition of the board, shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place...
California Water Code Section 1095
A copy of the order and of the petition shall be served upon the witness.
California Water Code Section 1096
If it appears to the court that the subpena was regularly issued, the court shall thereupon enter an order that the witness appear before the...
California Water Code Section 1097
Upon failure to obey the order the witness shall be dealt with as for contempt of court.
California Water Code Section 1100
The board or any party to a proceeding before it may, in any investigation or hearing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without...
California Water Code Section 1105
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), no person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any evidence in any investigation or inquiry by...
California Water Code Section 1106
No person who is granted immunity under subdivision (b) of Section 1105 shall be criminally prosecuted or be subjected to any criminal penalty for or...
California Water Code Section 1120
This chapter applies to any decision or order issued under this part or Section 275, Part 2 (commencing with Section 1200), Part 2 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 1121
The board shall serve a copy of a decision or order on the parties by personal delivery or registered mail.
California Water Code Section 1122
The board may order a reconsideration of all or part of a decision or order on the board's own motion or on the filing of...
California Water Code Section 1123
The decision or order may be reconsidered by the board on all the pertinent parts of the record and such argument as may be permitted,...
California Water Code Section 1124
The board at any time may amend or modify a decision or order to correct any obvious typographical or clerical error or oversight without the...
California Water Code Section 1126
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all issues relating to state water law decided by the board be reviewed in state courts,...
California Water Code Section 1126.2
The provisions of Assembly Bill 3036 of the 1995-96 Regular Session, which, among other things, added this chapter, do not apply to any proceeding for...
California Water Code Section 1200
Whenever the terms stream, lake or other body of water, or water occurs in relation to applications to appropriate water or permits or licenses issued...
California Water Code Section 1201
All water flowing in any natural channel, excepting so far as it has been or is being applied to useful and beneficial purposes upon, or...
California Water Code Section 1202
The following are hereby declared to constitute unappropriated water: (a) All water which has never been appropriated. (b) All water appropriated prior to December 19,...
California Water Code Section 1203
Any water the right to the use of which is held by any municipality which is in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor may...
California Water Code Section 1205
(a) Following notice and hearing, the board may adopt a declaration that a stream system is fully appropriated. As used in this article, "stream system"...
California Water Code Section 1206
(a) From and after the date of adoption of a declaration that a stream system is fully appropriated, and subject to subdivision (b), the board...
California Water Code Section 1207
Notice of hearing pursuant to this article shall be given as follows: (a) The notice shall be published at least once a week for four...
California Water Code Section 1203
Any water the right to the use of which is held by any municipality which is in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor may...
California Water Code Section 1210
The owner of a waste water treatment plant operated for the purpose of treating wastes from a sanitary sewer system shall hold the exclusive right...
California Water Code Section 1211
(a) Prior to making any change in the point of discharge, place of use, or purpose of use of treated wastewater, the owner of any...
California Water Code Section 1212
The board shall not grant any permit or license to any person other than the treated waste water producer for the appropriation of treated waste...
California Water Code Section 1215
This article shall only apply to a water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area pursuant to applications to...
California Water Code Section 1215.5
(a) For the purposes of this article, "protected area", means all of lands which normally drain to the ocean, to a hydraulic sink, or to...
California Water Code Section 1215.6
For the purposes of this article, "water user or users" within a protected area means an appropriator or appropriators, a riparian user or users, or...
California Water Code Section 1216
A protected area shall not be deprived directly or indirectly of the prior right to all the water reasonably required to adequately supply the beneficial...
California Water Code Section 1217
(a) In addition to the right to obtain a water right which would have priority over the rights of an exporter, water users in a...
California Water Code Section 1218
Upon the request of an applicant for a permit to appropriate water for use outside a protected area, a county of origin shall cooperate with...
California Water Code Section 1219
A water supplier exporting or intending to export water outside a protected area, or a water user or users within a protected area, may declare...
California Water Code Section 1219.5
The provisions of this article shall not require any water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area to furnish...
California Water Code Section 1220
(a) No groundwater shall be pumped for export from within the combined Sacramento and Delta-Central Sierra Basins, as defined in the Department of Water Resources'...
California Water Code Section 1221
This article shall not be construed to authorize the board to regulate groundwater in any manner.
California Water Code Section 1222
Nothing in this article shall be deemed to diminish the rights and protections to watersheds of origin contained in existing law including, but not limited...
California Water Code Section 1225
Except as provided in Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 1226) of this chapter, no right to appropriate or use water subject to appropriation shall be...
California Water Code Section 1226
The Legislature finds and declares that it is necessary and beneficial to the state to clear up many heretofore uncertain conditions of water rights which...
California Water Code Section 1226.1
The owner of any dam or other water impoundment structure constructed prior to January 1, 1969, the capacity of which is not in excess of...
California Water Code Section 1226.2
(a) Any person who has a valid water right pursuant to Section 1226.1, who files a claim of water right with the board on or...
California Water Code Section 1226.3
Each claim of water right shall be accompanied by a fee which shall be in an amount determined by the board to cover the reasonable...
California Water Code Section 1226.4
The board may, after notice and hearing, revoke any certificate of a water right granted pursuant to this article upon a finding that the water...
California Water Code Section 1227
The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a priority of right to appropriate water for various beneficial water...
California Water Code Section 1227.1
(a) To obtain the priority of right set forth in Section 1227, any agency of the United States shall submit to the board, on or...
California Water Code Section 1227.2
(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), any use for which a statement is submitted to the board pursuant to Section 1227.1 has a priority...
California Water Code Section 1227.3
This article does not apply to uses involving the appropriation of water by any person, including any agency of the United States, pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 1227.4
The board may, after following procedures set forth in Sections 1675 to 1675.2, inclusive, revoke any water right determined pursuant to this article upon a...
California Water Code Section 1228
This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Rights Permitting Reform Act of 1988.
California Water Code Section 1228.1
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a timely, efficient, and economic procedure for the acquisition of...
California Water Code Section 1228.2
(a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), any person may obtain a right to appropriate water for a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use...
California Water Code Section 1228.3
(a) Registration of water use pursuant to this article shall be made upon a form prescribed by the board. The registration form shall set forth...
California Water Code Section 1228.4
(a) Any completed registration of water use gives to the registrant a priority of right as of the date of completed registration to take and...
California Water Code Section 1228.5
(a) Registration of a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use pursuant to this article shall be renewed prior to the expiration of each...
California Water Code Section 1228.6
(a) The board shall establish, and may from time to time revise, reasonable general conditions to which all appropriations made pursuant to this article shall...
California Water Code Section 1228.7
(a) A registrant may change the point of diversion or place of use by delivering to the board an amended registration form in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 1229
(a) The board is not required to adopt general conditions for small irrigation use pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1228.6 until the board determines...
California Water Code Section 1229.1
(a) This article does not apply to those stream segments for which the Director of Fish and Game establishes proposed streamflow requirements pursuant to Section...
California Water Code Section 1230
Upon any stream flowing across the State boundary, an appropriation of water in this State for beneficial use in another State may be made only...
California Water Code Section 1231
Upon any stream flowing across the state boundary a right of appropriation having the point of diversion and the place of use in another state...
California Water Code Section 1232
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), nothing in this article applies to interstate lakes, or streams flowing in or out of those lakes. (b)...
California Water Code Section 1240
The appropriation must be for some useful or beneficial purpose, and when the appropriator or his successor in interest ceases to use it for such...
California Water Code Section 1241
If the person entitled to the use of water fails to use beneficially all or any part of the water claimed by him or her,...
California Water Code Section 1241.6
If water appropriated for irrigation purposes is not used by reason of compliance with crop control or soil conservation contracts with the United States, and...
California Water Code Section 1242
The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes...
California Water Code Section 1242.5
The board, subject to the provisions of Section 100 and whenever it is in the public interest, may approve appropriation by storage of water to...
California Water Code Section 1243
The use of water for recreation and preservation and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources is a beneficial use of water. In determining the amount...
California Water Code Section 1243.5
In determining the amount of water available for appropriation, the board shall take into account, whenever it is in the public interest, the amounts of...
California Water Code Section 1244
The sale, lease, exchange, or transfer of water or water rights, in itself, shall not constitute evidence of waste or unreasonable use, unreasonable method of...
California Water Code Section 1245
Every municipal corporation of this State, and every person, firm or corporation engaged in supplying water to any municipal corporations for municipal, domestic or other...
California Water Code Section 1246
For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of any damage claimed to have been suffered or sustained by reason of any of the acts or...
California Water Code Section 1247
Nothing in this article shall confer the right to recover damages resulting directly or indirectly by reason of the construction, operation or maintenance of any...
California Water Code Section 1248
This article shall be liberally construed.
California Water Code Section 1250
The board shall consider and act upon all applications for permits to appropriate water and shall do all things required or proper relating to such
California Water Code Section 1250.5
The board shall consider and act upon all applications for permits to appropriate water which propose, as a primary purpose of the application, the development...
California Water Code Section 1251
The board shall make such investigations of the water resources of the State as may be necessary for the purpose of securing information needed in...
California Water Code Section 1252
Any person may apply for and secure from the board, in conformity with this part and in conformity with reasonable rules and regulations adopted from...
California Water Code Section 1252.1
An appropriation of water of any stream or other source of water under this part does not confer authority upon the appropriator to prevent or...
California Water Code Section 1252.5
All rights and privileges conferred by this part upon any person in relation to the appropriation of water are likewise conferred upon the United States,...
California Water Code Section 1253
The board shall allow the appropriation for beneficial purposes of unappropriated water under such terms and conditions as in its judgment will best develop, conserve,...
California Water Code Section 1254
In acting upon applications to appropriate water the board shall be guided by the policy that domestic use is the highest use and irrigation is...
California Water Code Section 1255
The board shall reject an application when in its judgment the proposed appropriation would not best conserve the public interest.
California Water Code Section 1256
In determining public interest under Sections 1253 and 1255, the board shall give consideration to any general or co-ordinated plan looking toward the control, protection,...
California Water Code Section 1257
In acting upon application to appropriate water, the board shall consider the relative benefit to be derived from (1) all beneficial uses of the water...
California Water Code Section 1257.5
The board, in acting on applications to appropriate water, shall consider streamflow requirements proposed for fish and wildlife purposes pursuant to Sections 10001 and 10002...
California Water Code Section 1258
In acting upon applications to appropriate water, the board shall consider water quality control plans which have been established pursuant to Division 7 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 1259
In acting upon applications to appropriate water, the board shall consider the state goal of providing a decent home and suitable living environment for every
California Water Code Section 1259.2
(a) The board shall annually prepare a written summary, in chart form, of pending applications to appropriate water in the Counties of Marin, Napa, Sonoma,...
California Water Code Section 1259.4
(a) (1) On or before January 1, 2008, the board shall adopt principles and guidelines for maintaining instream flows in coastal streams from the Mattole...
California Water Code Section 1260
Every application for a permit to appropriate water shall set forth all of the following: (a) The name and post office address of the applicant....
California Water Code Section 1261
All applications shall be accompanied by as many copies of such maps, drawings, and other data as may be prescribed or required by the board,...
California Water Code Section 1262
If for agricultural purposes the application shall give the legal subdivisions of the land and the acreage to be irrigated, as near as may be.
California Water Code Section 1263
If for power purposes the application shall state the nature of the works by means of which the power is to be developed, the head...
California Water Code Section 1264
If for municipal water supply the application shall state the present population to be served, and, as near as may be, the future requirements of...
California Water Code Section 1265
If for mining purposes the application shall state the nature and location of the mines to be served and the methods of supplying and utilizing...
California Water Code Section 1266
If for storage in a reservoir the application shall state the height of dam, the capacity of reservoir, and the use to be made of...
California Water Code Section 1270
A defective application made in a bona fide attempt to conform to the rules and regulations of the board and to the law secures to...
California Water Code Section 1271
If, within the period provided, the applicant does not file an amended and perfected application, the application shall be rejected and canceled, unless for good...
California Water Code Section 1275
After an application has been perfected, the board may request additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to...
California Water Code Section 1276
If, within the period provided, the applicant does not provide the information requested under Section 1275, the application shall be canceled, unless for good cause...
California Water Code Section 1300
As soon as practicable after the receipt of an application for a permit to appropriate water which conforms to the rules and regulations of the...
California Water Code Section 1301
The notice shall specify all of the following: (a) The number of the application. (b) The name and address of the applicant. (c) The date...
California Water Code Section 1302
If the application is for more than three cubic feet per second or for more than 200 acre-feet per annum of storage, the notice shall...
California Water Code Section 1303
If the application is for three cubic feet or less per second, or for 200 acre-feet or less per annum of storage, the notice shall...
California Water Code Section 1304
The notice shall contain appropriate general information as to what protests against the approval of the application shall contain in order to accord with the...
California Water Code Section 1310
If the application is for more than three cubic feet per second or for more than 200 acre-feet per annum of storage the notice of...
California Water Code Section 1311
Upon receipt of notice of an application coming under this article, the applicant shall cause it to be published as directed by the board.
California Water Code Section 1312
The notice shall be published at the expense of the applicant at least once a week for three consecutive weeks, commencing within 20 days of...
California Water Code Section 1313
In case there is no newspaper published within the appropriate county publication shall be made in a newspaper having a general circulation within the county.
California Water Code Section 1315
Proof of publication shall be filed by the applicant within 60 days from the date of issuance of the notice.
California Water Code Section 1316
Proof of publication shall be by copy of the notice as published attached to and made a part of the affidavit of the publisher or...
California Water Code Section 1317
The board may cancel any application for failure of the applicant to file proof of publication in accordance with this article, provided the board first...
California Water Code Section 1320
Notice of an application for three cubic feet or less per second or for 200 acre-feet or less per annum of storage shall be given...
California Water Code Section 1321
Upon the date of issuance of notice of an application coming under this article the board shall mail three copies of the notice to the...
California Water Code Section 1322
The applicant shall post the notice within 20 days of the date of issuance thereof in at least two conspicuous places in the locality to...
California Water Code Section 1323
Proof of posting shall be by affidavit of the applicant or the person posting notice on behalf of the applicant and shall be filed within...
California Water Code Section 1324
The board may cancel any application for failure of the applicant to file proof of posting in accordance with this article, provided the board first...
California Water Code Section 1330
Any person interested may, within the time allowed in the notice of application or within such further time as may, for good cause shown, be...
California Water Code Section 1331
The protest shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the protestant. (b) Be signed by the protestant, or...
California Water Code Section 1332
The board may request from the protestant additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to be submitted under...
California Water Code Section 1333
The protestant and the applicant shall make a good faith effort to resolve the protest within 180 days from the date on which the period...
California Water Code Section 1334
The board may request from the protestant or the applicant additional information that the board determines is reasonably necessary to attempt to resolve the protest....
California Water Code Section 1335
(a) The board may cancel a protest or application for failure to provide information requested by the board under this article within the period provided....
California Water Code Section 1340
Notice of hearing on a protested application shall be given by mailing notice not less than 20 days before the date of hearing to both...
California Water Code Section 1341
The notice of hearing on a protested application shall state the names of the applicant and protestant, the time and place fixed for the hearing,...
California Water Code Section 1342
If a hearing is held on an unprotested application, notice of hearing shall be given by mailing notice not less than 20 days before the...
California Water Code Section 1345
The Division of Water Rights shall conduct a field investigation of all minor protested applications. The board shall notify the parties of the field investigation...
California Water Code Section 1346
The Division of Water Rights may request the parties to submit information in support of their positions. The Division of Water Rights may request information...
California Water Code Section 1347
Based upon the field investigation and any other information obtained under this article, the Division of Water Rights shall issue a decision unless the board...
California Water Code Section 1348
For purposes of this article, a minor application shall mean any application which does not involve direct diversions in excess of three cubic-feet per second...
California Water Code Section 1350
The board may grant, or refuse to grant a permit and may reject any application, after hearing.
California Water Code Section 1351
No hearing is necessary in order to issue a permit upon an unprotested application, or if undisputed facts support the issuance of the permit and...
California Water Code Section 1352
Upon failure of any party in interest to appear at a hearing or show good cause within five days thereafter for his failure, final action...
California Water Code Section 1353
In the conduct of hearings technical rules of evidence need not be applied.
California Water Code Section 1375
As prerequisite to the issuance of a permit to appropriate water the following facts must exist: (a) There must be an applicant. (b) The application...
California Water Code Section 1380
Upon the approval of an application the board shall issue a permit.
California Water Code Section 1381
The issuance of a permit gives the right to take and use water only to the extent and for the purpose allowed in the permit.
California Water Code Section 1382
All permits shall be under the terms and conditions of this division.
California Water Code Section 1390
A permit shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity...
California Water Code Section 1391
Every permit shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisons of this article and the statement that...
California Water Code Section 1392
Every permittee, if he accepts a permit, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual amount paid to...
California Water Code Section 1393
The board shall include as a condition in any permit under which a reservoir with an impounding capacity of 50 acre-feet or more is to...
California Water Code Section 1394
(a) The board may reserve jurisdiction, in whole or in part, to amend, revise, supplement, or delete terms and conditions in a permit under either...
California Water Code Section 1395
Actual construction work upon any project shall begin within the time specified in the permit, which time shall not be less than 60 days from...
California Water Code Section 1396
The construction of the work thereafter and the utilization of water for beneficial purposes shall be prosecuted with due diligence in accordance with this division,...
California Water Code Section 1397
The work shall be completed and the water applied to beneficial use in accordance with this division, the rules and regulations of the board, and...
California Water Code Section 1398
(a) The period specified in the permit for beginning construction work, for completion of construction work, for application of the water to beneficial use, or...
California Water Code Section 1410
(a) There shall be cause for revocation of a permit if the work is not commenced, prosecuted with due diligence, and completed or the water...
California Water Code Section 1410.1
The notice of proposed revocation of the permit pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1410 shall contain a statement of facts and...
California Water Code Section 1410.2
In any case when a permit is revoked without a hearing, as provided in Section 1410.1, the permittee, within 90 days of the date of...
California Water Code Section 1425
(a) Any person, whether or not an applicant, permittee, or licensee under provisions of this division other than this chapter, who has an urgent need...
California Water Code Section 1426
The application for a temporary permit shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of Section 1260 and shall be accompanied by such maps, drawings,...
California Water Code Section 1427
Before making the findings required by Section 1425, the board shall review available records, files, and decisions which relate to the availability of water from...
California Water Code Section 1428
The board may issue a temporary permit in advance of the notice required by this section. In all cases, whether or not a temporary permit...
California Water Code Section 1429
The board shall supervise diversion and use of water under the temporary permit for the protection of all lawful users of waters and instream beneficial...
California Water Code Section 1430
Any temporary permit issued under this chapter shall not result in creation of a vested right, even of a temporary nature, but shall be subject...
California Water Code Section 1431
A temporary permit issued under this chapter may be renewed by the board. Requests for renewals shall be processed in the manner provided by this...
California Water Code Section 1435
(a) Any permittee or licensee who has an urgent need to change a point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use from that...
California Water Code Section 1436
The petition for a temporary change order shall be completed in accordance with the rules of the board, and the petitioner shall pay the fee...
California Water Code Section 1437
Before making the findings required by Section 1435, the board shall review available records, files, and decisions which relate to the rights of other legal...
California Water Code Section 1438
(a) The board may issue a temporary change order in advance of the notice required by this section. In all cases, whether or not a...
California Water Code Section 1439
The board shall supervise diversion and use of water under the temporary change order for the protection of all other lawful users of water and...
California Water Code Section 1440
Any temporary change order issued under this chapter shall not result in creation of a vested right, even of a temporary nature, but shall be...
California Water Code Section 1441
A temporary change order issued under this chapter may be renewed by the board. Requests for renewal shall be processed in the manner provided by...
California Water Code Section 1442
This chapter shall not apply to any permittee or licensee petitioning for a temporary change pursuant to Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 1725).
California Water Code Section 1450
Any application properly made gives to the applicant a priority of right as of the date of the application until such application is approved or...
California Water Code Section 1455
The issuance of a permit continues in effect the priority of right as of the date of the application and gives the right to take...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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,...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code Section 1475
In any case where a reservoir has been or shall hereafter under the provisions of this division be constructed, or surveyed, laid out, and proposed...
California Water Code Section 1480
An application by the Department of Water Resources, or an application by the Department of Finance prior to July 5, 1956, in aid of any...
California Water Code Section 1485
Any municipality, governmental agency, or political subdivision operating waste disposal plants producing disposal water meeting the requirements of the appropriate regional board, and disposing of...
California Water Code Section 1486
(a) The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District, and any successor thereto, with respect to treated wastewater produced by the sanitation district that meets the requirements...
California Water Code Section 1490
Applications or petitions for retrofit hydroelectric plants at existing dams, canals, or conduits where the streamflow regime will not be changed and where there will...
California Water Code Section 1491
Applications for hydroelectric powerplants with a generating capacity not to exceed five megawatts, which do not impound water during times of high waterflow to be...
California Water Code Section 1525
(a) Each person or entity who holds a permit or license to appropriate water, and each lessor of water leased under Chapter 1.5 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 1528
Each person or entity who files a proof of claim under Article 4 (commencing with Section 2575) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 shall pay...
California Water Code Section 1529
Each person or entity who files a notice pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 4999) shall pay an annual fee according to a fee...
California Water Code Section 1530
(a) The board shall adopt, by emergency regulation, the schedules of fees authorized under this article. The emergency regulation may include provisions concerning the administration...
California Water Code Section 1535
(a) Any fee subject to this chapter that is required in connection with the filing of an application, registration, request or proof of claim, other...
California Water Code Section 1536
All annual fees, other than the initial filing fee required in connection with the filing of an application, registration, petition, or request, or proof of...
California Water Code Section 1537
(a) The State Board of Equalization shall collect any fee or expense required to be paid to the State Board of Equalization under this chapter....
California Water Code Section 1538
In any proceeding pursuant to Section 1052 in which it is determined that there has been a violation of the prohibition against the unauthorized diversion...
California Water Code Section 1539
If a permit or license holder fails to pay an annual fee imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1525 for a period of five...
California Water Code Section 1540
If the board determines that the person or entity on whom a fee or expense is imposed will not pay the fee or expense based...
California Water Code Section 1541
This article applies to any fee established or required to be paid under Article 1 (commencing with Section 1525), to any fee or expense set...
California Water Code Section 1550
There is in the State Treasury a Water Rights Fund, which is hereby established.
California Water Code Section 1551
All of the following shall be deposited in the Water Rights Fund: (a) All fees, expenses, and penalties collected by the board or the State...
California Water Code Section 1552
The money in the Water Rights Fund is available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the following purposes: (a) For expenditure by the...
California Water Code Section 1560
(a) The fees and expenses established under this chapter and Part 3 (commencing with Section 2000) apply to the United States and to Indian tribes,...
California Water Code Section 1600
Immediately upon completion of the construction of works and application of the water to beneficial use the permittee shall report the completion to the board.
California Water Code Section 1605
The board shall as soon as practicable after receiving the report of completion cause to be made a full inspection and examination of the works...
California Water Code Section 1610
If the determination of the board as to completion is favorable to the permittee, the board shall issue a license which confirms the right to...
California Water Code Section 1610.5
Before issuing a license for an amount of water or season of use less than that specified in the permit, the board shall either obtain...
California Water Code Section 1611
If the board determines that the construction and condition of the works or the use of water therefrom are not in conformity with the law,...
California Water Code Section 1625
Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 1626
All licenses shall be under the terms and conditions of this division.
California Water Code Section 1627
A license shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity...
California Water Code Section 1628
Every license shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of this article and the statement that...
California Water Code Section 1629
Every licensee, if he accepts a license, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual amount paid to...
California Water Code Section 1630
At any time after the expiration of twenty years after the granting of a license, the State or any city, city and county, municipal water...
California Water Code Section 1631
In the event that the State, or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or political subdivision of the State...
California Water Code Section 1650
A true copy of each license issued or of each order modifying or changing a license shall within 30 days after issuance thereof be recorded...
California Water Code Section 1651
Whenever an order revoking a license in whole or in part becomes final a true copy of the order shall be recorded promptly by the...
California Water Code Section 1627
A license shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity...
California Water Code Section 1628
Every license shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of this article and the statement that...
California Water Code Section 1629
Every licensee, if he accepts a license, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual amount paid to...
California Water Code Section 1630
At any time after the expiration of twenty years after the granting of a license, the State or any city, city and county, municipal water...
California Water Code Section 1631
In the event that the State, or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or political subdivision of the State...
California Water Code Section 1675
(a) If, at any time after a license is issued, the board finds that the licensee has not put the water granted under the license...
California Water Code Section 1675.1
The notice of proposed revocation of the license pursuant to Section 1675 shall contain a statement of facts and information upon which the proposed revocation...
California Water Code Section 1675.2
In any case when a license is revoked without a hearing, as provided in Section 1675.1, the licensee, within 90 days of the date of...
California Water Code Section 1700
Water appropriated under the Water Commission Act or this code for one specific purpose shall not be deemed to be appropriated for any other or...
California Water Code Section 1701
At any time after notice of an application is given, an applicant, permittee, or licensee may change the point of diversion, place of use, or...
California Water Code Section 1701.1
A petition for change filed after notice of an application shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the...
California Water Code Section 1701.2
A petition for change in a permit or license shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the petitioner....
California Water Code Section 1701.3
(a) After a petition is filed, the board may request additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to...
California Water Code Section 1701.4
If, within the period provided, the petitioner does not provide the information requested pursuant to Section 1701.3, the board shall cancel the petition, unless, for...
California Water Code Section 1702
Before permission to make such a change is granted the petitioner shall establish, to the satisfaction of the board, and it shall find, that the...
California Water Code Section 1703
After filing a petition for permission to make a change, the petitioner, in case the board so requires, shall cause notice thereof to be given...
California Water Code Section 1703.1
Any interested person, within the time allowed in the notice of petition, or within the time the board may allow for good cause shown, may...
California Water Code Section 1703.2
The protest shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the protestant. (b) Be signed by the protestant, or...
California Water Code Section 1703.3
The board may request from the protestant additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to be submitted pursuant...
California Water Code Section 1703.4
The protestant and the petitioner shall make a good faith effort to resolve the protest not later than 180 days from the date the period...
California Water Code Section 1703.5
The board may request from the protestant or the petitioner additional information that the board determines is reasonably necessary to attempt to resolve the protest....
California Water Code Section 1703.6
(a) The board may cancel a protest or petition for failure to provide information requested by the board under this chapter within the period provided....
California Water Code Section 1704
(a) The board, after a hearing, may approve with conditions, or deny, a petition. (b) Notice of hearing shall be given by mailing the notice...
California Water Code Section 1704.1
The Division of Water Rights shall conduct a field investigation of all minor protested petitions for change. The board shall notify the parties of the...
California Water Code Section 1704.2
The Division of Water Rights may request the parties to submit information in support of their positions. The Division of Water Rights may request information...
California Water Code Section 1704.3
Based upon the field investigation and any other information obtained under this chapter, the Division of Water Rights shall issue an order acting on the...
California Water Code Section 1704.4
For purposes of this chapter, a minor petition for change shall mean any petition which does not involve direct diversions in excess of three cubic-feet...
California Water Code Section 1705
After the hearing the board shall grant or refuse, as the facts warrant, permission to change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose...
California Water Code Section 1706
The person entitled to the use of water by virtue of an appropriation other than under the Water Commission Act or this code may change...
California Water Code Section 1707
(a) (1) Any person entitled to the use of water, whether based upon an appropriative, riparian, or other right, may petition the board pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 1725
A permittee or licensee may temporarily change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or exchange of...
California Water Code Section 1726
(a) (1) A permittee or licensee who proposes a temporary change shall submit to the board a petition to change the terms of the permit...
California Water Code Section 1727
(a) The board shall review a petition for a temporary change of water rights in accordance with this section. (b) The board shall approve a...
California Water Code Section 1728
For the purposes of this article, a temporary change means any change of point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use involving a...
California Water Code Section 1729
A proposed temporary change under this article shall be exempt from the requirements of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.
California Water Code Section 1731
Following the expiration of the temporary change period, all rights shall automatically revert to the original holder of the right without any action by the
California Water Code Section 1732
The petitioner shall not initiate or increase the use of groundwater to replace surface water transferred pursuant to this article, except in compliance with Sections...
California Water Code Section 1735
The board may consider a petition for a long-term transfer of water or water rights involving a change of point of diversion, place of use,...
California Water Code Section 1736
The board, after providing notice and opportunity for a hearing, including, but not limited to, written notice to, and an opportunity for review and recommendation...
California Water Code Section 1737
Following the expiration of the long-term transfer period, all rights shall automatically revert to the original holders of the right without any action by the
California Water Code Section 1740
Any water right determined under a court decree issued pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 2500) of Part 3, after January 1, 1981, shall...
California Water Code Section 1745
As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Person" includes a public agency. (b) "Water supplier" means a local public...
California Water Code Section 1745.02
A water supplier may, for a consideration to be specified in the contract, contract with persons entitled to service within the supplier's service area to...
California Water Code Section 1745.03
Services performed under a contract entered into pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 380) of Division 1 which is offered generally...
California Water Code Section 1745.04
A water supplier may contract with a state drought water bank or with any other state or local water supplier or user inside or outside...
California Water Code Section 1745.05
(a) Water stored by the water supplier and water made available from either of the following sources may be transferred by the water supplier pursuant...
California Water Code Section 1745.06
A water supplier may transfer water pursuant to Section 1745.04 whether or not the water proposed to be transferred is surplus to the needs within...
California Water Code Section 1745.07
No transfer of water pursuant to this article or any other provision of law shall cause a forfeiture, diminution, or impairment of any water rights....
California Water Code Section 1745.08
This article is in addition to, and not a limitation on, the authority of any public agency under any other provision of law, including, but...
California Water Code Section 1745.09
Nothing in this article does any of the following: (a) Creates in any person a right to require any water supplier to enter into a...
California Water Code Section 1745.10
A water user that transfers surface water pursuant to this article may not replace that water with groundwater unless the groundwater use is either of...
California Water Code Section 1745.11
Nothing in this article prohibits the transfer of previously recharged groundwater from an overdrafted groundwater basin or the replacement of transferred surface water with groundwater...
California Water Code Section 1750
As used in this chapter "works" includes dams, tunnels, diversion works, ditches, and other works or constructions.
California Water Code Section 1751
As used in this chapter "power" includes electricity, electrical power, and other power.
California Water Code Section 1752
The board shall determine the pro rata and other costs provided for in this chapter.
California Water Code Section 1775
If at any time it appears to the board, after a hearing of the persons interested and an investigation, that the full capacity of the...
California Water Code Section 1776
The board shall take into consideration the reasonable cost of the original and new work, the good faith of the applicant, the market for water...
California Water Code Section 1777
The applicant shall be required to pay to the person owning the works a pro rata portion of the total cost of the old and...
California Water Code Section 1778
If the water is used or to be used for irrigation or domestic purposes, the pro rata portion of the cost shall be based upon...
California Water Code Section 1779
If the water is used or to be used for the generation of power, the pro rata portion of the cost shall be based upon...
California Water Code Section 1780
If a portion of the water is used or to be used for irrigation and another portion is used or to be used for the...
California Water Code Section 1781
If any of the water is used or to be used for purposes other than those specified in this article, the applicant shall pay to...
California Water Code Section 1782
The applicant shall also pay a proper pro rata share, based as above provided in this article, of the cost of maintaining the works, on...
California Water Code Section 1800
If it appears to the board that the full capacity of the works built or constructed, or being built or constructed, under an appropriation of...
California Water Code Section 1801
The repairing, improving, adding to, supplementing, or enlarging of works under this article, shall not materially interfere with the proper use thereof by the owner...
California Water Code Section 1810
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the state, nor any regional or local public agency may deny a bona fide transferor of water the...
California Water Code Section 1811
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Bona fide transferor" means a person or public agency as defined...
California Water Code Section 1812
The state, regional, or local public agency owning the water conveyance facility shall in a timely manner determine the following: (a) The amount and availability...
California Water Code Section 1813
In making the determinations required by this article, the respective public agency shall act in a reasonable manner consistent with the requirements of law to...
California Water Code Section 1814
This article shall apply to only 70 percent of the unused capacity.
California Water Code Section 1825
It is the intent of the Legislature that the state should take vigorous action to enforce the terms and conditions of permits licenses, certifications, and...
California Water Code Section 1831
(a) When the board determines that any person is violating, or threatening to violate, any requirement described in subdivision (d), the board may issue an...
California Water Code Section 1832
Cease and desist orders of the board shall be effective upon the issuance thereof. The board may, after notice and opportunity for hearing, upon its...
California Water Code Section 1834
(a) In the event that a violation of a requirement described in subdivision (d) of Section 1831 is occurring or threatening to occur, the board...
California Water Code Section 1835
As used in this chapter, "person" includes any city, county, district, the state, or any department or agency thereof, and the United States to the...
California Water Code Section 1836
Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the board from issuing any order or taking any other action authorized pursuant to Sections 275 and 1052.
California Water Code Section 1845
(a) Upon the failure of any person to comply with a cease and desist order issued by the board pursuant to this chapter, the Attorney...
California Water Code Section 1850
Any factual or legal determinations made pursuant to a cease and desist order shall be conclusive and shall preclude any party to the order from...
California Water Code Section 1851
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or abridge the right of any person to bring an action for equitable or legal relief...
California Water Code Section 2000
In any suit brought in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State for determination of rights to water, the court may order a reference...
California Water Code Section 2001
In any suit brought in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State for determination of rights to water, the court may refer the suit...
California Water Code Section 2010
The board may base its report solely upon its own investigations or in addition thereto may hold hearings and take testimony.
California Water Code Section 2011
The report of the board as referee may contain such opinion upon the law and the facts as it deems proper in view of the...
California Water Code Section 2012
The report shall set forth such findings of fact and conclusions of law as may be required by the court's order of reference.
California Water Code Section 2013
Before filing its report the board shall announce it in the form of a draft.
California Water Code Section 2014
The board shall mail notice of the draft, together with a copy of the draft, to the parties or their attorneys.
California Water Code Section 2015
Within 30 days after the date of the mailing of the draft, or within such further time as the court may for good cause allow,...
California Water Code Section 2016
After the objections have been considered by the board or a hearing has been held thereon if deemed advisable by it, the board shall file...
California Water Code Section 2017
The report of the board as referee is subject to review by the court upon exceptions thereto filed with the clerk of the court within...
California Water Code Section 2018
No exception to the report shall be considered, except in the court's discretion or for good cause shown, unless it appears that the matter of...
California Water Code Section 2019
The report filed by the board is prima facie evidence of the physical facts therein found; but the court shall hear such evidence as may...
California Water Code Section 2020
(a) At any time after filing of the report by the board as provided in Section 2016 the board, if it appears that underground water...
California Water Code Section 2021
Where a preliminary injunction has been granted pursuant to Section 2020, the final judgment shall equitably compensate in quantities of water for such variations as...
California Water Code Section 2040
In acting pursuant to this chapter the board shall not be entitled to any fee for its services but shall be paid or reimbursed the...
California Water Code Section 2041
If the funds available for use by the board are inadequate to permit it to advance the expense of a reference, or if in its...
California Water Code Section 2042
During the pendency of any reference, upon motion of the board and upon a hearing by the court after at least 10 days' notice to...
California Water Code Section 2043
The total expense shall be equitably apportioned by the board against the parties to the suit, and a statement thereof and of the apportionment shall...
California Water Code Section 2045
Upon application in writing by any party aggrieved within 30 days after the statement of final expense and its apportionment has been mailed to the...
California Water Code Section 2046
Any party failing to object to the expense of a reference or the apportionment thereof is conclusively deemed to have waived all objection thereto.
California Water Code Section 2047
If no objection is filed with the court within the prescribed period, the court upon ex parte application of the board shall enter a judgment...
California Water Code Section 2048
Upon the hearing of objections to the expense or the apportionment thereof the court shall determine the expense and its apportionment as the court deems...
California Water Code Section 2075
In case suit is brought in a federal court for determination of rights to water within, or partially within, this State, the board may accept...
California Water Code Section 2076
In acting under this chapter the board shall proceed according to the rules of practice and procedure of the court or as otherwise directed by...
California Water Code Section 2100
After the department has submitted to the board recommendations for the protection of the quality of ground water pursuant to Section 12617.1 or 12923.1 of...
California Water Code Section 2101
(a) Before filing or intervening in any such action the board shall hold a public hearing on the necessity for restricting ground water pumping or...
California Water Code Section 2102
As used in this article, "minor quantities of water" refers to the extraction by any person of not to exceed 10 acre-feet of ground water
California Water Code Section 2500
As used in this chapter, "stream system" includes stream, lake, or other body of water, and tributaries and contributory sources, but does not include an...
California Water Code Section 2500.5
(a) As used in this chapter with respect to the Scott River in Siskiyou County, "stream system" includes ground water supplies which are interconnected with...
California Water Code Section 2501
The board may determine, in the proceedings provided for in this chapter, all rights to water of a stream system whether based upon appropriation, riparian...
California Water Code Section 2502
If the board finds that the use by any persons under claim of right of only minor quantities of water, as defined in Section 2503,...
California Water Code Section 2503
As used in this chapter, "minor quantities of water" refers to the diversion or extraction by any person of not to exceed 10 acre-feet of...
California Water Code Section 2525
Upon petition signed by one or more claimants to water of any stream system, requesting the determination of the rights of the various claimants to...
California Water Code Section 2526
As soon as practicable after granting the petition the board shall prepare and issue a notice setting forth the following: (a) The facts of the...
California Water Code Section 2527
The notice shall be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks, commencing within 20 days of the date of issuance of the...
California Water Code Section 2528
Whenever proceedings are instituted for the determination of rights to water, it is the duty of all claimants interested therein and having notice thereof as...
California Water Code Section 2529
(a) Within 60 days after the date by which claimants to rights to the water of the stream system are required to notify the board...
California Water Code Section 2550
As soon as practicable after granting the petition, the board shall begin an investigation of the stream system, of the diversion of water, of all...
California Water Code Section 2551
During the investigation the representatives of the board shall, after 30 days' notice in writing to each person who has given notice of intent to...
California Water Code Section 2552
Each claimant shall have available at the detailed field investigation all pertinent information on the extent and nature of the claimant's water use and basis...
California Water Code Section 2553
Immediately upon conclusion of the detailed field investigation, the claimant or the claimant's representative shall be provided, by registered mail, a blank form of proof...
California Water Code Section 2554
During the investigation of the stream system, the board shall also conduct detailed field investigations of projects of all water users known to the board...
California Water Code Section 2555
Water users not present during conduct of the detailed field investigation and those not filing notice of intent shall, insofar as they are known, be...
California Water Code Section 2575
The proof of claim shall be filed with the board on the form provided by the board and shall include all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 2576
Each claimant shall certify to the proof of claim statements under oath or penalty of perjury.
California Water Code Section 2577
Any person not submitting a proof of claim to the board or to representatives of the board by the conclusion of the investigation shall be...
California Water Code Section 2600
After all field investigations have been completed and the time for filing proofs of claims has expired, the board shall prepare a report describing the...
California Water Code Section 2601
The report shall note separately any material differences between the claims and the factual determinations made by the representatives of the board during the investigation.
California Water Code Section 2602
The report shall include a map showing the stream system, diversion points, conduits, areas of water use and the type of use, owner's names, and...
California Water Code Section 2603
The report shall include a preliminary order of determination determining and establishing the several rights to the water of the stream system, giving appropriate consideration...
California Water Code Section 2604
A copy of the report shall be sent by registered mail to each claimant and to each person not filing a claim appearing in the...
California Water Code Section 2625
The notice shall also set a time and place reasonably convenient to the claimants when and where the proofs of claim and measurements and other...
California Water Code Section 2626
A representative of the board shall be present at the time and place designated in the notice, and shall permit, during the period of inspection,...
California Water Code Section 2627
The period of inspection shall be concluded at least 30 days prior to the expiration of the time allowed claimants for filing objections to the...
California Water Code Section 2628
The objections shall be in writing and shall state with reasonable certainty the grounds of the objection.
California Water Code Section 2650
Within 10 days after the close of the period for filing objections, the board shall mail copies of the objections to the claimant or water...
California Water Code Section 2651
The board may adjourn hearings of objections from time to time upon reasonable notice to all parties in interest.
California Water Code Section 2652
The costs of taking testimony at a hearing on an objection shall be borne by the parties thereto as follows: each party shall pay for...
California Water Code Section 2653
One copy of the transcript of testimony taken at the hearing shall be furnished to the board at the cost of the parties.
California Water Code Section 2700
As soon as practicable after the hearing of objections or the expiration of the time for filing objections if no objections are filed, the board...
California Water Code Section 2701
A notice of adoption of the order of determination and a copy of the order shall be sent by registered mail to each claimant and...
California Water Code Section 2702
(a) The board may order a reconsideration of all or part of an order of determination on the board's own motion or on petition of...
California Water Code Section 2750
As soon as practicable after adoption of the order of determination, issuance of an order on reconsideration, or issuance of an order denying reconsideration, whichever...
California Water Code Section 2751
Upon the filing of the certified copy of the order of determination and the evidence and transcript, the board shall procure an order from the...
California Water Code Section 2752
The clerk of the court shall immediately furnish the board with a certified copy of the order setting the time for hearing.
California Water Code Section 2753
Upon receiving the certified copy of the order setting the time for hearing, the board shall immediately mail a copy of the order by registered...
California Water Code Section 2754
The board shall cause the order to be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published...
California Water Code Section 2755
The board shall file with the clerk of the court proof of service by registered mail and by publication.
California Water Code Section 2756
Service by registered mail and by publication shall be deemed full and sufficient notice to all parties in interest of the date and purpose of...
California Water Code Section 2757
At least 10 days prior to the day set for hearing, each party in interest who is aggrieved or dissatisfied with the order of determination...
California Water Code Section 2758
The notice of exceptions shall state briefly the exceptions taken, the reasons therefor, and the prayer for relief.
California Water Code Section 2759
A copy of each notice of exception shall be sent by registered mail at least 10 days prior to the hearing to the board and...
California Water Code Section 2760
The order of determination, the statements or claims of claimants, and the exceptions made to the order of determination constitute the pleadings.
California Water Code Section 2761
The court may allow such additional or amended pleadings as may be necessary to a final determination of the proceeding.
California Water Code Section 2762
If no exceptions are filed, then on the day set for the hearing, on motion of the board, the court shall enter a decree affirming...
California Water Code Section 2763
On the day set for hearing all parties in interest who have filed notices of exceptions shall appear in person, or by counsel, and the...
California Water Code Section 2763.5
(a) No exception to the order of determination shall be considered, except in the court's discretion for good cause shown, unless the matter of the...
California Water Code Section 2764
All proceedings on the hearing shall be as nearly as may be in accordance with the rules governing civil actions.
California Water Code Section 2765
Whenever in the judgment of the court the State is a necessary party to the action, the court shall make an order to that effect...
California Water Code Section 2766
For further information on any subject in controversy the court may employ one or more qualified persons to investigate and report thereon under oath, subject...
California Water Code Section 2767
The court may take additional evidence on any issue and may, if necessary, refer the case for such further evidence to be taken by the...
California Water Code Section 2768
After the hearing, the court shall enter a decree determining the right of all persons involved in the proceeding.
California Water Code Section 2769
The decree shall in every case declare as to the water right adjudged to each party, the priority, amount, season of use, purpose of use,...
California Water Code Section 2770
Upon the hearing the court may assess and adjudge against any party such costs as it may deem just.
California Water Code Section 2771
Appeals from the decree may be taken by the board or any party in interest, in the same manner and with the same effect as...
California Water Code Section 2772
A certified copy of the decree shall be prepared by the clerk of the court, without charge, and filed for record in the office of...
California Water Code Section 2773
The decree is conclusive as to the rights of all existing claimants upon the stream system lawfully embraced in the determination.
California Water Code Section 2774
When a decree has been entered, any claimant who has failed to appear and submit proof of his claim as provided in this chapter shall...
California Water Code Section 2780
Any claimant who, prior to entry of the order of determination by the board, had no actual knowledge or notice of the pendency of the...
California Water Code Section 2781
Upon filing his exception and proof of claim, the intervenor shall make application to the court for an order prescribing the time and manner of...
California Water Code Section 2782
After expiration of the time fixed by the court for filing contests, the court shall proceed to hear and determine the exception and proof of...
California Water Code Section 2783
The court may refer the matter for such further evidence to be taken by the board as the court may direct, and may require a...
California Water Code Section 2801
All persons claiming rights under an incomplete appropriation, when notified as provided in this chapter, shall appear and submit their proofs of claim in accordance...
California Water Code Section 2802
In determining rights based on an incomplete appropriation initiated according to law prior to December 19, 1914, and since prosecuted with reasonable diligence in accordance...
California Water Code Section 2803
The order of determination shall provide that within the time prescribed for completion of the appropriation, or such further time as the court may allow,...
California Water Code Section 2806
The court shall have authority to thereafter hear and determine proof offered as to the completion of any such right.
California Water Code Section 2807
Time for completion may be extended from time to time by the court upon motion made prior to the expiration of the limit of time...
California Water Code Section 2808
Notice of motion for an extension of time for completion shall be filed not more than 90 days prior to the expiration of the time
California Water Code Section 2809
The clerk of the court shall post notice of hearing of the motion at the courthouse where the hearing is to be held and at...
California Water Code Section 2810
The court may refer the matter of the motion to the board for its report and recommendation thereon.
California Water Code Section 2811
Upon receipt of the report and recommendation of the board or, if the board fails to file its report and recommendations within 90 days after...
California Water Code Section 2812
In event of denial of a motion for the extension of time for completion the applicant may within 10 days after notice by the clerk...
California Water Code Section 2813
Any claimant desiring to offer proof of completion shall file a notice of intention to offer such proof with the clerk of the court.
California Water Code Section 2814
The clerk shall post notice of the time for hearing the proof at the courthouse where the hearing is to be held and at least...
California Water Code Section 2815
Upon submission of proof of completion after entry of the decree of the court, the court shall enter a supplemental decree determining the right before...
California Water Code Section 2816
All persons claiming rights under incomplete appropriations who fail to complete their appropriations within the limit of time fixed by the board in its order...
California Water Code Section 2817
Appeals from any action of the court under this article may be taken by the board or any party in interest in the same manner...
California Water Code Section 2818
This article shall not be construed to confer any rights of appropriation upon parties who shall have abandoned their appropriations or failed to use due...
California Water Code Section 2819
Incomplete appropriations initiated by application under the provisions of the Water Commission Act or this code shall be included in the decree but shall continue...
California Water Code Section 2820
After revocation by the board of a permit or license relating to a right included in the decree and upon completion of court review of...
California Water Code Section 2825
The board shall furnish to each claimant whose rights are decreed a copy of the decree and a notice of the entry thereof.
California Water Code Section 2826
Upon entry of a supplemental decree establishing or modifying a right, the board shall furnish to each claimant who could be significantly affected, at his...
California Water Code Section 2850
At the time of the submission of proofs, the board shall collect from each claimant the fee established pursuant to Section 1528.
California Water Code Section 2851
At the time of, or as soon as practicable after the mailing of, its order of determination the board shall compute the entire expense it...
California Water Code Section 2852
If the total amount of expense exceeds the total amount received from claimants at the time of submission of proofs, the excess expense shall be...
California Water Code Section 2853
A statement setting forth the expense and the apportionments thereof against the respective parties shall be sent by registered mail by the board to each...
California Water Code Section 2855
Upon application in writing by any party aggrieved within 30 days after the statement of expense and the apportionment thereof has been mailed to the...
California Water Code Section 2856
The clerk of the court shall, at least 10 days prior to the date of hearing, give notice thereof by mail to all parties.
California Water Code Section 2857
If no objection is filed with the court within the prescribed periods the court upon ex parte application of the board shall enter a judgment...
California Water Code Section 2858
Any party failing to object to the expense or the apportionments thereof waives all objections thereto.
California Water Code Section 2859
Upon the hearing of objections to the expense or the apportionments thereof the court shall determine the expense and its apportionment as the court deems...
California Water Code Section 2862
All money paid to or collected by the board, as provided in this article, shall be paid, at least once each month, accompanied by a...
California Water Code Section 2863
All or any part of the money in the Water Resources Control Board Revolving Fund may be drawn from the State Treasury upon the approval...
California Water Code Section 2864
If the funds available for use by the board are inadequate to enable it to undertake the expense of any proceeding under this chapter or...
California Water Code Section 2865
During the pendency of any proceedings under this chapter, the board, after at least 20 days' notice to the parties, may order interim or partial...
California Water Code Section 2866
The Department of Finance shall, from time to time, review the status of the Water Resources Control Board Revolving Fund to determine whether there are...
California Water Code Section 2868
If a party fails to pay the expenses apportioned to that party when due, the board may refer the matter for collection of the unpaid...
California Water Code Section 2900
In rendering its decree for the determination of rights to water, whether in suits referred to the board under the provisions of Chapter 1 of...
California Water Code Section 4000
As used in this part, "service area" applies to watermaster districts heretofore established and to watermaster service areas hereafter established pursuant to this part.
California Water Code Section 4001
As used in this part, "conduit" includes ditches, pipe lines, and other means of diversion.
California Water Code Section 4002
Any duty or authority vested in a watermaster may be exercised by the watermaster directly or through the agency of a deputy watermaster, if there...
California Water Code Section 4003
As used in this part, "fiscal year" means the year beginning July 1 of any calendar year and ending June 30 of the following calendar
California Water Code Section 4025
The department shall divide the State into watermaster service areas so constituted and adjusted as to insure the most practical and economical supervision of the...
California Water Code Section 4026
Service areas shall be created from time to time as rights to water are ascertained and determined.
California Water Code Section 4027
The rights may be ascertained and determined by any or all of the following: (a) Under procedure provided for in this division; (b) Under procedure...
California Water Code Section 4028
When rights are ascertained and determined by agreement, the agreement shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which...
California Water Code Section 4028.5
When rights are ascertained and determined by court decree, certified copies of the decree shall be recorded as agreements are required to be recorded by...
California Water Code Section 4029
Upon the creation of a service area the department shall record in the office of the county recorder of each county in which a portion...
California Water Code Section 4030
From time to time the department shall record supplemental or revised descriptions as the descriptions are changed.
California Water Code Section 4032
Service areas may be enlarged, reduced, consolidated, or abolished from time to time as convenience of administration may require.
California Water Code Section 4050
(a) Upon written request submitted to the department by the owners or governing bodies of at least 15 percent of the conduits lawfully entitled to...
California Water Code Section 4051
The department may from time to time discontinue watermaster service in any service area, if necessity therefor ceases, and revive the service whenever and as...
California Water Code Section 4052
The watermaster shall be properly qualified and shall perform the duties imposed on him by this part as an employee under the general supervision and...
California Water Code Section 4053
Watermasters, in addition to compensation for their services, shall receive necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
California Water Code Section 4100
The owner of every conduit subject to regulation by a watermaster shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable...
California Water Code Section 4101
The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable headgate in the conduit through which...
California Water Code Section 4102
The headgate shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the watermaster.
California Water Code Section 4103
The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain such water flow measuring devices at such points along the conduit as may be required and...
California Water Code Section 4104
If the owner of any conduit refuses or neglects to construct and maintain the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices provided...
California Water Code Section 4125
The owner of every reservoir which is subject to regulation by a watermaster and which is located across or upon the bed of a natural...
California Water Code Section 4126
If the owner of any reservoir neglects or refuses to construct and maintain the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days' notice...
California Water Code Section 4150
The department may make such reasonable regulations to secure distribution of water in accordance with determined rights as may be needed.
California Water Code Section 4151
The watermaster shall divide the water of the streams or other sources of supply among the several conduits and reservoirs taking water therefrom and so...
California Water Code Section 4152
Whenever in pursuance of his duties the watermaster regulates a headgate to a conduit or the controlling works of a reservoir, he may attach to...
California Water Code Section 4153
The notice is legal notice to all persons interested in the diversion and distribution of the water of the conduit or reservoir.
California Water Code Section 4160
Any person who is injured by the action of any watermaster may apply to the superior court of the county in which the injury takes...
California Water Code Section 4161
Such injunction shall be issued only in case it is shown at the hearing that the watermaster has failed to distribute the water according to...
California Water Code Section 4175
Every person who wilfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate, waterbox, or measuring device while it is under the control...
California Water Code Section 4176
The possession or use of water when it has been so denied him by the watermaster is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the...
California Water Code Section 4177
Every person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) is guilty of a misdemeanor and...
California Water Code Section 4178
A watermaster may arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) and to deliver...
California Water Code Section 4200
The department may incur such expense and make such expenditures as may be necessary to provide for the administration of any service area and the...
California Water Code Section 4201
All of the cost of administration of a service area and the distribution of water therein shall be paid by the owners of the rights...
California Water Code Section 4225
The department shall, prior to June 15th of each year, prepare a statement for each service area. The statement shall contain a budget showing the...
California Water Code Section 4226
The budget shall include all of the following: (a) Expenses theretofore incurred for the payment of which funds are not available. (b) The cost of...
California Water Code Section 4227
The statement shall also contain an apportionment of the amount of the budget among the owners of the various rights to store or divert within...
California Water Code Section 4228
In all cases where a water right is owned by two or more persons, they shall pay in proportion to their respective interests in the...
California Water Code Section 4251
One-tenth of the budget for the service area shall be apportioned equally among the respective ownerships of all water rights involved, and except as otherwise...
California Water Code Section 4252
In all cases of rights to divert the direct flow of a stream, without storage, for power development or other nonconsumptive use, where the entire...
California Water Code Section 4253
In all cases where rights exist to store or divert water for use for more than one purpose, the amount to be paid by the...
California Water Code Section 4254
In making an apportionment to any owner of the right to store water, 350 acre-feet of storage capacity which the owner is entitled to use...
California Water Code Section 4275
Except as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 4300), the department, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, shall certify,...
California Water Code Section 4276
The auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective apportionments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on the current assessment roll. If...
California Water Code Section 4277
The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a watermaster service area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time...
California Water Code Section 4278
Apportionments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. So far as applicable,...
California Water Code Section 4279
All money raised by such apportionments shall be accounted for separately as to each watermaster service area. All such money shall be transmitted by January...
California Water Code Section 4300
If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, or is public utility as defined in...
California Water Code Section 4301
Service on such owners may be made personally, or by mail as provided by Section 1013 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
California Water Code Section 4302
Each such owner shall, on or before the 10th day of December of the year in which the apportionment was made, pay to the department...
California Water Code Section 4303
If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty...
California Water Code Section 4304
If the owner of the right is a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in...
California Water Code Section 4305
At any time after 30 days after any payment due under this article becomes delinquent the department may institute in the name of the people...
California Water Code Section 4325
The procedure set forth in this article for collecting and making available money for watermaster distribution is in lieu of that set forth in the...
California Water Code Section 4326
Whenever all the owners of rights to water within any service area, by agreement in writing, shall have organized themselves into an association for the...
California Water Code Section 4327
The statement shall be submitted on or before the first day of September of the year preceding that for which it is made.
California Water Code Section 4329
The association shall pay the total amount apportioned to it to the department on or before the first day of December next succeeding the receipt...
California Water Code Section 4330
The department shall deposit the money in the Water Resources Revolving Fund to the credit of the amount of the service area affected.
California Water Code Section 4331
The department may refuse to render watermaster service to such service area during any calendar year next succeeding the first day of December of any...
California Water Code Section 4334
All of the provisions of this chapter relating to the expenses of service areas which are not in conflict with this article shall apply to...
California Water Code Section 4335
If, at the time of creation of a service area, all the owners have formed an association by agreement in writing and have filed a...
California Water Code Section 4351
Separate accounts shall be established in the fund to the credit of the various service areas now in existence or hereafter created from time to
California Water Code Section 4357
The expenditures for the supervision of the distribution of water in any service area shall be paid from that portion or account of the Water...
California Water Code Section 4358
Any money remaining in the watermaster service area accounts of the Water Resources Revolving Fund at the end of any year shall be available for...
California Water Code Section 4400
The foregoing provisions of this part shall be applicable to this chapter, so far as adaptable thereto or consistent therewith, and whenever rights to water...
California Water Code Section 4401
Insofar as the foregoing provisions of this part may not be adaptable to or may be inconsistent with the provisions of any decree of court,...
California Water Code Section 4402
In the event an order or decree of court provides for an allocation among and payment of costs of water distribution by the owners of...
California Water Code Section 4403
A certified copy of the order or decree shall be recorded in the county or counties wherein the water is diverted or used and a...
California Water Code Section 4404
Obligations to pay for the respective allocations of cost set forth in the order or decree may be enforced by the department against the respective...
California Water Code Section 4406
The total sum thus made available shall be subject to expenditure by the department in performing said work, and any money remaining at the end...
California Water Code Section 4407
Any moneys collected or received by the department for or on account of owners of the rights involved may be placed in a special deposit...
California Water Code Section 4999
The Legislature finds and declares that by reason of the combination of light rainfall, concentrated population, the transition of considerable areas of land from agricultural...
California Water Code Section 5000
As used in this Part 5, the following terms shall have the respective meanings stated below, viz: (a) "Ground water" means water beneath the surface...
California Water Code Section 5001
Each person who, after 1955, extracts ground water in excess of 25 acre-feet in any year shall file with the board on or before March...
California Water Code Section 5002
Each notice shall be on a form provided by the board. The first notice filed by any person shall state: (a) The name of the...
California Water Code Section 5003
No prescriptive right that might otherwise accrue to extract ground water shall arise or accrue to, nor shall any statute of limitations operate in regard...
California Water Code Section 5004
After the year 1959, failure to file with the board a notice for any calendar year within six months after the close of such calendar...
California Water Code Section 5005
Except as specified in Section 5004, failure to file the notice or delay in filing the same shall not cause the loss of rights to...
California Water Code Section 5006
Each notice shall be sworn to and shall be accompanied by a filing fee which shall be fixed by the board pursuant to Section 1529.
California Water Code Section 5007
Any person may apply to the board to investigate the facts stated in any specified notice so filed and to state in writing its determination...
California Water Code Section 5008
The making of any willful misstatement in any notice shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or...
California Water Code Section 5009
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after January 1, 2005, each person who extracts groundwater in a board-designated local area,...
California Water Code Section 5100
As used in this part: (a) "Best available technologies" means technologies at the highest technically practical level, using flow totaling devices, and if necessary, data...
California Water Code Section 5101
Each person who, after December 31, 1965, diverts water shall file with the board, prior to July 1 of the succeeding year, a statement of...
California Water Code Section 5102
The statement may be filed either by the person who is diverting water or, on his behalf, by an agency which he designates and which...
California Water Code Section 5103
Each statement shall be prepared on a form provided by the board. The statement shall include all of the following information: (a) The name and...
California Water Code Section 5104
(a) Supplemental statements shall be filed at three-year intervals, prior to July 1 of the year next succeeding the end of each three-year interval. They...
California Water Code Section 5105
Upon failure of any person to file a statement required by this part, the board may, at the expense of such person, investigate and determine...
California Water Code Section 5106
(a) Neither the statements submitted under this part nor the determination of facts by the board pursuant to Section 5105 shall establish or constitute evidence...
California Water Code Section 5107
(a) The making of any willful misstatement pursuant to this part is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or...
California Water Code Section 5900
The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves that certain compact designated as the "Klamath River Basin Compact between the States of...
California Water Code Section 5901
The provisions of said Klamath River Basin Compact are as follows: Article I. Purposes The major purposes of this compact are, with respect to the...
California Water Code Section 5950
The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies the Oregon-California Goose Lake Interstate Compact as set forth in Section 5951. The provisions of the...
California Water Code Section 5951
The provisions of the Oregon-California Goose Lake Interstate Compact are as follows: Article I. Purposes The major purposes of this compact are: A. To facilitate...
California Water Code Section 5975
The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves the California-Nevada Interstate Compact as set forth in Section 5976. The provisions of the...
California Water Code Section 5976
The provisions of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact are as follows: Article I. Purposes Consistent with the provisions of the authorization acts of the State of...
California Water Code Section 6000
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
California Water Code Section 6002
"Dam" means any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works, which does or may impound or divert water, and which either (a) is or will be...
California Water Code Section 6003
Any such barrier which is or will be not in excess of six feet in height, regardless of storage capacity, or which has or will...
California Water Code Section 6004
(a) No obstruction in a canal used to raise or lower water therein or divert water therefrom, no levee, including but not limited to a...
California Water Code Section 6004.5
"Reservoir" means any reservoir which contains or will contain the water impounded by a dam.
California Water Code Section 6005
"Owner" includes any of the following who own, control, operate, maintain, manage, or propose to construct a dam or reservoir: (a)The state and its departments,...
California Water Code Section 6006
"Alterations," "repairs," or either of them, mean only such alterations or repairs as may affect the safety of the dam or reservoir.
California Water Code Section 6007
"Enlargement" means any change in or addition to an existing dam or reservoir, which raises or may raise the water storage elevation of the water...
California Water Code Section 6008
Water storage elevation means that elevation of water surface which could be obtained by the existing dam or reservoir, as previously operated, were there no...
California Water Code Section 6025
It is the intent of the Legislature by this part to provide for the regulation and supervision of dams and reservoirs exclusively by the State.
California Water Code Section 6025.5
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision, subject to subdivision (b), the requirements for state regulation and supervision of safety of dams, as contained in this division,...
California Water Code Section 6025.6
(a) An owner of a structure defined as a dam pursuant to Section 6002, but excluded from that definition pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section...
California Water Code Section 6026
No city or county has authority, by ordinance enacted by the legislative body thereof or adopted by the people under the initiative power, or otherwise,...
California Water Code Section 6027
Whenever supervision of safety of design or construction of a proposed or existing dam or reservoir is exercised by the United States or any of...
California Water Code Section 6028
No action shall be brought against the state or the department or its agents or employees for the recovery of damages caused by the partial...
California Water Code Section 6029
Nothing in this part shall be construed to relieve an owner or operator of a dam or reservoir of the legal duties, obligations, or liabilities...
California Water Code Section 6030
The findings and orders of the department and the certificate of approval of any dam or reservoir issued by the department are final and conclusive...
California Water Code Section 6031
Nothing in this part shall be construed to deprive any owner of such recourse to the courts as he may be entitled to under the...
California Water Code Section 6052
The department shall employ such clerical, engineering, and other assistants as are necessary for carrying on the work of dam and reservoir supervision in accordance...
California Water Code Section 6053
The department may employ consultants.
California Water Code Section 6054
When the safety and technical considerations pertaining to a certificate of approval, dam, reservoir, or plans and specifications require it, or when requested in writing...
California Water Code Section 6055
The cost and expense of a consulting board if appointed on the request of an owner shall be paid by the owner.
California Water Code Section 6056
The department shall retain a board of three consultants who shall make an independent report to the director upon the issuance, modification, or renewal of...
California Water Code Section 6075
The department, under the police power of the state, shall supervise the construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, maintenance, operation, and removal of dams and reservoirs for...
California Water Code Section 6076
All dams and reservoirs in the state are under the jurisdiction of the department.
California Water Code Section 6077
It is unlawful to construct, enlarge, repair, alter, remove, maintain, or operate any dam or reservoir except upon approval of the department as provided in...
California Water Code Section 6078
The department shall adopt and revise from time to time such rules and regulations and issue such general orders as may be necessary for carrying...
California Water Code Section 6079
In carrying out the provisions of this part the department may cooperate with the United States or any of its agencies.
California Water Code Section 6080
In making any investigations or inspections required or authorized by this part the department or its representatives may enter upon private property as may be
California Water Code Section 6081
In determining whether or not a dam or reservoir or proposed dam or reservoir constitutes or would constitute a danger to life or property, the...
California Water Code Section 6100
Supervision over the maintenance and operation of dams and reservoirs insofar as necessary to safeguard life and property from injury by reason of the failure...
California Water Code Section 6101
The department may require owners to keep records of, and to report on, maintenance, operation, staffing, and engineering and geologic investigations and shall issue such...
California Water Code Section 6102
The department, from time to time, shall make inspections of dams and reservoirs at state expense for the purpose of determining their safety but shall...
California Water Code Section 6110
The department shall immediately employ any remedial means necessary to protect life and property if either: (a) The condition of any dam or reservoir is...
California Water Code Section 6111
In applying the remedial means provided for in this article, the department may in emergency do any of the following: (a) Lower the water level...
California Water Code Section 6112
The department shall continue in full charge and control of such dam or reservoir, or both, and its appurtenances until they are rendered safe or...
California Water Code Section 6113
The cost and expenses of the remedial means provided in this article, including cost of any work done to render a dam or reservoir or...
California Water Code Section 6120
For the purpose of enabling it to make decisions as compatible with economy and public safety as possible the department shall make or cause to...
California Water Code Section 6121
The department shall also make or cause to be made such watershed investigations and studies as may facilitate its decisions.
California Water Code Section 6150
The department may commence an action or proceeding under this article, either by mandamus or injunction, for the purpose of stopping or preventing violations or...
California Water Code Section 6151
An action or proceeding under this article may be commenced whenever any owner or any person acting as a director, officer, agent, or employee of...
California Water Code Section 6152
Any action or proceeding under this article shall be commenced in the superior court in and for the county in which (a) the cause or...
California Water Code Section 6153
Any action or proceeding under this article shall be brought by petition in the superior court, alleging the violation or threatened violation complained of, and...
California Water Code Section 6154
The court shall specify a time, not exceeding 20 days after the service of the copy of the petition, within which the owner or person...
California Water Code Section 6155
In case of default in answer or after answer the court shall immediately inquire into the facts and circumstances of the case.
California Water Code Section 6156
The court may join such parties as it deems necessary or proper in order to make its judgment, order, or writ effective.
California Water Code Section 6157
The final judgment in such action or proceeding shall either dismiss the action or proceeding or direct that the writ of mandamus or injunction issue...
California Water Code Section 6200
Construction of any new dam or reservoir or the enlargement of any dam or reservoir shall not be commenced until the owner has applied for...
California Water Code Section 6201
A separate application for each dam or reservoir shall be filed with the department upon forms to be provided by it, except that only one...
California Water Code Section 6202
The application shall give the following information: (a) The name and address of the owner. (b) The location, type, size, and height of the proposed...
California Water Code Section 6203
The department may also require the following: (a) Data concerning subsoil and foundation conditions and the materials entering into construction of the dam or reservoir....
California Water Code Section 6204
In instances wherein the physical conditions involved and the size of the dam or reservoir are such as to render the above requirements as to...
California Water Code Section 6205
The application shall set forth the purpose for which the impounded or diverted water is to be used.
California Water Code Section 6206
The application shall be accompanied by maps and plans and specifications of such character and size and setting forth such pertinent details and dimensions as...
California Water Code Section 6225
Before commencing the repair, alteration, or removal of a dam or reservoir, including the alteration or removal of a dam or reservoir so that it...
California Water Code Section 6226
The application shall give such pertinent information or data concerning the dam or reservoir, or both, as may be required by the department and such...
California Water Code Section 6227
The application shall state the proposed time of commencement and of completion of construction.
California Water Code Section 6228
The application shall give the name and address of applicant, shall adequately detail, with appropriate references to the existing dam or reservoir, the changes which...
California Water Code Section 6229
In case of an emergency where repairs are necessary to safeguard life and property repairs may be started immediately, but the department shall be notified...
California Water Code Section 6230
The proposed repairs and work shall be made to conform to such orders as the department issues.
California Water Code Section 6250
Unless application for approval of the dam has heretofore been made, every owner of a dam completed prior to August 14, 1929 shall, immediately after...
California Water Code Section 6251
A separate application shall be made for each dam and shall be filed with the department upon forms to be supplied by it and shall...
California Water Code Section 6252
The department shall give notice to file to owners who have failed to do so as required by this article, and a failure to file...
California Water Code Section 6253
The notice provided for in this article may be given by registered mail and a return receipt signed by the owner shall constitute prima facie...
California Water Code Section 6260
Upon receipt of any application other than an application provided for in Article 3 of this chapter the department shall give its consideration thereto and...
California Water Code Section 6261
A defective application made in a bona fide attempt to conform to the law and rules and regulations of the department shall not be rejected...
California Water Code Section 6262
If within 30 days of the date of mailing the notice the applicant does not file an amended and perfected application, the application shall be...
California Water Code Section 6263
No application shall be approved in less than 10 days from its receipt but all applications shall be approved or disapproved as soon as practicable...
California Water Code Section 6264
Approvals may be granted under terms, conditions, and limitations necessary to safeguard life and property.
California Water Code Section 6265
Actual construction shall be commenced within one year after date of approval, otherwise the approval becomes void.
California Water Code Section 6266
The department may, upon written application and for good cause shown, extend the time for commencing construction.
California Water Code Section 6267
Notice shall be given to the department at least 10 days before construction is to be commenced and such other notices shall be given to...
California Water Code Section 6300
(a) The application for a new dam or reservoir or enlargement shall set forth the estimated cost, as defined in this article, of the dam...
California Water Code Section 6301
One filing fee only shall be collected for an enlargement to be effected by flashboards, sandbags, earthen levees, gates, or other works, devices, or obstructions...
California Water Code Section 6302
For the purposes of this part, the estimated cost of the dam or reservoir or enlargement involved shall include the following: (a) The cost of...
California Water Code Section 6303
The costs of right-of-way, detached powerhouses, electrical generating machinery, and roads and railroads affording access to the dam or reservoir shall not be included among...
California Water Code Section 6304
An application shall not be considered by the department until the filing fee is received.
California Water Code Section 6305
In the event the actual cost exceeds the estimated cost by more than 15 percent, a further fee shall be required by the department before...
California Water Code Section 6306
Applications for dams found by the department to have been less than 90 per cent constructed on August 14, 1929, shall be accompanied by fees...
California Water Code Section 6307
(a) (1) The department shall adopt, by regulation, a schedule of fees to cover the department's costs in carrying out the supervision of dam safety....
California Water Code Section 6308
All fees, penalties, interest, fines, or charges collected by the department under this division shall be deposited in the Dam Safety Fund, which is hereby...
California Water Code Section 6309
The fees provided for in this chapter shall be required of any "owner," as defined in Section 6005.
California Water Code Section 6350
Immediately upon completion of a new dam or reservoir or enlargement of a dam or reservoir the owner shall give a notice of completion to...
California Water Code Section 6351
In connection with the enlargement of a dam or reservoir, the supplementary drawings and descriptive matter need apply only to the new work.
California Water Code Section 6352
As soon as possible after giving notice of completion, the owner shall file an affidavit with the department stating the actual cost of the dam...
California Water Code Section 6354
As soon as practicable the completed dam or reservoir shall be inspected by the department.
California Water Code Section 6355
A certificate of approval shall be issued upon a finding that the dam or reservoir is safe to impound water within the limitations prescribed in...
California Water Code Section 6357
Each certificate of approval issued by the department under this part may contain such terms and conditions as the department may prescribe.
California Water Code Section 6357.1
The department may revoke any certificate of approval whenever it determines that the dam or reservoir constitutes a danger to life and property. Whenever it...
California Water Code Section 6357.2
The owner of a dam or reservoir for which a certificate of approval has been issued shall not, through action or inaction, cause the dam...
California Water Code Section 6357.3
With respect to each certificate of approval or written consent for use of a dam which has been issued by the department or a predecessor...
California Water Code Section 6357.4
Before any certificate of approval is revoked by the department, the department shall hold a hearing. Written notice of the time and place of the...
California Water Code Section 6360
Immediately upon completion of the repair or alteration of any dam or reservoir, the owner shall give notice of completion to the department and as...
California Water Code Section 6362
As soon as practicable the dam or reservoir as repaired or altered shall be inspected by the department.
California Water Code Section 6363
A certificate of approval shall be issued upon a finding that the dam or reservoir is safe to impound water within the limitations prescribed in...
California Water Code Section 6364
The certificate of approval shall supersede any previous certificate of approval issued for the dam or reservoir so repaired or altered.
California Water Code Section 6370
Upon completion of the removal of a dam or reservoir such evidence as to the manner in which the work was performed and as to...
California Water Code Section 6371
This evidence shall show that a sufficient portion of the dam has been removed to permit the safe passage of floods down the watercourse across...
California Water Code Section 6372
Before final approval of the removal of a dam or reservoir is issued, the department shall inspect the work and determine that all danger to...
California Water Code Section 6380
The department shall make inspections at State expense of all dams in the State completed prior to August 14, 1929.
California Water Code Section 6381
The department shall require owners to perform at their expense such work or tests as necessary to disclose information sufficient to enable the department to...
California Water Code Section 6382
If, upon inspection or upon completion to the satisfaction of the department of all work that may be ordered, the department finds that the dam...
California Water Code Section 6390
Upon receipt of a written complaint alleging that the person or property of the complainant is endangered by the construction, maintenance, or operation of any...
California Water Code Section 6391
If the complainant insists upon an inspection and deposits with the department a sum estimated by it to be sufficient to cover costs of an...
California Water Code Section 6392
If it is found that an unsafe condition exists, the department shall take such action as is necessary to render or cause the condition to...
California Water Code Section 6393
If, after an inspection is made on account of a complaint, the complaint is found by the department to have been without merit, any money...
California Water Code Section 6400
During the construction, enlargement, repair, alteration, or removal of any dam or reservoir the department shall make continuous or periodical inspections at state expense for...
California Water Code Section 6401
If, after any inspections, investigations, or examinations, or at any time as the work progresses, or at any time prior to issuance of a certificate...
California Water Code Section 6402
If conditions are revealed which will not permit the construction of a safe dam or reservoir the approval may be revoked.
California Water Code Section 6403
In the event that conditions imposed may be waived or made less burdensome without sacrificing a proper margin of safety, the department may authorize an...
California Water Code Section 6404
If at any time during construction, enlargement, repair, or alterations of any dam or reservoir the department finds that the work is not being done...
California Water Code Section 6405
The notice and order shall state the particulars in which the approval and approved plans and specifications or the approval and approved plans and specifications...
California Water Code Section 6406
The department may order that no further work be done until such compliance has been effected and approved by the department.
California Water Code Section 6407
A failure to comply with the approval and approved plans and specifications as originally approved or as revised shall render the approval subject to revocation...
California Water Code Section 6425
Every person who violates any of the provisions of this part or of any approval, order, rule, regulation, or requirement of the department is guilty...
California Water Code Section 6426
Any person who wilfully obstructs, hinders, or prevents the department or its agents or employees from performing the duties imposed by this part or who...
California Water Code Section 6427
Any owner or any person acting as a director, officer, agent, or employee of an owner, or any contractor or agent or employee of a...
California Water Code Section 6428
Any owner who fails to pay any annual fee or any part of any annual fee required to be paid pursuant to Section 6307 within...
California Water Code Section 6450
Any dam which the department finds was not 90 percent constructed on August 14, 1929 shall be subject to the same provisions as a dam...
California Water Code Section 6451
Construction work on such a dam may proceed, if an application for approval thereof is filed, until an order from the department is received approving...
California Water Code Section 6452
Dams found to be 90 per cent or more constructed on August 14, 1929 shall be subject to the same supervision as dams which were...
California Water Code Section 6455
Every owner of a dam or reservoir that falls within the definition of a dam or reservoir in this part by virtue of the amendment...
California Water Code Section 6456
A separate application shall be made for each dam or reservoir and shall be filed with the department upon forms to be supplied by it...
California Water Code Section 6457
The department shall give notice to file an application to owners of such dams or reservoirs who have failed to do so as required by...
California Water Code Section 6458
The notice provided for in this article may be given by registered or certified mail and a return receipt signed by the owner shall constitute...
California Water Code Section 6459
The department shall make inspections of such dams or reservoirs at state expense.
California Water Code Section 6460
The department shall require owners of such dams or reservoirs to perform at their expense such work or tests as necessary to disclose information sufficient...
California Water Code Section 6461
If, upon inspection or upon completion to the satisfaction of the department of all work that may be ordered, the department finds that the dam...
California Water Code Section 6465
Any dam or reservoir that falls within the definition of a dam or reservoir in this part by virtue of the amendment of Section 6002...
California Water Code Section 6466
Construction work on such a dam or reservoir may proceed, provided an application for approval of the plans and specifications therefor is filed, until a...
California Water Code Section 6467
Such dams or reservoirs as are 90 percent or more constructed on September 17, 1965, shall be subject to the same supervision as dams or...
California Water Code Section 6470
The owners of completed dams or reservoirs and dams or reservoirs that are 90 percent or more constructed that are made subject to the provisions...
California Water Code Section 6500
Whenever an application for approval of plans and specifications for a new dam, or for the enlargement of any dam, in any stream in this...
California Water Code Section 6501
The provisions for the installation of fishways over or around dams and for the protection and preservation of fish in streams obstructed by dams are...
California Water Code Section 7000
As used in this chapter "conduit" includes ditch, pipe line, and flume.
California Water Code Section 7001
When two or more persons are associated by agreement in the use of a conduit, well, or pumping plant, for the conveyance, obtaining or disposing...
California Water Code Section 7002
If any person neglects, after demand in writing, to pay his proportion of the expenses under the next preceding section, he is liable therefor in...
California Water Code Section 7003
The action authorized by this article may be brought by any or all of the parties who have contributed more than his or their just...
California Water Code Section 7005
When two or more persons are using any conduit, well, or pumping plant for the conveyance of water or any part thereof for the irrigation...
California Water Code Section 7006
The complaint shall contain the names, if known, of all users, and if there are users whose names are unknown, a statement that they are
California Water Code Section 7007
The users other than those bringing the action shall be styled defendants.
California Water Code Section 7008
The summons shall contain the names of the parties, and an order to the defendants to appear and show cause why the determination of rights...
California Water Code Section 7009
The court shall determine the manner in which all improvements, repairs, maintenance and other matters relating to the conduit, well, or pumping plant shall be...
California Water Code Section 7010
The decree shall include a determination of the proportionate amount which all users shall contribute to the maintenance, repair, improvement and other expenses relating to...
California Water Code Section 7030
As used in this chapter, "conduit" includes canal, ditch, culvert, pipeline, flume, or other appliance for conducting water.
California Water Code Section 7031
As used in this chapter, except in Section 7034, "highway" includes both state and county highways as defined by or identified in the Streets and...
California Water Code Section 7031.5
As used in this chapter, "bridge" means a structure constructed to allow the conducting of water underneath by canal, ditch, flume or other uncovered appliance...
California Water Code Section 7032
No conduit shall be laid, constructed, or maintained so as to obstruct any highway.
California Water Code Section 7033
Every person or public district or agency who or which initially constructs, or improves for his or its own benefit, any conduit crossing or running...
California Water Code Section 7034
Bridges or conduits heretofore or hereafter constructed in a permanent manner, whether by encroachment permit or otherwise, which cross county highways and which have been...
California Water Code Section 7035
Whenever any conduit for conducting water crosses a highway and no written records exist showing that the highway rights-of-way existed prior to the conduit rights-of-way,...
California Water Code Section 7036
Any public district or private utility and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating,...
California Water Code Section 7040
The flow of water in any natural stream to the intake of any canal diverting water from the stream for any public use, or the...
California Water Code Section 7041
The flow may be maintained by restoring or repairing any break in the bank of the stream, by maintaining the banks of the stream, and...
California Water Code Section 7042
No act authorized in this chapter when performed, shall prevent, retard or obstruct the building and maintenance thereafter of any reclamation, protection, or flood control
California Water Code Section 7043
No act authorized in this chapter shall prevent the use or enlargement of any natural channel for municipal purposes or for use in connection with...
California Water Code Section 7043.5
Only as applied to the New River in Imperial County, as used in this chapter, "use or enlargement of any natural channel for municipal purposes"...
California Water Code Section 7044
No act authorized in this chapter shall prevent the use or enlargement of any natural channel to convey water appropriated under the laws of this...
California Water Code Section 7045
No acts authorized by this chapter shall limit the powers of the Department of Water Resources to accomplish in its own way the purposes of...
California Water Code Section 7047
No person may alter, divert or deflect the course of any nonnavigable stream in any surface mining dredging operation without first obtaining the approval of...
California Water Code Section 7048
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the protection, restoration, and enhancement of urban creek channels provide potential benefits to the state by combining...
California Water Code Section 7050
Every person owning or occupying lands upon the bank of any stream where the lands lying back of the stream are lower than the bank,...
California Water Code Section 7051
If the cuts were made for the purpose of irrigation, and headgates and culverts were installed which competent persons consider sufficient to restrain the water,...
California Water Code Section 7075
Water which has been appropriated may be turned into the channel of another stream, mingled with its water, and then reclaimed; but in reclaiming it...
California Water Code Section 8000
The provisions of this chapter are intended to be paramount and controlling as to all matters provided for in, and as to all questions arising...
California Water Code Section 8001
As used in this chapter, "works" includes canals, ditches, levees, dikes, embankments, dams, machinery, and other appropriate or ancillary means of accomplishing the purposes mentioned...
California Water Code Section 8002
As used in this chapter, "city" means any city, town, or municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this State.
California Water Code Section 8003
As used in this chapter, "city council" includes the legislative body of any city by whatever name it may be designated.
California Water Code Section 8004
Every publication required by this chapter shall be made in some newspaper published in the city.
California Water Code Section 8005
Except as otherwise specifically provided, if publication is in a daily paper the publication shall appear in at least 10 issues thereof, and if in...
California Water Code Section 8006
No publication shall be deemed to have begun until any required preceding publication has been completed.
California Water Code Section 8007
A capital improvement project undertaken by a charter city to extend that city's water, sewer, or storm drain system or similar system to a disadvantaged...
California Water Code Section 8010
Any city may, pursuant to this chapter, incur indebtedness and liability, although in excess of the income and revenue provided by it for the current...
California Water Code Section 8011
The works may be situated within or without the territorial limits of the city.
California Water Code Section 8012
The city council shall have some competent person make general plans and estimates of the cost of the contemplated works.
California Water Code Section 8013
The general plans and estimates shall, after adoption, be filed in the office of the clerk of the city, and shall be substantially adhered to...
California Water Code Section 8014
After the filing of the general plans and estimates, and by resolution or ordinance of intention passed at a regular meeting by a vote of...
California Water Code Section 8015
The city council, by the same resolution or ordinance, shall determine, if so advised, that the cost of the works will be too great to...
California Water Code Section 8016
The resolution or ordinance of intention, shall, after its passage and approval, be published.
California Water Code Section 8020
Within one month after the publication of the resolution or ordinance of intention, and by resolution or ordinance passed at a regular meeting by a...
California Water Code Section 8021
The resolution or ordinance calling the special election shall specify the following: (a) The purpose for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred. (b)...
California Water Code Section 8022
The resolution or ordinance calling the election shall be published.
California Water Code Section 8023
The city council shall publish, after the publication of the resolution or ordinance calling the election and prior to the day of holding the special...
California Water Code Section 8024
The special election shall be held in the manner provided by law for holding elections in the city.
California Water Code Section 8025
The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting at the special election are necessary to authorize the incurring of any indebtedness or the issuance...
California Water Code Section 8026
If two-thirds of all the votes cast at the special election are in favor of the proposition submitted, the city council may, by ordinance reciting...
California Water Code Section 8030
All bonds issued under this chapter shall be serial bonds and of such denominations as the city council determines.
California Water Code Section 8031
No bond shall be for less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor for more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
California Water Code Section 8032
Not less than one-fortieth part of the whole indebtedness evidenced by the whole of the issue of bonds shall be, by the terms of the...
California Water Code Section 8033
Each bond shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States on a day and at a place designated in the bond, with...
California Water Code Section 8034
The interest rate shall not exceed 8 percent per annum, and shall be fixed by the city council.
California Water Code Section 8035
The place of payment shall be either at the office of the treasurer of the city, or at some designated bank in San Francisco, Chicago,...
California Water Code Section 8036
The bonds shall be executed on the part of the city by the mayor or other executive, and the treasurer, and countersigned by the clerk...
California Water Code Section 8037
The interest coupons shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 8038
Any of the bonds may be issued and sold by the city council at not less than its face value.
California Water Code Section 8039
The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited in the city treasury to the credit of a designated fund and shall be...
California Water Code Section 8050
The city council of every city in or for which any works are constructed for the purposes specified in this chapter, and for which indebtedness...
California Water Code Section 8051
All contracts for the works shall be let, in such parcels as the city council determines, to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice inviting sealed...
California Water Code Section 8052
Security or bonds may be required in order to guarantee good faith in bidding and in the performance of contracts, or either, in such amount...
California Water Code Section 8053
The city council may reject any or all bids.
California Water Code Section 8054
The city council may, by resolution, require the treasurer of the city to give additional bonds for the safe custody and care of public funds...
California Water Code Section 8060
The city council, at the time of fixing the general tax levy, and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, shall levy and...
California Water Code Section 8061
The taxes required by this chapter to be levied and collected shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall...
California Water Code Section 8100
Under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, and in addition to jurisdiction and powers otherwise conferred, the boards of supervisors, in their...
California Water Code Section 8101
A board of supervisors may appropriate and expend money from the general or other appropriate funds of the county for the construction of works, improvements,...
California Water Code Section 8102
Work under this article may be done upon channels, streams or rivers which flow through or lie in more than one county, or where the...
California Water Code Section 8103
In connection with flood control work under this article, whether done by the county or by any district therein or agency thereof, highways, bridges and...
California Water Code Section 8104
The work described in the next preceding section may be done at the expense of the county doing the flood control work, or of any...
California Water Code Section 8105
Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the imposition of any tax or special assessment either by the county or any district in,...
California Water Code Section 8106
Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the doing of any work outside the county without the consent of the legislative body of...
California Water Code Section 8110
The board of supervisors may provide by ordinance for the organization and government of districts for the following purposes: (a) To protect and preserve the...
California Water Code Section 8125
"Non-navigable streams," as used in this article, means streams and washes in a county which are not declared by law to be navigable and which...
California Water Code Section 8126
The board of supervisors may provide for widening, deepening, straightening, removing obstructions from, and otherwise improving non-navigable streams the overflow of which interferes with highways,...
California Water Code Section 8127
The board may make regulations for the use of the streams and the repair and control of the works.
California Water Code Section 8128
No regulations of the board nor improvements directed by it to be made shall in any manner interfere with the private rights or privileges of...
California Water Code Section 8129
Whenever, in the opinion of the board of supervisors, the general fund is insufficient to defray the cost of the improvements provided for under this...
California Water Code Section 8150
As used in this chapter, "drainage improvement" means any storm drain improvement, drainage improvement, or drainage system, authorized to be transferred pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 8151
As used in this chapter, "date of transfer" means (a) the date of the resolution of the governing body of a flood control district accepting...
California Water Code Section 8152
As used in this chapter "city" includes city and county, and "county" does not include city and county.
California Water Code Section 8155
Drainage improvements authorized to be transferred and conveyed by this article are those which lie within the territorial limits of the flood control district to...
California Water Code Section 8156
Any county within the limits of which there are drainage improvements within any of the classes mentioned in Section 8155 may, by a four-fifths vote...
California Water Code Section 8157
The flood control district to which such drainage improvements are transferred shall, upon acceptance of such transfer by four-fifths vote of the members of the...
California Water Code Section 8158
From and after the date of transfer no tax shall be levied upon the lands within any such drainage district for the payment of the...
California Water Code Section 8160
Any city within the limits of which any drainage improvement has been constructed, and which drainage improvement also lies within the territorial limits of a...
California Water Code Section 8161
Thereupon the flood control district shall assume and provide for the operation, maintenance, repair, and improvement of such drainage improvements.
California Water Code Section 8162
From and after the date of transfer such flood control district is solely liable for the payment of the principal upon the general obligation bonds...
California Water Code Section 8163
From and after the date of transfer no tax shall be levied upon the lands within any such drainage district for the payment of the...
California Water Code Section 8164
The proceeds of the collection of such drainage district taxes and assessments shall be applied solely and exclusively to the payment of the principal and...
California Water Code Section 8165
The legislative body of the county or city which conducted the proceedings for the organization of such drainage improvement districts may do all of the...
California Water Code Section 8200
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Local Flood Protection Planning Act.
California Water Code Section 8201
(a) A local agency may prepare a local plan of flood protection in accordance with this chapter. (b) A local plan of flood protection shall...
California Water Code Section 8300
The department may make examinations of lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood waters and of the waters causing the inundation or overflow and...
California Water Code Section 8301
Whenever the law provides for any drainage or improving or rectifying river channels or other work on any river or slough flowing into San Francisco...
California Water Code Section 8302
The department shall have charge of all expenditures unless otherwise provided by law for all public works relating to general river and harbor improvements, including...
California Water Code Section 8303
The department may purchase, construct and operate one or more dredges or any other needed appliances to promote or properly carry out the work of...
California Water Code Section 8304
The department may obtain or condemn any right-of-way necessary for any construction under this chapter.
California Water Code Section 8306
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may provide meals and other necessary support to any person, including, but not limited to, an...
California Water Code Section 8306
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may provide meals and other necessary support to any person, including, but not limited to, an...
California Water Code Section 8307
(a) A city or county may be required to contribute its fair and reasonable share of the property damage caused by a flood to the...
California Water Code Section 8325
The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) A large portion of the land resources of the state is subject to recurrent flooding causing loss...
California Water Code Section 8326
For the purpose of providing state cooperation under a national flood insurance program, the department may: (a) Cooperate with the United States in carrying out...
California Water Code Section 8350
The approval and adoption, by and on behalf of the State of California, of the conditions, plans, construction, and mode of maintenance and operation of...
California Water Code Section 8360
On behalf of the State the department has supervisory powers over the maintenance and operation of the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood...
California Water Code Section 8361
The department shall maintain and operate on behalf of the state the following units or portions of the works of the Sacramento River Flood Control...
California Water Code Section 8362
The department may contribute funds to the United States and expend funds appropriated or otherwise available to provide all lands, easements, and rights of way...
California Water Code Section 8370
It is the responsibility, liability and duty of the reclamation districts, levee districts, protection districts, drainage districts, municipalities, and other public agencies within the Sacramento...
California Water Code Section 8371
The department shall, in connection with the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, make inspections and prepare reports which are required...
California Water Code Section 8400
This chapter may be cited as the Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act.
California Water Code Section 8401
The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) A large portion of the state's land resources is subject to recurrent flooding by overflow of streams and...
California Water Code Section 8402
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (a) "Department" means Department of Water Resources. (b) "Board" means the State Reclamation...
California Water Code Section 8403
Prior to the establishment by a public agency of flood plain management regulations, the public agency may request and receive a review by the department...
California Water Code Section 8404
Where adequate personnel are not available to a public agency to prepare the necessary flood routing or other engineering data needed for support of its...
California Water Code Section 8410
Flood plain regulations established to comply with requirements of Section 8411 shall meet the following criteria: (a) Construction of structures in the designated floodway which...
California Water Code Section 8410.5
All public agencies shall comply with flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411. For the purposes of this section, "public agencies"...
California Water Code Section 8411
Within any area classified "designated floodway" by the department or board after completion of a federal project report the appropriate public agency shall establish the...
California Water Code Section 8412
The department or board shall review the adequacy of flood plain regulations established by a public agency to meet the requirements of Section 8411, and...
California Water Code Section 8413
Flood plain regulations adopted pursuant to Section 8412 shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the public agency and shall be...
California Water Code Section 8414
If a public agency fails to adopt flood plain regulations pursuant to Section 8411, or fails to adopt new flood plain regulations within 180 days...
California Water Code Section 8414.2
No public agency shall revise flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411 or shall grant a variance from such regulations without...
California Water Code Section 8415
The department and the board, within their respective jurisdictions as provided in this chapter, shall establish general policy and may prescribe such rules and regulations...
California Water Code Section 8450
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Although the levees of flood control projects in this state have in the past been considered to...
California Water Code Section 8451
It is the intent of the Legislature, in providing for state participation in the additional costs attributable to the non-flood-control activities described in this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 8452
Wherever the words "department or the Reclamation Board" are used together in this chapter, they shall mean the Reclamation Board as to any flood control...
California Water Code Section 8453
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is the intention of the Legislature that the state shall pay 50 percent of the...
California Water Code Section 8454
Local agencies maintaining project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 8455
Local agencies entering into agreements with the state shall annually prepare a work program and estimate of cost for conducting any maintenance activities necessary to...
California Water Code Section 8456
Administrative costs incurred by the department or the Reclamation Board under this chapter in any fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the annual...
California Water Code Section 8457
State expenditures for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per year.
California Water Code Section 8500
The "Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District" is continued in existence.
California Water Code Section 8501
The boundaries of the district are set forth and described in Chapter 170, Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, California, 1913, and the description is...
California Water Code Section 8502
The management and control of the district are vested in the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.
California Water Code Section 8503
The district is a body corporate and politic and may sue and be sued.
California Water Code Section 8504
The district may acquire, own, hold, use, and enjoy any and all properties necessary for the purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 8520
Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this part of this division of this code.
California Water Code Section 8521
"Board" means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Any reference to the Reclamation Board in this or any other code means the Central Valley Flood...
California Water Code Section 8522
"Drainage district" means the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
California Water Code Section 8522.3
"Facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control" has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 5096.805 of the Public...
California Water Code Section 8522.5
"Project levee" has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 5096.805 of the Public Resources Code.
California Water Code Section 8523
"State Plan of Flood Control" has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (j) of Section 5096.805 of the Public Resources Code.
California Water Code Section 8525
The report of the California Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States by the Secretary of War...
California Water Code Section 8526
The board in conjunction with the California Debris Commission shall execute the plan approved by this chapter, and the board may make such modifications and...
California Water Code Section 8527
For the purpose of cooperating in the carrying out and completion of the plan approved in Section 8525, and on condition that the United States...
California Water Code Section 8528
The intent of the next preceding section is to provide for substantially equal contributions by the United States, the State and local interests to the...
California Water Code Section 8529
All money appropriated under authority of Section 8527 shall be expended in accordance with the plans, specifications and recommendations of the California Debris Commission and...
California Water Code Section 8530
The board shall have control and jurisdiction over the plans of the California Debris Commission and such other plans as may be adopted by the...
California Water Code Section 8531
The Statutes of California as existing on April 1, 1923, shall be observed and followed: (a) In all plans, hearings, notices and proceedings relating to...
California Water Code Section 8532
The State has a primary interest in adequately protecting lands overflowed, or subject to overflow, in confining the waters of rivers, tributaries, by-passes and overflow...
California Water Code Section 8533
The State has a primary and supreme interest in having erected, maintained and protected on the banks of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, their...
California Water Code Section 8534
The board at all times shall enforce on behalf of the State the erection, maintenance and protection of such levees, embankments and channel rectification as...
California Water Code Section 8536
The board has no power, jurisdiction, authority or control over the construction, operation or maintenance of the Central Valley Project or any part of it.
California Water Code Section 8538
No county or public officer shall charge or receive any fee for any of the services required to be performed by him under the provisions...
California Water Code Section 8539
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an urgent need for channel clearing and desnagging in many California waterways, and that these snags...
California Water Code Section 8550
(a) The board is continued in existence and shall continue to exercise and have all of its powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction. (b) Notwithstanding...
California Water Code Section 8551
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (g), the board consists of nine members who shall be appointed in accordance with this section. (b) (1) Seven...
California Water Code Section 8552
Each member of the board appointed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8551 shall receive compensation as follows: (a) Each member shall receive the necessary...
California Water Code Section 8554
The Governor shall select one of the members of the board as president.
California Water Code Section 8555
The board may elect one of its members other than the president as vice president.
California Water Code Section 8556
The vice president shall have the powers and perform the duties of the president under the following circumstances: (a) During the president's absence or inability...
California Water Code Section 8557
The board shall have its office in the County of Sacramento. The office is the principal place of business and legal residence of the board...
California Water Code Section 8558
The regular meetings of the board shall be held at times fixed by the board.
California Water Code Section 8559
A majority of the voting members of the board constitutes a quorum.
California Water Code Section 8560
No action of the board shall be effective unless a quorum is present and the action is concurred in by a majority of all of...
California Water Code Section 8561
Special meetings of the board may be called at any time by the president or by a majority of the members upon notice given by...
California Water Code Section 8563
The board shall keep full and correct minutes of all proceedings and transactions of all meetings of the board.
California Water Code Section 8564
The minutes shall be open for public inspection during office hours.
California Water Code Section 8565
The board shall have a seal of such device as the board may adopt.
California Water Code Section 8566
The seal of the board is also the seal of the drainage district.
California Water Code Section 8567
A copy of any record of the board, certified by its secretary or assistant secretary to be a true copy, and attested by the seal...
California Water Code Section 8568
For making a copy of any of its records the board may charge and collect the actual reasonable cost of making the copy, including the...
California Water Code Section 8569
The board may require a deposit in advance sufficient to cover the charges for copying and certifying copies of its records.
California Water Code Section 8570
All money collected for copying and certifying copies of the board's records shall be paid monthly to the State Treasurer and credited to the balance...
California Water Code Section 8571
The board may adopt, amend or repeal rules to promote the convenient, orderly and just conduct of the business of the board and of the...
California Water Code Section 8572
The rules may be suspended or compliance therewith may be waived by the board at any meeting to such extent as may be deemed proper.
California Water Code Section 8575
A member of the board shall comply with the conflict of interest requirements of Section 87100 of the Government Code when voting to carry out...
California Water Code Section 8576
No member of the board shall be held personally liable on any obligation or liability of any kind or character arising out of the claim...
California Water Code Section 8577
(a) A board member shall not participate in any board action or attempt to influence any decision or recommendation by any employee of, or consultant...
California Water Code Section 8578
(a) For the purposes of this section, "ex parte communication" means any oral or written communication outside of a noticed board meeting concerning matters, other...
California Water Code Section 8580
(a) The board may appoint an executive officer. (b) The board may appoint a chief engineer. (c) The board may employ legal counsel and other...
California Water Code Section 8580
(a) The board may appoint an executive officer. (b) The board may appoint a chief engineer. (c) The board may employ legal counsel and other...
California Water Code Section 8585
The president, any member of the board, the secretary, assistant secretary, general manager and chief engineer may administer oaths and take and certify affidavits relating...
California Water Code Section 8590
To carry out the primary state interest described in Section 8532, the board may do any of the following: (a) Acquire either within or outside...
California Water Code Section 8590.2
In acquiring interests in land necessary for the purposes specified in Section 8590 and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8676, the board in determining whether...
California Water Code Section 8591
The board has no power, authority, or jurisdiction, either directly or indirectly, except as provided in this division, to incur any indebtedness or expend any...
California Water Code Section 8592
The board has the same power, authority and jurisdiction in reference to the adoption and carrying to completion of any work or project involved in...
California Water Code Section 8593
The board may acquire by eminent domain in the name of the drainage district any property necessary for any of the purposes set forth in...
California Water Code Section 8596
The board may maintain actions in the name of the people of the State to restrain, or to recover damages for, the doing of any...
California Water Code Section 8597
Any damages so recovered shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to the credit of the drainage district and the assessment for the particular portion...
California Water Code Section 8598
The board may also do any of the following: (a) Establish a standard of levee construction. (b) Do any and all things necessary or incident...
California Water Code Section 8598.5
Notwithstanding Section 6402 of the Public Resources Code, the board may sell or lease surplus real property which is held in fee by the Sacramento...
California Water Code Section 8599
The board may undertake any construction work that it is authorized to do by this part, free from any control or jurisdiction of the department.
California Water Code Section 8600
Subject to the provisions of the State Contract Act any construction work undertaken by the board may be done wholly or partly by contract let...
California Water Code Section 8600.5
(a) The governing body of a public entity that is authorized by law to construct, manage, maintain, or repair levees, channels, or other flood control...
California Water Code Section 8601
The board may construct, purchase, rent, sell or exchange dredgers, machines, appliances, tools, apparatus and other property necessary or convenient for doing any construction work.
California Water Code Section 8602
The cost of the equipment and property shall be apportioned to and paid from the funds raised from the several assessments levied or to be...
California Water Code Section 8603
The board may rent for use by others idle dredgers or other equipment.
California Water Code Section 8604
The rental received shall be paid to the State Treasurer and credited to the balance remaining unexpended of the assessments against which the cost of...
California Water Code Section 8605
The board may inspect and supervise any work done or under construction pursuant to the provisions of this part.
California Water Code Section 8606
The board may insert a stipulation providing for such inspection and supervision in any order, contract or other instrument, relating to the work authorized in...
California Water Code Section 8608
The board shall establish and enforce standards for the maintenance and operation of levees, channels, and other flood control works of an authorized project or...
California Water Code Section 8609
(a) The board may designate floodways throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers drainage to control encroachments in, and to preserve the flow regimens of,...
California Water Code Section 8610
The board shall offer to lease to the Department of Fish and Game, or to an appropriate public resource protection or public conservation agency or...
California Water Code Section 8610.5
(a) (1) The board shall adopt regulations relating to evidentiary hearings pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3...
California Water Code Section 8611
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), prior to construction at a site of a flood control, channel clearance, or bank stabilization project, the board,...
California Water Code Section 8612
(a) On or before December 31, 2008, the department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a schedule for mapping areas at risk of flooding...
California Water Code Section 8612
(a) On or before December 31, 2008, the department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a schedule for mapping areas at risk of flooding...
California Water Code Section 8613
(a) The board or the department may establish a program of mitigation banking for the activities of the board or the department under this part...
California Water Code Section 8613
(a) The board or the department may establish a program of mitigation banking for the activities of the board or the department under this part...
California Water Code Section 8615
The board may, in cooperation with the United States, adopt and carry out any plan or plans or project of flood control in the Sacramento...
California Water Code Section 8616
It is the intent of this article to enlarge and extend the power, jurisdiction and authority of the board outside the drainage district to the...
California Water Code Section 8617
The board may give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of Defense of the United States that the state will do all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 8617.1
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 (commencing with Sections 12570 and 12800, respectively) of Part 6 of Division 6, the board...
California Water Code Section 8617.5
(a) In connection with any work done on projects authorized by the board in the repair or reconstruction of levees or other flood control works...
California Water Code Section 8618
All political subdivisions, agencies of the State, and municipal and quasi-municipal corporations may make agreements with the board obligating themselves to do or perform those...
California Water Code Section 8619
In case any land, right of way, or easement is needed and is required to be provided free of cost to the State or the...
California Water Code Section 8620
Whenever any work to be done by the board of the drainage district under any of the provisions of this part is such that it...
California Water Code Section 8621
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 of Part 6 of Division 6, the board, with the approval of the Department of...
California Water Code Section 8622
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 (commencing with Sections 12570 and 12800 respectively) of Part 6 of Division 6, the board...
California Water Code Section 8623
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) of Part 6 of Division 6,...
California Water Code Section 8630
As used in this article the term "levee" means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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.
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code Section 8635
The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication.
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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.
California Water Code Section 8638
The application shall be filed in the office of the board.
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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,...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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.
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code Section 8650
As used in this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Consolidated permit or approval" means a permit or approval incorporating the permit...
California Water Code Section 8650.6
The secretary shall convene, in a duly noticed public hearing, those permitting agencies with jurisdiction over urgent levee repairs for the purposes of coordinating and...
California Water Code Section 8650.7
Nothing in this article affects the requirements, duties, or authority established by statute or regulation on a permitting agency.
California Water Code Section 8650.8
This article shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
California Water Code Section 8655
The board may determine that any land acquired by the drainage district and deeded to the State for any right of way for river improvement...
California Water Code Section 8656
The Department of General Services upon request of the board may sell the excess land at a purchase price determined upon by the board.
California Water Code Section 8657
The Department of General Services when authorized by the board may execute and deliver in the name and on behalf of the state, a conveyance...
California Water Code Section 8658
The purchase price when paid to the State Treasurer shall be credited to such fund as the board directs.
California Water Code Section 8659
All or any part of any land, right-of-way or easement required for any work of channel excavation, enlargement, rectification or control or for any site...
California Water Code Section 8660
The Department of General Services may execute and deliver pursuant to the next preceding section a conveyance in the name and on behalf of the...
California Water Code Section 8661
The purchase price, when paid to the State Treasurer, shall be credited back to the appropriation out of which the cost of acquiring the land,...
California Water Code Section 8662
Any lease of property of the drainage district for the production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbons may be made upon such consideration or for...
California Water Code Section 8663
The board, before ordering the lease of any property pursuant to the next preceding section, shall, in a regular open meeting, adopt a resolution declaring...
California Water Code Section 8664
The resolution shall: (a) Describe the property proposed to be leased in such manner as to identify it. (b) Specify the minimum rental or royalty....
California Water Code Section 8665
The meeting shall be held at the board's regular place of meeting, at which meeting sealed proposals to lease the property will be received and
California Water Code Section 8666
Notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the time and place for holding the meeting shall be given by publishing a notice containing...
California Water Code Section 8667
At the time and place fixed in the resolution for the meeting of the board, all sealed proposals which have been received shall, in public...
California Water Code Section 8668
Upon a call for oral bidding, at the session, any person may offer to lease the property upon the terms and conditions specified in the...
California Water Code Section 8669
The highest of any of the oral bids made by a responsible person shall be finally accepted.
California Water Code Section 8670
The board may make a final acceptance either at the same session or at any adjourned session of the same meeting held within the 10...
California Water Code Section 8671
The board may, at such session, if it deems the action to be for the best public interest, reject any and all bids either written...
California Water Code Section 8672
The resolution of acceptance of any bid shall provide for the proper execution of a lease upon behalf of the drainage district, and delivery of...
California Water Code Section 8673
The board, in lieu of leasing property as provided in this article, if it deems such action to be for the best public interest, may...
California Water Code Section 8674
No joint lease shall be entered into until after adoption of a resolution and publication of notice as provided in this article and after a...
California Water Code Section 8675
A joint lease shall provide for the payment of a minimum royalty to the drainage district of not less than 15 per cent of the...
California Water Code Section 8676
Whenever the board has acquired or shall in the future acquire title in fee to any land in the name and in behalf of the...
California Water Code Section 8677
All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in the land are reserved to the State and shall...
California Water Code Section 8678
Every lease, rental, letting or license to use real property owned in fee by the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, which is executed by...
California Water Code Section 8679
Revenues, rents, and proceeds from sale of crops from lands under control of the board shall be paid into the State Treasury as follows: (a)...
California Water Code Section 8685
The board may determine that any construction, repair work, maintenance, or operation of flood control works or structures shall be done by the department.
California Water Code Section 8686
The plans and specifications for the work shall be prepared and approved by the board and delivered to the department with a request that the...
California Water Code Section 8687
The work shall be done under the sole charge and direct control of the department.
California Water Code Section 8688
The cost and expenses incurred by the department in connection with work under this article is a legal charge against the drainage district and shall...
California Water Code Section 8689
Any contract let by the department for any work under this article shall be approved by the board before becoming effective.
California Water Code Section 8690
Any cash, bond, check or other security forfeited by any bidder or contractor for failure to enter into or to perform any contract for doing...
California Water Code Section 8691
Any forfeiture, as soon as received or recovered, shall be paid to the State Treasurer and placed to the credit of the assessment out of...
California Water Code Section 8692
The board may furnish to the department any of its dredges, machines, appliances, tools, apparatus or other property which may be necessary or convenient for...
California Water Code Section 8693
The department shall advise and assist the board.
California Water Code Section 8694
The department shall be reimbursed by the board for any necessary expenses incurred by it under the direction of the board.
California Water Code Section 8695
The department may at its option appoint the chief engineer of the board to act also as its assistant in the performance of the duties...
California Water Code Section 8696
The compensation of the chief engineer while acting also as assistant to the department shall be apportioned as may be agreed upon between the board...
California Water Code Section 8697
All maps, records and engineering data prepared or obtained by the department for the use of the board shall be deposited in the office of...
California Water Code Section 8698
It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall cooperate with the department in all matters of mutual concern to the fullest extent
California Water Code Section 8700
Whenever so required and notified by the board the owner and the operator of any railroad, electric railroad, wire line, wagon road or other structure...
California Water Code Section 8701
The draws or appliances shall be opened for any person desiring to pass who gives reasonable notice and pays a fee of fifty dollars ($50).
California Water Code Section 8702
The draws or appliances shall be located at points designated by the board.
California Water Code Section 8703
A failure to comply with any of the preceding provisions of this article renders the owner or operator of any of the structures liable to...
California Water Code Section 8704
The board may enforce compliance with the provisions of this article by mandamus, mandatory injunction or by any other appropriate remedy authorized by law. The...
California Water Code Section 8705
The remedies provided by this article are not exclusive of, but shall be concurrent with and in addition to, any other remedy which may exist...
California Water Code Section 8706
The board may maintain actions in the name of the State to compel by injunction the owner or owners of any bridge, trestle, wire line,...
California Water Code Section 8707
The board may in the case of existing works compel the removal or alteration of structures or obstructions that impede the free flow of water.
California Water Code Section 8708
Whenever assurances shall have been given to the Secretary of War pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 3 of this part, that the State will...
California Water Code Section 8709
Any use of any such land, right of way, or easement in violation of the preceding section, whether for cultivation, planting of crops or trees,...
California Water Code Section 8709.2
"Water side of levee" means the area on the levee slope between the edge of the crown nearest the water to the water side levee
California Water Code Section 8709.3
(a) Fences that are designed to give way during high water events shall not be allowed on the water side of a levee. Fences on...
California Water Code Section 8709.4
(a) Before removing or modifying a lawful existing encroachment on levees, channels, and other flood control works pursuant to powers granted by this part, a...
California Water Code Section 8709.5
(a) Notwithstanding Section 8709 or 8709.4, if the board, or the executive officer if delegated authority by the board, determines that any person or public...
California Water Code Section 8709.6
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 8709 and 8709.4, if the board, after a public hearing, determines that any person or public agency has undertaken, or is threatening...
California Water Code Section 8709.7
(a) Any person or public agency that violates any provision of this article may be civilly liable in accordance with this section. (b) (1) Civil...
California Water Code Section 8710
Every plan of reclamation, flood control, drainage, improvement, dredging or work, that includes or contemplates the construction, enlargement, revetment or alteration of any levee, embankment,...
California Water Code Section 8710.1
The provisions of Section 8710 shall not apply to any work of interior irrigation or drainage upon reclaimed land, which work is not actually on,...
California Water Code Section 8710.5
Whenever any irrigation, drainage, levee, or flood control district makes application for the approval required by the next preceding section, all of the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 8711
Any such plan is void until approved by the board, and no work shall be done without the permission of the board.
California Water Code Section 8712
No levee along a river or by-pass at any of the places mentioned in this article, nor any levee forming part of any of the...
California Water Code Section 8713
The owner of any existing levee at any of the places mentioned in this article may raise, widen, or strengthen the levee, if before work...
California Water Code Section 8714
No claim shall ever be made against the board or the drainage district for compensation, through or by assessment or otherwise, for any part of...
California Water Code Section 8715
Any existing levee may be protected or strengthened in case of emergency during the season of flood water, where it is in danger of injury...
California Water Code Section 8716
Notice of emergency work shall be immediately given to the board.
California Water Code Section 8717
All emergency work shall be subject to the subsequent approval of the board, and the board may require its removal or alteration if not approved.
California Water Code Section 8718
No levee, embankment or other structure within any by-pass or overflow channel adopted by the board shall be raised, widened, strengthened or altered without permission...
California Water Code Section 8719
The doing of any act or construction of any work mentioned in this article, or permitting the work to remain after such construction, without the...
California Water Code Section 8720
Any person who does any act contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
California Water Code Section 8721
Any plans or specifications adopted or approved by the board for any work to be done pursuant to this part may be changed or altered,...
California Water Code Section 8722
The board may at any time change or alter the plans or specifications for work undertaken upon its own initiative.
California Water Code Section 8723
The board may refuse to approve any such plan if in the judgment of the board the plan will or may 1. Be injurious to...
California Water Code Section 8730
Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made...
California Water Code Section 8730.1
The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt. All applications shall be acted upon within 90 days...
California Water Code Section 8730.2
Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon. This section shall not apply...
California Water Code Section 8730.3
Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and their content and shall...
California Water Code Section 8731
The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it.
California Water Code Section 8732
The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, or before the general manager...
California Water Code Section 8732.5
All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public.
California Water Code Section 8733
The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board.
California Water Code Section 8734
The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the
California Water Code Section 8735
The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the...
California Water Code Section 8736
All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the...
California Water Code Section 8737
The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before...
California Water Code Section 8738
The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths.
California Water Code Section 8739
The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in...
California Water Code Section 8740
When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application.
California Water Code Section 8741
An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 8742
In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication,...
California Water Code Section 8750
Whenever in the opinion of the board it is necessary to levy an assessment upon any lands within the drainage district for any of the...
California Water Code Section 8751
The estimate shall include the following: (a) The expenses of bonding the assessment if authorized by law, other than an assessment to pay the costs...
California Water Code Section 8752
The plans to be carried out shall be divided by the board into separate projects or units in such manner as will in its judgment...
California Water Code Section 8753
Each separate and particular project or unit shall include all by-passes, cuts, canals, sumps, levees, pumping plants and other works of flood control and drainage...
California Water Code Section 8754
The board shall enter in the minutes of the board a resolution to the effect that the execution of each separate project or unit which...
California Water Code Section 8755
Each project or unit shall be designated by the board in the resolution by name and number.
California Water Code Section 8756
All assessments, plans and funds intended for or connected with the execution of each project or unit shall be designated by name and number and...
California Water Code Section 8757
In determining the benefits that will or may accrue to each particular tract of land by the construction or maintenance of the works contemplated by...
California Water Code Section 8758
No land shall be considered as benefited by the construction or maintenance of the works embraced in a project or unit, nor shall any land...
California Water Code Section 8759
Whenever an assessment has been levied by the board upon land in the district for general administrative expenses and other expenses not pertaining to any...
California Water Code Section 8760
The board shall levy and cause to be assessed, equalized and collected in the manner provided in this part, an assessment to the amount of...
California Water Code Section 8761
Whenever in the opinion of the board it appears that the total amount of any assessment previously levied and assessed and which has become a...
California Water Code Section 8762
The portions of the assessment to be first abandoned and released shall be such portions of the charges on each tract as are based upon...
California Water Code Section 8763
No assessment upon any tract shall be released or abandoned in pursuance to Section 8761 until all delinquent installments which have accrued thereon, together with...
California Water Code Section 8764
The resolution shall be annexed by the county treasurer to the assessment list of the assessment for his county.
California Water Code Section 8765
When any payment has been made upon an assessment so abandoned and released, in whole or in part, the board may issue such warrants in...
California Water Code Section 8766
The board may in its discretion abandon any assessment in whole or in part at any time prior to the time when the lien of...
California Water Code Section 8767
In all cases in which an assessment is levied upon land within the drainage district, and the assessment upon any tract is thereafter adjudged invalid...
California Water Code Section 8768
Instead of proceeding under the next preceding section a subsequent reassessment of the tract may be made separately for the purpose of charging the land...
California Water Code Section 8769
In case of any change of county boundary lines or creation of any new county, all acts and proceedings provided for in this chapter relating...
California Water Code Section 8770
The board has no power or authority to levy any assessment for any purpose upon property outside of the boundaries of the drainage district.
California Water Code Section 8771
Assessments shall be numbered consecutively.
California Water Code Section 8772
The Reclamation Board shall, by resolution entered in its minutes, order the release of the lien and abandonment of the charges against tracts assessed and...
California Water Code Section 8773
In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court...
California Water Code Section 8774
In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court...
California Water Code Section 8775
When an assessment is to be levied, the board shall appoint three assessors.
California Water Code Section 8776
The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have no interest in any real estate within the drainage district.
California Water Code Section 8777
Each assessor before entering upon his duties, shall make and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested in any real estate...
California Water Code Section 8778
The compensation of assessors shall be fixed and allowed by the board.
California Water Code Section 8779
After the assessors have examined the plan or plans of the works contemplated and the estimates of the cost, they shall make a preliminary report...
California Water Code Section 8780
The assessors, after performing their duties pursuant to Section 8779, shall appoint a time and place in each county in which any of the land...
California Water Code Section 8781
The assessors shall give notice of the hearing in each of the counties by publication in a newspaper published in the county once a week...
California Water Code Section 8782
The notice shall contain a general designation of the land which will in the assessors' opinion be benefited, and shall refer to the preliminary report...
California Water Code Section 8783
The assessors, may amend, modify or change the exterior boundaries of the land that, in their opinion, will be benefited by such expenditures.
California Water Code Section 8784
The board shall levy an assessment pursuant to this chapter if, within six months after the completion of the hearings there is filed with the...
California Water Code Section 8785
If consent in writing is not filed in the manner and at the time provided, no further expenditures for the project shall be made, nor...
California Water Code Section 8786
If consent is not filed the board may cause an assessment to be levied in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 8787
The assessors shall assess upon the lands within the drainage district proposed to be assessed for the plans adopted by the board the sums included...
California Water Code Section 8788
The assessors in apportioning the assessment on each tract of land shall, as information for the board set out, opposite each sum assessed for each...
California Water Code Section 8789
The assessors shall, in the case of all assessments of the drainage district which may hereafter be levied by the board and all assessments which...
California Water Code Section 8790
The amounts stated and placed opposite each assessment shall be no part of the assessment and shall in no way affect the assessment charged against...
California Water Code Section 8795
Whenever any tract of land upon which an assessment has been made, including assessments which have been bonded under and pursuant to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 8796
Assessments and delinquencies on tracts of land which have become delinquent and which have been sold for delinquency pursuant to the provisions of this part...
California Water Code Section 8797
Whenever application is made to the board for reapportionment, the board shall reapportion the assessment upon the tract or tracts in such manner as in...
California Water Code Section 8798
Before the reapportionment becomes final, the board shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing objections to the reapportionment.
California Water Code Section 8799
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the...
California Water Code Section 8800
The notice need not describe the land with particularity, but it is sufficient to describe the tract or tracts of land subdivided as a tract...
California Water Code Section 8801
As many tracts may be embraced in one application as applicant is the owner of, or interested in.
California Water Code Section 8802
At the time appointed, or such other time to which the hearing may be postponed, or which may be appointed by the board, the board...
California Water Code Section 8803
When the reapportionment has been made by the board, it shall deposit, in the office of the county treasurer of the county in which the...
California Water Code Section 8804
The filing of the lists shall be conclusive evidence that the requisite notice has been given, and that all acts required to be done before...
California Water Code Section 8805
The expenses of publication and such other expenses as the board may order shall be borne and paid by the applicant.
California Water Code Section 8810
The assessors shall make a separate list of the lands assessed in each county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 8811
The list shall contain a description of the tracts of land assessed by swamp land surveys, legal subdivisions, or other boundaries or references sufficient to...
California Water Code Section 8812
The list shall also contain the name of the owner, if known, or if unknown, that fact, and the amount of the charge assessed against...
California Water Code Section 8813
The name of the owner of land which is or is supposed to be the property of the estate of a deceased person in course...
California Water Code Section 8814
When there are two or more owners or supposed owners of any tract of land, partly known and partly unknown, the assessment may be to...
California Water Code Section 8815
No mistake in the name of the owner, or supposed owner, of any real estate invalidates the assessment.
California Water Code Section 8816
In the assessment list for any county the assessors may use any abbreviation in common use in that county, without explanation thereof.
California Water Code Section 8817
The assessors may also in the assessment list for any county make use of other abbreviations, if a schedule and explanation thereof with reasonable certainty...
California Water Code Section 8818
In case any land in the assessment list for any county is described in whole or in part by reference to a map, plat or...
California Water Code Section 8819
The schedule shall be prefixed to the assessment list and shall set forth with reasonable certainty where each such map, plat or survey may be...
California Water Code Section 8820
The assessment lists when completed shall be filed with the secretary of the board and the secretary shall forward to the county treasurer of each...
California Water Code Section 8821
The assessment list shall be open for inspection by the public for at least 60 days.
California Water Code Section 8822
The board shall appoint a time and place not less than 60 days after the assessment list has been filed with the county treasurer when...
California Water Code Section 8823
The notice of hearing in each county shall be filed with the county treasurer and published once a week for four weeks in some newspaper...
California Water Code Section 8824
At any time before or during the hearing any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, may file in the...
California Water Code Section 8825
The statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the person objecting or some other person who is familiar with the facts.
California Water Code Section 8826
At the hearing, the board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment or the manner of its apportionment.
California Water Code Section 8827
The board may modify or amend the assessment, and may reapportion all or any part of the entire assessment.
California Water Code Section 8828
Unless the aggregate amount of the whole of the assessment is modified or amended by the board so as to cause a difference of more...
California Water Code Section 8829
If the assessment is reapportioned the board shall give two weeks notice as provided in this article and proceed to hear objections in each county...
California Water Code Section 8830
The decision of the board shall be final, and thereafter the assessment list shall be conclusive evidence, except in the suit provided in this article,...
California Water Code Section 8831
Any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, who is aggrieved by the decision of the board approving the assessment,...
California Water Code Section 8832
The action shall be commenced within 60 days after the board has approved the assessment and the assessment list for the county has been deposited...
California Water Code Section 8833
This action shall have preference over all civil actions in fixing the time of trial.
California Water Code Section 8835
As used in this article map means a map or maps prepared by the assessors appointed for any assessment.
California Water Code Section 8836
The assessors appointed for any assesssment may prepare or cause to be prepared a map for the whole or any part or parts of the...
California Water Code Section 8837
Each of the separate tracts shall be designated on the map by a distinctive number.
California Water Code Section 8838
Each of the maps shall be inscribed and designated as "reclamation board assessment map No.____," giving each map a distinctive number.
California Water Code Section 8839
Any map may consist of any number of sheets attached together and designated as one map.
California Water Code Section 8840
The map when approved by the board, shall be certified by the secretary of the board as having been so approved.
California Water Code Section 8841
The approved map shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county wherein the land indicated on the map...
California Water Code Section 8842
For the purpose of any assessment levied by the board, the assessment list for any county may, for the description of any tract of land...
California Water Code Section 8843
Any reference to a map and tract is a sufficient description of the tract for the purposes of an assessment list, and for the purposes...
California Water Code Section 8844
No provision of any other statute of this State relative to the filing or recording of maps in the office of the county recorder shall...
California Water Code Section 8845
The maps referred to in this article shall have no legal effect for any purpose except for the convenient reference to and description of the...
California Water Code Section 8846
No fee shall be charged by any county recorder for the filing for record of any map as provided in this article.
California Water Code Section 8850
After the board has held the hearings in each county pursuant to this chapter and the assesssment lists have been made to conform with its...
California Water Code Section 8851
The county treasurer shall indorse upon the assesssment list the date and time to the hour and minute when it was filed in his office;...
California Water Code Section 8852
The assessment shall be paid to the respective county treasurers in one or more installments of such amounts, and at such time, respectively, as the...
California Water Code Section 8853
At any time within 30 days after the assessment list has been filed in the office of the county treasurer, the whole amount of the...
California Water Code Section 8854
The county treasurer shall issue his receipt and shall endorse the fact and date of the payment in full upon the assessment list, and thereupon...
California Water Code Section 8855
No interest shall be charged on any assessment paid in full within this 30-day period.
California Water Code Section 8856
All assessments not paid in full within the period of 30 days shall bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum from...
California Water Code Section 8857
The remaining portion not yet ordered paid by the board of the assessment upon any tract of land may be voluntarily paid in full, with...
California Water Code Section 8858
If any installment is unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the board order calling the installment, the installment is delinquent,...
California Water Code Section 8859
When any installment is delinquent, a penalty of 10 per cent of the amount of the installment plus interest, shall be added and collected for...
California Water Code Section 8860
If any action is pending in any court to have the assessment on any tract of land reviewed, modified or annulled, pursuant to the provisions...
California Water Code Section 8861
From date of delinquency until time of delinquent sale, the unpaid installment, together with added interest and penalty, bears interest at the rate of 7...
California Water Code Section 8862
When the installment is delinquent, the board, when it deems it advisable, shall publish in each county where the delinquency exists, a list in one...
California Water Code Section 8863
The notice shall contain: (a) A description of the property assessed as described in the assessment list by reference number or by other descriptions sufficient...
California Water Code Section 8864
The notice shall also state that each of the parcels will be sold at public auction by the county treasurer in front of the courthouse...
California Water Code Section 8870
At the time and place stated in the notice of sale, or such other time to which the sale is postponed, the county treasurer shall...
California Water Code Section 8871
If not completed on the first day the sale may be continued from day to day and over Sundays and legal holidays until completed.
California Water Code Section 8872
No license shall be required of the county treasurer for conducting the sale.
California Water Code Section 8873
No bid for any parcel shall be accepted which is less than the aggregate sum then due for the installment thereon, together with accrued interest,...
California Water Code Section 8874
If no bid is made for any parcel at the delinquent sale which is equal to the total amount when due on the parcel, the...
California Water Code Section 8875
The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser at the delinquent sale, including the drainage district, a certificate of sale which shall be recorded by...
California Water Code Section 8876
Out of the proceeds of the sales the county treasurer shall transmit to the State Treasurer the total amount then due on the property so...
California Water Code Section 8877
The county treasurer shall, when directed by the board, postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
California Water Code Section 8878
The notice of postponement shall be substantially as follows: The sale of property for delinquent assessment under (name and number of assessment) of the Sacramento...
California Water Code Section 8879
Any person interested in any tract of land sold at the delinquent sale may redeem the tract at any time within one year after the...
California Water Code Section 8880
If no redemption is made within one year the board, upon demand and the surrender of the certificate of purchase and the delivery of a...
California Water Code Section 8881
The deed conveys to the grantee the land free and clear of all encumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, assessments levied or assessed by...
California Water Code Section 8882
The unpaid balance of any assessment made by the drainage district, shall be called in and collected in the same manner as other assessments, except...
California Water Code Section 8883
Each deed by the board purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited...
California Water Code Section 8884
All deeds required by this chapter to be executed by the board may be executed by the president and secretary thereof on behalf of the
California Water Code Section 8885
Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by the drainage district at the delinquent sale shall be held in trust for the assessment under...
California Water Code Section 8886
The parcels of land specified in Section 8885 may be sold and conveyed by the board at any time after the expiration of the redemption...
California Water Code Section 8887
Payment for the land purchased pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 8888
The board, when any land has been sold pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall execute a deed to the purchaser at the sale...
California Water Code Section 8889
When any lands purchased at the delinquent sale by the drainage district remain unsold then the board shall sell all such lands so held by...
California Water Code Section 8890
The proceeds of the sale shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to the credit of the assessment under which the property became delinquent.
California Water Code Section 8935
The board shall cancel all proceedings taken in connection with the bond issue of the drainage district based upon and secured by Sutter-Butte By-pass assessment...
California Water Code Section 8936
The Controller shall request the State Treasurer to transfer and the Treasurer shall immediately transfer, any and all moneys deposited in the Bond Fund or...
California Water Code Section 8937
Immediately upon the bonds authorized and directed to be canceled by this article being canceled, the board may order that assessment number six shall be...
California Water Code Section 8938
If a supplementary assessment number six is levied by the board, immediately upon the supplementary assessment number six becoming a lien upon the lands, the...
California Water Code Section 8939
Each of the semiannual installments upon each tract shall be based upon the original principal amount of the assessment on the tract less any deductions...
California Water Code Section 8940
The board may, by order entered in its minutes, postpone or discontinue from time to time the calling of the semiannual installments or any of...
California Water Code Section 8941
Any owner or holder of lands within the boundaries of the drainage district whose lands are subject to the lien of assessment number six or...
California Water Code Section 8942
Any officer mentioned in the next preceding section shall accept such warrants so presented or tendered in payment of the assessment, or any part thereof,...
California Water Code Section 8943
All warrants when received by any officer authorized by law to receive them shall be by him transmitted to the Controller who shall give the...
California Water Code Section 8944
The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date...
California Water Code Section 8945
Partial payments on any tract in excess of any regular installment amount shall be credited to the payment of the principal amount of the assessment...
California Water Code Section 8946
Any and all partial payments of principal may, and upon request of the person making payment shall, be credited to the amounts charged against the...
California Water Code Section 8950
All money collected upon sales or otherwise shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated, and the...
California Water Code Section 8951
The money in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District Fund shall be paid out upon warrants of the Controller, and the Controller shall issue...
California Water Code Section 8952
The State Treasurer shall pay such Controllers warrants when there is sufficient money in the fund of the drainage district.
California Water Code Section 8938
If a supplementary assessment number six is levied by the board, immediately upon the supplementary assessment number six becoming a lien upon the lands, the...
California Water Code Section 8939
Each of the semiannual installments upon each tract shall be based upon the original principal amount of the assessment on the tract less any deductions...
California Water Code Section 8940
The board may, by order entered in its minutes, postpone or discontinue from time to time the calling of the semiannual installments or any of...
California Water Code Section 8941
Any owner or holder of lands within the boundaries of the drainage district whose lands are subject to the lien of assessment number six or...
California Water Code Section 8942
Any officer mentioned in the next preceding section shall accept such warrants so presented or tendered in payment of the assessment, or any part thereof,...
California Water Code Section 8943
All warrants when received by any officer authorized by law to receive them shall be by him transmitted to the Controller who shall give the...
California Water Code Section 8944
The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date...
California Water Code Section 8945
Partial payments on any tract in excess of any regular installment amount shall be credited to the payment of the principal amount of the assessment...
California Water Code Section 8946
Any and all partial payments of principal may, and upon request of the person making payment shall, be credited to the amounts charged against the...
California Water Code Section 8953
All money collected by any of the county treasurers of the State as assessments of the defunct Sacramento drainage district, and unexpended in the hands...
California Water Code Section 8955
All money collected from assessments shall be paid out only on warrants issued for works or other expenses covered by the assessment from which the...
California Water Code Section 8956
Each warrant shall designate the name and number of the assessment from which it is to be paid.
California Water Code Section 8957
Drafts of the board may be presented to the Controller and warrants drawn against the funds to be raised by an assessment as soon as...
California Water Code Section 8958
In case there are not sufficient funds applicable thereto for the payment of the warrants when presented to the State Treasurer, he shall indorse on...
California Water Code Section 8959
All such warrants shall be considered as contracts in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action...
California Water Code Section 8960
No statute of limitations shall be deemed to have run against any action upon or affecting any warrant drawn against any assessment under this part...
California Water Code Section 8961
The warrants shall, at any time within the period of four years, be received in payment of any assessment for work or expenses for which...
California Water Code Section 8962
The board may, at its option, at any time before payment of any warrant renew it upon application of the owner or holder thereof by...
California Water Code Section 8963
Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants of the drainage district, the State Treasurer shall give...
California Water Code Section 8964
The notice shall be published for 10 days in one newspaper published in the City of Stockton and one published in the City of Sacramento.
California Water Code Section 8965
After the last publication of the notice the warrants therein mentioned cease to bear interest.
California Water Code Section 8966
The board shall designate a paper in each of the cities of Stockton and Sacramento which shall be the official papers of the drainage district...
California Water Code Section 8967
All warrants of the drainage district when received by the board, Department of Finance, the respective county treasurers or any other officer authorized by law...
California Water Code Section 8968
The Controller upon demand by the board shall cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of...
California Water Code Section 8969
The Controller shall notify the State Treasurer of the cancellation and the State Treasurer shall then make the proper entries in his books.
California Water Code Section 8970
Whenever any warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter has been presented to the State Treasurer and not...
California Water Code Section 8971
When the State Treasurer pays a warrant he shall, in addition to the amount for which the warrant was drawn, pay the interest accrued thereon...
California Water Code Section 8972
Whenever any unpaid, outstanding and interest-bearing warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter is presented to the board...
California Water Code Section 8973
The sum of the substituted warrants shall equal the principal amount of the original warrant.
California Water Code Section 8974
The Controller shall credit the original warrant to the fund upon which it was originally drawn and shall prepare and issue warrants in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 8975
When, upon presentation to the State Treasurer, payment can not be made for want of funds the State Treasurer shall register the warrants as of...
California Water Code Section 8976
The Department of Finance may, out of any funds of the State which it is authorized by law to invest, purchase at their face value...
California Water Code Section 8977
The Department of Finance may exchange any warrants purchased pursuant to the next preceding section for other warrants drawn against the same assessment, and sell...
California Water Code Section 8978
All such exchanges or sales of warrants shall be effected without loss to the State.
California Water Code Section 8979
All warrants purchased or acquired by exchange by the Department of Finance shall be registered by the State Treasurer, unless already registered.
California Water Code Section 8980
The warrants shall be payable with interest in their proper order of registration, as provided in this part.
California Water Code Section 8981
The warrants shall, unless sold or exchanged, be held by the Department of Finance until paid.
California Water Code Section 8982
Upon payment of the warrants the proceeds thereof shall be returned into the fund out of which the purchase or investment was made.
California Water Code Section 8990
If any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, private corporation, association or person has since February 28, 1928, or shall hereafter, advance or...
California Water Code Section 8991
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 8995
Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, or municipal corporation, wholly or partly within the drainage district, may, with the permission of the board, acquire...
California Water Code Section 8996
The right of way or other easement acquired pursuant to the next preceding section shall be required by the plans of the reclamation, levee, or...
California Water Code Section 8997
Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district or municipal corporation, wholly or partly within the drainage district may with the permission of the board, construct...
California Water Code Section 8998
The title to any such right of way or other easement or levees, cuts, canals or gates shall be conveyed to the drainage district upon...
California Water Code Section 8999
If any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, or person within the drainage district, with the consent of the board, provides or leaves...
California Water Code Section 9000
When the compensation has been made, the reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, or person shall convey to the drainage district a perpetual...
California Water Code Section 9001
Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation or person which does any of the following, with the consent of the board has a...
California Water Code Section 9002
An easement shall be levied upon the lands in the drainage district benefited thereby so that the claim may be paid.
California Water Code Section 9003
In lieu of levying an assessment pursuant to Section 9002 the cost of the claim may be included as one of the items in any...
California Water Code Section 9004
The words "with the permission of the board" or "with the consent of the board," as used in this article mean the express permission or...
California Water Code Section 9005
Before granting its permission for the acquiring of any right of way or easement or for the construction of any of the levees or other...
California Water Code Section 9006
In case the board determines that the ownership in fee of, instead of the right of way or easement over, any land required for use...
California Water Code Section 9010
Any compensation made to any municipal corporation, or person, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall be applied toward the payment of any...
California Water Code Section 9011
The compensation made to any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district shall be applied and credited pro rata toward the payment of the balance...
California Water Code Section 9012
When the compensation applied pursuant to the provisions of the next preceding section exceeds the total amount of such credits upon the assessments upon the...
California Water Code Section 9013
Whenever any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district has warrants or a bond issue outstanding, or both, compensation made pursuant to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 9014
The compensation, or the proceeds thereof, when received by any reclamation district shall be paid or delivered by the board of trustees thereof to the...
California Water Code Section 9015
The county treasurer shall place the compensation paid to a reclamation district in the fund of the district out of which warrants are payable.
California Water Code Section 9016
When compensation is received by any levee district, or drainage district, it shall be paid or delivered by the governing body thereof to the officer...
California Water Code Section 9017
Any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district, to which compensation is made, shall apply the same, or the proceeds thereof, to the payment of...
California Water Code Section 9018
If any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district, has a bond issue outstanding, the board of trustees of the district shall direct the county...
California Water Code Section 9019
The county treasurer, or other officer having the custody of the funds of the district shall comply with such directions and transfer to the proper...
California Water Code Section 9020
The county treasurer shall transfer sufficient funds from the general fund of the district to the bond and interest fund for the purpose of carrying...
California Water Code Section 9021
Any district, association or corporation may act under this article through a majority of its trustees or other governing body.
California Water Code Section 9025
Any reclamation district that has sold or transferred any of its levees, or other reclamation or flood control works, easements, or property of any kind,...
California Water Code Section 9026
Any person, owning and holding any warrants of a reclamation district may apply to the board of trustees of the reclamation district for an exchange...
California Water Code Section 9027
Upon application made pursuant to the next preceding section the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall make the exchange.
California Water Code Section 9028
When any such exchange has been effected, the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall notify the county treasurer of the county in which...
California Water Code Section 9029
After the exchange has been effected, the warrants of the district shall be marked: "Surrendered for warrants of Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District."
California Water Code Section 9030
Proper entries of the surrender payment shall be made upon the books of the reclamation district, and also of the county treasurer of the county...
California Water Code Section 9031
If the warrants of the drainage district, or any of its units or projects, are at the time of the offer for exchange, in the...
California Water Code Section 9035
In any new, additional, or supplemental assessment of any reclamation district, the following shall be determined: (a) The amount that should be assessed upon each...
California Water Code Section 9036
If it appears that the amount that would have been assessed against any tract of land is greater than the amount to which the tract...
California Water Code Section 9037
If the amount is less than the amount to which the tract or owner would have been entitled, the difference shall be paid to the...
California Water Code Section 9040
Any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district in which there are lands within the boundaries of the drainage district, which lands are subject to...
California Water Code Section 9041
Any officer authorized by law to collect the assessments named in this article shall accept at the face value, plus accrued interest, the warrant or...
California Water Code Section 9042
Payment in warrants shall be made on a pro rata basis on all lands in the district subject to such assessment.
California Water Code Section 9043
It is discretionary with the board of trustees of any such reclamation district, levee district or drainage district to apply such warrants in payment of...
California Water Code Section 9044
If any such warrants are delivered by the board of trustees to the county treasurer having the custody of the funds of any district, under...
California Water Code Section 9045
If the assessment, or any part of it has been paid in warrants by the district on any lands in the district by funds other...
California Water Code Section 9046
If it appears to the trustees of any such district that any such warrants owned by it will be paid from any assessment thereafter to...
California Water Code Section 9047
The trustees shall not return the warrants to the board for cancellation, without the consent of the board, if an assessment is then in process...
California Water Code Section 9048
Any reclamation, levee, irrigation, drainage or other district whatever, or any city, county, or political subdivision may make any contract, expend any of its money,...
California Water Code Section 9110
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Fiscal year" has the same meaning...
California Water Code Section 9120
(a) The department shall prepare and the board shall adopt a flood control system status report for the State Plan of Flood Control. This status...
California Water Code Section 9121
(a) On or before September 1, 2010, and on or before September 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall provide written notice to each...
California Water Code Section 9122
The board shall determine the areas benefited by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control based on information developed by the department.
California Water Code Section 9130
(a) The department shall prepare and maintain maps for levee flood protection zones. The department shall prepare the maps by December 31, 2008, and shall...
California Water Code Section 9140
(a) On or before September 30 of each year, a local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee shall prepare and...
California Water Code Section 9141
(a) The department shall prepare and transmit to the board a report on the project levees operated and maintained by each local agency, using information...
California Water Code Section 9142
A local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee may propose to the board an upgrade of the project levee if...
California Water Code Section 9110
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Fiscal year" has the same meaning...
California Water Code Section 9120
(a) The department shall prepare and the board shall adopt a flood control system status report for the State Plan of Flood Control. This status...
California Water Code Section 9121
(a) On or before September 1, 2010, and on or before September 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall provide written notice to each...
California Water Code Section 9122
The board shall determine the areas benefited by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control based on information developed by the department.
California Water Code Section 9130
(a) The department shall prepare and maintain maps for levee flood protection zones. The department shall prepare the maps by December 31, 2008, and shall...
California Water Code Section 9140
(a) On or before September 30 of each year, a local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee shall prepare and...
California Water Code Section 9141
(a) The department shall prepare and transmit to the board a report on the project levees operated and maintained by each local agency, using information...
California Water Code Section 9142
A local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee may propose to the board an upgrade of the project levee if...
California Water Code Section 9250
Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part of this division of this code.
California Water Code Section 9251
"Board" means the reclamation board.
California Water Code Section 9252
"Drainage district" means the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
California Water Code Section 9260
Whenever any assessment levied by the board upon lands within the drainage district has been completed and all of the hearings before the board in...
California Water Code Section 9261
If the board by its order determines to issue bonds, the subsequent proceedings in the matter of the assessment and the collection thereof and all...
California Water Code Section 9262
If the board determines that it is best to issue bonds, the original assessment lists shall not be deposited in the offices of the respective...
California Water Code Section 9263
With the money received from the sale of bonds, the board as the managing body of the drainage district shall proceed with the construction and...
California Water Code Section 9264
No officer shall charge or receive any fee for any services required to be performed by him under the provisions of this part.
California Water Code Section 9265
Any reasonable and necessary expense actually incurred by any officer in carrying out any of the provisions of this part relating in any manner to...
California Water Code Section 9266
If the board or any member, officer, appointee, or employee thereof or any public officer mentioned or referred to in this part fails to perform...
California Water Code Section 9275
If the board determines, pursuant to the provisions of this part, that bonds should be issued, an action to determine the validity of the assessment...
California Water Code Section 9276
No objection to the assessment shall be considered by the court unless the objection has been made in writing to the board as provided in...
California Water Code Section 9277
The judgment shall refer to the assessment apportioned to each county separately and it shall be sufficient to refer to the portions of the assessment...
California Water Code Section 9278
Unless the aggregate amount of the whole of the assessment is modified or amended by the judgment in the proceedings so as to cause a...
California Water Code Section 9279
The assessment lists, unless annulled by the judgment in the judicial proceeding, embracing any modifications made by the judgment are conclusive evidence that the assessment...
California Water Code Section 9280
A certified copy of the judgment referring to the assessment lists shall be filed in the office of the board.
California Water Code Section 9281
A certified copy of so much of the judgment as relates to the lands in each of the counties affected thereby shall be affixed to...
California Water Code Section 9282
The assessment lists as amended or modified shall be certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of the board as being in conformity with the...
California Water Code Section 9305
In the event that the assessment is annulled as a whole by the judicial proceeding, the board shall cause a new assessment to be made...
California Water Code Section 9306
When, if necesssary, the assessment lists have been modified and amended to conform to the requirements of the judgment and have been certified as provided...
California Water Code Section 9307
Each county treasurer shall indorse on the assessment list the time to the hour and minute when it was so filed in his office.
California Water Code Section 9308
From the time of filing as provided in the next preceding section the assessment constitutes a lien upon the lands in the county so assessed...
California Water Code Section 9309
At any time within 30 days after the assessment list is filed in the office of the county treasurer as provided in Section 9307, the...
California Water Code Section 9310
Upon such payment the county treasurer shall issue his receipt and indorse the fact and date of payment upon the assessment list, and thereupon the...
California Water Code Section 9311
The report of payment of the assessment shall be made by the county treasurer at once to the secretary of the board.
California Water Code Section 9312
The amount of assessments received by the county treasurer shall, within 30 days after receipt thereof by him, be deposited by him with the State
California Water Code Section 9313
The State Treasurer shall credit the amount of assessments received by him to the construction fund of the assessment.
California Water Code Section 9314
All assessments not paid in full within the 30-day period bear interest thereafter at the rate of 7 per cent per annum.
California Water Code Section 9315
If the amounts raised by means of the assesssment as provided in this part prove insufficient to pay in full all of the bonds and...
California Water Code Section 9316
The supplemental assessment shall be levied by resolution of the board entered in its minutes.
California Water Code Section 9317
The board need not appoint assessors nor prepare new or additional assessment lists for any supplemental assessment, but the assessment shall be levied and apportioned...
California Water Code Section 9318
The board shall, for the purpose of collecting the supplemental assessment, prepare and certify to the county treasurers of the several counties annual assessment collection...
California Water Code Section 9319
The supplemental assessment shall be collected by the county treasurers, and the same percentages, penalties and costs added for delinquency and the same proceedings had...
California Water Code Section 9320
All money collected for or on account of any supplemental assessment shall be paid over to the State Treasurer in the manner provided in this...
California Water Code Section 9330
Upon the expiration of the 30-day period mentioned in Chapter 4 of this part, an election shall be called and held by the board in...
California Water Code Section 9331
The unpaid amount shall be entered by the board in its records and stated by the board in its order for the election and the...
California Water Code Section 9332
At the election the owner of each tract of land assessed in and by the assessment, upon which the assessment has not been paid as...
California Water Code Section 9333
In case there is more than one owner of any tract of land separately assessed in and by the assessment, all of the owners shall...
California Water Code Section 9334
Guardians, conservators, executors, administrators and other persons holding land in a trust capacity under appointment of court may vote at the election without obtaining special...
California Water Code Section 9335
The vote of any public or private corporation or of any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district or other public agency entitled to vote at...
California Water Code Section 9336
The authorization shall be in writing and certified to by the secretary or clerk of the district or public agency and attested by its seal...
California Water Code Section 9337
No person shall vote by proxy at the election unless authority to vote is evidenced by an instrument in writing duly executed, acknowledged and certified...
California Water Code Section 9338
In case of change of ownership of any tract of land, or in case the name of the owner of any tract of land is...
California Water Code Section 9339
If the right of any person to vote as the owner of any such tract of land is disputed or challenged, the question of his...
California Water Code Section 9340
The oath may be administered by any member of the board of election.
California Water Code Section 9341
Any person testifying falsely upon such examination is guilty of perjury.
California Water Code Section 9342
Any person voting or attempting to vote at the election who is not entitled to vote at it, as provided in this part, is subject...
California Water Code Section 9343
For the purpose of determining the "reference number" of each tract separately assessed upon the assessment lists, the board shall, before preparing the voting lists,...
California Water Code Section 9344
If the result of the election provided for in this chapter is against the issuance of bonds, then the assessment, or that portion thereof involved...
California Water Code Section 9345
All subsequent proceedings in regard to the assessment shall be conducted as provided in Part 4 of this division and without any further reference to...
California Water Code Section 9355
The board shall, in its order providing for the election, specify the day on which the election is to be held and shall specify and...
California Water Code Section 9356
In case the board considers it necessary or proper to provide more than one polling place in any supervisor district for the holding of the...
California Water Code Section 9357
The board shall designate and provide one polling place within each voting district at which shall be cast the votes of the owners of land...
California Water Code Section 9358
The board may combine contiguous portions of different supervisor districts into one voting district in cases where the lands in the voting district are not...
California Water Code Section 9359
The board shall in the order providing the election, appoint a board of election for each polling place.
California Water Code Section 9360
The board of election shall consist of three owners of land assessed in and by the assessment and situated within the voting district where the...
California Water Code Section 9361
Each member of the board of election, whether appointed by the board or whether acting as a substitute as provided in this part, is entitled...
California Water Code Section 9362
The compensation of the election officers shall be paid by the board out of any funds of the drainage district or of the board applicable
California Water Code Section 9363
If any person appointed as a member of the board of election fails to attend at the opening of the polls, the voters then present...
California Water Code Section 9364
Each member of the board of election before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an official oath, which may be...
California Water Code Section 9365
The oath shall be to the effect that he will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State and that...
California Water Code Section 9366
Notice of the election shall be given by the board by posting notices thereof in at least three public places in each voting district at...
California Water Code Section 9367
The notice shall specify the time and place of holding the election, the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued, and the names...
California Water Code Section 9368
Affidavits of publication and posting of the notices shall be filed with the county elections official of the county in which the notices have been...
California Water Code Section 9369
Duplicate original affidavits of publication and posting of the notice, shall be filed in the office of the board.
California Water Code Section 9375
The board shall, prior to the election, cause to be prepared and certified by its secretary or assistant secretary, and furnished to the board of...
California Water Code Section 9376
The voting list shall be used by the board of election in determining the right to vote and the number of votes to be cast...
California Water Code Section 9377
The ballot cast at the election shall contain the words "Bonds--Yes," or the words "Bonds--No," and also the signature of the person casting the ballot,...
California Water Code Section 9378
A ballot cast by proxy shall contain the name of the landowner for whom the ballot is cast and the signature of the person casting...
California Water Code Section 9379
A list of the ballots cast shall be made by the board of election, containing the name of each voter, and if the ballot is...
California Water Code Section 9385
The polls at each polling place for the election shall be kept open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
California Water Code Section 9386
At the close of the polls the board of election shall deliver to the elections official all ballots, voting lists, lists of ballots cast at...
California Water Code Section 9387
The board shall examine and canvass the certificates received from the boards of election, and shall determine therefrom and declare, and enter in its minutes...
California Water Code Section 9388
Any person interested may within 10 days after the result of the election has been determined and declared by the board, contest the election so...
California Water Code Section 9389
If no contest is commenced within the time mentioned in the next preceding section, the declaration of the result by the board is final and
California Water Code Section 9395
If a majority of the votes cast at the bond election are in favor of the issuance of bonds, the board shall cause bonds of...
California Water Code Section 9396
The bonds shall be of the denomination of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) each.
California Water Code Section 9397
The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board, attested by its secretary with the seal of the board affixed thereto, numbered consecutively...
California Water Code Section 9398
The bonds shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the order of the board for issuance of the bonds not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 9399
Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds and shall bear the facsimile signature of the Controller.
California Water Code Section 9400
Whenever any of the bonds are sold or delivered by the State Treasurer either to a purchaser thereof or upon an order from the board...
California Water Code Section 9401
The State Treasurer shall certify and deliver to the board or its secretary a list of bonds sold or delivered, showing the serial numbers, denominations,...
California Water Code Section 9402
The State Treasurer shall certify and deliver to the board or its secretary, whenever requested, a statement of all bonds and coupons for interest thereon...
California Water Code Section 9403
The bonds of the drainage district issued pursuant to this part which are investigated and approved by any commission or officer authorized by any law...
California Water Code Section 9404
If within one year from the time bonds are authorized to be issued as provided in this part, the bonds are not sold or disposed...
California Water Code Section 9405
The board may thereafter call for the payment of the assessment in such installments from time to time as it shall determine and as provided...
California Water Code Section 9410
The bonds may be substantially in the following form: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. _________ STATE OF CALIFORNIA $ __________ SACRAMENTO AND SAN JOAQUIN DRAINAGE...
California Water Code Section 9411
The interest coupons may be substantially in the following form: No.________ $________ The Treasurer of the State of California will pay to the holder hereof...
California Water Code Section 9415
An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
California Water Code Section 9440
The State Treasurer shall receive and place the bonds to the credit of the drainage district, and shall when and as directed by the board...
California Water Code Section 9441
The bonds shall not be sold for less than 95 per cent of their face value and the accrued interest thereon.
California Water Code Section 9442
Before making a sale of any of the bonds, notice shall be given by the State Treasurer that he will sell a specified amount of...
California Water Code Section 9443
The notice shall state that sealed proposals will be received by him for the purchase of the bonds or any part thereof at the day...
California Water Code Section 9444
The notice shall be given by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of
California Water Code Section 9445
At the time and place appointed in the notice the State Treasurer shall open the bids and shall award the purchase of the bonds or...
California Water Code Section 9446
If the highest bid is not equal to par and accrued interest the State Treasurer shall notify the board of the amounts of the highest...
California Water Code Section 9447
At any time before all the bonds held by the State Treasurer have been sold by him, the board may: (a) Draw upon the State...
California Water Code Section 9448
In making payments in bonds, the board shall draw orders upon the State Treasurer payable in bonds to the amount therein named.
California Water Code Section 9449
The orders shall be countersigned by the Controller and shall be paid with bonds by the State Treasurer upon presentation to the amount therein provided
California Water Code Section 9450
In drawing any order upon the State Treasurer payable in bonds, the board may specify the maturity of the bonds which are to be delivered...
California Water Code Section 9455
The principal of the bonds shall, by an order of the board entered in its minutes, be made payable on the first day of July...
California Water Code Section 9456
Not less than 10 per cent of the aggregate face value of the bonds shall be payable within 10 years from their date, and not...
California Water Code Section 9457
The board may call and redeem in their numerical order such an amount of the bonds as it may see fit on any interest date...
California Water Code Section 9458
To effect such redemption, the board shall cause to be published once each week for two successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the City...
California Water Code Section 9459
Out of the bond fund of the assessment the State Treasurer shall, on presentation at or after its maturity, pay the holder of each bond...
California Water Code Section 9460
If any bond or interest coupon has not been presented to the State Treasurer for payment when it becomes due, it shall cease to bear...
California Water Code Section 9461
The indorsed bond or coupon shall bear interest at the rate expressed in the bond until paid or until funds have been provided in the...
California Water Code Section 9465
The money derived from the sale of any of the bonds shall be received by the State Treasurer and placed to the credit of the...
California Water Code Section 9466
Whenever the drainage district has any money in the bond fund of any assessment which money is not immediately required for the purpose of paying...
California Water Code Section 9467
The investment may be made by the board by direct purchase of the bonds from time to time and in such manner as it determines...
California Water Code Section 9468
Any bonds purchased pursuant to the provisions of this article, and held in the bond fund may from time to time be sold and the...
California Water Code Section 9469
Sales of any bonds purchased and held in the bond fund shall from time to time be made so that the proceeds may be applied...
California Water Code Section 9470
Any bonds purchased pursuant to the provisions of this article, may be delivered to the State Treasurer for cancellation and the bonds shall thereupon be...
California Water Code Section 9471
The bond fund of each assessment shall be held by the State Treasurer and shall be applied by him toward the payment of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 9472
If any balance remains in the bond fund of the assessment after payment in full of the principal and interest of all outstanding bonds issued...
California Water Code Section 9473
The balance may be distributed by the board to the owners or other persons interested in the lands.
California Water Code Section 9474
The board shall from time to time when necessary, present its written request to the Controller for the issuance of warrants for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 9475
The board's request shall specify the amount of the warrant and the name of the payee thereof and upon receipt of the request the Controller...
California Water Code Section 9476
The State Treasurer shall pay the warrants or make delivery of the bonds as provided in this part.
California Water Code Section 9477
Warrants issued by the Controller and payable out of the assessment as provided by Part 4 of this division shall be paid by the State...
California Water Code Section 9478
No warrant issued pursuant to any of the provisions of this part or of Part 4 of this division shall be accepted or received by...
California Water Code Section 9485
Upon the sale of any of the bonds of the drainage district based upon any assessment levied by the board, as provided by this part,...
California Water Code Section 9486
The board may also in the order fix and determine upon such additional sum as the board deems proper to be collected to provide a...
California Water Code Section 9487
Immediately upon making the order the board shall prepare in duplicate, retaining one original, and causing the other original to be certified by its secretary...
California Water Code Section 9488
To the assessment referred to in the preceding section shall be added and collected an additional amount of 15 per cent of the amount to...
California Water Code Section 9489
The statement provided for in Section 9487 shall also include, and there shall be added and collected, such additional sum as the board in its...
California Water Code Section 9490
The amount necessary to pay the interest and principal, or either, falling due, together with the additional 15 per cent of that amount and the...
California Water Code Section 9491
Unless otherwise determined by the board or by an order entered in its minutes, a copy of which duly certified shall be transmitted to the...
California Water Code Section 9492
For convenience in entering payments of the installment for bonds, the board shall furnish to the county treasurer of each county affected, an annual collection...
California Water Code Section 9493
The list shall contain appropriate columns for the entry of payments, sales and redemptions.
California Water Code Section 9494
The county treasurer shall enter on the annual collection list in the proper column the following: (a) All payments, with date of payment. (b) The...
California Water Code Section 9495
The county treasurer shall make a report to the board as often as requested of all entries made by him on the collection list.
California Water Code Section 9496
When either portion of any installment for bonds becomes delinquent, a penalty of one dollar ($1) together with 20 per cent of the amount of...
California Water Code Section 9497
All money collected by the several county treasurers upon the installment for bonds or for the penalty thereon in case of delinquency shall, within 30...
California Water Code Section 9505
The board shall maintain in its office and open to public inspection at all reasonable times during office hours, a book or books to be...
California Water Code Section 9506
In case there are several bond issues under this part based upon several different assessments all of the proceedings, records and transactions of every kind...
California Water Code Section 9510
The board may, by resolution entered in its minutes, order the refunding of the whole or any part of the principal of any bond issue...
California Water Code Section 9511
Refunding bonds may be issued for the purpose, and when issued their proceeds may be used to refund outstanding bonds either as they mature or...
California Water Code Section 9512
The resolution ordering refunding of bonds shall designate the numbers, denominations, dates of maturity and aggregate principal amounts of the bonds to be refunded, and...
California Water Code Section 9513
Refunding bonds shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board in its resolution.
California Water Code Section 9514
The payment of the refunding bonds shall begin not later than five years from the date thereof and shall be completed in not more than...
California Water Code Section 9515
The refunding bonds, together with interest thereon, shall be payable at the office of the State Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 9516
Refunding bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board may determine except that no bonds shall be of a denomination of less than...
California Water Code Section 9517
The refunding bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or such other member of the board as the board may by resolution...
California Water Code Section 9518
The interest coupons of the refunding bonds shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the secretary of the board by his engraved or lithographed signature.
California Water Code Section 9519
In case any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the refunding bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the...
California Water Code Section 9520
The refunding bonds may be issued and sold by the board as it may determine but for not less than their par value and accrued...
California Water Code Section 9521
The proceeds of the refunding bonds shall be placed in the State Treasury to the credit of the drainage district in the bond fund of...
California Water Code Section 9522
The proceeds may also be used to defray the expenses of refinancing the obligations.
California Water Code Section 9523
The principal and interest of the refunding bonds shall be based upon, secured by and payable out of the assessment or assessments upon which the...
California Water Code Section 9524
Upon the sale of any of the refunding bonds, installments of the assessment upon which the bonds are based shall be called and collected and...
California Water Code Section 9525
The refunding bonds or any part thereof when sold may be called and redeemed by the board in the manner provided by Chapter 6 of...
California Water Code Section 9526
The refunding bonds issued by the drainage district pursuant to this part shall be legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of...
California Water Code Section 9527
Whenever bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties or school districts may by law be issued as security for the performance of any act or...
California Water Code Section 9535
If both portions of the installments, levied pursuant to Chapter 6 of this part, are not paid before the last Monday in April at 6...
California Water Code Section 9536
The notice shall contain the following: (a) A description of each parcel of land assessed within the county whereon an installment or installments are delinquent,...
California Water Code Section 9537
The sale shall be held not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days from the date of delinquency.
California Water Code Section 9538
At the time and place stated in the notice the county treasurer shall sell each parcel of land described in the notice to the highest...
California Water Code Section 9539
No bid for any parcel shall be accepted less than the aggregate sum then due for the installment or installments thereon, together with the penalty,...
California Water Code Section 9540
Any bonds or coupons so received in payment shall be canceled by the county treasurer and transmitted to the State Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 9541
If the entire amount of any bond or coupon tendered in payment is not required to complete payment of the purchase money, the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 9542
The bond fund of the assessment shall be credited with the amount of purchase money paid in bonds or coupons on delinquent sales, and of...
California Water Code Section 9543
The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser at the delinquent sale including the drainage district, a certificate of sale, which shall be recorded by...
California Water Code Section 9544
The county treasurer may if directed by the board postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
California Water Code Section 9550
If no bid is made for any parcel at the delinquent sale equal to the amount of installment or installments delinquent thereon, including the penalty,...
California Water Code Section 9551
Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by the drainage district at the delinquent sale shall be held in trust for the bond fund...
California Water Code Section 9552
Payment for the land purchased under the next preceding section may be made by the purchaser either in cash or matured bonds and coupons issued...
California Water Code Section 9553
The board shall execute a deed to the purchaser at the sale conveying the property, free of encumbrances except State, county and other municipal taxes,...
California Water Code Section 9554
The purchase price received in cash shall be paid by the board to the State Treasurer and any bonds or coupons received in payment by...
California Water Code Section 9555
All such money paid over and the canceled bonds or coupons delivered to the State Treasurer shall be credited to the bond fund of the
California Water Code Section 9556
If any land held by the drainage district, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, remains unsold after the final installment of the assessment has...
California Water Code Section 9557
The board shall execute to the purchaser a conveyance of the land free of incumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, and assessments levied or...
California Water Code Section 9558
The board shall deposit the proceeds of the sale with the State Treasurer to the credit of the bond fund of the assessment.
California Water Code Section 9544
The county treasurer may if directed by the board postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
California Water Code Section 9565
Any person interested in any tract of land sold at a delinquent sale, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, may redeem the tract...
California Water Code Section 9566
If no redemption is made within one year the board upon demand and the surrender of the certificate of purchase and the delivery of a...
California Water Code Section 9567
The deed shall convey to the grantee therein named the land free and clear of all encumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, assessments levied...
California Water Code Section 9568
Each installment of the encumbrances mentioned in the preceding section may be called and collected as provided by law.
California Water Code Section 9569
No parcel sold and conveyed to the drainage district shall thereafter, until redeemed or until sold and disposed of by the board, be subject to...
California Water Code Section 9570
Every deed by the board purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited...
California Water Code Section 9571
All deeds required by this chapter to be executed by the board may be executed by the president and secretary thereof on behalf of the
California Water Code Section 9575
Out of the proceeds of a delinquent sale, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the county treasurer shall transmit to the State Treasurer...
California Water Code Section 9576
The State Treasurer shall place the amount to the credit of the bond fund of the drainage district for the particular bond issue upon the
California Water Code Section 9577
The county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the property any surplus remaining after the payment to the State Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 9600
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Central Valley Flood Protection Act of 2008.
California Water Code Section 9601
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Central Valley of California is experiencing unprecedented development, resulting in the conversion of historically...
California Water Code Section 9602
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Board" means the Central Valley Flood...
California Water Code Section 9603
(a) The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan shall be a descriptive document, and neither the plan nor anything in this part shall be construed to...
California Water Code Section 9610
(a) (1) By July 1, 2008, the department shall develop preliminary maps for the 100- and 200-year flood plains protected by project levees. The 100-year...
California Water Code Section 9611
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Flood Management System comprises all of the following: (a) The facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control as that plan...
California Water Code Section 9612
(a) The department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a plan identified as the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan in accordance with this part....
California Water Code Section 9613
(a) Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 5096.821 of the Public Resources Code, the department may implement flood protection improvements for urban areas protected by...
California Water Code Section 9614
The plan shall include all of the following: (a) A description of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Flood Management System and the cities and counties included...
California Water Code Section 9615
For the purposes of preparing the plan, the department shall collaborate with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the owners and operators of...
California Water Code Section 9616
(a) The plan shall include a description of both structural and nonstructural means for improving the performance and elimination of deficiencies of levees, weirs, bypasses,...
California Water Code Section 9620
Upon the adoption of the plan by the board, all of the following apply: (a) The facilities identified pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 9614...
California Water Code Section 9621
Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each county shall collaborate with cities within its jurisdiction to...
California Water Code Section 9622
Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each city, county, and city and county shall collaborate with...
California Water Code Section 9623
Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each city, county, and city and county shall collaborate with...
California Water Code Section 9624
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this part applies to all cities, including charter cities, and counties included in the plan pursuant to Section 9614....
California Water Code Section 9625
(a) By January 1, 2010, the department shall develop cost-sharing formulas, as needed, for funds made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond...
California Water Code Section 9625
(a) By January 1, 2010, the department shall develop cost-sharing formulas, as needed, for funds made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond...
California Water Code Section 9650
(a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2008, the allocation or expenditure of funds by the state for the upgrade of a project levee, if that upgrade...
California Water Code Section 9651
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Emergency plan" and "state emergency plan"...
California Water Code Section 9650
(a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2008, the allocation or expenditure of funds by the state for the upgrade of a project levee, if that upgrade...
California Water Code Section 9651
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Emergency plan" and "state emergency plan"...
California Water Code Section 10000
The coordinated plan for the conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of the State (except the project known as the "Trinity River Diversion,"...
California Water Code Section 10001
The approval and adoption of the State Water Plan by Chapter 1185 of the Statutes of 1941 are continued in effect, except that the project...
California Water Code Section 10001.3
The American River Development, as described in Public Law 356 of the Eighty-first Congress, First Session, and as constructed by the Federal Government, is part...
California Water Code Section 10001.5
Notwithstanding any provisions of this article or any other provision of law to the contrary, the project known as the "Coloma Dam and Reservoir" constitutes...
California Water Code Section 10001.6
(a) The Georgetown Divide Public Utility District has the right to pursue, without any right of assignment to other parties, the district's preliminary permit number...
California Water Code Section 10002
The approval and adoption of the State Water Plan do not repeal any of the provisions of the Central Valley Project Act of 1933, and...
California Water Code Section 10003
Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, all applications heretofore filed by the Department of Finance under Part 2 of Division 6 shall remain valid and...
California Water Code Section 10004
(a) The plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of the state which is set forth...
California Water Code Section 10004.5
As part of the requirement of the department to update The California Water Plan pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10004, the department shall include...
California Water Code Section 10004.6
(a) As part of updating The California Water Plan every five years pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10004, the department shall conduct a study...
California Water Code Section 10005
(a) It is hereby declared that the people of the state have a primary interest in the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and...
California Water Code Section 10005.1
The department or, at the department's request, the California Water Commission, shall conduct a series of hearings with interested persons, organizations, local, state, and federal...
California Water Code Section 10005.2
Prior to holding a hearing pursuant to Section 10005.1, the department shall give notice by mail of the hearing to persons and entities which have...
California Water Code Section 10006
The provisions of this part do not repeal or modify any of the provisions of Part 3 of this division.
California Water Code Section 10007
Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, all applications heretofore filed by the Department of Finance or by the Department of Water Resources under Part 2...
California Water Code Section 10008
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that agreements which provide for the transfer of water from the federal Central Valley Project to public entities supplying...
California Water Code Section 10009
The director shall pursue discussions with the United States Bureau of Reclamation to permit persons and public entities which have entitlements to water from the...
California Water Code Section 10011
(a) In preparing the California Water Plan, the director shall conduct at least one public hearing within the boundaries of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and...
California Water Code Section 10013
The department, as a part of the preparation of the department's Bulletin 160-03, shall include in the California Water Plan a report on the development...
California Water Code Section 10015
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The state's growth requires policymakers to seek creative ways to maximize the use of...
California Water Code Section 10016
(a) The Department of Water Resources shall complete the development of a standard data protocol for evapotranspiration data, to ensure that the data is available...
California Water Code Section 10500
The department shall make and file applications for any water which in its judgment is or may be required in the development and completion of...
California Water Code Section 10504
All applications made and filed pursuant to Section 10500 shall be transferred to the State Water Resoures Control Board and held by the board for...
California Water Code Section 10504.01
Each petition for assignment of all or a portion of an application filed pursuant to this part, which application has not been completed in accordance...
California Water Code Section 10504.02
Procedure with respect to petitions for assignment of all or a portion of applications filed pursuant to this part, which applications have been completed in...
California Water Code Section 10504.1
Before any application made and filed pursuant to Section 10500 is assigned or released from priority, the State Water Resources Control Board shall hold a...
California Water Code Section 10504.5
In order to insure that projects will be constructed in accordance with a general or coordinated plan for the development of water: (a) The recipient...
California Water Code Section 10505
No priority under this part shall be released nor assignment made of any application that will, in the judgment of the board, deprive the county...
California Water Code Section 10505.5
Every application heretofore or hereafter made and filed pursuant to Section 10500, and held by the State Water Resources Control Board, shall be amended to...
California Water Code Section 10506
Every state department or state officer, upon request of the department, shall furnish any service or assistance in the investigation of the need or feasibility...
California Water Code Section 10520
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Agricultural Water Conservation and Management Act of 1992.
California Water Code Section 10521
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Water conservation" means the reduction of the amount of water...
California Water Code Section 10522
A water supplier, individually or in cooperation with other public agencies or persons, may institute a water conservation or efficient water management program, including, but...
California Water Code Section 10523
In formulating a water conservation or efficient water management program, a water supplier may take into account the positive or negative effect of the program,...
California Water Code Section 10530
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act.
California Water Code Section 10531
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Water is a valuable natural resource in California, and should be managed to ensure the...
California Water Code Section 10532
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
California Water Code Section 10533
"Basin plan" means a water quality control plan developed pursuant to Section 13240.
California Water Code Section 10534
"Integrated regional water management plan" means a comprehensive plan for a defined geographic area, the specific development, content, and adoption of which shall satisfy requirements...
California Water Code Section 10535
"Local agency" means any city, county, city and county, special district, joint powers authority, or other political subdivision of the state, a public utility as...
California Water Code Section 10536
"Plan" means an integrated regional water management plan.
California Water Code Section 10537
"Regional projects or programs" means projects or programs identified in an integrated regional water management plan that accomplish any of the following: (a) Reduce water...
California Water Code Section 10538
"Regional reports or studies" means reports or studies relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 10537, that...
California Water Code Section 10539
"Regional water management group" means a group in which three or more local agencies, at least two of which have statutory authority over water supply...
California Water Code Section 10540
(a) A regional water management group may prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management plan in accordance with this part. (b) A regional water...
California Water Code Section 10541
(a) The department shall develop project solicitation and evaluation guidelines for the application of funds made available pursuant to Section 75026 of the Public Resources...
California Water Code Section 10543
(a) A regional water management group proposing to prepare an integrated regional water management plan shall publish a notice of intention to prepare the plan...
California Water Code Section 10544
When selecting projects and programs pursuant to Division 24 (commencing with Section 78500), Division 26 (commencing with Section 79000), Division 26.5 (commencing with Section 79500),...
California Water Code Section 10546
An integrated regional water management plan prepared pursuant to this part shall be eligible for funding pursuant to Section 75026 of the Public Resources Code,...
California Water Code Section 10547
This part does not prohibit the department from implementing Section 75026 of the Public Resources Code by using existing integrated regional water management guidelines in...
California Water Code Section 10548
This part does not affect any powers granted to a local agency by any other law.
California Water Code Section 10549
This part does not authorize a regional water management group to define, or otherwise determine, the water rights of any person.
California Water Code Section 10550
The plan or project shall not be funded pursuant to this part if it would fund activities inconsistent with applicable state and federal water quality
California Water Code Section 10560
This part shall be known and may be cited as "The Stormwater Resource Planning Act."
California Water Code Section 10561
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) In many parts of the state stormwater is a source of surface water and...
California Water Code Section 10562
(a) A city, county, or special district, either individually or jointly, may develop a stormwater resource plan pursuant to this part. (b) Stormwater resource plans...
California Water Code Section 10563
(a) Nothing in this part interferes with or prevents the exercise of authority by a public agency to carry out its programs, projects, or responsibilities....
California Water Code Section 10564
For purposes of this part, "low-impact development" means new development or redevelopment projects that employ natural and constructed features that reduce the rate of stormwater...
California Water Code Section 10600
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an increasing conflict between water development projects and instream beneficial uses such as rafting, swimming, and...
California Water Code Section 10601
Where a potentially economically viable water supply development on the South Fork of the American River between Chili Bar Reservoir and the Salmon Falls Bridge...
California Water Code Section 10602
The department, with regard to the South Fork of the American River between Chili Bar Reservoir and the Salmon Falls Bridge, may recommend to the...
California Water Code Section 10603
In undertaking studies pursuant to this part, the department shall take into consideration the potential necessity to produce hydroelectric energy to pay for future water
California Water Code Section 10604
The department shall undertake cooperative studies pursuant to this part for the following: (a) The Georgetown Divide Public Utility District and the South Fork of...
California Water Code Section 10605
Where the state provides financial assistance to implement or assist in the implementation of an alternative solution, the State Water Resources Control Board, in considering...
California Water Code Section 10606
If the instream beneficial uses on the South Fork of the American River between Chili Bar Reservoir and the Salmon Falls Bridge preserved by the...
California Water Code Section 10607
The Legislature finds and declares that the circumstances which resulted in the enactment of this part are unique and therefore this part shall not be...
California Water Code Section 10608
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Water is a public resource that the California Constitution protects against waste and unreasonable use....
California Water Code Section 10608.4
It is the intent of the Legislature, by the enactment of this part, to do all of the following: (a) Require all water suppliers to...
California Water Code Section 10608.8
(a) (1) Water use efficiency measures adopted and implemented pursuant to this part or Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 10800) are water conservation measures subject...
California Water Code Section 10608.12
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Agricultural water supplier" means a water supplier, either publicly or...
California Water Code Section 10608.16
(a) The state shall achieve a 20-percent reduction in urban per capita water use in California on or before December 31, 2020. (b) The state...
California Water Code Section 10608.20
(a) (1) Each urban retail water supplier shall develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target by July 1, 2011. Urban...
California Water Code Section 10608.22
Notwithstanding the method adopted by an urban retail water supplier pursuant to Section 10608.20, an urban retail water supplier's per capita daily water use reduction...
California Water Code Section 10608.24
(a) Each urban retail water supplier shall meet its interim urban water use target by December 31, 2015. (b) Each urban retail water supplier shall...
California Water Code Section 10608.26
(a) In complying with this part, an urban retail water supplier shall conduct at least one public hearing to accomplish all of the following: (1)...
California Water Code Section 10608.28
(a) An urban retail water supplier may meet its urban water use target within its retail service area, or through mutual agreement, by any of...
California Water Code Section 10608.32
All costs incurred pursuant to this part by a water utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission may be recoverable in rates subject to review...
California Water Code Section 10608.36
Urban wholesale water suppliers shall include in the urban water management plans required pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) an assessment of their...
California Water Code Section 10608.40
Urban water retail suppliers shall report to the department on their progress in meeting their urban water use targets as part of their urban water...
California Water Code Section 10608.42
The department shall review the 2015 urban water management plans and report to the Legislature by December 31, 2016, on progress towards achieving a 20-percent...
California Water Code Section 10608.43
The department, in conjunction with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, by April 1, 2010, shall convene a representative task force consisting of academic experts,...
California Water Code Section 10608.44
Each state agency shall reduce water use at facilities it operates to support urban retail water suppliers in meeting the target identified in Section 10608.16.
California Water Code Section 10608.48
(a) On or before July 31, 2012, an agricultural water supplier shall implement efficient water management practices pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) Agricultural...
California Water Code Section 10608.50
(a) The department, in consultation with the board, shall promote implementation of regional water resources management practices through increased incentives and removal of barriers consistent...
California Water Code Section 10608.52
(a) The department, in consultation with the board, the California Bay-Delta Authority or its successor agency, the State Department of Public Health, and the Public...
California Water Code Section 10608.56
(a) On and after July 1, 2016, an urban retail water supplier is not eligible for a water grant or loan awarded or administered by...
California Water Code Section 10608.60
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds made available by Section 75026 of the Public Resources Code should be expended, consistent with...
California Water Code Section 10608.64
The department, in consultation with the Agricultural Water Management Council, academic experts, and other stakeholders, shall develop a methodology for quantifying the efficiency of agricultural...
California Water Code Section 10610
This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Urban Water Management Planning Act."
California Water Code Section 10610.2
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The waters of the state are a limited and renewable resource subject to ever-increasing...
California Water Code Section 10610.4
The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state as follows: (a) The management of urban water demands and efficient use...
California Water Code Section 10611
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
California Water Code Section 10611.5
"Demand management" means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse...
California Water Code Section 10612
"Customer" means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses the water for municipal purposes, including residential, commercial, governmental, and industrial uses.
California Water Code Section 10613
"Efficient use" means those management measures that result in the most effective use of water so as to prevent its waste or unreasonable use or...
California Water Code Section 10614
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, public agency, or any agency of such an entity.
California Water Code Section 10615
"Plan" means an urban water management plan prepared pursuant to this part. A plan shall describe and evaluate sources of supply, reasonable and practical efficient...
California Water Code Section 10616
"Public agency" means any board, commission, county, city and county, city, regional agency, district, or other public entity.
California Water Code Section 10616.5
"Recycled water" means the reclamation and reuse of wastewater for beneficial use.
California Water Code Section 10617
"Urban water supplier" means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers...
California Water Code Section 10620
(a) Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt an urban water management plan in the manner set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 10621
(a) Each urban water supplier shall update its plan at least once every five years on or before December 31, in years ending in five...
California Water Code Section 10630
It is the intention of the Legislature, in enacting this part, to permit levels of water management planning commensurate with the numbers of customers served...
California Water Code Section 10631
A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter that shall do all of the following: (a) Describe the service area of the supplier,...
California Water Code Section 10631.1
(a) The water use projections required by Section 10631 shall include projected water use for single-family and multifamily residential housing needed for lower income households,...
California Water Code Section 10631.5
(a) (1) Beginning January 1, 2009, the terms of, and eligibility for, a water management grant or loan made to an urban water supplier and...
California Water Code Section 10631.7
The department, in consultation with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, shall convene an independent technical panel to provide information and recommendations to the department...
California Water Code Section 10632
(a) The plan shall provide an urban water shortage contingency analysis that includes each of the following elements that are within the authority of the...
California Water Code Section 10633
The plan shall provide, to the extent available, information on recycled water and its potential for use as a water source in the service area...
California Water Code Section 10634
The plan shall include information, to the extent practicable, relating to the quality of existing sources of water available to the supplier over the same...
California Water Code Section 10635
(a) Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, an assessment of the reliability of its water service to...
California Water Code Section 10640
Every urban water supplier required to prepare a plan pursuant to this part shall prepare its plan pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630)....
California Water Code Section 10641
An urban water supplier required to prepare a plan may consult with, and obtain comments from, any public agency or state agency or any person...
California Water Code Section 10642
Each urban water supplier shall encourage the active involvement of diverse social, cultural, and economic elements of the population within the service area prior to...
California Water Code Section 10643
An urban water supplier shall implement its plan adopted pursuant to this chapter in accordance with the schedule set forth in its plan.
California Water Code Section 10644
(a) An urban water supplier shall submit to the department, the California State Library, and any city or county within which the supplier provides water...
California Water Code Section 10645
Not later than 30 days after filing a copy of its plan with the department, the urban water supplier and the department shall make the...
California Water Code Section 10650
Any actions or proceedings to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the acts or decisions of an urban water supplier on the grounds of...
California Water Code Section 10651
In any action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul a plan, or an action taken pursuant to the plan by an...
California Water Code Section 10652
The California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) does not apply to the preparation and adoption of...
California Water Code Section 10653
The adoption of a plan shall satisfy any requirements of state law, regulation, or order, including those of the State Water Resources Control Board and...
California Water Code Section 10654
An urban water supplier may recover in its rates the costs incurred in preparing its plan and implementing the reasonable water conservation measures included in...
California Water Code Section 10655
If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
California Water Code Section 10656
An urban water supplier that does not prepare, adopt, and submit its urban water management plan to the department in accordance with this part, is...
California Water Code Section 10700
This part applies only to the area within the existing boundaries of the Mendocino City Community Services District.
California Water Code Section 10701
(a) As used in this part, "local agency" means any city, county, district, agency, or other political subdivision of the state for the local performance...
California Water Code Section 10702
Any local agency which is authorized by law to provide water services may, by ordinance, or by resolution if the local agency is not authorized...
California Water Code Section 10703
Prior to the adoption of a groundwater management program, the governing board of the local agency shall hold a public hearing, after publication of notice...
California Water Code Section 10704
After the conclusion of the hearing, and if the governing board adopts a resolution of intention, copies of the groundwater management program shall be published...
California Water Code Section 10705
After the adoption of a resolution of intention, the governing board shall hold a second hearing and consider protests to the implementation of the program....
California Water Code Section 10706
A majority protest shall be determined to exist if the governing board finds that the protests filed and not withdrawn prior to the conclusion of...
California Water Code Section 10707
A local agency authorized to establish programs for the management of groundwater resources pursuant to this part may for that purpose enter into a joint...
California Water Code Section 10708
A local agency which establishes a program for the management of groundwater resources pursuant to this part may fix and collect rates for the extraction...
California Water Code Section 10709
For purposes of groundwater management, a local agency authorized to establish programs for the management of groundwater resources pursuant to this part may, in addition...
California Water Code Section 10710
Before a local agency may levy a water replenishment assessment as authorized in Section 10709 or may otherwise fix and collect rates for the extraction...
California Water Code Section 10711
No local agency shall exercise the powers authorized by this part within the boundaries of another local agency authorized by law to provide water service...
California Water Code Section 10712
No local agency shall exercise the powers authorized by this part within the boundaries of another local agency providing water service to any or all...
California Water Code Section 10713
If a local agency annexes land subject to a groundwater management program of another local agency, the local agency annexing the land shall continue to...
California Water Code Section 10714
This part neither preempts, negates, affects, nor infers the existence of any powers of a local agency in other groundwater basins of the state to...
California Water Code Section 10715
This part is in addition to, and not a limitation on, any powers of a local agency otherwise granted by law.
California Water Code Section 10716
This part does not exempt any local agency formed under any act requiring the approval of its leases, contracts, or issuance of securities by the...
California Water Code Section 10717
A local agency shall no longer be authorized to exercise the powers conferred by this part upon the completion and implementation of a municipal central...
California Water Code Section 10750
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that groundwater is a valuable natural resource in California, and should be managed to ensure both its safe production...
California Water Code Section 10750.2
(a) Subject to subdivision (b), this part applies to all groundwater basins in the state. (b) This part does not apply to any portion of...
California Water Code Section 10750.4
Nothing in this part requires a local agency overlying a groundwater basin to adopt or implement a groundwater management plan or groundwater management program pursuant...
California Water Code Section 10750.6
Nothing in this part affects the authority of a local agency or a watermaster to manage groundwater pursuant to other provisions of law or a...
California Water Code Section 10750.7
(a) A local agency may not manage groundwater pursuant to this part within the service area of another local agency, a water corporation regulated by...
California Water Code Section 10750.8
(a) A local agency may not manage groundwater pursuant to this part within the service area of another local agency without the agreement of that...
California Water Code Section 10750.9
(a) A local agency that commences procedures, prior to January 1, 1993, to adopt an ordinance or resolution to establish a program for the management...
California Water Code Section 10750.10
This part is in addition to, and not a limitation on, the authority granted to a local agency pursuant to other provisions of law.
California Water Code Section 10752
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Groundwater" means all water beneath the surface of the earth...
California Water Code Section 10753
(a) Any local agency, whose service area includes a groundwater basin, or a portion of a groundwater basin, that is not subject to groundwater management...
California Water Code Section 10753.1
Nothing in this part, or in any groundwater management plan adopted pursuant to this part, affects surface water rights or the procedures under common law...
California Water Code Section 10753.2
(a) Prior to adopting a resolution of intention to draft a groundwater management plan, a local agency shall hold a hearing, after publication of notice...
California Water Code Section 10753.3
(a) After the conclusion of the hearing, and if the local agency adopts a resolution of intention, the local agency shall publish the resolution of...
California Water Code Section 10753.4
(a) The local agency shall prepare a groundwater management plan within two years of the date of the adoption of the resolution of intention. (1)...
California Water Code Section 10753.5
(a) After a groundwater management plan is prepared, the local agency shall hold a second hearing to determine whether to adopt the plan. Notice of...
California Water Code Section 10753.6
(a) A written protest filed by a landowner shall include the landowner's signature and a description of the land owned sufficient to identify the land....
California Water Code Section 10753.7
(a) For the purposes of qualifying as a groundwater management plan under this section, a plan shall contain the components that are set forth in...
California Water Code Section 10753.8
A groundwater management plan may include components relating to all of the following: (a) The control of saline water intrusion. (b) Identification and management of...
California Water Code Section 10753.9
(a) A local agency shall adopt rules and regulations to implement and enforce a groundwater management plan adopted pursuant to this part. (b) Nothing in...
California Water Code Section 10753.10
In adopting rules and regulations pursuant to Section 10753.9, the local agency shall consider the potential impact of those rules and regulations on business activities,...
California Water Code Section 10753.11
A plan shall not be considered invalid, and the local agency shall not be required to recirculate the plan for public comment or to delay...
California Water Code Section 10754
For purposes of groundwater management, a local agency that adopts a groundwater management plan pursuant to this part has the authority of a water replenishment...
California Water Code Section 10754.2
(a) Subject to Section 10754.3, except as specified in subdivision (b), a local agency that adopts a groundwater management plan pursuant to this part, may...
California Water Code Section 10754.3
Before a local agency may levy a water management assessment pursuant to Section 10754.2 or otherwise fix and collect fees for the replenishment or extraction...
California Water Code Section 10755
(a) If a local agency annexes land subject to a groundwater management plan adopted pursuant to this part, the local agency annexing the land shall...
California Water Code Section 10755.2
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage local agencies, within the same groundwater basin, that are authorized to adopt groundwater management plans...
California Water Code Section 10755.3
Local agencies within the same groundwater basin that conduct groundwater management programs within that basin pursuant to this part, and cities and counties that either...
California Water Code Section 10755.4
Except in those groundwater basins that are subject to critical conditions of groundwater overdraft, as identified in the department's Bulletin 118-80, revised on December 24,...
California Water Code Section 10780
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Groundwater Quality Monitoring Act of 2001.
California Water Code Section 10781
In order to improve comprehensive groundwater monitoring and increase the availability to the public of information about groundwater contamination, the state board, in consultation with...
California Water Code Section 10782
(a) On or before June 1, 2009, the state board shall do both of the following: (1) Identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options...
California Water Code Section 10782.3
The state board shall use existing resources to carry out this part, and the operation of the program set forth in this part shall not...
California Water Code Section 10795
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Local Groundwater Management Assistance Act of 2000.
California Water Code Section 10795.2
There is hereby created the Local Groundwater Assistance Fund which shall be administered by the department.
California Water Code Section 10795.4
Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the money in the fund may be used by the department to assist local public agencies by awarding grants to...
California Water Code Section 10795.6
The department, in making grants pursuant to this part, shall do both of the following: (a) Award grants based on the recommendations submitted by the...
California Water Code Section 10795.8
The department may enter into contracts and may adopt regulations subject to the advice and review of the Technical Advisory Panel, to carry out this...
California Water Code Section 10795.10
An application for a grant under this part shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting materials prescribed by the
California Water Code Section 10795.12
(a) A Technical Advisory Panel shall review applications for grants based on criteria developed by the panel. (b) The Technical Advisory Panel shall review applications...
California Water Code Section 10795.14
(a) The Technical Advisory Panel shall be comprised of individuals appointed by the Secretary of the Resources Agency. (b) (1) Panelists shall have background experience,...
California Water Code Section 10795.16
(a) If a member of the Technical Advisory Panel, or a member of his or her immediate family, is employed by a grant applicant ,...
California Water Code Section 10795.19
A local public agency receiving a grant under this part shall submit to the department copies of all data collected pursuant to the grant.
California Water Code Section 10795.20
Federal funds may be used for the purposes of this part.
California Water Code Section 10800
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Agricultural Water Management Planning Act.
California Water Code Section 10801
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The waters of the state are a limited and renewable resource. (b) The California Constitution...
California Water Code Section 10802
The Legislature finds and declares that all of the following are the policies of the state: (a) The conservation of water shall be pursued actively...
California Water Code Section 10810
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
California Water Code Section 10811
"Agricultural water management plan" or "plan" means an agricultural water management plan prepared pursuant to this part.
California Water Code Section 10812
"Agricultural water supplier" has the same meaning as defined in Section 10608.12.
California Water Code Section 10813
"Customer" means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses water for agricultural purposes.
California Water Code Section 10814
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, public agency, or any agency of that entity.
California Water Code Section 10815
"Public agency" means any city, county, city and county, special district, or other public entity.
California Water Code Section 10816
"Urban water supplier" has the same meaning as set forth in Section 10617.
California Water Code Section 10817
"Water conservation" means the efficient management of water resources for beneficial uses, preventing waste, or accomplishing additional benefits with the same amount of water.
California Water Code Section 10820
(a) An agricultural water supplier shall prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan in the manner set forth in this chapter on or before...
California Water Code Section 10821
(a) An agricultural water supplier required to prepare a plan pursuant to this part shall notify each city or county within which the supplier provides...
California Water Code Section 10825
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to allow levels of water management planning commensurate with the numbers of customers...
California Water Code Section 10826
An agricultural water management plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter. The plan shall do all of the following: (a) Describe the agricultural...
California Water Code Section 10827
Agricultural water suppliers that are members of the Agricultural Water Management Council, and that submit water management plans to that council in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 10828
(a) Agricultural water suppliers that are required to submit water conservation plans to the United States Bureau of Reclamation pursuant to either the Central Valley...
California Water Code Section 10829
An agricultural water supplier may satisfy the requirements of this part by adopting an urban water management plan pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 10840
Every agricultural water supplier shall prepare its plan pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 10825).
California Water Code Section 10841
Prior to adopting a plan, the agricultural water supplier shall make the proposed plan available for public inspection, and shall hold a public hearing on...
California Water Code Section 10842
An agricultural water supplier shall implement the plan adopted pursuant to this chapter in accordance with the schedule set forth in its plan, as determined...
California Water Code Section 10843
(a) An agricultural water supplier shall submit to the entities identified in subdivision (b) a copy of its plan no later than 30 days after...
California Water Code Section 10844
(a) Not later than 30 days after the date of adopting its plan, the agricultural water supplier shall make the plan available for public review...
California Water Code Section 10845
(a) The department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2013, and thereafter in the years ending in six and...
California Water Code Section 10850
(a) Any action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the acts or decisions of an agricultural water supplier on the grounds...
California Water Code Section 10851
The California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) does not apply to the preparation and adoption of...
California Water Code Section 10852
An agricultural water supplier is not eligible for a water grant or loan awarded or administered by the state unless the supplier complies with this
California Water Code Section 10853
An agricultural water supplier that provides water to less than 25,000 irrigated acres, excluding recycled water, shall not be required to implement the requirements of...
California Water Code Section 10900
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Agricultural Water Suppliers Efficient Water Management Practices Act.
California Water Code Section 10901
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Agriculture is a vital industry in California. (b) The waters of the state are a limited and...
California Water Code Section 10902
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern construction of this part. (a) "Agricultural water supplier" or "supplier" means a supplier, either...
California Water Code Section 10903
(a) The department shall establish an advisory committee comprised of representatives of the California farming community, agricultural water suppliers, the department, the Department of Food...
California Water Code Section 10904
(a) The department shall offer assistance to agricultural water suppliers to implement efficient water management practices to improve the efficiency of water use. (b) Assistance...
California Water Code Section 10910
(a) Any city or county that determines that a project, as defined in Section 10912, is subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13...
California Water Code Section 10911
(a) If, as a result of its assessment, the public water system concludes that its water supplies are, or will be, insufficient, the public water...
California Water Code Section 10912
For the purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Project" means any of the following: (1) A proposed residential development...
California Water Code Section 10912
For the purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Project" means any of the following: (1) A proposed residential development...
California Water Code Section 10914
(a) Nothing in this part is intended to create a right or entitlement to water service or any specific level of water service. (b) Nothing...
California Water Code Section 10915
The County of San Diego is deemed to comply with this part if the Office of Planning and Research determines that all of the following...
California Water Code Section 10920
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that on or before January 1, 2012, groundwater elevations in all groundwater basins and subbasins be regularly...
California Water Code Section 10921
This part does not require the monitoring of groundwater elevations in an area that is not within a basin or subbasin.
California Water Code Section 10922
This part does not expand or otherwise affect the powers or duties of the department relating to groundwater beyond those expressly granted by this part.
California Water Code Section 10925
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Basin" or "subbasin" means a groundwater...
California Water Code Section 10927
Any of the following entities may assume responsibility for monitoring and reporting groundwater elevations in all or a part of a basin or subbasin in...
California Water Code Section 10928
(a) Any entity described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 10927 that seeks to assume groundwater monitoring functions in accordance with this part shall...
California Water Code Section 10929
(a) (1) The department shall review all notifications received pursuant to Section 10928. (2) Upon the receipt of a notification pursuant to subdivision (a) of...
California Water Code Section 10930
Upon completion of each review pursuant to Section 10929, the department shall do both of the following if it determines that a party will perform...
California Water Code Section 10931
(a) The department shall work cooperatively with each monitoring entity to determine the manner in which groundwater elevation information should be reported to the department...
California Water Code Section 10932
(a) Monitoring entities shall commence monitoring and reporting groundwater elevations pursuant to this part on or before January 1, 2012. (b) For purposes of reporting...
California Water Code Section 10933
(a) On or before January 1, 2012, the department shall commence to identify the extent of monitoring of groundwater elevations that is being undertaken within...
California Water Code Section 10933.5
(a) Consistent with Section 10933, the department shall perform the groundwater monitoring functions for those portions of a basin or subbasin for which no monitoring...
California Water Code Section 10933.7
(a) If the department is required to perform groundwater monitoring functions pursuant to Section 10933.5, the county and the entities described in subdivisions (a) to...
California Water Code Section 10934
(a) For purposes of this part, neither any entity described in Section 10927, nor the department, shall have the authority to do either of the...
California Water Code Section 10935
(a) A voluntary cooperative groundwater monitoring association may be formed for the purposes of monitoring groundwater elevations in accordance with this part. The association may...
California Water Code Section 10936
Costs incurred by the department pursuant to this chapter may be funded from unallocated bond revenues pursuant to paragraph (12) of subdivision (a) of Section...
California Water Code Section 11100
The definitions in this article govern the construction of this part only.
California Water Code Section 11102
"State agency" includes any irrigation district, reclamation district, municipal utility district, public utility district, water district, water storage district, and any public or municipal corporation,...
California Water Code Section 11103
"Electric power" includes "electricity," "electric energy" and "electrical energy."
California Water Code Section 11104
"Project" means the Central Valley Project.
California Water Code Section 11105
"Construction fund" means the Central Valley Water Project Construction Fund.
California Water Code Section 11106
"Revenue fund" means the Central Valley Water Project Revenue Fund.
California Water Code Section 11107
Unless the context otherwise requires, "bond" means any bond or other written evidence of indebtedness which the department may issue under this part in order...
California Water Code Section 11125
The public interest, welfare, convenience, and necessity require the construction in the manner provided in this part of a system of works for the conservation,...
California Water Code Section 11126
The construction, operation, and maintenance of the project as provided for in this part is in all respects for the welfare and benefit of the...
California Water Code Section 11127
The department shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in carrying out the provisions of this part.
California Water Code Section 11128
The limitations prescribed in Section 11460 and 11463 shall also apply to any agency of the State or Federal Government which shall undertake the construction...
California Water Code Section 11130
The State hereby consents to the use and occupation of any real property now or hereafter owned by it, and not dedicated to public use,...
California Water Code Section 11131
Whenever any land or rights of way of the State heretofore or hereafter dedicated to public use are necessary for the construction, operation, or maintenance...
California Water Code Section 11135
Any State agency may advance or contribute money, rights of way, labor, materials, and any other property for the construction, operation, or maintenance of the...
California Water Code Section 11136
Appropriations for advances or contributions under this article may be made from any funds available for the purpose.
California Water Code Section 11137
Any State agency may issue its general obligation bonds for the purpose of making advances or contributions under this article and all proceedings for the...
California Water Code Section 11138
Money or property advanced or contributed may be immediately transferred or delivered to the department to be used for the purpose for which the advance...
California Water Code Section 11139
The department may enter into an agreement with any state agency to repay any money or the value of any rights of way, labor, materials,...
California Water Code Section 11140
After all bonds issued have been fully redeemed and paid, the department may continue to collect revenues from the use and operation of the project...
California Water Code Section 11141
The department may receive and accept from any and all sources money, rights of way, labor, materials, or any other property for the construction, operation,...
California Water Code Section 11155
The State Controller, the State Treasurer, and the department shall keep full and particular account and record of all their proceedings under this part.
California Water Code Section 11160
The department, the officials thereof, and all state officials may do such acts and make such agreements not inconsistent with law as may be necessary...
California Water Code Section 11200
Subject to Articles 9.5 (commencing at Section 11260), 9.7 (commencing at Section 11270), and 9.9 (commencing at Section 11276) hereof, the construction of the project...
California Water Code Section 11201
The project as authorized by this part consists of the units provided for in this chapter.
California Water Code Section 11205
The unit designated as Shasta Dam consists of the following: (a) A dam, reservoir, and one or more hydroelectric power plants, with necessary afterbay and...
California Water Code Section 11206
The transmission line shall be located in such manner and along such route as to enable the most convenient distribution of electric power to the...
California Water Code Section 11207
Shasta Dam shall be constructed and used primarily for the following purposes: (a) Improvement of navigation on the Sacramento River to Red Bluff. (b) Increasing...
California Water Code Section 11208
Shasta Dam shall be constructed and used secondarily for the generation of electric power and other beneficial uses.
California Water Code Section 11209
The dam shall be built to such height and the power plant or plants shall be of such capacity as the department determines. The reservoir...
California Water Code Section 11215
The unit designated as the Contra Costa Conduit consists of a conduit or canal equipped with all necessary pumping plants and other works to convey...
California Water Code Section 11216
The Contra Costa Conduit shall be of such capacity as the department determines to be necessary to furnish an adequate supply of water for industrial,...
California Water Code Section 11220
The unit designated as the San Joaquin Pumping System consists of a channel or canal with all necessary dams, pumping plants, conduits, and other works...
California Water Code Section 11225
The unit designated as Friant Dam consists of a dam, reservoir, and one or more hydroelectric power plants to be located on the San Joaquin...
California Water Code Section 11226
Friant Dam shall be constructed and used primarily for improvement of navigation, flood control, and storage and stabilization of the water supply of the San...
California Water Code Section 11227
The dam shall be built to such height and the power plant or plants shall be of such capacity as the department determines. The reservoir...
California Water Code Section 11230
The unit designated as the Madera Canal consists of a canal or conduit leading from the reservoir of Friant Dam northerly to a point on...
California Water Code Section 11231
The Madera Canal shall be of such capacity as the department determines to be necessary to furnish an adequate supply of water for beneficial purposes...
California Water Code Section 11235
The unit designated as the Friant-Kern Canal consists of a canal or conduit extending from the reservoir of Friant Dam southerly to a point on...
California Water Code Section 11236
The Friant-Kern Canal shall be of such capacity as the department determines to be necessary to furnish an adequate supply of water for beneficial purposes...
California Water Code Section 11237
The unit may include such pumps, supplemental dams, and other works as the department determines to be necessary for the economical and advantageous construction, operation,...
California Water Code Section 11240
The unit designated as the Tehama-Colusa Canal consists of a conduit or canal, equipped with the necessary dams, pumping plants, groundwater recharge facilities, and other...
California Water Code Section 11241
The Tehama-Colusa Canal shall have the capacity that the department, in cooperation with local public agencies in the service area, determines to be necessary to...
California Water Code Section 11242
The water facilities authorized by Sections 11240 and 11241 may be constructed, owned, and operated by one or more local agencies, the department, or a...
California Water Code Section 11250
The unit designated as the Tehama-Butte Conduit consists of a conduit or canal, equipped with all necessary dams, pumping plants, and other appurtenant works, extending...
California Water Code Section 11251
The Tehama-Butte Conduit shall be of such capacity as the department determines to be necessary to furnish an adequate supply of water for industrial, agricultural,...
California Water Code Section 11252
The unit designated as Hogan Dam and Reservoir, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document No. 545, 78th...
California Water Code Section 11253
Pending construction of the unit described in Section 11252, herein designated "New Hogan," the department may acquire and operate as a unit of the project,...
California Water Code Section 11254
Contracts entered into between the department and the City of Stockton in connection with the transfer of "Old Hogan" to the State, including provisions for...
California Water Code Section 11255
Pursuant to the authority contained in Section 12931, the Legislature hereby authorizes, as a part of the State Water Resources Development System, the Los Banos...
California Water Code Section 11256
In conducting the feasibility investigations for the Los Banos Grandes Reservoir, the department shall consider the impact of the project on drainage and groundwater lands...
California Water Code Section 11257
The department may use Central Valley Project revenue bonds to finance, all or in part, the construction of the Los Banos Grandes Reservoir.
California Water Code Section 11258
The project shall include facilities south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for utilizing groundwater storage space, determined by the director to be feasible for the...
California Water Code Section 11260
The units set forth in publication of the State Water Resources Board entitled "Report on Feasibility of Feather River Project and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Diversion...
California Water Code Section 11261
The reservoir constructed at Cedar Springs in the San Bernardino Mountains as part of the Feather River Project shall be known as "Silverwood Lake." The...
California Water Code Section 11265
The American River Development, as described in Public Law 356 of the Eighty-first Congress, First Session, and as constructed by the Federal Government.
California Water Code Section 11270
The unit of the North Bay Aqueduct as set forth in Bulletin No. 60 of the Department of Water Resources entitled "Salinity Control Barrier Investigation,"...
California Water Code Section 11271
The operation of the North Bay Aqueduct, or any joint-use facilities of that unit or project, shall conform to any applicable standard established by the...
California Water Code Section 11276
Black Butte Dam and Reservoir, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 649, 78th Congress, Second Session,...
California Water Code Section 11290
The project includes such other units as may be from time to time added by the department to the units specifically enumerated. The department may...
California Water Code Section 11295
In addition to the works specified, the units shall include such plants and works for the generation of electric power by steam or other power,...
California Water Code Section 11419
The department shall keep full and complete accounts concerning all matters and things relating to the project and annually shall prepare balance sheet and income...
California Water Code Section 11420
All books and papers pertaining to matters provided for in this part shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any party...
California Water Code Section 11450
The provisions of this article are subject to the provisions of Chapter 4 of this part.
California Water Code Section 11451
The department shall have full charge and control of the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project and the collection of all rates, charges, and...
California Water Code Section 11452
The department shall proceed with the construction of the project immediately upon funds being available therefor and shall carry such work to completion as rapidly...
California Water Code Section 11453
The collection of rates, charges, and revenues shall be continued as provided in this part until all bonds issued are fully redeemed and paid.
California Water Code Section 11454
Under such regulations and upon such terms, limitations, and conditions as it prescribes, the department may do any of the following: (a) Fix and establish...
California Water Code Section 11455
The department shall enter into such contracts and fix and establish such prices, rates, and charges so as at all times to provide revenue which...
California Water Code Section 11460
In the construction and operation by the department of any project under the provisions of this part a watershed or area wherein water originates, or...
California Water Code Section 11461
In no other way than by purchase or otherwise as provided in this part shall water rights of a watershed, area, or the inhabitants be...
California Water Code Section 11462
The provisions of this article shall not be so construed as to create any new property rights other than against the department as provided in...
California Water Code Section 11463
In the construction and operation by the department of any project under the provisions of this part, no exchange of the water of any watershed...
California Water Code Section 11464
No water right, reservoir, conduit, or facility for the generation, production, transmission, or distribution of electric power, acquired by the department shall ever be sold,...
California Water Code Section 11465
The department shall not make any change, alteration, or revision of any rates, prices, or charges established by any contract entered into pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 11500
Notwithstanding anything in this part to the contrary or in conflict herewith the department may do any or all of the following: (a) Enter into...
California Water Code Section 11550
The provisions of this chapter are subject to the provisions of Chapter 4 of this part.
California Water Code Section 11551
The department shall design all works to be constructed under this part.
California Water Code Section 11552
The department may construct the works or any portion thereof or may contract with the United States that the works or any portion thereof may...
California Water Code Section 11553
The cost of all works authorized to be constructed under this chapter shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds issued and sold under the...
California Water Code Section 11554
All works constructed pursuant to this chapter shall be constructed under and in accordance with the provisions of the State Contract Act insofar as the...
California Water Code Section 11554.1
Notwithstanding any provisions of the State Contract Act, the department may award and enter into construction contracts which require expenditures in excess of funds presently...
California Water Code Section 11555
The department shall require of each contractor bonds for the faithful performance of any contract or subcontract and for the payment for any labor, materials,...
California Water Code Section 11556
Money realized on any such bonds shall be paid into the construction fund.
California Water Code Section 11560
The department shall construct the project when, in its judgment, appropriations, contributions, and revenues from all sources which are available or which will be made...
California Water Code Section 11565
The construction of all or any part of the San Joaquin Pumping System may be deferred until such time as the department determines that the...
California Water Code Section 11566
In case the construction of all or any part of the San Joaquin Pumping System is deferred, the construction of all other units of the...
California Water Code Section 11567
The department shall ascertain and determine when the project or any unit thereof is completed and thereupon the project or unit shall be deemed completed...
California Water Code Section 11575
For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating the project and for the purpose of providing and substituting new facilities for facilities to be taken...
California Water Code Section 11576
The cost of contruction of the project includes the cost and expense of acquiring property and any such cost and expense is an integral part...
California Water Code Section 11577
Nothing in this chapter shall in any way interfere with or abridge the right of the department or of any state agency to acquire any...
California Water Code Section 11578
In any lease, easement, or right of entry agreement entered into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant of easement, right-of-way, or...
California Water Code Section 11580
When the department cannot acquire any necessary property by agreement with the owner, the department may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire the...
California Water Code Section 11584
No water which, prior to January 13, 1934, was appropriated, or for which application has been filed prior to January 13, 1934, and remains in...
California Water Code Section 11585
Where any water or property mentioned in the next preceding section has, prior to July 1, 1933, been filed on, appropriated, or dedicated to public...
California Water Code Section 11586
Where any water or property mentioned in Section 11584 has, prior to July 1, 1933, been filed on, appropriated, or dedicated to a public use...
California Water Code Section 11588
Whenever the right of occupancy of any person upon national forest or national park lands is terminated because of the construction of the project, the...
California Water Code Section 11590
The department has no power to take or destroy the whole or any part of the line or plant of any common carrier railroad, other...
California Water Code Section 11591
The expense of the department in complying with the requirements of this article is part of the cost of constructing the project.
California Water Code Section 11592
In the event the department and any common carrier railroad, other public utility, or state agency fail to agree as to the character or location...
California Water Code Section 11595
Subject to the provisions of Section 11464, the department may do any of the following: (a) Sell or otherwise dispose of any rights of way,...
California Water Code Section 11625
Any state agency, mutual water company, political subdivision, or other entity or organization may enter into contracts with the department for the purchase or for...
California Water Code Section 11626
In entering into and awarding contracts, in case of equal or equivalent offers, including consideration of the cost of construction, operation, and maintenance of the...
California Water Code Section 11627
Every contract made by the department for the sale of water, use of water, water storage, electric power, or other service shall provide that, in...
California Water Code Section 11628
The act of the department in ceasing on any default to furnish or deliver water, use of water, water storage, electric power, or other service...
California Water Code Section 11650
In case of the award by the department of any contract or lease to any state agency for the furnishing of water, the use of...
California Water Code Section 11651
The governing body charged with the levying of taxes or assessments in any state agency which contracts to purchase from the department any water, use...
California Water Code Section 11652
The governing body shall, whenever necessary, levy upon all property in the state agency not exempt from taxation, a tax or assessment sufficient to provide...
California Water Code Section 11653
All officers of any State agency charged with the collection of the taxes or assessments levied by the State agency shall enforce and collect all...
California Water Code Section 11654
All money collected for taxes or assessments under this article shall be kept in a separate fund by the treasurer or other officer of the...
California Water Code Section 11655
In the event of failure, neglect, or refusal of any officer of any state agency to levy any tax or assessment necessary to provide payment...
California Water Code Section 11656
The use by the department of any remedy specified in this article for the enforcement of any contract made with it is not exclusive and...
California Water Code Section 11661
In addition to the powers conferred by law, and not in derogation or in limitation thereof, any state agency may enter into and execute appropriate...
California Water Code Section 11661.1
The department may agree in a contract with a state agency or department of a state agency that payments to be made under a contract...
California Water Code Section 11662
Any State agency may comply with the terms, provisions, and conditions of any contract entered into by it pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 11663
Any state agency may, in or pursuant to a contract with the department, do any or all of the following: (a) Provide in the contract...
California Water Code Section 11664
All funds accruing to a special account established pursuant to the next preceding section, or deposited therein, in compliance with the terms and provisions of...
California Water Code Section 11670
Any contract or lease made by the department with any person, other than a state agency, providing for the furnishing by the department of water,...
California Water Code Section 11671
The department shall not cancel any contract or lease under the next preceding section unless and until it first determines and assures itself that notwithstanding...
California Water Code Section 11700
For the purpose of providing money and funds to pay the cost and expense of carrying out any of the objects and purposes of this...
California Water Code Section 11701
Whenever the department determines that it is necessary to carry out any of the objects and purposes of this part, it shall prepare preliminary cost...
California Water Code Section 11705
Bonds shall be issued in the name of the department and shall constitute obligations only of the department and shall be identified as Central Valley...
California Water Code Section 11706
Any provisions not inconsistent with this part may be contained in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds which limit, restrict, or regulate the holding,...
California Water Code Section 11707
While any bonds remain outstanding, the powers, duties or existence of the department or any official or agency of the State shall not be diminished...
California Water Code Section 11708
The holder of any bond may by mandamus or other appropriate proceedings require and compel the performance of any of the duties imposed upon any...
California Water Code Section 11709
The enumeration of rights and remedies in the next preceding section does not exclude the exercise or prosecution of any other rights or remedies by...
California Water Code Section 11710
The department may contract loans and borrow money from the United States through the sale of bonds upon such conditions and terms as may be...
California Water Code Section 11711
Temporary or interim bonds, certificates, or receipts, of any denominations and with or without coupons attached thereto, signed by the director, may be issued and...
California Water Code Section 11712
The purchase price of bonds shall be paid for the account of the department to the Treasurer or the designee of the Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 11713
Notwithstanding anything otherwise provided in this part, any expense incurred by the department for advertising, engraving, printing, clerical, legal, or other services necessary to properly...
California Water Code Section 11714
The department shall return the appropriation made by Chapter 12 of the Statutes of 1935, or so much thereof as is used, with interest thereon...
California Water Code Section 11720
Bonds issued under this part shall contain a recital on the face thereof that the payment or redemption of the bonds and the payment of...
California Water Code Section 11721
Bonds issued under this part shall not constitute or be a debt, liability, or obligation of the State. Payment of both principal and interest of...
California Water Code Section 11722
All bond redemption and interest payments shall constitute a first and direct charge and lien on all revenues received from the operation of the project,...
California Water Code Section 11723
The collection of revenues shall be continued until all bonds with interest thereon are fully redeemed and paid.
California Water Code Section 11730
The department shall determine the form, conditions, and denominations of all bonds and the dates which the bonds shall bear.
California Water Code Section 11731
The department and the Treasurer shall determine the interest rate or rates on the bonds. The rate or rates may be fixed or variable and...
California Water Code Section 11732
It is not necessary that all bonds of the same authorized issue bear the same interest rate.
California Water Code Section 11733
Principal and interest on bonds shall be payable at such place or places as may be fixed and determined by the department.
California Water Code Section 11734
Bonds may contain provisions for registration thereof as to principal only or as to both principal and interest.
California Water Code Section 11735
Bonds may be issued in coupon form with interest payable at such times as determined by the department and shall mature at such times and...
California Water Code Section 11736
The department may provide for the retirement of bonds at any time or times prior to their maturity and in such manner and upon payment...
California Water Code Section 11736.5
The department may enter into banking, insurance, remarketing, and other financial arrangements as may be necessary or desirable to provide additional security for the payment...
California Water Code Section 11737
All bonds shall be signed by the director and countersigned by the Governor.
California Water Code Section 11738
The signature of the director and the Governor may be by facsimile.
California Water Code Section 11739
All interest coupons shall bear the facsimile signature of the director.
California Water Code Section 11740
In case any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 11750
Bonds may be issued and sold from time to time and in such amounts as may be deemed necessary in the judgment of the department...
California Water Code Section 11751
Bonds may be sold below the par or face value thereof, but the sale price shall not be less than 94 percent of the par...
California Water Code Section 11752
Successive issues of bonds shall have equal preference with respect to the redemption thereof and the payment of interest thereon, but the department may fix...
California Water Code Section 11753
All bonds issued are negotiable instruments.
California Water Code Section 11754
All bonds authorized for issuance by the department shall be sold by the Treasurer at public sale by bid or at private sale by negotiation,...
California Water Code Section 11755
The department may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds duly authorized to be issued, but which have not yet been sold and...
California Water Code Section 11760
The proceeds from the sale of bonds shall be paid to the Treasurer or the designee of the Treasurer to the credit of the construction
California Water Code Section 11761
The proceeds shall be paid out, disbursed, or applied solely for one or more of the following: (a) The construction, reconstruction, and repair of the...
California Water Code Section 11761.5
(a) If the department sells bonds to finance a water purchase, the bonds, including all refinancing of the bonds, shall be scheduled to mature within...
California Water Code Section 11762
The department may agree with the purchaser of bonds upon any conditions or limitations restricting the disbursement of the proceeds that may be deemed advisable...
California Water Code Section 11770
From the money deposited in the construction fund the State Treasurer shall transfer to the place or places of payment named in the bonds the...
California Water Code Section 11771
After the periods mentioned in the next preceding section the Treasurer shall transfer from the revenue fund to the place or places named in the...
California Water Code Section 11772
All funds transferred for the payment of principal or interest on bonds shall be segregated and applied solely for the payment of the principal and
California Water Code Section 11780
Any surplus which exists in the construction fund shall be applied to the retirement of bonds issued for construction of the project by purchase or
California Water Code Section 11781
In the event the bonds cannot be purchased at a price satisfactory to the department and are not by their terms callable prior to maturity...
California Water Code Section 11782
The proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds may provide limitations and conditions upon the time and manner of applying such surplus to the purchase and...
California Water Code Section 11783
The terms upon which the bonds shall be purchased or called and such limitations and conditions as are mentioned in the preceding section shall be...
California Water Code Section 11784
All bonds retired by purchase or call shall be immediately canceled.
California Water Code Section 11800
Money required to meet the costs of construction of the project and all expenses and costs incidental thereto and to meet the costs of operating...
California Water Code Section 11801
All interest received or earned on money deposited in a fund provided for in this part shall be credited to and become a part of...
California Water Code Section 11802
The proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds may contain appropriate provisions governing the use and application of bond proceeds and revenues for the purposes specified...
California Water Code Section 11803
The department may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds or may otherwise agree with the purchasers of bonds regarding the deposit of...
California Water Code Section 11804
The depositaries and security provided for or agreed upon shall be qualified and eligible in accordance with the requirements of law.
California Water Code Section 11805
Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, the proceeds received from the sale of bonds and the revenues received from the operation of the project may...
California Water Code Section 11806
The amounts required to be transferred by the State Treasurer as provided in this part shall be ascertained and computed by the department and the...
California Water Code Section 11807
When the department, with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, deems it in the best interests of the state, it may authorize the State...
California Water Code Section 11810
There is in the State Treasury The Central Valley Water Project Construction Fund which is continued in existence.
California Water Code Section 11811
The construction fund shall at all times be kept segregated and set apart from all other funds.
California Water Code Section 11812
Any and all appropriations and contributions received from the United States, the State, any State agency, any political subdivision, or any other source for the...
California Water Code Section 11813
All costs and expenses of the department, including interest due and payable, incurred in performing the duties prescribed in this part prior to and during...
California Water Code Section 11814
All the costs and expenses mentioned in the next preceding section shall be charged as a part of the cost of construction of the project...
California Water Code Section 11815
There is in the State Treasury the Central Valley Water Project Revenue Fund which is continued in existence.
California Water Code Section 11816
All revenues received from the operation of the project shall be paid over by the department at least monthly to the State Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 11817
The State Treasurer shall deposit the revenues to the credit of the revenue fund as demand deposits in a depositary authorized by law to receive...
California Water Code Section 11818
The revenue fund shall at all times be kept segregated and set apart from all other funds.
California Water Code Section 11819
All appropriations and contributions received from the United States, the State, any State agency, any political subdivision, or from any other source for the purpose...
California Water Code Section 11820
After the expiration of one year after the completion of the project, all costs and expenses of the department, including interst due and payable, incurred...
California Water Code Section 11821
The money in the revenue fund is hereby appropriated for the payment of costs and expenses, for the maintenance and operation of the project, for...
California Water Code Section 11822
The money remaining in the revenue fund after providing the amount required for interest and redemption of bonds shall be devoted to the payment of...
California Water Code Section 11823
Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, the department may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds that revenues received during the period of...
California Water Code Section 11830
The proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds may provide for the setting up of a reserve fund or funds out of the revenues not needed...
California Water Code Section 11831
Any proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds and providing for the setting up of a reserve fund may also require the immediate application of all...
California Water Code Section 11832
The money remaining in the revenue fund after providing the amount required for interest and redemption of bonds as provided in this article shall be...
California Water Code Section 11835
Warrants for payments to be made on account of bonds shall be drawn by the State Controller upon request of the State Treasurer whenever the...
California Water Code Section 11840
All money in the construction fund not required to meet preconstruction, acquisition, or construction costs and expenses, or interest thereon, of the project, or unit...
California Water Code Section 11841
The department may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds that the investment of surplus money shall be made only in particular bonds...
California Water Code Section 11842
If the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds do not require surplus revenues to be held or applied in any particular manner, they shall be...
California Water Code Section 11850
When any of the works authorized by this part are being constructed by the department, the department may carry or cause to be carried such...
California Water Code Section 11851
The department may carry insurance to cover any accident or destruction in part or in whole to any works until all bonds and interest thereon...
California Water Code Section 11852
All money collected on any indemnity bond or insurance policy as the result of any damage or injury to any works shall be used for...
California Water Code Section 11853
The department may carry insurance or indemnity bonds insuring against the loss of revenues to be derived from the project by reason of any interruption...
California Water Code Section 11854
Insurance or indemnity bonds against loss of revenues may be in an amount equal to the probable revenues to be received from the use and...
California Water Code Section 11855
The department may provide in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds for the carrying of insurance as authorized by this part, and the purchase...
California Water Code Section 11900
The Legislature finds and declares it to be necessary for the general public health and welfare that preservation of fish and wildlife be provided for...
California Water Code Section 11901
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the planning and construction of water storage, conservation, and regulation facilities and associated fish and...
California Water Code Section 11903
As used in this chapter, "project" means any physical structure to provide for the conservation, storage, regulation, transportation, or use of water, constructed by the...
California Water Code Section 11905
The provision of this chapter shall apply to the Central Valley Project and every other project constructed by the State itself or by the State...
California Water Code Section 11910
There shall be incorporated in the planning and construction of each project those features (including, but not limited to, additional storage capacity) that the department,...
California Water Code Section 11910.1
In furtherance of the policies specified in Section 11910, the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Boating...
California Water Code Section 11910.5
Such recreational purposes include, but are not limited to, those recreational pursuits generally associated with the out-of-doors, such as camping, picnicking, fishing, hunting, water contact...
California Water Code Section 11911
The planning for public recreation use and fish and wildlife preservation and enhancement in connection with state water projects shall be a part of the...
California Water Code Section 11912
The department, in fixing and establishing prices, rates, and charges for water and power, shall include as a reimbursable cost of any state water project...
California Water Code Section 11913
(a) The Legislature hereby declares its intent that, except as funds are provided pursuant to Section 11915, there shall be included in the budget for...
California Water Code Section 11914
The department shall make any necessary revisions in the allocation of costs of any state water project works constructed for the development of water and...
California Water Code Section 11915
All moneys deposited in the Central Valley Water Project Construction Fund pursuant to the provisions of Section 12.1 of Chapter 138, Statutes of 1964, First...
California Water Code Section 11915.1
The provisions of this chapter shall not limit the department in the financing and construction of any of the facilities of the State Water Resources...
California Water Code Section 11915.5
For the purpose of furthering recreation in any project of the department, the department may exchange any real property it has acquired for property in...
California Water Code Section 11917
The Department of Fish and Game shall manage fish and wildlife resources at state water projects, including any such additional resources as are created by...
California Water Code Section 11918
The Department of Parks and Recreation is authorized to design, construct, operate, and maintain public recreation facilities at state water projects, with the exception of...
California Water Code Section 11919
Public recreation facilities in connection with state water projects are recreational areas.
California Water Code Section 11920
The Wildlife Conservation Board is authorized to design and construct public fishing access sites to aqueducts constructed as part of state water projects in accordance...
California Water Code Section 11922
The Legislature finds and declares that due to insufficient funds recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement facilities of state water projects are generally inadequate to...
California Water Code Section 11922.1
The Legislature further finds and declares that a guaranteed source of funding is necessary in order to carry out the intent of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 11922.2
The purpose of this article is to provide funds to assist in meeting the costs of planning and developing facilities for recreation and fish and...
California Water Code Section 11922.3
The expenditures of the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be as hereafter provided by the Legislature. All proposed appropriations for the...
California Water Code Section 11922.4
Bonds in the total amount of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000), or so much thereof as is necessary, of which not more than fifty-four million dollars...
California Water Code Section 11922.5
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury such sum annually as will be necessary to pay the principal and interest...
California Water Code Section 11922.6
The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this article, together with interest earned thereon, if any, shall be deposited in the Recreation and...
California Water Code Section 11922.7
The Recreation and Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Finance Committee is hereby created to carry out the purposes of this article. The committee consists of the...
California Water Code Section 11922.8
Insofar as it is not inconsistent with the express provisions of this article, the State General Obligation Bond Law U Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 11922.9
For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this article the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General...
California Water Code Section 11925
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Davis-Dolwig Act. "
California Water Code Section 11950
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Water Conservation Projects Act of 1985.
California Water Code Section 11951
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Agriculture is this state's largest income producer, contributing approximately $14 billion annually to the...
California Water Code Section 11952
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to encourage local agencies and private enterprise to implement potential water conservation and...
California Water Code Section 11953
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter or impair any provision of law providing protections for areas of origin, including, but not limited...
California Water Code Section 11954
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter or impair any existing rights, including rights to divert water from the Colorado River and rights...
California Water Code Section 11960
Any water supplier or user of water in the state that has an existing right which permits the supplier or user to sell water may...
California Water Code Section 11961
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where any person or public agency undertakes any water conservation effort, either separately or jointly, pursuant to any contract...
California Water Code Section 11962
Water conservation and reclamation projects eligible for assistance under this chapter include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Projects for municipal and industrial...
California Water Code Section 11963
Any contract entered into pursuant to this chapter for the transfer or sale of conserved or recycled water may provide for the recall of water...
California Water Code Section 11964
Water conservation or reclamation projects developed pursuant to this chapter may be funded pursuant to any bond law heretofore or hereafter approved by the voters...
California Water Code Section 11965
This article shall not be applicable to the State Water Resources Development System.
California Water Code Section 11970
The department may use Central Valley Project revenue bonds or other funds available for the purposes of the State Water Resources Development System to finance,...
California Water Code Section 11971
As used in this article, "sponsoring contractor" means a contractor or contractors, who have a long-term water supply contract with the department and who agree...
California Water Code Section 11972
A local water conservation project described in Section 11970 is eligible for funding pursuant to this article if, in the determination of the department, the...
California Water Code Section 11973
The department shall determine whether a local water conservation project described in Section 11970 is economically competitive by comparing, in an engineering and economic analysis,...
California Water Code Section 11974
A local water conservation project described in Section 11970 shall not be constructed or implemented pursuant to this article until both of the following occurs:...
California Water Code Section 11975
In the event of a shortage in water supply, within the meaning of Article 18(a) of the standard water supply contract between the department and...
California Water Code Section 11976
This article is the only portion of this chapter applicable to the State Water Resources Development System.
California Water Code Section 11980
The department shall establish criteria for determining the eligibility of water conservation projects for assistance under this chapter and shall establish criteria for determination of...
California Water Code Section 11981
The State Water Resources Control Board shall establish criteria for determining both of the following: (a) The eligibility of water reclamation projects for assistance under...
California Water Code Section 11982
The department shall establish criteria for determining whether a water conservation or reclamation project results in a net increase in the amount of water made...
California Water Code Section 11983
The department and the State Water Resources Control Board shall only approve for funding by the state under this chapter those projects which result in...
California Water Code Section 11984
The department is authorized to adopt those rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out, and as are consistent with, this chapter.
California Water Code Section 11985
In providing financial assistance pursuant to this chapter, the department shall impose terms and conditions that are designed to protect the state's investment and that...
California Water Code Section 12000
As used in this part, "person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company, but not including any public corporation or...
California Water Code Section 12001
As used in this part, "United States" means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees,...
California Water Code Section 12002
If any provision of this part, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the part, or the...
California Water Code Section 12003
Any person may co-operate and contract with the United States, under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or...
California Water Code Section 12004
The co-operation or contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Construction, acquisition, purchase, extension, operation or maintenance of works and...
California Water Code Section 12005
Any person has all powers, rights, and privileges necessary to enable such person to enter into any contract referred to in this part, and to...
California Water Code Section 12006
Any person, for the purpose of performing the obligations of any contract entered into by such person under the provisions of this part, or for...
California Water Code Section 12007
Any person, by an action brought pursuant to the provisions of this part, may submit any contract or proposed contract entered into, or proposed to...
California Water Code Section 12008
The validation proceedings shall be an action in rem and shall be brought pursuant to the procedure provided by Sections 861, 862, 865, 866, 867,...
California Water Code Section 12017
The provisions of this part are cumulative and are not intended to and they shall not be construed as repealing, amending, or otherwise affecting any...
California Water Code Section 12050
The following definitions shall govern the construction of this part: (a) "Public agency" includes any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the State...
California Water Code Section 12051
The Legislature hereby declares that the purpose of this part is to enable the acquisition of water supplies from the Washoe Project on the Truckee...
California Water Code Section 12052
The department may enter into a contract for the acquisition of and payment for a water supply made available to the people of the State...
California Water Code Section 12053
(a) As a provision of any contract entered into pursuant to Section 12052, and for the purpose of securing its performance thereunder, the department may...
California Water Code Section 12054
Under such regulations and upon such terms, limitations, and conditions as it prescribes, the department may: (a) Fix and establish the prices, rates, and charges...
California Water Code Section 12055
(a) As a provision of any contract entered into pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 12054, and for the purpose of securing its performance thereunder,...
California Water Code Section 12056
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, every public agency empowered by law to make water available for any beneficial use of lands or...
California Water Code Section 12057
(a) Before a public agency may enter into a contract with the department for a water supply from the Washoe Project, or from any division...
California Water Code Section 12200
The Legislature hereby finds that the water problems of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are unique within the State; the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join...
California Water Code Section 12201
The Legislature finds that the maintenance of an adequate water supply in the Delta sufficient to maintain and expand agriculture, industry, urban, and recreational development...
California Water Code Section 12202
Among the functions to be provided by the State Water Resources Development System, in coordination with the activities of the United States in providing salinity...
California Water Code Section 12203
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State that no person, corporation or public or private agency or the State or the...
California Water Code Section 12204
In determining the availability of water for export from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta no water shall be exported which is necessary to meet the requirements...
California Water Code Section 12205
It is the policy of the State that the operation and management of releases from storage into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of water for use...
California Water Code Section 12220
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta shall include all the lands within the area bounded as follows, and as shown on the attached map prepared by the...
California Water Code Section 12225
The plan for improvement of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta levees, as set forth in Bulletin No. 192 of the Department of Water Resources, dated May...
California Water Code Section 12226
The department may prepare detailed plans and specifications for the improvement of the levees or levee segments specified in Section 12225.
California Water Code Section 12226.2
The department may proceed immediately with the improvement of a pilot levee project which the department determines, after a public hearing, is in critical need...
California Water Code Section 12227
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Nejedly-Mobley Delta Levees Act".
California Water Code Section 12230
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a serious problem of water quality exists in the San Joaquin River between the junction of the San...
California Water Code Section 12231
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State that no person, corporation or public or private agency or the State or the...
California Water Code Section 12232
The State Water Resources Control Board, the State Department of Water Resources, the California Water Commission, and any other agency of the state having jurisdiction,...
California Water Code Section 12233
Nothing in this part shall be construed as affecting the quality of water diverted into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta from the Sacramento River, nor as...
California Water Code Section 12250
The department is authorized to construct a recreation project in the vicinity of the City of Oroville along the Feather River. Recreation projects which may...
California Water Code Section 12251
In order to construct the recreation project authorized pursuant to Section 12250, the department may exercise any of the powers conferred upon it by the...
California Water Code Section 12252
Construction of the recreation project authorized pursuant to Section 12250 shall be contingent upon a favorable environmental impact determination, and upon the execution of an...
California Water Code Section 12255
Any land acquisition for the purposes of this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 12300
(a) The Delta Flood Protection Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. There shall be deposited in the fund all moneys appropriated to the...
California Water Code Section 12301
The Delta Flood Protection Fund is hereby abolished on July 1, 2010, and all unencumbered moneys in the fund are transferred to the General Fund.
California Water Code Section 12303
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, subject to subdivision (b) of Section 12929.12, if twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) or any lesser amount...
California Water Code Section 12306
This chapter applies to special flood control projects subject to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12310) and to the payment of delta levee subventions under...
California Water Code Section 12306.5
The Resources Agency shall supervise the implementation of the programs subject to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 12307
(a) The Resources Agency, the department, the Reclamation Board, and the Department of Fish and Game shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to coordinate...
California Water Code Section 12310
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Local public agency" means a reclamation district or levee district or other...
California Water Code Section 12311
(a) The department shall develop and implement a program of flood control projects on Bethel, Bradford, Holland, Hotchkiss, Jersey, Sherman, Twitchell, and Webb Islands, and...
California Water Code Section 12312
The department may expend any moneys available to it pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 12300 or any moneys available from other...
California Water Code Section 12313
(a) The department shall develop a list of areas where flood control work is needed to protect public facilities or provide public benefits. In developing...
California Water Code Section 12314
(a) Guided by the approved priority list developed pursuant to Section 12313, the department shall develop project plans to accomplish the needed flood protection work...
California Water Code Section 12315
Projects shall be undertaken and completed in accordance with the approved project plans. Project works may be undertaken by the department or, at the department's...
California Water Code Section 12316
In addition to any obligations assumed under an agreement with the department and to the extent consistent with that agreement, the local public agency shall...
California Water Code Section 12318
(a) The Resources Agency may establish a team of federal, state, and local agencies, and other persons or entities with a stake in finding a...
California Water Code Section 12500
The definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part only.
California Water Code Section 12501
"Board" means the Colorado River Board of California.
California Water Code Section 12502
"Commissioner" means the Colorado River Commissioner.
California Water Code Section 12503
"Fund" means the Colorado River Fund.
California Water Code Section 12510
There is in the state government, in the Resources Agency, the Colorado River Board of California.
California Water Code Section 12511
The board consists of eight members appointed by the Governor as provided in this chapter, two of whom shall be public members appointed by the...
California Water Code Section 12512
The governing bodies of the San Diego County Water Authority, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley Water District, the Metropolitan Water District...
California Water Code Section 12513
Each member of the board, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses...
California Water Code Section 12514
(a) The board shall determine, by majority vote, where to maintain its office and shall hold meetings at that office or elsewhere upon call of...
California Water Code Section 12515
All of the records of the board or copies of them shall be maintained at its office.
California Water Code Section 12516
The board shall be subject to the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
California Water Code Section 12517
The board shall adopt such rules or procedure as may be required for the orderly disposition of its business and such regulations as may be...
California Water Code Section 12518
The board shall make such reports and recommendations to the Governor as he requires or as the board deems proper.
California Water Code Section 12519
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the board may hold executive sessions in conjunction with any regular or special meeting and...
California Water Code Section 12525
The board shall elect from among its members, other than the Director of Water Resources or the Director of Fish and Game or their designees,...
California Water Code Section 12526
The commissioner shall serve without compensation, but he shall be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of his
California Water Code Section 12527
The commissioner shall perform the duties imposed upon him by this chapter under the direction of the board.
California Water Code Section 12528
The commissioner shall consult and advise with the board in exercising the powers and performing the duties enumerated in this chapter and make such reports...
California Water Code Section 12529
The commissioner shall exercise on behalf of the State every right and power granted to the State or to any representative of it by Section...
California Water Code Section 12530
The commissioner shall investigate past, present, and potential uses of the water of the Colorado River System within and without the State.
California Water Code Section 12531
The commissioner shall investigate, coordinate, collate, and preserve information, facts, and data bearing upon the claims of all States and of all public or private...
California Water Code Section 12532
The commissioner shall confer with representatives of other States in the Colorado River basin, representatives of the United States, and others concerning problems and measures...
California Water Code Section 12533
The commissioner shall do and perform all other things deemed necessary or expedient to carry out the purposes of this part.
California Water Code Section 12540
From a list of not less than two persons submitted to it by the commissioner, the board shall appoint an executive director, whose duties shall...
California Water Code Section 12541
The board may fix the compensation of the executive director.
California Water Code Section 12550
All irrigation districts, county water districts, municipal water districts, metropolitan water districts, county water authorities, water conservation districts, and flood control districts, may make such...
California Water Code Section 12551
The board may accept any and all contributions to the fund.
California Water Code Section 12552
All contributions accepted by the board shall be deposited by it in the State Treasury to the credit of the fund.
California Water Code Section 12553
The State Controller shall draw warrants upon the fund from time to time upon demand of the commissioner, and the State Treasurer shall pay the
California Water Code Section 12560
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Account" means the Colorado River Management...
California Water Code Section 12561
There is hereby created the Colorado River Management Account in the General Fund. Moneys in the account are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for...
California Water Code Section 12562
(a) (1) In furtherance of implementing and achieving the goals of the "California Plan," the sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) in the account...
California Water Code Section 12563
If the contingencies for a transfer to the San Diego County Water Authority of the conserved water under the water transfer agreement entered into by...
California Water Code Section 12564
Nothing in the contract anticipated by the memorandum of understanding entered into on August 12, 1998, by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and...
California Water Code Section 12565
The two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) made available to the director pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 12562 may be expended solely for the lining...
California Water Code Section 12570
Chapters 1 and 2 of this part shall be known and may be cited as "The State Water Resources Law of 1945."
California Water Code Section 12571
The definitions in this article govern the construction of this part.
California Water Code Section 12573
"Lands, easements and rights of way" includes lands and rights or interests in lands whereon channel improvements and channel rectifications are located; lands, rights, or...
California Water Code Section 12578
It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a primary interest in the control and conservation of flood waters, prevention of damage...
California Water Code Section 12579
It is hereby declared that recurrent floods on streams and rivers, and other waterways of the State, causing loss of life and property, disruption of...
California Water Code Section 12580
It is further declared that the State should engage in the study and coordination of all water development projects, including flood control projects, undertaken by...
California Water Code Section 12581
In studying water development projects, full consideration shall be given to all beneficial uses of the State's water resources, including irrigation, generation of electric energy,...
California Water Code Section 12582
Fish and wildlife values, both economic and recreational, shall be given consideration in any flood control or water conservation program. In the design, construction, and...
California Water Code Section 12582.5
Recreational uses, such as walkways, pathways, access points and view areas, shall be given consideration in any flood control or water conservation program. In the...
California Water Code Section 12582.7
(a) A flood management project that receives financial assistance under this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) shall meet all of the following...
California Water Code Section 12583
It is the intention of the Legislature that it will be the policy of the State that the amount of financial assistance to be given...
California Water Code Section 12583.1
It is also declared to be the policy of the state that the state shall not provide financial assistance for relocation, reconstruction, or replacement of...
California Water Code Section 12584
Notwithstanding all other provisions of Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, appropriations will be made by the State, from time to time by law,...
California Water Code Section 12585
In the event that the Congress after September 22, 1951, authorizes and approves projects, wherein financial assistance is required of local agencies of this State...
California Water Code Section 12585.1
The costs of local co-operation shall include, as to projects specifically adopted and authorized by the Congress and the Legislature, costs hereafter incurred prior, as...
California Water Code Section 12585.2
Notwithstanding any other provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) of this part, and this chapter, the...
California Water Code Section 12585.3
The local agency may receive credit against its share of the costs of lands, easements, and rights-of-way as determined in subdivisions (b) and (d) of...
California Water Code Section 12585.4
Whenever specifically authorized by the Legislature, the department or the board may lend the local agency the funds necessary to pay the local portion of...
California Water Code Section 12585.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800), and this chapter, the following policy shall apply...
California Water Code Section 12585.6
For projects authorized by the Legislature prior to January 1, 1987, or for small flood control projects authorized by Section 12750 for which the department...
California Water Code Section 12585.7
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639), or Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800), the following requirements apply to...
California Water Code Section 12585.8
For all projects funded in accordance with Section 12585.7, the local agency shall receive credit against its share for the value of the lands, easements,...
California Water Code Section 12585.9
The department or the Reclamation Board shall review flood control projects prior to authorization for the purposes of determining whether the project's individual and cumulative...
California Water Code Section 12585.10
Section 161 does not apply to the adoption or revision of regulations, guidelines, or criteria to implement Section 12582.7 and 12585.7.
California Water Code Section 12585.12
The department and the board may participate with the federal government or local agencies in the design of environmental enhancements associated with a federal flood...
California Water Code Section 12585.12
The department and the board may participate with the federal government or local agencies in the design of environmental enhancements associated with a federal flood...
California Water Code Section 12586
It is the intention of the Legislature that nothing in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part shall be deemed to change the policy of...
California Water Code Section 12601
The department shall establish general policies, prescribe rules and regulations for the general administration of Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, and may require...
California Water Code Section 12602
The department, or a representative authorized by the department to do so, may call, conduct or attend conferences or hearings, official or unofficial, within or...
California Water Code Section 12603
The department shall keep itself informed as to any activities, requirements or procedures of the United States, its departments or agencies affecting any proposed water...
California Water Code Section 12604
As to any matter involving the United States, its departments or agencies, which is within the scope of the powers and duties of the department,...
California Water Code Section 12604.3
In matters concerning the coordination of planning, construction, and operation of federal water development and flood control projects in the State of California with state...
California Water Code Section 12606
The department may hold hearings and conduct investigations in any part of the State.
California Water Code Section 12608
At any hearing by or on behalf of the department any county, city, state agency, including the Department of Fish and Game, public district, association,...
California Water Code Section 12609
As a further means of carrying out the policies defined in Sections 12578 to 12582, inclusive, the department shall have the following powers and duties:...
California Water Code Section 12610
In performing the duties prescribed in Section 12609, the director, or his authorized representative, may travel either within or without the State and shall consult...
California Water Code Section 12611
The department may cooperate with any county, city, state agency or public district on flood control and other water problems and when requested by such...
California Water Code Section 12612
The department has no authority to undertake the construction of flood control or other water projects provided for under Chapters 1 and 2 of this...
California Water Code Section 12616
The department may conduct investigations of the water resources of the State, formulate plans for the control, conservation, protection, and utilization of such water resources,...
California Water Code Section 12617
The department, upon its own initiative, or when requested in writing by a county, city, state agency or public district, may investigate, conduct surveys and...
California Water Code Section 12617.1
The department, in making investigations and plans for water projects and for the solution of the water problems of the state pursuant to Sections 12616...
California Water Code Section 12618
The department may recommend the construction of any project, including the time for constructing it, and the amount of funds which should be allocated or...
California Water Code Section 12619
Reports and recommendations shall be submitted by the department to each county, city, state agency, or public district which has appeared at any hearing held...
California Water Code Section 12620
Within 90 days from the date of submission of the report and recommendations of the department, or within such extended period as the department may...
California Water Code Section 12621
After the expiration of the period or extended period for the submission of written views and recommendations, or prior thereto in the event all those...
California Water Code Section 12622
Investigations which form the basis of any reports and recommendations of the department shall be conducted to the extent deemed practicable by the department in...
California Water Code Section 12623
Prior to adoption of any report and recommendations authorized pursuant to Sections 12616 to 12622, inclusive, and Section 12626, the department shall hold a hearing...
California Water Code Section 12624
In making recommendation to the Legislature respecting the amount of financial assistance to be given by the State, as provided for in Sections 12616 to...
California Water Code Section 12625
In determining the cost of any project, damage to fish and wildlife that will probably result shall be included in the amount of the cost.
California Water Code Section 12626
Reports and recommendations made by the department shall be advisory only and the Legislature shall finally determine the priorities in building such projects and the...
California Water Code Section 12627
It is the intention of the Legislature that the department shall investigate all phases of any proposed water project, including flood control, water conservation, domestic...
California Water Code Section 12627.3
It is declared to be the policy of the State that the costs of solution of seepage and erosion problems which arise or will arise...
California Water Code Section 12627.4
The department, in making investigations and plans for water projects and in making recommendations thereon to the Governor and the Legislature, shall include therein consideration...
California Water Code Section 12628
In a multiple-type project authorized and adopted by Congress, which includes, in addition to works for flood control purposes, works and construction for other than...
California Water Code Section 12629
In a multiple-type project which includes works and construction for flood control and for other than flood control purposes, and in projects which do not...
California Water Code Section 12630
Prior to recommending to the Legislature the approval for state assistance of any project, designed in whole or in part for flood control, adopted and...
California Water Code Section 12631
The department, in addition to the reports and recommendations made to the Legislature as provided in Sections 12616 to 12623, inclusive, and Section 12626, may...
California Water Code Section 12632
Prior to any hearing and prior to beginning any investigation of the water problems of any specific portion of the State pursuant to Section 12616...
California Water Code Section 12633
Notice, to those who have filed and requested service by mail, shall be sent to the respective addresses of record at the time of mailing.
California Water Code Section 12634
Notice given as provided in Sections 12632 and 12633 shall be deemed full and sufficient notice to all parties in interest of the hearing or
California Water Code Section 12634.3
The department shall submit, prior to January 1st of each year, a report to the California Water Commission summarizing its activities, with emphasis on existing...
California Water Code Section 12639
The works of improvement for the control, conservation and utilization of destructive flood waters and the reclamation and protection of lands that are susceptible to...
California Water Code Section 12639.1
The department may investigate any project adopted and authorized by the state and approved by the Congress to determine whether the project is no longer...
California Water Code Section 12640
The provisions of Part 2 of this division shall be applicable to all water made available by the construction of the works of any project...
California Water Code Section 12641
Any county, city, state agency or public district is authorized to make agreements with the United States or any of its departments or agencies obligating...
California Water Code Section 12642
In all cases where the Federal Government does not maintain and operate projects, it is the responsibility and duty of the county, city, state agency,...
California Water Code Section 12643
Prior to any local agency receiving payment or reimbursement pursuant to Section 12585.5 or 12585.7, for projects authorized on or after January 1, 2001, the...
California Water Code Section 12645
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In 1911, the Legislature adopted a flood control plan for the Sacramento Valley, as proposed...
California Water Code Section 12646
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Board" means the Central Valley Flood...
California Water Code Section 12647
(a) The state shall not have responsibility or liability for the construction, operation, and maintenance of central valley flood control facilities identified in this article...
California Water Code Section 12648
The projects for the control of floods and other purposes on the Sacramento River adopted by the acts of Congress approved March 1, 1917, May...
California Water Code Section 12648.1
The plan of flood control on the American River is hereby authorized and adopted substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers,...
California Water Code Section 12648.2
The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River from Chico Landing to Red Bluff, California, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12648.3
The project for Hidden Reservoir and channel improvement on the Fresno River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12648.4
The project for Buchanan Reservoir and channel improvement on Chowchilla River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of...
California Water Code Section 12648.5
The project for New Melones Reservoir and channel improvement on Stanislaus River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12648.6
The Mormon Slough channel improvement project on Calaveras River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in...
California Water Code Section 12648.7
The project for flood protection on the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester, Plumas County, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 12649
It is the intention of the Legislature that, if a feasible plan can be found which will provide adequate flood control in the upper Sacramento...
California Water Code Section 12649.1
The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River is further adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers...
California Water Code Section 12650
The plan of improvement for flood protection on various streams in the Merced County Stream Group in the San Joaquin Valley is adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12651
The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Lower San Joaquin River and tributaries, including Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers, is adopted...
California Water Code Section 12652
The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Calaveras River and Littlejohn Creek and tributaries is adopted and authorized substantially in...
California Water Code Section 12653
The plan of improvement on the Calaveras River and Littlejohn Creek includes the enlargement of channels of Littlejohn Creek below the Farmington Dam as subsequently...
California Water Code Section 12654
The project for the Fresno County Stream Group for flood control is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of...
California Water Code Section 12655
The City and County of San Francisco, the Modesto Irrigation District, and the Turlock Irrigation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War...
California Water Code Section 12656
The City and County of San Francisco, the Modesto Irrigation District, and the Turlock Irrigation District, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the...
California Water Code Section 12656.5
The project for flood protection on Middle Creek, California, is hereby authorized and adopted substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers...
California Water Code Section 12656.6
The Reclamation Board is authorized to provide any assurances to the Secretary of the Army which may be required in connection with the accomplishment of...
California Water Code Section 12656.7
The Reclamation Board is authorized to provide any assurances to the Secretary of the Army which may be required in connection with the accomplishment of...
California Water Code Section 12657
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and this chapter, the Reclamation Board shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary...
California Water Code Section 12658
Except as otherwise provided in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, the Reclamation Board, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans...
California Water Code Section 12659
The project for the Folsom Reservoir on the American River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered...
California Water Code Section 12660
The project for the Isabella Reservoir on the Kern River for flood control and other purposes in the San Joaquin Valley is adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12661
The plan for the Terminus and Success Reservoirs on the Kaweah and Tule Rivers for flood control and other purposes in the San Joaquin Valley...
California Water Code Section 12661.2
(a) The project for flood control on the Tule River, Success Reservoir Enlargement Project, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of...
California Water Code Section 12661.5
(a) The project for flood control on the Kaweah River, Terminus Dam, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12662
The project for flood control and other purposes for the Kings River and Tulare Lake Basin is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12662.1
The Kings River Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the act of Congress...
California Water Code Section 12662.2
The Kings River Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plan of improvement for flood control referred to in...
California Water Code Section 12663
The plan of improvement for flood control and water conservation on Cache Creek, including Clear Lake, in Yolo and Lake Counties, is hereby adopted and...
California Water Code Section 12664
The project for the Beach-Stone Lake Unit of the Morrison Creek Stream Group Flood Control Project is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12665
With respect to the project authorized in Section 12664, the County of Sacramento shall acquire the lands, easements, and rights-of-way, even though the project report...
California Water Code Section 12666
The project for flood protection on the streams in the vicinity of Fairfield, California, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of...
California Water Code Section 12667
The project for flood control known as the Merced County Streams Project is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12668
(a) The project for flood control on the San Joaquin River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with P.L. 98-63, at a federal cost...
California Water Code Section 12669
The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Fresno County Stream Group identified as the Redbank-Fancher Creeks Flood Control Project, including...
California Water Code Section 12669.1
The Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local...
California Water Code Section 12669.2
The Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, execute the plans and...
California Water Code Section 12670
The Cache Creek Settling Basin Unit of the plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on Cache Creek is hereby adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12670.2
(a) The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River for the City of West Sacramento is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12670.3
The City of West Sacramento, or a joint power authority formed by the City of West Sacramento and Reclamation Districts 537 and 900, may, in...
California Water Code Section 12670.4
The City of West Sacramento, or joint power authority formed by the City of West Sacramento and Reclamation Districts 537 and 900, in conjunction with...
California Water Code Section 12670.7
(a) The project for flood protection along the Feather River and Yuba River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12670.8
(a) The project for flood protection measures on the Upper Guadalupe River in Santa Clara County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12670.10
The project for flood protection along the American River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in...
California Water Code Section 12670.11
(a) (1) The project for flood damage reduction and environmental restoration in the American River watershed in Sacramento County is adopted and authorized substantially in...
California Water Code Section 12670.12
With regard to the project for flood control authorized in Section 12670.10, the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency may join the department or the Reclamation...
California Water Code Section 12670.14
The following projects in areas within the City of Sacramento and the Counties of Sacramento and Sutter are adopted and authorized at an estimated cost...
California Water Code Section 12670.16
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency's share of the nonfederal capital costs of the projects for flood control...
California Water Code Section 12670.20
(a) The projects for flood protection and integrated resource management in the Colusa Basin are adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the "Colusa Basin...
California Water Code Section 12670.22
(a) The state may provide funds for the Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Lake County substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12670.23
(a) The state may provide funds for the Hamilton City Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Glenn County substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12671
The projects on the Ventura River and tributaries for flood protection at Ventura and Ojai, California, are adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12672
The Ventura County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that the local cooperation, required by Section 3 of the...
California Water Code Section 12673
The project for construction of flood control protection along the Santa Clara River, and its tributaries, is approved and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12674
The Ventura County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that local cooperation, required by Section 201 of the...
California Water Code Section 12675
The Ventura County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Sections 12671 and 12673...
California Water Code Section 12676
The projects for the Santa Ana River Basin for the protection of Orange County, including the projects on Lytle and Cajon Creeks for flood protection...
California Water Code Section 12677
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that the local cooperation, required by Section 3 of...
California Water Code Section 12678
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12676 and...
California Water Code Section 12678.1
The project for flood control on the Santa Ana River Mainstem, including Santiago Creek and Oak Street Drain, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance...
California Water Code Section 12678.2
The Orange County Flood Control District, the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, and the San Bernardino County Flood Control District shall give...
California Water Code Section 12678.3
The Orange County Flood Control District, the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, and the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, in conjunction...
California Water Code Section 12679
The plan of improvement for flood control in the Santa Ana River Basin is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12680
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District and the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of...
California Water Code Section 12681
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District and the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army,...
California Water Code Section 12681.1
The plan of improvement for flood control on Lytle and Warm Creeks, San Bernardino County, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations...
California Water Code Section 12681.2
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the act...
California Water Code Section 12681.3
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plan of improvement for flood control referred...
California Water Code Section 12682
The general comprehensive plan for flood control in the basins of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers and Ballona Creek are adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12683
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that the local cooperation, required by Section 3 of...
California Water Code Section 12684
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12682 and...
California Water Code Section 12684.2
(a) The project for flood control in the Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA), known as the LACDA project, is adopted and authorized substantially in...
California Water Code Section 12684.4
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by the Water...
California Water Code Section 12684.6
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall carry out the plans and project described in Section...
California Water Code Section 12684.8
The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall consult with appropriate federal agencies to assess the desirability, feasibility, and costs of modifying the flood control project...
California Water Code Section 12685
The plan of improvement for flood protection on the Pajaro River and tributaries is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12686
The Counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Benito and the Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to...
California Water Code Section 12687
The Counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Benito and the Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the War...
California Water Code Section 12687.5
(a) The state may provide subvention funds in accordance with Section 12585.7 to the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, or to local agencies in...
California Water Code Section 12688
The program on the Los Angeles River Watershed is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Under Secretary of Agriculture in...
California Water Code Section 12689
The Los Angeles County Flood Control District shall give the necessary assurances that the local cooperation required by the United States on the program mentioned...
California Water Code Section 12690
The program on the Santa Ynez River Watershed is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Acting Secretary of Agriculture in...
California Water Code Section 12691
The County of Santa Barbara shall give the necessary assurances that the local cooperation required by the United States on the program mentioned in Section...
California Water Code Section 12692
Consent is hereby given to the acquisition of lands by the United States for the purposes within the scope of Section 13 of the act...
California Water Code Section 12693
The project on the San Diego River for flood protection at San Diego is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12694
The work of improvement on the San Diego River and Mission Bay, San Diego County, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the report...
California Water Code Section 12695
The City of San Diego shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by Section 1 of the...
California Water Code Section 12696
The City of San Diego, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12694, and...
California Water Code Section 12697
The project for the Conn Creek Reservoir on Conn Creek for flood control and other purposes in the Napa River Basin is adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12698
The project on the Russian River for flood protection and water conservation in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 12699
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District, or either such...
California Water Code Section 12700
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District, or either such...
California Water Code Section 12701
The project on San Lorenzo Creek in Alameda County for flood control and allied purposes is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 12702
The Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12703
The Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to...
California Water Code Section 12704
The project for flood protection on San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12705
The City of Santa Cruz shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by the Federal Flood Control...
California Water Code Section 12706
The City of Santa Cruz, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12704, and...
California Water Code Section 12706.3
(a) The project for flood control on the San Lorenzo River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with congressional approval and the final report...
California Water Code Section 12707
The plan of improvement for flood control, levee, and channel improvements on the Santa Maria River and its tributaries is adopted and authorized substantially in...
California Water Code Section 12708
The County of Santa Barbara shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the act of Congress...
California Water Code Section 12709
The County of Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12707, and...
California Water Code Section 12710
The plan for channel improvements and appurtenant works for flood control on that portion of the Truckee River and tributaries within the State of California,...
California Water Code Section 12711
The department shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation required by the Act of Congress approved September 3,...
California Water Code Section 12712
In conformance with the duty prescribed in Section 12642, it shall be the responsibility and duty of local public agencies, now existing or hereafter formed,...
California Water Code Section 12713
The project for flood protection on the Eel River, in the Sandy Prairie region, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of...
California Water Code Section 12714
The County of Humboldt shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation, required by Section 201 of the Act...
California Water Code Section 12715
The County of Humboldt, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12713, and may...
California Water Code Section 12716
The project for flood protection on Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12717
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation required...
California Water Code Section 12718
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred...
California Water Code Section 12718.1
The project for flood control on Alhambra Creek in Contra Costa County is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12718.2
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required...
California Water Code Section 12718.3
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred...
California Water Code Section 12719
The project for flood protection on Tahchevah Creek, Whitewater River Basin, at and in the vicinity of Palm Springs in Riverside County, is adopted and...
California Water Code Section 12720
The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation required by...
California Water Code Section 12721
The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to...
California Water Code Section 12721.5
(a) The project for flood control on the Santa Ana River at Norco Bluffs is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the final report...
California Water Code Section 12721.7
(a) The project for habitat restoration at Gunnerson Pond is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the final project modification report of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12721.8
Any local entity, for the purposes of carrying out a project authorized by Sections 12661.2, 12670.7, 12670.8, 12670.14, 12670.20, 12684.2, 12706.3, 12721.5, and 12721.5, may...
California Water Code Section 12722
The project for flood protection on Alameda Creek in Alameda County is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12723
The Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12724
The Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to...
California Water Code Section 12725
The project for Russian River, Dry Creek, California is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in...
California Water Code Section 12726
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local co-operation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12727
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to...
California Water Code Section 12727.1
The project for flood control on Sonoma Creek in Sonoma County is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief...
California Water Code Section 12727.2
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12727.3
The Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to...
California Water Code Section 12728
The project for flood protection on Redwood Creek in Humboldt County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of...
California Water Code Section 12729
The County of Humboldt shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the Act of Congress approved...
California Water Code Section 12730
The County of Humboldt, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12728, and may...
California Water Code Section 12731
The project for flood control construction of debris basins and channel clearing in the Santa Barbara, California, area as authorized by Public Law 88-635, 78...
California Water Code Section 12732
The County of Santa Barbara shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by Section 2 of the...
California Water Code Section 12733
The County of Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12731, and...
California Water Code Section 12734
The project for Corte Madera Creek, Marin County, California, is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary of the...
California Water Code Section 12735
The Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12736
The Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to...
California Water Code Section 12737
The project for flood protection on the Klamath River at and in the vicinity of Klamath, California, is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance...
California Water Code Section 12738
The County of Del Norte shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by the Flood Control Act...
California Water Code Section 12739
The County of Del Norte, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12737, and...
California Water Code Section 12740
The project for flood protection for the Lakeport Reservoir on Scott Creek in Lake County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations...
California Water Code Section 12741
The Lake County Watershed Protection District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the Act of...
California Water Code Section 12742
The Lake County Watershed Protection District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12740,...
California Water Code Section 12743
The project for flood protection on San Diego River (Mission Valley), California, is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12743.1
The City of San Diego shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by the act approved October...
California Water Code Section 12743.2
The City of San Diego, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12743, and...
California Water Code Section 12744
The project for flood protection on the Tijuana River in California is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the "Report on an International...
California Water Code Section 12744.1
The City of San Diego shall give assurances satisfactory to the United States that the local cooperation required by federal legislation in connection with the...
California Water Code Section 12744.2
The City of San Diego, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12744, and...
California Water Code Section 12745
The project for flood protection on the Sweetwater River in the County of San Diego is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations...
California Water Code Section 12745.1
With respect to the project authorized by Section 12745, the County of San Diego may acquire the lands, easements and rights-of-way for said project even...
California Water Code Section 12746
The project for flood protection on Tahquitz Creek in California is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of...
California Water Code Section 12746.1
The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the United States that the local cooperation required by federal legislation...
California Water Code Section 12746.2
The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred to...
California Water Code Section 12747
The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on Cucamonga Creek in San Bernardino County is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance...
California Water Code Section 12747.1
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the Act...
California Water Code Section 12747.2
The San Bernardino County Flood Control District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plan of improvement for flood control referred...
California Water Code Section 12748
The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Napa River in Napa County is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance...
California Water Code Section 12748.1
The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12748.2
The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plan of improvement for flood...
California Water Code Section 12748.3
(a) The state may provide funds in accordance with Section 12585.7 to the City of St. Helena, or to local agencies in the County of...
California Water Code Section 12748.5
The project for flood control construction of debris basins and channel clearing in the Santa Barbara, California, area as authorized by Public Law 92-184 (85...
California Water Code Section 12748.6
The Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that local cooperation, required by...
California Water Code Section 12748.7
The Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and projects referred...
California Water Code Section 12749
The project for flood protection on Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks in Contra Costa County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations...
California Water Code Section 12749.1
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required...
California Water Code Section 12749.2
The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred...
California Water Code Section 12749.3
The project for flood control runoff retardation and soil erosion prevention in the watershed of the Hagador-Tin Mine-Kroonen Oak Street Channel, as authorized by Section...
California Water Code Section 12749.4
The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District shall give the necessary assurances that the local cooperation required by the United States on the...
California Water Code Section 12749.5
The project for flood protection on the San Luis Rey River in San Diego County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations...
California Water Code Section 12749.6
The City of Oceanside shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by Senate Document Numbered 91-106, 91st...
California Water Code Section 12749.7
The City of Oceanside, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to in Section 12749.5 and may...
California Water Code Section 12749.8
The project for flood protection measures on the Guadalupe River in Santa Clara County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the plans and...
California Water Code Section 12749.81
The Santa Clara Valley Water District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that local cooperation required by the Report of the...
California Water Code Section 12749.82
The Santa Clara Valley Water District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to in Section 12749.8...
California Water Code Section 12749.9
The project for flood protection measures on Coyote/Berryessa Creeks in Santa Clara County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the...
California Water Code Section 12749.91
The Santa Clara Valley Water District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that local cooperation required by the Water Resources Development...
California Water Code Section 12749.92
The Santa Clara Valley Water District in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plans and project referred to in Section 12749.9...
California Water Code Section 12749.93
(a) The Murrieta Creek Flood Control Project from Winchester Road downstream through the city of Temecula, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with Public...
California Water Code Section 12749.94
(a) The recreation and fish and wildlife features of the Murrieta Creek Flood Control Project from Winchester Road upstream through the City of Murrieta to...
California Water Code Section 12749.95
(a) (1) The project for flood control on the Whitewater River in Riverside County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the congressional approval...
California Water Code Section 12749.97
Notwithstanding Sections 12749.93 and 12749.94, it is the intent of the Legislature that no funds be appropriated for state cooperation in the Murrieta Creek Flood...
California Water Code Section 12749.98
(a) The state may provide subvention funds in accordance with Section 12585.7 to the County of Santa Barbara, or to local agencies in the county,...
California Water Code Section 12750
Small flood control projects not specifically authorized by Congress undertaken by the United States Corps of Engineers pursuant to Section 205 of the Flood Control...
California Water Code Section 12750.1
The State shall pay the cost of lands, easements and rights-of-way for small flood control projects authorized by Section 12750 only if the department finds...
California Water Code Section 12751
Any county, city, state agency or public district affected by a small flood control project referred to in Section 12750 shall give assurances satisfactory to...
California Water Code Section 12800
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Flood Control Law of 1946."
California Water Code Section 12801
As used in this chapter: (a) "Public agency" means any state agency, county, city and county, city, or district of the State, except the department....
California Water Code Section 12802
In pursuance of the policy declared in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, the Legislature finds a state interest in assuming the cost of...
California Water Code Section 12803
The Legislature intends that from time to time by law allocations from the General Fund for flood control projects will be made to pay for...
California Water Code Section 12825
When the United States makes funds available on or after March 12, 1946, for the construction of any flood control project either adopted and authorized...
California Water Code Section 12826
(a) No money appropriated for flood control projects shall be allocated for the purchase of lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for multiple purpose dams or...
California Water Code Section 12827
As to projects other than those approved and authorized by the Legislature, the department shall make its determination in the manner provided by Chapters 1...
California Water Code Section 12828
Except where the co-operation required by the United States in addition to the costs of all lands, easements, and rights-of-way, has been authorized to be...
California Water Code Section 12829
Money allocated to the department for flood control projects shall be reallocated to public agencies upon order of the department after application therefor has been...
California Water Code Section 12830
The department may refuse to make any order for the reallocation of any of the funds if the provisions of this chapter are violated.
California Water Code Section 12831
The department shall submit to the Controller all approved local agency claims for reimbursement allocations for flood control projects within 90 days of receipt of...
California Water Code Section 12832
The Controller shall perform an audit of projects completed pursuant to this chapter within nine months after the claim is received by the department. If...
California Water Code Section 12840
Notwithstanding any other provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800), the policy set forth in this chapter...
California Water Code Section 12841
The Legislature finds and declares that in order to protect the general health and welfare of the public it is necessary to provide for the...
California Water Code Section 12842
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature that the planning and construction of all flood control and watershed...
California Water Code Section 12843
In order to achieve the goals set forth in this chapter, all state agencies exercising resource management responsibilities shall review reconnaissance and feasibility reports submitted...
California Water Code Section 12844
In order to guide state agencies in their review of proposed flood control and watershed protection projects, it is the intent of the Legislature that...
California Water Code Section 12845
In order to realize the full potential of such projects for fish and wildlife enhancement and for recreational development, state agencies having resource management responsibilities...
California Water Code Section 12846
The Department of Fish and Game shall be responsible for the management of all fish and wildlife resources at any project subject to the provisions...
California Water Code Section 12847
Where recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement features are contained in a flood control or watershed protection project, and where such payment is specifically authorized...
California Water Code Section 12848
The Legislature hereby declares that there shall be included in the budget of the department for flood control subventions or for direct acquisitions by the...
California Water Code Section 12849
Any local agency sponsoring a project subject to the provisions of this chapter is hereby authorized to design, construct, operate, and maintain public recreational facilities...
California Water Code Section 12850
Chapter 4 of this part shall be known and may be cited as "The California Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Law."
California Water Code Section 12851
The definitions in this article govern the contruction of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 12853
"Lands, easements and rights of way" includes lands and rights or interests in lands whereon channel improvements and channel rectifications, debris dams and water retarding...
California Water Code Section 12854
"Local organizations" means any county, city, state agency or public district.
California Water Code Section 12860
It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a primary interest in the control and conservation of floodwaters and the prevention of...
California Water Code Section 12861
It is hereby declared that recurrent floods on rivers and streams of this State, causing loss of life and damage to property, disruption of commerce,...
California Water Code Section 12865
It is the intention of the Legislature that it will be the policy of the State to pay the costs of local cooperation required by...
California Water Code Section 12866
The costs of local cooperation which the State will assume pursuant to Section 12865 shall be limited to the costs of lands, easements and rights...
California Water Code Section 12866.1
It is also declared to be the policy of the state that the state shall not provide financial assistance for relocation, reconstruction, or replacement of...
California Water Code Section 12866.2
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the following policy shall apply to projects approved by the appropriate committees of the Congress and by the...
California Water Code Section 12866.3
The local agency may receive credit against its share of the costs of lands, easements, and rights-of-way as determined in subdivisions (b) and (d) of...
California Water Code Section 12866.4
Whenever specifically authorized by the Legislature, the department may lend the local agency the funds necessary to pay the local portion of the costs of...
California Water Code Section 12867
The State shall pay the costs of lands, easements and rights of way for projects described in subsection (a) of Section 12865 only if, or...
California Water Code Section 12868
The State shall pay the costs of lands, easements and rights of way for projects described in subsection (b) of Section 12865 only if, or...
California Water Code Section 12870
When local organizations have agreed with the Secretary of Agriculture upon a plan for works of improvement pursuant to the authorization contained in said Department...
California Water Code Section 12871
The department shall make such a recommendation to the Legislature if it finds that the requirements of Section 12867 or Section 12868 have been met.
California Water Code Section 12872
The findings of the department required by subsection (d) of Section 12867 or of subsection (f) of Section 12868 shall be based upon current cost...
California Water Code Section 12873
The findings of the department required by subsection (c) of Section 12867 or by subsections (a) to (e) of Section 12868 need be made only...
California Water Code Section 12874
Money appropriated to the department for reallocation to local organizations shall be reallocated to local organizations upon order of the department after application therefor has...
California Water Code Section 12875
The department may refuse to make any order for the reallocation of any of the funds if the provisions of this chapter are violated.
California Water Code Section 12878
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (a) "Department" means Department of Water Resources. (b) "Director" means the Director of...
California Water Code Section 12878.1
(a) If the department determines that a unit of a project is not being operated or maintained in accordance with the standards established by federal...
California Water Code Section 12878.2
The statement shall include a description of the unit and the name of the local agency, if any, responsible for its operation and maintenance and...
California Water Code Section 12878.3
Any such statement shall not be admissible as evidence in any court action brought against the local agency, its governing body or any member thereof...
California Water Code Section 12878.4
If the local agency, within 45 days after the date of receipt of the said statement of the department, files a protest thereto with the...
California Water Code Section 12878.5
If no protest is received by the board or department pursuant to the provisions of the preceding section, the board or department shall adopt and...
California Water Code Section 12878.6
If, within 30 days after conclusion of the hearing held pursuant to Section 12878.4 of this code, the governing body of the local agency has...
California Water Code Section 12878.7
The board or department shall prepare a description of the proposed boundaries together with a map thereof for each maintenance area to be formed. For...
California Water Code Section 12878.8
Any maintenance area may be divided into zones when it is determined by the investigation that the benefit to the land in the area is...
California Water Code Section 12878.9
If a maintenance area is divided into zones, the zones shall be given a numerical designation starting with Zone 1 which shall be the zone...
California Water Code Section 12878.10
Upon completion of the said description and map, the board or department shall schedule a hearing to be held either at some convenient place within...
California Water Code Section 12878.11
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation within the proposed boundaries of the maintenance area...
California Water Code Section 12878.12
The notice shall state the time and place of hearing, that the purpose of the hearing is to establish the boundaries of the maintenance area...
California Water Code Section 12878.13
At the hearing any owner of land within the proposed boundaries of the maintenance area or other interested person may offer, and the board or...
California Water Code Section 12878.14
Land lying without the exterior boundaries of the proposed maintenance area as shown on the map prepared by the board or department shall not be...
California Water Code Section 12878.15
When any such additional land is proposed to be included and the owner's consent is not given, the hearing shall be adjourned to a specified...
California Water Code Section 12878.16
Notice of such adjourned hearing, where additional land is to be included, and the purpose thereof shall be given by publication of notice at least...
California Water Code Section 12878.17
Upon the final conclusion of such hearing the board or department shall establish the boundaries of the maintenance area and of the zones therein and...
California Water Code Section 12878.18
Land benefited by more than one unit may be included within as many maintenance areas as there are units by which it is benefited.
California Water Code Section 12878.19
The establishment of a maintenance area pursuant to this chapter shall be evidenced by an order or resolution of the board or director creating such...
California Water Code Section 12878.20
The order or resolution determining and establishing the boundaries thereof shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of each county...
California Water Code Section 12878.21
Upon the formation of a maintenance area, the department shall thereafter operate and maintain the unit until such time as the maintenance area may be...
California Water Code Section 12878.22
Any local agency obligated by Chapters 2 (commencing at Section 12639) and 4 (commencing at Section 12850) of this part, or by Section 8370 of...
California Water Code Section 12878.23
(a) The board or the department may modify the boundaries of any established maintenance area or zones within the maintenance area, the description of works...
California Water Code Section 12878.24
Upon receipt of any such petition for modification or upon initiation of any such proceeding by its own action the board or department shall conduct...
California Water Code Section 12878.25
The land within each zone, and the land within each maintenance area, if no zones are established therein, shall be conclusively presumed to be benefited...
California Water Code Section 12878.26
Each maintenance area is a district within which assessments are collected according to the value or to the benefit product as defined in Section 12878.40...
California Water Code Section 12878.27
The department shall, prior to the first day of April of each year, estimate the cost of the operation and maintenance of each unit during...
California Water Code Section 12878.28
Following the first day of April of each year, the board or department shall hold a hearing at Sacramento on the matter of fixing the...
California Water Code Section 12878.29
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in each maintenance area affected for at least...
California Water Code Section 12878.30
The notice shall set the time and place of the hearing which shall be held not less than 10 days following the completion of publication...
California Water Code Section 12878.31
At the hearing any owner of land in any maintenance area affected, or other interested person may offer, and the board or department shall receive,...
California Water Code Section 12878.32
Upon the final conclusion of such hearing the board or department shall fix the amount of the estimate for each such unit for all purposes...
California Water Code Section 12878.33
If any area or zone lies within more than one county, the department shall divide the amount of the estimate in the proportion of the...
California Water Code Section 12878.34
The department shall certify to the auditor and board of supervisors of each county in which each maintenance area, or part thereof, lies, the amount...
California Water Code Section 12878.35
The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a maintenance area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time of...
California Water Code Section 12878.36
Each assessment shall be identified by the name and number, if any, of the area, and by the number of the zone, if a zone...
California Water Code Section 12878.37
The board of supervisors shall determine a rate of assessment sufficient to cover the amount of the estimate for each area or zone, making reasonable...
California Water Code Section 12878.38
Assessments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. So far as applicable,...
California Water Code Section 12878.39
All money raised by such assessments shall be accounted for separately as to each area and zone. All such money shall be transmitted by January...
California Water Code Section 12878.40
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a county may face substantial expense in maintaining a roll or system which reflects both current values...
California Water Code Section 12878.41
All money deposited in the Water Resources Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 12878.39, and all money transferred to the Water Resources Revolving Fund from the...
California Water Code Section 12878.42
The department shall keep a separate account for each maintenance area as to money deposited under Section 12878.39 and expenditures under this chapter in such...
California Water Code Section 12878.43
The department shall keep a separate account for money appropriated for the purposes of this chapter from the General Fund. The money in this account...
California Water Code Section 12878.44
Money expended upon any unit during any fiscal year shall not exceed by more than 20 percent the amount of the estimate for that unit...
California Water Code Section 12878.45
The State Controller shall have no responsibility for verifying the correctness of the claim as to the account upon which it is drawn, and the...
California Water Code Section 12879
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Water Conservation Bond Law of 1988.
California Water Code Section 12879.1
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) There is a lack of local water projects in certain areas of the state where the demands...
California Water Code Section 12879.2
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Committee" means the Water Conservation Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 12879.9....
California Water Code Section 12879.3
(a) The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the 1988 Water Conservation Fund, which is hereby created....
California Water Code Section 12879.4
(a) The department may make loans to local agencies, upon approval of the Legislature by statute, to aid in the construction of eligible projects and...
California Water Code Section 12879.5
(a) The sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Local Water Projects Assistance Account and...
California Water Code Section 12879.6
(a) The sum of forty million dollars ($40,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Water Conservation and Groundwater Recharge Account...
California Water Code Section 12879.7
Bonds in the total amount of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 12879.15, or so much thereof as is...
California Water Code Section 12879.8
The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
California Water Code Section 12879.9
(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
California Water Code Section 12879.10
The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
California Water Code Section 12879.11
There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to...
California Water Code Section 12879.12
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 12879.13
For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 12879.135
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 12879.14
All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
California Water Code Section 12879.15
Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 12879.16
The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
California Water Code Section 12879.17
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
California Water Code Section 12880
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Davis-Grunsky Act.
California Water Code Section 12881
In furtherance of the development, control and conservation of the water resources of the state and the State Water Resources Development System it is the...
California Water Code Section 12881.2
As used in this chapter: (a) "Project" means any dam, reservoir, or other construction or improvement by a public agency for the diversion, storage, or...
California Water Code Section 12881.4
In the administration of this chapter, the department and the commission shall give preference to projects involving the development of new basic water supplies. The...
California Water Code Section 12882
Applications for loans or grants or financial participation by the state under this chapter shall be made to the department in such form and with...
California Water Code Section 12882.2
Applications for loans for irrigation distribution system projects or municipal distribution system projects which involve extreme hardship which jeopardizes the public health, safety or welfare...
California Water Code Section 12882.3
An application for a reservoir site loan pursuant to Section 12885.2 shall include: (a) Evidence that the proposed site is zoned as a reservoir site....
California Water Code Section 12882.4
A copy of each application, except applications for loans for the preparation of proposed feasibility reports, shall be transmitted by the department to the Department...
California Water Code Section 12882.5
The report required by Section 12882.4 shall include a statement of the project's onshore facilities and any other local facilities to be required by the...
California Water Code Section 12883
A proposed project may be approved for assistance only if it is determined that the project substantially conforms to the California Water Plan, is engineeringly...
California Water Code Section 12883.2
In the case of a grant for recreation or fish and wildlife enhancement, or both, the determination of economic justification of the proposed project may,...
California Water Code Section 12883.4
A loan for the preparation of a proposed feasibility report on a proposed project may be approved only if it is determined that there is...
California Water Code Section 12884
The department is authorized to make state grants to public agencies from moneys available for such purpose. Grants in excess of four hundred thousand dollars...
California Water Code Section 12884.2
Grants in furtherance of a project that involves the development of a new water supply or a project that involves the repair, alteration, or replacement...
California Water Code Section 12885
The department is authorized to make state loans to public agencies for the construction of projects from moneys available for such loans. Loans in excess...
California Water Code Section 12885.1
Loans may be made only for projects primarily for domestic, municipal, agricultural, industrial, recreation, or fish and wildlife enhancement purposes. Such loans may be made...
California Water Code Section 12885.2
The department is authorized to make state loans to public agencies for the acquisition of interests in lands that are necessary for the construction, operation,...
California Water Code Section 12885.3
Each loan that is made pursuant to Section 12885.2 shall be repayable with interest upon the same terms as are applicable to construction loans that...
California Water Code Section 12885.4
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any land acquired with a loan made pursuant to this chapter, which land is located outside the...
California Water Code Section 12885.5
In furtherance of the policy set forth in Section 12881.4, no funds shall be loaned for either irrigation distribution system projects or municipal distribution system...
California Water Code Section 12885.6
The department is authorized to make state loans to public agencies for the preparation of feasibility reports on proposed projects, from any moneys available for...
California Water Code Section 12885.7
Loans may be made for all or any part of the cost of the preparation of proposed feasibility reports on proposed projects, but in no...
California Water Code Section 12885.8
The department shall require the payment of interest on each loan that is made pursuant to this chapter after the effective date of the 1967...
California Water Code Section 12885.9
The department, without the prior approval of the California Water Commission, is authorized during the calendar years 1976, 1977, and 1978 to make loans in...
California Water Code Section 12886
If in order to accomplish the objectives of this chapter it is necessary to construct a project that is larger than one which a public...
California Water Code Section 12886.2
In participating in a project under this article, the department may perform all or part of the planning, designing, construction, operation or maintenance of the...
California Water Code Section 12886.4
The department is authorized, following receipt of an application for state participation from a public agency, to participate under this article on behalf of the...
California Water Code Section 12886.6
The department is authorized to make loans and grants to public agencies pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for projects in which the department...
California Water Code Section 12887
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, every public agency empowered by law to construct and operate a project, as defined in Section 12881.2,...
California Water Code Section 12887.1
A public agency may borrow money from and repay the same with interest to the state in accordance with this chapter on behalf of the...
California Water Code Section 12887.2
A public agency may enter into a contract with the department, on behalf of the entire public agency, or of any portion or portions thereof...
California Water Code Section 12887.3
A public agency may comply with the provisions of any contract entered into with the department under this chapter, including any provision which obligates the...
California Water Code Section 12887.4
A public agency may include recreation and enhancement of fish and wildlife, or either of them, as functions of a project which the public agency...
California Water Code Section 12887.5
A public agency may construct and operate such onshore recreational facilities, fish and wildlife enhancement facilities or other facilities as the department or the Legislature...
California Water Code Section 12887.6
A public agency may annually levy or cause to be levied upon all property in the public agency, or in any portion or portions thereof,...
California Water Code Section 12887.7
A public agency may make charges for the furnishing of services from the project for which the public agency receives financial assistance under this chapter...
California Water Code Section 12887.8
A public agency is hereby granted the power to bring an action in the superior court of the county in which the office of such...
California Water Code Section 12887.9
Whenever a public agency is required to have legal counsel in connection with any of its activities pursuant to this chapter, it may use the...
California Water Code Section 12888
A public agency may perform all acts and do all things that are necessary or convenient to carry out the powers specified in this article.
California Water Code Section 12889
Except in the case of a grant to a public agency where the applicable law contains provisions for the election of the members of the...
California Water Code Section 12889.2
The election shall be held in accordance with the following provisions: (a) The procedure for holding an election on the incurring of bonded indebtedness by...
California Water Code Section 12890
The department is authorized to make from time to time such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out, and as are consistent...
California Water Code Section 12890.2
In making loans or grants pursuant to this chapter, the department shall impose terms and conditions that are designed to protect the state's investment and...
California Water Code Section 12890.4
The department shall keep full and complete records and accounts concerning all of its transactions under this chapter.
California Water Code Section 12891
In order to effectuate loans or grants made by the department pursuant to this chapter, the State Controller shall, upon demand of the department, draw...
California Water Code Section 12891.2
It shall be the duty of the State Controller to make such audit or audits of the books and records of public agencies receiving loans...
California Water Code Section 12891.4
All loans or grants made pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and subject to the approval of the...
California Water Code Section 12892
No member of the California Water Commission shall participate in the action of the commission in considering for approval, or approving, a loan or grant...
California Water Code Section 12893
In the case of a grant under subdivision (b) of Section 12884.2 for the part of the construction cost of a dam and reservoir properly...
California Water Code Section 12894
The department may, when specifically authorized by law to do so, enter into a commitment, without regard to fiscal years, with any public agency, as...
California Water Code Section 12894.1
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, every public agency empowered by law to contract with the state for a water supply is hereby...
California Water Code Section 12894.2
The Department of Water Resources shall notify all public agencies which have contracted for water from the State Water Resources Development System of its intention...
California Water Code Section 12894.3
If the department determines that a loan commitment pursuant to Section 12894 will not enable any eligible public agency specified in Section 1 of Chapter...
California Water Code Section 12894.4
A loan pursuant to Section 12894.3 shall not exceed 25 percent of the total cost of the project, or two million five hundred thousand dollars...
California Water Code Section 12894.5
Annual payments on the loan, including both principal repayment and interest, shall be in substantially equal amounts over the term of the loan, excluding the...
California Water Code Section 12894.6
In making loans pursuant to Section 12894.3, the department shall impose such terms and conditions as are necessary to protect the state's investment and carry...
California Water Code Section 12894.7
The department shall require the payment of interest on each loan that is made pursuant to Section 12894.3 at a rate equal to the weighted...
California Water Code Section 12894.8
Prior approval by the voters of an eligible district of a project described in Section 12894.3 and bonds therefor shall constitute approval of a loan...
California Water Code Section 12895
The Department of Water Resources is authorized to participate and cooperate with the United States in the planning of construction, operation, maintenance, and financing of...
California Water Code Section 12896
Under the policy established in Section 12895, the department is authorized to participate and cooperate with the United States in the planning of construction, operation,...
California Water Code Section 12898
The Sacramento Canals Unit of the Central Valley Project is approved for state participation to the extent that funds are hereafter appropriated therefor. The department...
California Water Code Section 12899
The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "State Water Resources Development System" means the State Water Resources Development System as described in...
California Water Code Section 12899.1
(a) Except as provided by Section 12899.8, no person shall make any alteration, improvement, encroachment, or excavation within the right-of-way acquired for the State Water...
California Water Code Section 12899.2
(a) Any act performed under the authority of a permit issued pursuant to this chapter shall be in accordance with the applicable provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 12899.3
No corporation has any franchise rights within the department's right-of-way, and no county, city, or city and county has any right to grant a franchise...
California Water Code Section 12899.4
The department may delegate, to any entity that has a contract with the department pursuant to Section 11625, any of the department's powers, duties and...
California Water Code Section 12899.5
(a) Except as provided by Section 12899.8, if any encroachment exists within the department's right-of-way, the department may require the removal of the encroachment in...
California Water Code Section 12899.6
(a) Unless a person is otherwise authorized, by permit or agreement, to do so, it is unlawful for any person to do any of the...
California Water Code Section 12899.7
Any person who by any means willfully or negligently injures or damages any feature of the State Water Resources Development System or the department's right-of-way...
California Water Code Section 12899.8
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and except as otherwise provided in an agreement between the department and landowner or predecessor-in-interest, any person...
California Water Code Section 12899.9
The department may adopt regulations to implement this chapter, including regulations that provide for the filing of an application for a permit, related administrative review...
California Water Code Section 12899.10
This chapter does not apply to the activities of a public agency that operates facilities of the State Water Resources Development System that are jointly...
California Water Code Section 12899.11
(a) The department, not later than 60 days from the date on which it receives a complete application, shall issue a general encroachment permit, for...
California Water Code Section 12900
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Water Fund Law of 1959.
California Water Code Section 12901
As used in this chapter: (a) "Project" means any project constructed by a public agency, as defined by Section 12880, by the State, or by...
California Water Code Section 12910
The California Water Fund is created as a special fund in the State Treasury, the moneys, securities, and increment of which shall be held by...
California Water Code Section 12911
The Investment Fund in the State Treasury is hereby abolished. Upon the effective date of this chapter, the Controller shall transfer all resources of the...
California Water Code Section 12912
There shall be deposited in the California Water Fund: (a) All resources of the Investment Fund. (b) All receipts and revenues of any type and...
California Water Code Section 12912.5
Of the amounts deposited in the California Water Fund pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 6217 of the Public Resources Code, five million dollars ($5,000,000)...
California Water Code Section 12913
The Director of Finance shall cause all moneys in the fund which are in excess of current requirements to be invested and reinvested from time...
California Water Code Section 12914
All of the assets in the fund shall be retained in the State Treasury in the fund and shall not be expended except upon appropriations...
California Water Code Section 12915
To the extent the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent or in conflict with any of those provisions of Part 3 (commencing at Section 11100)...
California Water Code Section 12920
This chapter shall be known as, and may be cited as, the Porter-Dolwig Ground Water Basin Protection Law.
California Water Code Section 12921
The definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 12921.1
"Department" means the Department of Water Resources.
California Water Code Section 12921.2
"Local agency" means any county, city, state agency or public district.
California Water Code Section 12921.3
"Project" means any physical structure or facility proposed or constructed under this chapter for the conservation, storage, regulation, reclamation, treatment or transportation of water to...
California Water Code Section 12922
It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a primary interest in the correction and prevention of irreparable damage to, or impaired...
California Water Code Section 12922.1
The Legislature finds and declares that the greater portion of the water used in this State is stored, regulated, distributed and furnished by its ground...
California Water Code Section 12923
It is the intention of the Legislature that the department shall, whenever money has been appropriated for the purpose, initiate or participate in investigations, studies,...
California Water Code Section 12923.1
The results of the investigations and studies conducted and the plans and design criteria developed by the department pursuant to this article shall be transmitted...
California Water Code Section 12924
(a) The department, in conjunction with other public agencies, shall conduct an investigation of the state's groundwater basins. The department shall identify the state's groundwater...
California Water Code Section 12925
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Groundwater Recharge Facilities Financing Act.
California Water Code Section 12926
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Recharge is an effective way to maximize availability of scarce water supplies throughout the state. (b) There...
California Water Code Section 12927
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "In-lieu recharge" means accomplishing increased storage of groundwater by providing interruptible surface water to...
California Water Code Section 12928
(a) The money in the 1985 Water Conservation and Groundwater Recharge Bond Fund shall be available for appropriation by the Legislature for loans to local...
California Water Code Section 12928.1
The department shall give priority to projects of agencies located in overdrafted groundwater basins and those projects of critical need, to projects whose feasibility studies...
California Water Code Section 12928.2
A contract for a loan pursuant to Section 12928 shall require the prior approval of the California Water Commission.
California Water Code Section 12928.3
The department shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The rules and regulations shall include, but not be...
California Water Code Section 12928.4
As a part of the contract for a loan, the agency shall agree to indemnify and hold and save the state, the department, and its...
California Water Code Section 12928.6
Groundwater recharge projects developed pursuant to this chapter shall be eligible for funding pursuant to any bond law previously or subsequently approved by the voters...
California Water Code Section 12929
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Environmental Water Act of 1989.
California Water Code Section 12929.1
It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to prescribe the purposes of the Environmental Water Fund, and to create, and prescribe...
California Water Code Section 12929.2
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Department" means the Department of Water Resources. (b) "Board" means the State...
California Water Code Section 12929.10
The Environmental Water Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. There shall be deposited in the fund all moneys transferred or appropriated to the...
California Water Code Section 12929.11
The department shall expend the money appropriated to it from the Environmental Water Fund for projects or programs concerning the water resources of the state...
California Water Code Section 12929.12
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that sixty-five million dollars ($65,000,000) of the funds that may be transferred, pursuant to paragraph (3) of...
California Water Code Section 12929.13
It is further the intent of the Legislature that the reductions and transfers described in Sections 11913, 12303, and 12929.12 shall continue until the obligation...
California Water Code Section 12929.14
It is the intent of the Legislature that nine million dollars ($9,000,000) per year be appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the 1994-95 to...
California Water Code Section 12929.15
From the funds appropriated to the department from the Environmental Water Fund, it is the intent of the Legislature that the department allocate at least...
California Water Code Section 12929.20
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that diversions of water out of the Mono Lake Basin by the City of Los Angeles have lowered the...
California Water Code Section 12929.21
The City of Los Angeles, jointly with the Mono Lake Committee, may submit one or more grant applications to the department to protect and preserve...
California Water Code Section 12929.22
Funds expended for purposes of Section 12929.20 shall be expended only for an eligible project which is consistent with a grant application pursuant to Section...
California Water Code Section 12929.23
Until June 30, 1994, 60 percent of the funds that have been appropriated to the Environmental Water Program shall be reserved exclusively for the funding...
California Water Code Section 12929.24
The state shall not accept any application for funds pursuant to Section 12929.21 that would expend any state money to replace water or power supplies...
California Water Code Section 12929.25
This chapter does not affect the rights or obligations of any party involved in litigation regarding the Mono Lake Basin.
California Water Code Section 12929.26
Other purposes eligible for funding under this chapter, subject to approval by the Legislature in the annual budget process, include all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 12929.27
(a) The City of Los Angeles shall submit a grant application to the department pursuant to Section 12929.21 for the purpose of implementing a voluntary...
California Water Code Section 12929.30
The Water Quality Program includes projects or programs of public agencies throughout the state that will either (1) reduce the amounts of agricultural drainage water...
California Water Code Section 12929.31
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the funds provided to the department from the Water Quality Program be used for studies to...
California Water Code Section 12929.40
In developing its recommendations for the appropriation of funds pursuant to this chapter, the department shall consult with the Department of Fish and Game and...
California Water Code Section 12929.41
(a) Programs and projects pursuant to this chapter may be undertaken by means of any of the following: (1) Direct expenditure by the department. (2)...
California Water Code Section 12929.42
The department may seek participation by, or a sharing of costs with, the beneficiaries of programs and projects undertaken pursuant to this chapter, including, but...
California Water Code Section 12929.43
Money may be expended pursuant to this chapter for, among other purposes, acquisition of interests in real property.
California Water Code Section 12929.44
The department may adopt rules and regulations as it determines to be necessary to carry out this chapter.
California Water Code Section 12929.45
Any contract for a grant or loan entered into pursuant to this chapter shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following provisions:...
California Water Code Section 12929.46
All loan repayments received pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the fund from which the loan was made.
California Water Code Section 12930
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Water Resources Development Bond Act.
California Water Code Section 12931
The object of this chapter is to provide funds to assist in the construction of a State Water Resources Development System for the State of...
California Water Code Section 12932
Insofar as it is not inconsistent with the express provisions of this chapter, the State General Obiligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing at Section 16720)...
California Water Code Section 12933
There is hereby created a California Water Resources Development Finance Committee composed of the Governor, the State Treasurer, the State Controller, Director of Finance and...
California Water Code Section 12934
As used in this chapter and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words shall...
California Water Code Section 12935
For the purpose of creating a fund, herein designated the California Water Resources Development Bond Fund, to provide for the acquisition, construction and completion of...
California Water Code Section 12936
All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the...
California Water Code Section 12937
The ways and means for the payment of the interest on and the principal of such bonds shall be as follows: (a) There shall be...
California Water Code Section 12938
All proceeds from the sale of the bonds herein authorized shall be deposited in the fund as provided in Section 16757 of the Government Code...
California Water Code Section 12938.1
The provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320) of Chapter 3, Part 3, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code are applicable to...
California Water Code Section 12938.2
The Department of Finance shall identify in the annual Governor's Budget the proposed revenues and expenditures for the four purposes identified in subdivision (b) of...
California Water Code Section 12938.2
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 12939
Upon the written request of the board, supported by a statement of the expenditures made and to be made for the State Water Resources Development...
California Water Code Section 12940
If any resolution determining that the sale of all or any part of the bonds herein authorized is necessary or desirable, the committee may in...
California Water Code Section 12941
In computing the net interest cost under Section 16754 of the Government Code, the committee may determine that interest shall be computed either from the...
California Water Code Section 12942
The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such date or dates as may...
California Water Code Section 12944
(a) In the operation of reservoirs, other than terminal reservoirs from which water is supplied for domestic use without purification treatment after withdrawal from such...
California Water Code Section 12944.5
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any local public agency other than a city or county that has executed a contract...
California Water Code Section 12944.7
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as specified in subdivision (b), any public agency that has executed a contract with the state for...
California Water Code Section 12945
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Cobey-Porter Saline Water Conversion Law.
California Water Code Section 12946
It is hereby declared that the people of the state have a primary interest in the development of economical saline water conversion processes which could...
California Water Code Section 12947
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the development of cost effective and efficient water supply technologies....
California Water Code Section 12948
The department either independently or in cooperation with any county, state, federal, or public or private agency or corporation may conduct a program of investigation,...
California Water Code Section 12948.1
The department shall provide assistance to persons or entities with state and local desalination facility permit applications seeking to construct desalination facilities for reducing the...
California Water Code Section 12949
After submission of a written report and upon specific authorization by the Legislature the department either independently or in cooperation with any county, state, federal,...
California Water Code Section 12949.5
The department, in cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior, may participate in financing the costs of the site development, construction, operation, and...
California Water Code Section 12949.6
(a) Not later than July 1, 2004, the department shall report to the Legislature on potential opportunities for the use of seawater and brackish water...
California Water Code Section 12950
It is declared to be the responsibility of the State of California to assist local governments in providing certain essential services and facilities where water...
California Water Code Section 12951
State expenditures and loans for aid to local governments provided in accordance with the provisions of this part are a part of the project cost...
California Water Code Section 12952
The Governor may designate, from time to time, and may revoke previous designations of, the area within a 20-mile airline radius of the site of...
California Water Code Section 12953
For the purposes of this part the Department of Water Resources shall designate the site of principal construction of every water construction project undertaken by...
California Water Code Section 12954
As used in this part, "peak employment" means the largest number of persons employed in any one year at a site of principal construction and...
California Water Code Section 12955
Requests by any city, county, or district to have an area designated an impact area may be made at any time after the authorization of...
California Water Code Section 12956
When an impact area has been designated by the Governor the State will pay: (a) The increased operating expenses necessitated by population increase within the...
California Water Code Section 12957
Funds for capital outlay expenditures for police and fire protection, essential health services, and water and sewerage systems required to serve the expanded population in...
California Water Code Section 12958
Upon the designation of an impact area by the Governor, the State Department of Finance shall recommend the appropriation of funds and the division of...
California Water Code Section 12959
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, except as to projects constructed by the Department of Water Resources, the maximum amount of money paid under...
California Water Code Section 12960
When certified by the Department of Water Resources, claims of local agencies for state financial assistance shall be presented to the State Controller for payment...
California Water Code Section 12961
This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Byrne Act.
California Water Code Section 12970
"Water agency," as used in this part means any public corporation, district, political subdivision, or any other agency or authority now or hereafter organized under...
California Water Code Section 12971
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every water agency is authorized, in addition to and not in derogation or limitation of the powers conferred upon...
California Water Code Section 12972
A water agency may expend funds on such recreational facilities and may fix and assess reasonable charges for the use of such recreational facilities by...
California Water Code Section 12973
The governing body of a water agency may adopt regulations binding upon all persons covering the use of such recreational facilities. Any violation of such...
California Water Code Section 12980
As used in this part: (a) "Board" means the Reclamation Board. (b) "Delta" means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section 12220. (c) "Local...
California Water Code Section 12981
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the delta is endowed with many invaluable and unique resources and that these resources are of major statewide...
California Water Code Section 12982
The Legislature further finds and declares that while most of the delta's levees are privately owned and maintained they are being subjected to varied multiple...
California Water Code Section 12983
The Legislature further finds and declares that there is an urgent need for a higher degree of levee maintenance and rehabilitation generally throughout the delta...
California Water Code Section 12984
The department shall develop and submit to the board, for adoption by the board, criteria for the maintenance and improvement of nonproject levees. The criteria...
California Water Code Section 12985
Prior to adoption of any such criteria, the board shall hold public hearings and may revise the criteria as it determines necessary.
California Water Code Section 12986
(a) It is the intention of the Legislature to reimburse an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred in any year for...
California Water Code Section 12986
(a) It is the intention of the Legislature to reimburse from the General Fund an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred...
California Water Code Section 12987
(a) Local agencies maintaining project or nonproject levees shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to this part upon submission to and approval by the board...
California Water Code Section 12987.5
(a) In an agreement entered into under Section 12987, the board may provide for an advance to the applicant in an amount not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 12988
Upon the completion in any year of the maintenance or improvement work, including annual routine maintenance work, as specified in the plans approved by the...
California Water Code Section 12989
(a) The department shall conduct at least one annual inspection of every levee for which maintenance or improvement costs have been reimbursed pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 12990
Whenever the department finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 12991
The board is authorized to make, from time to time, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out, and as are consistent...
California Water Code Section 12992
Before any plan is approved, agreement entered into, or moneys advanced or reimbursed under this part, the local agency shall first enter into an agreement...
California Water Code Section 12993
Applicants shall apply for federal disaster assistance, whenever eligible, under Public Law 93-288. If, and to the extent that, it is determined that the work...
California Water Code Section 12994
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The CALFED Bay-Delta Program has identified as a core action the need for emergency...
California Water Code Section 12994.5
(a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall establish the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Multi-Hazard Coordination Task Force, upon funding being made available to the California Emergency...
California Water Code Section 12995
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares both of the following: (1) There is an urgent need for rehabilitation and improvement of delta levees, and...
California Water Code Section 12999
(a) The department, in collaboration with the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Fish and Game, and the Colorado River Board of California...
California Water Code Section 13000
The Legislature finds and declares that the people of the state have a primary interest in the conservation, control, and utilization of the water resources...
California Water Code Section 13001
It is the intent of the Legislature that the state board and each regional board shall be the principal state agencies with primary responsibility for...
California Water Code Section 13002
No provision of this division or any ruling of the state board or a regional board is a limitation: (a) On the power of a...
California Water Code Section 13020
This division shall be known and may be cited as the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
California Water Code Section 13050
As used in this division: (a) "State board" means the State Water Resources Control Board. (b) "Regional board" means any California regional water quality control...
California Water Code Section 13051
As used in this division, "injection well" means any bored, drilled, or driven shaft, dug pit, or hole in the ground into which waste or...
California Water Code Section 13100
There is in the Resources Agency the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards. The organization, membership, and some...
California Water Code Section 13140
The state board shall formulate and adopt state policy for water quality control. Such policy shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 13141
State policy for water quality control adopted or revised in accordance with the provisions of this article, and regional water quality control plans approved or...
California Water Code Section 13142
State policy for water quality control shall consist of all or any of the following: (a) Water quality principles and guidelines for long-range resource planning,...
California Water Code Section 13142.5
In addition to any other policies established pursuant to this division, the policies of the state with respect to water quality as it relates to...
California Water Code Section 13143
State policy for water quality control shall be periodically reviewed and may be revised.
California Water Code Section 13144
During the process of formulating or revising state policy for water quality control the state board shall consult with and carefully evaluate the recommendations of...
California Water Code Section 13145
The state board shall take into consideration the effect of its actions pursuant to this chapter on the California Water Plan as adopted or revised...
California Water Code Section 13146
State offices, departments and boards, in carrying out activities which affect water quality, shall comply with state policy for water quality control unless otherwise directed...
California Water Code Section 13147
The state board shall not adopt state policy for water quality control unless a public hearing is first held respecting the adoption of such policy....
California Water Code Section 13148
(a) This section applies to the following hydrologic regions as identified in the California Water Plan: Central Coast, South Coast, San Joaquin River, Tulare Lake,...
California Water Code Section 13160
The state board is designated as the state water pollution control agency for all purposes stated in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any...
California Water Code Section 13160.1
(a) The state board may establish a reasonable fee schedule to cover the costs incurred by the state board and the regional boards in connection...
California Water Code Section 13161
The state board shall annually determine state needs for water quality research and recommend projects to be conducted.
California Water Code Section 13162
The state board shall administer any statewide program of research in the technical phases of water quality control which may be delegated to it by...
California Water Code Section 13163
(a) The state board shall coordinate water-quality-related investigations of state agencies, recognizing that other state agencies have primary statutory authority for such investigations, and shall...
California Water Code Section 13164
The state board shall formulate, adopt and revise general procedures for the formulation, adoption and implementation by regional boards of water quality control plans. During...
California Water Code Section 13165
The state board may require any state or local agency to investigate and report on any technical factors involved in water quality control; provided that...
California Water Code Section 13166
The state board, with the assistance of the regional boards, shall prepare and implement a statewide water quality information storage and retrieval program. Such program...
California Water Code Section 13167
(a) The state board shall implement, with the assistance of the regional boards, a public information program on matters involving water quality, and shall place...
California Water Code Section 13167.5
(a) The state board or the regional board, as applicable, shall provide notice and a period of at least 30 days for public comment prior...
California Water Code Section 13168
The state board shall allocate to the regional boards from funds appropriated to the state board such part thereof as may be necessary for the...
California Water Code Section 13169
(a) The state board is authorized to develop and implement a groundwater protection program as provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act, Section 300 and...
California Water Code Section 13170
The state board may adopt water quality control plans in accordance with the provisions of Sections 13240 to 13244, inclusive, insofar as they are applicable,...
California Water Code Section 13170.1
The state board shall consider all relevant management agency agreements, which are intended to protect a specific beneficial use of water, prior to adopting all...
California Water Code Section 13170.2
(a) The state board shall formulate and adopt a water quality control plan for ocean waters of the state which shall be known as the...
California Water Code Section 13170.3
On or before January 1, 2013, the state board shall either amend the California Ocean Plan, or adopt separate standards, to address water quality objectives...
California Water Code Section 13170.5
Notwithstanding any provision of law, any plan provided in Section 13170, 13240, or 13245, and any approval thereof, and any certification or approval of an...
California Water Code Section 13171
The state board may establish a Water Quality Coordinating Committee, consisting of at least one member of each of the nine regional boards, to assist...
California Water Code Section 13172
To ensure adequate protection of water quality and statewide uniformity in the siting, operation, and closure of waste disposal sites, except for sewage treatment plants...
California Water Code Section 13173
"Designated waste" means either of the following: (a) Hazardous waste that has been granted a variance from hazardous waste management requirements pursuant to Section 25143...
California Water Code Section 13173.2
The state board, after consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the Department of Toxic Substances Control, may, as available resources permit, adopt...
California Water Code Section 13176
(a) The analysis of any material required by this division shall be performed by a laboratory that has accreditation or certification pursuant to Article 3...
California Water Code Section 13177
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the state board continue to implement the California State Mussel Watch Program. (b) The Legislature finds...
California Water Code Section 13177.5
(a) The state board, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall develop a comprehensive coastal monitoring and assessment program for sport...
California Water Code Section 13177.6
To the extent funding is appropriated for this purpose, the state board, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Game and Office of Environmental...
California Water Code Section 13177.7
(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 12439 of the Government Code, the Controller may not eliminate any direct or indirect position that provides oversight and related support...
California Water Code Section 13178
(a) (1) On or before June 30, 2001, the state board, in conjunction with the State Department of Health Services and a panel of experts...
California Water Code Section 13181
(a) (1) On or before December 1, 2007, the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Resources Agency shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for...
California Water Code Section 13191
The state board shall convene an advisory group or groups to assist in the evaluation of program structure and effectiveness as it relates to the...
California Water Code Section 13191.3
(a) The state board, on or before July 1, 2003, shall prepare guidelines to be used by the state board and the regional boards for...
California Water Code Section 13193
(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Collection system owner or operator" means the public or private entity...
California Water Code Section 13193.9
(a) The state board, to the extent permitted by law, shall take all of the following actions for the purpose of allocating funds on behalf...
California Water Code Section 13195
For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public domain" means a format that may be duplicated, distributed, and used...
California Water Code Section 13196
(a) The state board may require a person submitting a report to the state board, a regional board, or a local agency to submit the...
California Water Code Section 13197.5
(a) The state board shall adopt, not later than March 1, 2001, emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
California Water Code Section 13200
The state is divided, for the purpose of this division, into nine regions: (a) North Coast region, which comprises all basins including Lower Klamath Lake...
California Water Code Section 13201
(a) There is a regional board for each of the regions described in Section 13200. Each board shall consist of the following nine members appointed...
California Water Code Section 13202
Each member of a regional board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for the...
California Water Code Section 13203
The official designation of each regional board shall be: California Regional Water Quality Control Board, (region name).
California Water Code Section 13204
Each regional board shall hold at least six regular meetings each calendar year and the additional special meetings or hearings as shall be called by...
California Water Code Section 13205
Each member of a regional board shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day during which that member is engaged in the performance of...
California Water Code Section 13206
Public officers associated with any area of government, including planning or water, and whether elected or appointed, may be appointed to, and may serve contemporaneously...
California Water Code Section 13207
(a) No member of a regional board shall participate in any board action pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 13260) of Chapter 4, or...
California Water Code Section 13208
(a) No regional board executive officer may make, participate in making, or use his or her official position to influence, any decision of the regional...
California Water Code Section 13220
Each regional board shall do all of the following: (a) Establish an office. (b) Select one of its members as chairperson at the first regular...
California Water Code Section 13221
Members of the regional board shall be empowered to administer oaths and issue subpoenas for the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses and for...
California Water Code Section 13222
Pursuant to such guidelines as the state board may establish, each regional board shall adopt regulations to carry out its powers and duties under this
California Water Code Section 13223
(a) Each regional board may delegate any of its powers and duties vested in it by this division to its executive officer excepting only the...
California Water Code Section 13224
Each regional board may issue policy statements relating to any water quality matter within its jurisdiction.
California Water Code Section 13225
Each regional board, with respect to its region, shall do all of the following: (a) Coordinate with the state board and other regional boards, as...
California Water Code Section 13226
Consistent with classifications adopted by the state board pursuant to Section 13172, each regional board shall review and classify any proposed or currently operating waste...
California Water Code Section 13227
(a) Each regional board, with respect to its region, shall review the facility closure and postclosure plans submitted pursuant to Section 25246 of the Health...
California Water Code Section 13228
(a) Concerning any matter that may be submitted to a regional board by a person or entity that is subject to regulation by more than...
California Water Code Section 13228.14
(a) Any hearing or investigation by a regional board relating to investigating the quality of waters of the state, prescribing waste discharge requirements, issuing cease...
California Water Code Section 13228.15
The members of a regional board, or their designees, with respect to matters within the regional board's jurisdiction, may carry out prehearing conferences to address...
California Water Code Section 13240
Each regional board shall formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region. Such plans shall conform to the policies set...
California Water Code Section 13241
Each regional board shall establish such water quality objectives in water quality control plans as in its judgment will ensure the reasonable protection of beneficial...
California Water Code Section 13242
The program of implementation for achieving water quality objectives shall include, but not be limited to: (a) A description of the nature of actions which...
California Water Code Section 13243
A regional board, in a water quality control plan or in waste discharge requirements, may specify certain conditions or areas where the discharge of waste,...
California Water Code Section 13244
The regional boards shall not adopt any water quality control plan unless a public hearing is first held, after the giving of notice of such...
California Water Code Section 13245
A water quality control plan, or a revision thereof adopted by a regional board, shall not become effective unless and until it is approved by...
California Water Code Section 13245.5
Guidelines adopted by a regional board shall not become effective unless and until approved by the state board.
California Water Code Section 13246
(a) The state board shall act upon any water quality control plan not later than 60 days from the date the regional board submitted the...
California Water Code Section 13247
State offices, departments, and boards, in carrying out activities which may affect water quality, shall comply with water quality control plans approved or adopted by...
California Water Code Section 13248
(a) At any time, the state board may, on its own motion, review the regional board's failure to act under this article. (b) The state...
California Water Code Section 13260
(a) Each of the following persons shall file with the appropriate regional board a report of the discharge, containing the information that may be required...
California Water Code Section 13260.2
(a) The state board shall establish a fee in an amount sufficient to recover its costs in reviewing, processing, and enforcing "no exposure" certifications issued...
California Water Code Section 13260.3
On or before January 1 of each year, the state board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the expenditure of annual fees...
California Water Code Section 13261
(a) A person who fails to furnish a report or pay a fee under Section 13260 when so requested by a regional board is guilty...
California Water Code Section 13262
The Attorney General, at the request of the regional board or the state board, shall petition the superior court for the issuance of a temporary...
California Water Code Section 13263
(a) The regional board, after any necessary hearing, shall prescribe requirements as to the nature of any proposed discharge, existing discharge, or material change in...
California Water Code Section 13263.1
Before a regional board issues or revises waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13263 for any discharge of mining waste, the regional board shall first...
California Water Code Section 13263.2
The owner or operator of a facility that treats groundwater which qualifies as a hazardous waste pursuant to Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of...
California Water Code Section 13263.3
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that pollution prevention should be the first step in a hierarchy for reducing pollution and managing wastes, and to...
California Water Code Section 13263.3
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that pollution prevention should be the first step in a hierarchy for reducing pollution and managing wastes, and to...
California Water Code Section 13263.5
(a) When the regional board issues waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13263, or revises waste discharge requirements pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 25159.17...
California Water Code Section 13263.6
(a) A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) may require pollution prevention plans as described in Section 13263.3 as part of the pretreatment requirements applicable to...
California Water Code Section 13263.6
(a) The regional board shall prescribe effluent limitations as part of the waste discharge requirements of a POTW for all substances that the most recent...
California Water Code Section 13264
(a) No person shall initiate any new discharge of waste or make any material changes in any discharge, or initiate a discharge to, make any...
California Water Code Section 13265
(a) Any person discharging waste in violation of Section 13264, after such violation has been called to his attention in writing by the regional board,...
California Water Code Section 13266
Pursuant to such regulations as the regional board may prescribe, each city, county, or city and county shall notify the regional board of the filing...
California Water Code Section 13267
(a) A regional board, in establishing or reviewing any water quality control plan or waste discharge requirements, or in connection with any action relating to...
California Water Code Section 13268
(a) (1) Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267, or failing or...
California Water Code Section 13269
(a) (1) On and after January 1, 2000, the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 13260, subdivision (a) of Section 13263, or subdivision...
California Water Code Section 13270
Where a public agency as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 13400 leases land for waste disposal purposes to any other public agency, including the...
California Water Code Section 13271
(a) (1) Except as provided by subdivision (b), any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any hazardous substance or sewage...
California Water Code Section 13272
(a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any oil or petroleum product to...
California Water Code Section 13272.1
Each regional board shall publish and distribute on a quarterly basis to all public water system operators within the region of the regional board, a...
California Water Code Section 13272.1
Each regional board shall publish and distribute on a quarterly basis to all public water system operators within the region of the regional board, a...
California Water Code Section 13273
(a) The state board shall, on or before January 1, 1986, rank all solid waste disposal sites, as defined in paragraph (5) of subdivision (i)...
California Water Code Section 13273.1
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an operator of a solid waste disposal site may submit a solid waste assessment questionnaire to the appropriate...
California Water Code Section 13273.2
Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 13273.1, a regional board may reevaluate the status of any solid waste disposal site ranked pursuant to Section 13273, including...
California Water Code Section 13273.3
As used in Sections 13273, 13273.1, and 13273.2, "operator" means a person who operates or manages, or who has operated or managed, the solid waste...
California Water Code Section 13273.5
Notwithstanding Section 13273, a small city which operates a Class III solid waste disposal site is not required to submit a solid waste water quality...
California Water Code Section 13274
(a) (1) The state board or a regional board, upon receipt of applications for waste discharge requirements for discharges of dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed...
California Water Code Section 13275
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a public water system regulated by the State Department of Public Health shall have the same legal rights and remedies...
California Water Code Section 13280
A determination that discharge of waste from existing or new individual disposal systems or from community collection and disposal systems which utilize subsurface disposal should...
California Water Code Section 13281
(a) In making a determination pursuant to Section 13280, except as specified in subdivision (b), the regional board shall consider all relevant evidence related to...
California Water Code Section 13282
(a) If it appears that adequate protection of water quality, protection of beneficial uses of water, and prevention of nuisance, pollution, and contamination can be...
California Water Code Section 13283
In reviewing any determination that discharge of waste from existing or new individual disposal systems should not be permitted, the state board shall include a...
California Water Code Section 13284
The state board may adopt guidelines, regulations, or policies necessary to implement the provisions of this article.
California Water Code Section 13285
(a) A discharge from a storage tank, pipeline, or other container of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), or of any pollutant that contains MTBE, that poses...
California Water Code Section 13286
(a) On and after January 1, 2012, the appropriate regional board shall prohibit the discharge of wastewater into the ground through the use of individual...
California Water Code Section 13286.9
On and after the date determined by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, or January 1, 2013, whichever is earlier, all wastewater discharged...
California Water Code Section 13290
For the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Local agency" means any of the following entities: (1) A city, county, or city and county. (2) A...
California Water Code Section 13291
(a) On or before January 1, 2004, the state board, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, the California Coastal Commission, the California...
California Water Code Section 13291.5
It is the intent of the Legislature to assist private property owners with existing systems who incur costs as a result of the implementation of...
California Water Code Section 13291.7
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the land use authority of any city, county, or city and county.
California Water Code Section 13292
(a) It is the responsibility of the state board to provide guidance to the regional boards in matters of procedure, as well as policy and...
California Water Code Section 13300
Whenever a regional board finds that a discharge of waste is taking place or threatening to take place that violates or will violate requirements prescribed...
California Water Code Section 13301
When a regional board finds that a discharge of waste is taking place, or threatening to take place, in violation of requirements or discharge prohibitions...
California Water Code Section 13301.1
The regional board shall render to persons against whom a cease and desist order is issued pursuant to Section 13301 all possible assistance in making...
California Water Code Section 13303
Cease and desist orders of the board shall become effective and final upon issuance thereof. Copies shall be served forthwith by personal service or by...
California Water Code Section 13304
(a) Any person who has discharged or discharges waste into the waters of this state in violation of any waste discharge requirement or other order...
California Water Code Section 13304.1
(a) A groundwater cleanup system that commences operation on or after January 1, 2002, and that is required to obtain a discharge permit from the...
California Water Code Section 13304.2
(a) For purposes of this section, "brownfield site" means a real estate parcel or improvements located on the parcel, or both that parcel and the...
California Water Code Section 13305
(a) Upon determining that a condition of pollution or nuisance exists that has resulted from a nonoperating industrial or business location within its region, a...
California Water Code Section 13306
A majority vote of the entire membership of a regional board shall be required to adopt, rescind, or modify any enforcement action authorized by Section
California Water Code Section 13307
(a) The state board and the Department of Toxic Substances Control shall concurrently establish policies and procedures consistent with this division that the state board's...
California Water Code Section 13307.1
(a) The state board and the regional boards shall not consider cleanup or site closure proposals from the primary or active responsible discharger, issue a...
California Water Code Section 13307.5
(a) The regional board shall take all of the following actions when reviewing or approving a cleanup proposal from a primary or active responsible discharger...
California Water Code Section 13307.6
(a) In addition to the requirements of Section 13307.5, the regional board may develop and use any of the following procedures to disseminate information and...
California Water Code Section 13308
(a) If the regional board determines there is a threatened or continuing violation of any cleanup or abatement order, cease and desist order, or any...
California Water Code Section 13320
(a) Within 30 days of any action or failure to act by a regional board under subdivision (c) of Section 13225, Article 4 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 13321
(a) In the case of a review by the state board under Section 13320, the state board, upon notice and hearing, if a hearing is...
California Water Code Section 13323
(a) Any executive officer of a regional board may issue a complaint to any person on whom administrative civil liability may be imposed pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 13326
No person shall be subject to both civil liability imposed under this article and civil liability imposed by the superior court under Articles 5 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 13327
In determining the amount of civil liability, the regional board, and the state board upon review of any order pursuant to Section 13320, shall take...
California Water Code Section 13328
After the time for judicial review under Section 13330 has expired, the state board may apply to the clerk of the appropriate court in the...
California Water Code Section 13330
(a) Not later than 30 days from the date of service of a copy of a decision or order issued by the state board under...
California Water Code Section 13331
(a) Upon the failure of any person or persons to comply with any cease and desist order issued by a regional board or the state...
California Water Code Section 13331.2
The provisions of Assembly Bill 3036 of the 1995-96 Regular Session, which, among other things, amended provisions of this chapter, do not apply to any...
California Water Code Section 13340
Whenever a regional board finds that a discharge of waste within its region is taking place or threatening to take place which does or will...
California Water Code Section 13350
(a) A person who (1) violates a cease and desist order or cleanup and abatement order hereafter issued, reissued, or amended by a regional board...
California Water Code Section 13351
In determining the amount of civil liability to be imposed pursuant to this chapter, the superior court shall take into consideration the nature, circumstance, extent,...
California Water Code Section 13360
(a) No waste discharge requirement or other order of a regional board or the state board or decree of a court issued under this division...
California Water Code Section 13361
(a) Every civil action brought under the provisions of this division at the request of a regional board or the state board shall be brought...
California Water Code Section 13362
A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) with an approved pretreatment program may conduct inspections in accordance with the provisions of Sections 403.8(f)(1)(v) and 403.8(f)(2)(v) of...
California Water Code Section 13362
(a) A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) with an approved pretreatment program may conduct inspections in accordance with the provisions of Sections 403.8(f)(1)(v) and 403.8(f)(2)(v)...
California Water Code Section 13365
(a) (1) For purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "agency" means the state board or a regional board. (2) The terms used...
California Water Code Section 13367
(a) For purposes of this chapter, "preproduction plastic" includes plastic resin pellets and powdered coloring for plastics. (b) (1) The state board and the regional...
California Water Code Section 13369
(a) (1) The state board, in consultation with the regional boards, the California Coastal Commission, and other appropriate state agencies and advisory groups, as necessary,...
California Water Code Section 13370
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.), as amended, provides for permit...
California Water Code Section 13370.5
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that, since the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.), as amended, and applicable federal...
California Water Code Section 13372
(a) This chapter shall be construed to ensure consistency with the requirements for state programs implementing the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory...
California Water Code Section 13373
The terms "navigable waters," "administrator," "pollutants," "biological monitoring," "discharge" and "point sources" as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the...
California Water Code Section 13374
The term "waste discharge requirements" as referred to in this division is the equivalent of the term "permits" as used in the Federal Water Pollution...
California Water Code Section 13375
The discharge of any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent into the waters of the state is hereby prohibited.
California Water Code Section 13376
A person who discharges pollutants or proposes to discharge pollutants to the navigable waters of the United States within the jurisdiction of this state or...
California Water Code Section 13377
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the state board or the regional boards shall, as required or authorized by the Federal Water Pollution Control...
California Water Code Section 13378
Waste discharge requirements and dredged or fill material permits shall be adopted only after notice and any necessary hearing. Such requirements or permits shall be...
California Water Code Section 13380
Any waste discharge requirements or dredged or fill material permits adopted under this chapter shall be reviewed at least every five years and, if appropriate,
California Water Code Section 13381
Waste discharge requirements or dredged or fill material permits may be terminated or modified for cause, including, but not limited to, all of the following:...
California Water Code Section 13382
Waste discharge requirements shall be adopted to control the disposal of pollutants into wells or in areas where pollutants may enter into a well from...
California Water Code Section 13382.5
Waste discharge requirements shall be adopted to permit the discharge of a specific pollutant or pollutants in a controlled manner from a point source to...
California Water Code Section 13383
(a) The state board or a regional board may establish monitoring, inspection, entry, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements, as authorized by Section 13160, 13376, or 13377...
California Water Code Section 13383.5
(a) As used in this section, "regulated municipalities and industries" means the municipalities and industries required to obtain a storm water permit under Section 402(p)...
California Water Code Section 13383.6
On and after January 1, 2007, if a regional board or the state board issues a municipal stormwater permit pursuant to Section 402(p) of the...
California Water Code Section 13383.7
(a) No later than July 1, 2009, and after holding public workshops and soliciting public comments, the state board shall develop a comprehensive guidance document...
California Water Code Section 13383.8
(a) The state board shall appoint a stormwater management task force comprised of public agencies, representatives of the regulated community, and nonprofit organizations with expertise...
California Water Code Section 13384
The state board or the regional boards shall ensure that the public, and that any other state, the waters of which may be affected by...
California Water Code Section 13385
(a) A person who violates any of the following shall be liable civilly in accordance with this section: (1) Section 13375 or 13376. (2) A...
California Water Code Section 13385.1
(a) (1) For the purposes of subdivision (h) of Section 13385, a "serious violation" also means a failure to file a discharge monitoring report required...
California Water Code Section 13385.2
(a) Prior to the state board or regional board making its findings pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 13385, the publicly owned treatment works shall...
California Water Code Section 13385.3
(a) The amendments made to subdivision (k) of Section 13385 of the Water Code by Senate Bill 1733 of the 2005-06 Regular Session shall become...
California Water Code Section 13386
Upon any threatened or continuing violation of any of the requirements listed in paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (a) of Section 13385, or...
California Water Code Section 13387
(a) Any person who knowingly or negligently does any of the following is subject to criminal penalties as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d):...
California Water Code Section 13388
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division or Section 175, no person shall be a member of the state board or a regional board if...
California Water Code Section 13389
Neither the state board nor the regional boards shall be required to comply with the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 21100) of Division...
California Water Code Section 13390
It is the intent of the Legislature that the state board and the regional boards establish programs that provide maximum protection for existing and future...
California Water Code Section 13391
(a) The state board shall formulate and adopt a water quality control plan for enclosed bays and estuaries, which shall be known as the California...
California Water Code Section 13391.5
The definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Enclosed bays" means indentations along the coast which enclose an area of oceanic...
California Water Code Section 13392
The state board and the regional boards, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the Department of Fish and Game, shall develop...
California Water Code Section 13392.5
(a) Each regional board that has regulatory authority for one or more enclosed bays or estuaries shall, on or before January 30, 1994, develop for...
California Water Code Section 13392.6
(a) On or before July 1, 1991, the state board shall adopt and submit to the Legislature a workplan for the adoption of sediment quality...
California Water Code Section 13393
(a) The state board shall adopt sediment quality objectives pursuant to the workplan submitted pursuant to Section 13392.6. (b) The state board shall adopt the...
California Water Code Section 13393.5
On or before January 30, 1994, the state board, in consultation with the State Department of Health Services and the Department of Fish and Game,...
California Water Code Section 13394
On or before January 1, 1998, each regional board shall complete and submit to the state board a toxic hot spots cleanup plan. On or...
California Water Code Section 13394.5
The state board, as part of the annual budget process, shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a recommended annual expenditure plan for the implementation...
California Water Code Section 13394.6
(a) The state board shall establish an advisory committee to assist in the implementation of this chapter. The members of the advisory committee shall be...
California Water Code Section 13395
Each regional board shall, within 120 days from the ranking of a toxic hot spot, initiate a reevaluation of waste discharge requirements for dischargers who,...
California Water Code Section 13395.5
The state board may enter into contracts and other agreements for the purpose of evaluating or demonstrating methods for the removal, treatment, or stabilization of...
California Water Code Section 13396
No person shall dredge or otherwise disturb a toxic hot spot site that has been identified and ranked by a regional board without first obtaining...
California Water Code Section 13396.6
No fees may be imposed pursuant to Section 13396.5 on dischargers who discharge into enclosed bays, estuaries, or adjacent waters in the contiguous zone or...
California Water Code Section 13396.7
(a) The state board, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, shall contract with an independent contractor to conduct a study to determine...
California Water Code Section 13396.9
(a) The California Coastal Commission and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board shall establish and participate in the multiagency Los Angeles Basin Contaminated...
California Water Code Section 13397
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Thousands of abandoned mines have been identified in this state. Waste, including acid rock...
California Water Code Section 13397.5
Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Abandoned mine waste" means the residual of soil, rock, mineral,...
California Water Code Section 13398
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a remediating agency that has implemented an approved remediation plan, or a public agency that is effecting reclamation...
California Water Code Section 13398.3
The remediation plan to be submitted by a remediating agency to the oversight agency shall include all of the following: (a) Identification of the remediating...
California Water Code Section 13398.5
The oversight agency shall do all of the following: (a) Comply with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13398.7
(a) The oversight agency may approve the remediation plan if the oversight agency finds that there is substantial evidence in the record that the plan...
California Water Code Section 13398.9
(a) This chapter has no effect on the tort liability of a remediating agency for personal injury or wrongful death. (b) This chapter has no...
California Water Code Section 13399
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the purpose of this chapter is to establish an enforcement policy for violations of this division that...
California Water Code Section 13399.1
For purposes of this chapter, "notice to comply" means a written method of alleging a minor violation that is in compliance with all of the...
California Water Code Section 13399.2
(a) An authorized representative of the state board or regional board, who, in the course of conducting an inspection, detects a minor violation shall issue...
California Water Code Section 13399.3
On or before January 1, 2000, the state board shall report to the Legislature on actions taken by the state board and the regional boards...
California Water Code Section 13399.25
This chapter supplements, and does not supplant, other laws relating to the discharge of storm water.
California Water Code Section 13399.27
On or before February 1, 2000, and on each February 1 thereafter, the state board, after any necessary investigation, shall prepare, and make available to...
California Water Code Section 13399.30
(a) (1) Each year the regional boards shall undertake reasonable efforts to identify dischargers of storm water that have not obtained coverage under an appropriate...
California Water Code Section 13399.31
(a) Each year the regional board shall conduct a review of the annual reports and construction certifications submitted in accordance with the requirements of an...
California Water Code Section 13399.33
Except as provided in Section 13399.35, the regional board shall do all of the following with regard to a discharger that is subject to the...
California Water Code Section 13399.35
(a) The regional board may allow a person to reduce the penalties described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 13399.33 by up to...
California Water Code Section 13399.37
(a) The money generated from the imposition of liability and cost recovery pursuant to Section 13399.33 shall be deposited, and separately accounted for, in the...
California Water Code Section 13399.41
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, appropriate state agencies, as requested by the executive director of the state board, shall provide the state board with...
California Water Code Section 13399.43
For the purposes of this chapter, "NPDES permit" means a permit issued under the national pollutant discharge elimination system program in accordance with the Clean...
California Water Code Section 13400
As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context: (a) "Facilities" means any of the following: (1) Facilities for the collection, treatment, or...
California Water Code Section 13401
(a) The State Water Quality Control Fund is continued in existence. The following moneys in the fund are appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for...
California Water Code Section 13410
Applications for construction loans under this chapter shall include: (a) A description of the proposed facilities. (b) A statement of facts showing the necessity for...
California Water Code Section 13411
Upon a determination by the state board, after consultation with the State Department of Health, that (a) the facilities proposed by an applicant are necessary...
California Water Code Section 13412
No loan shall be made to a public agency unless it executes an agreement with the state board under which it agrees to repay the...
California Water Code Section 13413
It is the policy of this state that, in making construction loans under this article, the state board should give special consideration to facilities proposed...
California Water Code Section 13414
All money received in repayment of loans under this chapter shall be paid to the State Treasurer and credited to the fund.
California Water Code Section 13415
(a) Loans may be made by the state board to public agencies to pay not more than one-half of the cost of studies and investigations...
California Water Code Section 13416
Before a public agency may enter into a contract with the state board for a construction loan under this chapter, the public agency shall hold...
California Water Code Section 13417
The election shall be held in accordance with the following provisions: (a) The procedure for holding an election on the incurring of bonded indebtedness by...
California Water Code Section 13418
Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, the provisions of Chapter 47 and 137 of...
California Water Code Section 13425
Applications for guarantees for local agency bonds under this chapter shall include: (a) A description of the proposed facilities. (b) A financing plan for the...
California Water Code Section 13426
The state board, subject to approval by the Director of Finance, may agree to provide a guarantee pursuant to this article for all or a...
California Water Code Section 13427
No guarantee shall be extended to any applicant unless it executes an agreement with the state board under which the applicant agrees to the following...
California Water Code Section 13428
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the Clean Water Bond Guarantee Fund, which is hereby created, is continuously appropriated to the...
California Water Code Section 13429
Money in the Clean Water Bond Guarantee Fund not needed for making payments on guaranteed bonds pursuant to this chapter shall be invested pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 13430
The state board's authorization to guarantee bonds under this article shall be limited to bonds with a total principal amount of not more than 10...
California Water Code Section 13431
Under no circumstances shall the amount paid out as a result of bond guarantees extended pursuant to this article exceed the amount in the Clean...
California Water Code Section 13432
The state board may charge an annual fee not to exceed one-tenth of 1 percent of the principal amount of each bond issue that it...
California Water Code Section 13433
The state board shall, by regulation, prescribe rules and procedures for all of the following: (a) To pay money from the Clean Water Bond Guarantee...
California Water Code Section 13440
There is in the State Water Quality Control Fund the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account (hereinafter called the "account"), to be administered by...
California Water Code Section 13441
There is to be paid into the account all moneys from the following sources: (a) All moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the account. (b)...
California Water Code Section 13441.5
The State Treasurer, when requested by the state board and approved by the Director of Finance, shall transfer moneys in the nature of a loan...
California Water Code Section 13442
(a) Upon application by a public agency, a tribal government that is on the California Tribal Consultation List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission...
California Water Code Section 13443
Upon application by a regional board that is attempting to remedy a significant unforeseen water pollution problem, posing an actual or potential public health threat,...
California Water Code Section 13450
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986.
California Water Code Section 13451
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) An abundant supply of clean water is essential to the public health, safety, and welfare....
California Water Code Section 13452
As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter, as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13453
There is hereby created the 1986 Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Fund in the State Treasury. There shall be established in the fund a...
California Water Code Section 13454
(a) There is a Water Conservation and Water Quality Finance Committee consisting of the Governor or the Governor's designated representative, the Controller, the Treasurer, the...
California Water Code Section 13455
(a) The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California in the aggregate amount of one hundred fifty...
California Water Code Section 13456
All bonds which have been duly sold and delivered constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith...
California Water Code Section 13457
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and other matters with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13458
(a) The sum of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Water Conservation and Groundwater Recharge Account...
California Water Code Section 13459
(a) The sum of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Agricultural Drainage Water Account is appropriated...
California Water Code Section 13459.5
Unallocated money remaining in the Agricultural Drainage Water Account in the 1986 Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Fund on November 6, 1996, and any...
California Water Code Section 13460
Money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for assistance financed by the proceeds of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 13461
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of the following: (a) The...
California Water Code Section 13462
For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of amounts...
California Water Code Section 13462.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13463
Upon request of the department or the board, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized under...
California Water Code Section 13464
The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all, or any part, of the bonds at times fixed by the Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 13465
Notwithstanding Sections 13458 and 13459, the committee may prescribe further terms and conditions for loan contracts to authorize a deferment on payment of all or...
California Water Code Section 13466
For the 1987-88 fiscal year and each year thereafter, a loan may be made by the department only upon the specific approval of the Legislature,...
California Water Code Section 13468
It is the intent of language in Section 13998.8(i)(3), Section 13999.10(d), and Section 13999.11(d) of the Water Code which was enacted by the voters in...
California Water Code Section 13469
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
California Water Code Section 13475
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that since the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) provides for establishment of a...
California Water Code Section 13476
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Administration fund" means the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund...
California Water Code Section 13477
The State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys in...
California Water Code Section 13477.5
(a) The State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) The following moneys shall be deposited in...
California Water Code Section 13477.6
(a) The State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) The following moneys shall be...
California Water Code Section 13478
The board may undertake any of the following: (a) Enter into agreements with the federal government for federal contributions to the fund. (b) Accept federal...
California Water Code Section 13479
(a) The board may enter into an agreement with the federal government for federal contributions to the fund only if both of the following conditions...
California Water Code Section 13480
(a) Moneys in the fund shall be used only for the permissible purposes allowed by the federal act or a federal capitalization grant deposited in...
California Water Code Section 13481
The fund shall be used to provide financial assistance only for projects which are (a) consistent with plans, if any, developed under Sections 205(j), 208,...
California Water Code Section 13481.5
The board, for the purposes of administering the fund, shall give favorable consideration to the following types of eligible projects: projects that address public health...
California Water Code Section 13481.7
Subject to all applicable constitutional restrictions, a municipality may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 13482
(a) In accordance with the Clean Water Bond Law of 1984 (Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 13999)), the board, with the approval of the Clean...
California Water Code Section 13483
(a) To the extent permitted by federal and state law, moneys in the fund may be used to rebate to the federal government all arbitrage...
California Water Code Section 13485
The board may adopt rules and regulations necessary or convenient to implement this chapter and to meet federal requirements pursuant to the federal act.
California Water Code Section 13500
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Water Recycling Law.
California Water Code Section 13510
It is hereby declared that the people of the state have a primary interest in the development of facilities to recycle water containing waste to...
California Water Code Section 13511
The Legislature finds and declares that a substantial portion of the future water requirements of this state may be economically met by beneficial use of...
California Water Code Section 13512
It is the intention of the Legislature that the state undertake all possible steps to encourage development of water recycling facilities so that recycled water...
California Water Code Section 13515
In order to implement the policy declarations of this chapter, the state board is authorized to provide loans for the development of water reclamation facilities,...
California Water Code Section 13520
As used in this article "recycling criteria" are the levels of constituents of recycled water, and means for assurance of reliability under the design concept...
California Water Code Section 13521
The State Department of Public Health shall establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves...
California Water Code Section 13522
(a) If the State Department of Public Health or a local health officer finds that a contamination exists as a result of the use of...
California Water Code Section 13522.5
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any person recycling or proposing to recycle water, or using or proposing to use recycled water, within any...
California Water Code Section 13522.6
Any person failing to furnish a report under Section 13522.5 when so requested by a regional board is guilty of a misdemeanor.
California Water Code Section 13522.7
The Attorney General, at the request of the regional board, shall petition the superior court for the issuance of a temporary restraining order, temporary injunction...
California Water Code Section 13523
(a) Each regional board, after consulting with and receiving the recommendations of the State Department of Public Health and any party who has requested in...
California Water Code Section 13523.1
(a) Each regional board, after consulting with, and receiving the recommendations of, the State Department of Public Health and any party who has requested in...
California Water Code Section 13523.5
A regional board may not deny issuance of water reclamation requirements to a project which violates only a salinity standard in the basin plan.
California Water Code Section 13524
No person shall recycle water or use recycled water for any purpose for which recycling criteria have been established until water recycling requirements have been...
California Water Code Section 13525
Upon the refusal or failure of any person or persons recycling water or using recycled water to comply with the provisions of this article, the...
California Water Code Section 13525.5
Any person recycling water or using recycled water in violation of Section 13524, after such violation has been called to his attention in writing by...
California Water Code Section 13526
Any person who, after such action has been called to his attention in writing by the regional board, uses recycled water for any purpose for...
California Water Code Section 13527
(a) In administering any statewide program of financial assistance for water pollution or water quality control which may be delegated to it pursuant to Chapter...
California Water Code Section 13528
This chapter shall not be construed as affecting the powers of the State Department of Public Health.
California Water Code Section 13529
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The purpose of Section 13529.2 is to establish notification requirements for unauthorized discharges of...
California Water Code Section 13529.2
(a) Any person who , without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits an unauthorized discharge of 50,000 gallons or more of recycled water,...
California Water Code Section 13529.4
(a) Any person refusing or failing to provide the notice required by Section 13529.2, or as required by a condition of waste discharge requirements requiring...
California Water Code Section 13530
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal, or other agency, or on request of the state board,...
California Water Code Section 13540
(a) A person shall not construct, maintain, or use any waste well extending to or into a subterranean water-bearing stratum that is used or intended...
California Water Code Section 13541
As used in this article, "waste well" includes any hole dug or drilled into the ground, used or intended to be used for the disposal...
California Water Code 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,...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code Section 13554.2
(a) Any person or entity proposing the use of recycled water shall reimburse the State Department of Health Services for reasonable costs that department actually...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code 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...
California Water Code Section 13560
The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) In February 2009, the state board unanimously adopted, as Resolution No. 2009-0011, an updated water recycling policy,...
California Water Code Section 13561
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Public Health. (b) "Direct potable reuse"...
California Water Code Section 13561.5
The state board shall enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing this chapter.
California Water Code Section 13562
(a) (1) On or before December 31, 2013, the department shall adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable reuse for groundwater recharge. (2) (A)...
California Water Code Section 13563
(a) (1) The department shall investigate and report to the Legislature on the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. (2)...
California Water Code Section 13563.5
(a) The department, in consultation with the state board, shall report to the Legislature as part of the annual budget process, in each year from...
California Water Code Section 13564
In developing uniform recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, the department shall consider all of the following: (a) The final report from the National Water...
California Water Code Section 13565
(a) (1) The department shall convene and administer an expert panel for the purposes of advising the department on public health issues and scientific and...
California Water Code Section 13566
In performing its investigation of the feasibility of developing the uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, the department shall consider all of the...
California Water Code Section 13567
An action authorized pursuant to this chapter shall be consistent, to the extent applicable, with the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et...
California Water Code Section 13569
The department may accept funds from any source, and may expend these funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 13575
(a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Water Recycling Act of 1991. (b) As used in this chapter, the following...
California Water Code Section 13576
The Legislature hereby makes the following findings and declarations: (a) The State of California is subject to periodic drought conditions. (b) The development of traditional...
California Water Code Section 13577
This chapter establishes a statewide goal to recycle a total of 700,000 acre-feet of water per year by the year 2000 and 1,000,000 acre-feet of...
California Water Code Section 13578
(a) In order to achieve the statewide goal for recycled water use established in Section 13577 and to implement the Governor' s Advisory Drought Planning...
California Water Code Section 13579
(a) In order to achieve the goals established in Section 13577, retail water suppliers shall identify potential uses for recycled water within their service areas,...
California Water Code Section 13580
(a) A retail water supplier that has identified a potential use or customer pursuant to Section 13579 may apply to a recycled water producer or...
California Water Code Section 13580.5
(a) (1) Subject to subdivision (e) of Section 13580.7, a retail water supplier that receives a request from a customer pursuant to subdivision (c) of...
California Water Code Section 13580.7
(a) This section applies only to a retail water supplier that is a public agency. (b) A customer may request, in writing, a retail water...
California Water Code Section 13580.8
(a) This section applies only to a retail water supplier that is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. (b) Rates for recycled water that is...
California Water Code Section 13580.9
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as otherwise previously provided for in a contract agreed to by the customer and the City of West...
California Water Code Section 13581
(a) If there is a failure to agree on terms and conditions of a recycled water supply agreement involving a retail water supplier that is...
California Water Code Section 13581.2
If the retail water supplier is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, and there is a failure to agree on terms and conditions of a...
California Water Code Section 13582
This chapter is not intended to alter either of the following: (a) Any rights, remedies, or obligations which may exist pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 13583
(a) If a retail water supplier that is a public agency does not comply with this chapter, the customer may petition a court for a...
California Water Code Section 13600
The state board shall administer any program of financial assistance for water quality control which may be delegated to it by law, and may accept...
California Water Code Section 13601
The state board, in cooperation with the regional boards, shall survey the statewide need for waste collection, treatment and disposal facilities which will be required...
California Water Code Section 13602
The state board shall make no commitment or enter into any agreement pursuant to an exercise of authority under this chapter until it has determined...
California Water Code Section 13603
The Governor may request the funds required to finance the state's share of project costs for each fiscal year through inclusion of the anticipated state's...
California Water Code Section 13604
The state board shall review and approve each waste collection, treatment, and disposal project for which an application for a grant under the Federal Water...
California Water Code Section 13605
For the purpose of reviewing applications for grants made pursuant to authority granted in Section 13600, the state board shall give added consideration to applicants...
California Water Code Section 13606
If an application states that the applicant is not able to finance the local agency share of the project, the state board shall consider whether...
California Water Code Section 13607
All money appropriated by the Legislature for the state's share of the project costs shall be appropriated without regard to fiscal years, or shall augment...
California Water Code Section 13608
After the effective date of the amendment of this section by the 1972 Regular Session of the Legislature, no application for a grant under this...
California Water Code Section 13609
The money in the State Clean Water Grants Administration Revolving Fund is transferred to the State Clean Water Fund to pay, upon appropriation, for administrative...
California Water Code Section 13610
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter: (a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), "perchlorate"...
California Water Code Section 13610.5
This chapter does not apply to the following: (a) A facility that stores perchlorate for retail purposes or for law enforcement purposes. (b) Drinking water...
California Water Code Section 13611
(a) The notification required by Section 13611.5 does not apply to a discharge that is in compliance with this division, or to a water agency...
California Water Code Section 13611.5
(a) On or before January 1, 2005, and annually thereafter, unless the owner or operator has met the alternative compliance requirements of subdivision (b), an...
California Water Code Section 13612
(a) The state board shall publish and make available to the public on or before January 1, 2006, a list of past and present perchlorate...
California Water Code Section 13613
Upon notification from the Secretary for Environmental Protection that he or she has established a database that is able to receive perchlorate inventory information pursuant...
California Water Code Section 13625
As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply: (a) "Certificate" means a certificate of competency issued by the state...
California Water Code Section 13625.1
(a) The state board may exempt from the requirements of this chapter any facility that is classified as a Class 1 plant by the state...
California Water Code Section 13626
The state board shall classify types of waste water treatment plants for the purpose of determining the levels of competence necessary to operate them. The...
California Water Code Section 13627
(a) Supervisors and operators of those wastewater treatment plants described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 13625 shall possess a certificate...
California Water Code Section 13627.1
(a) Any person who operates a wastewater treatment plant who does not hold a valid, unexpired certificate of the appropriate grade issued pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 13627.2
Any person who submits to the state board false or misleading information on an application for a certificate or on an application for registration may...
California Water Code Section 13627.3
(a) Any person or entity that contracts with the owner of a wastewater treatment plant to operate that plant shall register with the state board,...
California Water Code Section 13627.4
(a) The state board may administratively impose the civil liability described in Section 13627.1, 13627.2, or 13627.3 in accordance with Article 2.5 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13627.5
(a) Any operator employed at a wastewater treatment plant described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 13625 shall pass any written examination that...
California Water Code Section 13628
Certificates issued pursuant to this chapter shall be renewed biennially, subject to compliance by applicants with renewal requirements prescribed by regulations. Fees shall be payable...
California Water Code Section 13628.5
(a) The Wastewater Operator Certification Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) All of the following moneys shall be deposited in the Wastewater...
California Water Code Section 13629
The state board may approve courses of instruction at higher educational institutions which will qualify operators for each grade of certification. The state board shall...
California Water Code Section 13630
The state board is the state agency which is authorized to represent the state and its local governmental agencies in administering any federal or state...
California Water Code Section 13631
Prior to adopting or amending any regulations or approving any courses for operator training, the state board shall appoint an advisory committee to assist it...
California Water Code Section 13632
The advisory committee appointed pursuant to Section 13631 shall consist of the following: (a) Two persons from a statewide organization representing waste water treatment plant...
California Water Code Section 13633
The advisory committee shall review all proposed regulations and make recommendations to the state board prior to adoption of any regulations or amendments thereto.
California Water Code Section 13700
The Legislature finds that the greater portion of the water used in this state is obtained from underground sources and that those waters are subject...
California Water Code Section 13701
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Improperly constructed and abandoned water wells, cathodic protection wells, groundwater monitoring wells, and geothermal heat...
California Water Code Section 13710
"Well" or "water well" as used in this chapter, means any artificial excavation constructed by any method for the purpose of extracting water from, or...
California Water Code Section 13711
"Cathodic protection well," as used in this chapter, means any artificial excavation in excess of 50 feet constructed by any method for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 13712
"Monitoring well" as used in this chapter, means any artificial excavation by any method for the purpose of monitoring fluctuations in groundwater levels, quality of...
California Water Code Section 13712.5
Notwithstanding Section 13712, all wells constructed for the purpose of monitoring the presence of groundwater which has adversely affected, or threatens to adversely affect, crop...
California Water Code Section 13713
"Geothermal heat exchange well," as used in this chapter, means any uncased artificial excavation, by any method, that uses the heat exchange capacity of the...
California Water Code Section 13750.5
No person shall undertake to dig, bore, or drill a water well, cathodic protection well, groundwater monitoring well, or geothermal heat exchange well, to deepen...
California Water Code Section 13751
(a) Every person who digs, bores, or drills a water well, cathodic protection well, groundwater monitoring well, or geothermal heat exchange well, abandons or destroys...
California Water Code Section 13752
Reports made in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 13751 shall not be made available for inspection by the public, but shall...
California Water Code Section 13753
Every person who hereafter converts, for use as a water well, cathodic protection well, or monitoring well, any oil or gas well originally constructed under...
California Water Code Section 13754
Failure to comply with any provision of this article, or willful and deliberate falsification of any report required by this article, is a misdemeanor. Before...
California Water Code Section 13755
This chapter does not affect the powers and duties of the State Department of Public Health with respect to water and water systems pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 13800
The department, after the studies and investigations pursuant to Section 231 as it finds necessary, on determining that water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring...
California Water Code Section 13800.5
(a) (1) The department shall develop recommended standards for the construction, maintenance, abandonment, or destruction of geothermal heat exchange wells. (2) Until the department develops...
California Water Code Section 13801
(a) The regional board, upon receipt of a report from the department pursuant to Section 13800, shall hold a public hearing on the need to...
California Water Code Section 13802
If the regional board finds that standards of water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well construction, maintenance, abandonment, and destruction are needed in any...
California Water Code Section 13803
Each such affected county and city shall, within 120 days of receipt of the report, adopt an ordinance establishing standards of water well, cathodic protection...
California Water Code Section 13804
Such county and city well standards shall take effect 60 days from the date of their adoption by the county or city unless the regional...
California Water Code Section 13805
If a county or city fails to adopt an ordinance establishing water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well construction, maintenance, abandonment, and destruction standards...
California Water Code Section 13806
Any action, report, or determination taken or adopted by a regional board or any failure of a regional board to act pursuant to this article,...
California Water Code Section 13810
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1984.
California Water Code Section 13811
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California that...
California Water Code Section 13812
The Legislature further finds and declares that a number of domestic water supply systems are inadequate and do not meet minimum bacteriological, chemical, or other...
California Water Code Section 13813
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to...
California Water Code Section 13814
The State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code)...
California Water Code Section 13815
As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13816
The Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, the Director of...
California Water Code Section 13817
There is in the State Treasury the California Safe Drinking Water Fund, which fund is hereby created.
California Water Code Section 13818
The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in an aggregate amount of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000)...
California Water Code Section 13819
(a) The moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated and shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The department...
California Water Code Section 13820
(a) The department may make state grants to suppliers that are political subdivisions of the state, from moneys in the fund available for that purpose...
California Water Code Section 13821
Applications for grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting material as prescribed by the department.
California Water Code Section 13822
The department shall prepare a report on each grant application pursuant to this chapter. The report shall be filed with the Legislature, if it is...
California Water Code Section 13823
(a) Loans and grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The department may make reasonable allowance for future water supply needs...
California Water Code Section 13824
An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department, unless the department determines that the public agency is...
California Water Code Section 13825
First priority for grants shall be granted to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health Services. Additional...
California Water Code Section 13826
First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers...
California Water Code Section 13827
Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before a loan or grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall...
California Water Code Section 13828
No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 13829
Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by...
California Water Code Section 13830
For the purpose of administering of this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 4...
California Water Code Section 13831
As much of the moneys in the fund as may be necessary shall be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant...
California Water Code Section 13832
Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding...
California Water Code Section 13833
The department shall require the payment of interest on each loan that is made pursuant to this chapter at a rate equal to the average,...
California Water Code Section 13834
The department, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
California Water Code Section 13835
The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this...
California Water Code Section 13836
The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall, from time to time, establish a...
California Water Code Section 13837
Upon approval by the State Department of Health Services of project plans submitted by a supplier on the priority list and upon issuance to the...
California Water Code Section 13838
Not more than twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract...
California Water Code Section 13839
All bonds authorized, which have been duly sold and delivered pursuant to this chapter, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State...
California Water Code Section 13840
All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under Section 13819 shall be deposited in the General Fund and, when so deposited,...
California Water Code Section 13841
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of...
California Water Code Section 13842
For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 13842.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13843
Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13819 for the purposes stated therein,...
California Water Code Section 13844
The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized at the time or times as fixed by the
California Water Code Section 13845
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, are available for the purpose provided in Section 13819, but...
California Water Code Section 13850
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1976.
California Water Code Section 13851
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California that...
California Water Code Section 13854
The Legislature further finds and declares that a number of domestic water supply systems are inadequate and do not meet minimum bacteriological, chemical, or other...
California Water Code Section 13855
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to...
California Water Code Section 13856
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13857
As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words shall have...
California Water Code Section 13858
The Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the State Treasurer, the Director of Finance, the Director...
California Water Code Section 13859
There is in the State Treasury the California Safe Drinking Water Fund which fund is hereby created.
California Water Code Section 13860
The committee is hereby empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in an aggregate amount of one...
California Water Code Section 13861
(a) The moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated and shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The department...
California Water Code Section 13862
For the purpose of administering this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 3 percent...
California Water Code Section 13863
As much of the moneys in the fund as may be necessary shall be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant...
California Water Code Section 13864
Loans may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The department may make reasonable allowance for future water-supply needs and may provide for...
California Water Code Section 13865
First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers...
California Water Code Section 13866
Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding...
California Water Code Section 13867
The department shall require the payment of interest on each loan that is made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter at a rate equal...
California Water Code Section 13868
The department, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
California Water Code Section 13868.1
The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this...
California Water Code Section 13868.3
The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall from time to time establish a...
California Water Code Section 13868.5
Upon approval by the State Department of Health Services of project plans submitted by a supplier on the priority list and upon issuance to the...
California Water Code Section 13868.7
No more than twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract...
California Water Code Section 13869
All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the...
California Water Code Section 13870
All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under the provisions of Section 13861 shall be deposited in the General Fund and...
California Water Code Section 13871
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the...
California Water Code Section 13872
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General...
California Water Code Section 13872.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13873
Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13861 for the purposes therein stated,...
California Water Code Section 13874
The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such time or times as may...
California Water Code Section 13875
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 13861,...
California Water Code Section 13839
All bonds authorized, which have been duly sold and delivered pursuant to this chapter, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State...
California Water Code Section 13840
All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under Section 13819 shall be deposited in the General Fund and, when so deposited,...
California Water Code Section 13841
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of...
California Water Code Section 13842
For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 13842.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13843
Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13819 for the purposes stated therein,...
California Water Code Section 13844
The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized at the time or times as fixed by the
California Water Code Section 13845
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, are available for the purpose provided in Section 13819, but...
California Water Code Section 13880
The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the use of moneys in the California Safe Drinking Water Fund for a grant program for public...
California Water Code Section 13881
As used in this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of Water Resources. (b) "Domestic water system" means a system for the provision to the...
California Water Code Section 13882
(a) The department, subject to the requirements of this chapter, is authorized to make state grants to public agencies from moneys in the fund available...
California Water Code Section 13883
Applications for grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in such form and with such supporting material as may be prescribed by...
California Water Code Section 13884
The department shall prepare a report on each application pursuant to this chapter for a grant in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). The...
California Water Code Section 13885
Grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The department may make reasonable allowance for future water supply needs and may provide...
California Water Code Section 13886
An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department unless the department determines that the public agency is...
California Water Code Section 13887
First priority for grants shall be afforded to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health Services. Additional...
California Water Code Section 13888
Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before the grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall be the...
California Water Code Section 13889
No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 13890
Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by...
California Water Code Section 13891
For the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter, the total expenditures of bond proceeds by the department and the State Department of Health...
California Water Code Section 13892
The department, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
California Water Code Section 13895
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1986.
California Water Code Section 13895.1
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The State Department of Health Services has discovered toxic chemicals in 126 of California's...
California Water Code Section 13895.2
The Legislature further finds and declares that the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California requires that water supplied for...
California Water Code Section 13895.3
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to...
California Water Code Section 13895.4
The State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code)...
California Water Code Section 13895.5
As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13895.6
The Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, the Director of...
California Water Code Section 13895.7
There is in the State Treasury the California Safe Drinking Water Fund, which fund is hereby created.
California Water Code Section 13895.8
The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in an aggregate amount of one hundred million dollars...
California Water Code Section 13895.9
(a) An aggregate amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) of the moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated and shall be used for...
California Water Code Section 13896
(a) The department may make state grants to suppliers that are political subdivisions of the state, from moneys in the fund available for that purpose...
California Water Code Section 13896.1
Applications for grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting material as prescribed by the department.
California Water Code Section 13896.2
The department shall prepare a report on each grant application pursuant to this chapter. The report shall be filed with the Legislature, if it is...
California Water Code Section 13896.3
(a) Loans and grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The State Department of Health Services may make reasonable allowance for...
California Water Code Section 13896.4
An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department, unless the department determines that the public agency is...
California Water Code Section 13896.5
First priority for grants shall be granted to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health Services. Additional...
California Water Code Section 13896.6
First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers...
California Water Code Section 13896.7
Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before a loan or grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall...
California Water Code Section 13896.8
No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 13896.9
Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by...
California Water Code Section 13897
For the purpose of administering this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 5 percent...
California Water Code Section 13897.1
As much of the moneys in the fund as may be necessary shall be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant...
California Water Code Section 13897.2
Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding...
California Water Code Section 13897.3
The department shall annually establish the interest rate for loans made pursuant to this chapter at 50 percent of the average interest rate, computed by...
California Water Code Section 13897.4
(a) The department, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary...
California Water Code Section 13897.5
The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this...
California Water Code Section 13897.6
(a) The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall, from time to time, establish...
California Water Code Section 13897.8
Not more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract...
California Water Code Section 13897.9
All bonds authorized, which have been duly sold and delivered pursuant to this chapter, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State...
California Water Code Section 13898
(a) All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under Section 13895.9 shall be deposited in the General Fund and, when so...
California Water Code Section 13898.1
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purpose of this chapter, an amount equal to the sum of...
California Water Code Section 13898.2
For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 13898.25
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13898.3
Upon request of the department, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13895.9 for the purposes stated therein,...
California Water Code Section 13898.4
The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized at the time or times as fixed by the
California Water Code Section 13898.5
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, are available for the purpose provided in Section 13898.5, but...
California Water Code Section 13900
The Legislature finds and hereby declares that discharges from houseboats in or on the waters of the state constitute a significant source of waste as...
California Water Code Section 13901
As used in this article, "houseboat" means a watercraft or industrial or commercial structure on or in the waters of the state, floating or nonfloating,...
California Water Code Section 13902
Each regional board shall investigate its region to determine areas in which discharges of waste from houseboats are inadequately regulated by local ordinance.
California Water Code Section 13903
Each regional board shall notify each affected city or county, the State Department of Public Health and the Department of Boating and Waterways of areas...
California Water Code Section 13904
Each affected city or county shall within 120 days of receipt of the notice from the regional board, adopt an ordinance for control of discharges...
California Water Code Section 13905
Such city or county ordinance shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the city or county, unless the regional board holds...
California Water Code Section 13906
If a city or county fails to adopt an ordinance controlling discharges of waste from houseboats within 120 days of receipt of the regional board's...
California Water Code Section 13907
Any action, report, determination, or regulation taken or adopted by a regional board, or any failure of a regional board to act may be reviewed...
California Water Code Section 13908
No provision in this chapter and no action thereunder by a regional board or the state board is a limitation on the power of a...
California Water Code Section 13950
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon any district in the Lake Tahoe Basin providing in any area of the district a sewer system and...
California Water Code Section 13951
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 1, 1972, waste from within the Lake Tahoe watershed shall be placed only into a...
California Water Code Section 13952
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 13950 and 13951, water containing waste which has been placed in a sanitary sewer system for treatment and transportation outside...
California Water Code Section 13952.1
(a) Notwithstanding Section 13951, the South Tahoe Public Utility District may provide recycled water only to prevent the destruction of its Luther Pass recycled water...
California Water Code Section 13952.5
The declared statewide interest in the preservation of Lake Tahoe, and the state and federal actions mandating the transportation of treated sewage effluent out of...
California Water Code Section 13953
There shall be no discharge from a San Joaquin Valley agricultural drain to the Delta, Suisun Bay, or Carquinez Straits until the requirements of this...
California Water Code Section 13953.1
There shall be no discharge from a San Joaquin Valley drain into Monterey Bay or tributaries draining into Monterey Bay.
California Water Code Section 13953.2
If a San Joaquin Valley agricultural drain, including the drainage facility authorized as part of the San Luis Unit of the federal Central Valley Project,...
California Water Code Section 13953.3
Subsurface drainage effluent may be made available for any beneficial uses for which it is suitable, including, but not limited to, industrial uses, powerplant cooling,...
California Water Code Section 13953.4
It is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent feasible, features for the enhancement of fish and wildlife resources shall be incorporated into...
California Water Code Section 13955
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Clean Water and Water Conservation Bond Law of 1978.
California Water Code Section 13956
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that clean water, which fosters the health of the people, the beauty of their environment, the expansion of industry...
California Water Code Section 13956.5
The Legislature further finds and declares that the people of the state have a primary interest in the development and implementation of programs, devices, and...
California Water Code Section 13957
It is the intent of this chapter to provide necessary funds to insure the full participation by the state under the provisions of Title II...
California Water Code Section 13958
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13959
As used in this chapter, and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words shall...
California Water Code Section 13959.5
There is in the State Treasury the State Clean Water and Water Conservation Fund, which fund is hereby created.
California Water Code Section 13960
The Clean Water and Water Conservation Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor or his designated representative, the State Controller,...
California Water Code Section 13961
The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate amount...
California Water Code Section 13962
(a) The moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The board is authorized to enter into...
California Water Code Section 13963
All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the...
California Water Code Section 13964
All money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for assistance financed by the proceeds of the...
California Water Code Section 13965
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the...
California Water Code Section 13966
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General...
California Water Code Section 13966.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13967
Upon request of the board, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13962 for the purpose therein stated,...
California Water Code Section 13968
The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such time or times as may...
California Water Code Section 13969
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 13962...
California Water Code Section 13970
This chapter may be cited as the Clean Water Bond Law of 1970.
California Water Code Section 13971
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that clean water, which fosters the health of the people, the beauty of their environment, the expansion of industry...
California Water Code Section 13972
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13973
As used in this chapter, and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words shall...
California Water Code Section 13974
The Clean Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor or his designated representative, the State Controller, the State Treasurer,...
California Water Code Section 13975
The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate amount...
California Water Code Section 13976
(a) The moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The board is authorized to enter into...
California Water Code Section 13977
All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the...
California Water Code Section 13978
All money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for assistance financed by the proceeds of the...
California Water Code Section 13979
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the...
California Water Code Section 13980
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General...
California Water Code Section 13980.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13981
Upon request of the board, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13976 for the purposes therein stated,...
California Water Code Section 13982
The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such time or times as may...
California Water Code Section 13983
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 13976,...
California Water Code Section 13985
This chapter may be cited as the Clean Water Bond Law of 1974.
California Water Code Section 13986
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that clean water, which fosters the health of the people, the beauty of their environment, the expansion of industry...
California Water Code Section 13987
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13988
As used in this chapter, and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words shall...
California Water Code Section 13989
The Clean Water Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor or his designated representative, the State Controller, the State Treasurer,...
California Water Code Section 13990
The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate amount...
California Water Code Section 13991
(a) The moneys in the fund shall be used for the purposes set forth in this section. (b) The board is authorized to enter into...
California Water Code Section 13992
All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the...
California Water Code Section 13993
All money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for assistance financed by the proceeds of the...
California Water Code Section 13994
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the...
California Water Code Section 13995
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General...
California Water Code Section 13995.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 13996
Upon request of the board, supported by a statement of the proposed arrangements to be made pursuant to Section 13991 for the purposes therein stated,...
California Water Code Section 13997
The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such time or times as may...
California Water Code Section 13998
All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 13991...
California Water Code Section 13999
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Clean Water Bond Law of 1984.
California Water Code Section 13999.1
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Clean water is essential to the public health, safety, and welfare. (b) Clean water fosters the beauty...
California Water Code Section 13999.2
As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 13999.3
(a) There is in the State Treasury the 1984 State Clean Water Bond Fund, which fund is hereby created. There shall be established in the...
California Water Code Section 13999.4
There shall be a Clean Water Finance Committee consisting of the Governor or his designated representative, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, and...
California Water Code Section 13999.5
(a) The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate...
California Water Code Section 13999.6
All bonds which have been duly sold and delivered constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith...
California Water Code Section 13999.7
The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and other matters with respect to, the...
California Water Code Section 13999.8
(a) The sum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) of the moneys in the fund shall be deposited in the Clean Water Construction Grant...
California Water Code Section 13999.9
(a) The sum of forty million dollars ($40,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Small Communities Assistance Account and is...
California Water Code Section 13999.10
(a) The sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Water Reclamation Account and is appropriated...
California Water Code Section 13999.11
(a) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Water Conservation Account and shall be available for appropriation...
California Water Code Section 13999.12
Except as expressly provided in this chapter, no money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for...
California Water Code Section 13999.13
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter an amount equal to the sum of...
California Water Code Section 13999.14
For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 13999.15
Upon request of the board or department, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized under this...
California Water Code Section 13999.16
The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds at times fixed by the Treasurer.
California Water Code Section 13999.17
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and to the extent permitted by federal and state law, the money in the fund may be...
California Water Code Section 13999.17
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and to the extent permitted by federal and state law, the money in the fund may be...
California Water Code Section 13999.18
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and as approved by the Legislature, the board may share in the cost of the construction of treatment...
California Water Code Section 13999.19
Notwithstanding Section 13999.17 or any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720)...
California Water Code Section 14000
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1988.
California Water Code Section 14001
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The State Department of Health Services has discovered toxic chemicals in 126 of California's...
California Water Code Section 14002
The Legislature further finds and declares that the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California requires that water supplied for...
California Water Code Section 14003
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the upgrading of domestic water supply systems to...
California Water Code Section 14004
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Committee" means the Safe Drinking Water Finance Committee created by Section...
California Water Code Section 14010
The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the California Safe Drinking Water Fund, which is hereby created.
California Water Code Section 14011
(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, an aggregate amount of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) of the moneys in the fund are hereby continuously...
California Water Code Section 14012
(a) The department may make state grants to suppliers that are political subdivisions of the state, from moneys in the fund available for that purpose...
California Water Code Section 14013
Applications for loans and grants under this chapter shall be made to the department in the form and with the supporting material as prescribed by...
California Water Code Section 14015
(a) Loans and grants may be made only for projects for domestic water systems. The State Department of Health Services may make reasonable allowance for...
California Water Code Section 14016
An application for a grant pursuant to this chapter shall not be approved by the department, unless the State Department of Health Services determines that...
California Water Code Section 14017
First priority for grants shall be granted to public agencies having immediate health related problems, as certified by the State Department of Health Services. Additional...
California Water Code Section 14018
First priority for loans shall be given to suppliers with the most critical public health problems. Priority for loans shall also be given to suppliers...
California Water Code Section 14019
Preliminary design work, including a cost estimate for the project, shall be completed before a loan or grant is awarded. Operation and maintenance costs shall...
California Water Code Section 14020
No application for a grant may be made pursuant to this chapter unless the public agency has also applied for a loan pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 14021
Grant funds shall be expended by the public agency within three years of the making of the grant. No grant funds may be expended by...
California Water Code Section 14022
For the purpose of administering this chapter, the total expenditures of the department and the State Department of Health Services may not exceed 5 percent...
California Water Code Section 14023
Repayment of all or part of the principal, which is the loan plus the administrative fee, may be deferred during a development period not exceeding...
California Water Code Section 14024
The department shall establish the interest rate for loans made pursuant to this chapter at 50 percent of the true interest cost to the state...
California Water Code Section 14025
(a) The department, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the State Department of Health Services, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary...
California Water Code Section 14026
The State Department of Health Services shall notify suppliers that may be eligible for loans pursuant to this chapter of (a) the purposes of this...
California Water Code Section 14027
(a) The State Department of Health Services, after public notice and hearing and with the advice of the department, shall, from time to time, establish...
California Water Code Section 14028
Not more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of state loans for projects shall be authorized by the department in a single calendar quarter. No contract...
California Water Code Section 14029
(a) As approved annually by the Legislature in the Budget Act, the department, notwithstanding Section 14022, may expend money repaid to the state pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 14030
Bonds in the total amount of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 14039, or so much thereof as is...
California Water Code Section 14031
The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
California Water Code Section 14032
(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
California Water Code Section 14033
The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
California Water Code Section 14034
There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to...
California Water Code Section 14035
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 14036
For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by written order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
California Water Code Section 14036.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
California Water Code Section 14037
All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
California Water Code Section 14038
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
California Water Code Section 14039
Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 14040
The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
California Water Code Section 14050
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Clean Water and Water Reclamation Bond Law of 1988.
California Water Code Section 14051
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Clean water is essential to the public health, safety, and welfare. (b) Clean water fosters the beauty...
California Water Code Section 14052
As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the State Water Resources Control Board. (b) "Committee" means the...
California Water Code Section 14055
(a) The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the 1988...
California Water Code Section 14056
(a) The sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Small Communities Grant Account and, notwithstanding...
California Water Code Section 14057
The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be available for transfer by the board to the Clean Water...
California Water Code Section 14058
(a) The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) of the money in the fund shall be deposited in the Water Reclamation Account and, notwithstanding Section...
California Water Code Section 14059
As approved by the Legislature annually in the Budget Act, the board may expend for the administration of this chapter not more than 5 percent...
California Water Code Section 14060
As approved by the Legislature annually in the Budget Act, the board may, by contract or otherwise, undertake plans, surveys, research, development, and studies necessary,...
California Water Code Section 14061
The board may adopt rules, regulations, and guidelines necessary or appropriate to carry out this chapter.
California Water Code Section 14065
Bonds in the total amount of sixty-five million dollars ($65,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and...
California Water Code Section 14066
The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
California Water Code Section 14067
(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
California Water Code Section 14068
Consistent with Section 602 of the federal act, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant...
California Water Code Section 14069
There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to...
California Water Code Section 14070
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 14071
For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts...
California Water Code Section 14071.5
The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
California Water Code Section 14072
All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
California Water Code Section 14073
The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of the State General Obligation Bond Law.
California Water Code Section 14074
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and to the extent permitted by federal and state law, the money in the fund may be...
California Water Code Section 14075
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
California Water Code Section 14076
Notwithstanding Section 14074 or any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720)...
California Water Code Section 14875
This chapter applies to the construction, installation, or alteration of graywater systems for subsurface irrigation and other safe uses.
California Water Code Section 14875.1
"Department" means the Department of Water Resources.
California Water Code Section 14876
"Graywater" means untreated wastewater which has not been contaminated by any toilet discharge, has not been affected by infectious, contaminated, or unhealthy bodily wastes, and...
California Water Code Section 14877
"Graywater system" means a system and devices, attached to the plumbing system for the sanitary distribution or use of graywater.
California Water Code Section 14877.1
(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the Center for Irrigation Technology at California State University, Fresno, shall adopt...
California Water Code Section 14877.2
A graywater system may be installed if the city or county having jurisdiction over the installation determines that the system complies with standards adopted by...
California Water Code Section 14877.3
(a) Subject to subdivision (b), a city, county, or other local agency may adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution,...
California Water Code Section 14900
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Relief Act.
California Water Code Section 14901
The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) A report on the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program entitled, "A Management Plan for Agricultural Subsurface Drainage...
California Water Code Section 14901.5
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the initial funding for the administrative costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Relief Program be...
California Water Code Section 14902
Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms used in this chapter have the following meanings: (a) "Fund" means the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Relief Fund....
California Water Code Section 14903
(a) The San Joaquin Valley Drainage Relief Program is hereby established in the department. (b) The department shall carry out the program and may develop,...
California Water Code Section 14904
The San Joaquin Valley Drainage Relief Fund is hereby created for purposes of the program.
California Water Code Section 14905
The department may enter into agreements with the state board, the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Conservation, possessors of water rights, and...
California Water Code Section 14906
Property acquired pursuant to this chapter shall be managed as upland habitat, wetlands, riparian habitat, or nonirrigated agricultural land, as appropriate. The department shall coordinate...
California Water Code Section 14907
(a) Agreements to sell water that is conserved as a result of the retirement of land pursuant to this chapter to public agencies, nonprofit organizations,...
California Water Code Section 14907.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the possessor of the water right determines the final disposition of the water.
California Water Code Section 14907.6
Participation in the program by local public agencies and landowners is voluntary and shall be undertaken in accordance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, court...
California Water Code Section 14908
The funds received from the sale of water pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14907 shall be deposited in the fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of...
California Water Code Section 14909
The department may apply for, and accept, federal and state grants and receive gifts, donations, and other financial support from public and private sources to...
California Water Code Section 14910
The department may acquire or accept the gift or dedication of fee title, easements, including conservation easements, leases, development rights, or other interests in retirement...
California Water Code Section 14911
The department may accept advance payments for future water deliveries undertaken pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 14912
(a) The department may purchase, lease, rent, sell, exchange, or otherwise transfer any land, interest in land or water, or option acquired pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 14913
The department may, by contract or agreement, make grants or loans to local public entities, state agencies, or nonprofit organizations to carry out this chapter.
California Water Code Section 14914
The purchase price of any interest in land or water acquired pursuant to this chapter may reflect the benefit to the state of alleviating drainage...
California Water Code Section 14915
The price of water conserved and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be determined by the department so as to carry out the intent of...
California Water Code Section 14916
Purchase agreements entered into pursuant to this chapter may provide for the return of the property, that is the subject of the purchase, to irrigated...
California Water Code Section 14917
In carrying out this chapter, the department shall consider the effects of purchases of property pursuant to this chapter on the overall economy of the...
California Water Code Section 14918
The department shall coordinate with the United States Department of the Interior regarding water distribution undertaken pursuant to this chapter in those areas served by...
California Water Code Section 14920
This chapter shall become operative on July 1, 1993.
California Water Code Section 14950
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Shellfish Protection Act of 1993.
California Water Code Section 14951
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Commercial shellfish harvesting is a beneficial use of the waters of the state and, in...
California Water Code Section 14952
For the purposes of this chapter, a commercial shellfish growing area is an area certified pursuant to Section 112170 of the Health and Safety Code...
California Water Code Section 14953
(a) If a commercial shellfish growing area is threatened by point or nonpoint source pollution, as specified in Section 14954, the regional board shall form...
California Water Code Section 14954
For the purpose of Section 14953, a commercial shellfish growing area is threatened if any of the following applies: (a) The State Department of Health...
California Water Code Section 14955
(a) The technical advisory committee shall review existing data to determine whether additional investigatory efforts are needed to identify the pollution sources that threaten the...
California Water Code Section 14956
(a) Once the nature, sources, scope, and degree of the pollution affecting a commercial shellfish growing area have been determined, the regional board, with the...
California Water Code Section 14957
When rating project proposals affecting shellfish growing areas for state and federal funding under Sections 205 and 319 of the federal Clean Water Act (33...
California Water Code Section 14958
When a commercial shellfish area is no longer threatened, as specified in Section 14954, the regional board shall dissolve the technical advisory committee for that...
California Water Code Section 16100
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Watershed Improvement Act of 2009.
California Water Code Section 16101
(a) Each county, city, or special district that is a permittee or copermittee under a national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit for municipal separate...
California Water Code Section 16102
(a) A regional board shall review, in accordance with the reimbursement requirement described in subdivision (c), a watershed improvement plan developed pursuant to Section 16101...
California Water Code Section 16103
(a) In addition to making use of other financing mechanisms that are available to local agencies to fund watershed improvement plans and plan measures and...
California Water Code Section 16104
Nothing in this chapter alters requirements that govern the diversion of water.
California Water Code Section 20200
As used in this chapter, "water district" means any district or other political subdivision, other than a city or county, a primary function of which...
California Water Code Section 20201
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of any water district may, by ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter, provide compensation to members...
California Water Code Section 20201.5
Reimbursement for expenses of members of a governing board of a water district is subject to Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 20202
In any ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter to increase the amount of compensation which may be received by members of the governing board of...
California Water Code Section 20203
Any water district described in Section 20201 is authorized to adopt ordinances pursuant to this chapter. No ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this chapter...
California Water Code Section 20204
An ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall become effective 60 days from the date of its final passage. The voters of any water district...
California Water Code Section 20205
If a petition protesting against the adoption of the ordinance is presented to the governing board of the water district prior to the effective date...
California Water Code Section 20206
If the governing board does not entirely repeal the ordinance against which a petition is filed, the governing board shall submit the ordinance to the...
California Water Code Section 20207
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of the Elections Code applicable to the right of referendum on legislative acts of districts shall...
California Water Code Section 20220
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a mobilehome used primarily for residential purposes and located on rental spaces within a mobilehome park is not...
California Water Code Section 20500
This division shall be known and may be cited as the Irrigation District Law.
California Water Code Section 20510
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 20511
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 20512
"Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
California Water Code Section 20513
"District" means any irrigation district formed pursuant to any law of this State or to this division except the Palo Verde Irrigation District.
California Water Code Section 20514
"Improvement district" means an improvement district formed pursuant to the Irrigation District Improvement Act or to this division.
California Water Code Section 20516
"Rules" include "regulations."
California Water Code Section 20517
"Land" except in Chapter 2A (commencing with Section 23800) of Part 7 and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 26875) of Part 11 means land in...
California Water Code Section 20518
"Principal county" means the county in which all the land is situated, or if the land is situated in more than one county, the county...
California Water Code Section 20519
"Affected county" means any county in which land is situated.
California Water Code Section 20520
"Office county" means the county in which the principal office of a district is kept.
California Water Code Section 20521
"Board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 20522
"President" means the president of the board.
California Water Code Section 20523
"Secretary" means the secretary of the board.
California Water Code Section 20524
"Elective officers" irrespective of the method of selection in any particular instance are: (a) A director from each division except as otherwise provided in this...
California Water Code Section 20525
"General district election" is the district election required to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year.
California Water Code Section 20526
"Bond election" means an election provided for in Chapter 4 of Part 4.
California Water Code Section 20527
"Elector," "voter," and "precinct board" have respectively the same meaning as in the Elections Code, but an "elector" or "voter" shall also be a resident...
California Water Code Section 20527.5
Notwithstanding Section 20527, or any other provision of law to the contrary, in the Jackson Valley Irrigation District every owner of real property within the...
California Water Code Section 20527.6
(a) Notwithstanding Section 20527, or any other provision of law to the contrary, in the Camp Far West Irrigation District in Placer and Yuba Counties,...
California Water Code Section 20527.7
Notwithstanding Section 20527, or any other provision of law, in the Montague Water Conservation District in Siskiyou County every owner of real property within the...
California Water Code Section 20527.8
Notwithstanding Section 20527, or any other provision of law, in the Cordua Irrigation District every owner of land within the district, but no others, may...
California Water Code Section 20527.9
Notwithstanding Section 20527, or any other provision of law, in the Provident Irrigation District in Glenn and Colusa Counties every owner of real property within...
California Water Code Section 20527.91
Notwithstanding Section 20527 or any other provision of law, in the Big Springs Irrigation District in Siskiyou County and in the Princeton-Codora-Glenn Irrigation District, every...
California Water Code Section 20527.10
(a) Notwithstanding Section 20527 or any other provision of law, in the Glenn Colusa Irrigation District, every owner of real property within the district, but...
California Water Code Section 20527.11
(a) The Board of Directors of the Richvale Irrigation District may adopt a resolution that authorizes persons holding title to real property within the district,...
California Water Code Section 20527.12
(a) (1) This section only applies to the James Irrigation District. As used in this section, "district" means the James Irrigation District. (2) Notwithstanding Section...
California Water Code Section 20527.13
(a) (1) This section only applies to the Corcoran Irrigation District. As used in this section, "district" means the Corcoran Irrigation District. (2) Notwithstanding Section...
California Water Code Section 20528
"Holder of title" includes a holder of evidence of title and, also, a holder of land under a possessory right acquired by entry or purchase...
California Water Code Section 20529
"Property" except in Part 10 embraces all real and personal property, including water, water rights, works, franchises, concessions and rights.
California Water Code Section 20530
"Works" includes dams, reservoirs, wells, conduits, pumps, power houses, power generating equipment, power lines, and their appurtenances.
California Water Code Section 20531
"Conduits" include canals, laterals, ditches, flumes, pipes, and their appurtenances.
California Water Code Section 20532
"Acquire" includes construct, purchase, lease, exchange, condemn, jointly acquire when joint acquisition is permitted, and contract to acquire.
California Water Code Section 20533
"Dispose" includes lease, sell, contract to lease, contract to sell, and the making of any instrument necessary therefor.
California Water Code Section 20534
"Operate" includes use, maintain, and repair.
California Water Code Section 20535
"Assessee" means the person to whom property is assessed.
California Water Code Section 20536
"Assessment book" includes any substantial record showing the information required to be kept in it, whether in the form of bound volumes or of cards...
California Water Code Section 20537
"Completion assessment" means an assessment levied pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Part 10.
California Water Code Section 20538
"Particular purpose assessment" means an assessment levied pursuant to Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Part 10.
California Water Code Section 20539
"Emergency assessment" means an assessment levied pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 2 of Part 10.
California Water Code Section 20540
"Limited assessments" means any or all of the following: (a) Completion assessment. (b) Particular purpose assessment. (c) Emergency assessment.
California Water Code Section 20541
"Charges" includes tolls.
California Water Code Section 20542
"Refund" includes fund.
California Water Code Section 20543
"Road" includes streets, highways, and alleys.
California Water Code Section 20560
Districts, regardless of the date of formation, are subject to the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 20560.2
In the case of any district that owns and operates facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electric power, the district shall...
California Water Code Section 20561
Nothing in this division impairs the validity of any district formed prior to the effective date of this division, its rights, or obligations.
California Water Code Section 20562
Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number...
California Water Code Section 20563
Whenever any act is required to be done or proceeding taken on the first Tuesday in any month, the act may be done or proceeding...
California Water Code Section 20564
Whenever an instrument provided for in this division is acknowledged or proved, it shall have the same effect as evidence as a conveyance of real...
California Water Code Section 20565
Whenever an instrument is by this division required to be acknowledged, each signer shall acknowledge the instrument, or his signature shall be proved, in the...
California Water Code Section 20566
A guardian, conservator, executor, administrator, or other person holding property in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign any petition provided for in...
California Water Code Section 20566.1
A district with respect to land owned by it may through its board sign any petition provided for in this division.
California Water Code Section 20567
If any land is assessed on any assessment book to unknown or fictitiously named owners, or to unnamed owners in addition to any owner or...
California Water Code Section 20568
The holder of title to an undivided interest in any land may sign any petition provided for in this division. Undivided interests shall be counted...
California Water Code Section 20568.1
No person may sign for the owner of property or the owner of an undivided interest therein without the authorization of the owner.
California Water Code Section 20569
The value of any land and the holders of title to the land are conclusively determined, for the purpose of any petition provided for in...
California Water Code Section 20570
It is reaffirmed that districts are state agencies formed and existing for governmental purposes.
California Water Code Section 20571
Assessments of a district, for whatsoever purpose, levied on all assessable land at a like rate on the basis of the assessed valuation of the...
California Water Code Section 20573
Districts governed by this division are subject to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
California Water Code Section 20590
As used in this chapter "public land" is limited to land belonging to the State which is subject to entry or has been entered and...
California Water Code Section 20591
Public land is subject to all of the provisions of law relating to districts to the same extent and in the same manner as land...
California Water Code Section 20592
When public land is affected, all notices required by this division shall promptly after issuance be served upon the State Lands Commission by mailing to...
California Water Code Section 20593
Nothing in this chapter creates any obligation against the State to pay any assessments or charges.
California Water Code Section 20594
No public land which was unentered at the time any assessment was levied against it by any district shall be sold for the delinquency of...
California Water Code Section 20625
The department shall give information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts.
California Water Code Section 20626
Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of a proposed district project should be made at the...
California Water Code Section 20627
Pending the completion of the preliminary surveys and field investigations, the State Water Resources Control Board may withhold from appropriation any unappropriated water likely to...
California Water Code Section 20700
A majority in number of the holders of title to land susceptible of irrigation from a common source and by the same system of works,...
California Water Code Section 20701
The land proposed to be formed into a district need not consist of contiguous parcels.
California Water Code Section 20702
"Land susceptible of irrigation" as used in section 20700 of this code includes land used for residential or business purposes susceptible of receiving water for...
California Water Code Section 20720
A petition for the formation of a district shall contain: (a) Generally, a description of the land. (b) Generally, the sources, which may be in...
California Water Code Section 20721
A petition for the formation of a district may request any of the following: (a) Three divisions in the proposed district. (b) Election of the...
California Water Code Section 20722
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
California Water Code Section 20723
The petition shall be accompanied by a sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the board of supervisors, in double the amount of the probable cost...
California Water Code Section 20724
Signatures to the petition may be withdrawn at any time before its publication is commenced, by filing a declaration, signed and acknowledged by the petitioner,...
California Water Code Section 20740
The petition and a notice of the time of the meeting at which it will be presented shall be published for at least two weeks...
California Water Code Section 20741
When the petition consists of a number of separate instruments, only one need be published, but the names attached to all of the instruments shall...
California Water Code Section 20742
No defect in the form or contents of the published notice, title to it, or petition, nor failure to publish or error in publishing any...
California Water Code Section 20800
The formation petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 20801
The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 20802
The board of supervisors shall hear all competent and relevant testimony offered in support of or in opposition to the sufficiency of the petition and...
California Water Code Section 20803
The hearing may be adjourned from time to time, but not exceeding two weeks in all.
California Water Code Section 20804
At the hearing the board of supervisors shall determine by resolution whether or not the petition and notice comply with Chapter 1 of this part....
California Water Code Section 20805
(a) If the board of supervisors determines that any of the requirements for the formation petition or notice were not complied with, the petition shall...
California Water Code Section 20806
If the board of supervisors determines that the requirements for the formation petition and notice have been complied with, the resolution so determining shall be...
California Water Code Section 20820
On or before the day on which the petition is presented to the board of supervisors, a copy of the petition shall be filed in...
California Water Code Section 20821
Upon the adoption of the preliminary formation resolution the board of supervisors shall send a copy of the resolution to the department.
California Water Code Section 20822
Upon receiving a copy of the resolution, the department shall make such preliminary investigation as may be practicable to determine the feasibility of the proposed
California Water Code Section 20823
The department shall report in writing to the board of supervisors as soon as practicable, but at all events within 90 days from the date...
California Water Code Section 20824
If the department reports within the specified time that the supply of water available for the use of the proposed district or that may be...
California Water Code Section 20840
The board of supervisors not later than its first regular meeting after the occurrence of any one of the following shall set a time for...
California Water Code Section 20841
The time set for the final hearing shall not be less than one week from the meeting at which the time is set.
California Water Code Section 20842
Notice of the time of the final hearing shall be given either by: (a) Registered mail to the person designated for that purpose in the...
California Water Code Section 20843
Failure to give notice of the final hearing shall not affect the validity of subsequent proceedings.
California Water Code Section 20844
On a final hearing the board of supervisors may adjourn from time to time, but at no time for a longer period than three days,...
California Water Code Section 20845
At the final hearing the board of supervisors shall determine the land to be formed into the proposed district: (a) Land shall be excluded which...
California Water Code Section 20846
At the final hearing no evidence shall be heard against the genuineness or sufficiency of the petition or notice unless it is shown to the...
California Water Code Section 20847
At the conclusion of the final hearing on the petition the board of supervisors shall make an order containing all of the following: (a) Reaffirmance,...
California Water Code Section 20848
The order on final hearing shall also contain all of the following: (a) Division of the district into the following number of divisions, which shall...
California Water Code Section 20849
The order on final hearing shall be entered in full upon the minutes of the board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 20850
A finding of the board of supervisors in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and notice shall be conclusive against all persons...
California Water Code Section 20890
Upon making the order on final hearing of the formation petition, the board of supervisors shall call and give notice of a formation election to...
California Water Code Section 20891
The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) Date and hours of election. (b) Place of polls in each precinct. (c) Description of the...
California Water Code Section 20892
Notice of the formation election shall be published once a week for three weeks previous to the election, in a newspaper published in each affected
California Water Code Section 20893
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 20894
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 20895
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 20896
(a) The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be...
California Water Code Section 20910
For the purposes of the formation election the board of supervisors shall establish a convenient number of election precincts in the proposed district and define...
California Water Code Section 20911
The precinct board for the formation election shall be appointed, candidates for the offices of the proposed district shall be nominated, ballots and other supplies...
California Water Code Section 20912
The board of supervisors shall act in place of the board, and the clerk of the board of supervisors shall act in place of the
California Water Code Section 20913
At the formation election the elective officers of the district shall be elected, but only one person shall be elected to fill the offices consolidated,...
California Water Code Section 20914
On the ballots provided for the formation election shall be printed a proposition substantially as follows: "Shall the proposed ____ Irrigation District be formed?" followed...
California Water Code Section 20915
The board of supervisors shall meet on the second Monday following the formation election to canvass the votes cast, and only if upon the canvass...
California Water Code Section 20916
No informalities in the conduct of the formation election or in any related matters shall invalidate the election or the result if notice was given...
California Water Code Section 20930
The formation election may be contested by any person owning property liable to assessment within the proposed district.
California Water Code Section 20931
No contest shall be brought more than 20 days after the canvass of the vote of the election by the board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 20932
The directors elected at the formation election shall be parties defendant in an election contest.
California Water Code Section 20933
The election contest shall be brought in the superior court of the county where the formation proceedings were had.
California Water Code Section 20934
If more than one contest is pending, they shall be consolidated and tried together.
California Water Code Section 20935
The court shall speedily try the election contest.
California Water Code Section 20936
The determination of the election contest shall be based on whether or not the election was conducted fairly and in substantial compliance with the requirements...
California Water Code Section 20937
An appeal may be taken by any party to an election contest within 30 days from entry of judgment.
California Water Code Section 20938
The appeal shall be heard and determined within 60 days from the time of filing the notice of appeal.
California Water Code Section 20960
If upon the canvass of the formation election it appears that a majority of all the votes cast are "Irrigation District--Yes," the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 20961
The board of supervisors shall immediately file for record in the office of the county recorder of each affected county a certified copy of the...
California Water Code Section 20962
From the filing for record of the order declaring the district formed the formation of the district is complete.
California Water Code Section 20962.5
The county clerk of the principal county shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district. (b)...
California Water Code Section 20963
The board of supervisors of any county in which any land embraced in a district is situated shall not after its formation allow another district...
California Water Code Section 20980
Whenever the board so determines it may, or in the event any district has been formed under the same name as that of another district,...
California Water Code Section 20980.5
The Palmdale Irrigation District may change its name pursuant to this chapter to the Palmdale Water District.
California Water Code Section 20980.6
The Helix Irrigation District may change its name pursuant to this chapter to the Helix Water District.
California Water Code Section 20981
Certified copies of the resolution changing the name of the district shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each affected county...
California Water Code Section 20982
The change of name shall become effective for all purposes upon the recordation of the resolution after which the district shall perform all functions, exercise...
California Water Code Section 21100
(a) Each director, except as otherwise provided in this division, shall be a voter and a landowner in the district and a resident of the...
California Water Code Section 21100.2
(a) This section applies to the Pixley Irrigation District. (b) Notwithstanding Section 21100, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution that...
California Water Code Section 21100.4
(a) This section applies to the Hills Valley Irrigation District. (b) Notwithstanding Section 21100, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution...
California Water Code Section 21100.5
(a) This section applies to the Stratford Irrigation District. (b) Notwithstanding Section 21100, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution that...
California Water Code Section 21100.6
(a) This section applies to the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District. (b) (1) Notwithstanding Section 21100, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution...
California Water Code Section 21100.7
The landownership requirements set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 21100 do not apply to the South Bay Irrigation District.
California Water Code Section 21101
Notwithstanding Sections 10505 and 10554 of the Elections Code, elective officers, irrespective of the method of their selection, take office as soon as they qualify,...
California Water Code Section 21102
Prior to the first Friday in December next following the general district election each elective officer shall take and subscribe the official oath and file...
California Water Code Section 21104
The term of office of each elective officer subsequent to the officers elected at the formation election is four years or until his successor qualifies...
California Water Code Section 21120
A board may consolidate any two or more of the offices of assessor, collector, and treasurer. The board may consolidate any two or more of...
California Water Code Section 21121
The order of consolidation shall be made at least 120 days prior to a general election and shall take effect at said election.
California Water Code Section 21122
A board may at least 120 days before a general district election segregate consolidated offices, and each office so segregated shall be filled at said
California Water Code Section 21123
A board may, at least 90 days before a general district election, determine that the offices of assessor, collector, or treasurer or any of them...
California Water Code Section 21124
A board may, at least 90 days before a general district election, determine that the offices of assessor, collector, or treasurer or any of them...
California Water Code Section 21141
When not otherwise provided by the board the bonds to be given by the following officers shall be in the following sums: (a) Assessor: Five...
California Water Code Section 21142
The board may fix the bonds to be given by the following officers and persons to suit the conditions of the district within the following...
California Water Code Section 21142.5
If the offices of assessor, collector, and treasurer in any district are held by one person, the board may fix one bond to cover all...
California Water Code Section 21143
All bonds shall be in the form prescribed for the official bonds of county officers, and the premiums may be paid by the district.
California Water Code Section 21145
All bonds shall be approved by the board.
California Water Code Section 21146
Each officer herein named shall be liable upon his bond for his wilful violation of any express duty.
California Water Code Section 21147
If any district is appointed fiscal agent of or by the United States in connection with any Federal reclamation project, each officer shall execute an...
California Water Code Section 21165
The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to all officers.
California Water Code Section 21166
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a director, for sitting on the board or acting under its orders, shall receive both of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 21166.5
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 21166, a director may participate in any plan for group insurance, group annuities, social security, medical and hospital service or...
California Water Code Section 21185
The board shall: (a) Employ agents, officers, and employees as required. (b) Prescribe their duties and fix their salaries.
California Water Code Section 21186
The board shall: (a) Approve and reject as to number deputies of elective and appointive officers. (b) Remove any deputies for good cause or for...
California Water Code Section 21187
The treasurer and collector may appoint as many deputies within the number allowed by the board as may be necessary for the discharge of the...
California Water Code Section 21188
The board shall allow the assessor as many deputies, to be appointed by him, as will in the judgment of the board enable him to...
California Water Code Section 21189
The board may adopt and carry into effect a contract or contracts of group insurance, a system of group annuities, a system of medical and...
California Water Code Section 21190
Employees of districts are permanent employees if employed to fill positions which, in the judgment of the board, normally require more than six months employment...
California Water Code Section 21196
For any wilful violation of any express duty herein provided for by any officer herein named he shall be subject to removal from office by...
California Water Code Section 21265
The board of supervisors of the office county shall fill by appointment vacancies in the offices of directors, provided that any such appointed directors shall...
California Water Code Section 21265.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all vacancies on the board of directors elected pursuant to Section 21551 shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780...
California Water Code Section 21266
A board shall fill by appointment vacancies in the offices of assessor, collector, and treasurer. If the board fails to make an appointment within 40...
California Water Code Section 21285
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any district where there are not more than 15 voters at such time as the publication of notice...
California Water Code Section 21375
On the first Tuesday after the original directors qualify, and on the day on which the board holds its first regular monthly meeting after the...
California Water Code Section 21376
At its organization meeting the board shall elect a president from its members and appoint a secretary, who shall each hold office during the pleasure...
California Water Code Section 21377
The board shall hold a regular meeting on the first Tuesday of each month at the district office.
California Water Code Section 21377.5
(a) Notwithstanding Section 21377 of this code or Section 54954 of the Government Code or any other provision of law, the Board of Directors of...
California Water Code Section 21378
The board, however, may by resolution entered upon its minutes fix any day of the month for its regular monthly meeting, or if more than...
California Water Code Section 21382
All meetings of the board shall be public and shall be conducted in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 21383
The number of directors required to constitute a quorum of the board and to concur on all questions except a motion to adjourn or a...
California Water Code Section 21384
A smaller number of directors than a quorum may adjourn from day to day.
California Water Code Section 21385
The board except as otherwise specifically provided has the power and it shall be its duty to manage and conduct the business and affairs of...
California Water Code Section 21386
At its organization meeting, the board may elect, in addition to a president, a vice president who shall have the power to perform all the...
California Water Code Section 21387
When the president of the board is absent or unable to act at any meeting of the board and no vice president has been elected,...
California Water Code Section 21400
The office of each district shall be established and kept at a fixed place, determined by its board, which place need not be within the
California Water Code Section 21401
The board shall fix the time during which the office of the district shall be open to the public.
California Water Code Section 21402
All records of the district shall be open to public inspection during the hours when the office of the district is open to the public....
California Water Code Section 21404
The board shall adopt a seal for the district.
California Water Code Section 21405
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 21550
Each district shall contain five divisions unless otherwise provided by the more recent of: (a) The order on final hearing on the formation petition. (b)...
California Water Code Section 21551
Directors shall be elected by the division each represents unless otherwise provided by the more recent of: (a) The order on final hearing on the...
California Water Code Section 21552
As provided in this article the number of divisions may be changed to three or five or the method of electing directors may be changed...
California Water Code Section 21552.1
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 21550, 21551 and 21552, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or...
California Water Code Section 21553
The board shall order a change in the number of divisions or the method of electing directors, or both, or increase the number of directors...
California Water Code Section 21554
The board shall submit at a general district election or at a special election a proposal for a change in the number of divisions or...
California Water Code Section 21555
With regard to submitting a proposal at the general district election, the notices required by Section 12112 of the Elections Code shall contain a statement...
California Water Code Section 21555.5
(a) Notice of a special election called pursuant to Section 21554 shall specify the purpose of the election and the day, hours, and polling places...
California Water Code Section 21556
Each proposal shall be stated on the ballot, and the method of voting on it shall be as nearly as practicable in conformity with the...
California Water Code Section 21557
If a proposal receives the approval of a majority of the voters voting on it in the district and also a majority of the voters...
California Water Code Section 21558
If an order made pursuant to this article changes the method of electing directors, all directors thereafter elected in the district shall be elected as...
California Water Code Section 21559
If an order made pursuant to this article changes the number of divisions, the board shall forthwith redivide the district into the number of divisions...
California Water Code Section 21560
If an order made pursuant to this article changes the number of divisions, the terms of office of all directors shall expire at noon on...
California Water Code Section 21561
Notwithstanding Sections 21550 and 21551, or any other provision of law to the contrary, directors of the Jackson Valley Irrigation District shall be nominated and...
California Water Code Section 21562
Notwithstanding Section 21550, if a district contains no divisions and the board consists of three members, without establishing divisions the district may increase the number...
California Water Code Section 21562.5
(a) This section applies to the Alta Irrigation District. (b) Notwithstanding Section 21550, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution that...
California Water Code Section 21562.5
(a) This section applies to the Alta Irrigation District. (b) Notwithstanding Section 21550, the board of directors of the district may adopt a resolution that...
California Water Code Section 21575
Any district having less than 2,500 acres within its boundaries, having less than 100 electors residing within it, and having only three divisions may abolish...
California Water Code Section 21576
The board of the district may petition the board of supervisors of the principal county for an order by the board of supervisors abolishing the...
California Water Code Section 21577
The board of supervisors shall thereupon find whether or not there are less than 2,500 acres in the district, less than 100 electors residing in...
California Water Code Section 21578
If the board of supervisors finds as to all of such matters in the affirmative, it may order that there shall be no divisions in...
California Water Code Section 21579
Upon the making of the order, there shall be no divisions in the district, the directors of the district need only be voters and freeholders...
California Water Code Section 21580
From the adoption of the order the district shall have three directors, and the offices of the directors shall have the numbers formerly identifying the...
California Water Code Section 21581
The making of the order does not change any term of office.
California Water Code Section 21582
At least 120 days before any general district election a majority of the electors in the district having no divisions may file in the district...
California Water Code Section 21583
The petition shall contain a showing that it is expedient to divide the district into three divisions as nearly equal in area and population as...
California Water Code Section 21584
The board may independently investigate whether or not the facts are consistent with the showing made in the petition and shall hear any evidence produced...
California Water Code Section 21585
Within 30 days after the filing of the petition the board shall find whether or not it is expedient to divide the district into three...
California Water Code Section 21586
If the board finds in the affirmative, it shall forthwith order the establishment of divisions in the district and divide the district into three divisions...
California Water Code Section 21587
At the general district election next following the making of the order directors shall be elected at large in the district, one director to represent...
California Water Code Section 21065
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subdivision (b) applies to districts in which directors are elected by divisions. (b) The board of directors shall,...
California Water Code Section 21606
When land is excluded from a district after its formation, if the board deems it desirable, but not less than 120 days before any election...
California Water Code Section 21607
When land is included within a district after its formation, its board shall, not less than 120 days before any election in the district, reestablish...
California Water Code Section 21608
When land is included within a district after its formation and less than 120 days before an election, the voters in the area included shall...
California Water Code Section 21925
After an order determining the amount of bonds which should be issued, the board shall call a bond election to submit to the voters a...
California Water Code Section 21926
Notice of a bond election shall be given by publication of the notice, in some newspaper published in the office county, once a week for...
California Water Code Section 21927
Notice of a bond election shall specify: (a) The day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election. (b) The amount of...
California Water Code Section 21928
At a bond election several proposals as to the issuance of bonds may be submitted separately on the same ballot if: (a) Estimates of the...
California Water Code Section 21929
The ballots shall contain a general statement of the proposals to be voted on, including the amount of bonds proposed to be issued for each...
California Water Code Section 21930
On bond election ballots there shall be printed under the heading "Instructions to voters": "To vote for a proposal, stamp a cross (+) in the...
California Water Code Section 21931
The voters shall vote for or against any proposal at a bond election by stamping a cross (+) in the voting space after the word...
California Water Code Section 21932
Bond elections shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with general district elections.
California Water Code Section 21933
The issuance of bonds is authorized when, at a bond election, any of the following occurs: (a) Two-thirds of the votes cast on the proposal...
California Water Code Section 21934
If the number of votes for any bond proposal is less than the number required to authorize the issuance of the bonds, the result of...
California Water Code Section 21935
No informalities in the conduct of the election shall invalidate the election if fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 22075
A district may do any act necessary to furnish sufficient water in the district for any beneficial use.
California Water Code Section 22076
A district may do any act in order to put to any beneficial use any water under its control.
California Water Code Section 22077
A district may deliver water for fire protection purposes.
California Water Code Section 22078
A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water including but not limited to sewage waters for the beneficial...
California Water Code Section 22078.5
A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
California Water Code Section 22079
No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or...
California Water Code Section 22080
As used in this article: (a) "Conduit" includes ditches, pipelines, and other means of diversion. (b) "District" means any irrigation district which includes land included...
California Water Code Section 22080.5
Any duty or authority vested in a watermaster appointed by a district may be exercised by the watermaster directly or through the agency of a...
California Water Code Section 22081
A district, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 22080, may appoint one or more watermasters to regulate the use of water within the district.
California Water Code Section 22081.5
The owner of every conduit subject to regulation by an irrigation district shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the district a substantial and...
California Water Code Section 22082
The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the district a substantial and serviceable headgate in the conduit through which...
California Water Code Section 22082.5
The headgate shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the watermaster.
California Water Code Section 22083
The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain such water flow measuring devices at such points along the conduit as may be required and...
California Water Code Section 22083.5
If the owner of any conduit refuses or neglects to construct and maintain the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices provided...
California Water Code Section 22084
The owner of every reservoir which is subject to regulation by a watermaster and which is located across or upon the bed of a natural...
California Water Code Section 22084.5
If the owner of any reservoir neglects or refuses to construct and maintain the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days' notice...
California Water Code Section 22085
The district may make such reasonable regulations to secure distribution of water in accordance with determined rights as may be needed.
California Water Code Section 22085.5
The watermaster shall divide the water of the streams or other sources of supply among the several conduits and reservoirs taking water therefrom and so...
California Water Code Section 22086
Whenever in pursuance of his duties the watermaster regulates a headgate to a conduit or the controlling works of a reservoir, he may attach to...
California Water Code Section 22086.5
The notice is legal notice to all persons interested in the diversion and distribution of the water of the conduit or reservoir.
California Water Code Section 22087
Any person who is injured by the action of any watermaster may apply to the superior court of the county in which the injury takes...
California Water Code Section 22087.5
Such injunction shall be issued only in case it is shown at the hearing that the watermaster has failed to distribute the water according to...
California Water Code Section 22088
Every person who willfully and without authority closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate, waterbox, or measuring device while it is under the control of...
California Water Code Section 22088.5
The possession or use of water when it has been so denied by the watermaster is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person...
California Water Code Section 22089
Every person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less...
California Water Code Section 22089.5
A watermaster has the power to arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this article and to give him into the custody of...
California Water Code Section 22095
A district may provide for any and all drainage made necessary by the irrigation provided for by the district.
California Water Code Section 22096
All laws respecting irrigation by districts or respecting districts shall also be so construed and enforced as to apply to drainage.
California Water Code Section 22097
The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting drainage and construction, operation, and control relating to it as...
California Water Code Section 22098
Whenever it appears necessary to drain any land within a district on account of the irrigation which has been done or which is intended to...
California Water Code Section 22099
No drainage need be provided for land as to which the district is relieved from liability for seepage or flooding by reason of grant, waiver,...
California Water Code Section 22115
Any district heretofore or hereafter formed may purchase or lease electric power from any agency or entity, public or private, and may provide for the...
California Water Code Section 22116
All provisions of the California Irrigation District Act, and of all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, applying to irrigation shall, as codified in this...
California Water Code Section 22117
The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting electric power and the acquisition, operation, and control relating to...
California Water Code Section 22118
The board and the officers, agents, and employees of districts shall do all necessary and proper acts for the construction and operation of its electric...
California Water Code Section 22119
A district may distribute power without regard to any assessments levied by it.
California Water Code Section 22120
A district may sell, dispose of, and distribute electric power for use outside of its boundaries.
California Water Code Section 22121
Subject to the conditions in this article a district may in the manner required by law make special appropriations of water for power purposes.
California Water Code Section 22122
Any use of water for generating electric power at any given time of the year which is in excess of the water appropriated and beneficially...
California Water Code Section 22123
Any district providing electric power to areas outside its boundaries shall be subject to reasonable rules, regulations, and orders of the governing body of the...
California Water Code Section 22124
Every district furnishing electrical power shall comply with Section 8029.5 of the Public Utilities Code.
California Water Code Section 22140
The board may establish or modify any existing plan or system, so as to provide for a pension or retirement plan or system for the...
California Water Code Section 22141
The district may maintain its own pension, retirement, disability benefit and death benefit fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or...
California Water Code Section 22143
This article does not affect the authority of any district to participate in the State Employees' Retirement System or any county employees' retirement system.
California Water Code Section 22144
If a district has terminated a plan which did provide retirement benefits and has entered into a contract to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement...
California Water Code Section 22160
The district may, but shall not be required to, provide for, maintain and operate such works and facilities within or without its boundaries as the...
California Water Code Section 22161
A district may, but shall not be required to, contract with the United States, the State, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any...
California Water Code Section 22162
The provisions of Section 22160 apply only to districts containing 200,000 acres or more.
California Water Code Section 22170
This article applies only if an election is called and held as provided in this article and a majority of the votes cast on the...
California Water Code Section 22171
The board may in its discretion by resolution call an election to be held in the entire district or only in that portion of the...
California Water Code Section 22172
The ballots shall have printed on them under the heading "Instructions to Voters": "To vote for a proposal stamp a cross (+) in the voting...
California Water Code Section 22173
The voters shall vote for or against the proposal by stamping a cross (+) in the voting space after the word "Yes" or "No" respectively.
California Water Code Section 22174
Notice of the election shall specify the purpose of the election and the day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election,...
California Water Code Section 22175
The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with general district elections.
California Water Code Section 22176
A district, whether heretofore or hereafter formed, may provide for the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of sewage collection and disposal mains, and sewage treatment...
California Water Code Section 22177
A district may charge reasonable connection charges to defray in whole or in part the cost of providing sewage disposal service and may levy and...
California Water Code Section 22178
All provisions of the California Irrigation District Act, and of all other acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, applying to irrigation shall, as codified in...
California Water Code Section 22179
The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting sewage disposal and the acquisition, operation, and control relating to...
California Water Code Section 22180
The board and the officers, agents, and employees of districts shall do all necessary and proper acts for the construction and operation of its sewage...
California Water Code Section 22185
A district may construct, maintain, and operate recreational facilities in connection with any dams, reservoirs, or other works owned or controlled by the district.
California Water Code Section 22186
A district may fix and assess reasonable charges for the use of the recreational facilities by members of the public.
California Water Code Section 22225
Each district has the power generally to perform all acts necessary to carry out fully the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 22226
A district may construct the necessary works for the collection of water for the district.
California Water Code Section 22227
A district may acquire the right to store water in any reservoir or to carry water through any conduit not owned or controlled by the...
California Water Code Section 22228
A district may contract to perform and perform any agreement with any number of persons or public corporations or agencies for the exchange, transfer, or...
California Water Code Section 22230
A district may make and perform any necessary contracts to carry out the purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 22231
A district by contract may acquire and operate any needed or desirable equipment to put water under its control to any beneficial use.
California Water Code Section 22232
A district may employ an expert in agriculture and related matters and other employees as may be deemed necessary to do any of the following:...
California Water Code Section 22233
Any district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing, or relocating...
California Water Code Section 22234
A district may contract to operate, maintain, or improve ditches and laterals not owned by the district upon petition of at least two-thirds of the...
California Water Code Section 22235
A district may disseminate information to the public concerning the rights, properties, and activities of the district.
California Water Code Section 22250
All water distributed by districts for irrigation purposes shall except when otherwise provided in this article be apportioned ratably to each landowner upon the basis...
California Water Code Section 22251
Any landowner may assign for use within the district his right to the whole or any portion of the water apportioned to him pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 22252
When any charges for the use of water are fixed by a district the water for the use of which the charges have been fixed...
California Water Code Section 22252.1
The board by the unanimous vote of all of the directors may specify a date prior to which applications for water for the ensuing irrigation...
California Water Code Section 22252.2
The action of a board in fixing or changing any such date shall be ineffective until notice thereof is given by publication once a week...
California Water Code Section 22252.3
In any year in which the board determines that the water supplies of the district will be inadequate to provide water in a quantity furnished...
California Water Code Section 22253
When a mutual water company has been formed to furnish water to certain specified land within a district, the district may contract for the delivery...
California Water Code Section 22254
If a district has contracted to deliver and is delivering water to a mutual water company for distribution to territory served by the latter, the...
California Water Code Section 22255
When its board deems it in the best interests of the district, the district may regulate the amount of water to be used to irrigate...
California Water Code Section 22256
A district may refuse to furnish water to any land to which it holds title by virtue of collector's deeds to the district or to...
California Water Code Section 22257
Each district shall establish equitable rules for the distribution and use of water, which shall be printed in convenient form for distribution in the district....
California Water Code Section 22258
A district required by law or provisions of agreements under which all or part of the water supply of the district was acquired to furnish...
California Water Code Section 22259
If its board deems it to be for the best interests of the district, a district may enter into a contract for the lease or...
California Water Code Section 22261
Nothing in this article authorizes the sale of any water right.
California Water Code Section 22262
No right in any water or water right owned by the district shall be acquired by use permitted under this article.
California Water Code Section 22263
Nothing contained in this division authorizes any person to divert the water of any stream or conduit from its channel to the detriment of any...
California Water Code Section 22264
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116275) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code shall not apply to districts except in...
California Water Code Section 22280
Any district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying assessments fix and collect charges for any service furnished by the district, including,...
California Water Code Section 22281
A district may charge higher rates for the service of water to any land that is not subject to assessment by the district than is...
California Water Code Section 22281.1
A district may establish a charge for the right to connect to new pipelines or extensions of existing pipelines constructed in whole or in part...
California Water Code Section 22282
Whenever any charges for any service provided for by this division have been fixed, they may be made payable in advance.
California Water Code Section 22282.1
A district may refuse service to any land if outstanding charges for services already rendered such land have not been paid within a reasonable time.
California Water Code Section 22283
A district may prescribe reasonable rules to carry out the provisions of this article.
California Water Code Section 22284
A district may prescribe by rule that when any charges fixed for services under Section 22280 become delinquent, the charges may be collected in accordance...
California Water Code Section 22335
During the construction of any works of a district to be paid for out of the proceeds of any bond issue, the department shall have...
California Water Code Section 22336
During the construction of any work to be paid for out of the proceeds of the sale of any bonds of any district, the secretary...
California Water Code Section 22337
The board immediately after the publication of the statement of the financial condition of the district each year shall send all of the following papers...
California Water Code Section 22338
The department may at any time make an examination of the affairs of any district or call upon the authorities of the district for any...
California Water Code Section 22425
A district may acquire by any means any property or interest in property to carry out its purposes, including any of the following: (a) Property...
California Water Code Section 22426
Any property necessary for the purposes of the district may be acquired by the district and held subject to any liens, incumbrances, or obligations on...
California Water Code Section 22427
If any road, railroad, canal, or other property subject or devoted to public use will become subject to flooding or other interference by reason of...
California Water Code Section 22428
If by a judgment or agreement a district is required to relocate any road, railroad, canal, or other property subject or devoted to public use,...
California Water Code Section 22429
The right is hereby granted to locate, construct, and maintain any of the works of a district on any land which is now or hereafter...
California Water Code Section 22430
There is given, dedicated, and set apart for the uses and purposes of each district all water and water rights belonging to this State within...
California Water Code Section 22431
A district may construct any works across any watercourse, road, railway, conduit, or other property subject or devoted to public use in a manner that...
California Water Code Section 22432
A district may on terms its board deems for the best interests of the district take a deed or release from any claimant, including any...
California Water Code Section 22433
A district may purchase pursuant to law property tax sold or tax deeded to the State on which the district has a claim, lien, or...
California Water Code Section 22434
Any district when it appears to its board to be for the best interest of the district may discharge with or without compromise any overlapping...
California Water Code Section 22435
A district may notwithstanding any other provisions of this division use any of its funds to carry out the provisions of Section 22434 and may...
California Water Code Section 22436
A district may in its name take conveyances, leases, contracts, or other assurances for all property acquired by it.
California Water Code Section 22437
The title to all property acquired by a district is held in trust for its uses and purposes. The district may hold, use, acquire, manage,...
California Water Code Section 22438
(a) A district which is the owner of an easement for an open canal or other water conveyance facility for the transportation of water across...
California Water Code Section 22456
The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to carry out its purposes.
California Water Code Section 22457
If the owner of any land, easement, or franchise to be crossed by works of a district can not agree with the district as to...
California Water Code Section 22458
If a right to flood or otherwise interfere with any road, railroad, canal, or other property is acquired by eminent domain, the judgment may, if...
California Water Code Section 22475
There is granted to every district the right to construct and operate in a manner affording security for life and property electric light and power...
California Water Code Section 22476
A district may not construct and operate electric light and power lines along, over, under, or upon any road within any city unless permission to...
California Water Code Section 22477
Permission pursuant to Section 22476 is not necessary where the road to be used is a convenient part of the route of the lines and...
California Water Code Section 22478
A district constructing lines pursuant to this article shall restore the road, railway, or conduit intersected to its former state of usefulness as near as
California Water Code Section 22500
When a board determines by resolution entered upon the minutes that any property of the district is no longer necessary for district purposes, the district...
California Water Code Section 22501
A district may lease the right to produce any minerals or hydrocarbons in any property held by it upon the terms the board deems most...
California Water Code Section 22502
All conveyances and leases of district property shall be executed by the secretary and president on behalf of the district in accordance with a resolution...
California Water Code Section 22503
A district may sell, convey, lease, give and take options and contracts of sale upon, and otherwise deal with property acquired by it through a...
California Water Code Section 22505
A district may lease any of its property to the State of California, a public agency of the State, a city, county, district, or other...
California Water Code Section 22506
When a board determines by resolution entered upon the minutes that any property of the district may be leased for a use or purpose that...
California Water Code Section 22525
This article provides an independent method of leasing and its provisions apply only to leases made pursuant to it.
California Water Code Section 22526
A district may lease part or all of its works whenever the leasing will benefit the district.
California Water Code Section 22527
When the board contemplates the leasing of the works of the district, it shall give notice thereof at least three weeks prior to the making...
California Water Code Section 22528
The lease shall be made to the highest bidder, but any and all bids may be rejected.
California Water Code Section 22529
The lease shall not interfere with any prior rights established by law.
California Water Code Section 22530
A good and sufficient bond shall be required by the board to secure the faithful performance of the lease by the lessees.
California Water Code Section 22550
The provisions of this article apply only to leases made pursuant to it.
California Water Code Section 22551
Whenever a district in the development of its works has the opportunity without increased expenditure to lease for mechanical purposes not inconsistent with the district's...
California Water Code Section 22552
Whenever the board desires to lease the use of water it shall pass a resolution of intention to do so.
California Water Code Section 22553
Immediately after the passage of the resolution the secretary shall give notice of the intention, by publication for at least 20 days in one newspaper...
California Water Code Section 22554
The notice of intention to lease the use of water shall state all of the following: (a) The board will receive sealed proposals for the...
California Water Code Section 22555
At the time and place appointed the board shall open in public the proposals to lease the use of water.
California Water Code Section 22556
As soon after opening the proposals as may be convenient the board may let the lease in portions or as a whole to the highest...
California Water Code Section 22557
The rental accruing upon a lease of the use of water may vary from year to year as specified in the lease and shall be...
California Water Code Section 22558
If at any time the rental is not paid on the day fixed, the amount of the rental due shall be doubled, and if not...
California Water Code Section 22559
All money collected on a lease shall be paid into the district treasury and be apportioned to any funds the board deems advisable.
California Water Code Section 22560
Upon the letting of any lease, the board may require the lessee to execute a bond for the faithful performance of the covenants of the...
California Water Code Section 22561
The lease may be for a period not exceeding 25 years.
California Water Code Section 22650
A district may commence and maintain any actions and proceedings to carry out its purposes or protect its interests and may defend in any action...
California Water Code Section 22651
In all actions or proceedings the board may sue, appear, and defend in person or by attorneys and in the name of the district.
California Water Code Section 22651.5
(a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a district to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an ordinance,...
California Water Code Section 22652
Service of summons upon a district may be made by serving it upon either the secretary or a majority of the directors elected.
California Water Code Section 22653
Before an action or proceeding by the holders of bonds of a district to compel or restrain the doing of an act by the district...
California Water Code Section 22654
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, compromise, and assume the costs of any action or proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or use of...
California Water Code Section 22655
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, defend, and compromise actions and proceedings to prevent interference with or diminution of the natural flow of any...
California Water Code Section 22670
An action to determine the validity of any contract entered into for a period of more than three years or the levy of any assessment...
California Water Code Section 22700
No contest of any thing or matter herein provided shall be made other than in the time and manner herein specified.
California Water Code Section 22701
In any such action all findings of fact or conclusions of a board or board of supervisors upon all matters shall be conclusive unless the...
California Water Code Section 22727
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 22750
In all controversies involving any damage to any and all water rights of any land which is heretofore or hereafter tax-sold or tax-deeded to the...
California Water Code Section 22751
The damages claimed in a controversy defined by this article are those occurring prior to the execution of the tax deed to the State.
California Water Code Section 22752
The money collected in the settlement pursuant to this article shall be paid into the treasury of the district for district purposes and be apportioned...
California Water Code Section 22753
The settlement of a controversy defined by this article shall be upon terms satisfactory to the district.
California Water Code Section 22754
The tax title of the State to the land involved remains wholly unimpaired by proceedings had pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 22762
An action to determine the validity of the Quantification Settlement Agreement defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1 of Chapter 617 of the Statutes of...
California Water Code Section 22825
The provisions of this chapter apply only to districts containing 500,000 acres or more.
California Water Code Section 22826
Except as provided in this chapter every district containing 500,000 acres or more shall be governed by the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 22840
(a) Each director of a district may receive a salary fixed by an ordinance that is subject to referendum and adopted by the board in...
California Water Code Section 22840.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may elect a chairperson from its members and may elect, in addition to a chairperson, a vice...
California Water Code Section 22841
Notwithstanding Section 1304 of the Elections Code, the board of an irrigation district containing 500,000 acres or more may designate that the general district election...
California Water Code Section 22841.5
In an irrigation district containing 500,000 acres or more, the board shall, when changing the boundaries of the divisions of the district pursuant to Section...
California Water Code Section 22842
The board may: (a) Provide for and create divisions or departments for management and operating purposes. (b) Appoint department heads. (c) Classify and reclassify employees....
California Water Code Section 22843
All department heads, executives, and employees shall hold their employment at the will of the board.
California Water Code Section 22844
The board shall: (a) Elect an assessor and a collector, and on and after 12 p.m. on December 31, 1971, elect a treasurer, each of...
California Water Code Section 22845
The treasurer, assessor, and collector shall each qualify by taking and filing with the secretary the oath of office and shall give a bond to...
California Water Code Section 22846
The bond of the collector shall be in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more and shall be executed at the expense of...
California Water Code Section 22846.5
The bond of the treasurer shall be in a sum determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 21140) of Chapter 1...
California Water Code Section 22847
The board may: (a) Appoint one person to hold the offices of assessor, treasurer, and collector. (b) Segregate the offices and appoint a person to...
California Water Code Section 22848
The same person may hold the office of president, secretary, treasurer, assessor, and collector, or any of those offices.
California Water Code Section 22849
The board of supervisors of the office county shall fill by appointment vacancies in the offices of directors, provided that any such appointed directors shall...
California Water Code Section 22875
Any district may expend sums that seem necessary to its board for the protection of its canal system or of land from damage by flood...
California Water Code Section 22876
The district may contribute funds for the purpose stated in Section 22875 to be expended by or jointly with the United States, other governments, or...
California Water Code Section 22877
A district may do all things necessary to insure its canal system and the land from any damage by flood or overflow without holding an...
California Water Code Section 22878
When the issuance of bonds by any district has been authorized by the voters for the purpose of protection against floods but the bonds have...
California Water Code Section 22879
In addition to the powers conferred by Section 22878 any district may borrow for flood protection purposes in any one year not to exceed two...
California Water Code Section 22950
Every district by its board, each year within 15 days after the close of its session as a board of equalization, shall levy an assessment...
California Water Code Section 22960
Every district by its board may, in addition to other powers, borrow funds for any lawful purpose at an interest rate not exceeding 5 per...
California Water Code Section 22961
A reserve fund from assessments or other revenues for emergencies, replacements or other lawful purpose of the district may be provided by the board.
California Water Code Section 22970
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code, in the event that in...
California Water Code Section 22970.5
The runoff election shall be held on the last Tuesday in November, next following the general election, between the two candidates who secure the greatest...
California Water Code Section 22970.10
The governing body shall certify the two candidates who receive the highest number of votes for the elective office to the county elections official as...
California Water Code Section 22970.15
The voters qualified to vote for the elective offices at the preceding general district election shall be the only voters qualified for the runoff election.
California Water Code Section 22970.20
Not less than seven days before any runoff election, any voter entitled to vote by vote by mail ballot as provided in Section 10530 of...
California Water Code Section 22970.25
The county elections official shall commence the canvass of the returns on the first Wednesday after each runoff election.
California Water Code Section 22970.30
Not later than the second Friday in December next following the runoff election, the governing body at a regular or special meeting shall declare elected...
California Water Code Section 22970.32
Officers elected at a runoff election shall take office pursuant to Section 21101.
California Water Code Section 22970.35
In all other respects a runoff election shall be conducted in the same manner as the general election for that office held pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 22975
Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this division, the El Dorado Irrigation District, or an improvement district formed within the El Dorado Irrigation District pursuant...
California Water Code Section 22976
This section provides for an alternative procedure for forming an improvement district within the El Dorado Irrigation District: (a) The El Dorado Irrigation District may...
California Water Code Section 22977
In the event that the board of the El Dorado Irrigation District determines that it may be for the best interests of the district for...
California Water Code Section 22980
For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, the Merced Irrigation District, or the East Contra Costa Irrigation District.
California Water Code Section 22981
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the district, or an improvement district formed within the district pursuant to this division, may do any of...
California Water Code Section 22982
This section provides an alternative procedure for forming an improvement district within the district as follows: (a) The district may form one or more improvement...
California Water Code Section 23100
A district may make and perform any agreement with the United States, any State, county, district of any kind, public corporation, any person, or any...
California Water Code Section 23175
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Irrigation District Federal Cooperation Law.
California Water Code Section 23176
The provisions of this chapter apply only to proceedings taken under it and do not apply to district operations unrelated to cooperation with the United...
California Water Code Section 23177
The definitions in Chapter 2 of Part 1 of this division are applicable to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 23178
Article 35 (commencing with Section 20560) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code does not apply in the...
California Water Code Section 23179
The board shall perform all acts necessary to carry out the enlarged powers enumerated in this chapter.
California Water Code Section 23195
Districts may cooperate and contract with the United States under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary...
California Water Code Section 23196
The co-operation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition, extension, or operation of works for irrigation or drainage...
California Water Code Section 23197
In a contract made pursuant to Section 23196 a district may include provision for either or both of the following: (a) Delivery and distribution of...
California Water Code Section 23198
When a contract has been made with the United States, if so provided by the contract and authorized pursuant to this chapter, bonds of the...
California Water Code Section 23199
The contract with the United States may likewise call for the payment of the amount or any part thereof to be paid by the district...
California Water Code Section 23200
All water, the right to the use of which is acquired by a district under any contract with the United States shall be distributed and...
California Water Code Section 23201
A district may pursuant to the contract sell or lease water for private land, to entrymen, or to municipalities, in the neighborhood of the district.
California Water Code Section 23202
When a contract pursuant to this chapter has been entered into between the United States and any district, the district shall not be dissolved, nor...
California Water Code Section 23203
A district may accept an appointment to collect money for or to act as fiscal agent of the United States in connection with any Federal...
California Water Code Section 23204
Any property owned or acquired by a district may be conveyed by it to the United States in so far as the property may be...
California Water Code Section 23220
A proposal to enter into a contract with the United States shall be authorized at an election if the contract is for any or all...
California Water Code Section 23221
Proceedings at the election shall be had in so far as applicable in the manner provided in the case of the ordinary issuance of district
California Water Code Section 23223
Notice of the election shall contain in addition to the information required in the case of ordinary bond elections a statement of the maximum amount...
California Water Code Section 23224
The ballots at the election shall contain a brief statement of the general purpose of the contract substantially as stated in the notice of election...
California Water Code Section 23225
An action to determine the validity of any contract and bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
California Water Code Section 23240
All payments to the United States under any contract between a district and the United States, including payments of interest and principal on bonds deposited...
California Water Code Section 23241
The district by its board shall annually levy an assessment sufficient to raise the money necessary to meet all payments when due as provided in...
California Water Code Section 23242
The assessment required in any year to meet the payment due to the United States for all purposes under the contract may be apportioned in...
California Water Code Section 23242.4
Where a district makes a contract with the United States for a supply of water or for the payment or repayment of construction costs upon...
California Water Code Section 23242.5
The contract between a district and the United States may, subject to hearing and equalization as provided herein, determine, or provide for the method of...
California Water Code Section 23243
Public land of the United States within any district shall be subject to assessment for all purposes of this chapter to the extent provided for...
California Water Code Section 23244
Nothing in this chapter relieves any district from its obligation to pay as a district in case of the default of any land unless so...
California Water Code Section 23245
All money collected in pursuance of the contract shall be paid into the district treasury and held in a fund to be known as the...
California Water Code Section 23260
When the United States is authorized to construct works for the benefit of any district and the district is obligated to repay the construction cost...
California Water Code Section 23261
If a district is the successful bidder for the construction of the works or any part of them, the district may execute at its expense...
California Water Code Section 23262
A district upon the execution with the United States of a contract for the construction of works by the district shall proceed with the work...
California Water Code Section 23263
For the purpose of providing the necessary money to carry on the construction work the district may borrow money for a term not exceeding five...
California Water Code Section 23264
Any money received by a district from the United States under the contract shall first be applied to the retirement of notes, warrants, or other...
California Water Code Section 23280
In addition to other powers conferred by this chapter districts may pursuant to this article borrow or procure money from the United States for any...
California Water Code Section 23281
When the United States has appraised the security underlying the indebtedness of any district or loans any district money to refund any of its indebtedness...
California Water Code Section 23282
Any district, upon being authorized so to do as provided by Article 3 of this chapter as modified in this article, may as evidence of...
California Water Code Section 23283
A district may issue bonds if required by the contract or without a contract.
California Water Code Section 23284
The bonds shall contain any terms and be payable in any manner and from any source of revenue that may be agreed upon between the...
California Water Code Section 23285
The bonds may be serial or sinking fund bonds, may be made callable either by number or by lot, and may be made payable to...
California Water Code Section 23287
A majority vote at an election shall be sufficient to authorize the execution of the contract.
California Water Code Section 23288
The notice of election and ballot need contain only the information required in the case of ordinary bond elections.
California Water Code Section 23289
Proposals both to enter into a contract and to issue bonds may be voted upon as a single proposition.
California Water Code Section 23300
As used in this article "county water district" means a county water district which has heretofore executed or shall hereafter execute a contract with the...
California Water Code Section 23301
Every such county water district shall, within the meaning of the act of Congress approved August 11, 1916, entitled "An act to promote the reclamation...
California Water Code Section 23302
Public land of the United States within any such county water district is subject to assessment and taxation for all purposes of such district to...
California Water Code Section 23375
The provisions of this chapter do not extend the right of eminent domain to any public use in behalf of which it may not otherwise...
California Water Code Section 23376
Districts may enter into agreements with irrigation districts in adjoining States for the joint acquisition, management, and control of diverting, impounding, or distributing works for...
California Water Code Section 23377
Agreements pursuant to this article may be evidenced by written contracts executed on behalf of the board of directors or trustees of each respective district...
California Water Code Section 23378
The contracts or certified copies of them and certified copies of the resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each...
California Water Code Section 23379
Agreements made pursuant to this article may provide for joint ownership, several ownership, or ownership in common of the property convenient for their joint purposes...
California Water Code Section 23380
Any rights or disputes arising out of or from the agreements may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this
California Water Code Section 23381
Any meeting of a board regularly adjourned to or called substantially in the manner for calling special meetings may be held in conjunction with the...
California Water Code Section 23382
For the purposes of cooperative action pursuant to this article either district may divert water from either or both States for either or both impounding...
California Water Code Section 23383
So far as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this article a cooperating district in an adjoining State may hold title to property in...
California Water Code Section 23450
As used in this article "districts" means one or more irrigation districts together with one or more county water districts.
California Water Code Section 23451
As used in this article "contract with the United States" means a contract made under the provisions of the Federal Reclamation Law for any or...
California Water Code Section 23452
As used in ths article "power rights" includes power possibilities, power resources, and power privileges.
California Water Code Section 23453
Districts may contract with each other pursuant to this article only when both: (a) Each of the districts before or after contracting pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 23454
Any contract between districts made before each of the districts has made a contract with the United States shall be effective when all of the...
California Water Code Section 23455
In any contract between districts they may contract to compromise and settle any controversies existing between them as to the extent or priority of their...
California Water Code Section 23456
Districts may also contract that applications theretofore filed by either of them with the State Water Rights Board or its predecessor shall be amended to...
California Water Code Section 23457
Districts may also contract to compromise and settle any controversies existing between them as to power rights upon the canal or other water system, and...
California Water Code Section 23458
The lease may be made for any term not exceeding 99 years and may vest in the lessee the operation, management, development, and control of...
California Water Code Section 23459
Districts may also contract that when the lease has been executed, the lessor may be required upon any terms agreed upon to procure for the...
California Water Code Section 23460
Districts may also contract that they shall cooperate to obtain permits and licenses to appropriate water for power purposes and to construct power facilities from...
California Water Code Section 23461
Districts may also contract for any other matters authorized by law.
California Water Code Section 23462
Districts so contracting have full power to perform and observe the contracts in accordance with the tenor and spirit thereof.
California Water Code Section 23463
Contracts made pursuant to this article shall be liberally construed to effectuate them according to their true intent.
California Water Code Section 23464
The execution of a contract between districts may be authorized by resolution of their respective boards.
California Water Code Section 23465
Any and all such contracts executed prior to September 13, 1941, by and between such districts and all acts of boards of directors and other...
California Water Code Section 23500
Contiguous land may be formed into a distribution district for the purpose of contracting with the United States, pursuant to the federal reclamation laws, for...
California Water Code Section 23501
As used in this part, "federal reclamation law" shall mean the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stats. 388), and all acts amendatory...
California Water Code Section 23502
The formation of a distribution district may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the holders...
California Water Code Section 23503
A petition for the formation of a distribution district shall contain all of the following: (a) Statement of the plans of the proposed distribution system....
California Water Code Section 23504
The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the distribution district, and the land in it shall be designated by a number.
California Water Code Section 23505
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
California Water Code Section 23506
A petition to form a distribution district shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all...
California Water Code Section 23510
Upon receipt of a petition to form a distribution district the board shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed distribution system.
California Water Code Section 23511
If the survey shows that the distribution system is feasible, the board shall cause to be prepared the following: (a) An estimate of the cost...
California Water Code Section 23512
The estimate of cost and the statement of the estimated rate of ad valorem tax shall be filed with the secretary in the office of...
California Water Code Section 23520
After the filing of the formation petition and the estimate of cost and the statement of the estimated rate of ad valorem tax, the board...
California Water Code Section 23521
Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following: (a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed distribution district....
California Water Code Section 23522
At the hearing the board shall hear any objections coming before it to any of the following: (a) The petition. (b) The formation of the...
California Water Code Section 23523
At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to matters set forth in Section 23522 as it considers proper. The board may...
California Water Code Section 23524
If any additional land is included within the proposed irrigation district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added land given personal...
California Water Code Section 23530
Regardless of any findings made by the board if more than one-third in number of the owners of title to land within a proposed distribution...
California Water Code Section 23531
If at the hearing the board finds that it would not be for the best interest of the district to form the distribution district the...
California Water Code Section 23532
If the board finds that it would be for the best interests of the district and the proposed distribution district to form the distribution district,...
California Water Code Section 23533
Assessments levied for the purpose of meeting obligations accruing under a contract with the United States pursuant to the reclamation laws shall be payable in...
California Water Code Section 23534
The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order creating the distribution district to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in...
California Water Code Section 23535
All lands of the distribution district shall remain jointly liable for all obligations accruing to the United States under any contract between the distribution district...
California Water Code Section 23540
If at any time it is desired to include additional land in a distribution district, a petition for inclusion signed by the owners of the...
California Water Code Section 23541
The inclusion petition shall describe the land in the distribution district as enlarged by the proposed inclusions and give the names and addresses of the...
California Water Code Section 23542
The same proceedings shall be had on the distribution district inclusion petition as upon the original petition for the formation of a distribution district.
California Water Code Section 23545
At any time before a district has incurred any indebtedness or obligation, or after all indebtedness and obligations have been discharged, two-thirds or more in...
California Water Code Section 23546
The secretary of the district, upon the filing of the petition, shall examine it and if, in his opinion, the petition has been signed by...
California Water Code Section 23547
The secretary of the board shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing to be posted for a period of two weeks next...
California Water Code Section 23548
At the time and place of the hearing, anyone interested in the petition for exclusion may appear before the board of the district and urge...
California Water Code Section 23549
All expenses incurred in connection with a petition to exclude lands from a distribution district shall be paid by the petitioners.
California Water Code Section 23550
In a district containing a distribution district the board and all of the officers of the district each respectively has all of the rights, powers,...
California Water Code Section 23551
The board may also hold or dispose of property used or acquired in connection with the distribution district in the name of the directors and...
California Water Code Section 23552
The board of the district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying ad valorem assessments for repayment of construction costs under a...
California Water Code Section 23553
The board of the district may provide for any maintenance and operation of the distribution system of a distribution district that may be required by...
California Water Code Section 23560
A district may issue distribution district warrants signed by its president and secretary from receipts of distribution district assessments and charges in such amounts and...
California Water Code Section 23570
All acts, proceedings, conclusions, and findings of fact, including the levy of assessments or charges, by a board of a district concerning a distribution district...
California Water Code Section 23571
An action to determine the validity of an assessment may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part...
California Water Code Section 23580
At any time prior to incurring any indebtedness or obligation, or upon the full payment of all indebtedness or obligations of a distribution district a...
California Water Code Section 23581
A hearing on dissolution shall be had in the same manner and after the same notice as is required for the formation of a distribution
California Water Code Section 23582
The board may, after the hearing, order the distribution district dissolved.
California Water Code Section 23583
The order of dissolution shall be recorded in the same manner as the order forming the distribution district.
California Water Code Section 23600
Land which need not be contiguous may be formed into an improvement district for one or more of the following: (a) Irrigation or domestic water...
California Water Code Section 23601
As used in connection with improvement districts: (a) "Improvement" includes acquisition of existing works, construction of new works, and change of existing works and excludes...
California Water Code Section 23602
The formation of an improvement district may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the holders...
California Water Code Section 23603
A petition for the formation of an improvement district shall contain all of the following: (a) Statement of the plans of the proposed improvement. (b)...
California Water Code Section 23604
The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the improvement district, and the land in it shall be designated by a number.
California Water Code Section 23605
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
California Water Code Section 23606
A petition to form an improvement district shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all...
California Water Code Section 23607
Notwithstanding Section 23602, or any other provision of law to the contrary, in the Palmdale Irrigation District the formation of an improvement district may be...
California Water Code Section 23608
Notwithstanding Section 23602, or any other provision of law to the contrary, in the Littlerock Creek Irrigation District the formation of an improvement district may...
California Water Code Section 23625
Upon receipt of a petition to form an improvement district the board shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed improvements, if any.
California Water Code Section 23626
If the survey shows that the improvements are feasible, the board shall cause to be prepared the following: (a) Plans and specifications of the improvements...
California Water Code Section 23627
If there are any, the plans and specifications, estimate of cost, and the statement of the proposed assessment shall be filed with the secretary in...
California Water Code Section 23645
After the filing of the formation petition, and if any, the plans and specifications, the estimate of cost, and statement of the proposed assessment, the...
California Water Code Section 23646
Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following: (a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed improvement district....
California Water Code Section 23647
At the hearing the board shall hear any objections coming before it to any of the following: (a) The petition. (b) The formation of the...
California Water Code Section 23648
At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to the matters set forth in Section 23647 as it considers proper. The board...
California Water Code Section 23649
If any additional land is included in the proposed improvement district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added land given personal...
California Water Code Section 23650
Any of the following conditions specified in the plans and specifications of any improvement district heretofore or hereafter formed imposed upon the respective parcels of...
California Water Code Section 23651
All such tolls, connection charges, and additional assessments shall be held and applied upon and reduce the last call or calls of the improvement district...
California Water Code Section 23665
Regardless of any findings made by the board if more than one-third in number of the holders of title to land within a proposed improvement...
California Water Code Section 23666
If at the hearing the board finds that it would not be for the best interests of the district and the proposed improvement district to...
California Water Code Section 23667
If the board finds that it would be for the best interests of the district and the proposed improvement district to form the improvement district,...
California Water Code Section 23668
The order shall contain a description of the land in the improvement district.
California Water Code Section 23669
Any assessment levied pursuant to Section 23667 shall include both of the following sums: (a) An amount equal to interest on any deferred payments at...
California Water Code Section 23670
Except as provided in Section 23670.1, the assessment may be made payable in not more than 10 annual installments.
California Water Code Section 23670.1
Upon approval by two-thirds of the board, the assessment may be made payable in not more than 20 annual installments.
California Water Code Section 23671
The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order creating the improvement district to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in...
California Water Code Section 23672
The assessment and each installment of it shall be and remain a lien on the land in the improvement district in the same manner as...
California Water Code Section 23673
Upon a change or resubdivision upon the assessment book of the district of any parcel of land in an improvement district, the board upon its...
California Water Code Section 23674
If the actual cost of the improvements is substantially less than the estimated cost the assessment may be reduced proportionately on each parcel by recomputing...
California Water Code Section 23750
This chapter provides an alternative procedure for forming an improvement district within a district for the purpose of the construction of improvements in it, or...
California Water Code Section 23751
Unless otherwise expressly provided the formation proceedings provided by this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the next preceding chapter.
California Water Code Section 23752
No petition is required for the formation of an improvement district pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 23753
The board may by resolution cause a survey of the proposed improvement to be made, which survey shall include each of the following: (a) Detailed...
California Water Code Section 23770
If the cost of the improvements does not require a special assessment in excess of a total of fifty dollars ($50) per acre over an...
California Water Code Section 23771
The board shall give notice of the time and place of the formation hearing in the same manner as provided for the giving of notice...
California Water Code Section 23772
Owners of the property proposed to be included within the improvement district may be heard either in opposition to or in support of the formation...
California Water Code Section 23773
Proceedings at the hearing shall be the same as provided for at a hearing upon the formation petition pursuant to Chapter 1 of this part.
California Water Code Section 23774
Upon the conclusion of the hearing to form an improvement district an order shall be made by the board either dismissing the proceedings or ordering...
California Water Code Section 23775
If a formation order is made pursuant to this chapter, the land formed into the improvement district shall, for a period not to exceed five...
California Water Code Section 23776
Assessments in an improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter shall be levied, collected, and enforced at the same time and in the same manner...
California Water Code Section 23800
As used in this chapter and in other chapters when applied to an improvement district or proposed improvement district formed or to be formed under...
California Water Code Section 23801
Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter the provisions of all sections of Part 7 of this division shall be applicable to an improvement district...
California Water Code Section 23802
Land may be formed into an improvement district for one or more of the purposes provided for in Chapter 1 of this part.
California Water Code Section 23803
The formation of an improvement district under this chapter may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number...
California Water Code Section 23804
Land, in the proposed improvement district, located outside the district shall be described in the petition by each owner, which shall be according to the...
California Water Code Section 23805
No assessment shall be levied in the improvement district and no statement thereof prepared, but in lieu thereof the cost of the improvement and the...
California Water Code Section 23806
The notice provided for in Section 23645 shall also state that the hearing is called to determine the allocation of revenue to pay the costs...
California Water Code Section 23807
Regardless of any findings made by the board if more than one-third in number of the holders of title to land, in the proposed improvement...
California Water Code Section 23808
Until the payment or retirement of the warrants for the benefit of which an allocation was made, the allocation shall be irrevocable and the revenue...
California Water Code Section 23809
Before April 1st of each year after the warrants are issued the board shall fix charges for the use of water in the improvement district...
California Water Code Section 23810
Except as provided in Section 23811, the improvement district warrants shall be made payable over not to exceed a period of 10 years and shall...
California Water Code Section 23811
Upon approval by two-thirds of the board, the improvement district warrants shall be made payable over not to exceed a period of 20 years and...
California Water Code Section 23850
If the assessments levied upon land in an improvement district are insufficient to pay the cost of improvements or the warrants issued for the improvements,...
California Water Code Section 23851
The procedure followed in making the supplemental levy shall be substantially the same as for making the original levy, except that no petition is required.
California Water Code Section 23865
Whenever it is desired to do additional work or acquire additional property in or for an improvement district, upon the petition of two-thirds in number...
California Water Code Section 23875
If at any time it is desired to include additional land in an improvement district, a petition for inclusion signed by the holders of title...
California Water Code Section 23876
The inclusion petition shall describe the land in the improvement district as enlarged by the proposed inclusions and give the names and addresses of the...
California Water Code Section 23877
The same proceedings shall be had on the improvement district inclusion petition as upon the original petition for the formation of an improvement district.
California Water Code Section 23878
The board may prescribe any conditions upon the inclusion of the land that it deems just.
California Water Code Section 23879
If any conditions not contained in the petition for inclusion are prescribed by the board the lands shall not be included until two-thirds in number...
California Water Code Section 23900
This chapter provides an alternative method for the formation of improvement districts for the purpose of cooperating and contracting with the United States and agencies...
California Water Code Section 23901
Improvement districts consisting of a portion of the territory of a district may be formed within a district and, notwithstanding any other provision in this...
California Water Code Section 23902
Bonds of a district for an improvement district may be issued for either the purpose of cooperating and contracting with the United States pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 23903
Whenever the board is of the opinion that an improvement district should be formed for the purpose set forth in this chapter, the board shall...
California Water Code Section 23904
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention in a newspaper of general circulation published in each...
California Water Code Section 23905
At the time and place so fixed, or at any time or place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing...
California Water Code Section 23906
At the hearing the board may adopt a resolution proposing modifications relating to any or all of the following: (a) a modification of the boundaries...
California Water Code Section 23907
The board shall not order any modifications except after publication of the resolution proposing such modifications once in the same newspaper in which the resolution...
California Water Code Section 23908
The hearing on any proposed modifications, or any continuance thereof, may be held at the same time and place as any continued hearing on the...
California Water Code Section 23909
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention and of the hearing, if any, upon proposed modifications, the board may by resolution...
California Water Code Section 23910
After adopting the resolution ordering the improvement district formed, the board may provide for and call a special bond election within such improvement district to...
California Water Code Section 23911
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, special bond elections within an improvement district shall be called, noticed, held, conducted and the results thereof canvassed...
California Water Code Section 23912
If two-thirds of the votes cast upon the proposition at a special bond election held in an improvement district are in favor of the issuance...
California Water Code Section 23913
Bonds of the district for the improvement district shall be issued and sold in substantially the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions...
California Water Code Section 23914
Except to the extent that provision has otherwise been made by the board, as may be permitted by law, for the payment of the principal...
California Water Code Section 23915
In addition to the charges authorized to be fixed and collected pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 22280) Chapter 2, Part 5 of this...
California Water Code Section 23916
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this division applicable to general obligation bonds of the district and assessments therefor shall, so...
California Water Code Section 23917
The treasurer shall establish a separate fund for general obligation bonds of the district for each improvement district to which shall be apportioned money properly...
California Water Code Section 23950
In a district containing an improvement district the board and all of the officers of the district each respectively has all the rights, powers, and...
California Water Code Section 23951
The board may also hold property used or acquired in connection with the improvement in the name of the directors and their successors in office...
California Water Code Section 23952
The board of a district in which an improvement district exists may allow on terms that may be agreed upon any person to carry water...
California Water Code Section 23953
The work of improvement provided for in this part and the purchase of all supplies, material, and equipment therefor shall be performed by the district,...
California Water Code Section 23954
The board of the district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying assessments for the operation of improvement district works fix and...
California Water Code Section 23955
The board of the district may, provide for the maintenance and operation of the works of an improvement district from the funds of the irrigation...
California Water Code Section 23956
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the board of a district in which an improvement district exists may establish facilities use charges for the...
California Water Code Section 23975
A district may issue improvement district warrants signed by its president and secretary in face amount not exceeding in the aggregate the cost of the...
California Water Code Section 23976
Improvement district warrants shall be made payable in amounts and at the times corresponding substantially to the amounts and times of payment of the installments...
California Water Code Section 23977
Improvement district warrants shall bear interest at the rate fixed at the time of the levy of the improvement district assessment, and the interest may...
California Water Code Section 23978
Coupons for the interest on these warrants may be attached to them.
California Water Code Section 23979
Improvement district warrants may be made payable to any of the following: (a) Bearer. (b) Persons furnishing work, labor, or material. (c) The contractor if...
California Water Code Section 23980
Improvement district warrants may be sold by the district for not less than par at either public or private sale.
California Water Code Section 23981
Any surplus funds and any money held by a district in a sinking or depreciation fund may in the discretion of its board be invested...
California Water Code Section 24000
At any time before improvement district warrants are issued, the amount of any improvement district assessment on any land, exclusive of interest and the 10...
California Water Code Section 24001
Land on which the amount of the improvement district assessment has been paid pursuant to Section 24000 shall not be subject to the annual installments...
California Water Code Section 24002
Any landowner of an improvement district who desires at any time to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any improvement district assessment...
California Water Code Section 24003
Land upon which the assessment for improvement district warrants, including any interest, or for any other obligation payable out of the assessment, has been paid...
California Water Code Section 24004
The treasurer shall inform the landowner or any authorized person proposing to lessen or remove the lien of an improvement district assessment upon a piece...
California Water Code Section 24020
All acts, proceedings, conclusions, and findings of fact, including the levy of an assessment, by a board of a district concerning an improvement district therein...
California Water Code Section 24021
An action to determine the validity of an assessment or of warrants may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title...
California Water Code Section 24100
At any time prior to the incurring of any indebtedness or upon the full payment of all indebtedness of an improvement district, the board may...
California Water Code Section 24101
A hearing on dissolution shall be had in the same manner and after the same notice as is required for the formation of an improvement
California Water Code Section 24102
The board may, after the hearing, order the improvement district dissolved.
California Water Code Section 24102.5
In any case in which the board has by resolution determined that all indebtedness of the improvement district has been paid and the improvement for...
California Water Code Section 24103
The order of dissolution shall be recorded in the same manner as the order forming the improvement district.
California Water Code Section 24250
A district may not incur any debt or liability whatever in excess of the express provisions of this division. Any debt or liability so incurred...
California Water Code Section 24251
For the purposes of formation or for any other of its purposes a district may, before the levying of the first assessment, incur indebtedness in...
California Water Code Section 24252
A district shall have the right to enter into any contract or lease for any property necessary in the judgment of its board for any...
California Water Code Section 24252.1
A district may enter into any forward contract, or futures contract, or put, call, or swap agreement, or similar procurement method for electricity, natural gas,...
California Water Code Section 24253
A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by this division that is related to the provision of water...
California Water Code Section 24270
On the first Monday in each month the collector shall do all of the following: (a) Settle with the secretary for all money collected for...
California Water Code Section 24271
The collector shall be credited in his settlement with both: (a) The amount due to the district on property he sells to the district for...
California Water Code Section 24272
Within six days after he settles with the secretary, the collector shall file in the district office with the secretary a statement under oath, showing:...
California Water Code Section 24273
The treasurer shall not later than the third Monday in each month file in the district office with the secretary a verified written report to...
California Water Code Section 24274
The board, on or before its regular monthly meeting in the fourth month of its fiscal year, shall render a verified statement of the financial...
California Water Code Section 24275
Notification that the annual financial statement is available for inspection and review shall be made at least once a week for two weeks in a...
California Water Code Section 24350
Any money belonging to a district may be deposited by the officer of the district who has legal custody of the money, in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 24351
Where the deposit of money is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation no additional security need be required from the bank for the portion...
California Water Code Section 24352
Where arrangements have been made by the district with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for deposit of district funds in the Federal Reserve Bank of the...
California Water Code Section 24370
The board may draw from time to time from the construction fund and deposit in the county treasury of the office county any money in...
California Water Code Section 24371
The county treasurer shall receive and receipt for district money deposited with him and place it to the credit of the district, and he shall...
California Water Code Section 24372
The county treasurer shall pay out district money or any portion of it only to the treasurer of the district and only upon the order...
California Water Code Section 24373
A county treasurer having charge of district money shall report as to it in writing on the second Monday in each month all of the...
California Water Code Section 24390
The board may by resolution establish special accounts from the general fund when they are convenient for the efficient and economical operation of the district...
California Water Code Section 24391
Special accounts from the general fund shall severally be supplied from the general fund by warrant in the same manner as in the payment of...
California Water Code Section 24392
The person in custody of any special account shall make a verified report in writing to the board between the first and tenth of each...
California Water Code Section 24393
No payment shall be made from any special account except upon the written order of a person designated for the purpose by the board, which...
California Water Code Section 24475
The following funds are created to which district money properly belonging shall be apportioned: (a) Bond principal fund. (b) Bond interest fund. (c) Construction fund....
California Water Code Section 24476
A district may provide for a reserve fund to be used for the payment of the interest or principal of any outstanding bonds. If the...
California Water Code Section 24477
A district may establish any fund required to comply with the terms of any plan by which any bonds are to be paid.
California Water Code Section 24478
To the extent that any fund contains money applicable to a sinking fund provided for in a refunding plan or modification of it, the treasurer...
California Water Code Section 24479
Surplus funds on hand and available for payment into a refunding bond sinking fund may on order of the board be paid into it.
California Water Code Section 24480
Any money in a refunding bond sinking fund may be invested in bonds of the United States or of this State.
California Water Code Section 24481
Federal and State bonds so purchased with the sinking fund money together with the income from them shall be held as part of the sinking...
California Water Code Section 24482
The proceeds from the sale of any bonds in which any part of the sinking fund was invested shall be deposited in the sinking fund.
California Water Code Section 24483
The proceeds of the annual assessment shall be paid into the district treasury and be apportioned to the several proper funds.
California Water Code Section 24484
The proceeds of limited assessments shall be paid into the district treasury for the purpose for which the assessments were respectively authorized.
California Water Code Section 24485
The proceeds from the lease or sale of any property specifically allocated to the payment of warrants shall be placed in a separate fund and...
California Water Code Section 24486
Whenever an object for which money has been specifically provided by district assessment or by bond issue has been accomplished and any money provided therefor...
California Water Code Section 24500
Upon presentation of any matured bond of the district, the treasurer shall pay it from the bond principal fund.
California Water Code Section 24501
Upon presentation of any matured interest coupon of any bond of the district, the treasurer shall pay it from the bond interest fund.
California Water Code Section 24503
If the principal or interest of any bonds is payable from any special or sinking fund, it shall be payable from that fund.
California Water Code Section 24504
If money is not available in the fund designated for the payment of any matured bond or interest coupon, it shall draw interest at the...
California Water Code Section 24504.1
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.1 with respect to construction bonds issued for purposes of financing the works described in that...
California Water Code Section 24505
A bond presented but not paid shall be stamped and provision made for its payment as in the case of a warrant payable on demand...
California Water Code Section 24506
Whenever there is in any fund of the district money in excess of that required for the purposes of the fund up to the time...
California Water Code Section 24507
Bonds so purchased may be canceled or held as a part of the district assets until the board determines that it is for the best...
California Water Code Section 24510
Payments on behalf of a distribution district shall be made only out of the proceeds and charges for the use of water or other service...
California Water Code Section 24511
Distribution district warrants shall be used solely for making payments which may be required to carry out the requirements of a contract between a distribution...
California Water Code Section 24512
If the proceeds from any distribution district assessment or charge exceed the amounts necessary for the purpose for which they were levied, the excess may...
California Water Code Section 24513
Receipts from assessments levied and charges fixed in connection with distribution districts shall be deposited in a separate fund for the benefit of the distribution...
California Water Code Section 24525
The cost of improvement district improvements shall be paid only out of the proceeds of an improvement district assessment levied upon and collected from the...
California Water Code Section 24526
Improvement district warrants shall be paid only out of the proceeds of an improvement district assessment levied upon and collected from the land within the...
California Water Code Section 24527
Improvement district warrants or their proceeds shall be used solely for making the improvements for which the improvement district was formed and the necessary incidental
California Water Code Section 24528
The cost of the improvement for an improvement district may be paid immediately from either the general fund of the district or from any special...
California Water Code Section 24529
If the proceeds from any improvement district assessment levied for improvement purposes exceeds the final amount necessary for the purposes for which it was levied,...
California Water Code Section 24530
Receipts from assessments levied for the operation of improvement districts and charges in lieu of the assessments, when collected, shall be deposited in a separate...
California Water Code Section 24600
No claim shall be paid by the treasurer until allowed by the board, and only upon a warrant signed by the president and countersigned by...
California Water Code Section 24601
All claims against any district presented by any officer or employee for mileage, personal expenses, or for money expended by the claimant for the district...
California Water Code Section 24602
Claims set forth in Section 24601 shall be itemized in detail to show: (a) Date of each expenditure. (b) Place where the expenditure was made....
California Water Code Section 24603
The officer or employee presenting any claim provided for in Section 24601 shall verify it before the secretary, who is authorized to administer oaths for...
California Water Code Section 24604
The verification shall state in substance all of the following: (a) The money claimed was actually expended or the mileage stated was actually traveled for...
California Water Code Section 24625
If any contract or lease for the acquisition of property provides for any future payments by the district, warrants may be issued, on order of...
California Water Code Section 24626
When a particular purpose or emergency assessment has been authorized, warrants in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment may be issued on...
California Water Code Section 24627
Any outstanding registered warrants and their accrued interest may be refunded by the issuance of warrants payable at stated times fixed by the board. These...
California Water Code Section 24628
Warrants payable at a future time or times may be issued in consideration of money loaned to the district for the purchase of any of...
California Water Code Section 24628.5
Warrants payable at a future time or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of the district.
California Water Code Section 24629
Any warrant authorized in the preceding sections of this article shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 24630
Coupons payable to bearer in a form and signed as prescribed by the board may be attached to warrants payable at a future date to...
California Water Code Section 24631
Warrants of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first district assessment, bearing...
California Water Code Section 24632
If any district owns any property which it is authorized to lease or sell, its board may in the contract providing for the issuance of...
California Water Code Section 24633
No warrants issued pursuant to this article made payable more than five years from the date of issuance shall be valid unless their issuance is...
California Water Code Section 24634
Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided...
California Water Code Section 24636
All warrants issued pursuant to this article shall be sold by the board in such manner and in such quantities as may be determined by...
California Water Code Section 24650
The provisions of this article are applicable only to the following types of warrants: (a) Warrants made payable on demand. (b) Warrants issued to evidence...
California Water Code Section 24651
Whenever any warrant of a district is presented to the treasurer for payment when funds are not available for its payment, it shall thereafter draw...
California Water Code Section 24652
Upon the presentation of any warrants for payment when funds are not available to pay them, the treasurer shall indorse on them all of the...
California Water Code Section 24653
A warrant so indorsed is a registered warrant.
California Water Code Section 24654
The treasurer shall keep a record showing all of the following: (a) Number and amount of each registered warrant. (b) Date of its issuance. (c)...
California Water Code Section 24655
Whenever there is sufficient money available in the treasury to pay all outstanding registered warrants or whenever the board orders all registered warrants presented for...
California Water Code Section 24656
The notice shall state that the treasurer is prepared to pay all registered warrants or all registered warrants presented for payment prior to the date...
California Water Code Section 24657
The notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the district, or if none is published in the district, in a newspaper published in...
California Water Code Section 24658
All warrants designated in the notice shall cease to draw interest at the time of the first publication or posting of the notice.
California Water Code Section 24659
Upon the presentation of any warrant designated in the notice, the treasurer shall pay it together with the interest due on it from the date...
California Water Code Section 24660
The treasurer shall enter all of the following in the record of registered warrants he is required to keep: (a) Dates of the payment of...
California Water Code Section 24661
No action or proceeding shall be maintained to enforce the payment of any registered warrant or to require the levy of an assessment therefor unless...
California Water Code Section 24662
A district may enter into agreement either individually or collectively with the holder or holders of any registered warrants fixing the time of, method of,...
California Water Code Section 24675
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.1, and for purposes of financing costs of maintenance and operation on a temporary basis, repair...
California Water Code Section 24675.1
Any district described in Section 20560.1 may issue notes or other evidences of indebtedness pursuant to Section 24675 to finance any works or facilities for...
California Water Code Section 24735
Any owner of any bonds or warrants of a district may surrender them to the district by giving the bonds or warrants to the secretary...
California Water Code Section 24736
The board shall then order the bonds or warrants canceled.
California Water Code Section 24737
Upon the making of the order, the bonds or warrants shall cease to be an obligation of the district as of the time of their...
California Water Code Section 24738
This article does not restrict any other method of releasing obligations of a district to it.
California Water Code Section 24760
If a district desires to extend the time or times of maturity of any or all of its bonds or warrants payable at stated times...
California Water Code Section 24761
The rate of interest specified in the agreement or plan shall not exceed 8 percent per year.
California Water Code Section 24762
All interest coupons shall be payable on the first day of January or the first day of July.
California Water Code Section 24765
The board may call an election to submit to the voters the question whether or not the bonds or warrants shall be modified as provided...
California Water Code Section 24766
If a majority of the votes cast for and against the proposal is in favor of modifying the bonds or warrants, the proposal is approved.
California Water Code Section 24767
An agreement or plan may not be carried out pursuant to this article until a proposal therefor is approved by the voters, and a plan...
California Water Code Section 24768
Upon the presentation to the secretary of any of the bonds or warrants covered by the agreement or plan, he shall indorse on them the...
California Water Code Section 24769
If the agreement or plan provides for a reduction in the rate of interest on the bonds or warrants before the original time or times...
California Water Code Section 24770
Each bond or warrant presented and indorsed shall continue as an obligation of the district and shall not become due until the date specified in...
California Water Code Section 24771
This article does not amend, modify, or limit any other provision of law for changing the date or dates of maturity of outstanding obligations of...
California Water Code Section 24950
Construction bonds may be authorized for the purposes of acquiring necessary irrigation, drainage, and power development and distribution works, acquiring the necessary property for these...
California Water Code Section 24951
The board shall at any of the following times estimate the amount of money it is necessary to raise for the purposes for which construction...
California Water Code Section 24952
The board shall cause any surveys, examinations, and drawings, to be made which will furnish the proper basis for making an estimate of the amount...
California Water Code Section 24953
The surveys, examinations, and drawings shall be made under the direction of a competent engineer and shall be certified by him.
California Water Code Section 24954
The surveys, examinations, drawings, and estimate may provide that the works necessary for a completed project shall be constructed progressively during a period of years.
California Water Code Section 24955
The estimate may include a sum sufficient to pay the interest on the proposed construction bonds for four years or less and, if the bonds...
California Water Code Section 24955.1
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.2 with respect to construction bonds issued for purposes of financing the works described in that...
California Water Code Section 24956
The estimate shall include the estimated cost of inspection required by law of works in course of construction.
California Water Code Section 24963
The board, if it declares by resolution that the proposed plan of the project is satisfactory and that the plan is feasible, shall adopt an...
California Water Code Section 25035
Any district may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any or all of the outstanding bonds and warrants of the district.
California Water Code Section 25035.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division requiring any election, any district described in Section 20560.1 may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding...
California Water Code Section 25038
The board shall call an election for the purpose of authorizing the issuance of the refunding bonds.
California Water Code Section 25039
Notice of the election shall be given and it shall be held and its result determined and declared substantially in the manner provided for a...
California Water Code Section 25040
Any issue of refunding bonds may in the discretion of the board mature serially or at one time.
California Water Code Section 25041
The maturities of refunding bonds shall be fixed by the board.
California Water Code Section 25060
If any issue of refunding bonds are made to mature at one time, the board prior to or at the time of their issuance shall...
California Water Code Section 25061
The amount of sinking fund payments may be modified from time to time by the board.
California Water Code Section 25062
Whenever the sinking fund contains at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the board may publish notice of redemption at least once a week for three...
California Water Code Section 25063
The notice shall set forth all of the following: (a) The amount available for the redemption of the bonds. (b) An invitation for sealed proposals...
California Water Code Section 25064
All proposals received in response to the notice shall be opened by the board in open meeting at the time specified in the notice or...
California Water Code Section 25065
Any or all of the proposals may, in the discretion of the board, be rejected.
California Water Code Section 25066
If no bids are received or if the bids received and accepted are not sufficient to exhaust the money on hand and available for the...
California Water Code Section 25067
No proposal to sell bonds to the district pursuant to this article at a price in excess of their par value shall be accepted.
California Water Code Section 25068
All bonds purchased from sinking fund money shall be forthwith canceled.
California Water Code Section 25091
The board shall call an election for the purpose of authorizing the modification of a refunding plan.
California Water Code Section 25092
Notice of the election shall be given and it shall be held and its result determined and declared substantially in the same manner as a...
California Water Code Section 25110
The provisions of this article are applicable only to refunding plans which both: (a) Were adopted prior to January 31, 1939. (b) Then contained no...
California Water Code Section 25111
The terms of any refunding plan and of the refunding bonds outstanding thereunder may be modified from time to time if the modification is approved...
California Water Code Section 25112
The approval of the modification by the district shall be given by a resolution of its board and by its voters at an election called...
California Water Code Section 25113
Notice of the election shall be given and it shall be held in substantially the same manner as a bond election, except that a majority...
California Water Code Section 25115
The approval of the holders of outstanding refunding bonds affected by the modification shall be evidenced by either of the following: (a) The written consent...
California Water Code Section 25116
If the modification is approved in the manner provided in this article, the district need not issue new refunding bonds and coupons in exchange for...
California Water Code Section 25117
If the modification or modified refunding plan provides for the extension of the time of maturity of all or any of the refunding bonds, the...
California Water Code Section 25118
All refunding bonds the terms of which have been modified shall continue to be binding outstanding bonds of the district and negotiable instruments irrespective of...
California Water Code Section 25119
Any modification of any refunding plan adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article may provide for its subsequent modification with the consent of the...
California Water Code Section 25200
As used in this chapter "bonds" includes both construction and refunding bonds except as otherwise expressly provided.
California Water Code Section 25201
Subject to the provisions of this article the board shall prescribe the form of the bonds issued by the district and of the attached interest
California Water Code Section 25202
An issue of bonds means all of the bonds issued in accordance with a single proposal approved at an election.
California Water Code Section 25203
Each issue of bonds shall be numbered consecutively as authorized, and the bonds of each issue shall be numbered consecutively.
California Water Code Section 25204
The board shall fix the date of each issue of bonds and may divide any issue into two or more divisions and fix different dates...
California Water Code Section 25205
The date of any bond shall be subsequent to the date of the election at which its issuance was authorized and prior to that of...
California Water Code Section 25206
The date of issue of any bond shall be deemed to be the date of the bond appearing on its face.
California Water Code Section 25207
The board shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds.
California Water Code Section 25208
The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per year to be fixed by the board, except that, if, before...
California Water Code Section 25208.1
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 25208 of the Water Code and any other provisions of law, the Board of Directors of the Solano Irrigation District...
California Water Code Section 25209
The interest shall be payable on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year.
California Water Code Section 25209.1
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.2, notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the interest on any bonds of the district...
California Water Code Section 25210
The board shall designate the places at which the bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable.
California Water Code Section 25211
The bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 25212
Each bond shall be made payable at a given time for its full face value and not for a percentage thereof.
California Water Code Section 25213
The principal on bonds shall be payable on the first day of January or the first day of July of the years designated by the
California Water Code Section 25213.1
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.2, notwithstanding any other provision of this division, each principal payment, other than payments of principal...
California Water Code Section 25214
In no case shall the maturity of any bond be more than 50 years from its date.
California Water Code Section 25215
When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond.
California Water Code Section 25216
Each bond shall be signed by the president and secretary then in office at any time between the date of the bond and its delivery...
California Water Code Section 25217
The seal of the district shall be impressed on each bond.
California Water Code Section 25218
The interest coupons shall be signed by the secretary then in office at any time between the date of the bond and its delivery to...
California Water Code Section 25219
Unless otherwise provided in the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds, they and the interest on them shall be paid from money derived from...
California Water Code Section 25240
As used in this article and Article 3 of this chapter "revenue" means all or any part of any source or sources of payment excluding...
California Water Code Section 25242
If any or all of the principal of any bonds is made payable only from revenue, the board shall cause a brief statement of the...
California Water Code Section 25243
If the limitations affect the payment of the interest of the bonds or any part thereof, a brief statement of the limitations shall be set...
California Water Code Section 25244
If the limitations affect the payment of only a portion of the interest which will accrue on any bonds, the board may provide either that:...
California Water Code Section 25245
If any board provides that the principal, interest, or both of any bonds or any portion of the principal, interest, or both shall be payable...
California Water Code Section 25260
Any designated revenue may by resolution of the board be allocated to the payment of the whole or any portion of the principal or interest...
California Water Code Section 25261
The allocation may be for either or both: (a) Payment of the whole or any part of the principal or interest or both of any...
California Water Code Section 25262
Until the payment or retirement of the bonds for the benefit of which an allocation was made, the revenue allocated shall be applied solely to...
California Water Code Section 25263
An allocation may be made for the exclusive benefit of any one or more issues or portions of issues of bonds of a district designated...
California Water Code Section 25264
Any allocation shall be irrevocable until all of the bonds for which the allocation was made and their appurtenant coupons have been paid or retired.
California Water Code Section 25280
Any sources of revenue of any district may, by order of its board, be irrevocably allocated to a reserve fund established to pay the interest...
California Water Code Section 25300
A district may, by resolution of its board adopted at or prior to the time of issuing any bonds then proposed to be issued, provide...
California Water Code Section 25301
Callable bonds may be redeemed in addition to other methods permitted in the following manner: (a) In numerical order or by lot as prescribed in...
California Water Code Section 25302
Notice designating the bonds called for redemption shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and...
California Water Code Section 25303
The first publication of the redemption notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for
California Water Code Section 25304
If on the date fixed for redemption the district has provided funds available for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds called,...
California Water Code Section 25325
A district may sell any bonds from time to time in such quantities as may be necessary and most advantageous to raise money for the...
California Water Code Section 25326
Before any sale the board shall by resolution entered on its minutes set forth all of the following: (a) Its intention to sell a specified...
California Water Code Section 25327
The board shall give notice of the sale by publication for at least three weeks in some newspaper published in the office county and in...
California Water Code Section 25328
The notice shall state that sealed proposals will be received by the board at the district office for the purchase of bonds until the day...
California Water Code Section 25329
At the time specified the board shall open the proposals and award the purchase of the bonds or any portion of them to the highest...
California Water Code Section 25330
No proposal shall be accepted which is not accompanied by a certified check for a reasonable percentage of the amount of the bid as determined...
California Water Code Section 25330.1
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.2 with respect to construction bonds issued for purposes of financing the works described in that...
California Water Code Section 25331
The board may reject any or all bids.
California Water Code Section 25332
In case no award is made, the board thereafter may either readvertise the bonds or any part of them for sale or sell them at...
California Water Code Section 25333.5
In the case of any district described in Section 20560.2 with respect to construction bonds issued for purposes of financing the works described in that...
California Water Code Section 25334
A district may exchange its construction bonds for any property or interest in property which the district might acquire with the proceeds of the bonds,...
California Water Code Section 25335
Any refunding bonds may be either: (a) Sold from time to time in the same manner as other bonds of the district. (b) Exchanged for...
California Water Code Section 25336
Any outstanding bonds refunded or exchanged shall be immediately canceled by the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 25350
Whenever the whole or any portion of any issue of bonds of any district remains unissued for more than one year after the date of...
California Water Code Section 25351
Whenever a resolution to cancel bonds is offered, its consideration shall be postponed to a date fixed by the board which is subsequent to final...
California Water Code Section 25352
The resolution together with a notice stating the time fixed by the board for the consideration of the resolution shall be published once a week...
California Water Code Section 25353
After the adoption of a resolution to cancel bonds no other bonds shall be issued in pursuance of the proceedings taken in relation to the...
California Water Code Section 25354
Any bonds and coupons so canceled shall be destroyed under the direction of the board.
California Water Code Section 25400
Subject to the limitations of this chapter, revenue bonds, including refunding revenue bonds, may be issued by an irrigation district under and pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 25401
This chapter provides an alternative authority and procedure for the subject to which it relates but does not affect any other law relating to the...
California Water Code Section 25402
For the purposes of this chapter, the term "enterprise," as used in the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of...
California Water Code Section 25500
As used in this part "land" includes city and town lots and excepts improvements.
California Water Code Section 25501
As used in this part "improvements" includes trees, vines, alfalfa, all growing crops, and all buildings and structures.
California Water Code Section 25502
Annually, between March 1st and June 1st the assessor shall assess all land in his district to the persons owning, claiming, possessing, or controlling it,...
California Water Code Section 25503
All of the land shall be assessed in accordance with Section 401 of the Revenue and Taxation Code as of 12:01 a.m. on the first...
California Water Code Section 25504
The assessor shall prepare an assessment book with appropriate headings, in which shall be listed all of the land.
California Water Code Section 25505
The book shall contain: (a) The name of the assessee if known to the assessor, and if the name is not known to the assessor,...
California Water Code Section 25506
Columns with the headings "Lot" and "Block" or either of them may be provided in the assessment book for the designation of lots and blocks...
California Water Code Section 25507
Land as to which a partial redemption has been effected shall thereafter be separately described on the assessment book.
California Water Code Section 25508
On or before the first Monday in August in each year the assessor shall complete his assessment book and deliver it to the secretary.
California Water Code Section 25509
Where the assessor possesses a complete, accurate map of any land or where such a complete, accurate map of any land prepared for county purposes...
California Water Code Section 25525
Any land which should have been assessed escaping the payment of any assessment for any reason shall in addition to its current assessment be entered...
California Water Code Section 25526
The additional assessments on land escaping the payment of an assessment shall be equalized as provided in this part for current assessments.
California Water Code Section 25527
At the time of levying the current assessment the district by its board shall levy on land escaping the payment of an assessment an additional...
California Water Code Section 25528
The additional assessments shall be payable at the same times as the current assessment, and if not paid, shall be subject to like penalties and...
California Water Code Section 25550
Upon receiving the assessment book from the assessor the secretary shall immediately give notice of its receipt and of the time, fixed by the board,...
California Water Code Section 25551
The notice shall be given by publication at least twice in a newspaper published in each affected county and if the office county is not...
California Water Code Section 25552
The notice shall be first published at least 20 days and not more than 30 days before the time fixed for the first meeting of...
California Water Code Section 25553
Failure to publish the equalization notice in any county other than the office county shall not affect the validity of any assessment on land in...
California Water Code Section 25554
Until the equalization is finished, the assessment book shall remain in the district office in the possession of the secretary for the inspection of all...
California Water Code Section 25555
On the day specified in the notice of equalization, the board shall meet as a board of equalization to hear and determine objections to the...
California Water Code Section 25556
The board acting as a board of equalization shall continue in session from time to time as long as may be necessary but not to...
California Water Code Section 25557
The board acting as a board of equalization shall order any changes in the assessment that it deems just.
California Water Code Section 25558
The secretary shall be present during the equalization proceedings and shall make all changes ordered in the assessment book.
California Water Code Section 25559
Within 10 days after the close of the equalization session the secretary shall add the total values and determine the gross assessed valuation of the...
California Water Code Section 25650
Each district by its board each year within 15 days after the close of its session as a board of equalization shall levy an annual...
California Water Code Section 25651
(a) If a refunding bond plan or modification of it provides for the raising of a fixed amount each year to be applied to the...
California Water Code Section 25652
The annual assessment shall also include a levy sufficient to pay all of the following: (a) Sums due or that will become due from the...
California Water Code Section 25653
The annual assessment may include a levy sufficient to raise any or all of the following: (a) The amount that the board determines is necessary...
California Water Code Section 25654
The annual assessment may include a levy on land included by inclusion proceedings subsequent to formation of the district sufficient to pay the obligations as...
California Water Code Section 25655
A district may in lieu either in whole or in part of levying the annual assessments for district purposes use any revenue derived prior to...
California Water Code Section 25656
At the time of levying the annual assessment, there shall be added by the board to the annual assessment on land within any improvement district...
California Water Code Section 25670
A district shall by levy of a completion assessment provide for the completion of a plan of works adopted and the acquisition of necessary property,...
California Water Code Section 25671
A completion assessment shall not be levied until both: (a) An estimate of the amount required to complete the plan has been made by the...
California Water Code Section 25672
Before a completion assessment proposal is submitted to the voters, an order of submission shall be entered in the minutes of the board, stating: (a)...
California Water Code Section 25673
Notice of the election shall be given by both: (a) Posting notices in three public places in each election precinct in the district for at...
California Water Code Section 25674
The notice of the election shall specify both: (a) The day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election. (b) The amount...
California Water Code Section 25675
At the election the ballots shall contain the words "Assessment--Yes" and "Assessment--No" or equivalent words.
California Water Code Section 25676
The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with the provisions governing general district elections.
California Water Code Section 25677
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are "Assessment--Yes," the district by its board shall levy an assessment in the amount stated...
California Water Code Section 25678
If a majority of the votes cast are "Assessment--No," the result of the election shall be entered of record.
California Water Code Section 25679
No informalities in the conduct of the election shall invalidate the election if fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 25700
The amount of an assessment levied under this article is not limited by any other provision of this part. The levy of an assessment under...
California Water Code Section 25701
The board may at any time call an election to submit to the voters a proposal to levy a particular purpose assessment to be applied...
California Water Code Section 25702
The notice of the election shall set forth the following: (a) The day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election. (b)...
California Water Code Section 25703
At the election the ballots shall contain the words "Assessment--Yes" and "Assessment--No," or equivalent words.
California Water Code Section 25704
The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with the provisions governing bond elections.
California Water Code Section 25705
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are "Assessment--Yes," the district by its board shall at the time of the levy of...
California Water Code Section 25725
In cases of emergency by which the flow of water in a canal or other supply is interrupted, the amount of the cost of the...
California Water Code Section 25800
The secretary annually prior to delivering the assessment book to the collector shall compute and enter in a separate column of the assessment book the...
California Water Code Section 25800.2
In the event the annual assessment for any parcel of land separately assessed, computed pursuant to Sections 25800 and 25801, is less than ten dollars...
California Water Code Section 25801
The annual rate of assessments shall be equal to the sum to be raised for district purposes divided by 85 per cent of the aggregate...
California Water Code Section 25802
If any land is subject to a special rate of assessment for district purposes, the rates of assessment shall be adjusted to produce the sum...
California Water Code Section 25803
Limited assessments shall be computed and entered by the secretary and collected as a part of the annual assessment.
California Water Code Section 25803.5
Annual ad valorem assessments of a distribution district shall be entered in the assessment book by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 25804
Annual installments of an improvement district assessment shall be entered in the assessment book by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 25805
Operation assessments for an improvement district shall be computed upon the same valuation on land within the improvement district and entered in the same manner...
California Water Code Section 25806
(a) In case any charges for water and other services or either remain unpaid, the amount of the unpaid charges may, in the discretion of...
California Water Code Section 25807
If the annual district assessment is payable in two installments the unpaid charges may be added to and become a part of the first installment.
California Water Code Section 25808
On or before the first day of November the secretary shall deliver the assessment book to the collector.
California Water Code Section 25809
A district may make an additional reasonable charge for processing or reprocessing an invalid check or other instrument used to pay an assessment or service...
California Water Code Section 25825
Any person having an interest in any land within the district may file with the secretary a verified petition alleging all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 25825.1
Within the Madera Irrigation District only, any person having an interest in any land within the district may file with the secretary, in lieu of...
California Water Code Section 25825.2
(a) Within the Solano Irrigation District only, any person having an interest in any land within the district may file with the secretary, in lieu...
California Water Code Section 25825.3
(a) Within the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District only, any person having an interest in any land within the district may file with the secretary, in lieu...
California Water Code Section 25826
The petition shall request that the board determine what proportion of the regular rates of assessment in the district should be used in levying assessments...
California Water Code Section 25827
A fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to the secretary before the filing of each petition for a special rate of assessment. The...
California Water Code Section 25828
The board shall set a time and place for the hearing of a petition for a special rate of assessment or of all the petitions...
California Water Code Section 25829
The notice for a special rate of assessment hearing shall state all of the following: (a) Petitions have been presented to the board praying for...
California Water Code Section 25830
The board shall meet at the time and place set for the hearing and proceed in the order it deems proper to hear the petitions...
California Water Code Section 25831
After the conclusion of the hearing, if the board finds that any of the land described in any petition has been irrigated as alleged and...
California Water Code Section 25832
The order shall: (a) Describe the land entitled to a special rate of assessment or the respective parcels of it if separate parcels are to...
California Water Code Section 25833
A certified copy of an order determining that any land is entitled to a special rate of assessment shall be delivered to the assessor, and...
California Water Code Section 25834
If a determination that any land is entitled to a special rate of assessment is made in any year too late for the land to...
California Water Code Section 25835
The determination of the board granting or denying a special rate of assessment shall not be changed unless the board on petition of a party...
California Water Code Section 25925
Except as provided in Section 25806, the annual district assessment upon land is a lien against the property assessed from and after the first day...
California Water Code Section 25926
The collector within 20 days after receiving the assessment book from the secretary shall start the publication of a notice specifying all of the following:...
California Water Code Section 25927
The assessment notice shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published in the office county and in...
California Water Code Section 25928
Failure to publish the assessment notice in any county other than the office county shall not affect any assessment on land in a county in...
California Water Code Section 25929
The collector shall attend at the time and place specified in the assessment notice to receive assessment payments. The collector shall accept payment of current...
California Water Code Section 25930
Assessments or any other charge owed to the district shall be paid in lawful money of the United States. A reasonable additional charge may be...
California Water Code Section 25931
The collector shall mark the date of payment of any assessment in the assessment book opposite the name of the assessee.
California Water Code Section 25932
The collector shall give to the person making the payment, one of the following: (a) A receipt which specifies when applicable, (1) the amount of...
California Water Code Section 25950
The board may when it so desires and shall, when a written petition signed by a majority of the assessment payers in the district is...
California Water Code Section 25951
The two installments shall be equal unless the resolution specifies different percentages to be paid in each installment, in which case the installments shall be...
California Water Code Section 25952
The resolution shall be adopted at or prior to the time of the levy of any annual assessment it is to affect.
California Water Code Section 25953
The resolution may be rescinded or modified only so as to affect any assessment levied subsequent to the rescission or modification.
California Water Code Section 25975
Any person claiming an interest in any parcel of land described on the current assessment book against which there are no delinquent assessments who desires...
California Water Code Section 25976
The application may be filed at any time after the current assessment is due but not later than five days prior to the regular meeting...
California Water Code Section 25977
The application shall be signed, as evidence of their approval, by each of the persons assessed on the current assessment book with the parcel to...
California Water Code Section 25978
Each application shall be accompanied by a fee of two dollars ($2) for each separate portion into which the applicant desires the parcel to be
California Water Code Section 25979
If the portions into which the applicant desires the land to be segregated have separate valuations shown on the current assessment book, the collector shall...
California Water Code Section 25980
If the portions into which the applicant desires the land to be segregated do not have separate valuations shown on the current assessment book, the...
California Water Code Section 25981
The assessor shall place a valuation on each described portion, and upon these valuations the collector shall determine the amount of the current assessment due...
California Water Code Section 25982
In either case, upon estimating the assessments due on the segregated portions, the collector shall refer to the board the segregated descriptions, valuations, and estimated...
California Water Code Section 25983
The board may either: (a) Confirm, modify, or set aside the same. (b) Refuse to authorize the segregation, separate valuation, and assessment.
California Water Code Section 25984
The aggregate of the valuations of the segregated portions shall be the same as the valuation of the parcel before segregation.
California Water Code Section 25985
The decision of the board shall be final, and the collector shall conform with it.
California Water Code Section 25986
If the segregation and separate valuations and assessments are confirmed or modified, the board shall notify the collector, who shall cause the assessment book to...
California Water Code Section 25987
The assessment may thereafter be paid separately on any of the portions.
California Water Code Section 26000
A board shall order the collector to cancel or modify, as may be proper, an assessment when it finds that any property has been either:...
California Water Code Section 26001
On order of the board any assessments, penalties or costs thereon, or portions thereof, shall be refunded by the treasurer if they were either: (a)...
California Water Code Section 26002
No order for a refund under this article shall be made except upon a claim both: (a) Verified by the person who paid the assessments,...
California Water Code Section 26003
The board may order the collector to cancel the uncollected assessment on any property which because of transfer to the State or another public agency...
California Water Code Section 26075
Unpaid assessments not payable in installments are delinquent at 5 p.m. on December 20th of the year in which they are levied.
California Water Code Section 26076
Whenever assessments are payable in installments the first installment if unpaid is delinquent at 5 p.m. on December 20th of the year in which the...
California Water Code Section 26077
The collector shall collect on delinquent assessments for the use of the district the following penalties: (a) When assessments are not payable in installments, 5...
California Water Code Section 26078
Upon the assessment, if not payable in installments, or the second installment of it, if payable in installments, becoming delinquent, the collector shall collect, in...
California Water Code Section 26079
If any duty relating to the assessment, levy, and collection of assessments is performed subsequent to the latest time it should have been performed, the...
California Water Code Section 26080
The assessment book, a copy of any portion of it certified by the collector, or the published list of delinquencies, showing unpaid assessments against any...
California Water Code Section 26081
At any time after any assessment has become delinquent the board may direct the collector not to proceed with the sale of any delinquent property,...
California Water Code Section 26082
The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to pleadings, proofs, and trials are applicable to proceedings to enforce collection of assessments.
California Water Code Section 26083
In a suit for assessments the district may recover the amount of the delinquent assessments, penalties, and costs of suit.
California Water Code Section 26100
When assessments are not payable in installments, the collector shall commence to publish the list of delinquencies on or before the first day of February.
California Water Code Section 26101
When assessments are payable in installments, the first publication of the list of delinquencies shall not be made before the first day of July nor...
California Water Code Section 26102
The published list of delinquencies shall contain all of the following information relating to each parcel of land separately assessed on which the assessment is...
California Water Code Section 26103
There need be no delinquent list other than the published list of delinquencies.
California Water Code Section 26104
The collector shall publish with the list of delinquencies a notice, specifying: (a) That each parcel separately assessed on which the amount due as shown...
California Water Code Section 26105
The list of delinquencies and notice shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which...
California Water Code Section 26106
If any land assessed to the same person lies in more than one county, publication may be made in any county in which any portion...
California Water Code Section 26107
Publication of the list of delinquencies and notice shall be made in the newspaper designated by the board. If assessments are not payable in installments,...
California Water Code Section 26108
If any error should occur in the publication of the notice of the sale of any delinquent property or the list of delinquencies which might...
California Water Code Section 26125
The place of the delinquent sale shall be at a point, designated by the collector, within the district or at the district office.
California Water Code Section 26126
The time of the delinquent sale shall be not less than 21 nor more than 28 days from the date of the first publication of...
California Water Code Section 26127
The collector may postpone the day of the delinquent sale from day to day, but the sale shall be made within three weeks from the...
California Water Code Section 26128
On the day fixed for the sale in the published notice or on a subsequent day to which the collector may have postponed it the...
California Water Code Section 26129
Thereupon the collector shall as to each parcel sold make an entry "sold to the district" in the assessment book.
California Water Code Section 26130
After the delinquent sale the collector shall make out in duplicate and sign a certificate of sale for each parcel separately assessed and sold, setting...
California Water Code Section 26131
The certificate of sale may be in substantially the following form, the blanks being filled to show the facts in each case: Certificate of Sale...
California Water Code Section 26132
Of each of the duplicate certificates of sale one shall be retained by the collector and the other shall be recorded in the office of...
California Water Code Section 26133
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the...
California Water Code Section 26135
The secretary shall notify the collector of assignments of certificates of sale.
California Water Code Section 26136
When property is sold for assessments imposed on it as the property of a particular person, no misnomer of the owner or supposed owner or...
California Water Code Section 26137
Ten years after it became delinquent or one year after the addition of this section, whichever is the later, any assessment levied by a district...
California Water Code Section 26138
Ten years after the issuance of a certificate of sale for the nonpayment of a district assessment or one year after the addition of this...
California Water Code Section 26225
(a) Property sold for delinquent assessments may be redeemed within five years from the date of sale, or thereafter before a collector's deed of the...
California Water Code Section 26226
On receipt of the redemption money plus the amount of the recorder's fee fixed in this article the collector shall make out duplicate certificates of...
California Water Code Section 26227
One of the duplicate certificates of redemption shall be given to the redemptioner.
California Water Code Section 26228
In case of a redemption of part of any property described in a certificate of sale, the part redeemed shall be described in the certificate...
California Water Code Section 26229
The collector shall record the other duplicate certificate of redemption with the county recorder in whose office the certificate of sale was recorded and shall...
California Water Code Section 26231
When a certificate of sale has been assigned, the collector shall hold the redemption money for and on demand pay it to the holder of...
California Water Code Section 26232
No incorrect statement or estimate of assessments due or amount required to redeem is binding upon a district or its officers unless the incorrect statement...
California Water Code Section 26250
Redemption of a portion of any parcel of property separately from the whole parcel of which it is a part may be made as provided...
California Water Code Section 26251
If the portion to be separately redeemed has a separate valuation shown on the assessment book, the collector shall determine the amount due according to...
California Water Code Section 26252
If the portion to be separately redeemed does not have a separate valuation shown on the assessment book, the collector shall submit the description of...
California Water Code Section 26253
The assessor shall place a valuation on the described property.
California Water Code Section 26254
The collector shall determine the amount due according to the valuation so placed upon the portion upon which separate redemption is requested and shall then...
California Water Code Section 26255
The board may either: (a) Confirm, modify, or set aside the valuation of the assessor. (b) Refuse to authorize the separate redemption.
California Water Code Section 26256
The decision of the board shall be final, and the collector shall conform with it.
California Water Code Section 26257
Separate redemption, if authorized by the board, may be made in the manner provided for in Article 1 of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 26258
The redemptioner of a portion of a parcel of property may also pay that part of the current assessment levied against the parcel of land...
California Water Code Section 26259
Upon payment of the amount fixed as the sum to be paid as the current assessment on the portion of land separately redeemed, the collector...
California Water Code Section 26275
If property sold for delinquent assessments has not been redeemed and five years have elapsed from the date of its sale, at least 30 days...
California Water Code Section 26276
Collector's deeds shall contain all of the following: (a) Date of the sale. (b) Statement that no person redeemed the property during the time allowed...
California Water Code Section 26277
The deed made by the collector may be in substantially the following form, the blanks being filled to show the facts in each case: Collector's...
California Water Code Section 26278
If a collector's deed is demanded by an assignee of a certificate of sale, the form of deed shall be amended by striking out the...
California Water Code Section 26279
In case partial redemption has been made, the form of the collector's deed shall be modified to conform to the facts.
California Water Code Section 26280
The collector shall receive from the purchaser for the use of the district two dollars ($2.00) for making the deed except when the deed is...
California Water Code Section 26290
(a) If a collector's deed for property sold for delinquent assessments, or one installment of a delinquent assessment, has been delivered to the district, the...
California Water Code Section 26300
(a) Subject to the limitations of Section 3900.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code and Sections 26225 and 26290 and subdivision (b) a collector's deed...
California Water Code Section 26301
Where property has been conveyed to a district by a collector's deed, subject to the limitations of Section 26290, the district shall have the same...
California Water Code Section 26302
A collector's deed when acknowledged or proved is prima facie evidence that: (a) The land was assessed as required by law. (b) The land was...
California Water Code Section 26303
Except as against actual fraud a collector's deed acknowledged or proved is conclusive evidence of the regularity of all of the proceedings from the assessment...
California Water Code Section 26304
An action, proceeding, defense, answer, or cross-complaint based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any collector's deed executed to the district or based on...
California Water Code Section 26305
An action, proceeding, defense, answer, or cross-complaint based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any agreement of sale, deed, lease, or option executed by...
California Water Code Section 26306
The provisions of Sections 26304 and 26305 do not apply in the following cases: (a) Where the assessments for which the property was sold were...
California Water Code Section 26307
The burden of proof shall be upon the party urging the invalidity, irregularity, or ineffectiveness of an agreement, deed, lease, or option described in Sections...
California Water Code Section 26325
A certificate of the secretary on a collector's deed stating that it has been accepted by the board entitles the deed to be recorded.
California Water Code Section 26326
A collector's deed to a district shall be recorded in the usual manner of recording conveyances of real property.
California Water Code Section 26500
If a board neglects or refuses in any year to impose assessments pursuant to this part, the board of supervisors of the office county shall,...
California Water Code Section 26501
The applicable part of the equalized county assessment rolls of the affected counties shall be the basis of assessment for the district when its assessments...
California Water Code Section 26502
If any land subject to assessment for the purposes of the district does not appear upon a county assessment roll used as the basis of...
California Water Code Section 26503
The board of supervisors shall meet and equalize each assessment made pursuant to this article with the assessment of other land in the district. The...
California Water Code Section 26504
All expenses incurred in levying the assessment shall be borne by the district concerned. Unless the expenses are paid within 60 days from the time...
California Water Code Section 26525
In case of the neglect or refusal of the collector of any district to perform the duties imposed upon him, the tax collector of the...
California Water Code Section 26526
When any county tax collector collects any assessments for any district, he shall pay the proceeds to the county treasurer of the office county.
California Water Code Section 26527
As to money collected by the county tax collector and paid to the county treasurer, the county treasurer shall perform the duties ordinarily imposed on...
California Water Code Section 26528
The county treasurer shall place the money of the district in a special fund to the credit of the district and shall disburse it to...
California Water Code Section 26529
The county treasurer shall not pay any part of the money to the treasurer of the district until the county treasurer is satisfied that all...
California Water Code Section 26550
The district attorney of each office county shall ascertain each year whether the duties relating to the levying and collection of assessments in districts have...
California Water Code Section 26551
Unless the board of supervisors or county official proceeds to perform the duties he has been notified to perform within 30 days after the receipt...
California Water Code Section 26552
The district attorney shall give notice to other officials and take any action necessary to secure the performance in their proper sequence of subsequent duties...
California Water Code Section 26553
For the enforcement of the levying and collection of any assessment required to be levied and collected for the payment of any debt incurred, when...
California Water Code Section 26600
The procedure provided by this chapter shall be optional with any district electing as herein provided to proceed hereinunder and shall be an alternate procedure...
California Water Code Section 26601
At its option, the board of directors of a district may adopt a resolution declaring its intention to dispense with either the office of assessor...
California Water Code Section 26601.1
(a) At its option, the board of directors of the Madera Irrigation District may adopt a resolution declaring its intention to dispense with either the...
California Water Code Section 26602
Certified copies of such resolution shall be served on the clerk of the board of supervisors and on the auditor, assessor and collector of the...
California Water Code Section 26603
Within 30 days of the receipt of such resolution, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution advising the district of the charges to be...
California Water Code Section 26604
The acceptance of the county's terms by the district as evidenced by the board's resolution shall constitute a contract between the county and the district...
California Water Code Section 26604.5
The district shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 54900) of Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the Government Code....
California Water Code Section 26604.6
The board of supervisors may require in the contract that upon the effective date of the contract, the district officers shall continue to perform all...
California Water Code Section 26605
Upon termination of the contract, the board of directors of the district shall appoint an assessor, or both an assessor and collector, who shall serve...
California Water Code Section 26606
After termination of the contract, the county officers shall continue with the collection of district assessments on the county rolls and with the redemption or...
California Water Code Section 26625
The applicable part of the county assessment rolls as made by the county assessor and equalized or corrected by the board of supervisors or the...
California Water Code Section 26625.1
If in the Madera Irrigation District, the county assessment roll reflects assessed value based on the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act), (Chapter...
California Water Code Section 26626
On or before the first Monday of March of each year, the board of directors of the district shall cause to be filed with the...
California Water Code Section 26627
Annually, on or before the third Monday in August, the county auditor shall transmit to the directors of the district a written statement showing separately...
California Water Code Section 26628
Where the district has not elected to transfer the duties of collector to the county tax collector, the county assessor shall furnish the district a...
California Water Code Section 26629
Within 15 days after receipt of the statement of values and duplicate rolls, the district's board of directors shall levy an annual assessment upon the...
California Water Code Section 26630
Where the district has not elected to transfer the duties of collector to the county tax collector, the secretary shall compute and enter in a...
California Water Code Section 26631
Upon receiving the roll from the secretary, the collector shall proceed with the collection of the assessment in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 4,...
California Water Code Section 26650
Where the district has elected to transfer the duties of collector to the county tax collector, the delivery of duplicate assessment rolls shall not be...
California Water Code Section 26651
Annually before September 1st, the district's directors shall levy an annual assessment upon the lands within the district for all district purposes in the manner...
California Water Code Section 26652
The county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the district assessment on all lands assessed as being in the district using the...
California Water Code Section 26653
The assessment so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and paid into the county treasury. The net...
California Water Code Section 26654
The compensation paid to the county for assessing or collecting assessments for a district shall be that fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 26655
Unpaid district assessments are delinquent on the same hour and day that county taxes are delinquent and the lands subject thereto shall either be sold...
California Water Code Section 26656
Lands sold for delinquent district assessments may be redeemed within five years from date of sale in the same manner as the redemption of property...
California Water Code Section 26657
The county auditor shall apportion to the district the money paid for redemption in the manner provided by Division 1, Part 8, Chapter 1(c) of...
California Water Code Section 26658
Lands sold to the district remaining unredeemed after five years have elapsed from the date of their sale for delinquent district assessments shall be deeded...
California Water Code Section 26670
As used in this chapter, "public agency" means any city or district, other than an irrigation district, authorized to distribute water, which is in whole...
California Water Code Section 26671
Any district may enter into a contract with any public agency which provides in effect as follows: 1. The public agency shall: a. Collect for...
California Water Code Section 26672
The water made available by the district to the public agency may be used upon the lands covered by such contract for such irrigation, municipal,...
California Water Code Section 26673
Upon the execution of such contract and so long as the contract remains in force and effect, the district shall be relieved of any further...
California Water Code Section 26674
Nothing in this chapter authorizes the sale or transfer of any water right nor shall the agreement authorized in Section 26671 be construed or deemed...
California Water Code Section 26675
No right in any water or water right owned by the district or the public agency shall be acquired or lost by the use permitted...
California Water Code Section 26676
Except as otherwise provided herein the contract between the district and the public agency may include such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon...
California Water Code Section 26677
The provisions of this chapter shall supersede all provisions of this code inconsistent herewith.
California Water Code Section 26875
Land which is not a part of the district, whether or not contiguous to it, may be included within the district. If such land is...
California Water Code Section 29975
The following acts are hereby repealed: Yr. Ch. Pg. Yr. Ch. Pg. 1854 : 57 : 76 1893 :211 : 295 1860 :220 : 182...
California Water Code Section 29976
The following acts are hereby repealed: Yr. Ch. Pg. 1917: 606: 936 1933: 994: 2557 1935: 833: 2250 Notwithstanding the repeal of said acts the...
California Water Code Section 29978
The repeals effected by this part shall not be construed to deprive any district or any person or other entity of any substantial right which...
California Water Code Section 30000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the County Water District Law.
California Water Code Section 30010
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 30011
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 30012
"Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
California Water Code Section 30013
"District" means a county water district formed under the provisions of the County Water District Act or this division.
California Water Code Section 30014
"Board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 30015
"Land" except in Chapter 2 of Part 8 means land in the district or proposed district involved.
California Water Code Section 30016
"President" means the president of the board.
California Water Code Section 30017
"Secretary" means the secretary of the board.
California Water Code Section 30018
"Assessee" means the person to whom property is assessed.
California Water Code Section 30019
"General district election" means the election required to be held in each district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each...
California Water Code Section 30020
"Special water district election" means any district election other than a general district election.
California Water Code Section 30021
"Elector," "voter," and "precinct board" have respectively the same meaning as defined in the Elections Code, but an "elector" or "voter" shall also be a...
California Water Code Section 30022
"Holder of title" includes a holder of evidence of title.
California Water Code Section 30023
"Property" embraces all real and personal property.
California Water Code Section 30024
"Works" includes water works, conduits, reservoirs, storage sites, water sheds, machinery, wells, pumps, dams, storage tanks, tunnels, hydrants, meters, works and facilities for the collection,...
California Water Code Section 30025
"Conduit" includes canals, channels, pipes, ditches, and flumes.
California Water Code Section 30026
"Operate" includes use, maintain, and repair.
California Water Code Section 30027
"Street" includes road, alley, avenue, highway, and public way.
California Water Code Section 30060
Nothing in this division shall be so construed as repealing or in anywise modifying any other law relating to water or the supply of water...
California Water Code Section 30062
All land which is now privately owned and situate within the exterior boundaries of any district, but which was public land of the United States...
California Water Code Section 30063
Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number...
California Water Code Section 30064
Wherever in this division a reference is made to the county in which a district is situated or to any of the officers thereof, such...
California Water Code Section 30065
The inclusion in, or annexation or addition to, a county water district, of all or any part of the corporate area of any public corporation...
California Water Code Section 30066
An action to determine the validity of an assessment, or of warrants, contracts, obligations, or evidences of indebtedness pursuant to this division may be brought...
California Water Code Section 30068
Districts governed by this division are subject to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
California Water Code Section 30200
The people of a county or two or more contiguous counties or of a portion of such county or counties, whether the portion includes unincorporated...
California Water Code Section 30201
The petition for formation shall describe the proposed boundaries of the proposed district and shall pray that it be incorporated into a district.
California Water Code Section 30202
The petition shall be signed by voters equal in number to at least 10 percent of the voters registered within the boundaries of the proposed...
California Water Code Section 30203
But, if one or more municipal corporations or part thereof is included in the proposed district, the petition shall be signed by at least 10...
California Water Code Section 30204
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments.
California Water Code Section 30205
The petition for the formation of a county water district to include all or part of Pleasant Valley, Ventura County, may be signed by either:...
California Water Code Section 30230
The county elections official of the county containing the proposed district shall publish a notice of a hearing on the formation petition once a week...
California Water Code Section 30231
The notice of the hearing on the formation petition shall contain all of the following: (a) The text of the petition, which need be set...
California Water Code Section 30232
No defect in the contents of the petition, the title to or form of the notice, signatures, or lack of signatures thereto shall vitiate the...
California Water Code Section 30260
The formation petition shall be presented and considered at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of the county in which the proposed district...
California Water Code Section 30261
At the time stated in the notice of the hearing on the formation petition for its consideration the board of supervisors shall hear the petition...
California Water Code Section 30262
The board of supervisors may adjourn the hearing from time to time, not exceeding four weeks in all.
California Water Code Section 30263
Upon the hearing of the petition the board of supervisors shall determine whether or not the petition complies with this part and for that purpose...
California Water Code Section 30264
On the final hearing the board of supervisors shall make changes in the proposed boundaries of the proposed district as may be deemed advisable and...
California Water Code Section 30264.1
If the board of supervisors at its final hearing determines and finds, for good cause on reasons specified in writing, from the evidence taken at...
California Water Code Section 30265
A finding of the board of supervisors in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and notice shall be conclusive against all persons...
California Water Code Section 30290
If it determines that an election should be held, the board of supervisors shall call and give notice of the election to be held in...
California Water Code Section 30291
The election shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days from the date of the final hearing on the...
California Water Code Section 30292
The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) The date of the election. (b) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district. (c)...
California Water Code Section 30293
The county clerk shall publish the notice once a week for at least two weeks prior to the formation election in at least one, but...
California Water Code Section 30293.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 30293.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 30293.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 30293.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 30294
At the formation election: (a) The measure "Shall the proposition to form _______ County Water District under the County Water District Law be adopted?" shall...
California Water Code Section 30295
The election thereupon shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as provided by law in respect to general...
California Water Code Section 30296
The vote shall be canvassed by the board of supervisors at the next regular meeting which is five or more days after the election.
California Water Code Section 30297
In case less than a majority of the votes cast in each municipal corporation or part thereof or in the unincorporated territory included in the...
California Water Code Section 30320
If a majority of the votes cast at the election in each municipal corporation or part thereof and in the unincorporated territory included in the...
California Water Code Section 30321
The county clerk shall immediately cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the district is situated...
California Water Code Section 30321.5
The county clerk shall immediately cause to be filed with the county assessor and the State Board of Equalization a certificate listing all of the...
California Water Code Section 30322
The district shall have been duly incorporated upon the filing of the certificate or a copy of the order declaring the district formed with the...
California Water Code Section 30323
From and after the date of the filing with the county assessor and the State Board of Equalization, the district named in the filing is...
California Water Code Section 30324
No informality in any proceeding, including informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen shall invalidate...
California Water Code Section 30325
Any proceeding wherein the validity of the incorporation of a district is denied shall be commenced within three months from the date of the certificate...
California Water Code Section 30500
Each district shall have a board of five directors each of whom, whether elected or appointed, shall be a voter of the district.
California Water Code Section 30500.1
(a) Notwithstanding Section 30500, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into...
California Water Code Section 30500.3
Notwithstanding Section 30500, the Board of Directors of the Sawyers Bar County Water District shall adopt a resolution ordering the reduction in the number of...
California Water Code Section 30501
The directors first elected upon the formation of the district shall hold office pursuant to Section 10505 of the Elections Code.
California Water Code Section 30502
The term of office of each director other than directors first elected or directors appointed to fill an unexpired term shall be four years.
California Water Code Section 30503
If a person elected fails to qualify, the office shall be filled as if there were a vacancy in the office.
California Water Code Section 30504
All vacancies occurring in the office of director shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 30506
Each director elected or appointed shall hold office until his successor qualifies.
California Water Code Section 30507
Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day's attendance at meetings of the...
California Water Code Section 30507.1
Each director of the Contra Costa Water District shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each...
California Water Code Section 30508
If a director's place of residence, as defined in Section 244 of the Government Code, is moved outside district boundaries or outside the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 30509
Before entering upon the duties of his office each director shall take and subscribe the official oath and file it with the secretary.
California Water Code Section 30510
The oath of office may be taken before the secretary, any member of the board of directors, or any officer authorized by law to administer
California Water Code Section 30511
In a county water district formed to include all or part of Pleasant Valley, Ventura County, each member of the board of directors, whether elected...
California Water Code Section 30513
Notwithstanding Section 30500 or any other provision of this division, each member of the board of directors of the Canebrake County Water District in San...
California Water Code Section 30514
If, on or before July 1, 1977, a district has assumed the responsibilities, rights, duties, assets, liabilities, and obligations of a sanitary district, the board...
California Water Code Section 30516
(a) If the Orange County local agency formation commission orders the reorganization of the Capistrano Beach County Water District and the Capistrano Beach Sanitary District...
California Water Code Section 30520
Within 30 days after the election of the first directors and thereafter within 30 days after taking office pursuant to Section 10554 of the Elections...
California Water Code Section 30521
The board shall: (a) Provide for the time and place of holding its regular meetings. (b) Provide for the manner of calling special meetings.
California Water Code Section 30522
At its organization meeting the board may transact any business of the district.
California Water Code Section 30523
The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion.
California Water Code Section 30524
A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
California Water Code Section 30525
No ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be passed or become effective without the affirmative votes of at least a majority of the members of the
California Water Code Section 30525.5
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 30526
Except where action is taken by the unanimous vote of all directors present and voting, the ayes and noes shall be taken upon the passage...
California Water Code Section 30527
The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the board shall be: "Be it ordained by the board of directors of __________ County Water District...
California Water Code Section 30528
All ordinances shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 30529
All legislative sessions of the board shall be public.
California Water Code Section 30530
The board shall establish rules for its proceedings.
California Water Code Section 30540
(a) The board shall, at its first meeting or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint by a majority vote a general manager and a secretary....
California Water Code Section 30541
A director shall not be the general manager, secretary, treasurer, or auditor.
California Water Code Section 30542
The general manager, secretary, treasurer, and auditor shall each receive the compensation determined by the board and shall serve at its pleasure.
California Water Code Section 30543
The same person may serve as general manager and secretary, secretary and auditor, or secretary and treasurer.
California Water Code Section 30544
The board may at any time appoint or employ and prescribe the authorities and duties of other officers, employees, attorneys, and engineers necessary or convenient...
California Water Code Section 30545
The general manager, secretary, auditor, treasurer, and other employees or assistants of the district, as required by the board, shall each give a bond to...
California Water Code Section 30546
Any regular employee of a district who is a deputy sheriff, or who has successfully completed the peace officer training course described in subdivision (a)...
California Water Code Section 30547
(a) A district may employ a suitable security force. The employees of the district that are designated by the general manager as security officers shall...
California Water Code Section 30575
The board is the governing body of the district.
California Water Code Section 30576
The powers of districts enumerated in this division shall, except as therein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board.
California Water Code Section 30577
Each member of the board, or the secretary, may administer oaths and affirmations in connection with the taking of testimony at any hearing, investigation, or...
California Water Code Section 30578
The president shall: (a) Sign all contracts on behalf of the district. (b) Perform other duties imposed by the board.
California Water Code Section 30579
The secretary shall: (a) Countersign all contracts on behalf of the district. (b) Perform other duties imposed by the board.
California Water Code Section 30579.5
Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 30578 and subdivision (a) of Section 30579, the board may alternatively authorize, subject to such limitations and...
California Water Code Section 30580
The general manager shall: (a) Have full charge and control of the maintenance, operation, and construction of the water works or water-works system of the...
California Water Code Section 30581
The general manager shall also: (a) Perform other duties imposed by the board. (b) Report to the board in accordance with the rules and regulations...
California Water Code Section 30582
If the board appoints an auditor or treasurer pursuant to Section 30540, the auditor or treasurer shall install and maintain a system of auditing and...
California Water Code Section 30586
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 30700
The provisions of the Elections Code relating to the qualifications of electors, so far as they may be applicable, shall govern all water district elections...
California Water Code Section 30700.5
Notwithstanding Section 30021 or any other provision of the law, in the Pleasant Valley County Water District every owner of land within the district, but...
California Water Code Section 30700.6
(a) Notwithstanding Section 30021 or any other provision of the law, qualified voters at elections for directors or otherwise in the Sierra Lakes County Water...
California Water Code Section 30730
The board may, if it deems it to be for the best interest of the district, by resolution submit to the voters at any district...
California Water Code Section 30731
If the question is submitted to the voters at a general district election, the notices required by Section 12112 of the Elections Code shall contain...
California Water Code Section 30733
If the question submitted to the voters of the district pursuant to this article provides for the election of directors by divisions and is approved...
California Water Code Section 30734
If the question submitted to the voters of the district pursuant to this article provides for the election of directors from divisions and is approved...
California Water Code Section 30735
Directors elected by division shall be voters of the divisions by which they are elected.
California Water Code Section 30773
The provisions of this article shall apply only to the Pleasant Valley County Water District, heretofore formed in Pleasant Valley, Ventura County, and the Kings...
California Water Code Section 30774
All ballots printed shall be precisely on the same size, quality, tint of paper, kind of type, and color of ink so that without the...
California Water Code Section 30775
The names of all candidates printed upon the ballot shall be in type of the same size and style.
California Water Code Section 30776
A column may be provided on the right-hand side for questions permitted by this division to be voted upon at water district elections.
California Water Code Section 30777
The order of candidates names on the ballot shall be as provided by the Elections Code.
California Water Code Section 30778
The county elections official shall cause the ballots to be printed, bound, and numbered as provided in the Elections Code, except as otherwise required in...
California Water Code Section 30779
The ballots shall contain the list of names and the respective offices as published in the proclamation and shall be in substantially the following form:...
California Water Code Section 30780
The ballot shall contain the following instruction: "For director vote for (giving number)."
California Water Code Section 30781
A half-inch square shall be provided at the right of the name of each candidate wherein to mark the cross.
California Water Code Section 30782
Half-inch spaces shall be left below the printed names of candidates for each office, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled,...
California Water Code Section 30830
Ordinances may be passed by voters in accordance with Article 1 (commencing with Section 9100) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code.
California Water Code Section 30831
Ordinances may be subject to referendum in accordance with Article 2 (commencing with Section 9140) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code.
California Water Code Section 31000
County water districts shall be managed under the provisions of this division and may exercise the powers therein expressly granted or necessarily implied therefrom.
California Water Code Section 31001
Each district has the power generally to perform all acts necessary to carry out fully the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 31002
A district has perpetual succession.
California Water Code Section 31003
A district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
California Water Code Section 31004
A district may make contracts and employ labor to carry out the purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 31005
A district may have construction or other work performed by contract or may do the work under its own superintendence.
California Water Code Section 31006
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any district formed under this division may, by resolution of the board of the district spread on its minutes,...
California Water Code Section 31007
The rates and charges to be collected by the district shall be so fixed as to yield an amount sufficient to do each of the...
California Water Code Section 31007.5
No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or...
California Water Code Section 31008
A district may provide for the pension of officers or employees and the creation of a special fund for the purpose of paying such pension...
California Water Code Section 31009
In any district authorized to provide fire protection services, the district board is authorized to enforce the provisions of Sections 4291 to 4296, inclusive, of...
California Water Code Section 31010
Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 1450) of Division 2 of the Streets and Highways Code, any district and any county may...
California Water Code Section 31011
A district may disseminate information to the public concerning the rights, properties, and activities of the district.
California Water Code Section 31012
If, on or after the effective date of this section, substantially all of a district water system is acquired by another public agency by any...
California Water Code Section 31013
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Mammoth County Water District may operate a propane gas distribution service for residents of the district and may...
California Water Code Section 31013.5
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Mammoth Community Water District may acquire property and construct, maintain, operate, sell, and lease facilities, including, but...
California Water Code Section 31014
Subject to the consent of the governing body of the county or city having jurisdiction over the highway or street, the Juniper-Riviera County Water District...
California Water Code Section 31014.5
The term "irrigation district" as used in Chapter 1046 of the Statutes of 1969 includes a county water district and the Orange County Water District.
California Water Code Section 31015
The Sierra Lakes County Water District shall not exercise any of the powers and purposes set forth in Article 7 (commencing with Section 31120), Article...
California Water Code Section 31016
(a) In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, including an ordinance fixing charges for the furnishing of commodities or services,...
California Water Code Section 31020
A district may do any act necessary to furnish sufficient water in the district for any present or future beneficial use.
California Water Code Section 31021
A district may store water for the benefit of the district, conserve water for future use, and appropriate, acquire, and conserve water and water rights...
California Water Code Section 31022
A district may operate water rights, works, property, rights, and privileges useful or necessary to convey, supply, store, or make use of water for any...
California Water Code Section 31023
A district may sell water or the use thereof for any useful purpose and whenever there is a surplus, dispose of the surplus to municipalities,...
California Water Code Section 31024
A district may establish rules and regulations for the sale, distribution, and use of water and may therein provide that water shall not be furnished...
California Water Code Section 31025
The district shall fix and through the general manager collect the water rates.
California Water Code Section 31026
A district shall have the power to restrict the use of district water during any emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water...
California Water Code Section 31027
(a) A district may prescribe and define by ordinance the restrictions, prohibitions, and exclusions. Every such ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately...
California Water Code Section 31028
A district shall have power to make findings upon each and all of the matters referred to in Section 31026. A finding by the board...
California Water Code Section 31029
After the publication or posting of any ordinance as provided in Section 31027, it is a misdemeanor for any person to use or apply water...
California Water Code Section 31029.1
(a) An ordinance to require water conservation and to prevent waste which is adopted by a district which includes territory in Monterey County may provide...
California Water Code Section 31030
(a) The Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government...
California Water Code Section 31031
A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix, on or before the first day...
California Water Code Section 31031.5
Notwithstanding Sections 31031 and 31032.1, in any improvement district situated within the Joshua Basin Water District, the water standby or availability charge or assessment shall...
California Water Code Section 31031.6
Notwithstanding Sections 31031 and 31032.1 in the Coachella Valley Water District, the water standby or availability charge or assessment shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30)...
California Water Code Section 31031.7
Notwithstanding Sections 31031 and 31032.1, the water standby or availability charge or assessment in the Twentynine Palms Water District shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30)...
California Water Code Section 31031.8
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Tuolumne Regional Water District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of...
California Water Code Section 31032
In case any water standby charge remains unpaid on the first day of the month before the month in which the board of supervisors of...
California Water Code Section 31032.1
A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix, as an alternative to the charge...
California Water Code Section 31032.2
The secretary shall cause notice of the filing of the report and of a time and place of hearing thereon to be published, pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 31032.3
At the time stated in the notice, the board shall hear and consider all objections or protests, if any, to the report referred to in...
California Water Code Section 31032.4
On or before the 10th day of August of each year following such final determination, the secretary shall file with the county auditor a copy...
California Water Code Section 31032.5
The amount of the assessments shall constitute a lien against the lot or parcel of land against which the assessment has been imposed as of...
California Water Code Section 31032.6
The county tax collector or district collector shall include the amount of the assessments on bills for taxes levied against the respective lots and parcels...
California Water Code Section 31032.7
In the event a district does not elect to collect such assessments with the general taxes of the district, it may issue separate bills payable...
California Water Code Section 31032.8
A district may provide for a basic penalty of not more than 6 percent for nonpayment of the assessment within the time and in the...
California Water Code Section 31032.9
Any district may make the election specified in Section 31032.1 with respect only to delinquent assessments and may do so by preparing and filing the...
California Water Code Section 31032.10
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Yorba Linda County Water District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section...
California Water Code Section 31032.12
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Yorba Linda County Water District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section...
California Water Code Section 31033
A district may drain and reclaim lands within the district either by surface or underground works or both; and may acquire, by appropriation or other...
California Water Code Section 31034
If a public utility subject to the control and regulation of the Public Utilities Commission petitions the Public Utilities Commission to extend its water service...
California Water Code Section 31035
A district may undertake a water conservation program to reduce water use and may require as a condition of new service that reasonable water-saving devices...
California Water Code Section 31035.1
A district which includes territory in Monterey County and which has adopted an ordinance to require water conservation and to prevent waste, may provide that...
California Water Code Section 31040
A district may take any property necessary to carry out the business of the district by grant, purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or lease with or...
California Water Code Section 31041
A district may hold, use, enjoy, lease, or dispose of property within or without the district necessary to the full exercise of its powers.
California Water Code Section 31042
A district may construct, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire works, water rights, land, rights, and privileges useful or necessary to convey, supply, store, or otherwise...
California Water Code Section 31045
A district may, on terms and conditions agreed upon by the board and the board of directors of a municipal water district formed pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 31046
A district may sell or lease the mineral or hydrocarbon rights in any land belonging to it when deemed by the board for the best...
California Water Code Section 31047
A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water, including sewage and storm waters, for the beneficial use or...
California Water Code Section 31048
A district may cooperate, act in conjunction and contract with the State of California or any agency thereof, municipalities, public and private corporations of any...
California Water Code Section 31049
A district may make and perform any agreement with the State of California or any agency thereof, any public or private corporation of any kind,...
California Water Code Section 31051
A district may acquire by any means stock of any mutual water company or corporation for the purpose of furnishing a supply of water for...
California Water Code Section 31052
The North Marin County Water District may purchase devices for generation of energy from solar radiation and may resell such devices for use within the...
California Water Code Section 31053
No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which is subject to...
California Water Code Section 31054
No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which is subject...
California Water Code Section 31060
A district may construct any works along, under, or across any street, water course, railway, or conduit in a manner that will afford security for...
California Water Code Section 31061
Every company whose right of way is intersected or crossed by works of the district shall unite with the district in forming the intersections and...
California Water Code Section 31062
The right is hereby granted to locate, construct, and maintain any of the works of a district on any land which is now or hereafter...
California Water Code Section 31080
A district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided in this division or by law, in all actions and proceedings in all courts...
California Water Code Section 31081
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, compromise, and assume the costs of any action or proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or use of...
California Water Code Section 31082
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, defend, and compromise actions and proceedings to prevent interference with or diminution of the natural flow of any...
California Water Code Section 31084
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 31088
The district may employ counsel to defend any action or proceeding brought against it on account of any injury, taking, damage, or destruction, or to...
California Water Code Section 31100
A district may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage, waste and storm water of the district and its...
California Water Code Section 31101
The district may prescribe, revise and collect rates or other charges for the services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 31101.5
A district may supply sewage and waste services to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms, and conditions as are determined by...
California Water Code Section 31102
The district may provide that such rates or other charges may be collected with the water rates of the district and that all rates shall...
California Water Code Section 31103
Upon providing a sewer system in any area of the district the district may declare the further maintenance or use of cesspools or other local...
California Water Code Section 31104
A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix, levy and collect a sewage and...
California Water Code Section 31104.5
In lieu of the standby or availability charge authorized to be levied and collected pursuant to Section 31104, the Crescenta Valley County Water District may,...
California Water Code Section 31104.6
Notwithstanding Sections 31031 and 31032.1, in the Coachella Valley Water District, the sewage and waste service standby or availability charge shall not exceed thirty dollars...
California Water Code Section 31104.7
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Tuolumne Regional Water District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of...
California Water Code Section 31104.8
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Santa Ana Mountains County Water District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in...
California Water Code Section 31105
(a) A district may adopt ordinances relating to the provision of services and facilities pursuant to this article and the regulation of those services and...
California Water Code Section 31106
From and after the posting or publication of any ordinance as provided in Section 31105 above, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to...
California Water Code Section 31110
Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this division, the Calaveras County Water District, or an improvement district formed therein pursuant to the provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 31111
For the purposes of this article, the Board of Directors of the Calaveras County Water District may levy and collect taxes in the manner provided...
California Water Code Section 31112
The Board of Directors of the Calaveras County Water District may levy and collect taxes in the manner provided in this division for the purpose...
California Water Code Section 31113
Pursuant to a resolution adopted by a fourth-fifths vote of all the members of the board, the Calaveras County Water District may deposit any funds...
California Water Code Section 31120
(a) A district may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 31130
A district may use any water or land under its control for recreational purposes and in connection therewith may construct, maintain, and operate any works...
California Water Code Section 31131
A district may prescribe reasonable rules and regulations to govern the use of such facilities, including regulations imposing reasonable charges for the use thereof. A...
California Water Code Section 31132
The exercise of the power of eminent domain to acquire any land or interest therein for recreational purposes is limited to land within the district...
California Water Code Section 31133
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Malaga County Water District may: (a) Organize, promote, conduct, and advertise programs of community recreation. (b) Establish systems...
California Water Code Section 31135
A district may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for, or may contract with others for, the collection and disposal of the garbage, waste, and trash...
California Water Code Section 31136
The district may prescribe, revise, and collect rates or other charges for the services furnished pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 31137
The district may provide that such rates or charges may be collected with the water or sewer rates, or both, of the district and that...
California Water Code Section 31138
The district may determine that sanitary service may not be necessary or feasible for all residents or properties within the district and shall thereupon make...
California Water Code Section 31139
The district shall determine the types of wastes to be excluded from service.
California Water Code Section 31140
Any contract with other parties for the supplying of this service for the district shall be granted by public bid for such periods as the...
California Water Code Section 31141
(a) A district may adopt ordinances relating to the provision of sanitation services and the regulation of those services. Every such ordinance shall be in...
California Water Code Section 31142
After the posting or publication of any ordinance as provided in Section 31141, it is a misdemeanor for any person to violate any ordinance of...
California Water Code Section 31142.20
This article shall be known and may be cited as the Alameda County Water District Groundwater Protection Act.
California Water Code Section 31142.22
This article only applies to all property within the boundaries of the Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
California Water Code Section 31142.24
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this article. (a) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation from...
California Water Code Section 31142.26
The district may take the following actions within the boundaries of the Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City to carry out this article: (a)...
California Water Code Section 31142.28
Any person applying for any land development permit or approval within the boundaries described in Section 31142.22 shall obtain documentation from the district indicating that...
California Water Code Section 31142.30
Any abandoned or unused well, exploratory hole, or other excavation that creates or threatens to create a water contamination hazard is a public nuisance. The...
California Water Code Section 31142.32
If the district determines that a public nuisance exists, it shall, by certified mail, notify the record owner of the property to abate the public...
California Water Code Section 31142.34
If, after the hearing, the general manager determines that a public nuisance exists, the district shall, by certified mail, send a notice to the record...
California Water Code Section 31142.36
If the public nuisance is not abated within the time specified by the district in the notice, the district may abate the public nuisance. Any...
California Water Code Section 31142.38
(a) All costs incurred by the district in abating a public nuisance pursuant to this article are a lien upon the property. (b) Notice of...
California Water Code Section 31142.39
All actions authorized by this article shall be undertaken in a manner that is consistent with the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1341...
California Water Code Section 31143
In addition to the other powers provided by law, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, Santa Cruz County, shall have all of the following powers...
California Water Code Section 31143.1
The district shall immediately do all such acts as are reasonably necessary to secure compliance with any federal, state, regional, or local law, order, regulation,...
California Water Code Section 31143.2
(a) Violation of any of the provisions of a district regulation adopted pursuant to Section 31143 may be abated as a public nuisance by the...
California Water Code Section 31143.3
(a) The owner of any real property upon which is located an onsite waste water disposal system, which system is subject to abatement as a...
California Water Code Section 31143.4
In order to avoid duplication, either the district or the County of Santa Cruz may contract with the other party for any services or activities...
California Water Code Section 31143.5
Any violation of a regulation of the district adopted pursuant to Section 31143 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred...
California Water Code Section 31144
In addition to the other powers provided by law, the Lompico County Water District, Santa Cruz County, shall have all of the following powers and...
California Water Code Section 31144.1
The district shall immediately do all such acts as are reasonably necessary to secure compliance with any federal, state, regional, or local law, order, regulation,...
California Water Code Section 31144.2
(a) Violation of any of the provisions of a district regulation adopted pursuant to Section 31144 may be abated as a public nuisance by the...
California Water Code Section 31144.3
(a) The owner of any real property upon which is located an onsite waste water disposal system, which system is subject to abatement as a...
California Water Code Section 31144.4
In order to avoid duplication, either the district or the County of Santa Cruz may contract with the other party for any services or activities...
California Water Code Section 31144.5
(a) Whenever, in the opinion of the board of directors, the public interest or convenience may require, the board of directors may undertake any work...
California Water Code Section 31144.6
Any violation of a regulation of the district adopted pursuant to Section 31144 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred...
California Water Code Section 31144.7
In addition to the other powers provided by law, the Malaga County Water District, Fresno County, shall, within the boundaries of the district, have all...
California Water Code Section 31144.71
(a) For the common benefit of the district and for the purpose of managing the groundwater basin and managing, replenishing, regulating, and protecting the groundwater...
California Water Code Section 31144.72
In addition to the other powers provided by law, the Malaga County Water District may levy and collect fees or charges in the manner provided...
California Water Code Section 31144.73
The district shall biennially prepare a written report on the district's activities in the protection and augmentation of the water supplies of the district. The...
California Water Code Section 31144.74
As used in connection with the groundwater charge authorized by this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) "District" means the Malaga...
California Water Code Section 31144.75
On the second Tuesday in February of each even-numbered year, the report shall be delivered to the clerk of the district board in writing. The...
California Water Code Section 31144.76
(a) Prior to the end of the water year in which the hearing is held, and based upon the findings and determinations at the hearing,...
California Water Code Section 31144.77
(a) After the establishment of a zone in which a groundwater charge may be levied, each owner or operator of a water-producing facility within the...
California Water Code Section 31144.78
Upon good cause shown, an amended statement of water production may be filed or a correction of the records may be made at any time...
California Water Code Section 31144.79
(a) If the district has probable cause to believe that the production of water from any water-producing facility is in excess of that disclosed by...
California Water Code Section 31145
In addition to the other powers provided by law, the Stinson Beach County Water District, Marin County, shall have all of the following powers and...
California Water Code Section 31146
The district shall immediately do all such acts as are reasonably necessary to secure compliance with any federal, state, regional or local law, order, regulation...
California Water Code Section 31147
(a) Violation of any of the provisions of a district regulation adopted pursuant to Section 31145 may be abated as a public nuisance by the...
California Water Code Section 31148
(a) The owner of any real property upon which is located a sanitary sewage, septic, or septic tank disposal system, which system is subject to...
California Water Code Section 31149
Any violation of a regulation of the district adopted pursuant to Section 31145 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand...
California Water Code Section 31149.1
A district may, by using any water or water supplies furnished to the district or used by the district, construct, maintain, and operate one or...
California Water Code Section 31149.2
The hydroelectric power plant or plants and transmission lines constructed pursuant to this article may be leased for operation by, or the power generated may...
California Water Code Section 31149.3
(a) The North Marin County Water District may construct, maintain, and operate one or more plants for the generation of power from wind or solar...
California Water Code Section 31149.4
Notwithstanding Section 31149.1 or any other provision of law, the Sierra Lakes County Water District may construct works for generating hydroelectric power, at Lake Dulzura...
California Water Code Section 31149.5
(a) The Marina County Water District may finance, construct, maintain, operate, lease, use, and sell power to any public utility or public agency from one...
California Water Code Section 31149.7
(a) A district may provide, generate, and deliver electric power, and may construct, operate, and maintain any and all works, facilities, improvements, and property, or...
California Water Code Section 31150
Districts may cooperate and contract with the United States, under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary...
California Water Code Section 31151
The cooperation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition, extension, or operation of works for irrigation or drainage...
California Water Code Section 31152
Districts may carry out and perform the terms of any contract so made.
California Water Code Section 31153
To carry out the preceding sections of this article a district has all powers, rights, and privileges possessed by irrigation districts and may exercise those...
California Water Code Section 31154
If any provision of the Irrigation District Federal Cooperation Law is held unconstitutional, that decision shall not affect the validity of the adoption by reference...
California Water Code Section 31155
In any contract made between a county water district and the United States pursuant to this article, the land which may be charged with any...
California Water Code Section 31156
The contract shall not include any land which is not susceptible of service with water from the water works or system contemplated in the contract.
California Water Code Section 31157
The proceedings for voting at an election upon a proposal to contract with the United States pursuant to this article shall be had insofar as...
California Water Code Section 31158
Notwithstanding any provision of the Irrigation District Federal Cooperation Law, or any provision of this division or other law, when any district has contracted with...
California Water Code Section 31159
Every county water district which executes a contract with the United States for the purposes set forth in Section 31151 shall, within the meaning of...
California Water Code Section 31160
Public land of the United States within any such county water district is subject to assessment and taxation for all purposes of such district to...
California Water Code Section 31161
Whenever the Government of the United States has in conjunction with a district contributed to the cost of building a dam creating a lake and...
California Water Code Section 31162
The operation of all facilities and appliances permitted by Section 31161 shall be in accordance with rules and regulations applicable thereto adopted by the board...
California Water Code Section 31175
A district may contract with the United States, upon such terms the board finds to be to the best interest of the district, for permanent...
California Water Code Section 31180
A county water district may be annexed to or included within the territory of any municipal utility district organized under the Municipal Utility District Act.
California Water Code Section 31181
The annexation or inclusion shall not destroy the identity or legal existence of the county water district notwithstanding the identity of purpose or substantial identity...
California Water Code Section 31182
The annexation may be effected pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing at Section 13801) of Division 6, Public Utilities Code.
California Water Code Section 31300
A district may borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue bonds or other evidences of the indebtedness, and may refund or retire any indebtedness or lien...
California Water Code Section 31301
The district may issue warrants to pay its formation expenses bearing interest at 6 percent per year from date of issue until funds are available...
California Water Code Section 31302
The auditor shall draw warrants to pay demands made against the district when the demands have been approved or authorized by the board, or at...
California Water Code Section 31303
Any money belonging to a district may be deposited or invested and drawn out as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of Chapter...
California Water Code Section 31304
The district, or the district on behalf of an improvement district thereof, may issue negotiable promissory notes which shall be payable from general taxes, revenues,...
California Water Code Section 31304.5
A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement authorized by this division that is related to the provision of water...
California Water Code Section 31305
The board may designate the county treasurer the depositary to have the custody of all, or a portion of, the district's money.
California Water Code Section 31306
If designated as depositary the county treasurer shall: (a) Receive and receipt for all of the district's money received by him and place it in...
California Water Code Section 31307
When the county treasurer has been designated the depositary to have custody of district money, he shall pay out that money, or any portion thereof,...
California Water Code Section 31308
The county auditor shall draw warrants to pay demands made against the district when the demands have been approved by at least three members of...
California Water Code Section 31309
The county treasurer shall report in writing on the first day of July, October, January, and March of each year to the board with respect...
California Water Code Section 31310
The board of supervisors of the county shall determine the charge to be made against the district for any services of either or both of:...
California Water Code Section 31320
On Monday in each week the collector shall do both of the following: (a) Settle with the secretary for all money collected for taxes during...
California Water Code Section 31321
The collector shall be credited in his settlement with the secretary with the amount due to the district on property he sells to the district...
California Water Code Section 31322
Within seven days after he settles with the secretary, the collector shall file in the district office with the secretary a statement under oath, showing:...
California Water Code Section 31335
As used in this article "surplus money" means any money in any sinking fund established for the purpose of payment of any bonded or other...
California Water Code Section 31336
A district may invest such surplus money, as its board deems wise or expedient in any of the following: (a) Bonds issued by the district....
California Water Code Section 31337
The investment may be made by purchase of the bonds or registered warrants or part thereof at the original sale or by purchase after they...
California Water Code Section 31338
Any bonds or registered warrants purchased pursuant to this article and held may, from time to time, be sold and the proceeds reinvested pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 31339
Sales of bonds or registered warrants purchased pursuant to this article and held shall be made in season so that the proceeds may be applied...
California Water Code Section 31370
Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness, it shall by resolution set forth all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 31371
Notice of the hearing shall be given by the secretary by publication of a copy of the resolution in a newspaper printed and published in...
California Water Code Section 31372
The copy of the resolution published or posted shall be accompanied by a notice subscribed by the secretary, with the seal of the district attached,...
California Water Code Section 31385
At the time and place fixed for the hearing in the resolution declaring the necessity for incurring the bonded indebtedness, or at any time and...
California Water Code Section 31386
At the hearing any person interested, including persons owning property within the district, may appear and present any matters material to the questions set forth...
California Water Code Section 31387
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether the whole or part of the district will be benefited by the...
California Water Code Section 31388
If the board determines that the whole of the district will not be benefited, the resolution shall also describe the portion of the district which...
California Water Code Section 31389
After the formation of an improvement district within a district pursuant to this article, all proceedings for the purpose of a bond election within the...
California Water Code Section 31390
The determination of the board that the whole of the district will be benefited by the bond issue or that only a described portion of...
California Water Code Section 31391
After the board has made its determination pursuant to Section 31387, if it deems it necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness, it shall by resolution...
California Water Code Section 31392
In determining the amount of debt to be incurred, the legislative body may include: (a) All costs and estimated costs incidental to or connected with...
California Water Code Section 31393
(a) Any time following the establishment of an improvement district pursuant to this article, the board, by a four-fifths majority vote, may exempt part or...
California Water Code Section 31405
The board shall fix a date when an election shall be held to authorize the bonded indebtedness described in the resolution adopted pursuant to Section
California Water Code Section 31406
The board shall provide for holding the election on the day fixed therefor in the same manner as provided by law in respect to general...
California Water Code Section 31407
The board shall give notice of the election to authorize the bonded indebtedness, which notice shall contain all of the following: (a) The resolution adopted...
California Water Code Section 31408
Every voter residing within the voting precincts, but no others, may vote at the election.
California Water Code Section 31408.5
In the Pleasant Valley County Water District, every owner of land within the district, but no others, may vote at the election. The special provisions...
California Water Code Section 31409
The notice shall be published for two weeks in at least one newspaper, designated by the board, printed and published in the district.
California Water Code Section 31410
If there is no newspaper printed and published in the district, the notice shall be posted in three public places in whichever of the following...
California Water Code Section 31411
The returns of the election shall be made to and the votes canvassed by the board on the first Monday which is six or more...
California Water Code Section 31412
The results of the election shall be ascertained and declared pursuant to the general water district election laws so far as they may be applicable,...
California Water Code Section 31413
As soon as the result is declared, the secretary shall enter in the records of the board a statement of the result.
California Water Code Section 31414
No informalities in the conduct of the election shall invalidate the election if fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 31415
All the expenses of holding the election shall be borne by the district, but said expenses may be included in the amount of the debt...
California Water Code Section 31416
Whenever the electors of a district which has no bonded indebtedness, is not operating a water system, and has not bona fide contracted for the...
California Water Code Section 31425
If from the bond election returns it appears that more than two-thirds of the votes cast at the election are in favor of incurring the...
California Water Code Section 31426
The district may dispose of the bonds so issued at the times or in the manner the board deems to be to the public interest.
California Water Code Section 31427
Any bonds issued by any district organized under the provisions of this act are hereby given the same force, value and use as bonds issued...
California Water Code Section 31428
All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal...
California Water Code Section 31429
When the board determines by resolution that the expenditure of money raised by the sale of bonds for the purpose for which the bonds were...
California Water Code Section 31440
The board may, by resolution, do the following: (a) Submit to the voters a measure to issue new bonds to refund any or all of...
California Water Code Section 31441
The measure may be voted on at any district election.
California Water Code Section 31442
The procedure upon the election shall be in accordance, so far as applicable, with the procedure upon an original issue of bonds, except that: (a)...
California Water Code Section 31443
The refunding bonds shall not bear a higher rate of interest than the bonds to be refunded and may be issued and sold in the...
California Water Code Section 31444
Refunding bonds may, if the holders of bonds of an original issue and the board so agree, be exchanged for original bonds.
California Water Code Section 31445
The face value of refunding bonds exchanged for original bonds shall not exceed the face value of the original bonds.
California Water Code Section 31446
The board may raise money by water rates or taxes to pay principal and interest of the refunding bonds in the same manner as prescribed...
California Water Code Section 31460
Any bonds issued by the district may be subject to call and redemption prior to maturity at such times and prices and upon such other...
California Water Code Section 31461
When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond.
California Water Code Section 31480
Subject to the provisions of this article, a district may borrow money to provide funds to pay all costs of any public improvement authorized by...
California Water Code Section 31481
Revenue bonds under this article shall be authorized, issued and sold in the same manner as are revenue bonds of irrigation districts under Division 11...
California Water Code Section 31482
The Contra Costa Water District may provide for bonds of the district to bear a variable interest rate, which rate shall not at any time...
California Water Code Section 31500
Whenever, in the opinion of the board, the public interest or convenience may require, it may order to be done in, under, or upon the...
California Water Code Section 31501
The work or improvement shall be done and the cost thereof assessed and collected in accordance with the procedure and in pursuance of the provisions...
California Water Code Section 31502
The Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 is also applicable to districts.
California Water Code Section 31503
The Improvement Bond Act of 1915 is also so applicable for use in conjunction with the Improvement Act of 1911 or with other improvement acts.
California Water Code Section 31504
Such acts or any of them may be used in the discretion of the board of directors in the contruction of any work to be...
California Water Code Section 31506
A district may enter into an agreement with any municipality within the district whereby any work or improvement constructed pursuant to the provisions of the...
California Water Code Section 31520
As used in the laws referred to in this chapter the terms therefrom set forth in this article refer for the purposes of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 31521
"City" refers to county water district.
California Water Code Section 31522
"City council" or "legislative body" refers to the board of directors of the county water district.
California Water Code Section 31523
"Mayor" refers to the president of the board of directors of the county water district.
California Water Code Section 31524
"Clerk" refers to the secretary of the board of directors of the county water district.
California Water Code Section 31525
"Council chambers" refers to the place designated by the board of directors of the county water district for holding its regular meetings.
California Water Code Section 31526
"Treasurer" refers to the auditor of the county water district, unless the district elects to use the county treasurer as provided in Section 31305, in...
California Water Code Section 31527
"Superintendent of streets" or "street superintendent" and "city engineer" refer to the engineer of the county water district.
California Water Code Section 31528
"Right of way" refers to any parcel of land through which a right of way has been granted to the county water district for any
California Water Code Section 31529
All words relating to municipal officers and matters refer to the corresponding officers of county water districts and matters under this division.
California Water Code Section 31545
The board may appoint officers other than the engineer, without compensation, as the officer to perform any or all of the duties conferred upon the...
California Water Code Section 31546
The board may appoint an engineer of work, in which event the duties to be performed by the city engineer as set forth in any...
California Water Code Section 31547
The board may provide that the work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer of work, that the materials...
California Water Code Section 31548
The contract shall be entered into by the engineer, and the assessment and warrant, when confirmed, shall be recorded in the office of the engineer.
California Water Code Section 31575
Improvement districts may be formed in districts in the same manner as improvement districts are formed in irrigation districts. When formed, such improvement districts shall...
California Water Code Section 31576
The board of directors of a district shall have the same rights, powers, duties and responsibilities with respect to the formation and government of improvement...
California Water Code Section 31577
Assessments in an improvement district in a district shall be levied, collected and enforced at the same time and in as nearly the same manner...
California Water Code Section 31578
If an improvement district is formed in the Kings County Water District to encompass all or a portion of the area within the district served...
California Water Code Section 31579
All powers and duties of the district may be exercised on behalf of or within any improvement district formed pursuant to this division.
California Water Code Section 31585
The provisions of this chapter are in addition to the provisions of Sections 31388 and 31389, the provisions of Sections 31500 to 31548, inclusive, and...
California Water Code Section 31586
Division 4 (commencing at Section 2800) of the Streets and Highways Code shall not be applicable to the formation of any improvement district pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 31595
Improvement districts may be formed to undertake projects to investigate, study, analyze, appraise, finance, acquire, and carry out any of the objects or purposes of...
California Water Code Section 31596
The formation of an improvement district shall be instituted by a resolution of the board which shall contain the following: (a) A description of the...
California Water Code Section 31597
The secretary shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing by causing a notice thereof to be published for the time provided...
California Water Code Section 31598
The notice shall contain a copy of the resolution and a designation of a public place within the district where a copy of a map...
California Water Code Section 31599
At the time and place fixed for the hearing, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed...
California Water Code Section 31600
If prior to the conclusion of the hearing written protests against the formation of the proposed improvement district and the proposed project signed by a...
California Water Code Section 31601
In all matters referred to in this article, the last equalized assessment roll of the district, if any, otherwise of the county, shall be prima...
California Water Code Section 31602
(a) Each signature on a protest shall be acknowledged or proved in the manner required to entitle deeds to be recorded. (b) A guardian, executor,...
California Water Code Section 31603
The board may inquire and take evidence for the purpose of identifying any person claiming the right to sign the protest as being the person...
California Water Code Section 31604
At the conclusion of the hearing if proceedings relating to the proposed improvement district have not been terminated in the manner set forth in Section...
California Water Code Section 31605
No improvement district shall be formed pursuant to this chapter unless the board shall, in the resolution declaring such improvement district to be formed, find...
California Water Code Section 31606
The resolution declaring an improvement district to be formed shall contain: (a) A description of the boundaries thereof and the name of such improvement district...
California Water Code Section 31607
The boundaries of an improvement district determined and established by the board in the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed may be the...
California Water Code Section 31608
The resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed shall become effective 30 days after its adoption.
California Water Code Section 31609
If a petition protesting against the adoption of the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed is presented to the board prior to its...
California Water Code Section 31610
After the formation of an improvement district pursuant to this chapter and if any portion of the cost of the project proposed therefor is to...
California Water Code Section 31611
After the formation of an improvement district, additional lands may be included therein upon the written petition of the owners thereof and a resolution of...
California Water Code Section 31615
Subject to such limitations as may be contained in the resolution declaring the improvement district to be formed, the board shall have the power in...
California Water Code Section 31616
The procedure for estimating, levying, and collecting taxes in any improvement district shall be the same as is provided in Part 7 (commencing at Section...
California Water Code Section 31617
All taxes collected pursuant to this article shall be expended only for the payment of bond principal and interest or only for the improvement district...
California Water Code Section 31618
For the purpose of any tax levied under this article, the properties within any improvement district shall be deemed to be equally benefited.
California Water Code Section 31625
One or more improvement districts may be formed in the Kings County Water District which may include all or any part of the land in...
California Water Code Section 31630
The Coachella Valley Water District shall have the power to levy and collect water replenishment assessments, as provided in this chapter, for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 31630.5
As used in this chapter: (a) "Annual" or "year" means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning. (b) "District" means the Coachella...
California Water Code Section 31631
By May 1 of each year the board shall have prepared and presented to it an engineering survey and report concerning the groundwater supplies within...
California Water Code Section 31631.5
If the board determines that funds should be raised by a replenishment assessment, it shall call a public hearing, and shall publish notice at least...
California Water Code Section 31632
The hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the...
California Water Code Section 31632.5
Before July 1 of each year, the board may by resolution levy a replenishment assessment upon all water production during the following fiscal year within...
California Water Code Section 31633
The amount of any replenishment assessment levied within an area of benefit shall be established at the discretion of the board, except that no assessment...
California Water Code Section 31633.5
Minimal pumpers may be excluded from the engineering survey and report on water production, and they shall be exempt from any replenishment assessments and reporting...
California Water Code Section 31634
The district, after the levying of any replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to all affected producers as disclosed by the records of the district....
California Water Code Section 31634.5
Except as provided in Section 31636, each producer, on or before the dates when the assessment or installments thereof are due and payable, shall file...
California Water Code Section 31635
Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this chapter shall be due and payable to the district at the time or times determined by the district...
California Water Code Section 31636
If the district has an agreement with any producer whereby the district regularly reads and maintains the water-measuring devices which record the production of such...
California Water Code Section 31636.5
If any producer subject to a replenishment assessment, after notice has been given pursuant to Section 31634, shall fail to pay a replenishment assessment or...
California Water Code Section 31637
Should any producer, subject to a replenishment assessment, knowingly fail to file the water-production statement, such producer shall, in addition to interest as provided in...
California Water Code Section 31637.5
If the district has probable cause to believe that the production by any producer is unreported or, if reported, is substantially in excess of that...
California Water Code Section 31638
The district may, in any court having jurisdiction, bring suit against any producer to enjoin any water production in violation of any of the provisions...
California Water Code Section 31638.5
It shall be unlawful to produce water from within any area of benefit after one year following the levy of a replenishment assessment within such...
California Water Code Section 31639
This chapter, applicable only to the Coachella Valley Water District, is necessary because of the special and unique problems of imported ground water recharge of...
California Water Code Section 31650
A district may cause taxes to be levied for the purpose of paying any of its obligations and to accomplish the purposes of this division.
California Water Code Section 31651
If the maturity of the indebtedness created by an issue of bonds begins more than one year after the date of issuance, a tax shall...
California Water Code Section 31652
A district may cause taxes to be levied to pay the expenses of its formation, including fees of attorneys and others employed to conduct the...
California Water Code Section 31653
A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
California Water Code Section 31665
Whenever the board by ordinance finds that because of circumstances existing in the district it is just and reasonable that petitions for special rates of...
California Water Code Section 31666
The petition shall request that the board determine what percentage of the reqular rates of taxation of the district should be used in levying taxes...
California Water Code Section 31667
A fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to the secretary before the filing of each petition for a special rate of taxation. The...
California Water Code Section 31668
The board shall set a time and place for the hearing of a petition for a special rate of taxation or of all the petitions...
California Water Code Section 31669
The notice for a special rate of taxation hearing shall state all of the following: (a) Petitions have been presented to the board praying for...
California Water Code Section 31670
The board shall meet at the time and place set for the hearing and proceed in the order it deems proper to hear the petitions...
California Water Code Section 31671
After the conclusion of the hearing, if the board finds that any of the land described in any petition has been irrigated as alleged and...
California Water Code Section 31672
The ordinance or resolution shall: (a) Describe the land entitled to a special rate of taxation or the respective parcels of it if separate parcels...
California Water Code Section 31673
A certified copy of the ordinance or resolution determining that any land is entitled to a special rate of taxation shall be delivered to the...
California Water Code Section 31674
After a copy of the ordinance or resolution is delivered to the county assessor, the officer charged with the duty of entering on the assessment...
California Water Code Section 31675
The determination of the board granting or denying a special rate of taxation as to any land after a hearing pursuant to this article shall...
California Water Code Section 31680
Within the Kings County Water District, the board may by ordinance provide for the establishment of special rates of taxation, for general fund purposes and...
California Water Code Section 31700
In this chapter "district" means a county water district formed under the provisions of the County Water District Act or this division.
California Water Code Section 31701
If a district has no revenue or if the revenues of the district are, or in the judgment of the board of directors are likely...
California Water Code Section 31701.5
The amount of any charges for water and other services or either included in the statement of delinquent and unpaid charges pursuant to subdivision (e)...
California Water Code Section 31701.6
A district shall notify the holder of title to land whenever delinquent and unpaid charges for water and other services or either which could become...
California Water Code Section 31701.7
In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the...
California Water Code Section 31702
After the board of directors has furnished the estimates as required in Section 31701, the board of supervisors of each county, annually, at the time...
California Water Code Section 31702.1
The board may, by resolution, elect to fix its own rates of taxation, in which event it shall file certified copies thereof with the auditor,...
California Water Code Section 31702.2
Following the board's election, the county auditor shall, before the third Monday of August of each year, transmit to the board a written statement showing...
California Water Code Section 31702.3
On or before September 1 of each year, the board shall fix the rates of taxation in not to exceed four decimals, which it shall...
California Water Code Section 31702.4
The county auditor shall compute and enter in the county assessment roll the respective sums to be paid as a district tax on the property...
California Water Code Section 31703
Subject to any other limitations in this division contained the taxes shall be levied on property in the district as follows: (a) The bond tax...
California Water Code Section 31703.1
Upon request of the Mariana Ranchos County Water District, the board of supervisors shall levy the bond tax in proportion to the assessed valuation of...
California Water Code Section 31703.2
Annually, the Sierra Lakes County Water District, Placer County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy a bond tax on land only in...
California Water Code Section 31703.3
Annually, the Circle Oaks County Water District, Napa County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy a bond tax on land only in...
California Water Code Section 31703.4
Upon request of the Apple Valley Heights County Water District, the board of supervisors shall levy the bond tax and taxes for loans and other...
California Water Code Section 31703.5
Annually, the Desert View County Water District, San Bernardino County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy a bond tax on land only...
California Water Code Section 31703.6
Annually, the Pinedale County Water District, Fresno County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, a bond tax on land only in Pinedale...
California Water Code Section 31703.7
Upon request of the Cucamonga County Water District, the board of supervisors shall levy an improvement district tax on land within any improvement district within...
California Water Code Section 31703.8
Annually, the El Dorado Hills County Water District, El Dorado County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, a bond tax on land...
California Water Code Section 31703.9
Annually, the Juniper Riviera County Water District, San Bernardino County, may request, and the board of supervisors shall levy, any one, or all, bond or...
California Water Code Section 31704
Taxes levied by the Coachella Valley County Water District for payment of the principal of, or interest on bonded indebtedness, where the proceeds of such...
California Water Code Section 31706
All district taxes shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and form as county taxes and shall be paid to...
California Water Code Section 31707
Subject to the provisions of Section 31707.1, taxes for the payment of a bonded debt and the interest on it are a lien on all...
California Water Code Section 31707.1
No bonded debt and no lien therefor is created or exists as to authorized bonds prior to issuance. Upon issuance a debt is created only...
California Water Code Section 31707.5
(a) Taxes for the payment of all charges, claims, expenditures and expenses, other than a bonded debt, of any improvement district created pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 31708
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the...
California Water Code Section 31709
District taxes whether for the payment of a bonded indebtedness and the interest on it or for other purposes are of the same force and...
California Water Code Section 31805
All district taxes levied on real property and improvements are a lien upon the same, which lien attaches as of noon on the first day...
California Water Code Section 31822
If the assessee owns taxable real property in fee in the district, the taxes due upon the possession of, claim to, or right to the...
California Water Code Section 32200
Any tract of land included within any district and not substantially and directly benefited by being in the district, or by its continued inclusion therein,...
California Water Code Section 32400
Land not a part of the district whether or not contiguous to it or to other portions added to the district, and consisting of any...
California Water Code Section 32550
Territory within a district may be annexed to an improvement district whether or not contiguous thereto, provided that such territory is not a part of...
California Water Code Section 32551
The procedure for such annexation shall be the same as the procedure for annexing land to a district set forth in Chapter 2 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 32552
If all the owners of land within the territory proposed to be annexed have given their written assent to such annexation, the board may by...
California Water Code Section 32553
After the adoption of a resolution ordering such annexation, or a resolution confirming an order of annexation following an election thereon, the secretary shall file...
California Water Code Section 32554
Territory annexed to an improvement district shall be subject to existing bond issues and indebtedness of the improvement district from and after the filing with...
California Water Code Section 32600
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Board" means the Board of Directors...
California Water Code Section 32601
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for nonpotable uses for cemeteries, parks, highway landscaped areas, new industrial...
California Water Code Section 32602
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but subject to the other requirements of this part, no person or local public agency shall use water within...
California Water Code Section 32603
(a) The use of nonpotable water, including recycled water, in accordance with this part is subject to all applicable state regulation. (b) This part only...
California Water Code Section 33100
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Coachella District Merger Law.
California Water Code Section 33101
The State and the people thereof have a primary and supreme interest in securing to the inhabitants and property owners within the Coachella Valley and...
California Water Code Section 33102
Investigation having shown that conditions in the Coachella Valley are peculiar to that valley, it is hereby declared that a general law cannot be made...
California Water Code Section 33103
The Coachella Valley County Water District was prior to October 19, 1937, formed primarily for irrigation purposes, and the Coachella Valley Storm Water District was...
California Water Code Section 33104
This chapter is enacted in part under the authority expressly granted in Section 13 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State.
California Water Code Section 33105
This part shall be given a liberal construction for the purpose of sustaining any and all proceedings taken hereunder.
California Water Code Section 33106
Nothing in this part shall impair or adversely affect any right of any bondholder or creditor of the storm water district or the county water
California Water Code Section 33115
The Coachella Valley Storm Water District of Riverside County was merged into the Coachella Valley County Water District on October 19, 1937, pursuant to Chapter...
California Water Code Section 33116
The surviving district comprises all land in the county water district at the time of the merger plus inclusions, and less exclusions, of land thereafter...
California Water Code Section 33117
The name of the surviving district is Coachella Valley County Water District.
California Water Code Section 33118
The surviving district is a public agency of the State.
California Water Code Section 33119
Upon the merger of the two districts the storm water district for all purposes ceased to exist, and the offices of its trustees and officers...
California Water Code Section 33120
Upon the merger the directors and officers of the county water district then in office constituted the directors and officers of the surviving district.
California Water Code Section 33121
Upon the merger the surviving district succeeded to all properties, rights and contracts of each of the two districts.
California Water Code Section 33135
Except as in this part expressly provided the surviving district shall be in all respects operated, managed, and governed, its directors and officers shall be...
California Water Code Section 33136
In addition to the powers in this part conferred, the surviving district has all of the powers and duties of a storm water district as...
California Water Code Section 33137
In addition to the powers in this part conferred the board of directors and officers of the surviving district shall perform all functions of boards...
California Water Code Section 33138
In the case of conflict between the Storm Water District Act of 1909 and this division, this division prevails.
California Water Code Section 33139
Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, the surviving district may provide for and carry on the construction, operation, and maintenance of works, improvements, and functions...
California Water Code Section 33140
All actions and proceedings pending by or against the storm water district at the time of the merger may be prosecuted to final judgment for...
California Water Code Section 33141
After the merger no action or proceeding shall be brought for or against the storm water district or its trustees or officers.
California Water Code Section 33142
All actions and proceedings commenced after the merger either on account of affairs of the storm water district or affairs of the county water district...
California Water Code Section 33143
All outstanding bonded and other indebtedness of the storm water district and of the county water district at the time of the merger has been...
California Water Code Section 33144
The board of directors and officers of the surviving district shall perform all duties and functions of the board of trustees and corresponding officers of...
California Water Code Section 33145
All money required for repair, operation, and maintenance of improvements constructed by the storm water district and the cost of which was borne by the...
California Water Code Section 33146
Land may be added to the surviving district or excluded therefrom in any manner and with the same effect as provided in this division.
California Water Code Section 33160
The surviving district contains an improvement district, designated "Storm Water Unit," which consists of land in the storm water district at the time of the...
California Water Code Section 33161
The storm water unit shall solely be and remain taxable or assessable for bonds, indebtedness, works, improvements, and functions authorized by the Storm Water District...
California Water Code Section 33162
Land may be added to or excluded from the storm water unit in a manner as nearly as may be as land is added to...
California Water Code Section 33200
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Costa Mesa District Merger Law.
California Water Code Section 33201
The State and the people thereof have a primary and supreme interest in securing to the inhabitants, property owners and water users within the City...
California Water Code Section 33202
The City of Costa Mesa was incorporated on June 29, 1953, primarily for the purpose of providing municipal functions and services, including the providing of...
California Water Code Section 33203
This part is enacted partially under the authority expressly granted in Section 13 of Article XI of the Constitution of this State.
California Water Code Section 33204
This part shall be given a liberal construction for the purpose of sustaining any and all proceedings taken hereunder.
California Water Code Section 33205
Nothing in this part shall impair or adversely affect any right of any bondholder or creditor of any of the districts involved in this merger...
California Water Code Section 33206
For the purpose of accomplishing the dissolution, merger, and creation of the new district, the City of Costa Mesa may participate to the extent of...
California Water Code Section 33207
The name of the Costa Mesa County Water District as created pursuant to this part is hereby changed to the Mesa Consolidated Water District. Any...
California Water Code Section 33215
The Costa Mesa County Water District is hereby created, which includes the area of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, the Fairview County Water District, the...
California Water Code Section 33216
The name of the new district which succeeds the preceding districts and the city water system is "Costa Mesa County Water District."
California Water Code Section 33217
The new district is a public agency of the State and shall in all respects be operated, managed and governed as provided by law for...
California Water Code Section 33218
The Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, and the Newport Mesa Irrigation District are hereby dissolved and...
California Water Code Section 33219
The dissolution of the Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, the Newport Heights Irrigation District, and the Newport Mesa Irrigation District,...
California Water Code Section 33220
The boards of directors of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, the Newport Mesa County Water District, and the city council of...
California Water Code Section 33221
As the Newport Mesa Irrigation District has been inactive for a number of years by reason of the formation of an overlapping district known as...
California Water Code Section 33222
On the first day of the second month following the sixty-first day after the effective date of this part, and if the districts and the...
California Water Code Section 33223
The boards of directors of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Fairview County Water District, and Newport Mesa County Water District, and the City Council of...
California Water Code Section 33224
Any assessments levied by or on behalf of the districts, or any bills or statements rendered by or on behalf of the districts, being dissolved...
California Water Code Section 33240
Except as in this part expressly provided, the new Costa Mesa County Water District shall be in all respects operated, managed and governed, its directors...
California Water Code Section 33241
Any and all actions and proceedings pending by or against any of the districts dissolved hereby at the time of their dissolution and merger into...
California Water Code Section 33242
After the effective date of the dissolution and merger of the districts into the new Costa Mesa County Water District, no action or proceeding shall...
California Water Code Section 33243
All outstanding bonded and other indebtednesses of the dissolved and merged districts are hereby assumed by the Costa Mesa County Water District, and all bondholders...
California Water Code Section 33244
Upon the dissolution of the named districts, their merger into the Costa Mesa County Water District, and the transfer of the water system by the...
California Water Code Section 33245
The boards of directors of the Newport Heights Irrigation District, the Fairview County Water District, and the Newport Mesa County Water District, and the city...
California Water Code Section 33246
The board of directors of the Costa Mesa County Water District shall, as soon as possible after the formation of the district, cause an appraisal...
California Water Code Section 33247
The Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa County Water District shall, by January 1, 1977, adopt a resolution dividing the Costa Mesa County Water...
California Water Code Section 33248
The districts and the city shall, pursuant to this part, execute any and all documents necessary to complete the transfer of assets as herein provided.
California Water Code Section 33249
The Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa County Water District shall enforce the same or similar provisions as Ordinance No. 122 of the City...
California Water Code Section 33300
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Desert View Water District-Bighorn Mountains Water Agency Consolidation Law.
California Water Code Section 33301
As used in this part, "consolidation," as defined in Section 56030 of the Government Code, includes, for the purposes only of effecting a consolidation between...
California Water Code Section 33302
The board of directors of a consolidated successor district shall consist of five members. The members of the board of directors of the consolidated successor...
California Water Code Section 33303
For a period of not less than 10 years after January 1, 1990, unless approved by an unanimous vote of the directors of the successor...
California Water Code Section 33304
Subject to San Bernardino County Local Agency Formation Commission terms and conditions to a consolidation of the Desert View Water District and the Bighorn Mountains...
California Water Code Section 33305
Section 31012 applies to a county water district consolidated with the Bighorn Mountains Water Agency.
California Water Code Section 33306
Any and all actions or proceedings pending by or against either the Desert View Water District or the Bighorn Mountains Water Agency may be prosecuted...
California Water Code Section 33900
The following acts are hereby repealed: Year Ch. Pg. 1913: 592: 1049 1937: 469: 1410
California Water Code Section 33901
The repeals effected by this part shall not be construed to deprive any district or any person or other entity of any substantial right which...
California Water Code Section 34000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the California Water District Law.
California Water Code Section 34010
Unless the context otherwise requires the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 34011
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 34012
"Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
California Water Code Section 34013
"District" except as otherwise provided means a water district formed pursuant to the California Water District Act or to this division.
California Water Code Section 34014
"Land" means the solid material of the earth whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock, or other substance, but...
California Water Code Section 34015
"Principal county" means the county in which the greatest portion of the area of the land is situated at the time of the filing of...
California Water Code Section 34016
"Affected county" means any county in which land is situated.
California Water Code Section 34017
"Office" means the office for the district selected by the board.
California Water Code Section 34018
Except as otherwise provided, "board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 34019
"Elective officers," irrespective of the method of selection in any instance, (1) are the members of the board and (2) may be an assessor and...
California Water Code Section 34020
"President" means the president of the board.
California Water Code Section 34021
"Secretary" means the secretary of the district.
California Water Code Section 34022
"Assessor" means the assessor of the district.
California Water Code Section 34023
"Collector" means the tax collector of the district.
California Water Code Section 34024
"Treasurer" means the treasurer of the district.
California Water Code Section 34025
"General district election" means the district election required to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year.
California Water Code Section 34026
"Holder of title" shall mean the owner of record of the fee title to land; provided, however, in the event the owner of record of...
California Water Code Section 34027
"Voter" means a person who is a holder of title.
California Water Code Section 34028
"Board of election" means a board consisting of an inspector and two judges.
California Water Code Section 34029
"Irrigation" includes subirrigation, percolation, underground storage, and well replenishment.
California Water Code Section 34030
"Legal representative" means either of the following: (a) A duly appointed and acting guardian, executor, or administrator of the estate of a holder of title...
California Water Code Section 34031
"Property" embraces all real and personal property, including water, water rights, works, easements, and rights of way.
California Water Code Section 34032
"Contract" includes agreement, lease, conveyance, and obligation.
California Water Code Section 34033
"Works" includes works to supply water for domestic, industrial, and municipal purposes, irrigation works, drainage works, reclamation works, distributing systems, dams, reservoirs, and canals.
California Water Code Section 34034
"Charges" includes tolls and rates.
California Water Code Section 34035
"Bonds" includes both general obligation bonds and revenue bonds except as otherwise expressly provided.
California Water Code Section 34036
Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number...
California Water Code Section 34050
Nothing in this division changes or repeals any other law of this State.
California Water Code Section 34051
The rights, privileges, and immunities created or continued in force by the California Water District Act or by this division in favor of any holder...
California Water Code Section 34052
Whenever an instrument is by this division required to be acknowledged, each signer shall acknowledge the instrument in the manner provided by law before his...
California Water Code Section 34053
No supervisor, auditor, or county elections official of any county shall receive any fee for any service required to be performed by him or her...
California Water Code Section 34055
Districts governed by this division are subject to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
California Water Code Section 34150
Unless otherwise stated, in this part "board" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 34151
As used in this part, "petition" means a petition for the formation of a district.
California Water Code Section 34152
As used in this part, "election" means an election on the proposition of the formation of a district.
California Water Code Section 34153
The holders of title to a majority in area of land which is capable of using water beneficially for irrigation, domestic, industrial or municipal purposes...
California Water Code Section 34154
The petition shall be presented to the board of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 34155
The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board.
California Water Code Section 34156
The records of the United States land office for the district in which the land is located, the records of the State Lands Commission, and...
California Water Code Section 34157
The proposed district may include land situated in other distinctive district agencies of the State, including other water districts organized under the provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 34165
A petition shall contain: (a) The name of the proposed district, which name shall contain the words "Water District." (b) A description of the proposed...
California Water Code Section 34166
(a) If a consolidation of the offices of assessor and tax collector is deemed advisable in the formation of a district, the petitioners may request...
California Water Code Section 34167
The petition shall be accompanied by an undertaking, to be approved by the board, in a sum not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000), conditioned...
California Water Code Section 34168
Upon the approval by the board of the undertaking or of any additional undertaking which it may require, the board shall fix a time for...
California Water Code Section 34180
The clerk of the board shall cause a notice to be published at least once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of...
California Water Code Section 34181
The first publication of the notice shall be at least 21 days before the day set for the hearing. If at the hearing it appears...
California Water Code Section 34182
No clerical error in the published text of the petition and no error or omission in the publication of the names attached to the petition...
California Water Code Section 34300
During or prior to the hearing of the petition: (a) Any holder of title to land may request the exclusion of any part of his...
California Water Code Section 34301
At the hearing the board shall hear all relevant evidence in support of or in opposition to the petition, or in support of or in...
California Water Code Section 34302
The hearing may be continued by the board from time to time but shall not be continued after 30 days from the time originally fixed...
California Water Code Section 34302.5
Following such hearing, the board may terminate the proceeding if it finds that there is good cause for not forming the district. If proceedings are...
California Water Code Section 34303
At the hearing the board shall fix the boundaries of the proposed district if it is shown to the board that the petition conforms to...
California Water Code Section 34304
The board shall exclude any land which it finds will not be benefited by the water service of the proposed district.
California Water Code Section 34305
Upon application of the owner the board may include in the proposed district any land which is susceptible of water service from any source proposed...
California Water Code Section 34306
After the board has determined the land to be included within the proposed district, it shall make an order doing all of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 34307
The order shall be entered in full upon the minutes of the board.
California Water Code Section 34308
A finding of the board in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and notice is conclusive against all persons except the State...
California Water Code Section 34400
After making and entering the order establishing and describing the boundaries of, and naming, the proposed district, the board shall forthwith call and give notice...
California Water Code Section 34401
The notice of the election shall contain: (a) Date and hours of election. (b) Place of polls. (c) Description of the boundaries of the proposed...
California Water Code Section 34402
Notice of the election shall be published once a week for at least three weeks previous to the election in a newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 34402.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 34402.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 34402.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 34402.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 34403
The board shall at the time of calling the formation election for the proposed district, prescribe the procedure for nominating candidates for the offices to...
California Water Code Section 34420
The board shall designate the polling place for the election and appoint from the persons eligible to the office of district director a board of...
California Water Code Section 34421
For the convenience of voters the board may divide the proposed district into election precincts and establish the boundaries of the precincts. In such case...
California Water Code Section 34422
At the election the last equalized assessment roll of each affected county shall be used in lieu of the district assessment book.
California Water Code Section 34423
At the election the elective officers shall be elected but only one person shall be elected to fill the offices consolidated, if any.
California Water Code Section 34424
The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as may be pursuant to Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 4...
California Water Code Section 34425
The returns of the election shall be forwarded to the board which shall meet on the second Monday following the election and canvass the returns...
California Water Code Section 34500
If upon the canvass of the returns it appears that a majority of all the votes cast favor the formation of the district, the board...
California Water Code Section 34501
The board shall immediately file for record in the office of the county recorder of each affected county a certified copy of the order declaring...
California Water Code Section 34502
With the filing for record of the order declaring the district formed the formation of the district is complete.
California Water Code Section 34530
An action to determine the legality of the existence of a district may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title...
California Water Code Section 34575
If at any time after the formation of a district the boundaries of the principal county are changed so as to exclude therefrom all of...
California Water Code Section 34576
All documents which have been recorded with the recorder of the principal county and which, or a certified copy thereof, have not been recorded in...
California Water Code Section 34577
After the transfer of documents pursuant to this chapter, the board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred shall have and...
California Water Code Section 34580
The Madera Water District created pursuant to the Madera Water District Act (Chapter 735 of the Statutes of 1987) is hereby continued as a district...
California Water Code Section 34581
(a) The first board of directors of the Madera Water District, as a district under this division, shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors...
California Water Code Section 34582
The successors to three of the first directors of the Madera Water District, as a district under this division, chosen by lot, shall be elected...
California Water Code Section 34583
The Madera Water District, as a district under this division, succeeds to actions taken, rights acquired, and obligations undertaken by the Madera Water District created...
California Water Code Section 34700
Each director shall be one of the following: (a) A holder of title to land within the district. (b) The legal representative of a holder...
California Water Code Section 34701
Officers take office as soon as they qualify except that officers elected or appointed pursuant to the Uniform District Election Law shall take office at...
California Water Code Section 34705
The term of office of each elective officer subsequent to the officers elected at the formation election is four years or until his successor qualifies...
California Water Code Section 34707
If any office becomes vacant from any cause it shall be filled by appointment by the board.
California Water Code Section 34707.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a vacancy in the office of board member who was elected to office shall be filled pursuant to Section...
California Water Code Section 34708
At any time after four years from the date of the formation of a district, and from time to time thereafter, but not less than...
California Water Code Section 34708.5
At any time after the adoption of a resolution pursuant to Section 34708, such resolution may be repealed by a unanimous vote of the members...
California Water Code Section 34709
Notwithstanding Section 34900, any elective officer other than a director may appoint so many deputies as the board shall have authorized for whose acts he...
California Water Code Section 34710
Deputies shall hold office at the pleasure of the appointing officer and shall receive such compensation as may be provided by the board.
California Water Code Section 34711
The treasurer shall be appointed by the board and serve at its pleasure. At least 90 days before the date of a general district election...
California Water Code Section 34712
At least 90 days before the date of a general district election, the board may determine that the offices of assessor and tax collector, or...
California Water Code Section 34713
A person elected on the basis of one man-one vote to the board of directors of a California water district, which district has been authorized...
California Water Code Section 34725
The board may consolidate the offices of assessor and tax collector.
California Water Code Section 34726
The order of consolidation of offices shall be made at least 90 days prior to a general district election.
California Water Code Section 34727
The board may, at least 90 days before a general district election, segregate any offices which have previously been consolidated.
California Water Code Section 34740
The bylaws shall fix the compensation to be paid to all officers. The compensation received by directors shall not exeed that specified in Section 34741.
California Water Code Section 34741
Until their compensation is fixed by the adoption of bylaws, the officers shall receive the following compensation for their services: (a) The secretary, tax collector,...
California Water Code Section 34800
The board shall elect a president from its members and appoint the secretary.
California Water Code Section 34801
The board shall select and maintain an office for the district, at a fixed place which place need not be within the district.
California Water Code Section 34802
The board shall hold regular meetings at such time and place as may be agreed upon by resolution.
California Water Code Section 34803
Special meetings of the board shall be held pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 9 of...
California Water Code Section 34804
Notwithstanding Section 54954 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, the Board of Directors of the Elsinore Water District may conduct its...
California Water Code Section 34805
A majority of the membership of the board shall constitute a quorum of the board for the transaction of business.
California Water Code Section 34806
The vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting attended by a quorum is necessary to determine any proposition or resolution presented.
California Water Code Section 34807
The board, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district.
California Water Code Section 34808
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 34850
The secretary shall keep a record of all the proceedings had at meetings of the board.
California Water Code Section 34851
All documents pertaining to district affairs shall be filed in the office of the district with the secretary and shall be open to inspection at...
California Water Code Section 34900
The board shall: (a) Employ and appoint such agents, officers, and employees as may be required. (b) Prescribe their duties and fix their salaries. (c)...
California Water Code Section 35003
Each voter shall have one vote for each dollar's worth of land to which he or she holds title. The last equalized assessment book of...
California Water Code Section 35003.1
A district may, by ordinance adopted at least 90 days prior to any district election, determine that voters shall thereafter be ascertained pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 35004
Every voter, or his legal representative, may vote at any district election either in person or by a person duly appointed as his proxy.
California Water Code Section 35005
No appointment of a proxy shall be valid, accepted, or vote allowed thereon at any district election unless it meets all of the following requirements:...
California Water Code Section 35006
Before a legal representative votes at a district election he shall present to the precinct board a certified copy of his authority which shall be...
California Water Code Section 35025
Each district may be divided into as many divisions as there are directors of the district. The establishment of the divisions and the boundaries thereof...
California Water Code Section 35026
Within 30 days after the filing of the petition or the resolution requesting the establishment of divisions with the board of supervisors, the board of...
California Water Code Section 35027
Within 10 days after said hearing, the board of supervisors, if they determine that the resolution or petition is valid, shall forthwith order the establishment...
California Water Code Section 35028
After the entry of the order establishing divisions within a district, one director shall be elected from each division and shall be a holder of...
California Water Code Section 35029
The entry of the order dividing the district into divisions shall not affect the term of any director until his term expires.
California Water Code Section 35030
At least 80 days prior to the next general district election, the board shall designate the divisions from which directors shall be elected. The number...
California Water Code Section 35031
Divisions once established may be modified by the same procedure as herein set forth for establishing divisions.
California Water Code Section 35040
The voting procedure within a district shall be changed from that of a landowner voting district to that of a resident voting district at such...
California Water Code Section 35041
Between January 1 and March 30 of each year, the secretary of the district shall inspect the assessable area within the district. At such time...
California Water Code Section 35042
The petition shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of the registered voters who reside within the district, but shall contain a minimum...
California Water Code Section 35043
The petition shall be substantially in the following form: The secretary of the ____ Water District having heretofore certified to the board of directors of...
California Water Code Section 35044
Duplicate copies of the petition form shall constitute one petition when filed. If the district is in more than one county, signatures shall be obtained...
California Water Code Section 35045
Each petition shall be signed and dated by registered voters who reside within the district and shall show their residence address.
California Water Code Section 35046
Each page of the petition which contains the signature of one or more registered voters shall show thereon the affidavit of the circulator in the...
California Water Code Section 35047
All signatures on the petition shall be obtained within the six-month period immediately preceding the filing thereof.
California Water Code Section 35048
The petition shall be filed with the county elections official of the principal county at least six months prior to the date of the next...
California Water Code Section 35049
The signatures to the petition shall be verified as follows: (a) If the district is wholly in one county, the county elections official shall examine...
California Water Code Section 35050
If the number of signatures is not sufficient, a supplemental petition, in the form of a duplicate petition, but bearing additional signatures, may be filed...
California Water Code Section 35051
If the petition contains at least 25 valid signatures and if the total number of valid signatures on the petition constitutes 25 percent or more...
California Water Code Section 35052
At the next regular meeting following the delivery by the county elections official of the petition and the certificate to the secretary of the district,...
California Water Code Section 35053
The secretary of the district shall file with the county elections official of each county in which any portion of the district is located, a...
California Water Code Section 35054
After adoption of the resolution by the board of directors, all elections within the district for elective offices, bonds, or other purposes shall be conducted...
California Water Code Section 35055
All directors thereafter elected shall be residents of the district, and shall be registered voters at the time of their election and during their term...
California Water Code Section 35056
(a) After the establishment of a resident voting district, the provisions set forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 35025) of this chapter are no...
California Water Code Section 35057
At the first election of directors following the adoption of the resolution by the board establishing a resident voting district, the number of directors to...
California Water Code Section 35058
The adoption, in accordance with the provisions of this article, of a resolution changing the method of voting shall in no way invalidate any act...
California Water Code Section 35059
Any bonds of the district, authorized or issued in any manner provided by law, and any proceedings taken by the district in connection therewith, prior...
California Water Code Section 35060
After establishment of a resident voting district, the provisions of Sections 35305 and 35306 shall no longer be applicable. The board of directors may at...
California Water Code Section 35100
District elections shall be conducted in conformity with the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections...
California Water Code Section 35106
This section shall apply only to landowner voting districts. The ballots used at any general district election in a landowner voting district, including bond elections,...
California Water Code Section 35107
This section shall apply only to landowner voting districts. The following procedures shall be used at the polls by the precinct board appointed pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 35110
As soon as the result of the canvass by the county elections official is declared, the county elections official shall prepare and mail to the...
California Water Code Section 35111
Within 10 days from the receipt by the board of supervisors of the certificate showing the results of the election, the clerk of the board...
California Water Code Section 35125
Any person interested may commence the contest of a district election, other than a general district election, within 20 days after the result has been...
California Water Code Section 35150
After a plan of irrigation works has been adopted pursuant to Section 35950, the board shall, by a resolution adopted and entered in its minutes,...
California Water Code Section 35151
Notice of a bond election shall be published once a week for four weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each affected county....
California Water Code Section 35152
Notice of a bond election shall specify: (a) The time and place of the election. (b) The purpose of the election. (c) The amount and...
California Water Code Section 35152.5
All district bond elections, after having been called and noticed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be held and conducted in the manner...
California Water Code Section 35153
The ballots cast at a bond election shall specify the amount and purpose of the proposed bond issue and the maximum rate of interest to...
California Water Code Section 35154
If revenue bonds are proposed to be issued, the ballots cast at a bond election shall contain a statement to the effect that the bonds...
California Water Code Section 35155
The board may, by resolution, at such time or times as it deems proper, provide for the issuance of all or any part of the...
California Water Code Section 35155.1
The board may divide the principal amount of any issue into two or more series and fix different dates for the bonds of each series.
California Water Code Section 35175
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the manner in which elections are conducted in the Irvine Ranch Water District. For purposes of...
California Water Code Section 35176
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections held after the effective date of this section within the district...
California Water Code Section 35177
Qualified voters of the district shall be residents of and registered voters in the district.
California Water Code Section 35178
All directors elected after the effective date of this chapter shall be residents of and registered voters in the district and shall be registered voters...
California Water Code Section 35179
District elections shall be conducted in conformance with the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections...
California Water Code Section 35179.5
If a vacancy in the office of the director is filled by appointment, and the vacancy occurred on a date so that, under Section 1780...
California Water Code Section 35180
Directors of the district shall be elected on an at-large basis. Newly elected directors shall take office on the last Friday in November next following...
California Water Code Section 35181
In order to facilitate an orderly transition to resident voter elections in June of even-numbered years and to preserve staggered terms, the terms of office...
California Water Code Section 35182
After the 1980 general district election and the seating of the newly elected directors, the board of directors of the district may increase the number...
California Water Code Section 35183
The provisions of this chapter shall in no way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, officers and employees, made or performed while the...
California Water Code Section 35184
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district, in...
California Water Code Section 35185
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the Moulton-Niguel Water District. For purposes of this chapter "district" means the Moulton-Niguel Water District.
California Water Code Section 35186
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections held after the effective date of this chapter within the district,...
California Water Code Section 35187
Qualified voters within the district shall be residents of and registered voters in the district.
California Water Code Section 35188
All directors elected after the effective date of this chapter shall be residents of the district and shall be registered voters at the time of...
California Water Code Section 35189
Directors of the district shall be elected on an at-large basis unless the board of directors determines that directors shall be elected by divisions. The...
California Water Code Section 35190
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time establish divisions within the district in accordance with the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 35191
At the first general district election following January 1, 1981, the number of directors to be elected shall correspond with the number of directors whose...
California Water Code Section 35193
The provisions of this chapter shall in no way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed...
California Water Code Section 35194
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in...
California Water Code Section 35195
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote....
California Water Code Section 35200
This chapter shall apply only to the manner in which elections are conducted in the Borrego Water District. For the purposes of this chapter, "district"...
California Water Code Section 35201
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections held after January 1, 1981, within the district shall be conducted...
California Water Code Section 35202
Qualified voters of the district shall be residents of, and registered voters in, the district.
California Water Code Section 35203
All directors elected after January 1, 1981, shall be qualified voters of the district at the time of their election and during their term of
California Water Code Section 35204
Directors of the district shall be elected on a districtwide basis. Newly elected directors shall take office on the last Friday in November immediately following...
California Water Code Section 35205
In order to facilitate an orderly transition to resident voter elections and to preserve staggered terms, the terms of office of directors serving on January...
California Water Code Section 35206
This chapter shall in no way invalidate any act of the district or of its directors, officers, and employees made or performed while the district...
California Water Code Section 35193
The provisions of this chapter shall in no way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed...
California Water Code Section 35194
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in...
California Water Code Section 35195
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote....
California Water Code Section 35210
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the El Toro Water District. For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the El Toro Water
California Water Code Section 35211
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections held after the effective date of this chapter within the district,...
California Water Code Section 35212
Qualified voters within the district shall be residents of and registered voters in the district.
California Water Code Section 35213
All directors elected after the effective date of this chapter shall be residents of the district and shall be registered at the time of their...
California Water Code Section 35214
Directors of the district shall be elected on an at-large basis unless the board of directors determines that directors shall be elected by divisions. The...
California Water Code Section 35215
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time establish divisions within the district in accordance with the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 35216
At the first general district election following the effective date of this chapter, the number of directors to be elected shall correspond with the number...
California Water Code Section 35218
The provisions of this chapter shall in no way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed...
California Water Code Section 35219
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in...
California Water Code Section 35220
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote....
California Water Code Section 35230
This chapter shall apply only to the manner in which elections are conducted in the Rancho California Water District. For the purposes of this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 35231
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all district elections held after the transition period provided in Section 35232 shall...
California Water Code Section 35232
(a) In order to facilitate an orderly transition to resident voter elections, commencing with the 1991 district election, there shall be a transition period which...
California Water Code Section 35233
District elections shall be conducted in conformance with the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections...
California Water Code Section 35234
All directors elected by resident voters shall be residents of, and registered voters in, the district at the time of their election and during their...
California Water Code Section 35235
Only resident voters, registered to vote in the manner prescribed by law, shall be eligible to vote for district directors to be elected by resident...
California Water Code Section 35236
This chapter shall in no way invalidate any action of the district or of its directors, or officers, and employees made or performed while the...
California Water Code Section 35237
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any acts or proceedings previously taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in...
California Water Code Section 35240
This chapter shall apply only to the Santa Margarita Water District. For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the Santa Margarita Water District.
California Water Code Section 35241
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections within the district, including elections for director and elections that are...
California Water Code Section 35242
Qualified voters within the district shall be residents of, and registered voters in, the district.
California Water Code Section 35243
All directors elected after January 1, 1994, shall be residents of the district and shall be registered at the time of their election and during...
California Water Code Section 35244
Directors of the district shall be elected on an at-large basis unless the board of directors determines that directors shall be elected by divisions. The...
California Water Code Section 35245
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time establish divisions within the district in accordance with the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 35246
(a) At the first general district election following January 1, 1996, all directors shall be elected. The terms of office of those directors who are...
California Water Code Section 35247
This chapter does not in any way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed while the...
California Water Code Section 35248
This chapter does not affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in any...
California Water Code Section 35249
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote....
California Water Code Section 35252
This chapter shall apply only to the Riverview Water District. For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the Riverview Water District.
California Water Code Section 35252.2
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or the bylaws of the district, all elections within the district, including elections for director and elections that are...
California Water Code Section 35252.4
Qualified voters within the district shall be residents of, and registered voters in, the district.
California Water Code Section 35252.6
All directors elected after January 1, 1996, shall be residents of the district and shall be registered at the time of their election and during...
California Water Code Section 35252.8
Directors of the district shall be elected on an at-large basis unless the board of directors determines that directors shall be elected by divisions. The...
California Water Code Section 35252.10
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time establish divisions within the district in accordance with the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 35252.12
(a) The terms of office of the two directors who were elected in 1992, or the successor to any director elected in 1992, shall expire...
California Water Code Section 35252.14
This chapter does not in any way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed while the...
California Water Code Section 35252.16
This chapter does not affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district in any...
California Water Code Section 35252.18
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote....
California Water Code Section 35280
This chapter shall apply only to the Ramirez Water District. For purposes of this chapter, "district" means the Ramirez Water District.
California Water Code Section 35281
The board of directors of the district may, by a four-fifths vote, at any time, establish two divisions, or later establish new boundaries for the...
California Water Code Section 35282
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the board to act by a four-fifths vote on any matter except as expressly provided in...
California Water Code Section 35283
Except as provided in this chapter, all elections shall be governed by the general provisions of this division and by the provisions of the Uniform...
California Water Code Section 35284
This chapter does not in any way invalidate any act of the district, its directors, or its officers and employees made or performed before the...
California Water Code Section 35285
(a) This chapter does not affect any acts or proceedings heretofore taken for the authorization, issuance, or sale of any bonds of the district before...
California Water Code Section 35286
The board of directors may at any time alter, repeal, or amend the district's bylaws by a majority vote. Any alteration, repeal, or amendment to...
California Water Code Section 35287
No board action taken pursuant to this chapter shall require approval by the county board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 35288
Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 35281, the 1995 district election shall be by divisions established by the board of directors pursuant to this chapter if...
California Water Code Section 35300
A district shall adopt for the government and control of its affairs a code of by-laws consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State...
California Water Code Section 35301
Within 60 days after they have qualified for office, the board of directors elected at the formation election shall prepare the by-laws for the written...
California Water Code Section 35302
When the by-laws of a district are approved by the board of supervisors of the principal county, the board of directors shall adopt them by...
California Water Code Section 35303
The bylaws shall provide for: (a) The manner of voting in person or by proxy. (b) The qualifications and duties of officers, the tenure of...
California Water Code Section 35304
The by-laws shall also provide for: (a) The location of the district office. (b) The method of changing the location of the office. (c) The...
California Water Code Section 35305
The by-laws may be repealed or amended or new by-laws adopted by the assent of two-thirds of the total vote of the district, given either...
California Water Code Section 35306
The bylaws in their original form, together with the approval of the board of supervisors and the resolution of the directors adopting them, or together...
California Water Code Section 35307
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 35400
Each district has the power generally to perform all acts necessary or proper to carry out fully the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 35401
A district may acquire, plan, construct, maintain, improve, operate, and keep in repair the necessary works for the production, storage, transmission, and distribution of water...
California Water Code Section 35402
A district shall not contract for the construction of irrigation works nor construct the irrigation works by employees of the district, if the cost of...
California Water Code Section 35403
A district may contract to perform and perform any agreement for the transfer or delivery pursuant to Chapter 5 of this part of any irrigation...
California Water Code Section 35404
A district may enter for the purposes of the district upon any land.
California Water Code Section 35405
A district may take conveyances, contracts, leases, or other assurances for property acquired by the district pursuant to this division.
California Water Code Section 35406
A district may execute, by its president and secretary, all contracts and other documents necessary to carry out the powers and purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 35407
A district may commence and maintain any actions and proceedings to carry out its purposes or protect its interests and may defend any action or...
California Water Code Section 35408
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, compromise and assume the costs of any action or proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or use of...
California Water Code Section 35409
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, defend and compromise actions and proceedings to prevent interference with or diminution of the natural flow of any...
California Water Code Section 35410
The board of a district whose corporate area, in whole or in part, is included within a metropolitan water district may in any fiscal year...
California Water Code Section 35410.1
In addition to and as an alternative procedure to the levy and collection of assessments and standby charges, a district may fix and collect acreage...
California Water Code Section 35410.2
If there is more than one tax code area for the levy of said metropolitan water district tax within a district, an improvement district may...
California Water Code Section 35411
A district may disseminate information to the public concerning the rights, properties, and activities of the district.
California Water Code Section 35412
The Irish Beach Water District may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for providing fire protection to the district and its inhabitants, including buildings, engines, hose,...
California Water Code Section 35413
(a) In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, including an ordinance fixing charges for the furnishing of commodities or services,...
California Water Code Section 35420
All water distributed for irrigation purposes, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be apportioned ratably to each holder of title to land upon...
California Water Code Section 35421
Water sold to holders of title to land pursuant to Section 35470 shall be apportioned ratably to each holder of title to land making application...
California Water Code Section 35422
Where revenue bonds have been issued payable from revenues to be derived from the sale of water for the irrigation of land all water distributed...
California Water Code Section 35422.5
As an alternative, and in addition, to other methods set forth in this article regarding the apportionment of water, a district may enter into long-term...
California Water Code Section 35423
A district may establish, print, and distribute equitable rules and regulations for the sale and distribution of water. A district may provide therein that water...
California Water Code Section 35424
After equitable rules and regulations for the distribution of water have been published once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 35425
If its board deems it to be for the best interests of the district, a district may enter into a contract for the lease, sale,...
California Water Code Section 35427
Nothing in this article authorizes the sale of any water right.
California Water Code Section 35428
No right in any water or water right owned by the district shall be acquired by use permitted under this article.
California Water Code Section 35429
The board may grant to the owner or lessee of a right to the use of any water permission to store the water in any...
California Water Code Section 35450
A district may fix and change a date prior to which applications for water for the ensuing irrigation season are to be received for all...
California Water Code Section 35451
The action of a district fixing or changing any date prior to which applications for water are to be received is ineffective until notice of...
California Water Code Section 35452
The cash deposit shall, in the discretion of the board, be forfeited as to each acre not using the water applied for if the district...
California Water Code Section 35453
In the event of water shortage the district may, with respect to the shortage area, give preference to or serve only the land for which...
California Water Code Section 35454
If the available water is inadequate to serve all of the land as to which applications for water are filed pursuant to Section 35450, the...
California Water Code Section 35454.5
In any year in which the board of a district not having meters or other volumetric measuring instruments or facilities to measure substantially all agricultural...
California Water Code Section 35455
Nothing in this article restricts or limits existing powers of a district to control and provide for distribution of water.
California Water Code Section 35470
Any district formed on or after July 30, 1917, may, in lieu in whole or in part of raising money for district purposes by assessment,...
California Water Code Section 35470.1
If the procedures set forth in this article as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the district may, by...
California Water Code Section 35470.5
The district may, by resolution, provide that a penalty not in excess of 10 percent shall be added to water, standby, facility, or other charges...
California Water Code Section 35471
Any funds derived pursuant to Section 35470 in excess of the amount necessary for operating or maintenance expenses and other lawful district purposes shall be...
California Water Code Section 35472
For the purpose of providing funds to pay revenue bonds and interest when due the board shall fix and collect charges for the sale of
California Water Code Section 35473
The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon when due shall be fixed by the board before April 1st of each year.
California Water Code Section 35474
The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon shall be fixed by the board upon a flat rate per acre or connection or on...
California Water Code Section 35475
The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon may include a stand-by or carrying charge notwithstanding the water is not actually used, under such...
California Water Code Section 35476
The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon may be made payable in advance before service of water is made to the land.
California Water Code Section 35477
The collection of charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon shall be continued each year until all revenue bonds, together with interest thereon, are...
California Water Code Section 35478
All revenue bond redemption and interest charges are a first lien on all revenues received from the sale of water unless the district, by a...
California Water Code Section 35479
The district may elect, if it is using the alternative provisions for levy, collection and enforcement of district assessments by the county as provided in...
California Water Code Section 35480
The county assessor and county auditor shall thereafter add to the tax bills for each assessee and assessee parcel as so certified, in addition to...
California Water Code Section 35481
The county tax collector and treasurer shall thereupon collect, receive and disburse to the district the standby charges as collected with the regular tax payments...
California Water Code Section 35482
No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or...
California Water Code Section 35500
A district may acquire, construct, operate, and furnish facilities and services, within or without the district, for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste,...
California Water Code Section 35501
The district may prescribe, revise, and collect rates or other charges for the services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 35502
The district may provide that such rates or other charges may be collected with the water rates of the district and that all rates shall...
California Water Code Section 35503
Upon providing a sewer system in any area of the district, the district may declare the further maintenance or use of cesspools, septic tanks, or...
California Water Code Section 35504
A district may not exercise any of the powers granted a district by this article unless the board first submits to the voters of the...
California Water Code Section 35504.5
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 35504, a district may exercise the powers granted a district by this article after a hearing by the board on...
California Water Code Section 35505
If 75 percent or more of the territory of one or more county sanitation districts is located within the boundaries of a California water district...
California Water Code Section 35506
In order to carry out the powers and purposes granted under this article a district may exercise or use any of the powers or procedures...
California Water Code Section 35507
The powers or procedures referred to in Section 35506 shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: bonds pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 35508
The powers or procedures referred to in Section 35506 shall include all powers or procedures either necessary, useful or desirable to carry out the powers...
California Water Code Section 35509
In the event that the boundaries of any district, which is authorized to exercise the powers granted by this article, are altered pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 35520
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the Lost Hills Water District. The powers provided in this chapter shall be in addition to...
California Water Code Section 35520.1
A district may acquire, construct, operate, and furnish facilities for the control of waters to protect, maintain, and enhance the quality of lands within the...
California Water Code Section 35520.2
If a district determines to exercise the powers granted by this chapter, the district shall prepare and adopt a plan of works and an estimate...
California Water Code Section 35520.3
In order to carry out the powers and purposes granted under this chapter, a district may exercise or use any of the powers or procedures...
California Water Code Section 35520.4
The powers or procedures referred to in Section 35520.3 includes, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Bonds issued pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 35520.5
The powers and procedures referred to in Section 35520.3 shall include all powers or procedures necessary, useful, or desirable to carry out the powers and...
California Water Code Section 35520.6
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the board may determine to issue bonds secured by benefit assessments, in which event the board shall define...
California Water Code Section 35520.7
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,...
California Water Code Section 35520.8
Upon completion of the apportionment of costs, the engineer shall prepare and certify to the board an assessment roll which shall contain all of the...
California Water Code Section 35520.9
When completed, the roll, which shall be accompanied by the written report of the engineer setting out with particularity the exact nature and quantum of...
California Water Code Section 35520.10
The board shall file a copy of the roll and report in its records and forthwith give notice of the filing of the report and...
California Water Code Section 35520.11
If no objections are presented to the board with respect to a particular assessment at the time and place noticed, the secretary shall execute a...
California Water Code Section 35520.12
The board may continue the hearing on objections to assessments from time to time.
California Water Code Section 35520.13
At the hearing, the board shall hear any evidence that may be offered on the correctness of the assessment and may modify, amend, or approve...
California Water Code Section 35520.14
After the hearing of objections, the board shall, by resolution, approve the assessment as finally fixed or modified. A certified copy of the assessment roll...
California Water Code Section 35520.15
When the secretary files the certificate as provided in Section 35520.11 or, if objections are raised, when the board approves the assessment as finally fixed...
California Water Code Section 35520.16
The election required by Section 35520.15 shall be called, noticed, and held in the manner provided for bond elections by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 35520.17
The board may advance general funds of the district to pay all costs and expenses incurred in preparation of the plan of works and estimate...
California Water Code Section 35520.18
If more than one-third of the votes cast are for "Benefit Assessment Bonds - No," the board shall, by resolution, abandon the project, make a...
California Water Code Section 35520.19
If two-thirds or more of the votes are cast for "Benefit Assessment Bonds - Yes," the board shall transmit a certified copy of the roll...
California Water Code Section 35520.20
The assessment roll as approved by the board shall be conclusive evidence before any court or body that the assessment has been made and levied...
California Water Code Section 35520.21
All unpaid assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 12 percent per annum. Interest shall commence to run 30 days after the board has...
California Water Code Section 35520.22
The assessment list shall remain open for payment of any unpaid balance of the assessment thereon at the office of the district tax collector until...
California Water Code Section 35520.23
Payments on assessments made to the district tax collector prior to the adoption of a resolution of the board calling for the sale of bonds...
California Water Code Section 35520.24
Any time after the filing of the assessment roll as provided in Section 35520.19, the board may, by resolution, call for the sale of bonds...
California Water Code Section 35520.25
Collection of assessments levied and called by the board shall be made by the district tax collector.
California Water Code Section 35520.26
Concurrently with the making of the annual estimate to be filed with the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 36552, the board shall designate and...
California Water Code Section 35520.27
The district assessor, upon receipt of the assessment call resolution from the secretary, shall compute the amount to be collected from each parcel of land...
California Water Code Section 35520.28
Assessments called pursuant to this chapter shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as district assessments. When collected, the entire...
California Water Code Section 35520.29
The board shall levy an amendatory assessment in the manner provided for original assessments if any of the following occur: (a) Any land within the...
California Water Code Section 35520.30
When any tract of land upon which any assessment has been levied is subdivided into smaller parcels, the board shall, upon its own motion or...
California Water Code Section 35520.31
The secretary shall file certified copies of any amendatory or reapportioned assessment with the district assessor, the district tax collector, and the district treasurer.
California Water Code Section 35520.32
Upon the inclusion of any land within a drainage service area, an assessment shall be levied upon the land so included. The amount of the...
California Water Code Section 35520.33
When a district has levied an assessment and it appears to the board that the assessment or some part thereof, together with the interest thereon,...
California Water Code Section 35520.34
The board, pursuant to a resolution entered in its minutes, may distribute among the landowners of a drainage service area any funds in the treasury...
California Water Code Section 35520.35
All bonds issued under this chapter shall be payable in lawful money of the United States. Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the board...
California Water Code Section 35520.36
The board may sell the bonds, from time to time, in such quantities as may be necessary and most advantageous to raise money to carry...
California Water Code Section 35520.37
All bonds of the same issue shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date of bonds, date of sale, date...
California Water Code Section 35520.38
For the purpose of the care, operation, management, and improvement of a project or projects, including payment of salaries of officers and employees and all...
California Water Code Section 35520.39
Whenever any tolls or charges for the use of drainage facilities or for other services rendered by the district provided for in this chapter have...
California Water Code Section 35520.40
In case any tolls or charges remain unpaid for a period of 30 days after they become payable, they shall become delinquent and a penalty...
California Water Code Section 35520.41
After any toll or charge becomes delinquent, the board may, by resolution, direct the assessor to add to the assessment of the parcel of land...
California Water Code Section 35520.42
In addition to and as an alternative to all other powers contained in this chapter with respect to provision of funds for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 35520.43
No zone shall be established or varying rates of assessment fixed under Section 35520.42, unless the board, by resolution, declares that it intends to do...
California Water Code Section 35520.44
The board annually, concurrently with the making of the estimate required by Section 36552, shall adopt a resolution setting forth an estimate of the amount...
California Water Code Section 35520.45
The secretary shall deliver certified copies of the resolution levying the assessment pursuant to Section 35520.44, one to the district assessor, one to the district...
California Water Code Section 35520.46
Proceeds from assessments levied pursuant to this chapter may be used to pay any lawful obligation of the district incurred in the care, operation, or...
California Water Code Section 35521
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Hot Spring Valley Irrigation District in the County of Modoc is dissolved, and the Hot Spring Valley...
California Water Code Section 35523
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Vandalia Irrigation District in the County of Tulare is dissolved, and the Vandalia Water District is hereby...
California Water Code Section 35525
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the Kern Delta Water District, the Cawelo Water District, the Rag Gulch Water District, and the...
California Water Code Section 35526
In addition to, and as an alternative to, the matters contained in this division regarding apportionment of water, the district may by resolution adopt a...
California Water Code Section 35527
A plan adopted pursuant to the terms hereof may be changed, supplemented or amended in the same manner provided for the adoption of an original
California Water Code Section 35528
Before adoption of such a plan the board shall make, or cause to be made, a report setting forth the proposed plan.
California Water Code Section 35529
Before adoption of such a plan the board shall pass a resolution declaring the following: (a) The intention of the board to adopt a plan...
California Water Code Section 35530
Notice of such hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention in a newspaper of general circulation published in Kern...
California Water Code Section 35531
At the time and place so fixed, or at any time or place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing...
California Water Code Section 35532
The district may contract with any private utility as defined in Sections 1502 and 1506 of the Public Utilities Code, to waive all or any...
California Water Code Section 35533
The board of directors of the district shall have the power, in addition to, and as an alternative to, the powers enumerated elsewhere in this...
California Water Code Section 35534
In addition to, and as an alternative to, the powers contained in this division, zones may be established within the district for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 35535
No zone shall be established or varying rates of assessments fixed under Section 35534 unless the board by resolution declares that it intends to do...
California Water Code Section 35536
The annual statement of expenses filed pursuant to Section 36552 or 37206, as the case may be, shall, in addition to the matters required by...
California Water Code Section 35537
The board of supervisors in fixing the rate of assessment authorized by Section 35536 pursuant to Section 36608, or in levying such assessment pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 35538
Proceeds from assessments levied pursuant to this chapter may be used to pay any lawful obligation of the district.
California Water Code Section 35539
In addition to, and as an alternative to, the powers contained in this division, the board may by resolution determine and declare that it is...
California Water Code Section 35539.1
The resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which...
California Water Code Section 35539.2
No levy of assessment shall be made pursuant to this article unless the resolution pursuant to the hearing is properly made and entered in the...
California Water Code Section 35539.3
If, after the board adopts the resolution of intent to levy and before 30 days after the resolution pursuant to the hearing, the board receives...
California Water Code Section 35539.4
The resolution pursuant to the hearing, or, when required, the proposition submitted to the qualified voters of the district pursuant to Section 35539.3, shall specify...
California Water Code Section 35540
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the Lost Hills Water District as a member unit of the Kern County Water Agency.
California Water Code Section 35541
(a) As an alternative to, and in addition to, the methods in this division provided for the apportionment of water, the district may adopt a...
California Water Code Section 35542
A plan adopted or approved pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be changed, supplemented, amended, or rescinded in the manner herein provided for...
California Water Code Section 35543
Before adopting such a plan the board shall make or cause to be made a report setting forth the proposed plan.
California Water Code Section 35544
Before adopting such a plan the board shall pass a resolution of intention stating the following: (a) The intention of the board to adopt a...
California Water Code Section 35545
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention provided for in Section 35544 in a newspaper of...
California Water Code Section 35546
At any time, not later than the hour set for hearing on such resolution of intention, any holder of title to land to which delivery...
California Water Code Section 35547
At the time set for hearing protests, the board shall hear and pass upon all protests made as provided for in Section 35546, and its...
California Water Code Section 35548
If a written protest is made pursuant to Section 35546 against the proposed plan and the board finds that the protest represents more than one-half...
California Water Code Section 35549
If a written protest is made pursuant to Section 35546 against the proposed plan and the board finds that the protest represents less than one-half...
California Water Code Section 35550
If no written protest is made pursuant to Section 35546 against the proposed plan or if a written protest is made pursuant to Section 35546...
California Water Code Section 35551
The last equalized assessment book of the district shall be used as a basis for determining the assessed value of lands to which delivery of...
California Water Code Section 35552
If a majority of the votes cast at an election held pursuant to the provisions of Section 35549 is in favor of the proposed plan,...
California Water Code Section 35553
In the event the plan is approved, either according to the provisions of Section 35550 or Section 35552, a certified copy of the board's resolution...
California Water Code Section 35554
An alternative to, and in addition to, other methods contained in this division regarding the apportionment of water, the district may enter into long-term water...
California Water Code Section 35539.10
This chapter applies only to the Irvine Ranch Water District and Santa Margarita Water District. The powers granted in this chapter supplement the existing powers...
California Water Code Section 35539.12
The districts may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and furnish facilities for the diversion of urban runoff from drainage courses within the districts, the treatment of...
California Water Code Section 35539.13
(a) The districts may convey water in a drainage course within the boundaries of each respective district for the purposes of treating and reusing that...
California Water Code Section 35539.14
In order to carry out the powers and purposes granted under this chapter, the districts may exercise any of the powers otherwise granted to a...
California Water Code Section 35539.16
Nothing in this chapter affects any obligation of the districts to obtain a permit that may be required by law for the activities undertaken pursuant...
California Water Code Section 35560
The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the Westside Water District or to any improvement district, distribution district, or zone formed within the...
California Water Code Section 35561
In addition, and as an alternative, to the matters contained in this division regarding distribution and apportionment of water, the district or any improvement district,...
California Water Code Section 35562
In addition, and as an alternative, to the purposes for which the proceeds from water charges may be used, as set forth in Article 4...
California Water Code Section 35565
This chapter applies only to the Borrego Water District.
California Water Code Section 35565.1
The objectives of the district include all of the following: (a) To provide for the control of flood and storm waters of the district and...
California Water Code Section 35565.2
The district may acquire by grant, purchase, lease, gift, devise, contract, or condemnation, real or personal property of any kind, including land, structures, buildings, rights-of-way,...
California Water Code Section 35565.3
The district may conduct technical investigations and prepare analyses, studies, and reports pertaining to water supply, water rights, erosion, control of floods, storm patterns, water...
California Water Code Section 35565.4
(a) For the purpose of providing mosquito abatement and vector control services to the lands and inhabitants of the district, and in addition to the...
California Water Code Section 35565.8
(a) The district has the authority granted to a water replenishment district by Sections 60224, 60225, and 60226. (b) The authority granted to this district...
California Water Code Section 35570
A district may, by using any water or water supplies furnished to the district or used by the district, construct, maintain, and operate plants for...
California Water Code Section 35571
A district may join with any other district engaged in distributing water in exercising the powers set forth in this chapter, or may execute joint...
California Water Code Section 35572
The hydroelectric plant and transmission lines constructed pursuant to this chapter may be leased for operation to, or the power generated may be sold to,...
California Water Code Section 35573
The powers granted by this chapter shall not include, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit, the acquisition of property or facilities...
California Water Code Section 35600
A district may, within or without the district in the State, acquire by purchase, condemnation, or other legal means all property or rights in property...
California Water Code Section 35601
The right is hereby granted to locate, construct, and maintain works of a district on any land owned by the State.
California Water Code Section 35602
There is given, dedicated, and set apart for the uses and purposes of each district all water and water rights belonging to the State within...
California Water Code Section 35603
A district may construct any works along, under, or across any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, railway, canal, ditch, or flume which the...
California Water Code Section 35604
A district may for a valuable consideration lease, sell, or contract for the sale of any property of the district whenever it may be necessary,...
California Water Code Section 35627
If the district and the owners and controllers of any property or franchise to be crossed by works of a district cannot agree with the...
California Water Code Section 35628
A district shall not exercise the right of eminent domain under this article for the condemnation of property outside the boundaries of the principal county...
California Water Code Section 35752
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 35850
A district may for a valuable consideration enter into any contract with any irrigation or drainage district formed under the laws of the State as...
California Water Code Section 35850.5
A district shall have power to join with one or more public agencies, private corporations or other persons for the purpose of carrying out any...
California Water Code Section 35851
A district may for a valuable consideration enter into any contract with the United States, the State, or any department or agency of either, or...
California Water Code Section 35852
Any contract entered into pursuant to this chapter may provide: (a) That the land shall be included in any irrigation, drainage, or reclamation project operated...
California Water Code Section 35853
Any contract entered into pursuant to this article may provide for the sale and conveyance to the United States, the State, any reclamation or irrigation...
California Water Code Section 35855
An action to determine the validity of any contract may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part...
California Water Code Section 35875
Districts may cooperate and contract with the United States, under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary...
California Water Code Section 35876
The cooperation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition, extension, or operation of works for irrigation or drainage...
California Water Code Section 35877
Districts may carry out and perform the terms of any contract so made.
California Water Code Section 35878
To carry out the preceding sections of this article a district has all powers, rights, and privileges possessed by irrigation districts and may exercise those...
California Water Code Section 35879
If any provision of the Irrigation District Federal Cooperation Law is held unconstitutional, that decision shall not affect the validity of the adoption by reference...
California Water Code Section 35880
In any contract made between a district and the United States pursuant to this chapter, the land which may be charged with any taxes or...
California Water Code Section 35881
A proposal to enter into a contract with the United States for any purpose other than obtaining a water supply shall be authorized at an
California Water Code Section 35882
Proceedings at the election shall be had insofar as applicable in the manner provided in the case of issuance of general obligation bonds.
California Water Code Section 35883
Notice of the election shall specify: a. The time and place of the election. b. The purpose of the election. c. A brief statement of...
California Water Code Section 35884
The ballots at the election shall contain a brief statement of the general purpose of the contract substantially as stated in the notice of election...
California Water Code Section 35886
The board may execute the contract on behalf of the district if two-thirds of the votes cast at the election favor the contract.
California Water Code Section 35900
The treasurer shall receive to the credit of the district and in trust for its use and benefit all the money belonging to the district.
California Water Code Section 35901
All money belonging to the district, or to which the district is entitled, shall, when received, be paid by the person receiving it to the
California Water Code Section 35902
The treasurer shall establish for the district a general obligation bond fund and a general fund and shall apportion the district money to the funds...
California Water Code Section 35903
The money placed in the general obligation bond fund shall be used for the payment of bonds and of the interest thereon and until the...
California Water Code Section 35903.5
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 35903, any amount in the general obligation bond fund in excess of the amount needed to pay principal and...
California Water Code Section 35904
Any money belonging to a district may be deposited by the treasurer pursuant to the general laws governing the deposit of public money.
California Water Code Section 35905
Where the deposit of money is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation no additional security need be required from the bank for the portion...
California Water Code Section 35906
Except for the payment of bonds and the interest thereon district money shall not be paid out by the treasurer unless a warrant therefor has...
California Water Code Section 35907
Warrants are contracts in writing for the payment of money and an action based on warrants payable on demand shall be commenced within four years...
California Water Code Section 35908
In any proceeding for a writ of mandate to compel the board to issue a warrant, the court shall proceed as in other civil actions...
California Water Code Section 35909
The board of directors may provide for a bond reserve fund for the purpose of payment of the principal of or interest on bonds of...
California Water Code Section 35910
All or any portion of a bond reserve fund may be established out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds. In such case...
California Water Code Section 35911
The resolution providing for the issuance of bonds may provide for a bond reserve fund to be established, in whole or in part, from water...
California Water Code Section 35912
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Irvine Ranch Water District may invest or reinvest its capital facilities replacement funds in real estate and interests...
California Water Code Section 35950
The board shall, as soon after the formation of the district as is practicable, prepare and adopt a plan of works and estimate the amount...
California Water Code Section 35950.1
After the board has adopted a plan of works it may thereafter by resolution change or supplement the plan if it determines that the works...
California Water Code Section 35950.2
If the board determines to adopt a plan of works, or that it is necessary to change or supplement a plan of works previously adopted...
California Water Code Section 35950.3
Notice of said hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution provided for in Section 35950.2 in a newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 35950.4
At the time and place so fixed or at any time or place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing...
California Water Code Section 35950.5
If the issuance of bonds has been authorized previously by the district or by the district for an improvement district and the change or supplement...
California Water Code Section 35950.7
Any bonds authorized to accomplish the amended plan of the district or improvement district shall be issued and sold in the same manner and upon...
California Water Code Section 35951
Bonds may be issued for the purposes of acquiring or constructing works for irrigation, domestic, municipal, and industrial water supply, acquiring the necessary property for...
California Water Code Section 35953
When the treasurer receives the bonds from the board, he shall place them to the credit of the district and keep a record of the...
California Water Code Section 35954
A district may, when necessary or proper, issue additional bonds in the same manner as provided for the original issue for any one or more...
California Water Code Section 35975
Unless otherwise provided in the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds, they and the interest on them shall be paid from an annual assessment...
California Water Code Section 35995
The board shall provide ways and means for the sale of bonds.
California Water Code Section 35996
(a) The bonds, or any part thereof, may be issued and sold as the board determines. (b) Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof,...
California Water Code Section 35997
Except as otherwise provided in Section 36170, a district shall not sell or exchange any of its bonds for less than par value plus the...
California Water Code Section 35998
When any bonds are sold by the district, the treasurer shall deliver the bonds purchased to the purchaser upon receiving the purchase price of said...
California Water Code Section 35998.1
The accrued interest and premium, if any, shall be placed in the general obligation bond fund. The purchase price of said bonds shall be placed...
California Water Code Section 36050
An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
California Water Code Section 36060
This article applies only to the Irvine Ranch, Moulton-Niguel, Rancho California, and Santa Margarita Water Districts. "District" as used in this article means the Irvine...
California Water Code Section 36061
A district may, when necessary or proper, issue additional bonds in the same manner as provided for the original issue for any one or more...
California Water Code Section 36062
A district may bring an action pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil...
California Water Code Section 36063
(a) Whenever the board of directors determines that prudent management of the fiscal affairs of the district so requires, it may refund by defeasing or...
California Water Code Section 36063.5
(a) The following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of this section: (1) "Bond counsel" means any attorney or firm of attorneys that...
California Water Code Section 36064
Bonds may be refunded by defeasance or call for redemption, subject to all of the following requirements: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 53557 and 53585 of the...
California Water Code Section 36150
If a general obligation bond issue is contemplated, there shall be included in the estimate required by Section 35950 every expense of the district that...
California Water Code Section 36153
In addition to any and all other provisions of this division and any other applicable laws for the issuance of general obligation bonds by a...
California Water Code Section 36170
The board may order general obligation bonds sold at not less than 90 percent of par value when the board deems it for the best...
California Water Code Section 36171
General obligation bonds may be exchanged dollar for dollar for bonds of the State.
California Water Code Section 36172
Bonds of the State that may be received for general obligation bonds shall be placed to the credit of the district to be sold as...
California Water Code Section 36190
General obligation bonds shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 36191
General obligation bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 36192
Each issue or series of an issue of general obligation bonds shall be numbered consecutively, and the bonds of each issue or series of an...
California Water Code Section 36193
General obligation bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 36194
General obligation bonds shall be of such denomination or denominations as the board may prescribe.
California Water Code Section 36195
General obligation bonds shall be payable at such time or times and place or places as may be designated by the board, but in no...
California Water Code Section 36196
Each general obligation bond shall be made payable at a given time for its full face value and not for a percentage thereof.
California Water Code Section 36197
A general obligation bond shall be payable when due upon presentation and surrender thereof to the treasurer by the holder.
California Water Code Section 36198
General obligation bonds shall bear interest at a rate not in excess of 8 percent per annum payable annually or semiannually as may be prescribed...
California Water Code Section 36199
The interest on general obligation bonds shall be payable at such place or places as may be prescribed by the board upon the presentation and...
California Water Code Section 36200
The interest coupons shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 36201
Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds, numbered the same as the bonds, and signed by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 36202
All the signatures on the bond or coupons may be printed, lithographed or otherwise mechanically reproduced, except that one of the signatures on the bond...
California Water Code Section 36210
Whenever a district has any of its unsold general obligation bonds which it is not necessary to sell for the purpose of raising funds, the...
California Water Code Section 36211
The notice of the election at which general obligation bonds are proposed to be destroyed shall specify, in addition to the requirements provided in Section...
California Water Code Section 36212
If at the time the vote cast at the election is canvassed a two-thirds majority of the votes cast upon the proposition favors the destruction...
California Water Code Section 36213
The amount of the general obligation bonds destroyed shall be deducted from the total amount authorized to be issued and no part of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 36213.1
If the unsold general obligation bonds shall not have been printed, the election provided for in this article shall be called and held to determine...
California Water Code Section 36214
Whenever the funds of the district are in excess of the amount necessary to complete the construction of the irrigation works or to acquire the...
California Water Code Section 36215
The provisions of Sections 36303, 36304, 36305 and 36348 shall also be applicable to general obligation bonds.
California Water Code Section 36250
The provisions of this chapter are in addition to any and all other provisions of this division, the California Water District Law, and any other...
California Water Code Section 36251
In the event the board determines to provide for the issuance of general obligation bonds under the provisions of this chapter, it shall prepare and...
California Water Code Section 36252
Bonds may be issued for the purposes of acquiring or constructing works for irrigation, domestic, municipal and industrial water supply and to furnish facilities and...
California Water Code Section 36253
Subsequent to the receipt of the plan of works provided for in Section 36251, the board may approve or modify the proposed plan of works,...
California Water Code Section 36254
Notice of such hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution provided for in Section 36253 in a newspaper of general circulation,...
California Water Code Section 36255
At any time not later than the hour set for hearing objections to the proposed plan of works and the issuance of general obligation bonds...
California Water Code Section 36256
At the time set for hearing protests, the board shall hear and pass upon all protests made as provided for in Section 36254 and its...
California Water Code Section 36257
If a majority written protest is made pursuant to Section 36255 against the plan of works, the proposed issuance of general obligation bonds therefor or...
California Water Code Section 36258
The last equalized assessment roll shall be used as a basis for determining whether or not a majority written protest has been made. The board...
California Water Code Section 36259
If at the conclusion of the hearing the board determines that all of the lands included within the district and the boundaries of the improvement...
California Water Code Section 36260
Bonds issued hereunder and interest which accrues thereon shall be paid in a manner identical to bonds issued on behalf of a district or improvement...
California Water Code Section 36261
The Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931 shall not apply to any proceedings under this chapter.
California Water Code Section 36262
The board may, without a vote of the electors, or without a further hearing, provide for the issuance of, and issue, general obligation bonds of...
California Water Code Section 36300
If a revenue bond issue is contemplated, there shall be included in the estimate required by Section 35950 every expense of the district that it...
California Water Code Section 36301
Revenue bonds shall be issued in the name of the district and shall be obligations of the district, limited, however, to the payment or redemption...
California Water Code Section 36302
Revenue bonds are not a general debt, liability, or obligation of the district.
California Water Code Section 36303
The board may, in the resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds, provide that the bonds or any part thereof shall be subject to call...
California Water Code Section 36304
Revenue bonds issued subject to call and redemption prior to maturity shall contain a recital to that effect on the face of the revenue bonds,...
California Water Code Section 36305
The board in its resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds shall fix the method of giving notice of redemption to the holders of revenue...
California Water Code Section 36320
The payment of both principal and interest of revenue bonds shall be secured only by the revenues pledged therefor.
California Water Code Section 36321
No holder of any revenue bond may ever compel any exercise of the taxing power to pay the bond, interest thereon, or any part of
California Water Code Section 36322
All revenue bonds of the same issue shall, subject to the prior and superior rights of outstanding bonds, claims, or obligations, and notwithstanding anything to...
California Water Code Section 36323
All revenue bonds of the same issue shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date of bonds, of sale, of...
California Water Code Section 36340
Revenue bonds and interest coupons attached thereto shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 36341
The face of each revenue bond shall state: (a) That the payment or redemption of the bond and the payment of the interest thereon is...
California Water Code Section 36342
Revenue bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 36343
Each issue of revenue bonds shall be numbered consecutively and the bonds of each issue shall be numbered consecutively from lower to higher as they...
California Water Code Section 36344
The date appearing upon the face of a revenue bond shall be deemed to be the date of issuance irrespective of the subsequent delivery of...
California Water Code Section 36345
Revenue bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretary, and interest coupons appertaining thereto shall be signed by the secretary.
California Water Code Section 36346
All the signatures on the bond or coupons may be printed, lithographed, engraved, or otherwise mechanically reproduced, except that one of the signatures shall be...
California Water Code Section 36347
The seal of the district may be affixed to the revenue bonds by mechanical reproduction thereof.
California Water Code Section 36348
If any officer whose signature appears on any revenue bond or coupon ceases to be such officer of the district before the delivery of the...
California Water Code Section 36349
Revenue bonds shall be of such denomination or denominations as the board may prescribe.
California Water Code Section 36350
Revenue bonds shall be payable at such time and place as may be designated by the board, but in no case shall the maturity of...
California Water Code Section 36351
Every revenue bond shall be payable at a given time for its entire amount and not for a percentage thereof.
California Water Code Section 36352
Revenue bonds shall bear interest at a rate not in excess of 8 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually as may be prescribed by...
California Water Code Section 36360
Bondholders owning or holding 25 percent or more of any outstanding and unpaid issue of revenue bonds may, when payments of principal or interest, or...
California Water Code Section 36361
The complaint shall: (a) Name the district as a defendant. (b) State that on the date therein named bond principal payments, interest thereon, or both,...
California Water Code Section 36362
The summons in the proceeding shall be served by publishing a copy thereof once a week for four weeks in a newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 36363
Within 30 days after publication of the summons has been completed and proof filed with the court any person may appear and answer the complaint.
California Water Code Section 36364
On the expiration of 60 days after the publication of summons has been completed and proof filed with the court, after proof to the court...
California Water Code Section 36365
The jurisdiction of the court over the affairs of the district shall continue until the default for which the receiver was appointed has been discharged.
California Water Code Section 36366
A receiver has no power to dispose of any part of the property of the district except in the ordinary course of business. The authority...
California Water Code Section 36367
No court has jurisdiction to enter any order or decree requiring or permitting a receiver to sell, assign, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber...
California Water Code Section 36368
Whenever all that is due upon all obligations and interest thereon which are a charge, lien, or encumbrance on the revenues of the district has...
California Water Code Section 36380
A district whose facilities are for delivery primarily of agricultural water supplies and wherein at least 51 percent of the assessable acreage is zoned and...
California Water Code Section 36381
Revenue warrants shall be secured by all or part of the revenues received by the district from charges fixed pursuant to Section 35470 or from...
California Water Code Section 36382
Revenue warrants shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually or in part annually and...
California Water Code Section 36383
Revenue warrants shall mature at such time or times as the board may prescribe, but not more than 10 years from the date of issuance.
California Water Code Section 36384
Revenue warrants may be made subject to redemption prior to their fixed maturity date upon such terms, conditions and notice, and at such times and...
California Water Code Section 36385
Revenue warrants may be sold at either public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the board may determine. Such warrants may be...
California Water Code Section 36386
No revenue warrants shall be issued or sold until their issuance has been authorized by resolution of the board adopted by a four-fifths vote.
California Water Code Section 36386.1
If, after the board adopts the resolution to issue the revenue warrants and before 30 days thereafter, the board receives a petition containing the signatures...
California Water Code Section 36387
The board may determine the form and denomination of revenue warrants, the manner of their execution, their registration and exchange privileges and the place or...
California Water Code Section 36388
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for special funds for the deposit and application of the proceeds of...
California Water Code Section 36389
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may covenant to operate and maintain the facilities producing the revenues pledged for the...
California Water Code Section 36390
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for paying the interest on the revenue warrants for a period of...
California Water Code Section 36391
Except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, the holder of any revenue warrant may by mandamus, or other appropriate...
California Water Code Section 36392
Revenue warrants shall not be issued under this chapter by any district in any one fiscal year in excess of four million dollars ($4,000,000).
California Water Code Section 36393
The provisions of this chapter shall constitute an addition to all other power of a district to borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue warrants in...
California Water Code Section 36400
A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness as provided in this chapter by action of the board and without the necessity of calling and...
California Water Code Section 36401
Indebtedness may be incurred pursuant to this chapter for any purpose for which the district is authorized to expend funds, including provisions for the payment...
California Water Code Section 36402
Indebtedness incurred under this chapter shall be evidenced by warrants or negotiable notes of the district payable at stated times fixed by the board and...
California Water Code Section 36402.1
Except as provided in Section 36407.1, no warrants or negotiable notes issued pursuant to this chapter shall be valid unless their issuance is authorized by...
California Water Code Section 36402.2
Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided...
California Water Code Section 36402.3
The proceeds of such warrants or negotiable notes may be used and applied to the purchase or redemption of any outstanding warrants or negotiable notes...
California Water Code Section 36403
Such warrants shall be issued in the name of the district after the adoption, by a four-fifths vote of all the members of the board,...
California Water Code Section 36404
The board may, in its resolution authorizing the issuance of such warrants, provide that the warrants shall be subject to call and redemption prior to...
California Water Code Section 36405
Coupons payable to bearer shall be in a form and signed as prescribed by the board and may be attached to warrants issued under this...
California Water Code Section 36406
Warrants or negotiable notes issued under this chapter shall be offered for public sale upon notice inviting sealed bids therefor. Such notice shall be given...
California Water Code Section 36407
Warrants or negotiable notes issued under this chapter and authorized by the voters pursuant to Section 36402.1 shall constitute general obligations of the district for...
California Water Code Section 36407.1
Warrants or negotiable notes payable in five years or less from the date of issuance may be issued under this section without the approval of...
California Water Code Section 36408.4
Warrants or negotiable notes payable at a future date or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of...
California Water Code Section 36408.5
Any warrant or negotiable notes authorized in the preceding section shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 36408.6
Warrants or negotiable notes of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first...
California Water Code Section 36408.7
A district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of, but not in excess of the principal amount of, authorized bonds of the district...
California Water Code Section 36408.8
A district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of, but not in excess of the principal amount of, authorized bonds of an improvement...
California Water Code Section 36409
The provisions of this chapter shall constitute an addition to all other power of the district to borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue warrants or...
California Water Code Section 36410
This chapter provides an alternative method for the formation of improvement districts consisting of a portion of the territory within a district and the issuance...
California Water Code Section 36411
Improvement districts consisting of contiguous or noncontiguous portions of the territory of a district may be formed within a district and bonds and warrants of...
California Water Code Section 36412
Bonds and warrants of a district for an improvement district may be issued for any purpose for which bonds and warrants of the district may...
California Water Code Section 36413
Whenever the board is of the opinion that an improvement district should be formed, the board of directors shall adopt a resolution of intention which...
California Water Code Section 36414
Notice of said hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention in a newspaper of general circulation published in each...
California Water Code Section 36415
At the time and place so fixed, or at any time or place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing...
California Water Code Section 36416
At the hearing the board may adopt a resolution proposing modifications relating to any or all of the following: (a) a modification of the boundaries...
California Water Code Section 36417
The board shall not order any modifications except after publication of the resolution proposing said modifications once in the same newspaper in which the resolution...
California Water Code Section 36418
The hearing on any proposed modifications, or any continuance thereof, may be held at the same time and place as any continued hearing on the...
California Water Code Section 36419
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention and of the hearing, if any, upon proposed modifications, the board may by resolution...
California Water Code Section 36420
(a) After adopting the resolution ordering the improvement district formed, the board may provide for and call a special bond election within such improvement district...
California Water Code Section 36421
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, special bond elections within an improvement district shall be called, noticed, held, conducted and the results thereof canvassed...
California Water Code Section 36423
Bonds of said district for said improvement district shall be issued and sold in substantially the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions...
California Water Code Section 36424
Except to the extent that provision has otherwise been made by the board, as may be permitted by law, for the payment of the principal...
California Water Code Section 36424.1
(a) This section applies only to the Santa Margarita Water District. (b) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) In 1978, the...
California Water Code Section 36425
In addition to the charges authorized to be fixed and collected pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 35470) of Chapter 2 of Part 5...
California Water Code Section 36426
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this division applicable to bonds and warrants of the district and assessments therefor shall, so...
California Water Code Section 36427
If general obligation bonds of the district for an improvement district thereof shall have been issued, the treasurer shall establish within the general obligation bond...
California Water Code Section 36428
After the formation of an improvement district additional lands contiguous or noncontiguous thereto may be included therein upon such terms and conditions as may be...
California Water Code Section 36429
At the time and place fixed or at any time and place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing provided...
California Water Code Section 36430
At the hearing the board may adopt a resolution proposing modifications relating to any or all of the following: (a) Modification of the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 36431
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention and of the hearing, if any, upon proposed modifications the board may by resolution...
California Water Code Section 36432
As an alternative procedure for the annexation of land to an improvement district, additional lands may be included within any improvement district by resolution of...
California Water Code Section 36433
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish an approved plan of works of an improvement district.
California Water Code Section 36434
The board shall repay the district for any advance of funds with any money received which is authorized by law to be used for such...
California Water Code Section 36435
After adopting the resolution ordering the improvement district formed, the board may provide for the issuance of warrants of the district for the improvement district...
California Water Code Section 36436
Warrants of said district for said improvement district shall be issued and sold in substantially the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions...
California Water Code Section 36437
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this division applicable to warrants of the district and assessments therefor shall, so far as...
California Water Code Section 36438
Pursuant to the procedure hereinafter set forth in this chapter, two or more existing coterminous improvement districts formed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 36439
In the event that the board determines it to be in the best interests of the district to consolidate any two or more existing coterminous...
California Water Code Section 36440
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention provided for in Section 36439, the board may adopt a resolution declaring the existing...
California Water Code Section 36441
The provisions of Sections 36438 to 36440, inclusive, are in the alternative to and shall not affect any existing provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 36442
After the formation of an improvement district, lands may be detached therefrom upon any terms and conditions as may be fixed by the board. If...
California Water Code Section 36443
At the time and place fixed, or at any time and place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing provided...
California Water Code Section 36444
At the hearing, the board may adopt a resolution proposing modifications relating to any or all of the following: (a) Modification of the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 36445
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention and of the hearing, if any, upon proposed modifications, the board may by resolution...
California Water Code Section 36446
As an alternative procedure for the detachment of land from an improvement district, lands may be detached from any improvement district by resolution of the...
California Water Code Section 36447
This chapter shall apply to the Irvine Ranch Water District, the Santa Margarita Water District, and the Moulton-Niguel Water District. As used in this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 36447.1
Bonds for two or more improvement districts of the district may be issued and sold as consolidated bonds of the district in substantially the same...
California Water Code Section 36447.2
The provisions of Chapters 2 (commencing with Section 35950) and 3 (commencing with Section 36150) shall apply to the consolidated bonds to the extent they...
California Water Code Section 36447.3
It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to preserve the status of the improvement districts' bonds which have been consolidated, so...
California Water Code Section 36447.4
Before adopting a resolution approving the issuance of any consolidated bonds pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 36150), the board shall...
California Water Code Section 36447.5
At the time and place so fixed or at any time or place to which the hearing is continued, the board shall hold the hearing...
California Water Code Section 36447.6
If the board finds that protests against the proposed issuance of any consolidated bonds are signed by the owners of more than one-half of the...
California Water Code Section 36447.7
At the conclusion of the hearing, in the absence of a majority protest pursuant to Section 36447.6, the board shall adopt a resolution making the...
California Water Code Section 36447.9
The board may, if it determines that to do so would produce a lower interest cost on the bonds, sell bonds at private sale without...
California Water Code Section 36447.10
The board may provide for the bonds to bear a variable interest rate, for the manner and intervals in which the rate shall vary, and...
California Water Code Section 36447.11
Refunding bonds issued under Article 6 (commencing with Section 36060) of Chapter 2 may be issued in the manner set forth in this chapter regardless...
California Water Code Section 36447.12
In lieu of refunding outstanding bonds by defeasing or calling for redemption, the board may also refund under Article 6 (commencing with Section 36060) of...
California Water Code Section 36447.14
All acts and proceedings taken prior to the effective date of this chapter, which would be in accordance with this chapter if taken after the...
California Water Code Section 36447.15
(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 36447, this section applies only to the Irvine Ranch Water District and the Santa Margarita Water District. (2) As used in...
California Water Code Section 36450
Improvement districts may be formed in districts in the same manner as improvement districts are formed in irrigation districts. When formed, such improvement districts shall...
California Water Code Section 36451
The board of directors of a district shall have the same rights, powers, duties and responsibilities with respect to the formation and government of improvement...
California Water Code Section 36452
The board shall also have, in addition to its other powers, the same powers with respect to improvement districts in districts as the board of...
California Water Code Section 36453
Assessments in an improvement district in a district shall be levied, collected and enforced at the same time and in as nearly the same manner...
California Water Code Section 36454
This chapter provides an alternative method for the consolidation of coterminous improvement districts formed pursuant to Chapter 4.9 (commencing with Section 36410) of this part....
California Water Code Section 36454.1
Pursuant to the procedure set forth in this chapter, two or more existing coterminous improvement districts formed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4.9 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 36454.2
For purposes of Section 2270 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, bonds authorized by any of the coterminous improvement districts which remain outstanding or unissued...
California Water Code Section 36454.3
In the event that the board determines it to be in the best interests of the district to consolidate any two or more existing coterminous...
California Water Code Section 36454.4
At the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention provided for in Section 36454.3, the board may adopt a resolution declaring the existing...
California Water Code Section 36455
Whenever, in the opinion of the board, the public interest or convenience may require, the board may order the acquisition or construction in, under, or...
California Water Code Section 36455.1
The work or improvement shall be done and the cost thereof assessed and collected in accordance with the procedures of the Improvement Act of 1911...
California Water Code Section 36455.2
Such acts or any of them may be used in the discretion of the board of directors in the construction of any work to be...
California Water Code Section 36455.3
As additional notice a certified copy of any assessment and the diagram attached thereto issued under any of said acts shall be recorded in the...
California Water Code Section 36455.4
A district may enter into an agreement with any municipality within the district whereby any work or improvement constructed pursuant to the provisions of this...
California Water Code Section 36456
As used in the laws referred to in this chapter the terms therefrom set forth in this article refer for the purposes of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 36456.1
"City" refers to the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.2
"City council" or "legislative body" refers to the board of directors of the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.3
"Mayor" refers to the president of the board of directors of the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.4
"Clerk" refers to the secretary of the board of directors of the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.5
"Council chambers" refers to the place designated by the board of directors of the water district for holding its regular meetings.
California Water Code Section 36456.6
"Treasurer" refers to the treasurer of the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.7
"Superintendent of streets" or "street superintendent" and "city engineer" refer to the engineer of the water district.
California Water Code Section 36456.8
"Right-of-way" refers to any parcel of land through which a right-of-way has been granted to the water district for any purpose.
California Water Code Section 36456.9
All words relating to municipal officers and matters refer to the corresponding officers of water districts and matters under this division.
California Water Code Section 36457
The board may appoint officers other than the engineer, without compensation, as the officer to perform any or all of the duties conferred upon the...
California Water Code Section 36457.1
The board may appoint an engineer of work, in which event the duties to be performed by the city engineer as set forth in any...
California Water Code Section 36457.2
The board may provide that the work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer of work, that the materials...
California Water Code Section 36457.3
The contract shall be entered into by the engineer, and the assessment and warrant, when confirmed, shall be recorded in the office of the engineer.
California Water Code Section 36458
Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter for facilities for delivery primarily of agricultural water supplies, in accordance with the provisions of any of the improvement...
California Water Code Section 36458.1
In determining the amount of the assessments to be levied and bonds to be issued pursuant to this chapter, the board of directors may include...
California Water Code Section 36460
Land within a water district, which need not be contiguous, may be formed into a distribution district for the purpose of contracting with the United...
California Water Code Section 36461
As used in this part, "federal reclamation law" shall mean the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stats. 388), and all acts amendatory...
California Water Code Section 36462
The formation of a distribution district may be proposed and the petition therefor shall be signed by two-thirds or more in number of the holders...
California Water Code Section 36463
A petition for the formation of a distribution district shall contain all of the following: (a) Statement of the plans of the proposed distribution system....
California Water Code Section 36464
The petition, all proceedings in reference to it, the distribution district, and the land in it shall be designated by a number.
California Water Code Section 36465
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
California Water Code Section 36466
A petition to form a distribution district shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the district and may be inspected by all...
California Water Code Section 36470
Upon receipt of a petition to form a distribution district the board shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed distribution system.
California Water Code Section 36471
If the survey shows that the improvements are feasible, the board shall cause to be prepared the following: (a) Plans and specifications of the proposed...
California Water Code Section 36472
The plans and specifications, estimate of cost and the statement of the proposed assessment shall be filed with the secretary in the office of the...
California Water Code Section 36480
After the filing of the formation petition, the plans and specifications, the estimate of cost and statement of the proposed assessment, the board shall give...
California Water Code Section 36481
Notice of the hearing shall be given by all of the following: (a) Posting a notice in three public places within the proposed distribution district....
California Water Code Section 36482
At the hearing the board shall hear any objections coming before it to any of the following: (a) The petition. (b) The formation of the...
California Water Code Section 36483
At the hearing the board shall make any changes in reference to matters set forth in Section 36482 as it considers proper. The board may...
California Water Code Section 36484
If any additional land is included within the proposed distribution district, the hearing shall be continued and the owners of the added land given personal...
California Water Code Section 36490
Regardless of any findings made by the board, if more than one-third in number of the holders of title to land within the proposed distribution...
California Water Code Section 36491
If at the hearing the board finds that it would not be for the best interests of the district to form the distribution district, the...
California Water Code Section 36492
If the board finds that it would be for the best interests of the district and the proposed distribution district to form the distribution district,...
California Water Code Section 36493
Assessments levied for the purpose of meeting obligations accruing under a contract with the United States pursuant to the reclamation laws or under a contract...
California Water Code Section 36494
The secretary shall cause a certified copy of the order creating the distribution district to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in...
California Water Code Section 36495
The assessment, and each installment of it, shall be and remain a lien on the land in the distribution district in the same manner as,...
California Water Code Section 36496
All lands of the distribution district shall remain jointly liable for all obligations accruing to the United States or accruing to the district under any...
California Water Code Section 36497
Upon a change or resubdivision upon the assessment book of the district of any parcel of land in a distribution district, the board upon its...
California Water Code Section 36498
If the actual amount to be paid by the distribution district to the United States or to the district under the contract to be executed...
California Water Code Section 36499
Installments of assessments levied on district owned land becoming due while the land is still owned by the district shall be paid by the district....
California Water Code Section 36500
If at any time it is desired to include additional land in a distribution district, a petition for inclusion signed by the owners of the...
California Water Code Section 36501
The inclusion petition shall describe the land in the distribution district as enlarged by the proposed inclusions and give the names and addresses of the...
California Water Code Section 36502
The same proceedings shall be had on the distribution district inclusion petition as upon the original petition for the formation of a distribution district.
California Water Code Section 36510
At any time before a district has incurred any indebtedness or obligation, or after all indebtedness and obligations have been discharged, two-thirds or more in...
California Water Code Section 36511
The secretary of the district, upon the filing of the petition, shall examine it and if, in his opinion, the petition has been signed by...
California Water Code Section 36512
The secretary of the board shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing to be posted for a period of two weeks next...
California Water Code Section 36513
At the time and place of the hearing, anyone interested in the petition for exclusion may appear before the board of the district and urge...
California Water Code Section 36514
All expenses incurred in connection with a petition to exclude lands from a distribution district shall be paid by the petitioners.
California Water Code Section 36520
In a district containing a distribution district the board and all of the officers of the district each respectively has all of the rights, powers...
California Water Code Section 36521
The board may also hold or dispose of property used or acquired in connection with the distribution district in the name of the directors and...
California Water Code Section 36522
The board of the district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying assessments for repayment of construction costs under a contract with...
California Water Code Section 36523
The board of the district may provide for any maintenance and operation of the distribution system of a distribution district that may be required by...
California Water Code Section 36524
The board of the district may provide for any maintenance and operation of the distribution system of a distribution district that may be required by...
California Water Code Section 36525
A district may issue distribution district warrants signed by its president and secretary from receipts of distribution district assessments and charges in such amounts and...
California Water Code Section 36530
All acts, proceedings, conclusions, and findings of fact, including the levy of assessments or charges, by a board of a district concerning a distribution district...
California Water Code Section 36531
An action to determine the validity of an assessment may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part...
California Water Code Section 36540
At any time prior to incurring any indebtedness or obligation, or upon the full payment of all indebtedness or obligations of a distribution district a...
California Water Code Section 36541
A hearing on dissolution shall be had in the same manner and after the same notice as is required for the formation of a distribution
California Water Code Section 36542
The board may, after the hearing, order the distribution district dissolved.
California Water Code Section 36543
The order of dissolution shall be recorded in the same manner as the order forming the distribution district.
California Water Code Section 36550
As used in this part "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 36551
As used in this part "bond" means a general obligation bond.
California Water Code Section 36552
Between the date on which the district was formed and 90 days thereafter, and between those dates annually thereafter, the board shall file with the...
California Water Code Section 36553
The annual estimate shall specify the portion thereof which will be required for the payment of bonds and of the interest on bonds.
California Water Code Section 36554
The annual estimate may include an amount to be determined by the board but not to exceed 1 percent of the total assessed value of...
California Water Code Section 36555
The board shall deduct from the annual estimate the amount it anticipates will be derived from sales of water by the district and be available...
California Water Code Section 36556
If, at the time any annual estimate is required to be filed, the board anticipates that the receipts from all sources will be sufficient and...
California Water Code Section 36557
Immediately upon the formation of the district the board may levy and collect the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) per acre for each acre of...
California Water Code Section 36558
The board may from time to time by resolution provide for a district fiscal year to commence and end at the dates specified in such
California Water Code Section 36559
If a fiscal year is adopted pursuant to Section 36558, in lieu of submitting the annual estimate at the time set forth in Section 36552,...
California Water Code Section 36560
Assessments that are imposed pursuant to this part and Part 7.5 (commencing with Section 37200) to pay the principal of, and interest on, general obligation...
California Water Code Section 36570
Between the date on which the district was formed and 90 days thereafter, and between those dates in each succeeding year, the assessor shall assess...
California Water Code Section 36571
All of the land shall be assessed at its full cash value.
California Water Code Section 36572
The assessor shall, within the time for assessing the land, file with the clerk of the board of supervisors an assessment book with appropriate headings...
California Water Code Section 36573
The assessment book shall contain: (a) The name of the holder of title to the land if known, and if unknown, that fact shall be...
California Water Code Section 36574
If the district is contained in more than one county the assessment book shall be prepared with a separate part in a separate volume for...
California Water Code Section 36575
In lieu of assessing the land, as aforesaid, the board may direct the assessor to, and the assessor shall thereupon adopt as the cash value...
California Water Code Section 36576
Notwithstanding Section 36571, until such time as a district which has not theretofore delivered water for any purpose puts into operation facilities for the delivery...
California Water Code Section 36577
In lieu of assessing all land pursuant to its cash value as set forth in Section 36571 or the county assessed value pursuant to Section...
California Water Code Section 36578
If the board elects to have land within the district valued pursuant to Section 36577, the following procedures shall apply: (a) Prior to its adoption...
California Water Code Section 36579
If the board elects to have land within the district valued pursuant to Sections 36577 and 36578, the board may also provide for more than...
California Water Code Section 36590
If any land is not charged with its portion of any assessment or if the assessment on any land is adjudged invalid by any court...
California Water Code Section 36600
Within 60 days after the estimate and the assessment book have been filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 36601
The clerk of the board of supervisors shall give notice of the hearing by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper...
California Water Code Section 36602
The first publication of the notice shall be at least 15 days prior to the date fixed for the hearing.
California Water Code Section 36603
From the time of calling the hearing and until the hearing is held, the assessment book shall be open to public inspection at the office...
California Water Code Section 36604
At the hearing the board of supervisors, meeting as a board of equalization, shall: (a) Hear all objections presented to it regarding the correctness of...
California Water Code Section 36605
After hearing all objections and evidence, the board of supervisors shall: (a) Add to or deduct from the valuation assessed to any parcel of land...
California Water Code Section 36606
Any changes or additions ordered by the board of supervisors, acting as a board of equalization, shall be entered in the assessment book in the...
California Water Code Section 36607
Before the hearing is closed the assessor shall add the total values as determined by the board of supervisors and determine the gross assessed valuation...
California Water Code Section 36608
After the statement is completed, the board of supervisors, acting as a board of equalization, shall fix an ad valorem rate of assessment upon each...
California Water Code Section 36609
After fixing the rate of assessment, the board of supervisors shall adjourn as a board of equalization and the hearing is completed.
California Water Code Section 36610
The orders of the board of supervisors made at the hearing are final and when endorsed on or attached to the assessment book are conclusive...
California Water Code Section 36611
Any person interested in land and aggrieved by a decision of the board of supervisors may, in order to have an assessment or levy thereon...
California Water Code Section 36725
Within 10 days after the hearing on assessment is completed, duplicate copies of each of the following shall be signed by the president and secretary...
California Water Code Section 36726
Within 10 days after the assessment is completed, the assessor shall do each of the following: (a) Compute and charge in the proper part of...
California Water Code Section 36727
After each separate part of the assessment book has been filed with the tax collector the assessments listed are due and payable to the tax...
California Water Code Section 36728
No action to determine the validity of any district assessment or assessment levied thereon shall be maintained unless the action is commenced within 30 days...
California Water Code Section 36729
In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the...
California Water Code Section 36825
After the filing of all parts of the assessment book with the tax collector the assessment on each parcel of land separately assessed and any...
California Water Code Section 36826
Within 10 days after each assessment is due and payable, the assessor shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation published in the principal county...
California Water Code Section 36827
Assessments shall be paid in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 36828
The tax collector shall mark the date of payment in the assessment book opposite the name of the assessee.
California Water Code Section 36829
The tax collector shall give a receipt to the person making payment specifying: (a) The land assessed. (b) The amount of the assessment. (c) The...
California Water Code Section 36830
The tax collector shall pay the money received to the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 36830.1
The tax collector may, in his discretion, accept negotiable paper in payment of any assessment or on a redemption.
California Water Code Section 36830.2
As used herein, "negotiable paper" means bank checks and drafts and express and post office money orders payable on demand.
California Water Code Section 36830.3
The acceptance of negotiable paper constitutes a payment of an assessment or redemption as of the date of acceptance when, but not before, the negotiable...
California Water Code Section 36830.4
If any negotiable paper is not paid on due presentment for any reason, any record of payment made on the assessment book because of its...
California Water Code Section 36830.5
When a cancellation is made the tax collector shall record it in the assessment book opposite the name of the assessee who attempted payment by...
California Water Code Section 36830.6
If a remittance to cover a payment required to be made on or before a specified date is sent through the United States mail, properly...
California Water Code Section 36831
The board shall order the collector to cancel or modify, as may be proper, an assessment when it finds that any property has been either:...
California Water Code Section 36832
On order of the board any assessments, penalties or costs thereon, or portions thereof, shall be refunded by the treasurer if they were either: (a)...
California Water Code Section 36833
No order for a refund under Section 36832 shall be made except upon a claim both: (a) Verified by the person who paid the assessment,...
California Water Code Section 36950
Unpaid assessments are delinquent unless paid within six calendar months after they become due.
California Water Code Section 36950.1
As used in this chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 37050), Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 37150), and Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 37175),...
California Water Code Section 36950.5
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 36950, the board may, by resolution, provide that assessments may be paid in two equal installments, the first of which...
California Water Code Section 36951
As soon as possible after the assessments, or any installment thereof, become delinquent, the tax collector shall publish a notice containing all of the following:...
California Water Code Section 36952
The notice required by Section 36951 shall be published in the county in which the property is located in the manner prescribed in Section 6063...
California Water Code Section 36953
If any error should occur in the published notice with respect to the description of any delinquent property, the name of the assessee thereof, or...
California Water Code Section 36954
On the day fixed for the sale in the published notice, or in any republished notice, the collector shall sell to the district the whole...
California Water Code Section 36955
Thereupon the collector shall, as to each parcel sold, make an entry "Sold to the district" in the assessment book, and the date of the
California Water Code Section 36956
After the delinquent sale the collector shall make out, in duplicate, and sign a certificate of sale for each parcel separately assessed and sold, setting...
California Water Code Section 36957
The certificate of sale may be substantially in the following form, the blanks being filled to show the facts in each case: Certificate of Sale...
California Water Code Section 36958
Of each of the duplicate certificates of sale one shall be retained by the collector and the other shall be recorded in the office of...
California Water Code Section 36959
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the...
California Water Code Section 36960
When property is sold for assessments imposed on it as the property of a particular person, no misnomer of the owner, or supposed owner, or...
California Water Code Section 37050
All property sold for delinquent assessments to the district shall subsequently be assessed for district purposes as though it had never been sold, until the...
California Water Code Section 37051
If the property is sold to the district for delinquent assessments, the collector in making his accounting with the treasurer shall furnish a statement of...
California Water Code Section 37150
Property sold to the district for delinquent assessments may be redeemed by the redemptioner within three years from the date of sale, or thereafter before...
California Water Code Section 37151
On receipt of the redemption money plus the amount of the recorder's fee the collector shall make out duplicate certificates of redemption reciting the payment...
California Water Code Section 37152
One of the duplicate certificates of redemption shall be given to the redemptioner.
California Water Code Section 37153
The collector shall record the other duplicate certificate of redemption with the county recorder in whose office the certificate of sale is on record.
California Water Code Section 37155
If the property sold for delinquent assessments has not been redeemed and three years have elapsed from the date of its sale to the district,...
California Water Code Section 37155.1
After receiving a demand for a collector's deed pursuant to Section 37155, and not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days before delivery...
California Water Code Section 37155.2
After the first publication of the notice required by Section 37155.1, and not less than 45 days, nor more than 60 days, before the date...
California Water Code Section 37155.3
Upon first publication of the notice required by Section 37155.1, there shall be added to the amount to redeem as provided in Section 37150 the...
California Water Code Section 37156
A collector's deed shall contain the date of sale and his statement that no person redeemed the property during the time allowed for its redemption;...
California Water Code Section 37157
A collector's deed to a district shall be recorded in the usual manner of recording conveyances of real property.
California Water Code Section 37158
The collector's deed conveys to the district title to the property described therein free of all encumbrances, except liens for taxes and assessments levied for...
California Water Code Section 37159
A collector's deed when acknowledged or proved is prima facie evidence that: (a) The land was assessed as required by law. (b) The land was...
California Water Code Section 37160
Except as against actual fraud a collector's deed acknowledged or proved is conclusive evidence of the regularity of all of the proceedings from the assessment...
California Water Code Section 37161
An action, proceeding, defense, answer, or cross-complaint based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any collector's deed executed to the district or based on...
California Water Code Section 37162
An action, proceeding, defense, answer, or cross-complaint based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any agreement of sale, deed, lease, or option executed by...
California Water Code Section 37163
The provisions of Sections 37161 and 37162 do not apply in the following cases: (a) Where the assessments for which the property was sold were...
California Water Code Section 37164
The burden of proof shall be upon the party urging the invalidity, irregularity, or ineffectiveness of an agreement, deed, lease, or option described in Sections...
California Water Code Section 37175
This chapter provides an optional provision for the redemption, on an installment plan, of property sold to the district for delinquent assessments. The board may...
California Water Code Section 37176
As used in this chapter: (a) "Redemption amount" means the total amount which would be necessary to redeem the property from sale for delinquent assessments...
California Water Code Section 37177
During such time as the provisions of this chapter are effective in the district pursuant to a resolution adopted under authority of Section 37175, any...
California Water Code Section 37178
During the time payments are made under this chapter, there shall not be: (a) Delivery of a collector's deed. (b) Any termination of the right...
California Water Code Section 37179
Election to pay delinquent assessments in installments is made by payment, in the same manner as a redemption, of 33 1/3 percent, or more, of...
California Water Code Section 37180
In each succeeding fiscal year, the redemptioner shall pay all current assessments and penalties coming due in that fiscal year before the delinquency date of...
California Water Code Section 37181
In each succeeding fiscal year, the redemptioner shall pay, before the delinquency date of the last installment of current assessments, the sum of the following:...
California Water Code Section 37182
If all payments are not made on or before the dates prescribed, a collector's deed of the property may be delivered and the right of...
California Water Code Section 37183
Payments under this chapter are not a redemption or partial redemption and do not affect the district's interest in the real estate. The payments are...
California Water Code Section 37184
If all payments under this chapter are made as prescribed and if redemption of the property is made before the delinquency date of the last...
California Water Code Section 37185
The redemption certificate for a redemption under this chapter shall show the following: (a) The amounts used to arrive at the redemption amount at the...
California Water Code Section 37186
Excepting as provided in this chapter, the redemption shall be made in the manner provided by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 37150) of this part.
California Water Code Section 37200
This part provides an alternative method for the levy, collection and enforcement of district assessments and the provisions of this part shall not apply to...
California Water Code Section 37202
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms used in this part shall mean: (a) "Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of each...
California Water Code Section 37203
(a) On or before December 31st of any year the board may by resolution elect to proceed under this part for the levy, collection, and...
California Water Code Section 37203.1
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 54902 and 54903 of the Government Code and Section 37203, the Yolo-Zamora Water District may effectively proceed under this part...
California Water Code Section 37204
The board may from time to time by resolution provide for a district fiscal year, to commence and end at the dates specified in said
California Water Code Section 37205
Whenever the fiscal year is changed, if necessary to provide sufficient money to meet the obligations and expenses of the district between the end of...
California Water Code Section 37206
On or before August 1st the board of any district which has elected pursuant to Section 37203 to proceed under this part shall furnish to...
California Water Code Section 37207
The board of supervisors annually at the time of levying county taxes shall levy an ad valorem assessment upon all lands within that portion of...
California Water Code Section 37207.1
(a) This section applies only to the Santa Margarita Water District. (b) If the board determines pursuant to Section 36424.1 to designate areas within an...
California Water Code Section 37208
Said ad valorem assessment shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner and by the same officers and with...
California Water Code Section 37209
The board may by resolution authorize payment to the county of reasonable compensation, as may be provided by law or as may be agreed upon...
California Water Code Section 37210
As used in this part, "assessment" includes "standby charges" and other charges levied for the use of district water.
California Water Code Section 37210.1
In levying a standby charge, the board of any district which has elected, pursuant to Section 37203, to proceed under this part shall comply with...
California Water Code Section 37210.2
If the procedures set forth in this part as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the board may, by...
California Water Code Section 37211
Notwithstanding Section 37207, the board of supervisors annually at the time of levying county taxes shall levy an ad valorem assessment upon all lands within...
California Water Code Section 37212
In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid: (a) If unpaid for 60 days or more on July 1st, the...
California Water Code Section 37213
A district which has elected pursuant to Section 37203 to proceed under this part shall notify the holder of title to land whenever delinquent and...
California Water Code Section 37214
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the...
California Water Code Section 37300
One or more tracts of land may be excluded from the district under proceedings taken pursuant to the District Reorganization Act of 1965 (commencing at...
California Water Code Section 37485
Land not a part of the district whether or not contiguous to it may be included within the district.
California Water Code Section 37580
Upon the determination by the board that the inclusion within the district of any contiguous or noncontiguous land owned by the district is for the...
California Water Code Section 37800
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Westlands Water District Merger Law.
California Water Code Section 37801
The state and the people thereof have a primary and supreme interest in securing to the inhabitants and property owners within and adjacent to the...
California Water Code Section 37802
Investigation having shown that conditions in and surrounding the federal service area of the San Luis unit of the Central Valley project are peculiar to...
California Water Code Section 37803
The Westlands Water District, situated in Fresno and Kings Counties, was formed, prior to the enactment of this part, and is operating under this division,...
California Water Code Section 37804
This part is enacted in part under the authority expressly granted in Section 13 of Article XI of the Constitution of the state.
California Water Code Section 37805
This part shall be given a liberal construction for the purpose of sustaining any and all proceedings taken hereunder.
California Water Code Section 37806
Nothing in this part shall impair or adversely affect any right of any bondholder or creditor of the water storage district or the California water
California Water Code Section 37820
The West Plains Water Storage District is, on the effective date of this section, hereby merged into the Westlands Water District.
California Water Code Section 37821
The surviving district comprises all land in the water district immediately following the merger plus inclusion, and less exclusions, of land thereafter made pursuant to
California Water Code Section 37822
The name of the surviving district is Westlands Water District.
California Water Code Section 37823
The surviving district is a public agency of the state.
California Water Code Section 37824
Upon the merger of the two districts, the water storage district for all purposes ceases to exist, and the offices of its directors and officers...
California Water Code Section 37825
Upon the merger, the directors and officers of the California water district then in office constitute the directors and officers of the surviving district.
California Water Code Section 37826
Upon the merger, the surviving district succeeds to all properties, rights, and contracts of each of the two districts and any funds to which it...
California Water Code Section 37850
Except as in this part expressly provided, the surviving district shall in all respects be operated, managed, and governed, its directors and officers shall be...
California Water Code Section 37851
All actions and proceedings pending by or against the water storage district at the time of the merger may be prosecuted to final judgment for...
California Water Code Section 37852
After the merger, no action or proceeding shall be brought for or against the water storage district or its directors or officers.
California Water Code Section 37853
All actions and proceedings commenced after the merger, either on account of the affairs of the water storage district or affairs of the California water...
California Water Code Section 37854
All outstanding bonded and other indebtedness of the water storage district and of the California water district at the time of the merger is hereby...
California Water Code Section 37855
The board of directors and officers of the surviving district shall peform all duties and functions of the board of directors and corresponding officers of...
California Water Code Section 37856
Lands which were within the Westlands Water District immediately prior to the merger shall, so long as said lands remain in the said district, have...
California Water Code Section 38500
Chapter 387 of the Statutes of 1913 is hereby repealed.
California Water Code Section 38501
The repeal effected by this part shall not be construed to deprive any district or any person or other entity of any substantial right which...
California Water Code Section 39000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the California Water Storage District Law.
California Water Code Section 39010
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 39011
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 39012
"District" means any water storage district formed pursuant to the California Water Storage District Act or this division.
California Water Code Section 39013
"Include," except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district, does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
California Water Code Section 39014
"Land," except in Chapter 2 of Part 10, means land in the district or proposed district involved.
California Water Code Section 39015
"Affected county" means any county in which land is situated.
California Water Code Section 39016
"Board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 39017
"President" means the president of the board.
California Water Code Section 39018
"Secretary" means the secretary of the board.
California Water Code Section 39019
"Treasurer" means the treasurer of a district.
California Water Code Section 39020
"Holder of title" includes a holder of evidence of title and, also, a holder of land under a possessory right acquired by entry or purchase...
California Water Code Section 39021
"Property," except in Part 9, embraces all real and personal property, including water, water rights, works, franchises, concessions and rights.
California Water Code Section 39022
"Works" includes water works, conduits, reservoirs, storage sites, water sheds, machinery, wells, pumps, dams, storage tanks, tunnels, hydrants, meters, other appliances, and their appurtenances.
California Water Code Section 39023
"Conduit" includes canals, laterals, ditches, flumes, pipes, and their appurtenances.
California Water Code Section 39024
"Acquire" includes construct, purchase, lease, exchange, condemn, jointly acquire when joint acquisition is permitted, and contract to acquire.
California Water Code Section 39025
"Dispose" includes sell, contract to lease, contract to sell, and the making of any instrument necessary therefor.
California Water Code Section 39026
"Operate" includes use, maintain, and repair.
California Water Code Section 39027
"General election" is the election required to be held in districts in each odd-numbered year.
California Water Code Section 39028
"Special election" means any election other than a general election.
California Water Code Section 39030
"Acknowledged" means acknowledged and certified in the same form and manner as is required for recording of conveyances of real property.
California Water Code Section 39031
"Office county" means the county in which the office of the district is kept.
California Water Code Section 39033
"Other district" means any district or other public agency formed under any law of the state.
California Water Code Section 39034
"Principal county" means the county in which the greater portion of the land of a district is located.
California Water Code Section 39035
"Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 39050
For all purposes of this division relating to signing petitions and voting at any election, and for all other purposes when the question of title...
California Water Code Section 39051
If any parcel of land is assessed on any assessment roll to unknown or fictitiously named owners or to unnamed owners in addition to any...
California Water Code Section 39052
The holder of title to an undivided interest in land affected by any of the provisions of this division may sign any petition or vote...
California Water Code Section 39053
If the assessment roll fails to indicate the extent of any undivided interest the holders of title whose undivided interests in any land are not...
California Water Code Section 39054
The certificate of the register of the United States Land Office for the district in which the land is situated, or of the State Lands...
California Water Code Section 39055
Guardians, conservators, personal representatives, and other persons holding land in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign any petition and may vote at...
California Water Code Section 39056
A certificate of acknowledgment taken before a notary public or justice of the peace of any state, or an affidavit by any person in the...
California Water Code Section 39057
Whenever any notice or publication, or notice of publication, or official advertising, or publication of process is required to be given or made by the...
California Water Code Section 39058
As to any land belonging to a person under guardianship or conservatorship or comprised in the undistributed estate of a decedent, the guardian or conservator...
California Water Code Section 39059
The powers herein conferred upon the department and board are police and regulatory powers and are necessary to the accomplishment of a purpose that is...
California Water Code Section 39060
The districts formed pursuant to this division are districts of the nature of irrigation, reclamation, or drainage districts in respect to all matters contemplated in...
California Water Code Section 39080
The department shall have the powers and duties conferred upon it by this division and further powers and authority necessary to enable it to fully...
California Water Code Section 39081
The department shall give information, so far as may be practicable, to persons contemplating the formation of a district.
California Water Code Section 39082
Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of proposed district projects shall be made at the expense...
California Water Code Section 39400
A majority in number of the holders of title to land irrigated or susceptible of irrigation from a common source and by the same system...
California Water Code Section 39401
The proposed district may include land situated in other distinctive district agencies of the State, including other water storage districts having different plans and purposes...
California Water Code Section 39402
The land proposed to be formed into a district need not consist of contiguous parcels.
California Water Code Section 39425
A petition for the formation of a district shall set forth generally: (a) The boundaries of the proposed district or a description of the land....
California Water Code Section 39426
The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures.
California Water Code Section 39427
The petitioners shall file with the petition a list of the names and addresses of all persons holding title to land within the proposed district...
California Water Code Section 39428
The petition shall also be accompanied by a sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the department, in double the amount of the probable cost of...
California Water Code Section 39429
The department may require the furnishing of any additional undertaking or payment of money it deems necessary.
California Water Code Section 39430
The formation petition and accompanying documents shall be presented to and filed with the department.
California Water Code Section 39431
Signatures to the petition may be withdrawn at any time before its publication is commenced by filing a declaration signed and acknowledged by the petitioner...
California Water Code Section 39440
Upon the presentation and filing of the formation petition and undertaking the department shall forthwith fix a time and place for the hearing of the...
California Water Code Section 39460
The department shall publish the formation petition and a notice of the time and place of the hearing on the petition in each affected county...
California Water Code Section 39461
The notice shall not be published until five days after the filing of the petition and undertaking in the office of the department.
California Water Code Section 39462
When the petition consists of a number of separate instruments, only one copy need be published, but the names attached to all of the instruments...
California Water Code Section 39463
The notice shall be issued by the department, shall refer to the petition, and shall be directed to the petitioners, all other persons holding title...
California Water Code Section 39464
No defect in the form or contents of the published notice, title to it, or petition, nor failure to publish or error in publishing any...
California Water Code Section 39465
The department shall give personal notice by registered mail to all holders of title to land whose names and addresses appear on the list filed...
California Water Code Section 39466
The department shall make and keep for public inspection an affidavit giving the date of mailing and the names and addresses of holders of title...
California Water Code Section 39600
The department shall determine the practicability, feasibility, and utility of the proposed project, and for that purpose may make all necessary studies, examinations, surveys, plans,...
California Water Code Section 39601
The department, for the purposes of the determination, may employ all necessary assistants, or acquire and use any existing estimates, surveys, and reports.
California Water Code Section 39602
The total of all expenses incurred pursuant to this chapter shall not exceed a sum in dollars equal in amount to one-fourth the number of...
California Water Code Section 39603
The department shall issue warrants to pay expenses incurred pursuant to this chapter, which warrants shall be considered and treated as warrants of the district...
California Water Code Section 39604
Provision may be made for payment of warrants issued pursuant to this article in any bond issue authorized for the purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 39605
If the district is not organized, any warrants issued by the department shall be a charge upon the undertakings provided for in this part and...
California Water Code Section 39750
At the hearing the department shall determine and express by order whether or not the petition and notice complies with this part.
California Water Code Section 39751
The department shall hear all competent and relevant testimony offered in support of or in opposition to the sufficiency of the petition and the publication...
California Water Code Section 39752
The hearing may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding 30 days in all.
California Water Code Section 39753
If the department determines that any of the requirements of this part were not complied with, the petition shall be dismissed without prejudice to the...
California Water Code Section 39775
If the department determines that all requirements of Chapter 1 of this part were complied with, the department shall forthwith hear the petition and all...
California Water Code Section 39776
At the conclusion of the final hearing on the petition the department shall make an order containing all of the following: (a) Reaffirmance when it...
California Water Code Section 39777
The order on final hearing shall also divide the proposed district into five, seven, nine, or eleven divisions so as to segregate into separate divisions...
California Water Code Section 39778
The order shall be entered in full upon the records of the department.
California Water Code Section 39779
A copy of the order certified by the department together with a map showing the exterior boundaries of the district and indicating the land, if...
California Water Code Section 39800
A finding of the department in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and the regularity and sufficiency of the notice shall be...
California Water Code Section 39900
Upon filing the order on final hearing of the formation petition, the department shall within 60 days give notice of an election to be held...
California Water Code Section 39901
The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district or the land included. (b) A description...
California Water Code Section 39902
The notice of the formation election shall be published once a week for at least three weeks prior to the election in each affected county.
California Water Code Section 39903
In the order calling the election, the department shall designate voting places and appoint three holders of title to land to act as a board...
California Water Code Section 39925
Not less than 10 days before the formation election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the proposed district may file with the...
California Water Code Section 39926
For the purposes of the formation election the department shall establish and define the boundaries of one or more election precincts for each division in...
California Water Code Section 39927
The formation election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this division concerning general elections, but no particular form...
California Water Code Section 39928
At the formation election there shall be elected a board of directors corresponding in number to the number of divisions in the district.
California Water Code Section 39929
No director shall be elected by the district at large, but one director shall be elected by each division to represent that division.
California Water Code Section 39930
The directors shall qualify in the same manner as directors elected at a general election, as provided in this division.
California Water Code Section 39931
On the ballots provided for the formation election shall be printed: (a) The words "Water storage district--Yes" and "Water storage district--No," or words equivalent thereto....
California Water Code Section 39932
The department shall on the second Monday following the formation election canvass the votes cast thereat and if upon the canvass it appears that a...
California Water Code Section 39933
If upon the canvass it appears that a majority of all the votes cast are "Water storage district--No," the result shall be declared and recorded...
California Water Code Section 40100
If a majority of all the votes cast at the formation election are "Water storage district--Yes," the department shall by an order entered in the...
California Water Code Section 40101
The department shall immediately file for record in the office of the county recorder of each affected county a certified copy of the order declaring...
California Water Code Section 40102
From the filing for record of the order declaring the district formed the formation of the district is complete.
California Water Code Section 40103
At the time the department declares the district formed it shall issue certificates of election to each person elected a director.
California Water Code Section 40104
The department shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district. (b) The date of formation. (c)...
California Water Code Section 40300
Directors, irrespective of the method of their selection, take office as soon as they qualify, except that directors elected at a general election take office...
California Water Code Section 40301
Within 10 days after receiving his certificate of election or being appointed, each director shall take and subscribe the official oath, and file it in...
California Water Code Section 40302
The members of the board elected at the formation election shall at their first meeting classify themselves by lot into two classes as nearly equal...
California Water Code Section 40303
After such classification the board shall elect a president from their number and appoint a secretary and treasurer, each of whom shall hold office during...
California Water Code Section 40304
On the day of the regular meeting of the board in April next following each general election, the directors shall meet and organize as a...
California Water Code Section 40305
The board may elect a vice president and appoint an assistant secretary to serve during the pleasure of the board.
California Water Code Section 40306
The term of office of each director elected after the formation election shall be four years, and until his or her successor is elected and...
California Water Code Section 40307
In order to be nominated and eligible for the office of director, a candidate shall be a holder of title within the district. If a...
California Water Code Section 40330
The amount of the bond to be given by the secretary for the faithful performance of his duties shall be fixed by the board.
California Water Code Section 40331
The treasurer of the district shall execute a bond in an amount to be fixed by the board, the minimum amount thereof not to be...
California Water Code Section 40332
Each member of the board shall execute a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000).
California Water Code Section 40333
The bonds of the first directors of any district may be approved by a judge of the superior court of any affected county and recorded...
California Water Code Section 40334
The bonds of the directors, other than the first directors, shall be approved by a judge of the superior court, recorded in the office of...
California Water Code Section 40335
All bonds shall be made payable to the district and be in the form prescribed for the official bonds of county officers. Premiums may be...
California Water Code Section 40336
If any district is appointed fiscal agent of or by the United States in connection with any federal reclamation project, the directors and the treasurer...
California Water Code Section 40355
(a) A director, when sitting on the board or acting under its orders, shall receive not exceeding: (1) One hundred dollars ($100) per day, not...
California Water Code Section 40356
The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to all other officers and employees provided for in this division, to be paid out of...
California Water Code Section 40383
For wilful violation of any express duty provided for in this division on the part of any officer named in this division, he shall be...
California Water Code Section 40500
A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 40650
The directors elected at the formation election shall on the first Tuesday after their election and qualification meet and organize as a board and designate...
California Water Code Section 40651
The board shall hold a regular meeting each month at the place selected as the district office.
California Water Code Section 40652
The board may by resolution duly entered upon its minutes fix any other time or place for the regular monthly meeting, but no such change...
California Water Code Section 40653
Special meetings of the board may be held as required for the proper transaction of the business of the district, but shall be ordered by...
California Water Code Section 40654
The order calling a special meeting shall be entered of record and specify the business to be transacted. Five days' notice of the order must...
California Water Code Section 40655
No other business than that specified in the order may be transacted at a special meeting unless all the members are present and consent to...
California Water Code Section 40656
All meetings of the board shall be public and a majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A smaller number of directors...
California Water Code Section 40657
All records of the board shall be open to public inspection during business hours.
California Water Code Section 40657.5
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 40658
The board shall manage and conduct the business of the district.
California Water Code Section 40659
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 40800
The office of the board and its place of meetings may be changed by a majority vote of the board, but no such change shall...
California Water Code Section 41000
Only the holders of title to land are entitled to vote at a general election.
California Water Code Section 41001
Each voter may vote in each precinct in which any of the land owned by him is situated and may cast one vote for each...
California Water Code Section 41002
Each male or female voter over the age of 18 years may vote in person or by proxy.
California Water Code Section 41003
Any guardian, conservator, administrator, or executor, of a person or estate owning land within the district shall be considered the holder of title to land...
California Water Code Section 41004
Any corporation holding title to land within the district is entitled to vote through any officer or agent authorized in writing under the seal of...
California Water Code Section 41005
No person shall vote by proxy unless his authority to cast such vote is evidenced by an instrument acknowledged and filed with the board of
California Water Code Section 41006
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this division, if a holder of title to land enters into a contract for the sale of...
California Water Code Section 41007
At least 20 days prior to any district election, the secretary shall prepare a list for each precinct showing: (a) The names of the holders...
California Water Code Section 41008
Each precinct list shall be delivered to the election board for the precinct prior to the election.
California Water Code Section 41009
At least five days prior to each election, the secretary shall notify in writing each holder of title to land named as the seller in...
California Water Code Section 41010
Any person entitled to vote at a district election may challenge the right of a purchaser to vote in accordance with the provisions of Section...
California Water Code Section 41011
Where property has been conveyed prior to the election and the change of interest does not appear by the assessment roll, the original deed of...
California Water Code Section 41012
Any person not legally qualified to vote who makes any false statement in respect to his right to vote shall incur all of the penalties...
California Water Code Section 41013
The department prior to the formation election, and at all subsequent elections the board, shall prepare, certify, and furnish to the election board at each...
California Water Code Section 41014
The department or the board shall likewise prepare and furnish to the election boards lists certified by the register of the United States Land Office...
California Water Code Section 41015
The lists shall contain the names of the persons entitled to possessory rights and the quantity of land held by each.
California Water Code Section 41016
The most recent county assessment rolls and lists, or, if applicable, the election roll prepared in accordance with Section 41027, shall be used by the...
California Water Code Section 41017
Where a tract of land is situated partly within and partly without the boundaries of a precinct and the assessment roll contains a valuation of...
California Water Code Section 41018
If there is included in any assessment roll or list furnished to an election board any land which has no valuation assigned to it, the...
California Water Code Section 41019
The value shall be arrived at as nearly as may be done in the same manner and upon the same basis as was the valuation...
California Water Code Section 41020
The valuation made by the county assessor shall be furnished to the election board of the precinct in which the land is situated and shall...
California Water Code Section 41025
As an alternative to using the most recent county assessment roll, the board may cause an election roll to be prepared and used for determining...
California Water Code Section 41026
(a) The board shall have a preliminary election roll prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) by a registered civil engineer. The engineer shall prepare the preliminary...
California Water Code Section 41027
(a) The board shall hold a public hearing to receive any testimony regarding the preliminary election roll. The hearing may be continued from time to...
California Water Code Section 41028
The final election roll shall be used for all purposes relating to elections, until subsequently modified in accordance with the procedures set forth in this...
California Water Code Section 41150
The board shall establish a convenient number of election precincts in the district and define the boundaries thereof. At least one precinct must be established...
California Water Code Section 41151
The board may at any time, but not less than 60 days before an election to be held in the district, change the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 41153
The redivision order of the board shall be filed in the office of the secretary and a copy certified by the secretary shall be filed...
California Water Code Section 41154
The board shall at its next regular meeting establish a convenient number of election precincts in each of the new divisions. No precinct shall include...
California Water Code Section 41155
The directors in office at the time new divisions are established shall continue in office for the divisions from which they were elected until the...
California Water Code Section 41300
An election, known as the general water storage district election, shall be held in each district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in...
California Water Code Section 41301
Prior to the election, the board shall appoint for each precinct, from the voters thereof, one inspector and two judges, who constitute an election board...
California Water Code Section 41302
Not less than 24 days before a general election, the secretary shall give notice of the election by causing a notice to be published once...
California Water Code Section 41303
Affidavits of the publication and posting of the election notices shall be filed with the county elections official of each affected county, together with a...
California Water Code Section 41304
The board shall, by order made more than 24 days before the time for election, designate a convenient place within each precinct as the polling...
California Water Code Section 41305
Not less than 60 days before the election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the district may file with the board a...
California Water Code Section 41306
The petitions shall be preserved in the office of the secretary.
California Water Code Section 41307
If, by the 59th day prior to the election, only one person has been nominated as provided in Section 41305 for any elective office to...
California Water Code Section 41308
Not less than 84 days before a general election, the secretary shall give notice of the provisions of Sections 41305 and 41307 by causing a...
California Water Code Section 41330
The ballots used at the election shall be provided by the board.
California Water Code Section 41331
One of the judges of the election shall deliver to each of the voters one ballot for the votes to which the voter is entitled...
California Water Code Section 41332
Each ballot cast shall contain the number of votes it represents, which number shall be written or stamped upon it by an election officer and...
California Water Code Section 41333
Each ballot shall have a perforated tab which shall be marked with the initials of a member of the board of election of the precinct...
California Water Code Section 41334
The perforated tab shall be torn from the ballot by the inspector immediately before the voted ballot is placed in the ballot-box, and shall be...
California Water Code Section 41335
The ballots shall have printed on them the names of all candidates whose names have been filed as provided in this division, with a voting...
California Water Code Section 41336
The names shall be arranged in groups under the designation of the office for which each person named is a candidate, in order determined by...
California Water Code Section 41337
The ballots in each division of the district shall contain names of persons to be voted for as director to represent that division only.
California Water Code Section 41338
No director shall be elected by the district at large, unless a court of competent jurisdiction has determined or hereinafter so determines.
California Water Code Section 41360
If the board fails to appoint an election board or the members appointed do not attend at the opening of the polls on the morning...
California Water Code Section 41361
The inspector is chairman of the election board. He may administer all oaths required in the process of an election and appoint judges if, during...
California Water Code Section 41362
Any member of the election board may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of an election.
California Water Code Section 41363
Before opening the polls, each member of the election board must take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon him by...
California Water Code Section 41364
Unless the board fixes other hours, the polls shall be opened at 6 a.m. on the morning of the election and closed at 7 p.m.
California Water Code Section 41365
The board may, in the notice of election, fix the hours for the opening and closing of the polls; but the polls shall be kept...
California Water Code Section 41366
A list shall be kept by the election board containing the names of each voter who has voted and the number of votes cast by...
California Water Code Section 41367
Voting may commence as soon as the polls are opened, may continue during all the time the polls remain opened, and shall be conducted as...
California Water Code Section 41390
The ballots shall be strung upon a cord or thread by the inspector during the counting in the order in which they are entered upon...
California Water Code Section 41391
As soon as all votes are counted a certificate shall be drawn upon each of the papers containing the poll lists and tallies, or attached...
California Water Code Section 41392
One of the certificates, with the poll list and the tally paper to which it is attached, shall be retained by the inspector and preserved...
California Water Code Section 41393
The ballots, together with the other certificate with the poll list and tally paper to which it is attached, shall be: (a) Sealed by the...
California Water Code Section 41394
If any voter of the district is of the opinion that the vote of any precinct has not been correctly counted, he may appear on...
California Water Code Section 41395
No list, tally paper, or certificate returned from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form if it can be satisfactorily
California Water Code Section 41415
The board shall meet at its usual place of meeting on the first Monday after each election to canvass the returns.
California Water Code Section 41416
If at the time of meeting the returns from each precinct in the district in which the polls were opened have been received, the board...
California Water Code Section 41417
The canvass shall be made in public and by opening the returns and ascertaining the vote of the district for each person voted for, and...
California Water Code Section 41440
The person receiving the highest number of votes for each office to be filled at the election shall be elected.
California Water Code Section 41441
The board shall declare elected as director the person having the highest number of votes for that office in each division.
California Water Code Section 41442
The secretary shall immediately make out and deliver to the elected persons certificates of election signed by him and authenticated with the seal of the
California Water Code Section 41443
The secretary shall enter in the records of the board a statement of the result of the election as soon as it is declared. The...
California Water Code Section 41550
If a general election is not held as provided in this part, then upon the filing of a petition with the secretary, signed by the...
California Water Code Section 41551
Notice of any special election to be held pursuant to the provisions of this division shall be given by posting notices in three public places...
California Water Code Section 41552
The notice shall specify the time, place, and purpose of the election.
California Water Code Section 41553
If, by the ninth day prior to the special election, only one person has been nominated as provided in Section 41555, or no one has...
California Water Code Section 41554
No informalities in conducting the special election shall invalidate it, if otherwise fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 41555
Not less than 10 days before the special election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the district may file with the board...
California Water Code Section 41900
Any election held under the provisions of this division may be contested by any holder of title to land liable to assessment.
California Water Code Section 41901
The contest shall be brought in the superior court of any affected county and shall be conducted in the manner provided for contests of election...
California Water Code Section 41902
The court shall determine upon the hearing whether the election was fairly conducted and in substantial compliance with the requirements of this division.
California Water Code Section 41903
The contest shall be brought within 20 days after the declaration of the result.
California Water Code Section 41904
Either party of record has the right to appeal within 30 days from entry of judgment.
California Water Code Section 41905
The appeal shall be heard and determined by the Supreme Court within 60 days from the time of the filing of the notice of appeal.
California Water Code Section 42200
Upon the organization of a district, the board shall make or cause to be made all examinations, surveys, plans and specifications, and estimates of costs...
California Water Code Section 42201
The board may use and adopt all previous estimates, surveys, reports, and other data it may have or acquire.
California Water Code Section 42202
The cost of the examinations, surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates is a part of the expense of the project. The board may issue warrants therefor,...
California Water Code Section 42225
The board may at any time and from time to time segregate and divide the plans, specifications, and estimates of cost into one or more...
California Water Code Section 42226
In the event of the division of the project into units of construction, and the specification of one or more units for future construction, the...
California Water Code Section 42227
Upon resolving to construct a unit, the board may amend the plans, specifications, and estimates of costs of the unit by making changes, modifications, and
California Water Code Section 42250
If the board proposes to acquire property for the purposes or use of the district by purchase or lease, or in any manner other than...
California Water Code Section 42251
Except where it is proposed to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings, no property belonging to any water corporation which is a public utility shall...
California Water Code Section 42252
A certified copy of any order of authority made by the Public Utilities Commission shall be made a part of and filed with the report...
California Water Code Section 42275
Upon completion of the examination and study of the proposed project by the board, the board shall prepare and file a report with the secretary.
California Water Code Section 42276
The report shall set forth in detail all the following: (a) The character and nature of the proposed works. (b) A description of the rights...
California Water Code Section 42279
If the board determines before preparing and filing its report to segregate and divide the plans, specifications, and estimates into more than one unit of...
California Water Code Section 42280
If the board of any district fails to complete and file its report within 10 years from the date of the filing of the order...
California Water Code Section 42290
The board may by resolution determine that it is likely that the project or unit will benefit only a portion of the district. If the...
California Water Code Section 42291
The board shall fix the time and place for any such hearing, and shall cause notice of such hearing, setting forth the purpose, time and...
California Water Code Section 42292
At the time and place fixed for the hearing, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed...
California Water Code Section 42293
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether the whole or only a portion of the district will be benefited...
California Water Code Section 42294
The determination of the board establishing an improvement district shall be final and conclusive.
California Water Code Section 42295
After the establishment of an improvement district within a district pursuant to this article: (a) All proceedings with respect to the project or unit for...
California Water Code Section 42296
An improvement district shall be governed, and its business shall be conducted, by the board and officers of the district in the name of the...
California Water Code Section 42297
All of the provisions of this part, except Section 42280, all of the provisions of Part 6 (commencing with Section 43000) of this division, all...
California Water Code Section 42301
If the board recommends that the project be abandoned, the board may call a special election to be held in the district for the purpose...
California Water Code Section 42325
If a special election is called by the board pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter, the board shall within 30 days after calling the...
California Water Code Section 42326
The notice shall be published once a week for at least three weeks previous to the election in each affected county.
California Water Code Section 42327
The notice shall require ballots to be cast containing the words "Completion of project--Yes" and "Completion of project--No."
California Water Code Section 42328
For the purposes of the special election, the board shall establish a convenient number of election precincts and define their boundaries.
California Water Code Section 42329
At the time of calling the election, the board shall in its order designate voting places and appoint three landholders of the district to act...
California Water Code Section 42330
The election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this division relating to general elections, but no particular form...
California Water Code Section 42331
The qualifications of voters at the election shall be the same as prescribed for the formation election.
California Water Code Section 42332
The votes cast at the election shall be canvassed by the board in the same manner as votes cast at the formation election, and the...
California Water Code Section 42355
If the canvass of the votes cast at the special election shows more than one-half of all votes cast are "Completion of project--Yes" and also...
California Water Code Section 42356
If completion of the project is not approved at the election, the board may modify the project or propose a new project. If a revised...
California Water Code Section 42357
The order of abandonment shall require all persons having claims against the district or proposed district, except the holders of warrants issued pursuant to the...
California Water Code Section 42358
Notice of the order requiring presentation of claims stating the time and place shall be published by the board in the county in which the...
California Water Code Section 42359
After all warrants issued under the provisions of this division which have been presented for payment and all claims that have been presented and have...
California Water Code Section 42360
After the filing of the copy of the order the district is dissolved.
California Water Code Section 42361
All liens which have attached to land under any provisions of this division are discharged with the filing of the copy of the order, and...
California Water Code Section 42525
Within 45 days after the board approves the report, it shall call a district election for the purpose of determining whether the recommendation and report...
California Water Code Section 42526
The election shall be noticed, held, and conducted and the result determined and declared in all respects as nearly as possible as provided in Article...
California Water Code Section 42550
If a majority of all votes cast are "Completion of project--Yes" and also a majority of the qualified voters who voted at the election voted...
California Water Code Section 42551
The board shall carry out the project of the district in accordance with the plans and specifications of the approved and adopted report of the
California Water Code Section 42552
If completion of the project is not approved at the election, the project is abandoned.
California Water Code Section 42700
If any project, whether original, modified, substituted or other, already adopted under this part, remains uncompleted, whether in whole or in part, and any assessment...
California Water Code Section 42701
The report shall specify what disposition or use shall be made in the new project or otherwise of such parts of the existing project as...
California Water Code Section 42702
Thereafter all proceedings in respect of the new report shall be conducted as set forth in this part for an original report.
California Water Code Section 42725
If the vote at either of the elections prescribed in this part is adverse to the report, the proposed project is abandoned. Thereafter the district...
California Water Code Section 42726
If the vote at either of the elections is favorable to the new report, nothing further shall be done toward completion of the former project...
California Water Code Section 42727
To the extent that the district is indebted or has any outstanding liabilities at the time of adoption of the report, whether contingent or otherwise,...
California Water Code Section 42728
If, after all debts and liabilities have been paid, any funds remain on hand which have been collected under the original assessment or any funds...
California Water Code Section 42729
If for any reason funds are not available to the district to defray all expenses under this article, as estimated by the board to be...
California Water Code Section 42750
If the board shall find, by a two-thirds vote of its entire membership, that some project, other than any project (whether original, modified, substituted, or...
California Water Code Section 42751
Thereafter all proceedings in respect of the additional report shall be conducted as set forth in this part for an original report.
California Water Code Section 42752
If for any reason funds are not available to the district to defray all expenses under this chapter as estimated by the board to be...
California Water Code Section 43000
The board may acquire, improve, and operate the necessary works for the storage and distribution of water, and any drainage or reclamation works connected therewith.
California Water Code Section 43001
The board may sell, distribute, or otherwise dispose of water and water rights not necessary for the uses and purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 43002
The board may grant to the owner or lessee of a right to the use of any water permission to store the water in any...
California Water Code Section 43003
The board shall establish equitable rules and regulations for the most economical and efficient distribution and use of water within the district, and pursuant thereto...
California Water Code Section 43003.5
Upon adoption of rules and regulations, or the adoption of any amendment thereto, a certified copy thereof shall be recorded with the county recorder of...
California Water Code Section 43004
In the event that the volume of water under the control of any district is in any season so diminished below normal, by reason of...
California Water Code Section 43005
The board may enter into contracts with any or all interested parties for settlement or determination of any or all water rights on any stream...
California Water Code Section 43006
In addition to levying assessments or fixing tolls and charges under Part 9 (commencing with Section 46000) of this division, and in lieu either in...
California Water Code Section 43007
If tolls or charges are levied and collected in order to provide, in whole or in part, for the payment of amounts due under more...
California Water Code Section 43025
The board may provide for the generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy incidental to water storage and distribution.
California Water Code Section 43026
The board may sell, distribute, or otherwise dispose of hydroelectric energy not necessary for the uses and purposes of the district.
California Water Code Section 43150
The board has all powers and authority necessary to enable it to fully perform the duties imposed upon it by this division.
California Water Code Section 43151
The board may enter into any agreement with the United States or with any state, county, district, public corporation, or municipality of any kind, for...
California Water Code Section 43152
The board may: (a) Adopt a seal. (b) Make and execute all necessary contracts. (c) Employ and appoint such agents, officers, and employees as may...
California Water Code Section 43153
The board may construct works across or intersecting any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, railway, or conduit in such manner as to afford...
California Water Code Section 43154
The board shall restore any property altered or damaged when so crossed or intersected to its former state as nearly as may be, or in...
California Water Code Section 43155
Every company whose railroad is intersected or crossed by the works shall unite with the board in forming intersections and crossings, and grant privileges necessary...
California Water Code Section 43156
If any railroad company and the board, or the owners and controllers of the property to be crossed, cannot agree upon the amount to be...
California Water Code Section 43157
The right of way is hereby given, dedicated, and set apart for the location, construction, and maintenance of works over and through any land which...
California Water Code Section 43158
All waters and water rights belonging to this State within the district are given, dedicated, and set apart for the uses and purposes of the
California Water Code Section 43159
The department and board shall, respectively, cause to be entered in books to be kept for that purpose a complete and connected record of all...
California Water Code Section 43160
The records and all documents, instruments, or other papers filed with the department, commission, or board, or a copy or copies of any thereof certified...
California Water Code Section 43161
Whenever it deems it necessary for its own guidance or for the best interests of the district, the board may submit any question or proposition...
California Water Code Section 43500
The board may acquire by any means any property or interest in property to carry out the district purposes, including any of the following: (a)...
California Water Code Section 43501
The board may pay for property and rights with bonds of the district upon such terms and conditions as it deems best.
California Water Code Section 43502
No bonds shall be given in payment for property or rights at a valuation less than 90 percent of their face value and accrued interest.
California Water Code Section 43504
The board may take conveyances, leases, contracts, or other assurances for all property acquired by it under the provisions of this division in the name...
California Water Code Section 43505
The legal title to all property acquired under the provisions of this division vests in the district immediately. All property is held by the district...
California Water Code Section 43506
The board may hold, use, manage, occupy, and possess property of the district, and may lease property of the district for oil, gas and other...
California Water Code Section 43507
The board may determine by resolution entered upon its minutes that any property, real or personal, held by the district is not necessary for the...
California Water Code Section 43508
The rights of way, ditches, canals, flumes, pipelines, dams, water rights, reservoirs, power plants, and transmission lines, and all other property of like character belonging...
California Water Code Section 43530
The board may acquire by condemnation all property it deems necessary for the construction, maintenance, improvement, and operation of the works or the carrying out...
California Water Code Section 43532.5
Notwithstanding any other provision in this article, the board shall not commence any proceedings in eminent domain with respect to property located outside of a...
California Water Code Section 43555
Where the district has acquired fee title to, or any interest in, land through condemnation proceedings and the board, pursuant to Section 43507, determines that...
California Water Code Section 43556
Written notice of sale shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or if there is no such newspaper, then...
California Water Code Section 43557
At the time and place set for the sale the board shall open any bids received in response to the notice, announce such bids, and...
California Water Code Section 43558
The owners of contiguous land have a preference for a period of thirty (30) days after the highest bid is announced to purchase at such...
California Water Code Section 43559
Upon the expiration of the 30-day period any sale and conveyance made pursuant to the board's award of bid or any sale and conveyance made...
California Water Code Section 43700
A district may commence and maintain any actions and proceedings to carry out its purposes or protect its interests and may defend in any action...
California Water Code Section 43701
In all actions or proceedings the board may sue, appear, and defend in person or by attorneys and in the name of the district.
California Water Code Section 43702
Service of summons upon a district may be made by serving it upon the secretary or a majority of the directors.
California Water Code Section 43703
The costs of any action, proceeding, or contest may be allowed and apportioned between the parties or taxed to the defeated party in the discretion...
California Water Code Section 43704
All findings of fact or conclusions of the department, commission, or board upon all matters shall be conclusive unless the action, proceeding, or contest is...
California Water Code Section 43705
If two or more actions or contests are pending at the same time in the same court or before the same tribunal for the purpose...
California Water Code Section 43706
The court or other tribunal before which any action, proceeding, or contest is brought involving the regularity, legality, validity, or correctness of any proceeding taken...
California Water Code Section 43707
In all actions, proceedings, or contests the rules of pleading and practice provided by the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply, insofar as they are...
California Water Code Section 43730
An action to determine the validity of bonds, assessments, contracts, including contracts with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States, the...
California Water Code Section 43850
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, no action, proceeding, or contest shall be brought or maintained before any court or other tribunal unless the...
California Water Code Section 44000
Any district may cooperate and contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States under any laws of the state or...
California Water Code Section 44001
The cooperation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Construction, acquisition, purchase, extension, operation, or maintenance of works for...
California Water Code Section 44002
Any contract made between a district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States may designate and describe the land which...
California Water Code Section 44003
The board may provide by contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States for the delivery and distribution of water...
California Water Code Section 44006
The board shall perform all acts necessary to carry out the enlarged powers enumerated in this chapter.
California Water Code Section 44030
If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the payment by the district of periodic service charges,...
California Water Code Section 44031
If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the payment by the district of capital charges in...
California Water Code Section 44032
If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the establishment of a reserve fund for the payment...
California Water Code Section 44055
In case any contract is made with the United States, bonds of the district may be transferred to or deposited with the United States if...
California Water Code Section 44056
The bonds may: (a) Call for the payment of interest not exceeding 6 percent per year. (b) Be of the denomination specified in the contract....
California Water Code Section 44057
The contract with the United States may call for the payment of the amount, or any part thereof, to be paid by the district to...
California Water Code Section 44058
The board may accept, on behalf of the district, appointment of the district as fiscal agent of the United States or authorization of the district...
California Water Code Section 44059
The board as fiscal agent of the United States may do any and all things required by the federal statutes now or hereafter enacted in...
California Water Code Section 44080
All water which the district has the right to use under any contract with the United States may be distributed and apportioned by the district...
California Water Code Section 44081
Provision may be made in the contract between the district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States for the refusal...
California Water Code Section 44082
As partial consideration for privileges obtained by the district under contract with the United States, any rights of way or rights to water or other...
California Water Code Section 44105
A contract between the district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States may provide that the district shall not be...
California Water Code Section 44400
A district may not incur any debt or liability whatever in excess of the express provisions of this division. Any debt or liability so incurred...
California Water Code Section 44401
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to limit the right of the board to enter into any contract or lease for property, as...
California Water Code Section 44425
The county treasurer of each of the several counties shall report all transactions of delinquencies on district assessments and sales of land within the district...
California Water Code Section 44426
The district treasurer shall report to the board in writing at its regular meeting in each month the amount of money in the district treasury...
California Water Code Section 44428
The board, following each fiscal year, shall render and promptly thereafter cause to be published in the county at least once a week for two...
California Water Code Section 44455
All claims against the district shall be paid by warrants of the district.
California Water Code Section 44456
To provide a fund for payment of claims, the board may from time to time draw from the general fund deposited and kept to the...
California Water Code Section 44457
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 44600
Warrants drawn by the department shall be drawn upon the treasurer of the district.
California Water Code Section 44601
Warrants drawn by the board shall be signed by its president or vice president and secretary or assistant secretary and countersigned by the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 44602
Warrants drawn by the board for payment of principal or interest on bonds shall be drawn upon the county treasurer of a county having funds...
California Water Code Section 44625
The provisions of this article are applicable only to warrants payable on demand.
California Water Code Section 44626
Whenever any warrant of the district is presented for payment when funds are not available for payment, it shall thereafter draw interest at a rate...
California Water Code Section 44627
Upon the presentation of warrants for payment when funds for payment are not available, the treasurer of the district or of the county, as the...
California Water Code Section 44628
The treasurer shall keep a record showing all of the following: (a) Number and amount of each registered warrant. (b) Date of its issuance. (c)...
California Water Code Section 44629
The registered warrant is a contract in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action based upon...
California Water Code Section 44630
Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury to pay all outstanding registered warrants or whenever the board orders that all registered warrants presented for...
California Water Code Section 44631
The notice shall state that the treasurer is prepared to pay all registered warrants or all registered warrants presented for payment prior to the date...
California Water Code Section 44632
The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the office county.
California Water Code Section 44633
All warrants designated in the notice shall cease to draw interest at the time of the first publication of the notice.
California Water Code Section 44634
Upon the presentation of any warrant entitled to payment under the terms of the notice, the treasurer shall pay it together with interest due on...
California Water Code Section 44635
The treasurer shall enter all of the following in the record of registered warrants he is required to keep: (a) Dates of the payment of...
California Water Code Section 44750
The proceeds of sale of district bonds shall be placed in the treasuries of the respective affected counties to the amount of the unpaid assessment...
California Water Code Section 44751
A proper record of the transaction shall be made upon the books of the district treasurer.
California Water Code Section 44775
The county treasurer shall deposit in the county treasury to the credit of the bond fund of the district all money collected upon any assessment...
California Water Code Section 44776
Money collected upon any assessment upon which bonds have been issued shall be used exclusively for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 44777
The county treasurer shall transmit to the treasurer of the district all canceled bonds and coupons received in payment on any delinquent sale and a...
California Water Code Section 44778
Any balance remaining in the bond fund after payment in full of the principal and interest of all outstanding bonds of the district shall be...
California Water Code Section 44800
Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by any county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of the district may be sold and...
California Water Code Section 44800.5
Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by any county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of the district as provided in this...
California Water Code Section 44801
Payment may be made either in cash or in matured bonds and coupons issued on the assessment, taken at their face value.
California Water Code Section 44802
The treasurer shall execute a deed to the purchaser upon the sale, conveying the property free of encumbrances, except as provided for deeds where no...
California Water Code Section 44803
If any land held by a county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of a district remains unsold after the final installment of the...
California Water Code Section 44804
Notice of the sale shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which...
California Water Code Section 44805
The county treasurer shall deposit the proceeds of the sale in the treasury of the county to the credit of the bond fund of the
California Water Code Section 44806
Each county treasurer shall charge to the general fund of the district, or to the bond fund if he has no money to the credit...
California Water Code Section 44850
This article provides an alternative procedure for the deposit of all, or any part of, proceeds of bond sales, proceeds of assessments and proceeds of...
California Water Code Section 44851
The board may at any time, by resolution, elect to proceed under this article with respect to the deposit of funds of the district, and...
California Water Code Section 44852
Any money belonging to a district may be deposited by the treasurer pursuant to the general laws governing the deposit of public money.
California Water Code Section 44853
Where the deposit of money is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation no additional security need be required from the bank for the portion...
California Water Code Section 44803
If any land held by a county treasurer as trustee of the bond fund of a district remains unsold after the final installment of the...
California Water Code Section 44804
Notice of the sale shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which...
California Water Code Section 44805
The county treasurer shall deposit the proceeds of the sale in the treasury of the county to the credit of the bond fund of the
California Water Code Section 44806
Each county treasurer shall charge to the general fund of the district, or to the bond fund if he has no money to the credit...
California Water Code Section 44900
If any contract or lease for the acquisition of property provides for any future payments by the district, warrants may be issued, on order of...
California Water Code Section 44901
When a particular purpose or emergency assessment has been authorized, warrants in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment may be issued on...
California Water Code Section 44902
Any outstanding registered warrants and their accrued interest may be refunded by the issuance of warrants payable at stated times fixed by the board. These...
California Water Code Section 44903
Warrants payable at a future time or times may be issued in consideration of money loaned to the district for the purchase of any of...
California Water Code Section 44904
Warrants payable at a future time or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of the district.
California Water Code Section 44905
Any warrant authorized in the preceding sections of this article shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 44906
Coupons payable to bearer in a form and signed as prescribed by the board may be attached to warrants payable at a future date to...
California Water Code Section 44907
Warrants of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first district assessment, bearing...
California Water Code Section 44908
If any district owns any property which it is authorized to lease or sell, its board may in the contract providing for the issuance of...
California Water Code Section 44909
No warrants issued pursuant to this article made payable more than five years from the date of issuance shall be valid unless their issuance is...
California Water Code Section 44910
Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided...
California Water Code Section 44950
A district may issue revenue warrants pursuant to this chapter to obtain funds for any lawful purpose of the district, including the repayment of indebtedness...
California Water Code Section 44951
Revenue warrants shall be secured by all or part of the revenues received by the district from tolls or charges levied pursuant to Section 43006...
California Water Code Section 44952
Revenue warrants shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 8 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually or in part annually and...
California Water Code Section 44953
Revenue warrants shall mature at such time or times as the board may prescribe, but not more than five years from the date of issuance.
California Water Code Section 44954
Revenue warrants may be made subject to redemption prior to their fixed maturity date upon such terms, conditions and notice, and at such times and...
California Water Code Section 44955
Revenue warrants may be sold at either public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the board may determine. Such warrants may be...
California Water Code Section 44957
The board may determine the form and denomination of revenue warrants, the manner of their execution, their registration and exchange privileges and the place or...
California Water Code Section 44958
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for special funds for the deposit and application of the proceeds of...
California Water Code Section 44959
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may covenant to operate and maintain the facilities producing the revenues pledged for the...
California Water Code Section 44960
The board, in a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, may provide for paying the interest on the revenue warrants for a period of...
California Water Code Section 44961
Except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue warrants, the holder of any revenue warrant may by mandamus or other appropriate...
California Water Code Section 44962
Revenue warrants shall not be issued under this chapter by any district in any one fiscal year in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000).
California Water Code Section 44963
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 44953 and 44962, revenue warrants may be issued prior to August 1, 1978, pursuant to this chapter for a term...
California Water Code Section 45100
Whenever in any district any assessment has been levied and assessed upon land and remains unpaid in whole or in part, and in the judgment...
California Water Code Section 45102
Notwithstanding Section 45100, whenever in any district (1) a report and recommendation as to a project, or a report as to a contract with the...
California Water Code Section 45103
If the district's voters have approved a project pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) and the project authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds...
California Water Code Section 45250
The notice of a special bond election shall state the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued.
California Water Code Section 45270
Only holders of title to land which has been assessed as provided in this division shall be qualified to vote at the election.
California Water Code Section 45271
The ballots cast at the election shall contain the words "Bonds--Yes" and the words "Bonds--No."
California Water Code Section 45272
A list of the ballots cast shall be made by the board of election, containing the name of each voter who has voted at the...
California Water Code Section 45273
At the close of the polls the board of election shall at once proceed to canvass the votes and declare the result.
California Water Code Section 45274
The board of election shall deliver a certificate showing the result and the number of votes cast for and against the issuing of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 45275
The board of election shall deliver to the county elections official of each county all ballots cast at the election within that county and all...
California Water Code Section 45276
The county elections officials of the respective counties shall immediately upon receipt of the ballots, papers, and documents from the board of election certify to...
California Water Code Section 45277
The board of directors shall certify in its minutes that the proposal to issue bonds has carried or has been defeated. The certificate shall state...
California Water Code Section 45278
Except as in this part specifically provided, the provisions of this division with reference to all matters pertaining to elections shall govern bond elections.
California Water Code Section 45400
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the issuance of bonds, or if a resolution authorizing the issuance...
California Water Code Section 45401
The treasurer shall place the proceeds of sale of any bonds sold to the credit of the district.
California Water Code Section 45402
The board may divide the principal amount of any authorized issue of bonds into two or more series, and may fix different dates for the...
California Water Code Section 45403
Before making a sale of bonds, notice shall be given by the treasurer by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in...
California Water Code Section 45404
At the time appointed, the treasurer shall open the bids and award the bonds to the highest responsible bidder.
California Water Code Section 45405
The treasurer, upon written request of a majority of the directors, shall reject any or all bids.
California Water Code Section 45406
Sale and delivery of bonds by the treasurer is conclusive evidence that the sale was made upon due authority and notice.
California Water Code Section 45407
Upon a sale of any district bonds, the treasurer may accept in payment, in whole or in part, outstanding warrants of the district at face...
California Water Code Section 45408
The bonds of any series of an authorized issue shall be equally and ratably secured with the bonds of any other series of such authorized
California Water Code Section 45550
The bonds shall be in such denominations as the board may prescribe.
California Water Code Section 45551
The bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 45552
The bonds shall be numbered consecutively in order of their maturity. If the bonds are issued in two or more series, each series shall be...
California Water Code Section 45553
The bonds or any series thereof shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as may...
California Water Code Section 45554
Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds and shall bear the facsimile signature of the treasurer.
California Water Code Section 45555
The principal of the bonds or any series thereof shall be made payable on such dates, in such years and at such places as the...
California Water Code Section 45556
The bonds or any series thereof shall be payable within 40 years from their date, and not less than 10 percent of the aggregate face...
California Water Code Section 45557
The bonds shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 45558
The interest coupons shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 45559
When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond.
California Water Code Section 45560
The board may determine to establish a bond reserve fund for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds. Such a bond...
California Water Code Section 45700
If any district having authorized the issuance of any bonds shall issue additional bonds based on another assessment, the dates of maturity of the additional...
California Water Code Section 45702
All provisions of this part relative to the original issue of bonds shall apply to any additional bonds.
California Water Code Section 45800
A district may by resolution of its board adopted at or prior to the time of issuing any bonds then proposed to be issued, provide...
California Water Code Section 45801
Bonds may be made subject to redemption prior to their fixed maturity at such times and prices, and upon such terms and conditions as the...
California Water Code Section 45802
Notice designating the bonds called for redemption shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and...
California Water Code Section 45803
The first publication of the redemption notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for
California Water Code Section 45804
If on the date fixed for redemption the district has provided funds available for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds called,...
California Water Code Section 45900
For the purpose of financing a district project or government contract which has been approved by the voters of the district, the board of directors...
California Water Code Section 45901
Direct assessment warrants shall be signed by the president and secretary in face amount not exceeding in the aggregate the cost of the project or...
California Water Code Section 45902
Direct assessment warrants shall be made payable in amounts and at the times corresponding substantially to the amounts and times of payment of the installments...
California Water Code Section 45903
Direct assessment warrants shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board at the time of sale thereof, not to exceed 7...
California Water Code Section 45904
Coupons for the interest on these warrants may be attached to them.
California Water Code Section 45905
Direct assessment warrants may be made payable to any of the following: (a) Bearer. (b) Persons furnishing work, labor or material. (c) The contractor if...
California Water Code Section 45906
Direct assessment warrants may be sold by the district for not less than par at either public or private sale.
California Water Code Section 45907
Any surplus funds and any money held by a district in a sinking or depreciation fund may in the discretion of its board be invested...
California Water Code Section 45920
At any time before direct assessment warrants are issued, the amount of any assessment on any land, exclusive of interest and the 10 percent added...
California Water Code Section 45921
Land on which the amount of the assessment has been paid pursuant to Section 45920 shall not be subject to the annual installments of the...
California Water Code Section 45922
Any landowner who desires at any time to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any direct assessment may deliver to the district...
California Water Code Section 45923
The board may require warrants delivered to lessen or remove an assessment lien to be substantially of the average maturities of the issue of warrants.
California Water Code Section 45924
The treasurer shall notify the board of the amount of the principal and interest due and to become due on the warrants delivered for cancellation....
California Water Code Section 45930
All acts, proceedings, conclusions and findings of fact by a board of a district shall be conclusive except in an action or proceeding instituted within...
California Water Code Section 45931
An action to determine the validity of any assessment or warrants may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10...
California Water Code Section 45932
No irregularity or omission not affecting the substantial rights of the landowners within a district shall affect the validity of any act done or proceeding...
California Water Code Section 46000
A preliminary assessment is an assessment levied by the board of an equal amount upon each acre of land in the district sufficient to pay...
California Water Code Section 46001
At its first regular meeting, or within 90 days thereafter, the board shall levy a preliminary assessment.
California Water Code Section 46002
The amounts required to be raised to pay warrants of the department and to pay expenses shall be separately stated in the resolution levying the...
California Water Code Section 46003
In the event the first preliminary assessment is not sufficient, the board shall from time to time levy further preliminary assessments.
California Water Code Section 46004
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the total of all preliminary assessments, exclusive of the amount assessed for the purpose of paying warrants of...
California Water Code Section 46005
If after the total amount raised by all preliminary assessments shall have been expended or its expenditure authorized, that amount is found to be insufficient...
California Water Code Section 46006
Before levying any additional preliminary assessment the board shall pass a resolution declaring its intention so to do, and in the resolution appoint a time...
California Water Code Section 46007
A copy of the resolution of intention shall be published once a week for at least two weeks before the time appointed by the board...
California Water Code Section 46008
At the time appointed for the open meeting by the board, it shall consider the matter of levying the additional preliminary assessment and hear any...
California Water Code Section 46009
Every preliminary assessment is a lien upon the land affected until the full amount of the assessment is paid. The lien is prior to all...
California Water Code Section 46010
If, after a project has been completed, the board determines that an additional project would be for the benefit of the entire district, the board...
California Water Code Section 46150
If a district project is adopted as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 42500) of Part 5 of this division, the board shall appoint...
California Water Code Section 46151
No commissioner shall have any interest in any land in the district either directly or indirectly.
California Water Code Section 46152
Each commissioner before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested directly or indirectly in...
California Water Code Section 46153
The commissioners shall be paid as compensation for the services rendered by them the sum, or sums, as the board fixes, which is a part...
California Water Code Section 46154
Compensation to the commissioners shall be paid out of the funds of the district, which may be included in any bond issue authorized for the...
California Water Code Section 46155
The commissioners shall receive from the board a copy of the report with respect to the project adopted by the voters at the election held...
California Water Code Section 46156
In lieu of the appointment of the three commissioners as provided in Section 46150, the board by resolution may appoint a civil engineer to apportion...
California Water Code Section 46175
The commissioners appointed pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter shall assess the costs of the project, or in the event the board has divided...
California Water Code Section 46176
The commissioners shall apportion the cost in accordance with the benefits that will accrue to each tract of land held in separate ownership by reason...
California Water Code Section 46177
If the project includes plans for the generation of electric power, the commissioners shall ascertain the total cost of all the properties which are necessary...
California Water Code Section 46178
Where any tract of land consists of more than one section, the apportionment to that tract of land shall be made according to legal subdivisions...
California Water Code Section 46179
If the district project as adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing at Section 42200) of this division, provides that all of the costs of...
California Water Code Section 46200
The commissioners shall prepare and certify assessment rolls which shall contain: (a) A description of each tract held in separate ownership by legal subdivisions, governmental...
California Water Code Section 46201
The roll shall be separately made for each affected county.
California Water Code Section 46202
When completed, the rolls shall be accompanied by the written report of the commissioners setting out with particularity all the following: (a) The exact nature...
California Water Code Section 46203
In the report of the commissioners, land embraced within a comprehensive area or a political subdivision of the State may be referred to generally as...
California Water Code Section 46205
The commissioners shall transmit two copies of the rolls to the board. The board shall file one copy in its records and transmit to the...
California Water Code Section 46206
The board shall forthwith give notice of the filing of the assessment roll by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in...
California Water Code Section 46207
The objections to any assesment shall be in writing, verified, and filed with the secretary of the board, and shall set forth the grounds of...
California Water Code Section 46208
The verification shall be made by the affidavit of the objector or some other person familiar with the facts.
California Water Code Section 46209
If no objections are filed with respect to a particular assessment roll, as provided in Sections 46206 and 46207, then upon the expiration of the...
California Water Code Section 46210
Upon filing of the certificates of the secretary of the board as provided in Section 46209, the assessment roll and the assessments therein made shall...
California Water Code Section 46225
In the event objections are filed with respect to a particular assessment roll, as provided in Sections 46206 and 46207, the department shall appoint two...
California Water Code Section 46226
The adjustment board shall at once organize by the election from its members of a president and a secretary and shall appoint times and places...
California Water Code Section 46227
Notice of the hearing shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in each affected county.
California Water Code Section 46230
The adjustment board may postpone the hearings on objections to assessments from time to time.
California Water Code Section 46231
At the hearings, the adjustment board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment, and may modify, amend, or...
California Water Code Section 46232
No assessment shall be increased if the holder of title to land affected is known except after personal notice or notice by registered mail given...
California Water Code Section 46255
After hearing of objections, the adjustment board shall make an order approving the assessment as finally fixed or modified. The apportionment and determination of the...
California Water Code Section 46256
Two copies of the assessment roll as finally fixed and approved by the adjustment board shall be certified by the secretary of the adjustment board...
California Water Code Section 46257
The assessment roll as approved by the adjustment board shall be conclusive evidence before any court or tribunal that the assessment has been made and...
California Water Code Section 46280
When the secretary of the board files the certificates as provided for by Section 46209, or if objections are filed, when the board files with...
California Water Code Section 46281
Where bonds of a district have been issued upon any assessment, no act or conduct on the part of the board or any officer shall...
California Water Code Section 46305
Upon adoption of a resolution by the board to construct additional units pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 42225), Chapter 1, Part 5 of...
California Water Code Section 46325
When any tract of land upon which any assessment provided for by this division has been levied is subdivided into smaller parcels the board shall,...
California Water Code Section 46326
Supplementary assessment rolls showing the reapportionments shall be made separately for land lying within different counties.
California Water Code Section 46328
The board shall file with the treasurer of each county in which any portion of the tract so subdivided is situated, the supplementary assessment roll...
California Water Code Section 46329
After the supplementary assessment rolls have been filed the assessment is an assessment upon each of the smaller parcels in accordance with the reapportionment and...
California Water Code Section 46330
The supplementary assessment rolls are a part of and amendatory of the assessment rolls theretofore filed for all purposes.
California Water Code Section 46331
The reapportionment shall in nowise affect the assessment except as to the land included in the supplementary assessment rolls.
California Water Code Section 46355
At any time after the commissioners have assessed the cost of the project upon the benefited land within the district and the costs of the...
California Water Code Section 46356
The reassessment of costs of the project shall be made in the same manner as provided in this chapter for the original assessment of costs.
California Water Code Section 46375
At any time after a district project is adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing with Section 42200) of this division, and before the original...
California Water Code Section 46376
Each interim project assessment shall be levied in an equal amount upon each acre of land in the district. The total amount of all interim...
California Water Code Section 46377
The board may by resolution levy an interim project assessment, if in its judgment the levy is in the best interests of the district.
California Water Code Section 46378
Every interim project assessment is a lien upon the land affected until the full amount of the assessment is paid. The lien is prior to...
California Water Code Section 46379
The amount of any interim project assessment assessed against any tract of land in the district shall be credited against the original assessment to finance...
California Water Code Section 46380
If the amount of the interim project assessment or assessments credited with respect to any tract of land pursuant to Section 46379 exceeds the amount...
California Water Code Section 46381
A district may issue direct assessment warrants payable from the proceeds of an interim project assessment pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 45900) of...
California Water Code Section 46382
If there are no obligations outstanding which are secured by an interim project assessment, the board may, at any time and without notice or hearing,...
California Water Code Section 46500
The assessment list of each county shall remain open for payment in the office of the county treasurer of the affected counties for a period...
California Water Code Section 46501
During the time the assessment lists are open any person may pay to the county treasurer in lawful money of the United States or in...
California Water Code Section 46650
The county treasurer of any affected county, during the time for the collection of the assessments of the district, may require the board to provide...
California Water Code Section 46670
At the end of 30 days, the county treasurer shall make return to the board of all assessments paid.
California Water Code Section 46671
All unpaid assessments bear interest at the rate of 8 percent per year. Interest commences to run 30 days after the assessment list is filed...
California Water Code Section 46672
All unpaid assessments and accrued interest shall be collected by the county treasurers when and as called. The county treasurers shall hold the money collected...
California Water Code Section 46673
Unless bonds have been authorized as provided in this division, all payments of assessments shall be made in such amounts or installments and at such...
California Water Code Section 46674
Except as otherwise provided in Section 46675, in the event the cost of any unit is less than the funds collected therefor, the excess shall...
California Water Code Section 46675
The board, pursuant to a resolution entered in its minutes, may distribute, among the landowners of the district, any funds in the treasury belonging to...
California Water Code Section 46695
Upon making any order fixing and calling an installment or amount, the secretary shall also enter in the minutes of the board, and certify to...
California Water Code Section 46696
The notice shall be sent through the mail, addressed to each holder of title to land at the address shown on the county assessment roll,...
California Water Code Section 46710
If any installment remains unpaid at the expiration of 60 days from the date of the order, it becomes delinquent, together with the accrued interest...
California Water Code Section 46730
Immediately after the installment has become delinquent, the county treasurer shall prepare and publish once a week for two consecutive weeks in each affected county...
California Water Code Section 46731
The notice shall contain all the following: (a) A description of the property assessed. (b) The name of the person to whom it is assessed...
California Water Code Section 46755
The date of the sale of assessed property shall not be less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice...
California Water Code Section 46756
At the time stated in the notice, or such other time to which the sale may have been postponed, the county treasurer shall sell the...
California Water Code Section 46757
Out of the proceeds of sale, the county treasurer shall deposit the amount due on the property as shown in the notice in the proper...
California Water Code Section 46758
The county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the property any surplus remaining after the deposit to the credit of the district, after first...
California Water Code Section 46759
Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board may direct the county treasurer to postpone the sale from time to time, for...
California Water Code Section 46759.5
Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board of directors may, by resolution filed with the county treasurer of the affected county...
California Water Code Section 46760
Upon filing of a resolution pursuant to Section 46759.5 or if no bid is made for the property equal to the amount due thereon, the...
California Water Code Section 46761
A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the purchaser, and this certificate of sale shall be recorded in the office...
California Water Code Section 46785
Any person interested in property sold for nonpayment of assessments may redeem it at any time within three years after the date of the sale...
California Water Code Section 46786
The redemptioner shall pay to the county treasurer the amount for which the property was sold, interest on the sum at the rate of 9...
California Water Code Section 46788
If no redemption is made within three years from the date of sale, the purchaser or the district, if the property shall have been sold...
California Water Code Section 46788.1
After receiving a demand for a deed pursuant to Section 46788, and not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days before delivery of...
California Water Code Section 46788.2
After the first publication of the notice required by Section 46788.1, and not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days before the date...
California Water Code Section 46788.3
Upon first publication of the notice required by Section 46788.1, there shall be added to the amount to redeem as provided in Section 46786 the...
California Water Code Section 46789
The effect of the deed shall be to convey the property free and clear of all liens and encumbrances except state, county, and municipal taxes,...
California Water Code Section 46790
In any district having no outstanding bonds issued prior to September 15, 1935, any parcel of land heretofore deeded to the district by the county...
California Water Code Section 46791
The deed executed by the district shall convey the property free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, except as provided in this article for...
California Water Code Section 46792
The district may sell property deeded to it for nonpayment of assessments at any time at a public auction after notice given for the same...
California Water Code Section 46793
The deed executed by the district shall convey the property free from all encumbrances except as provided in this article for a deed by the...
California Water Code Section 46794
The district may also dispose of property acquired by it for nonpayment of assessments at a private sale, without any notice, when the district is...
California Water Code Section 46795
In any case where a district in the process of dissolution has sold and transferred any of its property at such a private sale prior...
California Water Code Section 46796
Any action or proceeding, based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of a deed executed by the county treasurer to the district or based on...
California Water Code Section 46797
An action or proceeding based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any agreement of sale, deed, lease, or option executed by a district in...
California Water Code Section 46900
"Supplementary assessment", as used in this chapter, means an assessment, in addition to the original assessment, for the purpose of raising an additional sum for...
California Water Code Section 46901
If the original assessment for the project or any unit or combination of units thereof is insufficient to provide for the completion of the project...
California Water Code Section 46902
Each supplementary assessment shall be apportioned among the different tracts of land in the proportion which the amounts assessed against the tracts by the original...
California Water Code Section 46903
The supplementary assessment shall be made by order entered in the minutes of the board stating the total amount necessary to be raised and fixing...
California Water Code Section 46904
Upon making the assessment order, the board shall prepare a supplementary assessment roll showing all the following: (a) A description of each tract assessed. (b)...
California Water Code Section 46905
Upon completion of the supplementary assessment roll, the board shall file with the county treasurer of each affected county a copy of so much of...
California Water Code Section 46906
Upon the filing of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, the supplementary assessment constitutes a lien upon each tract shown to be assessed by...
California Water Code Section 46907
At any time within 60 days from the filing of the copy of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, it may be amended by...
California Water Code Section 46930
The supplementary assessment shall be collected in the manner provided for the collection of original assessments, and the board may call the assessment as a...
California Water Code Section 46950
The board may determine upon the acquisition of property or the construction of work not contemplated in the report and recommendation, with accompanying plans and...
California Water Code Section 46951
The same proceedings for the preparation and adoption or rejection of the report and recommendation as to the acquisition of additional property or construction of...
California Water Code Section 47100
"Supplementary assessment" as used in this chapter means an assessment, in addition to the original assessment, for the purpose of raising an additional sum for...
California Water Code Section 47101
Whenever after completion of the works of a district in whole or in part it becomes necessary in the opinion of its board to raise...
California Water Code Section 47102
The board shall file with the secretary a copy of the report and the plans and specifications, and a notice of the filing of the...
California Water Code Section 47103
The hearings shall be public, and held at the ordinary place of business of the board.
California Water Code Section 47104
At the hearing all protestants shall be permitted to appear in person or by attorney and present their objections to the report.
California Water Code Section 47105
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board may either: (a) Adopt the report. (b) Modify the report. (c) Cause a new report to be...
California Water Code Section 47125
The supplementary assessment shall be apportioned among the respective tracts of land in the proportions which the total amounts assessed against the tracts by the...
California Water Code Section 47126
The order making the supplementary assessment shall be entered in the minutes of the board, shall state the total amount necessary to be raised, and...
California Water Code Section 47127
Upon making the assessment order, the board shall prepare a supplementary assessment roll showing all the following: (a) A description of each tract assessed. (b)...
California Water Code Section 47128
Upon the completion of the supplementary assessment roll, the board shall file with the county treasurer of each county in which is situated land subject...
California Water Code Section 47129
The supplementary assessment is a lien upon each tract shown to be assessed by the copy of the assessment roll filed with the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 47130
At any time within 60 days from the filing of the copy of the assessment roll with the county treasurer, it may be amended by...
California Water Code Section 47155
The supplementary assessment shall be collected in the manner provided in this division for the collection of original assessments and the board may call the...
California Water Code Section 47156
The report of the commissioners allocating or spreading the original assessment levied for construction purposes and all assessment rolls for the original assessment or for...
California Water Code Section 47157
All provisions of this division with respect to the levy and collection of assessments shall, so far as appropriate, be applicable to supplementary assessments.
California Water Code Section 47180
For the purpose of the care, operation, management, or improvement of such portions of the project as are in use, including salaries of officers and...
California Water Code Section 47181
Whenever any tolls or charges for the use of the water or for other services rendered by the district provided for by this division have...
California Water Code Section 47182
In case any tolls or charges remain unpaid for a period of 30 days after they become payable, they become delinquent and a penalty of...
California Water Code Section 47183
After any toll or charge becomes delinquent, the board may file in the office of the county recorder of the county in which is situated...
California Water Code Section 47184
The board may, at any time after any toll or charge provided for in this division has become delinquent, direct that proceedings be not taken...
California Water Code Section 47185
In the suit the district may recover the amount of the toll or charge, together with penalties and interest, and costs of suit.
California Water Code Section 47300
The lien of any unpaid assessment upon which bonds have been issued continues until all the bonds have been paid in full.
California Water Code Section 47301
If for any reason any part of the principal or interest of the bonds remains unpaid after enforcement of the assessment as provided in this...
California Water Code Section 47302
The additional or supplemental assessment shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as the original assessment.
California Water Code Section 47303
Where bonds of the district have been authorized to be issued on the assessments, all unpaid assessments bear interest at the rate of 7 percent...
California Water Code Section 47304
The interest due at any time on unpaid assessments may be called without calling any installment of the assessment.
California Water Code Section 47305
The word installment as used in this chapter shall be construed as applying to interest as well as to principal, as the case may be.
California Water Code Section 47325
At least 90 days before any interest date of the bonds, the treasurer of the district shall certify to the county treasurer of each affected...
California Water Code Section 47326
Each county treasurer shall cause to be published once a week for two successive weeks in the county of which he is county treasurer a...
California Water Code Section 47327
If any part of the installment or any interest thereon remains unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the notice, it...
California Water Code Section 47350
When any installment has become delinquent, the county treasurer shall, within 10 days, publish a notice in the county once a week for two successive...
California Water Code Section 47351
At the time stated in the notice, the county treasurer shall sell each parcel of land described in the notice to the highest bidder, unless...
California Water Code Section 47352
The sale shall be made for cash, except the treasurer may receive from any purchaser, at their face value in lieu cash, bonds of the...
California Water Code Section 47353
If no bid is made for any parcel at the sale equal to the amount of the installment delinquent thereon, with interest and penalty, the...
California Water Code Section 47354
The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser, including himself as trustee, a certificate of sale, and shall record a duplicate in the county recorder's
California Water Code Section 47375
Any person interested in property sold pursuant to this chapter may redeem it at any time within three years after the date of sale by...
California Water Code Section 47376
If no redemption is made within three years, the county treasurer, upon demand and surrender of the certificate of purchase, shall execute to the purchaser,...
California Water Code Section 47377
The deed shall convey the land to the grantee free and clear of all encumbrances, except state, county, and municipal taxes, assessments or taxes levied...
California Water Code Section 47378
No parcel sold and conveyed to the district shall thereafter be subject to sale by the county treasurer for delinquent installments.
California Water Code Section 47379
Every deed by a county treasurer purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein...
California Water Code Section 47400
The board shall levy an amendatory assessment in the manner provided for original assessments in Chapter 2 of this part if the original assessment was...
California Water Code Section 47401
In case the assessment to be amended was not one made under Chapter 2 of this part, the board shall cause an amendatory assessment as...
California Water Code Section 47550
Upon the inclusion of any land within a district pursuant to Chapter 2 of Part 10 of this division an assessment shall be levied upon...
California Water Code Section 47551
The board shall appoint commissioners to make the assessment in the number and manner provided in Article 1 (commencing with Section 46150) of Chapter 2...
California Water Code Section 47552
The assessment shall be made in the same manner and with the same incidents as an original assessment under Chapter 2 of this part, and...
California Water Code Section 47700
Upon the call of any assessment, or portion thereof, as provided in this division the board shall ascertain the total net revenue which has been...
California Water Code Section 47701
From the assessment called upon each tract of land which has been assessed for the costs of the properties comprising the portion of the project...
California Water Code Section 47800
When a district has levied an assessment and it appears to the board that the assesssment or some part thereof, together with the interest thereon,...
California Water Code Section 47801
In the resolution of intention the board shall specify the portion of the assessment balance proposed to be canceled and appoint a time not less...
California Water Code Section 47803
A copy of the resolution of intention shall be published once a week for three successive weeks before the time appointed by the board for...
California Water Code Section 47804
Objections shall be written, verified, and filed with the secretary, and no objection shall be considered by the board or allowed in any other action...
California Water Code Section 47805
At the meeting the board shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections, after which the board may, by resolution, cancel all...
California Water Code Section 47806
When a resolution to cancel is adopted, a copy thereof, certified by the secretary, shall be attached to the assessment roll by the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 47807
When the resolution to cancel is attached to the assessment roll the secretary shall endorse upon the assessment roll after each tract assessed the amount...
California Water Code Section 47808
When a landowner, in a district in which the board has canceled any assessment balance or portion thereof, has paid all or a part of...
California Water Code Section 47809
The warrants shall be payable out of the fund of the district into which the proceeds of the assessment had been paid. The board shall...
California Water Code Section 47810
No assessment balance or part thereof shall be canceled pursuant to this chapter if bonds based thereon and secured thereby have been issued and remain...
California Water Code Section 47900
This chapter provides an alternative method for the collection and enforcement of district assessments.
California Water Code Section 47901
The board may elect to avail itself of the assessor, auditor and tax collector of the county or counties in which the district is situated...
California Water Code Section 47902
The board shall declare its election by a resolution and shall file a certified copy of said resolution with the auditor, assessor, tax collector and...
California Water Code Section 47903
An election pursuant to Section 47902 is effective with respect to all assessments designated by the board to be collected pursuant to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 47904
On or before the 15th day of July, the board shall designate and determine by resolution the percentage of any assessment theretofore levied that shall...
California Water Code Section 47905
A certified copy of the resolution provided for in Section 47904 shall immediately be filed by the secretary of the district with the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 47906
The county treasurer, upon receipt of the certified copy of the resolution, provided for by Sections 47904 and 47905, shall forthwith discontinue making collections on...
California Water Code Section 47907
The county auditor, on receipt of said affected assessment rolls from the county treasurer, shall compute the amount to be collected from each parcel of...
California Water Code Section 47908
Assessments called pursuant to this chapter shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net...
California Water Code Section 47909
Each county assessor, auditor, treasurer and tax collector shall file annually with the board of supervisors of his county, itemized statements showing the additional expenses...
California Water Code Section 47910
The board of supervisors may provide extra help for their county offices or officers as in their judgment is necessary for the proper performance of...
California Water Code Section 47911
Whenever any real property situated in any district which availed itself of county collection of assessments under this chapter has been sold for taxes and...
California Water Code Section 47912
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 47902 and 47903, any district organized pursuant to this division, which organization was completed prior to the effective date of...
California Water Code Section 47930
The board, by resolution, in lieu of enforcing collection of delinquent assessments pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 46670) of this part, may include...
California Water Code Section 47901
The board may elect to avail itself of the assessor, auditor and tax collector of the county or counties in which the district is situated...
California Water Code Section 47902
The board shall declare its election by a resolution and shall file a certified copy of said resolution with the auditor, assessor, tax collector and...
California Water Code Section 47903
An election pursuant to Section 47902 is effective with respect to all assessments designated by the board to be collected pursuant to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 47904
On or before the 15th day of July, the board shall designate and determine by resolution the percentage of any assessment theretofore levied that shall...
California Water Code Section 47905
A certified copy of the resolution provided for in Section 47904 shall immediately be filed by the secretary of the district with the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 47906
The county treasurer, upon receipt of the certified copy of the resolution, provided for by Sections 47904 and 47905, shall forthwith discontinue making collections on...
California Water Code Section 47907
The county auditor, on receipt of said affected assessment rolls from the county treasurer, shall compute the amount to be collected from each parcel of...
California Water Code Section 47908
Assessments called pursuant to this chapter shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net...
California Water Code Section 47909
Each county assessor, auditor, treasurer and tax collector shall file annually with the board of supervisors of his county, itemized statements showing the additional expenses...
California Water Code Section 47910
The board of supervisors may provide extra help for their county offices or officers as in their judgment is necessary for the proper performance of...
California Water Code Section 47911
Whenever any real property situated in any district which availed itself of county collection of assessments under this chapter has been sold for taxes and...
California Water Code Section 47912
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 47902 and 47903, any district organized pursuant to this division, which organization was completed prior to the effective date of...
California Water Code Section 47960
The provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 46670) of this part with reference to the method of collection of assessments shall not be applicable...
California Water Code Section 47961
The enforcement of the collection of district assessments under this chapter may be had in the same manner and by the same means as provided...
California Water Code Section 47980
The district may elect to have the county collect such tolls and charges established pursuant to Section 43006 or 47180 as may be designated by...
California Water Code Section 47981
The county auditor shall thereafter add to the tax bills for each assessee and assessee parcel as so certified, in addition to the other charges,...
California Water Code Section 47982
The county tax collector and treasurer shall thereupon collect, receive and disperse to the district such tolls and charges as are collected with the regular...
California Water Code Section 48000
The holder or holders of title to one or more tracts of land which constitute a portion of a district may jointly or severally file...
California Water Code Section 48001
The petition shall state the grounds and reasons upon which it is claimed that the land should be excluded and shall describe the boundaries thereof,...
California Water Code Section 48002
The petition shall be acknowledged, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect as evidence as the acknowledgment of a conveyance of real
California Water Code Section 48003
The board shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition to be published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper...
California Water Code Section 48004
The notice shall state all of the following: (a) The filing of the petition. (b) The names of the petitioners. (c) A description of the...
California Water Code Section 48025
At the time and place provided in the notice of hearing on the exclusion petition published pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter, or at...
California Water Code Section 48026
The failure of any person interested in the district, other than the holders of bonds thereof outstanding at the time of the filing of the...
California Water Code Section 48027
The filing of the petition with the board constitutes an assent by each and all of the petitioners to the exclusion from the district of...
California Water Code Section 48028
The expenses of giving the notice provided for in Article 1 of this chapter and of the hearing on the exclusion petition shall be paid...
California Water Code Section 48029
Upon the hearing of an exclusion petition the board shall order that the petition be denied: (a) Entirely when no evidence in support of the...
California Water Code Section 48030
The board, after the hearing of any exclusion petition, shall order the exclusion of all or any part of the land described in it when...
California Water Code Section 48031
No exclusion of land from any district impairs its existence, its rights, including those in or to property, or its obligations.
California Water Code Section 48055
If there are outstanding bonds of the district at the time of the filing of the exclusion petition, the holders of the outstanding bonds may...
California Water Code Section 48056
The assent shall be acknowledged by the several holders of the bonds, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect as evidence as...
California Water Code Section 48057
The assent shall be filed with the board and be recorded in its minutes. The minutes, or a copy thereof, certified by the board, shall...
California Water Code Section 48080
In the event the board excludes any land from the district upon petition therefor, the board shall make an entry in its minutes describing the...
California Water Code Section 48081
A certified copy of the entry in the minutes of the board excluding any land shall be filed for record in the recorder's office of...
California Water Code Section 48082
Notwithstanding the exclusion of land, the district remains a district as fully to every intent and purpose as it would be had no change been...
California Water Code Section 48083
In case land is excluded from any district, the board may, not less than 60 days before any election in the district, re-establish the boundaries...
California Water Code Section 48084
Nothing in this division shall operate to release any of the land excluded from the district from any obligation to pay, or any lien thereon...
California Water Code Section 48085
All provisions which might be resorted to to compel the payment by the land of its quota or portion of outstanding district obligations, had the...
California Water Code Section 48086
The land excluded shall not be held answerable or chargeable for any obligation incurred after the exclusion of the land from the district.
California Water Code Section 48087
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any outstanding bonds, the holders of which have assented to the exclusion of the land from...
California Water Code Section 48200
The holders of title representing one-half or more of any body of land within the same watershed as an existing district may file with the...
California Water Code Section 48201
The petition shall describe the boundaries of the parcel or tract of land and the boundaries of the several parcels owned by the petitioners, if...
California Water Code Section 48202
The petition shall be acknowledged, and shall contain the assent of the petitioners to the inclusion within the district of the land described in the...
California Water Code Section 48203
The board shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition to be published in the same manner and for the same time that...
California Water Code Section 48204
The notice shall state all the following: (a) The filing of the petition and the names of the petitioners. (b) A description of the land...
California Water Code Section 48205
The petitioners shall advance to the board sufficient money to pay the estimated costs of all proceedings upon the petition.
California Water Code Section 48225
At the time and place mentioned in the notice of filing of the inclusion petition, or at such other time or times to which the...
California Water Code Section 48226
The failure of any interested person to show cause in writing as provided in this article shall be an assent on his part to a...
California Water Code Section 48227
The board shall order the boundaries of the district changed so as to include the land described in the inclusion petition, or such portion thereof...
California Water Code Section 48228
The order of the board shall describe the boundaries as changed, and shall also describe the entire boundaries of the district as they will be...
California Water Code Section 48229
A certified copy of the inclusion order shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which land to be...
California Water Code Section 48230
If the board determines that it is not feasible and practicable to serve any of the land described in the petition or that it is...
California Water Code Section 48231
No inclusion of land into any district impairs its existence, its rights, including those in or to property, or its obligations.
California Water Code Section 48250
If upon the inclusion hearing the board concludes that it is feasible to serve the land, or a portion thereof, described in the inclusion petition,...
California Water Code Section 48251
Upon the making of a finding by the board as provided in Section 48250, it shall order that an inclusion election be held within the...
California Water Code Section 48252
The board shall fix the time at which the election shall be held and cause notice thereof to be published.
California Water Code Section 48253
The notice shall be published and the election shall be held and conducted, returns thereof shall be made and canvassed, and the result of the...
California Water Code Section 48254
The notice of election shall state that the election is for the purpose of determining whether certain land, describing its boundaries, shall or shall not...
California Water Code Section 48255
The ballots cast at the election shall contain the words "For change of boundary--Yes" and "For change of boundary--No."
California Water Code Section 48256
If at the election a majority of all the votes cast are against the change of the boundaries of the district, the petition is denied.
California Water Code Section 48257
If a majority of the votes are in favor of the change of boundaries, the board shall make its order, as provided in Article 2...
California Water Code Section 48258
A certified copy of the inclusion order shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county wherein land to be included...
California Water Code Section 48259
In case land is included within any district as provided in this chapter, the board shall re-establish the boundaries of the divisions within the district...
California Water Code Section 48260
The board shall also re-establish the boundaries of the election precincts within the district, except that in the case of the inclusion of any land...
California Water Code Section 48300
Whenever land is excluded from the district or land is included in the district pursuant to this part, the board shall file a certificate with...
California Water Code Section 48350
A district may be consolidated in the same manner as is provided for the consolidation of county water districts in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 48400
Any district organized pursuant to this division may be dissolved as provided by law.
California Water Code Section 48401
In case a contract authorized by law has been made between a district and the United States pertaining to the construction, maintenance, or operation of...
California Water Code Section 50000
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 50001
"District" means any reclamation district formed pursuant to any law of this State prior to April 5, 1911, and any district formed pursuant to Article...
California Water Code Section 50002
"Board" means the board of trustees of a reclamation district.
California Water Code Section 50003
"President" means the president of the board of trustees.
California Water Code Section 50004
"Secretary" means the secretary of the board of trustees.
California Water Code Section 50005
"Trustee" means a member of the board of trustees of a reclamation district.
California Water Code Section 50006
"Landowner" means the holder of title or evidence of title to land within a district.
California Water Code Section 50007
"Parcel" means a tract of land within a district.
California Water Code Section 50008
"District lands" means all lands within a district.
California Water Code Section 50009
"Principal county" means the county in which the whole or the greater portion of the land of a district is situated.
California Water Code Section 50010
"County treasurer" means the county treasurer of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 50011
"Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 50012
"County clerk" means the county clerk of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 50013
"Reclamation works" means such public works and equipment as are necessary for the unwatering, watering, or irrigation of district lands and other district operations.
California Water Code Section 50014
"Eligible person" means a landowner or the legal representative of a landowner.
California Water Code Section 50015
"Legal representative" means an officer or other person or persons appointed to serve in that capacity by a landowner.
California Water Code Section 50016
"Voter" means a landowner or the legal representative of a landowner, or if the district uses the alternate tax procedure under Article 4 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 50100
Nothing in this division impairs the validity of any district formed prior to the effective date of this division, its rights, or obligations.
California Water Code Section 50101
All swamp and overflowed salt-marsh and tidelands within one mile of the State Prison at San Quentin are excluded from the operation of this division.
California Water Code Section 50110
Districts may be formed pursuant to this division for the reclamation of any land within any city, which land is subject in any manner, to...
California Water Code Section 50111
When districts are formed in cities pursuant to Section 50110 the duties required by this division to be performed by county officers shall be performed...
California Water Code Section 50120
The purchaser of public land unsold in any district at the date of filing of the by-laws of the district takes the land subject to...
California Water Code Section 50121
A purchaser of public lands within a district has all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the original signers of the by-laws of the district...
California Water Code Section 50123
When the board, or landowners in districts having no board, certify under oath to the board of supervisors and show to its satisfaction that the...
California Water Code Section 50124
The State Lands Commission, upon receipt of the certification from the board of supervisors, shall forward to the treasurer of each county in which any...
California Water Code Section 50126
The county treasurer, upon receipt of the statement from the State Lands Commission showing the amounts paid by each purchaser of swamp and overflowed lands...
California Water Code Section 50127
No distribution of the "swamp-land fund" shall be made pursuant to Section 50126 while the district has an outstanding indebtedness represented by Controller's warrants drawn...
California Water Code Section 50128
When the purchasers of swamp and overflowed lands have paid for such lands in full, the board may allow a credit of one dollar ($1)...
California Water Code Section 50129
No credit shall be given, or agreed to be given, until the landowner has paid all assessments levied on the lands, with interest thereon at...
California Water Code Section 50130
No credit shall be given, or agreed to be given to any landowner who has previously received such credit.
California Water Code Section 50140
Any person who cuts, injures, or destroys reclamation works in any district, is responsible for all damages occasioned thereby to such works.
California Water Code Section 50141
An action for damages caused by cutting, injuring, or destroying reclamation works may be commenced in the superior court of any county in which the...
California Water Code Section 50142
Damages recovered in the action shall be paid to the treasurer of the county in which the action is brought, who shall credit the amount...
California Water Code Section 50145
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 50151
An action against any person by reason of his official connection with a district, or against the board, or the district, shall be instituted and...
California Water Code Section 50153
Any landowner may maintain an action on behalf of his district in the superior court of the county in which any part of the district...
California Water Code Section 50154
Any landowner may maintain an action on behalf of his district in the superior court of a county in which any part of the district...
California Water Code Section 50160
For all purposes relating to signing petitions and bylaws and voting, the last equalized tax roll for each county wherein any district land is situated...
California Water Code Section 50170
Guardians, conservators, executors, administrators and other persons holding land in a trust capacity under appointment of court may sign petitions or bylaws or vote without...
California Water Code Section 50300
A petition for the formation of a district, verified by the affidavit of one of the petitioners, may be presented to the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 50301
The petition shall state that petitioners desire to reclaim the land, or that the land has been reclaimed, or that the reclamation is in progress,...
California Water Code Section 50302
The petition shall be published once a week for two weeks preceding the hearing thereof in a newspaper of general circulation published in the principal...
California Water Code Section 50303
An affidavit of publication shall be filed with the petition.
California Water Code Section 50310
If the board of supervisors finds, on the hearing of the petition, that the statements therein are correct, it shall make an order approving the
California Water Code Section 50311
If it is shown that any land is improperly included in the proposed district, the board of supervisors shall, in its order, exclude the same
California Water Code Section 50312
If the board of supervisors concludes that lands susceptible of the same mode of reclamation are improperly omitted from the proposed district, and the owners...
California Water Code Section 50313
The notice to nonappearing landowners shall be given either by publication in the same manner and for the same period as the orginal petition, or...
California Water Code Section 50314
If the notice is given by personal service, the service shall be made at least three days prior to the date fixed for the further
California Water Code Section 50315
Proof of publication or personal service of the notice shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors on or before the day...
California Water Code Section 50316
The board of supervisors may further continue the hearing from time to time, by order entered upon its minutes, to the end that a full...
California Water Code Section 50317
Upon the final hearing on the petition the board of supervisors shall make an order approving the petition, as originally presented, or in a modified
California Water Code Section 50318
The order, signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors, and attested by the clerk thereof, shall describe the exterior boundaries of the district,...
California Water Code Section 50330
The petition, with the order of the board of supervisors endorsed thereon or attached thereto, shall be recorded by the county recorder.
California Water Code Section 50331
When a district is situated partly in different counties, the board, after the petition has been granted, shall forward a copy of the petition and...
California Water Code Section 50332
A copy of the petition and order of the board of supervisors approving the same, certified by the county clerk, shall be forwarded to the...
California Water Code Section 50333
The State Lands Commission, upon the receipt of a copy of a petition, or certificate of the county clerk that a district has been formed,...
California Water Code Section 50334
The county recorder, upon receipt of the notice from the State Lands Commission, shall record the same, and the district shall thereafter be known and...
California Water Code Section 50335
Districts organized before May 28, 1868, may retain their respective numbers.
California Water Code Section 50370
The owners of a majority of the acreage in the district may adopt bylaws, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, for the government...
California Water Code Section 50370.2
As an alternative to the adoption of bylaws by the owners, the board may adopt bylaws, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, for...
California Water Code Section 50370.4
The notice of public hearing shall be posted in at least three conspicuous places within the district for at least 15 days prior to the...
California Water Code Section 50370.6
At the public hearing held on the bylaws proposed to be so adopted, the board shall receive any comments or proposals concerning the proposed bylaws,...
California Water Code Section 50371
When the bylaws have been adopted they shall be filed for record with the county recorder.
California Water Code Section 50373
By-laws may be amended in the same manner as adopted.
California Water Code Section 50374
A board of trustees shall be elected as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 50600) of Part 3 of this division unless the district...
California Water Code Section 50400
When any land, susceptible of one mode of reclamation, is entirely owned by parties who desire to reclaim the land, and to manage the reclamation...
California Water Code Section 50401
When the petition is granted, the district is organized and the owners of the lands have all the rights, immunities, privileges, and duties granted to...
California Water Code Section 50402
The existence of a district formed to operate without a board shall not prevent the owners of the land included therein from forming a district...
California Water Code Section 50403
The presentation of a petition for formation of a district to operate with a board is an abandonment of the rights, immunities, and privileges conferred...
California Water Code Section 50440
An action to determine the legality of the existence of a district may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title...
California Water Code Section 50441
The court shall not adjudge any district invalid when it appears that the district has for five years prior to the commencement of the proceeding...
California Water Code Section 50442
No proceeding in quo warranto, nor any similar action or proceeding shall be maintained in the name of the people of the State against any...
California Water Code Section 50600
After the formation of the district, the board of supervisors, on the application of a landowner, shall call an election in compliance with the provisions...
California Water Code Section 50601
The by-laws of a district may provide, or be amended to provide, for a board of five or seven members, and, if the original by-laws...
California Water Code Section 50602
Members of the board shall be elected for a term of four years and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. The terms...
California Water Code Section 50602.5
Members of the board of a district whose terms have not been staggered as of the date when this section becomes effective shall meet and...
California Water Code Section 50603
After the first election of the board, the district is organized and has power to sue and be sued.
California Water Code Section 50604
Vacancies in the board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 50605
(a) Each member of the board shall receive such compensation for services actually and necessarily performed as the board determines to be just and reasonable,...
California Water Code Section 50606
All claims by or in behalf of a trustee for services rendered or expenses incurred shall be presented to the board, and, if allowed, shall...
California Water Code Section 50609
Except as otherwise provided in the by-laws, any meeting of the board at which all members are present, or of which all members have received...
California Water Code Section 50610
Members of the board of trustees appointed pursuant to Section 58762.1 of the Government Code shall be immune from liability to creditors of the district...
California Water Code Section 50630
The board shall elect one of its members as its president, and one of its members, or any other person, as its secretary.
California Water Code Section 50631
The secretary shall have charge of the office of the board, keep the minutes of all meetings, attest all documents, other than bonds, requiring the...
California Water Code Section 50650
The board is the governing body of the district.
California Water Code Section 50651
The powers of the district enumerated in this division shall, except as therein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board.
California Water Code Section 50652
The board shall exercise general supervision and complete control over the construction, maintenance and operation of the reclamation works, and generally over the affairs of...
California Water Code Section 50653
The board shall receive from the reclamation board any money allowed on account of uncollected assessments previously levied on lands purchased by the board for...
California Water Code Section 50654
The board, pursuant to an order entered in its minutes, may distribute, among the landowners of the district, any surplus funds in the treasury belonging...
California Water Code Section 50655
The board may adopt and alter a seal.
California Water Code Section 50656
All documents requiring approval by the board shall bear the signature of either a trustee or the secretary.
California Water Code Section 50657
The board may create a revolving fund by an order entered in its minutes and shall file a copy of the order, certified by the...
California Water Code Section 50658
No warrant for the creation or replenishment of a revolving fund shall be paid by the county treasurer unless the order creating the revolving fund...
California Water Code Section 50659
A revolving fund shall be disbursed only by checks or drafts, signed by at least two members of the board, or by some person who...
California Water Code Section 50660
The county treasurer shall be deemed the ex officio treasurer of the district unless the board, by resolution, and with the written consent of the...
California Water Code Section 50700
An election board consists of three landowners of the district or legal representatives who shall be appointed by the board of supervisors and shall consist...
California Water Code Section 50701
The board, prior to each election, shall cause a copy of the appropriate roll to be utilized pursuant to Section 50704 to be prepared and...
California Water Code Section 50702
The certified roll furnished to the election board shall be used by the election board in determining the number of votes each voter may cast.
California Water Code Section 50703
If a member of the election board fails to attend at the opening of the polls, the voters present may appoint in his place any...
California Water Code Section 50704
Each voter in the district may vote at any election in person or by proxy, and may cast his or her votes as follows: (a)...
California Water Code Section 50704.5
When a parcel is held as community property or in joint tenancy or as tenants in common, any spouse or joint tenant or tenant in...
California Water Code Section 50705
The polls shall be kept open from 10 a.m. of the day of election until 4 p.m. Where the real property in the district is...
California Water Code Section 50707
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and regardless of the number of eligible voters within its boundaries, a district may, by resolution of its...
California Water Code Section 50730
There shall be an election in each district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year at such place...
California Water Code Section 50731
In addition to the regular election under Section 50730, upon receipt of a recommendation of the board of trustees or upon receipt of a verified...
California Water Code Section 50731.5
(a) Nominations for the office of trustee shall be made by petition filed with the secretary not earlier than 75 days or later than 5...
California Water Code Section 50731.6
The nomination petition shall be in substantially the following form: Official Filing Petition Nomination of Candidate We, the undersigned voters of Reclamation District No. ____,...
California Water Code Section 50732
Notice of the election shall be published by the secretary once a week for four weeks beginning not less than one month prior to the...
California Water Code Section 50740
If by 5 p.m. on the 54th day prior to a general district election the number of nominees does not exceed the number of trustees...
California Water Code Section 50741
When no election is held pursuant to Section 50740 then the board of supervisors shall appoint those nominated for the positions of trustee, and if...
California Water Code Section 50742
If pursuant to Section 50740 a district election is not held, the board of supervisors of the county in which the district, or the largest...
California Water Code Section 50750
Each member of the election board, upon entering upon his duties, shall be sworn to a faithful performance thereof by some officer authorized to administer
California Water Code Section 50751
If the board of supervisors fails to appoint an election board, the voters present at the opening of the polls may appoint the election board.
California Water Code Section 50752
The election board shall canvass the votes cast and issue certificates of election to the persons elected, and shall place the ballots, when canvassed, in...
California Water Code Section 50753
Each voter may cumulate his votes, and give one candidate a number of votes equal to the number of trustees to be elected multiplied by...
California Water Code Section 50754
The board of directors of irrigation districts holding title to lands obtained through collectors' deeds may cast the votes belonging to such lands.
California Water Code Section 50755
Any qualified voter may challenge any vote, and the election board shall determine whether the person challenged is entitled to vote. Any member of the...
California Water Code Section 50756
The candidates, of the number to be elected, receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected.
California Water Code Section 50757
Any person who knowingly makes an untrue statement in establishing his right to vote in a district election shall incur all of the penalties provided...
California Water Code Section 50758
If the ownership of any property in the district is changed after the making of the last equalized tax roll for the county wherein the...
California Water Code Section 50759
No person shall vote by proxy at a district election unless authority to vote is evidenced by an instrument in writing acknowledged and certified in...
California Water Code Section 50780
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter applies to the manner in which elections are conducted in the Reclamation District No. 1000.
California Water Code Section 50780.2
"District," for purposes of this chapter, means the Reclamation District No. 1000.
California Water Code Section 50780.4
(a) A "land assessment seat," for purposes of this chapter, means a seat held by a trustee elected by voters as defined in subdivision (a)...
California Water Code Section 50780.6
(a) A "parcel seat," for purposes of this chapter, means a seat held by a trustee elected by voters as defined in subdivision (a) of...
California Water Code Section 50780.8
(a) A "resident voter seat," for purposes of this chapter, means a seat held by a trustee elected by voters as defined in subdivision (b)...
California Water Code Section 50780.10
A "voter" means any of the following: (a) A landowner or the legal representative of a landowner. (b) A voter as defined in Section 359...
California Water Code Section 50780.12
Commencing with the 1993 district election, the district shall have a seven-member board, whose trustees are residents of the district. The residency requirement does not...
California Water Code Section 50780.14
At the 1993 district election, the board shall designate the seats of the two trustees whose terms expire and the two new seats as "land...
California Water Code Section 50780.16
At the 1995 district election, the board shall designate the seats of the three trustees whose terms expire as "parcel seats."
California Water Code Section 50780.18
(a) The manner in which the trustees shall be elected at the 1997 district election, and at every district election thereafter, depends on the percentage...
California Water Code Section 50780.20
At the time of a designation pursuant to Section 50780.18, the board shall adjust, by lot, the length of the terms of any trustees whose...
California Water Code Section 50780.22
Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, this part applies to a district election.
California Water Code Section 50800
A special election is an election called pursuant to the provisions of this part to submit to the landowners the question of whether or not...
California Water Code Section 50801
The board shall call a special election when either: (a) The board determines that the issuance of bonds or refunding bonds is to the best...
California Water Code Section 50802
Notice of a special election shall be given by the board by posting notices thereof in at least three public places in the district at...
California Water Code Section 50803
When a special election is called to determine whether bonds of the district shall be issued, the notice shall specify the time and place of...
California Water Code Section 50804
When the special election is called to determine whether refunding bonds shall be issued, the notices shall be substantially in the following form: "Notice of...
California Water Code Section 50805
An affidavit of the publication and posting of the notice shall be filed with the county elections official, with a copy of the order calling...
California Water Code Section 50810
Each member of the election board, before entering upon his duties, shall take and subscribe an official oath administered by an officer authorized to administer...
California Water Code Section 50811
Any person not legally qualified to vote who makes any false statement in respect to his right to vote in a special election to determine...
California Water Code Section 50812
If the ownership of any property in the district is changed after the making of the last equalized tax roll for the county wherein the...
California Water Code Section 50813
No person shall vote by proxy at a special election unless the authority to vote is evidenced by an instrument in writing, acknowledged and certified...
California Water Code Section 50814
The ballots cast at the special election shall contain the words: "Bonds--yes" or the words "Bonds--no," or "Refunding Bonds--yes," or "Refunding Bonds--no," as the case...
California Water Code Section 50815
A list of the ballots cast shall be made by the election board containing the name of each voter, the number of votes cast by...
California Water Code Section 50816
At the close of the polls the election board shall: (a) Immediately canvass the votes and declare the result. (b) Forward a certificate showing the...
California Water Code Section 50817
Any interested person may contest a special election within 20 days after the filing of the certificate with the county elections official by bringing suit...
California Water Code Section 50900
A district may do all things necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purposes for which it was formed.
California Water Code Section 50901
If a district is in debt it has no power to impair or destroy any of its indebtedness without the consent of the creditors, but...
California Water Code Section 50902
(a) In addition to its other powers, a district may, by a resolution of the board at a noticed public hearing, fix and collect charges...
California Water Code Section 50903
A district of less than 100 acres and situated adjacent to the Stockton Ship Channel may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, repair, and improve lands, works,...
California Water Code Section 50904
A district may, by resolution of the board, provide a procedure for and collect charges and fees, by way of the tax bills of the...
California Water Code Section 50905
The Edgerly Island Reclamation District may provide for the disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other waste and, for that purpose, may design, finance, construct,...
California Water Code Section 50906
Reclamation District No. 1004 may, in conjunction with the County of Colusa, construct, maintain, and operate a plant for the generation of hydroelectric power, together...
California Water Code Section 50907
All districts formed under this division or under a special act of the Legislature and authorized to act, under this division, shall be subject to...
California Water Code Section 50910
A district may acquire, take or hold by gift, purchase, conditional sales contract, lease, condemnation, or other legal means, and maintain and operate the whole...
California Water Code Section 50911
When a district has adopted plans for the irrigation of district lands it may: (a) Adopt rules and regulations for the distribution of water. (b)...
California Water Code Section 50912
A district, upon payment of and compliance with such tolls, rates, and regulations as the board may adopt, may furnish through its irrigation works, water...
California Water Code Section 50913
Moneys collected by the board for irrigation charges pursuant to Section 50911, when deposited in the county treasury shall be credited to the "irrigation fund."
California Water Code Section 50914
Money deposited in an "irrigation fund" shall be disbursed only on orders or warrants of the board in payment of the expense or cost of...
California Water Code Section 50930
A district may acquire, by purchase, condemnation, gift, lease or other legal means, such real or personal property as is necessary for accomplishing the purposes...
California Water Code Section 50931
A district may sell, convey, transfer, lease, or otherwise dispose of such of its property as the board determines is no longer necessary for the...
California Water Code Section 50932
A district may construct, maintain and operate such drains, canals, sluices, bulkheads, water gates, levees, embankments, pumping plants, dams, diversion works, or irrigation works, and...
California Water Code Section 50933
A district may construct, maintain, and operate ferry boats, bridges, road systems, and related facilities to provide access to the district's levee, drainage, and irrigation...
California Water Code Section 50940
Unless otherwise provided by law the district shall keep an office in the principal county or in a county contiguous thereto for the transaction of...
California Water Code Section 50941
All district books, maps, papers, records, contracts and other documents shall be kept in the office and be open to inspection during all business hours...
California Water Code Section 50942
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 50950
A district may employ engineers and others to survey, plan, locate and report on the works necessary for the reclamation of the lands of the...
California Water Code Section 50951
A district may obtain such professional and other services as is necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district and may employ such assistance as...
California Water Code Section 50952
A district may employ an expert in agriculture and related matters and such assistants as may be deemed necessary to do any of the following:...
California Water Code Section 50953
A district issuing warrants or levying or collecting assessments may employ a clerk who, under the direction of the county treasurer, shall attend to matters...
California Water Code Section 50954
The clerk shall receive for his or her services a yearly sum equal to one and one-half cents ($0.015) per acre based on the net...
California Water Code Section 50955
Each claim for clerk hire must be approved by the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 50956
The board, upon presentation of a proper claim, shall draw semiannually a warrant on the district funds for such clerk hire.
California Water Code Section 50957
If the board neglects or refuses to draw a warrant based upon a proper claim for clerk hire, 10 percent of the amount of the...
California Water Code Section 50958
No county officer shall charge or receive any fee for services which he is required to perform in relation to the registration and payment of...
California Water Code Section 50959
No member of any board of supervisors, or clerk of such board, shall receive compensation, other than his regular salary, for services performed pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 50970
A district may co-operate and contract with the United States, under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or...
California Water Code Section 50971
The co-operation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Construction, acquisition, purchase, extension, operation or maintenance of works and...
California Water Code Section 50972
A district may carry out and perform the terms of any contract so made.
California Water Code Section 50973
A proposal to enter into a contract with the United States under terms of this chapter shall be authorized at an election. The board, by...
California Water Code Section 50974
Proceedings at the election shall be had insofar as applicable in the manner provided in the case of elections provided for in Chapter 3 (commencing...
California Water Code Section 50975
Notice of the election shall specify: (a) The time and place of election. (b) The purpose of the election. (c) A brief statement of the...
California Water Code Section 50976
The ballots at the election shall contain a brief statement of the general purpose of the contract substantially as stated in the notice of election...
California Water Code Section 50977
The board may execute the contract on behalf of the district if a majority of the votes cast at the election favor the contract.
California Water Code Section 50978
Without limiting the generality of Section 50971, when a contract has been executed with the United States under this chapter, the board may, by resolution,...
California Water Code Section 50979
An action to determine the validity of any contract may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part...
California Water Code Section 51000
A district may adopt an original plan for the reclamation of district lands, and an estimate of the cost thereof, and may modify or change...
California Water Code Section 51001
The plan and estimate may include reclamation works already constructed or in course of construction, and payments therefor may be made to the person who...
California Water Code Section 51002
The plan and estimate may include any irrigation works which the district is empowered to acquire.
California Water Code Section 51003
The board shall report to the board of supervisors every original plan, and every new, supplemental or additional plan for the reclamation of district lands...
California Water Code Section 51020
If any part of a district is located within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District the board of trustees shall report each plan for...
California Water Code Section 51021
Within five days after the copies of the plan and estimate are filed with the county clerk he shall certify two of the copies and...
California Water Code Section 51022
Upon receipt of the certified copies of the plan, the Secretary of the Reclamation Board shall immediately set a date when the Reclamation Board will...
California Water Code Section 51023
The Secretary of the Reclamation Board shall publish a notice of the hearing once a week for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 51024
The notice shall be in substantially the following form: "Notice to the landowners of reclamation district No. ____. Notice is hereby given to the landowners...
California Water Code Section 51025
At the hearing the Reclamation Board shall hear any evidence offered with respect to the plan, and thereafter shall approve, modify, amend or reject the
California Water Code Section 51026
The Reclamation Board shall not modify, amend or reject any plan on the ground that the plan provides for a levee which in its judgment...
California Water Code Section 51027
The Reclamation Board may continue the hearing from time to time and may cause such investigation and report of the plan to be made by...
California Water Code Section 51028
When the Reclamation Board has approved, modified, or rejected any reclamation plan after a hearing as provided in this article, such action shall be final,...
California Water Code Section 51029
When an amendatory, additional or supplemental plan is filed with the county clerk, two certified copies thereof shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the...
California Water Code Section 51030
No city or county shall proceed with the reclamation of any lands located within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District until the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 51040
If no part of a district is within the boundaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, the board shall report each plan for...
California Water Code Section 51200
The assessments levied by a district shall include all lands and rights of way within the district, owned by the State or by any city,...
California Water Code Section 51201
The assessments upon those lands or rights of way shall be levied in proportion to the benefits in the same manner as assessments are levied...
California Water Code Section 51202
The governing body of the State, city, county, public corporation, or any utility district formed under the laws of this State owning land or rights...
California Water Code Section 51203
No land or rights of way owned by the State, or any city, county, public corporation, or any utility district formed under the laws of...
California Water Code Section 51204
A district may take the procedure prescribed by Chapter 2, Title 1, Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure to compel the payment of...
California Water Code Section 51205
When any parcel appearing on an assessment list is deeded in whole, the board may, by a minute order, cause to be made such changes...
California Water Code Section 51206
(a) Prior to the levy of any installment upon an original or additional assessment, or the levy of an operation and maintenance assessment, in one...
California Water Code Section 51207
Any costs associated with notices, public hearings, or filing charges with the board required pursuant to this division shall be recovered through charges, fees, or
California Water Code Section 51230
When a plan of reclamation has been adopted by a district located entirely outside the boundaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District the...
California Water Code Section 51231
The assessment commissioners shall view and assess upon the district land the sum estimated to be the cost of the reclamation plan, and shall apportion...
California Water Code Section 51232
The assessment shall be collected and paid into the county treasury in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of this part.
California Water Code Section 51233
Money collected on assessments levied pursuant to Section 51231 shall be paid out for reclamation works upon the warrants of the board of trustees, approved...
California Water Code Section 51234
When any part of the district is located within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, and the reclamation board has approved the reclamation plan,...
California Water Code Section 51235
Upon receipt of the petition from the board, the board of supervisors shall appoint assessment commissioners within 60 days, who shall qualify in the manner...
California Water Code Section 51236
The assessment commissioners shall assess the estimated cost of the reclamation plan upon the district land in the manner provided in Section 51231.
California Water Code Section 51237
The sums assessed shall be collected in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of this part and paid into the county treasury to the credit...
California Water Code Section 51238
The money collected on assessments levied pursuant to Section 51236 shall be paid out for the reclamation works upon the warrants of the trustees, or,...
California Water Code Section 51239
The assessment commissioners appointed pursuant to Sections 51230 and 51235 shall make a list of the charges assessed against each parcel, containing: (a) A description...
California Water Code Section 51240
If the list of charges contains any error in the description of the land or the name of the owner, or if any land which...
California Water Code Section 51241
No error in the list of charges assessed shall render the assessment of a parcel invalid.
California Water Code Section 51242
The list of charges assessed, when completed, shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 51243
Upon receipt of the list of charges, the board of supervisors shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing any...
California Water Code Section 51244
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the...
California Water Code Section 51245
Any time before the hearing, any person interested in land upon which any charge has been assessed may file a written objection to the assessment,...
California Water Code Section 51246
No objection shall be considered by the board of supervisors, or allowed in any other action or proceeding, unless it is made in writing to...
California Water Code Section 51247
At the hearing the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of written objections and may modify or amend the assessment, or...
California Water Code Section 51248
If the amount of any assessment in the list is changed, the board of supervisors shall set a day for hearing objections to the assessment...
California Water Code Section 51249
At the hearing on the changes in the assessment an objection in writing may be made by any person interested, and the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 51250
If the amount of any assessment is again changed the board of supervisors shall proceed as before to give notice and to hear objections to...
California Water Code Section 51251
The board of supervisors shall then make an order approving the assessment, and shall endorse the order upon the assessment list.
California Water Code Section 51252
The endorsement shall be signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors and attested by the clerk thereof.
California Water Code Section 51253
The decision of the board of supervisors in approving the assessment list is final, and thereafter the endorsed assessment list is conclusive evidence that the...
California Water Code Section 51254
The assessment list shall be prepared in duplicate, and one original shall be retained in the office of the district, and the second original shall...
California Water Code Section 51255
If the district is situated in more than one county, a copy of the assessment list certified by the county treasurer, shall be filed with...
California Water Code Section 51256
When the second original assessment list is filed as provided in Section 51254, the charges assessed thereby upon parcels constitute a lien thereon, and the...
California Water Code Section 51257
The lien of an unpaid assessment upon which bonds have been issued continues until the bonds, and any refunding bonds which have been issued, are...
California Water Code Section 51258
No subsequent act or conduct of the board shall invalidate an assessment after it becomes a lien, and the board may be compelled by mandate,...
California Water Code Section 51259
At any time within 30 days after the assessment list is filed with the county treasurer, any person aggrieved by the decision of the board...
California Water Code Section 51260
If the action is not commenced within 30 days, no action or defense shall thereafter be maintained attacking the legality of the assessment.
California Water Code Section 51300
If the original assessment is insufficient to provide for the complete reclamation of district lands, or if further assessments are required to provide for the...
California Water Code Section 51301
If any part of the principal or interest of bonds or refunding bonds is unpaid after enforcement of the assessment securing such bonds, the board...
California Water Code Section 51301.5
Whenever the board shall call for redemption any bonds which by their terms are subject to call and redemption at the option of the district...
California Water Code Section 51302
An assessment levied pursuant to this article shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the original assessment.
California Water Code Section 51320
When the work contemplated by the original or any supplemental reclamation plan is completed, the board may so report to the board of supervisors, and...
California Water Code Section 51321
The report and petition shall state that the work contemplated by the original or supplemental reclamation plan is completed, and that hereafter the district will...
California Water Code Section 51322
Upon receipt of the report and petition the board of supervisors shall appoint three valuation assessment commissioners who shall qualify in the manner provided in...
California Water Code Section 51323
The commissioners shall view and fix upon the district land an assessment valuation per acre for each parcel which is in proportion to the benefits...
California Water Code Section 51324
The commissioners shall prepare an operation and maintenance assessment roll in duplicate containing the following information in separate columns: (a) A description of each parcel...
California Water Code Section 51324.5
In preparation of the operation and maintenance assessment roll, the commissioners may, as one of the means of determining the assessment valuation per acre of...
California Water Code Section 51325
No error in the name of the owner or supposed owner of any parcel assessed, and no error in any other particular, shall render the...
California Water Code Section 51326
The assessment valuations shall be used as a basis for levying assessments against the parcels described in the operation and maintenance assessment roll for the...
California Water Code Section 51327
The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors in the same manner as...
California Water Code Section 51328
Operation and maintenance assessment rolls adopted by any district prior to September 19, 1939, may be used for any or all of the purposes provided...
California Water Code Section 51329
Upon receipt of the operation and maintenance assessment roll the board of supervisors shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of...
California Water Code Section 51330
No objection to the assessment valuations shall be considered by the board of supervisors, or allowed in any other action or proceeding, unless the objection...
California Water Code Section 51331
Notice of the hearing shall be given in the same manner and for the same time as the notice of the hearing of objections to...
California Water Code Section 51332
At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections and may modify or amend the assessment
California Water Code Section 51332.1
The board of supervisors shall then make an order approving the assessment valuation or any modification thereof and shall endorse the order on the assessment...
California Water Code Section 51332.2
The decision of the board of supervisors in approving the assessment roll is final, and thereafter the endorsed assessment roll is conclusive evidence that the...
California Water Code Section 51333
Within 30 days after an operation and maintenance assessment roll is approved by the board of supervisors, any person aggrieved by the decision may commence...
California Water Code Section 51334
If the action is not commenced within 30 days after approval of the operation and maintenance assessment roll, no action or defense shall thereafter be...
California Water Code Section 51335
When the board determines that it is necessary to raise any sum for a purpose specified in Section 51326 it shall, by order entered in...
California Water Code Section 51335.5
In the event the assessment for any parcel of land separately assessed, based upon the rate fixed pursuant to Section 51335, is less than twenty-five...
California Water Code Section 51336
Incidental expenses, as used in this article and in Section 52560 include, among other things, the difference in amount between the par value of refunding...
California Water Code Section 51337
In lieu of completing the operation and maintenance assessment roll, the board may, following each levy of assessment, cause a supplement to be prepared and...
California Water Code Section 51338
The board, by order entered upon its minutes and endorsed on or made a part of the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement, may...
California Water Code Section 51339
If the board orders payment of the total assessment inserted in column (g) in installments over a period of years, the due date and the...
California Water Code Section 51340
When the operation and maintenance assessment roll or supplement has been completed by inserting the rate and assessment in columns (f) and (g), and an...
California Water Code Section 51341
An assessment levy is a lien upon the parcels against which it is levied from the date the completed operation and maintenance assessment roll or...
California Water Code Section 51342
The rate of interest on unpaid operation and maintenance assessments is 1 1/2 percent per month commencing from the date of delinquency unless the board,...
California Water Code Section 51343
Additional operation and maintenance assessment levies may be made by the board, as required, so long as the operation and maintenance assessment roll remains in
California Water Code Section 51344
The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be returned to and held by the board except during such periods as it is filed in the...
California Water Code Section 51345
The operation and maintenance assessment roll referred to in Sections 51337 to 51344, inclusive, shall be the original operation and maintenance assessment roll or a...
California Water Code Section 51346
The operation and maintenance assessment roll shall be used for the purposes specified in Section 51326 until the board, or landowners representing at least 15...
California Water Code Section 51346.5
If the valuation assessment commissioners have utilized land use categories as a basis for the assessment valuation pursuant to Section 51324.5, the board may, without...
California Water Code Section 51347
Valuation assessment commissioners appointed to prepare a new operation and maintenance assessment roll shall have the same qualifications and take the same oath as the...
California Water Code Section 51348
The new operation and maintenance assessment roll when prepared by the valuation assessment commissioners shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors,...
California Water Code Section 51349
No bonds shall be issued nor funds for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness of the district raised on the...
California Water Code Section 51380
When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes is adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, or is adjudged invalid as to any parcel, or...
California Water Code Section 51381
In the new assessment or subsequent reassessment each parcel shall be charged with that proportion of the former assessment which the benefits derived by the...
California Water Code Section 51382
A new assessment or subsequent reassessment shall be made by assessment commissioners appointed by the board of supervisors as provided in Section 51230, and shall...
California Water Code Section 51383
When an assessment levied for reclamation purposes upon district lands is adjudged invalid as a whole or as to any parcel upon which it was...
California Water Code Section 51400
When the board has authorized the sale of refunding bonds at less than par value and has determined that it is necessary or advisable that...
California Water Code Section 51401
If the board determines that it is for the best interest of the district that the supplemental assessment be levied, it shall prepare and certify...
California Water Code Section 51402
The amount of the supplemental assessment shall not exceed 10 percent of the principal of the refunding bonds to be sold, plus the amount to...
California Water Code Section 51403
The amount of the supplemental assessment shall be levied only upon the parcels upon which an assessment is then outstanding for payment of the bonds...
California Water Code Section 51404
The provisions of Article 1 of this chapter relating to the filing of assessment lists, hearings thereon and approval thereof, and actions to correct, modify,...
California Water Code Section 51405
When a supplemental assessment has been levied, approved, and filed, it shall be called for immediate payment and shall become delinquent by declaration made in...
California Water Code Section 51406
At least 30 days shall elapse between the date of call and the date of delinquency.
California Water Code Section 51407
The supplemental assessment shall not bear interest and shall be payable only in lawful money of the United States.
California Water Code Section 51408
Notice of the supplemental assessment and of the call thereon shall be served upon each owner of land in the district in the manner prescribed...
California Water Code Section 51409
Upon delinquency a penalty of 10 percent shall be added.
California Water Code Section 51420
At least 90 days before the interest date of bonds or refunding bonds, the county treasurer shall estimate the amount necessary to pay interest and...
California Water Code Section 51421
The county treasurer shall thereupon cause to be published once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county...
California Water Code Section 51422
If no newspaper is published in any county in which the district is situated, the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in an...
California Water Code Section 51423
The county treasurer shall credit to the bond fund of the district all money collected by him, by sale or otherwise, upon assessments against which...
California Water Code Section 51424
No action contesting the validity of any call of an installment of an assessment pursuant to this article may be commenced, unless commenced within six...
California Water Code Section 51425
No action to contest the validity of any credit on, or payment of, any portion of an assessment called pursuant to this article may be...
California Water Code Section 51440
When the district has obtained an irrigation system pursuant to Section 50910, and the charges for furnishing water and making water available have been fixed...
California Water Code Section 51441
Water charges, included as a part of an operation and maintenance assessment, when collected shall be deposited in the irrigation fund.
California Water Code Section 51460
If there are unpaid matured warrants, other than warrants payable from operation and maintenance assessment levies, on January 1st in any year, the board shall...
California Water Code Section 51461
When, on the first day of January in any year there are outstanding unpaid matured warrants of the district, other than warrants payable from operation...
California Water Code Section 51462
The board shall call and collect the assessment in the manner provided in this part in the amount necessary to pay the warrants.
California Water Code Section 51463
Nothing in this article shall prevent the board from making other arrangements with holders of district warrants.
California Water Code Section 51485
The district may levy an assessment to pay the expenses of its formation, or to pay any warrants issued therefor in an amount not exceeding...
California Water Code Section 51500
The interest due on any unpaid unbonded assessment, or any part or installment thereof, may be called by the board without calling any installment of...
California Water Code Section 51501
All interest paid on any unbonded assessment shall be deposited with the county treasurer in the "warrant interest fund" and be used only for the...
California Water Code Section 51502
At least 90 days before any installment of interest is due on any time warrants the board shall estimate the amount necessary to pay the...
California Water Code Section 51503
All provisions of this division relative to the making of calls on any unbonded assessment, or installment thereof, and the sale of property for nonpayment...
California Water Code Section 51510
For 30 days after the filing of the second original assessment list in the office of the county treasurer pursuant to Section 51254 the assessment...
California Water Code Section 51511
Unpaid assessments on which bonds have been issued shall bear interest at the rate of 1 1/2 percent per month from the date of the...
California Water Code Section 51512
If a district is situated partly in different counties the assessment shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the particular parcel...
California Water Code Section 51513
When the district is situated in more than one county the county treasurers of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated shall...
California Water Code Section 51514
After the period of 30 days, all unpaid original assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 1 1/2 percent per month unless the board,...
California Water Code Section 51515
Assessments unpaid after 30 days and accrued interest thereon shall be collected by and paid to the county treasurer of the county wherein the parcel...
California Water Code Section 51516
The board shall require that an agent give a bond in the amount it considers sufficient for the faithful performance of his duties.
California Water Code Section 51517
All payments on unpaid original assessments shall be made in separate installments, of such amounts, and at such times as the board, by order entered...
California Water Code Section 51518
Upon making the order the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the board a notice in substantially the following form: (Name of reclamation district,...
California Water Code Section 51519
The notice shall be personally served upon each owner of land in the district, or in lieu of personal service, shall be mailed to the...
California Water Code Section 51520
The county treasurer of each county wherein any of the lands assessed are situated, shall, immediately following the expiration of the period of 60 days...
California Water Code Section 51521
(a) Any installment of an assessment for which no bond or time warrant has been issued, which is unpaid after 60 days from the date...
California Water Code Section 51522
All money, including interest and penalties, derived by sale or otherwise, from original and additional assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer of the...
California Water Code Section 51540
When the board has ordered an operation and maintenance assessment levy and has fixed the installments the secretary shall enter in the minutes of the...
California Water Code Section 51541
The notice shall be published, mailed, or personally served upon each landowner in the manner provided in Section 51519.
California Water Code Section 51542
When the operation and maintenance assessment levy is to be paid in more than one installment the secretary shall give notice for 60 days immediately...
California Water Code Section 51543
Except as otherwise specifically provided, unpaid assessments for operation and maintenance levied pursuant to this article shall be collected in the manner provided for the...
California Water Code Section 51544
The principal and interest of any operation and maintenance assessment levy may be paid in lawful money of the United States or approved warrants of...
California Water Code Section 51545
The money collected on operation and maintenance assessments shall be placed by the county treasurer to the credit of the district in a separate fund...
California Water Code Section 51546
The maintenance fund, except as provided in Section 51547, shall be disbursed only upon warrants of the board drawn in payment of the cost or...
California Water Code Section 51547
When time warrants have been issued in anticipation of an operation and maintenance assessment levy, money collected upon that levy shall be used only for...
California Water Code Section 51560
The installment of an assessment called to pay principal or interest on bonds pursuant to Section 51420 may be paid in cash or in bonds...
California Water Code Section 51561
Bonds and interest coupons received in payment for the assessment shall be accepted at face value.
California Water Code Section 51562
Any bond or coupon received in payment for such an installment shall be canceled forthwith by the county treasurer and filed in his office.
California Water Code Section 51563
Any part of the installment or any interest thereon which is unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the notice calling...
California Water Code Section 51570
Any landowner who desires to lessen or remove the lien upon his land of any assessment on which bonds have been issued may deliver to...
California Water Code Section 51600
(a) After any installment of an unpaid assessment on which bonds have not been issued has become delinquent, the county treasurer may, only upon the...
California Water Code Section 51601
The notice shall contain the following: (a) A description of the parcels assessed, as described in the assessment list or operation and maintenance assessment roll...
California Water Code Section 51602
The date of the sale shall be not less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice.
California Water Code Section 51603
The county treasurer may postpone the sale for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days at any one time by a written notice...
California Water Code Section 51604
If, for any reason, a parcel upon which an assessment or any installment thereof is delinquent in whole or in part is not sold at...
California Water Code Section 51605
At the time of the sale, the county treasurer shall sell the parcel to himself or herself and his or her successors in office, as...
California Water Code Section 51606
If more than one installment of an assessment or more than one assessment on the same parcel is delinquent at the time of the sale,...
California Water Code Section 51607
The owner of any parcel offered for sale to pay a delinquent assessment or installment thereof may designate in writing to the county treasurer prior...
California Water Code Section 51608
If the owner fails to designate the portion of the parcel he or she wishes sold for a delinquent assessment, the county treasurer may sell...
California Water Code Section 51611
A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the county treasurer, as trustee for the district, and the certificate of sale...
California Water Code Section 51612
The certificate of sale is prima facie evidence that: (a) The parcel was assessed and the assessment duly apportioned as required by law. (b) The...
California Water Code Section 51612.5
The county treasurer, at least 60 days prior to the expiration of the redemption period, shall give notice by registered mail of the fact of...
California Water Code Section 51613
Any person interested in the parcel may redeem it at any time within one year after the sale by paying to the county treasurer the...
California Water Code Section 51614
When the parcel is redeemed a certificate of redemption shall be issued by the county treasurer to the redemptioner, and the certificate shall be recorded...
California Water Code Section 51615
If no redemption is made within one year, the district is entitled to a deed executed by the county treasurer. The district shall reimburse the...
California Water Code Section 51616
The deed shall convey the parcel free of all liens and encumbrances excepting any prior or subsequent district assessment.
California Water Code Section 51616.1
Each installment of an assessment remaining unpaid at the time of the delinquency sale may be called and collected in the manner provided in this...
California Water Code Section 51616.2
If a call on an assessment on any parcel sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district becomes delinquent during the redemption period,...
California Water Code Section 51617
No sale, certificate of sale, or deed made for a valid delinquent assessment shall be adjudged invalid, unless the amount of the delinquent assessment, penalties,...
California Water Code Section 51618
If, prior to the redemption, the parcel has been sold at a delinquency sale, the money paid by the county treasurer at the sale shall...
California Water Code Section 51630
When any installment of an assessment called to pay principal and interest on bonds is delinquent, the county treasurer shall publish once a week for...
California Water Code Section 51631
If no newspaper of general circulation is published in the county where the delinquent land is situated, publication shall be made in a newspaper published...
California Water Code Section 51632
The notice shall contain: (a) A description of each parcel on which the installment is delinquent, as the description appears on the assessment list or...
California Water Code Section 51633
If the notice is published in more than one county, each respective notice need include only the matters and things provided in Section 51632 in...
California Water Code Section 51634
The date of the sale shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date of delinquency.
California Water Code Section 51635
The county treasurer may continue the sale from day to day by written notice posted at the place of sale to a day not later...
California Water Code Section 51636
The county treasurer shall sell each parcel described in the notice to the highest bidder at the time stated in the notice, or at the...
California Water Code Section 51637
The county treasurer shall not accept any bid for any parcel less than the aggregate sum then due on the installment thereon, with penalty.
California Water Code Section 51638
Payment for parcels purchased at the sale shall be made in cash or in bonds or interest coupons of the district issued on the assessment...
California Water Code Section 51639
Bonds or interest coupons tendered in payment for a parcel purchased at a delinquency sale, or the redemption of such a parcel, pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 51640
Any bond or coupon received in payment for a parcel purchased at the delinquency sale shall be canceled forthwith by the county treasurer and filed...
California Water Code Section 51641
If the entire amount of a bond or coupon tendered in payment for a parcel at the delinquency sale is not required to complete payment...
California Water Code Section 51642
If no bid is made for a parcel equal to the amount of the installment delinquent thereon with penalty, the county treasurer shall sell the...
California Water Code Section 51643
Except as otherwise provided in Section 51644 all money derived from sale of land for delinquent installments of assessments on which bonds have been issued,...
California Water Code Section 51644
After crediting the amount due on the parcel, as shown in the notice of sale, to the bond fund, the county treasurer shall pay to...
California Water Code Section 51645
The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser, including himself, a certificate of sale, a duplicate of which shall be recorded in the county recorder's...
California Water Code Section 51646
Any person interested in the parcel may redeem it within one year after the date of sale, by paying to the county treasurer for the...
California Water Code Section 51647
If no redemption is made within one year, the treasurer, upon demand and surrender of the certificate of sale, shall execute to the purchaser, his...
California Water Code Section 51648
The deed shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited, and of ownership by the grantee of the lands therein
California Water Code Section 51649
Each installment of an assessment remaining unpaid at the time of the delinquent sale may be called and collected in the manner provided in this...
California Water Code Section 51650
If a call of an assessment on any parcel sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district becomes delinquent during the redemption period...
California Water Code Section 51652
When the parcel is redeemed a certificate of redemption shall be issued by the county treasurer to the redemptioner, and the certificate shall be recorded...
California Water Code Section 51653
If, prior to the redemption, the parcel has been sold at a delinquency sale, the money paid by the purchaser at such sale shall be...
California Water Code Section 51654
No sale, certificate of sale, or deed made for a valid delinquent assessment shall be adjudged invalid, unless the amount of the delinquent assessment, penalties,...
California Water Code Section 51656
If a call of an assessment on any parcel sold and conveyed to the county treasurer as trustee for the district pursuant to the provisions...
California Water Code Section 51660
Any parcel purchased by a county treasurer at delinquency sale, as trustee for the district, may, after approval of the board, be sold and conveyed...
California Water Code Section 51661
When the parcel has been purchased for delinquency of a bonded assessment, payment may be made in cash or in matured bonds and coupons issued...
California Water Code Section 51662
The county treasurer shall convey parcels purchased by him at a sale for the delinquency of an unbonded assessment, free of all liens and encumbrances...
California Water Code Section 51663
The county treasurer shall convey parcels purchased by him at a sale for the delinquency of a bonded assessment, free of encumbrance except the unpaid...
California Water Code Section 51664
After the lapse of one year from the expiration of the redemption period the county treasurer may sell the parcel pursuant to Article 2 of...
California Water Code Section 51665
The proceeds of sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer at delinquency sale for bonded assessments, as trustee for the district, shall be deposited...
California Water Code Section 51666
The proceeds of the sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for unbonded original and...
California Water Code Section 51667
The proceeds of a sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for operation and maintenance...
California Water Code Section 51680
After one year from the expiration of the period of redemption of any parcel sold to the county treasurer at a delinquency sale as trustee...
California Water Code Section 51681
Parcels purchased at delinquent sale by the county treasurer as trustee for the district shall be offered for sale within three years from the expiration...
California Water Code Section 51682
Notice describing the parcel to be sold and stating the time and place of the sale shall be published once a week for two successive...
California Water Code Section 51683
It shall be sufficient to describe the parcel to be sold in the notice by reference number as set forth in the assessment lists to...
California Water Code Section 51684
One or more parcels may be included in the same notice and sold severally at the time and place set forth in the notice.
California Water Code Section 51685
Prior to the sale of any parcel, the county treasurer shall cause its fair market value to be ascertained by an appraisal made by a...
California Water Code Section 51685.5
If the total amount of land to be sold at any one sale consists of no more than 50 acres, the board of trustees shall...
California Water Code Section 51686
If the total amount of land to be sold at any one sale consists of more than 50 acres, the board of appraisement shall consist...
California Water Code Section 51687
If no such banking corporation or national banking association has a place of business in the county in which the parcel or portion thereof is...
California Water Code Section 51688
When all of the members of the board of appraisement cannot agree as to the fair market value of the parcel, the determination of value...
California Water Code Section 51689
Each appraisal shall be verified by the members of the board of appraisement.
California Water Code Section 51690
The verfication shall state that: (a) The appraisal is made in good faith. (b) The valuation is honestly determined and represents the bona fide opinion...
California Water Code Section 51691
At the time of the sale of a parcel, the county treasurer shall announce its fair market value, as appraised, and shall not accept any...
California Water Code Section 51692
When a sale is made pursuant to this article, the county treasurer shall execute a deed to the purchaser, upon payment of the price bid,...
California Water Code Section 51693
The deed, duly executed and acknowledged, is prima facie evidence that all the proceedings for the levy and collection of the delinquent assessment for which...
California Water Code Section 51694
If any parcel remains unsold for want of an acceptable bid, the county treasurer shall have the parcel reappraised and offer it for sale to...
California Water Code Section 51695
If part of any parcel is sold pursuant to this article the assessments thereon shall be reapportioned as provided in Chapter 6, Article 5 of...
California Water Code Section 51696
An action, proceeding, defense, or cross-complaint based on the alleged invalidity or irregularity of any sale by the county treasurer as trustee of a district...
California Water Code Section 51697
The proceeds of sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer at delinquency sale for bonded assessments as trustee for the district, shall be deposited...
California Water Code Section 51698
The proceeds of the sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for unbonded original and...
California Water Code Section 51699
The proceeds of a sale of parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for operation and maintenance...
California Water Code Section 51720
At any time after the expiration of the redemption period, the county treasurer may, after approval of the board, sell and convey, pursuant to this...
California Water Code Section 51721
Upon receipt of a written offer to purchase a portion of any parcel, the county treasurer shall require the intended purchaser to make a partial...
California Water Code Section 51722
When the written offer and partial payment are received by the county treasurer he shall notify the board of the offer and intended sale of...
California Water Code Section 51723
When the notification is received the board shall by minute action, approve or disapprove the sale and, in the event of approval, shall reapportion the...
California Water Code Section 51724
The board shall apportion the costs of making the reapportionment to the several parts into which the parcel is subdivided and between the several assessments...
California Water Code Section 51725
The board shall set forth in the reapportionment list the date to which the apportioned interest was computed.
California Water Code Section 51726
The county treasurer, following board approval of the sale and reapportionment shall complete the sale of the subdivided parcel upon payment by the purchaser of...
California Water Code Section 51727
The balance of the purchase price may be paid in cash or, to the extent that a bonded assessment constitutes a part of the purchase...
California Water Code Section 51728
The county treasurer shall execute a deed to the purchaser upon completion of the sale conveying the subdivided parcel free of encumbrances, except the unpaid...
California Water Code Section 51729
The partial payment shall be forfeited if the purchaser fails to complete the purchase of the parcel within 20 days after tender of the deed...
California Water Code Section 51730
A forfeited partial payment shall be applied first to the costs of making the reapportionment, and any balance thereof shall be deposited in the maintenance...
California Water Code Section 51731
The proceeds of sale of subdivided parcels acquired by the county treasurer at delinquency sale for bonded assessments as trustee for the district, shall be...
California Water Code Section 51732
The proceeds of the sale of subdivided parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for unbonded original...
California Water Code Section 51733
The proceeds of a sale of subdivided parcels acquired by the county treasurer as trustee for the district at a delinquency sale for operation and...
California Water Code Section 51750
When the redemption period has expired, and until the sale thereof, the district has the right to the possession of unredeemed parcels purchased at delinquency...
California Water Code Section 51751
The board may maintain any action for the protection of the district's rights in the unredeemed parcels, to the same extent as any other owner...
California Water Code Section 51752
The board may expend district funds necessary to retire liens against an unredeemed parcel superior to the title of the county treasurer as trustee for...
California Water Code Section 51753
The board shall manage and control, and may lease for such reasonable rental and upon such terms as it deems advisable, and receive and collect...
California Water Code Section 51754
The board may apply all rentals collected or moneys received by it from the lease of unredeemed, unsold parcels, or for the use or occupation...
California Water Code Section 51755
The bonds or coupons purchased by the board shall be forthwith delivered to the county treasurer and canceled.
California Water Code Section 51756
All rentals collected or moneys received from lease of parcels sold to the county treasurer as trustee for the district pursuant to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 51757
An amount equal to the revenues derived from each parcel by reason of the leasing, use or occupation thereof, less the incidental expenses of leasing...
California Water Code Section 51800
When a district has levied an assessment and it appears to the board that it is unnecessary to collect all, or some portion of it,...
California Water Code Section 51801
The board shall specify in the resolution the portion of the assessment levied against each parcel which is to be canceled, describing each parcel as...
California Water Code Section 51802
The board of supervisors, upon receipt of the request, shall appoint a time when it will meet and hear any objections to the request.
California Water Code Section 51803
Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in Section 51244.
California Water Code Section 51804
Objections shall be written, verified, and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and no objection shall be considered by the board of...
California Water Code Section 51805
At the hearing the board of supervisors shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections and may approve, reject, modify or amend...
California Water Code Section 51806
When an order is made approving, rejecting, modifying or amending the request, a certified copy of the order shall be attached to the assessment roll...
California Water Code Section 51807
When the order is attached to the assessment roll the secretary shall endorse upon the assessment roll after each parcel assessed the amount of the...
California Water Code Section 51808
When a landowner, in any district in which the board of supervisors has canceled any assessment or portion thereof, has paid the assessment levied against...
California Water Code Section 51809
The warrants shall be payable out of the fund of the district into which the proceeds of the assessments had been paid.
California Water Code Section 51810
No assessment or part thereof shall be canceled pursuant to this article if bonds based thereon and secured thereby have been issued and remain unpaid...
California Water Code Section 51830
If an installment of any assessment has been called to pay the principal, interest, or principal and interest on any outstanding bonds secured by the...
California Water Code Section 51831
A certified copy of the resolution shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer, and the county treasurer shall make the necessary entry...
California Water Code Section 51832
The cancellation of any call pursuant to this article shall not be construed as reducing the assessment against any parcel.
California Water Code Section 51833
If any landowner has paid the whole or any part of the call so canceled, the county treasurer, upon demand of such landowner, shall refund...
California Water Code Section 51834
This article is applicable with respect to all bonds which are exchanged for refunding bonds, or otherwise canceled, either before or after maturity, to any...
California Water Code Section 51850
When assessment commissioners have been appointed and an assessment has been partially or fully completed but has not been approved by the supervisors, and the...
California Water Code Section 51870
Any assessment erroneously made by reason of inadvertence or clerical mistake may be refunded upon order of the board at any time after payment thereof.
California Water Code Section 51871
When an assessment has been levied upon district lands and any installment of the assessment called by the board or by the county treasurer is...
California Water Code Section 51872
When a parcel is sold by the county treasurer for nonpayment of a call of an installment of any assessment which is thereafter adjudged invalid...
California Water Code Section 51890
When any parcel located in a district upon which an assessment has been levied is divided, the board, upon written application signed by any or...
California Water Code Section 51891
If the application for reapportionment is signed by all of the landowners, the reapportionment is final upon entry of the minute order.
California Water Code Section 51892
If the application for reapportionment is not signed by all of the landowners within the divided parcel, the board upon making the minute order, shall...
California Water Code Section 51892.5
If no application for reapportionment is received under Section 51890, the district secretary may, upon learning that a parcel upon which an assessment has been...
California Water Code Section 51893
The board shall require, as a condition to the making of any reapportionment pursuant to this article, that each parcel of the divided or subdivided...
California Water Code Section 51894
When any assessment has been reapportioned on any parcel, the board shall cause the divisions or subdivisions and reapportionment to be properly entered or endorsed...
California Water Code Section 52100
The term bonds, as used in this chapter, includes bonds and refunding bonds, unless otherwise provided.
California Water Code Section 52101
Bonds shall be of the denomination of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) each.
California Water Code Section 52102
Bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the county auditor of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 52103
Bonds shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their maturity.
California Water Code Section 52104
Bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per year, payable on the first day of January and the first day...
California Water Code Section 52105
Coupons for each installment of interest shall be attached to the bonds and shall bear the facsimile signature of the county auditor of the principal
California Water Code Section 52106
The principal of bonds shall be made payable on the first day of July, or the first day of January in such years as the...
California Water Code Section 52120
An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
California Water Code Section 52150
The county treasurer shall publish notice of the sale of bonds, at least once a week for two weeks prior to the sale, in a...
California Water Code Section 52151
The notice shall state that the county treasurer will sell a specified amount of bonds at the time and place specified therein, and ask sealed...
California Water Code Section 52152
At the time stated in the notice of sale, the county treasurer shall open the bids and award the bonds to the highest responsible bidder...
California Water Code Section 52153
The date fixed for the sale of refunding bonds shall be at least 95 days prior to the maturity date of the principal of the...
California Water Code Section 52154
The county treasurer may, and upon written request of a majority of the board, shall reject any and all bids.
California Water Code Section 52155
A record of the sale shall be made upon the books of the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 52170
The board may provide at any time before the sale of the bonds that the bonds shall be callable at face value, plus accrued interest,...
California Water Code Section 52171
At least 120 days prior to any interest payment date, the board may, by a two-thirds vote, adopt an order calling any amount of callable...
California Water Code Section 52172
Less than all of the bonds of any maturity may be called in inverse numerical order or by lot and, if called by lot, the...
California Water Code Section 52173
The order calling bonds shall specify the bonds to be called by number, maturity or such other designation as may be provided by the board.
California Water Code Section 52174
A certified copy of the order shall be delivered to the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 52175
The county treasurer shall add the principal of the bonds so called for redemption specified in the order, and any premium provided by those bonds...
California Water Code Section 52176
The county treasurer, in his notice of call of assessment, shall specify the amount which is included for payment of principal of and interest on...
California Water Code Section 52177
The county treasurer shall publish, in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the principal county once a week for four weeks prior...
California Water Code Section 52178
The notice of the call of bonds shall contain a reference to the order of the board calling the bonds and a notification to all...
California Water Code Section 52179
In the event the bonds are callable at a premium, the board shall draw a warrant or warrants in favor of the county treasurer from...
California Water Code Section 52190
All money, including interest and penalties, derived by sale, or otherwise, from an assessment against which bonds have been issued, and amounts of purchase money...
California Water Code Section 52191
The county treasurer shall charge to the bond fund the expenses of publication and such other incidental expenses of the county treasurer as are necessarily...
California Water Code Section 52192
All claims by the county treasurer and the expenditures shall be first approved by the board, and a warrant shall be drawn by the board...
California Water Code Section 52193
The county treasurer shall transfer the balance remaining in the bond fund, after payment in full of the principal and interest of all outstanding bonds,...
California Water Code Section 52200
All provisions of Chapter 1 of this part are applicable to bonds issued pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 52201
When any assessment, except an operation and maintenance assessment, levied and assessed upon district lands remains unpaid in whole or in part and, in the...
California Water Code Section 52202
At the special election the board shall submit to the landowners the question of whether bonds shall be issued in an amount equal to the...
California Water Code Section 52203
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the issuance of bonds, the board shall cause the amount of...
California Water Code Section 52204
If the board deems it advisable, it may order a special election to be held prior to making any assessment, to determine whether bonds shall...
California Water Code Section 52205
The county treasurer shall place the bonds to the credit of the district.
California Water Code Section 52206
The bonds shall be payable serially within 20 years from their date, as follows: (a) Not less than 10 percent of the aggregate face value...
California Water Code Section 52207
The bonds shall be substantially in the following form: Form of Bonds United States of America State of California County of ______ No. _____ $...
California Water Code Section 52208
The interest coupons may be substantially in the following form: No. ________ $ _______ The County Treasurer of ____ County, California, will pay to the...
California Water Code Section 52220
When directed by resolution of the board, the county treasurer may sell all or any designated number of the bonds for the best price obtainable,...
California Water Code Section 52221
The bonds shall be sold in the manner provided in Article 3 of Chapter 1 of this part.
California Water Code Section 52222
The county treasurer may accept in full or partial payment for bonds, outstanding warrants of the district at face value plus the accrued interest thereon.
California Water Code Section 52223
When bonds have been authorized prior to payment of an assessment during the 30-day period allowed by Section 51510, the amount of bonds to be...
California Water Code Section 52224
The reduction and cancellation of bonds not to be sold shall be only in the latest maturities and the minute order directing such reduction and...
California Water Code Section 52225
The proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the county treasury to the credit of the district.
California Water Code Section 52226
A sale and delivery of the bonds by the county treasurer is conclusive evidence in favor of the purchaser and all subsequent holders of the...
California Water Code Section 52227
The board may draw demand warrants upon the county treasurer against the funds provided by sale of bonds.
California Water Code Section 52228
Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter which have been investigated and certified by any officer of this state authorized to make such investigation and certification,...
California Water Code Section 52240
When any district, having authorized the issuance of a series of bonds, issues an additional series based on another assessment, the dates of maturity of...
California Water Code Section 52241
The provisions of this part relative to the original issue of bonds shall apply to additional series of bonds so far as applicable.
California Water Code Section 52260
Any district which has issued bonds of different denominations, may, by order entered in its minutes, upon request of holders thereof, and upon the deposit...
California Water Code Section 52261
Exchange bonds shall be executed by all persons required by law to execute the bonds for which the exchange is made.
California Water Code Section 52262
Bonds deposited for exchange shall be canceled by the county treasurer and the board.
California Water Code Section 52280
The board, by an order entered in its minutes, may cancel all proceedings taken in connection with bonds remaining unsold one year after they are...
California Water Code Section 52281
A certified copy of the order shall be filed with the county treasurer of each county wherein lands affected by the assessment on which the...
California Water Code Section 52282
Upon receipt of the order, the county treasurer to whom the unsold bonds have been delivered shall cancel the unsold bonds and all coupons attached
California Water Code Section 52283
Cancellation of unsold or unissued bonds shall not affect the validity of the assessment upon which the bonds were issued, and the board may call...
California Water Code Section 52284
When a portion of any bond issue is canceled, the board shall call the portion of the assessment securing the canceled bonds, in such installment...
California Water Code Section 52285
Calls of assessments pursuant to Section 52284 shall be limited to amounts which will leave uncalled a sufficient portion of the assessment to pay principal...
California Water Code Section 52300
The provisions of this division as to the procedure for calling assessments to meet payments of principal or interest of bonds, the provisions of Section...
California Water Code Section 52301
In all cases where it is provided in this division that bonds and interest coupons may be used in lieu of cash, and the entire...
California Water Code Section 52302
Bonds and interest coupons which are, without bad faith on the part of the holder, lost, destroyed, or so mutilated as to impair their value...
California Water Code Section 52400
As an alternate to any other method of financing available to it, a district may, by resolution or indenture, create a special indebtedness evidenced by...
California Water Code Section 52401
The proceedings for the issuance of revenue bonds shall be had, the district shall have the powers and duties, and the bondholders shall have the...
California Water Code Section 52402
A district may, by resolution or indenture, prescribe and revise charges for the services of its properties, works, and facilities, singly or as a whole,...
California Water Code Section 52500
A district may refund the whole or any part of any installment of the principal of an outstanding bond issue.
California Water Code Section 52501
All proceedings for the issuance of refunding bonds commenced prior to August 14, 1929 shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of this part.
California Water Code Section 52502
When the board determines that it would be for the best interest of the district or the landowners therein to refund any installment, or portion...
California Water Code Section 52503
At the election the board shall submit to the landowners the question of whether any installment of the principal of the outstanding bonds of the...
California Water Code Section 52504
The order for the election shall state the maturities and rate of interest of the refunding bonds, and the total amount of the principal thereof,...
California Water Code Section 52505
If a majority of the votes cast at the election approve the issuance of refunding bonds, the board shall prescribe the date and rate of...
California Water Code Section 52506
The principal of the refunding bonds shall not exceed 110 percent of the principal amount of the bonds to be refunded.
California Water Code Section 52507
The principal and interest of refunding bonds shall be based on and payable out of the assessment upon which the bonds to be refunded are
California Water Code Section 52508
Refunding bonds shall be payable serially within at least 50 years from their date.
California Water Code Section 52509
Refunding bonds may be in substantially the following form: United States of America State of California County of ______ No. _____ $___________ Reclamation District No....
California Water Code Section 52510
The interest coupons may be substantially in the following form: No. ________ $ _______ The county treasurer of ____ County, California, will pay to the...
California Water Code Section 52530
The board, with the consent of the holders of any or all of the outstanding bonds to be refunded, may direct the county treasurer to...
California Water Code Section 52531
The aggregate principal amount of the refunding bonds delivered to bond holders shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the bonds exchanged therefor.
California Water Code Section 52532
The bonds delivered to the district in exchange for refunding bonds shall be immediately canceled by the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 52533
The outstanding bonds may be refunded pursuant to this article with the consent of the holders thereof at any time before or after their final...
California Water Code Section 52550
The board, in lieu of exchanging refunding bonds for outstanding bonds, may declare by resolution that it will be for the best interests of the...
California Water Code Section 52551
The board, having adopted a resolution of sale, may declare by resolution, on or before the February 1st or the August 1st prior to the...
California Water Code Section 52552
The resolution shall direct the county treasurer to sell the refunding bonds on a date not less than five days, nor more than 10 days,...
California Water Code Section 52553
The refunding bonds shall be sold by the county treasurer in the manner provided in Article 3, Chapter 1 of this part for the sale...
California Water Code Section 52554
A sale by the county treasurer is conclusive evidence in favor of the purchaser and all subsequent holders of the refunding bonds that the sale...
California Water Code Section 52555
Refunding bonds which are not sold when offered for sale may again be offered for sale from time to time prior to their fixed maturity,...
California Water Code Section 52556
The proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds shall be placed in the county treasury to the credit of the bond fund, and used only...
California Water Code Section 52557
The board shall sell or exchange refunding bonds only of such maturities as have been declared in the notice of election for the issuance of...
California Water Code Section 52558
If any district authorized the issuance of refunding bonds prior to August 14, 1929, and the same or any part thereof are unsold, the board...
California Water Code Section 52559
If the board, in its resolution, determines that the refunding bonds may be sold for an amount less than their aggregate par value, and that...
California Water Code Section 52560
The warrant shall be drawn for an amount equal to the sum of: (a) The excess of the par value of the refunding bonds directed...
California Water Code Section 52561
When the warrant has been drawn, there shall be included in the next succeeding assessment call levied for maintenance purposes, an amount equal to that...
California Water Code Section 52580
The board, in lieu of drawing a warrant pursuant to Section 52560 may raise the amounts indicated in that section by a supplemental assessment levied...
California Water Code Section 52581
If the landowners in a district voluntarily pay to the county treasurer, on the call of the board the amount required to be made available...
California Water Code Section 52582
If a sale of the refunding bonds is consummated by payment of the purchase price and the delivery of the bonds, the board shall enforce...
California Water Code Section 52583
The county treasurer shall use the proceeds of the supplemental assessment or of the warrant delivered to him pursuant to Section 52559, as the case...
California Water Code Section 52584
Any surplus in the supplemental assessment fund after the principal and interest on the bonds next maturing are paid in full shall be refunded by...
California Water Code Section 52600
Refunding bonds remaining in the hands of the county treasurer after the outstanding bonds to be refunded thereby are discharged, shall be forthwith canceled by...
California Water Code Section 52601
If, upon the expiration of one year after an issue of refunding bonds, heretofore or hereafter issued was deposited with the county treasurer, all or...
California Water Code Section 52602
The cancellation will not affect the validity of the assessment upon which the bonds are based, nor the validity of any bonds previously sold or...
California Water Code Section 52700
The board may cause refunding bonds to be issued as provided in this chapter for the purpose of refunding any outstanding bonds, including original issues...
California Water Code Section 52701
Refunding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be issued in substantially the manner prescribed by Chapter 3 of this part for the issuance of...
California Water Code Section 52703
The board shall call and conduct an election of the landowners in the manner provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 50800) of Part 4...
California Water Code Section 52704
Prior to the issuance of any refunding bonds pursuant to this chapter the board shall file with the county treasurer a copy of the refunding...
California Water Code Section 52705
The refunding bonds may be in substantially the following form: (Form of Bond) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA State of California County of _____ Refunding Bond...
California Water Code Section 52706
The interest coupons to be attached to the refunding bonds may be in substantially the following form: No. _____________ $ ____________ The County Treasurer of...
California Water Code Section 52707
An action to determine the validity of refunding bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part...
California Water Code Section 52709
Refunding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be sold from time to time in the same manner as other bonds of the district, or...
California Water Code Section 52710
The outstanding bonds refunded or exchanged shall be immediately canceled by the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 52711
The maturity of the refunding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter and the rate of interest thereon shall be fixed by the board, but in...
California Water Code Section 52712
An issue of refunding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be based upon and payable out of the assessment from which the bonds to...
California Water Code Section 52713
The board may make expenditures, or incur indebtedness, and issue warrants therefor to pay the cost and expenses incident to any refunding plan or in...
California Water Code Section 52714
The authority to issue refunding bonds pursuant to this chapter is in addition to the authority granted by Chapter 3 of this part, and nothing...
California Water Code Section 52730
The board, prior to, or at the time of, issuance of the refunding bonds under this chapter, shall provide for the creation of an annual...
California Water Code Section 52731
The county treasurer, at least 90 days before the first day of January in each year during which the refunding bonds are outstanding, shall levy...
California Water Code Section 52732
Ninety days, or more, before the first day of January in any year, the board may modify the amount of the sinking fund payment. The...
California Water Code Section 52735
In any year in which the district has surplus funds from other sources available for the sinking fund payment and has deposited such funds in...
California Water Code Section 52736
The board may invest the money in the sinking fund in bonds of the United States or of the State of California, and hold the...
California Water Code Section 52737
The proceeds of sale of any bonds in which any part of the sinking fund is invested shall be deposited in the sinking fund.
California Water Code Section 52750
When the sinking fund contains at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the county treasurer shall, upon request of the board, by notice published once a...
California Water Code Section 52751
The notice shall state the amount available for the redemption of bonds or refunding bonds and shall specify when and where the proposals will be
California Water Code Section 52752
All proposals shall be opened at the office of the county treasurer at an open meeting of the board convened at the time specified in...
California Water Code Section 52753
Any or all proposals may be rejected by the county treasurer, and shall be rejected by him if requested to do so in writing by...
California Water Code Section 52754
If no bids are received, or if the bids accepted are not sufficient to exhaust the money available for the purchase of outstanding bonds or...
California Water Code Section 52755
No proposal to sell bonds to the district at a price in excess of the par value thereof shall be accepted.
California Water Code Section 52756
All bonds purchased with sinking fund moneys shall forthwith be canceled.
California Water Code Section 52757
The board may, by resolution adopted prior to the time of issuing any refunding bonds, provide for the call and redemption thereof, in numerical order,...
California Water Code Section 52758
Notice of redemption of callable refunding bonds shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and...
California Water Code Section 52759
The first publication of the notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed in the...
California Water Code Section 52760
Interest on refunding bonds declared to be callable shall cease after the date fixed for redemption if the district has provided funds for the payment...
California Water Code Section 52850
When there is an agreement between a district and the United States of America, or any department or agency thereof, which provides for the issuance...
California Water Code Section 52851
The money in the reserve fund shall be used to pay the installments of principal and interest of any outstanding bonds secured by the assessment...
California Water Code Section 52852
If the bond fund contains a sum derived from an assessment securing the bonds to be refunded pursuant to the agreement which is in excess...
California Water Code Section 52853
The county treasurer shall call such part of the principal of the assessment securing the refunding bonds, not exceeding the amount by which the unpaid...
California Water Code Section 52854
The call shall be made at the time prescribed by Section 51420 for making the next call for the payment of principal or interest of...
California Water Code Section 52855
The board may direct that the restoration of the reserve fund be effected over a period not exceeding three years next after the reserve fund...
California Water Code Section 52856
No call for the purpose of creating a reserve fund shall be made until the United States, or department or agency thereof, has accepted 50...
California Water Code Section 52857
The county treasurer may invest any money in the reserve fund in bonds of the United States or of the State of California, and bonds...
California Water Code Section 52858
Sales of bonds of the United States or of the State of California purchased with reserve fund money shall be made by the county treasurer...
California Water Code Section 52859
The board of a district which has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 52850, may, by resolution, direct that any money on deposit in...
California Water Code Section 52860
The county treasurer shall forthwith cancel all bonds purchased pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 52859.
California Water Code Section 52861
No purchase of bonds shall be made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 52859 unless the unpaid principal amount of the assessment securing such bonds...
California Water Code Section 52862
No funds deposited pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 52859 may be withdrawn except to pay the principal or interests upon any bonds of the...
California Water Code Section 53000
The board may issue warrants drawn on the appropriate funds of the district to pay indebtedness of the district incurred in carrying out the works...
California Water Code Section 53001
The board may draw demand warrants or time warrants, subject to the provisions of this part.
California Water Code Section 53002
Demand warrants are warrants, drawn for any purpose, which are payable upon demand.
California Water Code Section 53003
Time warrants are warrants, based upon an operation and maintenance assessment, payable at a specified future date expressed in the warrant.
California Water Code Section 53004
The date of a warrant is the date inserted as such on the face of the warrant.
California Water Code Section 53020
Demand warrants may be in substantially the following form: Face No. ________ $ ________ Office of the Board of Trustees of Reclamation District No. _________...
California Water Code Section 53021
Demand warrants shall be presented to the county treasurer, and, if not paid on presentation, shall be registered and an endorsement of nonpayment made thereon.
California Water Code Section 53022
Demand warrants not paid on presentation shall bear interest from date of registration at the rate adopted by the board, pursuant to Section 53300.
California Water Code Section 53023
Demand warrants registered for nonpayment shall be paid by the county treasurer either in the order of registration or in the order agreed to, in...
California Water Code Section 53040
When the board has filed an operation and maintenance assessment roll in the office of the county treasurer, and has directed an assessment levied against...
California Water Code Section 53041
Time warrants may be in substantially the following form: Face No. ________ $________ Office of the Board of Trustees of Reclamation District No. ____. ______,...
California Water Code Section 53042
The time warrants which may be issued to mature in any year shall not exceed the amount of the assessment installment payable in such year,...
California Water Code Section 53042.5
Time warrants may be issued for more than the amount set forth in Section 53042 and with a maturity longer than five years, provided that...
California Water Code Section 53043
No time warrants shall be issued, sold, or disposed of for less than the face amount thereof and accrued interest thereon to date of delivery.
California Water Code Section 53044
The proceeds from the issuance and sale of time warrants shall be deposited in the maintenance fund and shall be applicable to the payment of...
California Water Code Section 53045
Time warrants shall be registered with the county treasurer prior to their issuance.
California Water Code Section 53046
Time warrants shall be paid upon their due date upon presentation and surrender to the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 53047
If time warrants are not paid by reason of lack of funds, no further registration is required, and they shall continue to bear interest after...
California Water Code Section 53048
Time warrants which are not paid on their due date because of lack of funds have priority and shall be paid out of the proceeds...
California Water Code Section 53049
The county treasurer, upon the request of the board, shall pay all time warrants before the maturity thereof, providing there are sufficient funds, after payment...
California Water Code Section 53070
A demand warrant on the maintenance fund pursuant to Section 51546 shall designate that it is so drawn and is to be paid therefrom, and...
California Water Code Section 53071
A demand warrant drawn on the maintenance fund shall be presented to the county treasurer and, if there is insufficient money in the maintenance fund...
California Water Code Section 53072
A demand warrant unpaid for want of funds at the time of presentation shall be registered by the county treasurer separately from other warrants of...
California Water Code Section 53073
A demand warrant issued pursuant to this article, shall be paid only from the maintenance fund, and, when registered, either in the order of its...
California Water Code Section 53074
The provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Article 2, Chapter 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of a demand...
California Water Code Section 53090
A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall designate that it shall be paid therefrom, and is not required to be approved by the board...
California Water Code Section 53091
A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall be presented for payment to the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 53092
If there is insufficient money in the irrigation fund to pay a warrant when presented, endorsement of that fact shall be made thereon by the...
California Water Code Section 53093
All the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Chapter 2, Article 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of warrants...
California Water Code Section 53200
The board, at the request of the holder of any warrant, may cancel it and issue two or more warrants in lieu thereof.
California Water Code Section 53201
If the canceled warrant has been registered each new warrant shall state that it is issued partly in lieu of a registered warrant, giving the...
California Water Code Section 53202
New warrants issued pursuant to this article shall be issued for the principal only of the old warrant, but, upon registration, shall bear interest from...
California Water Code Section 53220
The board shall, on demand of the holder of any demand warrant outstanding one year or more, or any time warrant overdue one year of...
California Water Code Section 53221
Warrants issued for interest pursuant to this article shall not bear interest.
California Water Code Section 53222
Upon drawing an interest warrant the board shall endorse on the reverse of the old warrant the fact that interest has been paid to the...
California Water Code Section 53223
An interest warrant shall state that it is drawn for interest on warrant No. ____ to ____ (date).
California Water Code Section 53224
The board shall notify the county treasurer upon drawing an interest warrant, and he shall note on his register of warrants the fact that interest...
California Water Code Section 53225
A demand warrant not paid or presented for reissuance within four years after its date, or a time warrant not paid within four years after...
California Water Code Section 53226
The board and the county treasurer may cancel all warrants which have not been paid or reissued, or which have not been extended one or...
California Water Code Section 53240
When the board is convinced by clear and unequivocal proof that a warrant of the district, without bad faith on the part of the holder,...
California Water Code Section 53241
A holder desiring to have a duplicate warrant issued shall make a written application to the board stating the facts, and shall accompany the application...
California Water Code Section 53242
The holder of a lost or destroyed warrant shall file, with the application, a bond in double the face value of the lost or destroyed
California Water Code Section 53243
The bond must be approved by the board and conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the district for any claim upon the lost or destroyed
California Water Code Section 53244
The bond of indemnification shall be executed jointly and severally by the holder and a corporate surety approved by the board and duly authorized to...
California Water Code Section 53245
The holder of a mutilated or defaced warrant shall, at the time of filing the application for a duplicate, deliver the mutilated or defaced warrant...
California Water Code Section 53246
The board, upon receipt of an application for the replacement of a lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced warrant, shall pass a resolution stating the facts,...
California Water Code Section 53247
The duplicate warrant shall be signed by the same officers and issued in all respects as nearly as possible as the original instrument, and shall...
California Water Code Section 53300
The board may provide, by resolution entered in its minutes, such rate of interest upon warrants as it deems reasonable, not to exceed 12 percent...
California Water Code Section 53320
When there is sufficient money in the hands of the county treasurer applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants which have not been presented...
California Water Code Section 53340
An action based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant shall be commenced within four years from the date of the warrant, and an action...
California Water Code Section 53341
If an action or proceeding based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant is commenced within four years after the date of the warrant, or...
California Water Code Section 53342
In any proceeding to compel the board to issue a warrant, if a controversy arises as to the amount that is due to the plaintiff,...
California Water Code Section 53500
A copy of any proposal for consolidation shall be forwarded to the State Lands Commission prior to the circulation of any petition or the adoption...
California Water Code Section 53504
The State Lands Commission shall assign to the consolidated district the number of the original district containing the largest area of land, and the consolidated...
California Water Code Section 53508
This chapter shall apply only to those districts formed to operate without a board.
California Water Code Section 53660
Land in compact form, capable of being embraced in a district, and not a part of another district, may be annexed to a district.
California Water Code Section 53800
When a district, by a legislative act changing county boundaries, is transferred wholly from one county to another, the board of supervisors of the county...
California Water Code Section 53801
The board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, the officers thereof, and the officers of the district shall thereafter perform...
California Water Code Section 53802
The auditor and treasurer of the county to which a district is transferred shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of the county within which...
California Water Code Section 53803
After a district is transferred to another county, all assessments shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county to which the district...
California Water Code Section 53804
When, by any change of county boundaries made by the Legislature of this State, any district is transferred in whole or in part to another...
California Water Code Section 53805
When a district is transferred in whole or in part to another county from that in which it was organized, all proceedings, petitions or orders...
California Water Code Section 53900
The following sections of the Political Code are repealed: 3446 3463 3478 3447 3464 3479 3448 3465 3480 3449 3466 3480a 3450 3466a 3480b 3451...
California Water Code Section 53901
The following acts are repealed: Yr. Ch. Pg. 1881: 59: 68 1893:147: 174 1895:174: 197 1899: 16: 13 1909:616: 933 1913: 72: 75 1913:365: 777...
California Water Code Section 55000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the County Waterworks District Law.
California Water Code Section 55010
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 55011
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 55012
"District" means any county irrigation district or county waterworks district formed pursuant to the County Waterworks District Act or any county waterworks district formed pursuant...
California Water Code Section 55013
"Board" means the governing body of a district.
California Water Code Section 55014
"County" means the county within which the district or proposed district is located.
California Water Code Section 55030
This division shall not affect any other law relating to the same or a similar subject, but is intended to provide an alternative method of...
California Water Code Section 55031
The provisions of this division shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
California Water Code Section 55100
Any portion of a county, containing unincorporated territory, or containing the whole or any portion of one or more incorporated cities and contiguous unincorporated territory,...
California Water Code Section 55101
A district may be formed of two or more parcels of noncontiguous territory within the same county if the board of supervisors determines that the...
California Water Code Section 55102
A petition for the formation of a district may be presented to the board of supervisors.
California Water Code Section 55103
The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors and shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of...
California Water Code Section 55104
The formation petition shall contain: (a) The name and boundaries of the proposed district to be benefited by the improvement. (b) A general description of...
California Water Code Section 55105
The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the exterior boundaries of the proposed district, with relation to the territory immediately contiguous thereto, and...
California Water Code Section 55106
There shall also be filed with the petition a good and sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the board of supervisors, in double the amount...
California Water Code Section 55107
The failure of the petition to contain any of the matters required to be contained therein shall not affect the legality of the organization of...
California Water Code Section 55108
If the petitioners so desire, the petition may also contain a statement that the taxes provided for in this division shall be levied upon the...
California Water Code Section 55109
Upon the request of 25 or more freeholders, or a majority of the freeholders, if less than 50 in number, needing water service within a...
California Water Code Section 55130
Upon the presentation of a formative petition the board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing thereon, and protests of interested parties, not less...
California Water Code Section 55131
The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause notices of the filing and hearing of the petition to be posted in three of the...
California Water Code Section 55132
The notice shall be headed "Notice of the formation of __________ County Waterworks District No. __________" (stating name of county in which the district is...
California Water Code Section 55133
The clerk shall also cause a notice, similar in substance, to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of...
California Water Code Section 55134
The date set for the hearing shall be at least 13 days after the date of the posting and the date of last publication of...
California Water Code Section 55150
Any person interested, including any freeholder or qualified voter resident within the proposed district or the owner of any real or personal property located in...
California Water Code Section 55151
The clerk of the board of supervisors shall endorse on each protest the date of its receipt and, at the time appointed for the hearing,...
California Water Code Section 55152
The board shall hear and pass upon the petition and protests at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be...
California Water Code Section 55153
If any of the protests against the formation of the district or against the proposed improvement is sustained, no further proceedings shall be had or...
California Water Code Section 55154
If any of the protests are against the extent of the district or against the inclusion of property in the district, the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 55155
The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which will be benefited by the...
California Water Code Section 55156
The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries except after notice of such intention is published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code...
California Water Code Section 55157
Written objections to the proposed modification may be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors by any interested person at or before the...
California Water Code Section 55158
The board of supervisors shall hear and pass upon the objections to the proposed modification at the time appointed, or at any time to which...
California Water Code Section 55159
If any objection is sustained, no further proceedings pursuant to the petition shall be taken, but a new petition for the same or a similar...
California Water Code Section 55160
The board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to proceed further with respect to the formation of a district under any of...
California Water Code Section 55161
If the board of supervisors determines that the formation petition was signed by all of the owners of the real property in the proposed district...
California Water Code Section 55162
Notwithstanding anything in this division to the contrary, if the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to the close of the...
California Water Code Section 55180
Unless the board of supervisors proceeds pursuant to Section 55161, the board of supervisors shall, by ordinance or resolution adopted at a regular or special...
California Water Code Section 55181
The ordinance or resolution calling the special election shall also recite the objects and purposes for which any proposed indebtedness is to be incurred, the...
California Water Code Section 55182
If a statement is made in the formation petition that taxes shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property,...
California Water Code Section 55183
For the purposes of the election, the board of supervisors shall, in the ordinance or resolution, establish one or more precincts within the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 55184
The ordinance or resolution ordering the holding of the election shall, prior to the date set for the election, be published pursuant to Section 6066...
California Water Code Section 55184.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 55184.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 55184.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 55184.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 55185
In all particulars not recited in the ordinance or resolution, the election shall be held as provided by law for holding general elections in the
California Water Code Section 55186
If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the formation of the district and the incurring of the bonded...
California Water Code Section 55186.5
The county clerk of the county shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district. (b) The...
California Water Code Section 55187
All acts and proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken by or on behalf of a county waterworks district for the formation of a district or for...
California Water Code Section 55200
A separate petition for the formation of a zone or zones within a proposed district for any of the purposes specified in Section 55650 may...
California Water Code Section 55201
The petition for the formation of a zone or zones and the proceedings thereon shall be in conformity with and subject to the provisions of...
California Water Code Section 55202
The board of supervisors may direct that notice of hearing, hearing, notice of election, or election upon the formation and zone petitions shall be consolidated...
California Water Code Section 55203
The formation of a zone or zones pursuant to this chapter shall in no event be effective for any purpose unless and until the district...
California Water Code Section 55300
The powers of the district enumerated in this division shall, except as therein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board.
California Water Code Section 55301
The board of supervisors of the county is the governing board of the district unless a board of directors has been appointed under the provisions...
California Water Code Section 55302
The board of supervisors of the county may, at any time, dissolve any board of directors governing any district, and thereafter the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 55305
(a) The board of directors may fix the compensation of its members for their services as directors not to exceed ten dollars ($10) for each...
California Water Code Section 55307
Any board of directors in existence on the effective date of the amendment of this section at the 1967 Regular Session of the Legislature succeeds...
California Water Code Section 55308
The board of directors shall appoint a clerk who shall perform all of the duties pertaining to the district required to be performed by the...
California Water Code Section 55309
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 55310
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 55301, the Board of Supervisors of Madera County may appoint a board of directors to serve as the governing board...
California Water Code Section 55310.2
(a) Notwithstanding Section 55301, the Board of Directors of the Mendocino County Waterworks District #2 shall be elected. The elected board of directors shall act...
California Water Code Section 55311
When a district is a subsidiary district of a city, the city council may, by resolution, change the name of the district. The change of...
California Water Code Section 55330
A district may provide for the supplying of the inhabitants of the district with water for irrigation, domestic, industrial, or fire protection purposes, through facilities...
California Water Code Section 55331
The district may do all things necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this division.
California Water Code Section 55332
The district may appoint or employ and prescribe the authorities and duties of a general manager, auditor, treasurer, and other officers, employees, attorneys, and engineers...
California Water Code Section 55333
The district may adopt and enforce all rules, regulations and ordinances which may be necessary and proper for: (a) The administration and government of the...
California Water Code Section 55333.5
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 55334
Any violation of a regulation or ordinance of a district is a misdemeanor punishable by fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisonment...
California Water Code Section 55335
A district may acquire and conserve water supplies from any available source, including underground water basins within the same county, imported supplies, streams, waste water...
California Water Code Section 55335.5
A district may construct, maintain, and operate sewage collection and treatment facilities and dispose of the effluent therefrom in any lawful manner and also do...
California Water Code Section 55336
Subject to Section 56133 of the Government Code, a district may sell water to any person, firm, public or private corporation, public agency, or other...
California Water Code Section 55337
A district may construct, maintain, improve, and operate recreational facilities in connection with any dams, reservoirs, or other works owned or controlled by the district....
California Water Code Section 55338
(a) The Department of Corrections and the Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 4 shall enter into a contract for the district to meet the...
California Water Code Section 55339
A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement if the term of the contract does not exceed 30 years. A...
California Water Code Section 55370
A district may acquire property by purchase, gift, devise, exchange, descent, and eminent domain. The title to all property which may have been acquired for...
California Water Code Section 55371
The board may sell, exchange, or lease any property, or any interest in property, of the district, real or personal, if the board determines that...
California Water Code Section 55371.5
If the board determines that the property is needed for the uses of another county waterworks district governed by the same board or another public...
California Water Code Section 55372
If the board determines the value of the property, or interest in the property, to be of a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or...
California Water Code Section 55373
If the board determines the property, or interest in the property, to have a value of more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or is being...
California Water Code Section 55374
Whenever any portion of the territory of a district shall be annexed to, or otherwise included within any one municipal corporation which owns works for...
California Water Code Section 55375
The municipal corporation may use the leased distributing system for the purpose of distributing water directly to individual consumers, with the same power of regulating...
California Water Code Section 55376
The board shall, in the lease, reserve the right to use the leased distributing system, for the benefit of that portion of the district not...
California Water Code Section 55377
Any improvement provided for in this division may be located, constructed and maintained in, along, or across any public road or highway, or publicly owned...
California Water Code Section 55378
The board of supervisors of any county which employs a purchasing agent may authorize the purchasing agent to sell or dispose of any personal property...
California Water Code Section 55385
Whenever in the opinion of the governing body of a county waterworks district the public interest and necessity require, it may order the formation of...
California Water Code Section 55386
The district shall be formed, the work or improvement done, and the cost thereof assessed and collected in accordance with the provisions of the Improvement...
California Water Code Section 55400
For the purposes of this chapter the following terms used in the Improvement Act of 1911 shall mean and include that which this article states...
California Water Code Section 55401
"City" means and includes county waterworks district.
California Water Code Section 55402
"City council" or "legislative body" means and includes the governing body of the county waterworks district.
California Water Code Section 55403
"Clerk" means and includes the secretary of the governing body of the county waterworks district.
California Water Code Section 55404
"Council chambers" means and includes the place designated by the governing body of the county waterworks district for holding its regular meetings.
California Water Code Section 55405
"Treasurer" means and includes the county treasurer.
California Water Code Section 55406
"Superintendent of streets" or "streets superintendent" means and includes the county surveyor.
California Water Code Section 55407
"Right of way" means and includes any parcel of land through which a right of way has been granted to the county waterworks district for...
California Water Code Section 55408
All references to municipal officers and matters mean and include the corresponding officers of county waterworks districts and matters under this division.
California Water Code Section 55500
The board may control and order the expenditure of tax revenues, secured to pay the cost and expenses of maintaining, operating, extending and repairing the...
California Water Code Section 55501
The board may fix and collect rates or charges for the use and supply of water furnished by the system, and to apply the receipts...
California Water Code Section 55501.1
Any water service standby or immediate availability charge which remains unpaid for a period of 60 or more days after the date upon which they...
California Water Code Section 55501.5
A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix a water service standby or immediate...
California Water Code Section 55502
The receipts from the rates or charges may also be used to reduce the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness that the waterworks district...
California Water Code Section 55502.1
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the board may establish and include in the annual budget for a district a general unappropriated reserve not to...
California Water Code Section 55503
The board may borrow funds from the county, other waterworks districts, and, where the district is a subsidiary district, the city, not to exceed 85...
California Water Code Section 55503.5
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, such funds, when so borrowed by a waterworks district, shall forthwith increase the appropriations of the district for which...
California Water Code Section 55503.6
The district shall pay interest on all funds borrowed from the county, at the same rate that the county applies to funds of the district...
California Water Code Section 55504
Where a district has an assessed valuation of less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the board of supervisors of the county may loan county...
California Water Code Section 55505
The board may by resolution establish a revolving fund for any officer or employee of the district in the same manner revolving funds for county...
California Water Code Section 55506
Any money belonging to the district or paid into the county treasury to the credit of the district may be deposited by the officer of...
California Water Code Section 55507
A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix a sewer service standby or immediate...
California Water Code Section 55520
The board may issue and sell the bonds of the district, when authorized, at not less than par value, and the proceeds of the sale...
California Water Code Section 55521
The board by an order entered upon its minutes, shall, subject to the provisions of this division, prescribe the form of bonds issued and of...
California Water Code Section 55522
The board shall designate an amount, not less than one-fortieth of the principal amount of the indebtedness, or series thereof, which shall be paid annually...
California Water Code Section 55523
The board may determine and fix a date for the earliest maturity of the principal of the bonds, or series thereof, not more than 10...
California Water Code Section 55524
The bonds shall be issued in such denomination or denominations as the board may determine.
California Water Code Section 55525
The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board and countersigned by the auditor of the district, or if one has not been...
California Water Code Section 55526
The interest coupons of the bonds shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the auditor of the county by his engraved or lithographed signature.
California Water Code Section 55527
In case any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons shall cease to be an officer before the delivery of the...
California Water Code Section 55528
The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the district treasurer, or if one has not been appointed, the county treasurer, in...
California Water Code Section 55529
The board may divide the principal amount of any issue into two or more series and fix different dates for the bonds of each series....
California Water Code Section 55530
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the board may determine that the public economy so requires, and order that less than one-fortieth of the...
California Water Code Section 55531
District or zone bonds may be made payable on July 1st subsequent to the time fixed for the collection of the second installment of general...
California Water Code Section 55532
The proceeds of such bonds may be used for the following purposes: (a) All costs or estimated costs incidental to or connected with the acquisition,...
California Water Code Section 55533
Any bonds issued by the district may be subject to call and redemption prior to maturity at such times and prices and upon such other...
California Water Code Section 55534
When bonds are made callable, a statement to that effect shall be set forth on the face of the bond.
California Water Code Section 55550
Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness in addition to that incurred at the time of the formation...
California Water Code Section 55551
The board shall then fix a date upon which an election shall be held for the purpose of authorizing the bonded indebtedness to be incurred,...
California Water Code Section 55552
If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the incurring of the bonded indebtedness, then the board shall enter...
California Water Code Section 55553
The provisions contained in Articles 1 and 5 of Chapter 2 of this part and Sections 55701, 55703, and 55704, relating to the form of...
California Water Code Section 55580
The board may issue refunding bonds of the district for the purpose of refunding any or all outstanding bonds of the district.
California Water Code Section 55581
The board shall by resolution determine the amount of the outstanding bonds to be refunded, fix the maximum amount of refunding bonds to be issued,...
California Water Code Section 55582
In the resolution the board shall call an election and submit to the qualified voters of the district the question whether the refunding bonds should...
California Water Code Section 55583
The resolution shall fix the time of the election, establish one or more voting precincts, designate the polling place or places, appoint an inspector, judge,...
California Water Code Section 55584
In all particulars not set forth in this article the election shall be held and conducted as provided in Chapter 4 of Part 2 of...
California Water Code Section 55585
The resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation in the county designated by the...
California Water Code Section 55586
If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of the refunding bonds, the board shall be authorized...
California Water Code Section 55587
The board shall, by order entered in its minutes, prescribe the form of the refunding bonds and of the interest coupons to be attached, and...
California Water Code Section 55588
Refunding bonds may be exchanged at par value for any outstanding bonds to be refunded at their par value or less, upon such terms as...
California Water Code Section 55589
In lieu of the exchange for outstanding bonds, the refunding bonds may be sold by the board for cash at not less than par and...
California Water Code Section 55590
Any bonds refunded and all interest coupons appurtenant thereto shall be canceled immediately by the county treasurer. Expenses of the refunding proceedings may be paid...
California Water Code Section 55591
Taxes for the payment of principal and interest of refunding bonds shall be levied as provided in Chapter 3 of this part except that if...
California Water Code Section 55610
The Revenue Bond Law of 1941 is applicable to districts for the purpose of financing the production, transmission and distribution of water for public or...
California Water Code Section 55630
An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
California Water Code Section 55640
The bonds of the district or those issued for any zone pursuant to this act are entitled to the same force or value or use...
California Water Code Section 55650
Zones may be established within a district for any of the following purposes: (a) Incurring a bonded indebtedness within the zone sufficient to pay the...
California Water Code Section 55651
Zones may be established within the district by either of the following methods: (1) A petition for the formation of a zone within a district...
California Water Code Section 55652
The petition shall contain: (a) The boundaries of the proposed zone. (b) A general description of the improvement desired. (c) An estimate of the cost...
California Water Code Section 55653
The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the exterior boundaries of the district and of the proposed zone and containing a general description...
California Water Code Section 55654
The failure of the petition to contain any of the matters specified in Sections 55651 and 55652 shall not affect the legality of the establishment...
California Water Code Section 55655
The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board, and the board shall thereupon set a time for hearing the petition, which...
California Water Code Section 55656
Notice of the filing and hearing of the petition shall be given by the clerk of the board by publishing in the county pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 55657
The clerk shall also cause a notice, similar in substance, to be posted in three of the most public places within the proposed zone.
California Water Code Section 55658
The date set for the hearing shall be at least 13 days after the date of the posting and the date of last publication of...
California Water Code Section 55659
A copy of the petition shall be filed with the county engineer of waterworks districts, or district engineer if one has been appointed, at least...
California Water Code Section 55660
At the time fixed for the hearing, the board shall hear and pass upon the petition and any protests in writing that have been filed...
California Water Code Section 55661
If the board determines that the proposed improvement will be of district-wide benefit, the proceedings shall terminate, and the proposed zone shall not be established.
California Water Code Section 55662
If the board determines that the proposed improvement will not be of district-wide benefit, the board may make such changes in the boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 55663
The board shall not modify the boundaries except after notice of its intention has been published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in...
California Water Code Section 55664
Written objections to the proposed modification may be filed with the clerk of the board by any interested person at or before the time set...
California Water Code Section 55665
The board shall hear and pass upon the objections at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and...
California Water Code Section 55666
If the objections, or any of them, be sustained, no further proceedings pursuant to the petition shall be taken, but a new petition for the...
California Water Code Section 55667
If no protests are filed, or if all protests filed are heard and denied, or if authorized modifications are made in the boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 55668
If the board determines that the petition is signed by owners representing at least 60 percent of the total assessed valuation of the real property...
California Water Code Section 55668.5
Notwithstanding Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 2201) of Part 4 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation code, or any other provisions of law...
California Water Code Section 55669
The board shall thereupon be authorized to issue bonds of the zone, to fix and collect special rates or charges, as prayed for in the...
California Water Code Section 55670
If the petition for formation of the zone is signed by owners representing less than 60 percent of the total assessed valuation of the real...
California Water Code Section 55671
The board shall appoint three qualified electors residing in the proposed zone to conduct the election.
California Water Code Section 55672
The election shall be called by posting in three of the most public places in the proposed zone, and by publishing in the county pursuant...
California Water Code Section 55673
The date set for the election shall be at least 13 days after the date of the posting and the date of last publication of...
California Water Code Section 55674
The election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this State, where applicable.
California Water Code Section 55675
The proposition submitted shall be in accordance with the petition and shall be either: (a) "Shall the proposed zone described in the resolution of the...
California Water Code Section 55676
If 60 percent of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the zone, and of incurring the bonded indebtedness, or fixing and...
California Water Code Section 55677
Upon the establishment of the zone the board shall be authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the zone, or to fix and collect special...
California Water Code Section 55678
The provisions in this division for the form, issuance, and sale of bonds, the levying and collecting of taxes for the payment thereof and of...
California Water Code Section 55679
The taxes and special rates or charges authorized by this article are in addition to all other taxes and rates or charges authorized by this...
California Water Code Section 55700
The board of supervisors may in any year levy a tax upon the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the cost and expenses...
California Water Code Section 55701
The board of supervisors shall levy a tax, each year, upon the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds...
California Water Code Section 55702
Where the petition for formation contained a statement that taxes shall be levied only upon the land within the district, all taxes levied under the...
California Water Code Section 55703
If the maturity of the indebtedness created by the issue of the bonds is made to begin more than one year after the date of...
California Water Code Section 55704
All taxes pursuant to this chapter shall be levied and collected at the time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for...
California Water Code Section 55720
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 55800
Any portion or portions of a county containing unincorporated territory, or containing the whole or any portion of one or more incorporated cities, and not...
California Water Code Section 55801
Territory within the same county but not contiguous with the district may be annexed to the district if the board determines that the district resulting...
California Water Code Section 55990
Chapter 370 of the Statutes of 1913 is hereby repealed.
California Water Code Section 55991
The repeal effected by this part shall not be construed to deprive any district or any person or other entity of any substantial right which...
California Water Code Section 56000
This part shall be known and cited as the "County Drainage District Act."
California Water Code Section 56001
"District" as used in this part means any county drainage district formed pursuant to this part or pursuant to any law which it supersedes.
California Water Code Section 56002
"District board" as used in this part means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 56003
Districts may be formed, maintained and governed in any county as provided in this part.
California Water Code Section 56010
Proceedings for the formation of a county drainage district shall be instituted by the board of supervisors of a county when a petition requesting the...
California Water Code Section 56011
A petition requesting the institution of proceedings for the formation of a county drainage district shall: (a) Request the board of supervisors of a county...
California Water Code Section 56012
Proceedings for the formation of a county drainage district shall be instituted by the board of supervisors by the adoption of a resolution of its...
California Water Code Section 56013
The district as formed may include unincorporated or incorporated and contiguous unincorporated territory. The incorporated territory included in the district may include the whole or...
California Water Code Section 56014
The time to be fixed for the hearing of objections to the formation or extent of the district shall be not less than 30 days...
California Water Code Section 56015
Prior to the time of hearing, the resolution shall be published at length in the proposed district pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code....
California Water Code Section 56016
At the time provided in the resolution of intention or at any time to which the hearing is continued, the board of supervisors shall hear...
California Water Code Section 56017
If written objection to the formation of the district signed by 10 percent of the voters registered in the district is filed with the board...
California Water Code Section 56018
At the election only voters registered in the proposed district may vote. Election precincts shall be established by the board of supervisors, and precinct boards,...
California Water Code Section 56018.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 56018.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 56018.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 56018.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 56019
At the conclusion of the hearing, or if an election is held and the canvass of the election returns shows that a majority of all...
California Water Code Section 56020
The order of formation shall contain the name of the district, and a description of the boundaries or otherwise indicate its territory. The order is...
California Water Code Section 56030
The governing body of a county drainage district is a board of directors of not less than five members. If the district does not include...
California Water Code Section 56031
The district board shall have power to fix the amount of compensation per meeting to be paid each member of the board for his or...
California Water Code Section 56040
The objects and purposes of a county drainage district shall be to provide for: (a) The control of storm and other waste waters of or...
California Water Code Section 56041
A county drainage district shall have the power: (a) To sue and be sued in its own name; (b) To adopt a seal; (c) To...
California Water Code Section 56042
All ordinances of a county drainage district shall be adopted by the board of directors of the district, and shall be certified to, recorded, and...
California Water Code Section 56050
Before constructing any project and before calling any election for the issuance of bonds as hereinafter provided, the district board shall by resolution employ one...
California Water Code Section 56051
The engineer or engineers may, subject to the direction of the district board, employ such surveyors and others as may be necessary to prepare the
California Water Code Section 56052
When the engineer's report is filed, the district board shall examine it and may thereupon: (a) Reject it and direct that a new report be...
California Water Code Section 56053
Notice of the hearing shall be published by the district board pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper circulated in the...
California Water Code Section 56054
At the conclusion of the hearing the district board shall either order the report changed to conform to some or all the objections made or...
California Water Code Section 56055
If the district board approves and adopts the report of the engineer or engineers, the board shall order the engineer or engineers to prepare precise...
California Water Code Section 56059
The engineer or engineers employed by the district board to prepare the precise plans and specifications shall be directed by the district board to superintend...
California Water Code Section 56060
A right of way in or across any public highway, street or property in the district is hereby granted to the district wherever the right...
California Water Code Section 56061
Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter to the contrary, in the event that prior to the formation of a district a report has been...
California Water Code Section 56070
After the approval and adoption of an engineer's report and before ordering the engineer to prepare precise plans and specifications as provided in Chapter 5,...
California Water Code Section 56071
The resolution shall state all of the following: (a) The general objects and purposes for which it is proposed to incur an indebtedness. (b) A...
California Water Code Section 56072
For the purposes of the bond election the district board may consolidate into one precinct several precincts established for general election purposes and describe the...
California Water Code Section 56073
An election board consisting of one inspector, one judge, and one clerk shall be appointed by the district board for each precinct.
California Water Code Section 56074
Only voters registered in the district are eligible to vote at the bond election.
California Water Code Section 56075
The resolution calling the election shall be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper having a general circulation in the...
California Water Code Section 56076
If two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness as proposed, bonds of the district for the amount stated in...
California Water Code Section 56077
The validity of the bonds after their issuance shall not be questioned in any court except upon the ground that the provisions of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 56078
The district board shall prescribe by resolution the form of the bonds, and interest coupons. The bonds shall be payable at such times and at...
California Water Code Section 56079
The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the district board determines, except that no bonds shall be of a denomination less than one...
California Water Code Section 56080
The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the district board, and countersigned by the auditor of the district, and the seal of the...
California Water Code Section 56081
If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds ceases to be an officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser,...
California Water Code Section 56082
The board may issue and sell the bonds of the district at not less than par value, and the proceeds shall be placed in the...
California Water Code Section 56083
The construction fund shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the resolution calling the bond election. Payments from the construction fund...
California Water Code Section 56084
When the purposes and objects mentioned in the resolution calling the bond election have been accomplished, any moneys remaining in the construction fund shall be...
California Water Code Section 56085
If the proposition of issuing bonds submitted at a bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the district board may, at the...
California Water Code Section 56086
If bonds have been issued by the district and the proceeds of the sale have been expended, and the district board by resolution passed by...
California Water Code Section 56087
Bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by revenue derived from an annual tax upon the real property in the district, and all the...
California Water Code Section 56088
(1) An issue of bonds is hereby defined to be the aggregate principal amount of all of the bonds authorized to be issued in accordance...
California Water Code Section 56089
Bonds may be made payable on a date subsequent to the time fixed for the collection of the second installment of general district taxes with...
California Water Code Section 56090
If the result of any election upon the question of the issuance of bonds is in favor of issuance, the board may, in its discretion,...
California Water Code Section 56095
In addition to all of the powers enumerated in this part, a county drainage district shall have the power to adopt by resolution and carry...
California Water Code Section 56100
The Improvement Act of 1911 and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 are applicable to county drainage districts formed under this part. After approving and...
California Water Code Section 56101
In the application of those acts to proceedings under this part, the terms used in those acts shall have the following meanings: (a) "City council"...
California Water Code Section 56102
The powers and duties conferred by those acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards,...
California Water Code Section 56103
No assessment or bond hereafter levied or issued shall become a lien and no person shall be deemed to have notice thereof until a certified...
California Water Code Section 56104
Notwithstanding any other provision contained in the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931 to the contrary, in the event the district...
California Water Code Section 56110
Annually, at least 15 days before the first day of the month in which the board of supervisors of the county in which the district...
California Water Code Section 56111
The board of supervisors of the county shall annually, at the time and in the manner of levying other county taxes, levy and cause to...
California Water Code Section 56112
If the district board fails to furnish to the board of supervisors the written statement of the amount necessary, the board of supervisors of the...
California Water Code Section 56113
The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and when collected...
California Water Code Section 56114
The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the treasurer of the county in the manner now or hereafter provided by law...
California Water Code Section 56115
In any year, at least 15 days before the first day of the month in which the board of supervisors of the county in which...
California Water Code Section 56116
The tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and...
California Water Code Section 56117
Payment from the operating fund shall be made upon claims allowed by the district board. Claims for money or damages against the district are governed...
California Water Code Section 56118
The cost of preparing the engineer's report, including the compensation paid engineers and other employees of the district, is a charge against the district and...
California Water Code Section 56130
Territory, whether incorporated or unincorporated, contiguous to a district, and not included in any other county drainage district or other district formed for similar purposes,...
California Water Code Section 60000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the Water Replenishment District Act.
California Water Code Section 60001
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 60002
"Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated.
California Water Code Section 60003
"District" means a water replenishment district formed under the provisions of the Water Replenishment District Act, or this division.
California Water Code Section 60004
"Board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 60005
"Land" means land in the district or proposed district involved.
California Water Code Section 60006
"President" means the president of the board.
California Water Code Section 60007
"Secretary" means the secretary of the board.
California Water Code Section 60008
"General water replenishment district election" means the election required to be held in each district at the time of the general election in each even-numbered
California Water Code Section 60009
"Special water district election" means any district election other than a general water replenishment district election.
California Water Code Section 60010
"Elector," "voter," and "precinct board" have respectively the same meaning as in the Elections Code, but an "elector" or "voter" shall also be a resident...
California Water Code Section 60011
"Person" means any public agency or public corporation, whether federal, state, or local, or any private corporation, firm, partnership, individual, or group of individuals.
California Water Code Section 60012
"Water replenishment district" means a special water replenishment district.
California Water Code Section 60013
"Water year" means the period commencing on October 1st of one calendar year and ending on September 30th of the calendar year immediately following.
California Water Code Section 60014
"Fiscal year" means the period commencing on July 1st of one calendar year and ending on June 30th of the calendar year immediately following.
California Water Code Section 60015
"Ground water" means nonsaline water beneath the surface of the ground, whether or not flowing through known and definite channels.
California Water Code Section 60016
"Nonsaline water" means water which has less than 1,000 parts of chlorides to 1,000,000 parts of water.
California Water Code Section 60017
"Production" or "producing" means the extraction or extracting of ground water, by pumping or any other method, from shafts, tunnels, wells (including, but not limited...
California Water Code Section 60018
"Water-producing facility" means any device or method, mechanical or otherwise, for the production of ground water from the ground water supplies within a replenishment district.
California Water Code Section 60019
"Owner" means the person or persons owning any water-producing facility or any interest therein other than a lien to secure the payment of a debt...
California Water Code Section 60020
"Operator" means the person or persons operating a water-producing facility; the owner thereof shall be conclusively presumed to be such operator unless satisfactory showing be...
California Water Code Section 60021
"Producer" means any operator producing ground water.
California Water Code Section 60022
"Annual overdraft" means the amount, as determined by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by...
California Water Code Section 60023
"Accumulated overdraft" means the aggregate amount, as determined from time to time by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity...
California Water Code Section 60024
"Principal county" means the county in which the greater portion of the land in a district or a proposed district is situated, if the district...
California Water Code Section 60025
"Participating county" is any county other than the principal county in which the district or proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district...
California Water Code Section 60026
"Affected county" means each county in which some land of the district or proposed district is located.
California Water Code Section 60027
"Replenishment assessment" means any assessment levied pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 60300).
California Water Code Section 60028
"Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance, or substances, of a concentration which, if contained in water, will cause a significant impairment to...
California Water Code Section 60029
"Existing agency" shall mean any public corporation, agency, district, or political subdivision created prior or subsequent to the formation of a replenishment district under this...
California Water Code Section 60040
Districts, regardless of the date of formation, are subject to the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 60041
The inclusion in or annexation or addition to a replenishment district, of the corporate area of any existing agency, shall not destroy the identity or...
California Water Code Section 60042
Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number...
California Water Code Section 60043
Whenever any act is required to be done or proceeding taken on or set for a particular day or day of the week in any...
California Water Code Section 60044
A district may be organized entirely within unincorporated territory, or partly within unincorporated territory and partly within incorporated territory, and within one or more counties...
California Water Code Section 60045
No area included within any existing agency or annexations thereto, one of the purposes of which is replenishing the ground water supplies within such existing...
California Water Code Section 60046
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 60047
The provisions of this division apply to the replenishment of ground water within all areas in this state, except those areas therein now or hereafter...
California Water Code Section 60048
No informality in any proceeding or informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be...
California Water Code Section 60050
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this act, or of the act or acts of which this act is amendatory or...
California Water Code Section 60051
No language or provision in this division shall be interpreted or construed so as to limit, abridge or otherwise affect the water or water rights...
California Water Code Section 60060
The department shall supply information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts.
California Water Code Section 60061
Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of a proposed district project should be made at the...
California Water Code Section 60080
A petition, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the county elections official of the principal county in which...
California Water Code Section 60081
Such petition shall describe the proposed boundaries of the district, recite the reasons for the proposed formation, pray that the same be organized under this...
California Water Code Section 60082
If the proposed district is situated in more than one county, the county elections official of the principal county shall immediately transmit to the county...
California Water Code Section 60083
Within 30 days of the date of filing the petition with the county elections official of the principal county, the county elections officials of the...
California Water Code Section 60095
If the certificates of the county elections officials of each affected county as filed with the county elections official of the principal county show the...
California Water Code Section 60096
Upon presentation of such petition and certificates, the board of supervisors of the principal county shall immediately file a copy of such petition with the
California Water Code Section 60097
Upon filing such petition with the department said department shall set the same for a public hearing within sixty (60) days, said hearing to determine...
California Water Code Section 60098
The department shall publish one copy of said petition, along with names of five of the persons signing such petition, together with a notice of...
California Water Code Section 60099
At said public hearing which may be adjourned from time to time, the department shall hear all evidence relevant to the inclusion of additional lands...
California Water Code Section 60100
In the event the department determines that additional land should be included in the proposed district, it shall forthwith set a date for a public...
California Water Code Section 60101
Within thirty (30) days after concluding all said hearings, but in any event within six (6) months of the filing of said petition with said...
California Water Code Section 60102
If the department determines that the persons or property within the proposed boundaries of the district will not benefit directly or indirectly from the use...
California Water Code Section 60110
If the department determines that the persons or property within a proposed district will benefit directly or indirectly from the use of or right to...
California Water Code Section 60111
When such order dividing the proposed district into five (5) divisions is made, said board of supervisors shall call and provide for the holding of...
California Water Code Section 60120
The provisions of the Elections Code so far as they may be applicable shall govern all general and special water district elections, except as in...
California Water Code Section 60121
In such election the first directors shall be elected, and the following measure shall be submitted: "Shall the proposition to organize ____ Water Replenishment District...
California Water Code Section 60122
Within seven (7) days after such election the vote shall be canvassed by said board of supervisors of the principal county. If a majority of...
California Water Code Section 60122.5
The county clerk of the principal county shall immediately cause to be filed with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of...
California Water Code Section 60123
Upon receipt of said certificate or a copy of the order declaring the district organized, the Secretary of State shall, within ten (10) days, issue...
California Water Code Section 60124
Upon filing said certificate of the county clerk of the principal county, or a copy of the order declaring the district organized, with the Secretary...
California Water Code Section 60125
No informality in any proceeding or informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be...
California Water Code Section 60130
If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of organizing such district, the persons voted for as directors who receive...
California Water Code Section 60131
The board of a district organized under this act shall consist of five members, and one director, who shall be a resident of the division,...
California Water Code Section 60132
The board of directors shall, by resolution, adjust the boundaries of any divisions pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 22000) of Division 21 of...
California Water Code Section 60133
The members of the first board shall be elected at the time and in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of Part 2 of this...
California Water Code Section 60134
Each director shall hold office for the term of four (4) years from and after the date for his taking of office, as herein provided,...
California Water Code Section 60135
In the case of all districts (except as to the election of the first board) the elections of directors shall be held at the time...
California Water Code Section 60136
Each candidate for director who at the election of directors receives votes on a plurality of all the ballots cast for candidates for the office...
California Water Code Section 60138
Candidates shall declare their candidacy and shall be nominated, election returns shall be canvassed, the election shall be held and conducted, the results shall be...
California Water Code Section 60139
Directors elected hereunder, except the first board, shall take office at the same time provided by the Government Code for county officers.
California Water Code Section 60140
The election of directors held at the time of the general election and consolidated therewith shall be known as the general water replenishment district election,...
California Water Code Section 60141
If, on the sixty-fifth day prior to the day fixed for the district general election, only one person has been nominated for each office of...
California Water Code Section 60141.1
Notice that such appointment may be made in the event that only one nomination is made, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation...
California Water Code Section 60143
Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each day's attendance at meetings of the board or for...
California Water Code Section 60144
Any vacancy in the board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code. The person so chosen shall be a resident of...
California Water Code Section 60150
The board shall be the governing body of such district.
California Water Code Section 60151
It shall hold its first meeting as soon as possible after the election and certification of the first board and not later than the sixth...
California Water Code Section 60153
A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
California Water Code Section 60154
At its first meeting in the month of January of each odd-numbered year, the board shall choose one of its members president.
California Water Code Section 60155
The board shall designate a depository or depositories to have the custody of the funds of the district, all of which depositories shall give security...
California Water Code Section 60160
The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion.
California Water Code Section 60161
On all ordinances the roll shall be called and the ayes and noes recorded in the journal of the proceedings of the board.
California Water Code Section 60162
Resolutions and motions may be adopted by voice vote, but on demand of any member the roll shall be called.
California Water Code Section 60163
No ordinance, motion or resolution shall be passed or become effective without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board.
California Water Code Section 60164
The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the board shall be: "Be it ordained by the Board of Directors of _______ Water Replenishment District...
California Water Code Section 60165
Ordinances may be passed by the voters of any district organized under the provisions of this act in accordance with the methods provided by the...
California Water Code Section 60166
Ordinances may be disapproved and thereby vetoed by the voters of any such district by proceeding in accordance with the methods provided by the Elections...
California Water Code Section 60167
(a) In addition to the prohibitions set forth in the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000) of the Government Code),...
California Water Code Section 60180
At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall appoint by a majority vote a secretary, treasurer, attorney, general manager and...
California Water Code Section 60181
Said board may consolidate the office of secretary and treasurer.
California Water Code Section 60182
The president and secretary in addition to the respective duties imposed on them by law shall perform such duties as may be imposed on them...
California Water Code Section 60183
The treasurer, or such other person or persons as may be authorized by the board, shall draw checks or warrants to pay demands when such...
California Water Code Section 60184
The general manager shall have full charge and control of the maintenance, operation and construction of the spreading or other works of the district with...
California Water Code Section 60185
The general manager shall perform such other duties as may be imposed on him by the board. The general manager shall report to the board...
California Water Code Section 60186
The attorney shall be the legal adviser of the district and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 60187
The general manager, secretary and treasurer, and all other employees or assistants of said district who may be required to do so by the board,...
California Water Code Section 60210
The provisions of the Elections Code so far as they may be applicable shall govern all general district elections and all special district elections, except...
California Water Code Section 60211
No person shall vote at any district election held under the provisions of this act who is not a voter within the meaning of the...
California Water Code Section 60212
In case the boundary line of a district crosses the boundary line of a county election precinct only those voters within the district and within...
California Water Code Section 60213
In counties in which districts are located the county elections official is hereby given authority, and is authorized to have printed upon the official ballots...
California Water Code Section 60214
The board shall call and canvass all elections involving matters of initiative and referendum and shall call all other elections which it is authorized to
California Water Code Section 60215
The governing body calling or conducting any election under the provisions of this act shall fix the compensation to be paid the officers of the...
California Water Code Section 60216
The voting precincts for any such election may be established and the boundaries thereof fixed and described by such governing body, or such voting precincts...
California Water Code Section 60217
If any district election is consolidated with any state or county election, then the voting precincts, polling places, and election officers for the district election...
California Water Code Section 60220
A district may do any act necessary to replenish the ground water of said district.
California Water Code Section 60221
Without being limited to the following enumerations, a district may, among other things but only for the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the...
California Water Code Section 60222
A district may take any action necessary to protect or prevent interference with water, the quality thereof, or water rights of persons or property within...
California Water Code Section 60223
For the purposes of replenishing the ground water supplies within the district, a district may do any act in order to put to beneficial use...
California Water Code Section 60224
For the purpose of protecting and preserving the groundwater supplies within the district for beneficial uses, a district may take any action, within the district,...
California Water Code Section 60225
A district may take any action outside the district, including, but not limited to, those set forth in Section 60224, provided the board finds both...
California Water Code Section 60226
A district may sue and recover the amount of any district expenditures under Section 60224 from the person or persons responsible for the contaminants causing...
California Water Code Section 60230
For the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the district, a district shall have power: (a) To have perpetual succession. (b) To sue and...
California Water Code Section 60230.5
All expenditures for construction work, materials, equipment and supplies, and professional services, including, but not limited to, legal, legislative, public affairs, public relations, and engineering...
California Water Code Section 60231
(a) The powers and duties herein enumerated, except as otherwise expressly provided, shall be exercised and performed by the board of the district. If an...
California Water Code Section 60232
Each district has the power generally to perform all acts necessary to carry out fully the provisions of this act.
California Water Code Section 60240
Any money belonging to a district may be deposited or invested and drawn out as provided in Title 5, Division 2, Part 1, Chapter 4,...
California Water Code Section 60245
The board shall fix such rate or rates for the sale or exchange of water for replenishment purposes only as will result in revenues which...
California Water Code Section 60246
The rate charged shall be uniform for like classes and conditions of service.
California Water Code Section 60250
To the extent that the revenues resulting from water charges authorized by Section 60245 of this act are inadequate to meet the obligations and expenses...
California Water Code Section 60251
The board shall determine the amounts necessary to be raised by taxation during the fiscal year and shall fix the rate or rates of tax...
California Water Code Section 60252
The board shall direct that at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes, such board...
California Water Code Section 60253
Taxes for the payment of the interest on or principal of any bonded debt shall be levied on the real property and improvements thereon, but...
California Water Code Section 60254
Taxes for other purposes of the district shall be levied on all real property and improvements thereon, but not on personal property in the district.
California Water Code Section 60255
It shall be the duty of all county officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect the taxes provided for herein in time,...
California Water Code Section 60256
All taxes provided for herein shall be a lien on all the real property and improvements thereon, but not on personal property within the district,...
California Water Code Section 60257
When mineral rights are assessed separately from other rights in any parcel of real property no tax shall be levied under this division upon such...
California Water Code Section 60270
Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness, the board shall, by resolution, so declare and state the purpose...
California Water Code Section 60271
The board shall fix a date upon which an election shall be held for the purpose of authorizing said bonded indebtedness to be incurred.
California Water Code Section 60272
It shall be the duty of the board to provide for holding such special election on the day so fixed and in accordance with the...
California Water Code Section 60273
Such board shall give notice of the holding of such election, which notice shall contain the text of the resolution adopted by the board of...
California Water Code Section 60274
In case such election is consolidated with a state or county election, the precincts, polling places, and election officers shall be the same as provided...
California Water Code Section 60275
The notice shall be published in such district pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper or newspapers designated by the board....
California Water Code Section 60276
All the expenses of holding such election shall be borne by the district.
California Water Code Section 60277
The returns of such election shall be made, the votes canvassed by said board within seven days following said election, and the results thereof ascertained...
California Water Code Section 60278
The secretary of the board, as soon as the result is declared, shall enter in the records of such board a statement of such results.
California Water Code Section 60279
No irregularities or informalities in conducting such election shall invalidate the same, if the election shall have otherwise been fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 60280
Any action or proceeding, wherein the validity of any such bonds or of the proceedings in relation thereto is contested, questioned or denied, shall be...
California Water Code Section 60281
If from such returns it appears that more than two-thirds of the votes cast at such election held pursuant to the provisions of this chapter...
California Water Code Section 60282
Any bonds issued by any district are hereby given the same force, value and use as bonds issued by any city and shall be exempt...
California Water Code Section 60290
The district may establish an annual reserve fund in an amount not to exceed ten million dollars ($10,000,000) commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal year. The...
California Water Code Section 60291
The limitation on the reserve established in Section 60290 does not apply to the unexpended balance of any appropriated funds in a capital improvement project...
California Water Code Section 60292
(a) The district shall order, review, and maintain on file an independent, audited financial statement not later than 60 days from the conclusion of the...
California Water Code Section 60300
Not later than the second Tuesday in February each year the board shall order an engineering survey and report to be made regarding the ground...
California Water Code Section 60301
If the district has received an engineering evaluation as to any matter within the powers of the district under Section 60224 and containing proposed action...
California Water Code Section 60305
On or before the second Tuesday in March of each year, and provided the survey and report called for by Section 60300 has been made,...
California Water Code Section 60306
If the board, by resolution, determines that all or a portion of the funds needed to purchase replenishment water, or to remove contaminants from the...
California Water Code Section 60307
Said hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the...
California Water Code Section 60308
The board may appoint a qualified registered engineer familiar with water problems as a hearing officer to conduct said hearing.
California Water Code Section 60309
All evidence relevant to the engineering survey and report and the board's determination that such a replenishment assessment shall be levied may be introduced.
California Water Code Section 60315
Upon completing the hearing, but no later than the second Tuesday in May, the board shall, by resolution, find all of the following: (a) The...
California Water Code Section 60316
Based on the findings pursuant to Section 60315, the board shall, by resolution, determine all of the following: (a) What portion, if any, of the...
California Water Code Section 60317
If the board determines that a replenishment assessment shall be levied upon the production of groundwater from groundwater supplies within the district during the ensuing...
California Water Code Section 60317.5
Except as set forth in this section, nothing in this division prevents the use of district funds from any source for powers and functions authorized...
California Water Code Section 60318
(a) If the board determines, by resolution, that there is a problem of groundwater contamination that a proposed program will remedy or ameliorate, an operator...
California Water Code Section 60325
The district, after the levying of the replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to the operators of all water-producing facilities in the district as disclosed...
California Water Code Section 60326
The operator of each water-producing facility within the district, on or before the last day of the month immediately following the respective quarterly periods ending...
California Water Code Section 60326.1
Notwithstanding Section 60326, the operator of each water-producing facility in the Water Replenishment District of Southern California shall file with the district, by the last...
California Water Code Section 60327
Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this act shall be due and payable to the district by each producer in quarterly installments on the last...
California Water Code Section 60327.1
Notwithstanding Section 60327, each producer shall pay the Water Replenishment District of Southern California a replenishment assessment, imposed pursuant to this act, in monthly installments...
California Water Code Section 60328
The board shall authorize, and the district shall make, refunds in whole or in part of replenishment assessments theretofore paid, to any producer who has...
California Water Code Section 60328.1
The district shall apply the estimated fiscal yearend balance in excess of the amount permitted in Section 60290 to a replenishment assessment rate reduction or...
California Water Code Section 60329
The board, by action uniformly applicable as to any quarter, and adopted prior to the commencement of the quarter, may provide that there shall not...
California Water Code Section 60335
If any producer shall knowingly fail to pay a replenishment assessment within 30 days of when due, such producer shall become liable to the district...
California Water Code Section 60336
Should any operator of a water-producing facility knowingly fail to register his water-producing facility or knowingly fail to file the ground water production statement, or...
California Water Code Section 60337
The board, at the time of fixing the replenishment assessment rate, may provide by resolution that any producer operating a water-producing facility having a discharge...
California Water Code Section 60339
(a) The superior court of the county in which the major portion of the district lies may issue a temporary restraining order upon the filing...
California Water Code Section 60340
If the board of a district shall have probable cause to believe that the production of ground water from any water-producing facility is in excess...
California Water Code Section 60341
The district may bring a suit in the court having jurisdiction against any producer of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district...
California Water Code Section 60342
It shall be unlawful to produce groundwater from any water-producing facility within any district from and after one year following the adoption of the resolution...
California Water Code Section 60343
If another public entity, or public entities, or a watermaster, or watermasters, appointed in one or more court adjudications, or any combination of the foregoing...
California Water Code Section 60350
Commencing with the third fiscal year following a final adjudication of all or substantially all of the rights to extract ground water and a determination...
California Water Code Section 60351
To the extent that ground water supplies are replenished under this act no person shall acquire any property or other right in the waters distributed...
California Water Code Section 60352
To the extent that the replenishment assessment after adjudication hereunder shifts from all producers to those who extract water in excess of their respective shares...
California Water Code Section 60370
Any territory including unincorporated territory or incorporated territory or a part of either, and lying within one or more counties of this State may be...
California Water Code Section 60371
A petition, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the secretary of the district, signed by registered voters residing...
California Water Code Section 60372
Such petition shall set forth and describe the boundaries of the area proposed to be annexed and shall contain a prayer that such area be...
California Water Code Section 60373
The text of such petition and a notice stating the time of the meeting at which the same will be presented shall be published in...
California Water Code Section 60374
Within 10 days of the date of filing of such petition the secretary of the district shall examine the same and ascertain whether or not...
California Water Code Section 60375
When the secretary of the district has completed his examination of the petition, he shall attach to the same his certificate, properly dated, showing the...
California Water Code Section 60376
If, by the certificate of the secretary of the district, the petition is found to be insufficient, he shall also certify to the number of...
California Water Code Section 60377
The secretary of the district shall, within 10 days after the filing of such supplemental petition or petitions, make like examination of the same and...
California Water Code Section 60378
If his certificate shall show any such petition, or such petition as amended, to be insufficient, it shall be filed by him with the board...
California Water Code Section 60379
If any supplemental petition be filed, all the signatures appended to the petition or to the supplemental petition or petitions shall be considered in determining...
California Water Code Section 60380
After an election for the annexation of such area to the district the sufficiency of such petition in any respect shall not be subject to...
California Water Code Section 60381
Such petition may be granted by ordinance of the board of such district. No petition for inclusion may be granted unless and until the board...
California Water Code Section 60382
If such petition is granted, the proposition of such annexation subject to the terms and conditions so fixed, shall be submitted to the vote of...
California Water Code Section 60383
Notice of such election shall be published in the affected county pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code. Publication shall be complete at least...
California Water Code Section 60384
Such notice also shall contain the substance of the terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors, as herein provided.
California Water Code Section 60385
The measure so submitted at such election shall be stated on the ballot substantially as follows: "Shall ____ (giving the name or other designation of...
California Water Code Section 60386
The board shall canvass the votes cast at such election and, if such proposition is approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon at...
California Water Code Section 60387
Upon receipt of such last-mentioned certificate, the Secretary of State shall, within 10 days, issue his certificate reciting the passage of said ordinance and the...
California Water Code Section 60388
From and after the date of such certificate, the area or areas named therein shall be deemed added to, and shall form a part of,...
California Water Code Section 60400
Territory included within any district may be excluded from such district and the parcels so to be excluded need not be contiguous one with the
California Water Code Section 60401
A petition, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the secretary of the district, signed by voters residing within...
California Water Code Section 60402
Such petition shall set forth and describe the boundaries of the area proposed to be excluded, shall state the reason for proposing such exclusion, and...
California Water Code Section 60403
Within ten (10) days of the date of the filing of such petition the secretary of the district shall examine the same and ascertain whether...
California Water Code Section 60404
When the secretary of the district has completed his examination of the petition, he shall attach to the same his certificate, properly dated, showing the...
California Water Code Section 60405
If, by the certificate of the secretary of the district, the petition is found to be insufficient, he shall also certify to the number of...
California Water Code Section 60406
If any supplemental petition be filed, all the signatures appended to the petition or to the supplemental petition or petitions shall be considered in determining...
California Water Code Section 60407
If his certificate shall show any such petition, or such petition as amended, to be insufficient, it shall be filed by him with the board...
California Water Code Section 60408
The text of such petition and a notice stating the time of the meeting at which the same will be presented shall be published in...
California Water Code Section 60409
After an election for the exclusion of such area from the district the sufficiency of such petition in any respect shall not be subject to...
California Water Code Section 60410
The board of any district, by resolution, may initiate proceedings for the exclusion of territory from such district. Such resolution shall describe the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 60411
After an election for the exclusion of such area from the district the sufficiency of such resolution shall not be subject to judicial review or...
California Water Code Section 60412
If the proceedings for exclusion have been initiated by petition, such petition may be granted by ordinance of the board of directors of such district....
California Water Code Section 60413
If such petition is granted, or if such determination is made, the proposition of such exclusion shall be submitted to the vote of the voters...
California Water Code Section 60414
Notice of such election shall be published in the district pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code. Publication shall be complete at least seven,...
California Water Code Section 60415
The board shall canvass the votes cast at such election and, if the proposition is approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon at...
California Water Code Section 60416
Upon receipt of such last-mentioned certificate, the Secretary of State shall, within 10 days, issue his certificate reciting the passage of said ordinance and the...
California Water Code Section 60417
From and after the date of such certificate, the area named therein shall be deemed excluded from, and shall no longer form a part of,...
California Water Code Section 60420
A district may be consolidated in the same manner as is provided for the consolidation of county water districts in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
California Water Code Section 60430
A petition may be filed with the county elections official of the principal county in which the district is located, signed by at least 25...
California Water Code Section 60431
Upon the filing of a petition the county elections official shall examine the petition within 30 days and ascertain whether or not the petition is...
California Water Code Section 60432
When the county clerk has completed his examination of the petition he shall attach to the same his certificate properly dated, showing the result of...
California Water Code Section 60433
After an election for the disincorporation of a district hereunder the sufficiency of such petition in any respect shall not be subject to judicial review...
California Water Code Section 60434
If by the certificate of the county elections official the petition is shown to be sufficient, the county elections official of the principal county shall...
California Water Code Section 60435
Said notice of election shall be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper published in said district and determined by...
California Water Code Section 60436
The board of supervisors shall cause a copy of said notice to be mailed by the clerk of said board to each of the directors...
California Water Code Section 60437
Such election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as the election on the organization of said district, as nearly as practicable.
California Water Code Section 60438
Within seven days after the date of said election, the board of supervisors shall proceed to canvass the vote cast thereat; if it be found...
California Water Code Section 60439
In case it should appear from said canvass of said votes that a majority of all the votes cast were in favor of disincorporation, said...
California Water Code Section 60440
The board of supervisors shall in case the district is disincorporated, forthwith cause its county elections official to make and transmit to the Secretary of...
California Water Code Section 60441
Twenty days from and after the holding of the election, in case a majority of said votes were cast in favor of said disincorporation, said...
California Water Code Section 60442
Upon the disincorporation of any district in the manner hereinbefore provided for, the board of supervisors shall forthwith, after ascertaining by said canvass that the...
California Water Code Section 60443
Upon the disincorporation of said district every public officer of said district shall immediately turn over to the board of supervisors of the principal county...
California Water Code Section 60444
Nothing contained in this act shall be held to relieve said district, or the territory included within it, from any liability or any debt contracted...
California Water Code Section 60445
All warrants for said indebtedness shall be drawn on order of the board of supervisors of the principal county in which said district is situated,...
California Water Code Section 60446
All moneys paid into the county treasury under the provisions of this act shall be placed in the special fund hereinbefore provided for. If at...
California Water Code Section 60447
If after payment of all debts of said district there shall remain any surplus in the hands of said county treasurer to the credit of...
California Water Code Section 60448
The board of supervisors of the principal county in which any such district has been disincorporated, shall have the power and it shall be the...
California Water Code Section 60449
It is the intent of the Legislature that no district shall be disincorporated until all bonded indebtedness shall have been fully paid, and by the...
California Water Code Section 60600
This part applies to contracts by water replenishment districts established pursuant to this division.
California Water Code Section 60602
(a) Before making any contract totaling twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more within any 12-month period, the district shall advertise for bids. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision...
California Water Code Section 60604
When work is to be done, the district shall give notice calling for bids by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county...
California Water Code Section 60606
If less than the whole work provided for in the plans and specifications is to be done, the portion to be done must be particularly...
California Water Code Section 60608
The notice shall set forth all of the following information: (a) Plans and specifications of the work to be done can be seen at the...
California Water Code Section 60610
(a) All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder's security:...
California Water Code Section 60612
The board may do any of the following: (a) Let the work to the lowest responsible bidder. (b) Reject any or all bids and readvertise...
California Water Code Section 60614
In case of an emergency relating to the repair or replacement of district facilities, if notice for bids to let contracts will not be given,...
California Water Code Section 60616
Contracts for the purchase of materials only shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, except that the board may reject any or all bids...
California Water Code Section 60618
Upon receipt of an offer for a less price than that specified in the lowest rejected bid, the board may enter into a contract for...
California Water Code Section 60620
Any person to whom a contract is awarded shall enter into a bond, to be approved by the district, payable to the district for its...
California Water Code Section 60622
(a) All contracts and other documents executed by the district that require or authorize the district to expend ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more shall...
California Water Code Section 70000
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Levee District Law of 1959.
California Water Code Section 70001
Nothing in this part affects the provisions of any statute in relation to levee districts now in force.
California Water Code Section 70030
The people of a county or a portion of a county, whether the portion includes unincorporated territory or not, may form a levee district for...
California Water Code Section 70031
The formation petition shall describe the boundaries of the proposed district and shall pray that it be incorporated into a district.
California Water Code Section 70032
The formation petition shall be signed by at least 50 percent of the landowners and shall also be signed by the owners of 50 percent...
California Water Code Section 70033
The county elections official of the county containing the proposed district shall publish notice of a hearing on the formation petition pursuant to Section 6066...
California Water Code Section 70034
The notice of the hearing on the formation petition shall contain all of the following: (a) The text of the petition, which need be set...
California Water Code Section 70035
No defects in the contents of the petition, or in the form of the required notice, shall vitiate the formation proceedings, if the petition has...
California Water Code Section 70036
The formation petition shall be presented and considered at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of the county in which the proposed district...
California Water Code Section 70037
At the time stated in the notice of the hearing the board of supervisors shall hear the petition, and shall hear from any of those...
California Water Code Section 70038
At the hearing of the formation petition the board of supervisors shall determine whether or not the petition complies with this part and for that...
California Water Code Section 70039
At the final hearing the board of supervisors may make changes in the boundaries of the proposed district, as may be deemed advisable, and shall...
California Water Code Section 70040
Upon the final determination of the boundaries of the proposed district, the board of supervisors shall call and give notice of a formation election to...
California Water Code Section 70041
The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) The date of the election. (b) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district. (c)...
California Water Code Section 70041.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 70041.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 70041.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 70041.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 70042
At the formation election: (a) The measure "Shall the proposition to form ____ Levee District under the Levee District Law of 1959 be adopted?" shall...
California Water Code Section 70043
The election shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner provided by the Elections Code, so far as applicable,...
California Water Code Section 70044
If less than a majority of the votes cast are in favor of formation, the formation shall fail, but without prejudice to renewing proceedings at...
California Water Code Section 70045
If a majority of the votes cast at the formation election are in favor of forming the district, the board of supervisors shall, by an...
California Water Code Section 70046
No informality in any proceeding, including informality in the conduct of the formation election, not substantially adversely affecting the legal rights of any citizen shall...
California Water Code Section 70047
Except as provided in Section 70038, any proceeding, contesting the validity of the organization of a levee district pursuant to this part, shall be commenced...
California Water Code Section 70070
A district shall have a board of three directors, each of whom shall be an elector of the district. The term of office of the...
California Water Code Section 70071
The three directors elected at the election held pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of...
California Water Code Section 70072
Any vacancies in the offices of the directors shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 70073
Each director shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take an oath of office and file the same with the county clerk. The...
California Water Code Section 70074
The majority of the members of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
California Water Code Section 70075
The directors shall keep a minute book in which shall be entered the proceedings of all meetings and shall keep an office for the transaction...
California Water Code Section 70076
The directors shall hold regular meetings on the second Monday of each and every month. Special meetings may be held when all members are present...
California Water Code Section 70078
Each member of the board shall receive compensation for services actually and necessarily performed, as the board determines to be just and reasonable, and shall...
California Water Code Section 70090
The treasurer of the county in which a district is located shall be the treasurer of the district. The tax collector of the county in...
California Water Code Section 70091
The treasurer, tax collector, auditor, and assessor shall each enter into a bond to the district in an amount to be determined by the board...
California Water Code Section 70092
The directors may appoint a district engineer. The construction or repair of any levees or associated works shall be under the direction, and to the...
California Water Code Section 70093
The directors shall have the power to employ an attorney or attorneys for the purpose of advising them or advising other officers of the district...
California Water Code Section 70120
Except as otherwise provided in this part, districts governed under this part are subject to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4...
California Water Code Section 70121
In order to vote at any district election, including the formation election, a person must be a qualified elector of the district. A "qualified elector...
California Water Code Section 70150
The district may acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift or other action, drains, canals, sluices, bulkheads, watergates, levees, embankments, pumping plants and pipelines and to purchase,...
California Water Code Section 70151
The district may co-operate and contract with the United States, the State of California, or any department or agency of either, in order to accomplish...
California Water Code Section 70200
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 70201
The auditor shall keep all necessary and proper books of account which shall contain all receipts and expenditures with their source and nature. The books...
California Water Code Section 70202
All moneys received or collected for or on behalf of the district shall be paid to the treasurer in the same manner as county money...
California Water Code Section 70203
The treasurer shall pay out funds only on warrants drawn by the auditor upon district funds in the same manner as county money is paid...
California Water Code Section 70204
Claims for salaries and services shall be sworn and approved by the board of directors before a warrant is drawn for the same.
California Water Code Section 70230
The board of directors shall avail itself of the equalized assessment roll of the county in which the district is situated, and take such assessments...
California Water Code Section 70231
On or before the third Monday in August each year, the county auditor shall transmit to the board of directors a written statement showing the...
California Water Code Section 70234
The board of directors shall meet on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of September of each year to determine the rate of tax...
California Water Code Section 70235
The board shall, after fixing the tax rate, certify the same to the county auditor.
California Water Code Section 70237
The county auditor shall compute the district tax on the property within the district using the rate of levy so fixed by the board and...
California Water Code Section 70238
The district taxes shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
California Water Code Section 70239
All taxes levied under the provisions of this part shall be a lien on the property on which they are levied. All of the provisions...
California Water Code Section 70240
The tax collector shall sell to the district, for the nonpayment of taxes, the property assessed at the same time and in the same manner...
California Water Code Section 70241
All acts of the officials of the district in the levy and collection of district taxes shall be given the same credence and shall have...
California Water Code Section 70242
All deeds executed by the officers of the district shall be conclusive as to all recitals contained therein and that all acts required by law...
California Water Code Section 70243
The tax collector shall, when requested, furnish the board a complete list of all delinquent taxes, of the persons owing the same and a certified...
California Water Code Section 70244
In the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the sale is conducted and the funds are accounted for as...
California Water Code Section 70270
Whenever any district formed under the Protection District Act of 1880 or any other act for the protection of lands from overflow desires to reorganize...
California Water Code Section 70271
The original district directors shall be deemed the successors and legal representatives of the district so reorganized.
California Water Code Section 70272
This reorganization shall in no manner impair any obligation heretofore legally incurred by the reorganized levee district.
California Water Code Section 71000
This division shall be known and may be cited as the Municipal Water District Law of 1911.
California Water Code Section 71010
Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this division.
California Water Code Section 71011
The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
California Water Code Section 71012
"City" means any chartered or general law city.
California Water Code Section 71013
"District" means a municipal water district formed pursuant to the Municipal Water District Act of 1911 or this division.
California Water Code Section 71014
"Board" means the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 71015
"Principal county" means the county in which the greater portion of the land of a district or a proposed district is situated.
California Water Code Section 71016
"Affected county" means any county in which the land of a district, or proposed district, is situated.
California Water Code Section 71017
"Voter" means a voter as defined in Section 359 of the Elections Code.
California Water Code Section 71018
"President" means the president of the board of directors of a district.
California Water Code Section 71019
"Secretary" means the secretary of a district.
California Water Code Section 71030
Nothing in this division shall be construed as repealing or modifying any other law relating to water or the supply of water to cities, or...
California Water Code Section 71032
The inclusion in, or annexation or addition to, a district, of the territory of any public corporation or agency shall not destroy the identity or...
California Water Code Section 71034
Except as otherwise provided in Sections 72322 and 72341, whenever provision is made in this division for notice in a county, it shall be construed...
California Water Code Section 71035
Except with respect to formation proceedings, in any district containing lands situated in more than one county, all papers required by this division to be...
California Water Code Section 71036
Except as otherwise provided in this division, procedure relating to formation, fiscal matters, and taxation in districts containing lands situated in more than one county...
California Water Code Section 71050
Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this part, "county clerk" means the county clerk of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 71051
Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this part, "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the principal county.
California Water Code Section 71052
As used in this part, "application" means an application for the initiation of proceedings for the formation of a district under the provisions of the...
California Water Code Section 71060
The people of any county or counties, or of any portions thereof, whether such portions include unincorporated territory only or incorporated territory of any city...
California Water Code Section 71061
The cities proposed to be included in the district need not be contiguous, and the unincorporated territory may consist of one or more parcels which...
California Water Code Section 71070
As used in this article, "territory of a city" means the corporate area of the city and all territory as to which proceedings for annexation...
California Water Code Section 71071
Except as otherwise provided in this article, if an application includes any portion of a city, the entire territory of the city, at the time...
California Water Code Section 71072
If an application includes any territory within the boundaries of a proposed city for which a valid petition for incorporation has been filed with the...
California Water Code Section 71073
If an application is filed, and proceedings for the formation of the district are commenced and prosecuted, in the manner and within the time specified...
California Water Code Section 71074
If an application is filed, and proceedings for the formation of the district are commenced and prosecuted, in the manner and within the time specified...
California Water Code Section 71078
The inclusion within the boundaries of a proposed district of territory formed into a new city or annexed to an existing city, pursuant to proceedings...
California Water Code Section 71079
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if, prior to the filing of a formation petition, any portion of the corporate area of a city...
California Water Code Section 71080
If, subsequent to the approval of an application which includes a portion of the corporate area of a city, but prior to the filing of...
California Water Code Section 71081
If, subsequent to the approval of an application of intention, but prior to circulating the formation petition, a valid petition is filed with, or a...
California Water Code Section 71120
A petition for the formation of a district, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the county elections official.
California Water Code Section 71121
The formation petition shall be signed by voters equal in number to at least 10 per centum of the voters registered within the boundaries of...
California Water Code Section 71122
If only a portion of the corporate area of a city is included within a proposed district, and 12 or more registered voters reside within...
California Water Code Section 71123
The formation petition shall describe the boundaries of the proposed district and shall contain a prayer that the proposed district be formed pursuant to this
California Water Code Section 71124
Except as otherwise authorized in this part, the boundaries of the proposed district shall be described in the formation petition in the same manner as...
California Water Code Section 71125
The circulation of a formation petition shall be commenced by the proponents within 30 days from the date of the filing of the declaration of...
California Water Code Section 71126
Within 30 days of the date of the filing of the formation petition, the county elections official shall examine the petition and determine whether it...
California Water Code Section 71127
When the county elections official has completed the examination of the formation petition, he or she shall attach to it the certificate, properly dated, showing...
California Water Code Section 71128
If the county elections official finds from the examination that the formation petition is signed by the requisite number of voters residing within the boundaries...
California Water Code Section 71129
If the county elections official certifies in the certificate that the formation petition is insufficient, he or she shall also certify therein to the number...
California Water Code Section 71130
Within 30 days after the filing of any supplemental petition or petitions, the county elections official shall examine them and certify to the result of...
California Water Code Section 71131
If any supplemental petition is filed, all the signatures on the original and supplemental petitions shall be considered in determining the number of voters signing...
California Water Code Section 71132
After the time for filing supplemental petitions has expired and all supplemental petitions have been examined, if the county elections official's certificate shows that the...
California Water Code Section 71133
If the county elections official's certificate shows that the formation petition is sufficient, the county elections official shall present the petition to the board of...
California Water Code Section 71134
After an election for the formation of a proposed district, the sufficiency of the formation petition shall not be subject to judicial review or be...
California Water Code Section 71160
When a formation petition is presented to it, the board of supervisors shall make an order dividing the proposed district into five divisions in such...
California Water Code Section 71161
When the order dividing the proposed district into five divisions is made, the board of supervisors shall by resolution or ordinance call and provide for...
California Water Code Section 71162
The formation election shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days from the date of adoption of the resolution...
California Water Code Section 71163
Notice of the formation election shall be published once, not less than one week nor more than four weeks prior to the election, in at...
California Water Code Section 71163.1
Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a...
California Water Code Section 71163.2
The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of...
California Water Code Section 71163.3
If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time...
California Water Code Section 71163.4
The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed...
California Water Code Section 71164
The notice of the formation election shall contain the following: (a) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district and its divisions. (b) The...
California Water Code Section 71165
The following measure shall be submitted at the formation election: "Shall the proposition to form the ____ Municipal Water District under the Municipal Water District...
California Water Code Section 71166
No person may vote at any formation election unless he is a voter.
California Water Code Section 71167
Within seven days after the formation election the board of supervisors shall canvass the vote.
California Water Code Section 71168
If less than a majority of the votes cast in any affected county are in favor of the proposition, the formation of the district fails,...
California Water Code Section 71169
The first directors shall be elected at the formation election.
California Water Code Section 71170
One director shall be elected for each division by the voters of the division. Each director shall be a resident of the division for which...
California Water Code Section 71171
Except as otherwise provided in this division, the candidates shall declare their candidacy and shall be nominated, the election shall be held and conducted, the...
California Water Code Section 71172
If a majority of the votes cast in each affected county at the formation election favor the formation of the district, each candidate for director...
California Water Code Section 71190
If a majority of the votes cast in each affected county at the formation election favor the formation of the district, the board of supervisors...
California Water Code Section 71191
The county clerk shall immediately cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each affected county, a certificate stating that the...
California Water Code Section 71192
Upon the receipt of the county clerk's certificate, or a copy of the order declaring the district organized, the Secretary of State shall, within 10...
California Water Code Section 71193
A copy of the Secretary of State's certificate shall be transmitted to and filed with the county clerk of each affected county.
California Water Code Section 71194
From and after the date of filing the county clerk's certificate with the Secretary of State, the district named therein is incorporated as a municipal...
California Water Code Section 71195
No informality in any proceeding, or in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall invalidate the...
California Water Code Section 71196
Any proceeding wherein the validity of the incorporation of a district is denied shall be commenced within three months from the date of the Secretary...
California Water Code Section 71250
The board of directors shall consist of five members. Each director shall be a resident of the division from which he is elected.
California Water Code Section 71250.1
(a) Notwithstanding Section 71250, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into...
California Water Code Section 71250.5
If a director moves his or her residence, as defined in Section 244 of the Government Code, outside the boundaries of that director's division, and...
California Water Code Section 71251
The directors elected at the formation election shall classify themselves by lot so that two of them shall hold office until the election and qualification...
California Water Code Section 71252
Each director elected subsequent to the formation election shall hold office for a term of four years from and after the date for his taking...
California Water Code Section 71253
Except for the directors elected at the formation election, directors elected to office shall take office at the time provided by the Government Code for...
California Water Code Section 71254
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of director it shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code, by a qualified person,...
California Water Code Section 71255
Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day's attendance at meetings of the...
California Water Code Section 71256
Notwithstanding any other provision of law any person who represents a municipal water district on the board of directors of any metropolitan water district formed...
California Water Code Section 71260
This chapter applies only to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District. Except as provided in this chapter, this division applies to the Three Valleys Municipal...
California Water Code Section 71261
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Board of Directors of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District shall consist of seven directors. Each director...
California Water Code Section 71262
The board shall establish the boundaries of the seven divisions from which directors are elected in accordance with Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 71540) of...
California Water Code Section 71270
The board is the governing body of the district.
California Water Code Section 71271
The board shall hold its first meeting as soon as possible after the election and certification of the first board of directors and not later...
California Water Code Section 71272
At its first meeting, the board shall provide for the time and place of holding its meetings and the manner in which its special meetings...
California Water Code Section 71273
At its first meeting, and at its first meeting in the month of January of each odd-numbered year, the board shall elect one of its...
California Water Code Section 71274
A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; however, no ordinance, motion or resolution shall be passed to become...
California Water Code Section 71276
The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion.
California Water Code Section 71277
On all ordinances the roll shall be called and the ayes and noes recorded in the journal of the proceedings of the board.
California Water Code Section 71278
Resolutions and motions may be adopted by voice vote, but on demand of any member of the board the roll shall be called.
California Water Code Section 71279
Votes of the members of the board shall not be cast or exercised by proxy.
California Water Code Section 71280
The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the board shall be: "Be it ordained by the Board of Directors of ____ Municipal Water District...
California Water Code Section 71281
The board may enact any ordinance which adopts any code by reference following the procedures, definitions and provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 50020)...
California Water Code Section 71282
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
California Water Code Section 71300
All powers, privileges, and duties of a district shall be exercised and performed by the board.
California Water Code Section 71301
Any executive, administrative, and ministerial powers may be delegated and redelegated by the board to any of the offices created by this part or by...
California Water Code Section 71302
The board may fix the time and place or places at which its regular meetings will be held, and shall provide for the calling and...
California Water Code Section 71303
The board may fix the location of the principal place of business of the district and the location of all offices and departments maintained under...
California Water Code Section 71304
The board may prescribe by ordinance a system of business administration.
California Water Code Section 71305
The board may create any necessary offices and establish and re-establish the powers, duties, and compensation of all officers and employees.
California Water Code Section 71306
The board may require and fix the amount of all official bonds necessary for the protection of the funds and property of the district.
California Water Code Section 71307
The board may prescribe by ordinance a system of civil service.
California Water Code Section 71308
The board may by ordinance delegate and redelegate to the officers of the district the power to employ clerical, legal, and engineering assistants and labor.
California Water Code Section 71309
The board may by ordinance delegate and redelegate to officers of the district, under such conditions and restrictions as shall be fixed by the board,...
California Water Code Section 71310
The board may prescribe a method of auditing and allowing or rejecting claims and demands.
California Water Code Section 71311
The board shall designate a depository or depositories to have the custody of the funds of the district. All such depositories shall give security sufficient...
California Water Code Section 71312
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or...
California Water Code Section 71312.5
A district may issue bonds, borrow money, and incur indebtedness as authorized by law or this division.
California Water Code Section 71313
A district may refund such bonds, loans, or indebtedness (by the issuance of the same obligations following the same procedure) or retire any indebtedness or...
California Water Code Section 71314
A district may insure its directors, officers, assistants, employees, agents, and deputies for injury, death, or disability incurred while engaged in the business of the...
California Water Code Section 71340
At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall appoint, by a majority vote, a secretary, treasurer, attorney, general manager, and...
California Water Code Section 71341
The board may employ such additional assistants and employees as it deems necessary to efficiently maintain and operate the district.
California Water Code Section 71341.5
(a) A district may employ park rangers who shall have the authority and powers conferred by subdivision (d) of Section 830.34 of the Penal Code...
California Water Code Section 71342
The board may consolidate the offices of secretary and treasurer.
California Water Code Section 71360
The president and secretary, in addition to the duties imposed on them by law, shall perform such duties as may be imposed on them by...
California Water Code Section 71361
The treasurer, or such other person or persons as may be authorized by the board, shall draw checks or warrants to pay demands when such...
California Water Code Section 71362
Subject to the approval of the Board of Directors, the general manager shall have full charge and control of the maintenance, operation, and construction of...
California Water Code Section 71363
The general manager shall perform such duties as may be imposed on him by the board. He shall report to the board in accordance with...
California Water Code Section 71364
The attorney shall be the legal adviser of the district and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board.
California Water Code Section 71365
The general manager, secretary, and treasurer, and other employees or assistants of the district designated by the board, shall give such bonds to the district...
California Water Code Section 71450
As used in this part: (a) "District election" means every election held within the district for district purposes, but does not include a formation election....
California Water Code Section 71451
Except as otherwise provided in this division, the provisions of the Elections Code, so far as they may be applicable, shall govern all district elections.
California Water Code Section 71452
The board shall call and canvass all elections involving matters of initiative and referendum and shall call all other elections which it is authorized to
California Water Code Section 71453
No person shall vote at any district election unless he is a voter residing in the division of the district in which he casts his
California Water Code Section 71454
Except with respect to formation elections, whenever lands situated in more than one county are included in a district: (a) The secretary shall perform all...
California Water Code Section 71461
In counties in which districts are located, the county elections official may have printed upon the official ballots provided for voters at elections for directors...
California Water Code Section 71462
The ballots provided for voters at elections for directors shall be furnished by the precinct officers only to those voters within their respective precincts who...
California Water Code Section 71463
In precincts which lie only partly within a district, the precinct board shall be supplied with two kinds of ballots by the county elections official,...
California Water Code Section 71473
If any district election is consolidated with any state or county election, the voting precincts, polling places, and election officers for the district election shall...
California Water Code Section 71500
The successors to the first directors shall be elected or chosen at the times and in the manner provided in this chapter.
California Water Code Section 71501
One director, who shall be a resident of the division and shall be elected by the voters thereof, shall be elected for each of the...
California Water Code Section 71502
Except as to the election of the first directors, directors shall be elected at the general district election.
California Water Code Section 71503
Each candidate for director who at the general district election receives the highest number of votes cast for the candidate for that office is elected...
California Water Code Section 71505
Candidates shall declare their candidacy and shall be nominated, election returns shall be canvassed, the election shall be held and conducted, the results shall be...
California Water Code Section 71512
A person appointed to office of director shall qualify and take office and serve exactly as if elected at a general district election.
California Water Code Section 71530
Ordinances may be passed by the voters of a district in accordance with the methods provided by the Elections Code for direct legislation in cities.
California Water Code Section 71531
Ordinances may be disapproved and vetoed by the voters of a district in accordance with the methods provided by the Elections Code for protesting against...
California Water Code Section 71540
The board of directors shall, by resolution, adjust the boundaries of any divisions pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 22000) of Division 21 of...
California Water Code Section 71590
A district may exercise the powers which are expressly granted by this division or are necessarily implied.
California Water Code Section 71591
A district may: (a) Have perpetual succession. (b) Adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
California Water Code Section 71592
A district may make contracts, employ labor, and do all acts necessary for the full exercise of its powers.
California Water Code Section 71593
A district may provide by ordinance for the pensioning of officers or employees, for the terms and conditions under which such pensions shall be awarded,...
California Water Code Section 71594
A district may, in the ordinance providing for the pensioning of officers and employees, create a special fund for the purpose of paying such pensions...
California Water Code Section 71595
A district may contract with any insurance corporation, the State Employees' Retirement System, or any other insurance carrier for the maintenance of a service covering...
California Water Code Section 71596
A district may disseminate information concerning the rights, properties, and activities of the district. Such power shall not be construed as an exception to the...
California Water Code Section 71597
A district may by resolution of a four-fifths majority of its directors obtain membership in associations having for their purpose the furtherance of subjects relating...
California Water Code Section 71598
A district may, by resolution of the board of directors spread on its minutes, change the name of the district. Certified copies of the resolution...
California Water Code Section 71599
If, on or after the effective date of this section, substantially all of a district water system is acquired by another public agency by any...
California Water Code Section 71600
Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of any local ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to this division shall be punished upon a...
California Water Code Section 71601
(a) In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, including an ordinance fixing charges for the furnishing of commodities or services,...
California Water Code Section 71610
A district may acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water, including sewage and storm waters, for the beneficial...
California Water Code Section 71610.5
A district may undertake a water conservation program to reduce water use and may require, as a condition of new service, that reasonable water-saving devices...
California Water Code Section 71611
A district may sell water under its control, without preference, to cities, other public corporations and agencies, and persons, within the district for use within...
California Water Code Section 71612
Whenever the board finds that there is a surplus of water above that which may be required by consumers within the district, the district may...
California Water Code Section 71612.5
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Marin Municipal Water District may sell water to any person, firm, public or private corporation, or public agency...
California Water Code Section 71613
A district may supply and deliver water to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms, and conditions as are determined by the...
California Water Code Section 71614
A district may fix the rates at which water shall be sold. Different rates may be established for different classes or conditions of service, but...
California Water Code Section 71615
Any special water rate fixed in accordance with the terms and conditions of an annexation shall be deemed to be a rate for a different...
California Water Code Section 71616
A district, so far as practicable, shall fix such rates for water in the district, and in each improvement district therein, as will result in...
California Water Code Section 71617
The rates for water in each improvement district may vary from the rates of the district and from other improvement districts therein.
California Water Code Section 71618
No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or...
California Water Code Section 71630
The district by ordinance may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix on or before the...
California Water Code Section 71631
The standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) per acre per year for each acre of land on which the charge...
California Water Code Section 71631.5
Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County, the Elsinore Valley...
California Water Code Section 71631.6
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Otay Municipal Water District in San Diego County, the standby assessment or...
California Water Code Section 71631.7
(a) Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District, the standby assessment or availability charge shall not...
California Water Code Section 71632
The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge shall be adopted by the board pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section...
California Water Code Section 71633
The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of water
California Water Code Section 71634
On or before the third Monday in August, the board shall furnish in writing to the board of supervisors and the county auditor of each...
California Water Code Section 71635
The board shall direct that, at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes the board...
California Water Code Section 71636
All county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes shall collect district standby charges with the regular tax payments to the county. Said charges...
California Water Code Section 71637
Charges fixed by the district shall be a lien on all the property benefited thereby. Liens for said charges shall be of the same force...
California Water Code Section 71638
If the procedures set forth in this article as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the district or improvement...
California Water Code Section 71638.1
For property within a district, a portion thereof, or an improvement district, which property was previously charged or assessed for such purposes, the district by...
California Water Code Section 71638.2
The resolution fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of water...
California Water Code Section 71638.4
The levy and collection of such assessment or charge shall be made as provided in Sections 71634 through 71637, inclusive.
California Water Code Section 71639
(a) This article applies to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district, by resolution, may adopt an...
California Water Code Section 71640
A district may restrict the use of district water during any emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water shortage, and may prohibit...
California Water Code Section 71641
A district may prescribe and define by ordinance the restrictions, prohibitions, and exclusions referred to in Section 71640. Such an ordinance is effective upon adoption;...
California Water Code Section 71642
A finding by the board upon the existence, threat, or duration of an emergency or shortage, or upon the matter of necessity or of any...
California Water Code Section 71643
The finding made by the board pursuant to Section 71642 shall be received in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding in which it may...
California Water Code Section 71644
From and after the publication or posting of any ordinance pursuant to Section 71641, and until the ordinance has been repealed or the emergency or...
California Water Code Section 71660
A district may construct, maintain, improve, and operate public recreational facilities appurtenant to facilities operated or contracted to be operated by the district. It may...
California Water Code Section 71661
In addition to the activities authorized by Section 71660, the Big Bear Municipal Water District may construct, maintain, improve, and operate public recreational facilities which...
California Water Code Section 71662
A district may utilize any part of its water, and any part of its works, facilities, improvements, and property used for the development, storage, and...
California Water Code Section 71663
A district may (a) pursuant to contract, provide, sell, and deliver hydroelectric power to the United States of America or any board, department or agency...
California Water Code Section 71663.5
(a) A district may provide, generate, and deliver electric power, and may construct, operate, and maintain any and all works, facilities, improvements, and property, or...
California Water Code Section 71664
The Marin Municipal Water District may construct, maintain, and operate one or more plants for the generation of power from wind or solar radiation, and...
California Water Code Section 71670
A district may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm water of the district and its...
California Water Code Section 71670.5
A district may supply sewage and waste services to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms and conditions as are determined by...
California Water Code Section 71671
The revenues from the rates and charges for services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article may be used for the following purposes: (a) To...
California Water Code Section 71672
The district may provide that the rates and charges for services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article may be collected with the water rates...
California Water Code Section 71674
A district may fix, levy and collect a sewage and waste water service standby or availability charge in the same manner and under the same...
California Water Code Section 71680
(a) A district may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 71682
The provisions of this article apply only to districts in which the producers of a majority of the production of ground water within the boundaries...
California Water Code Section 71682.1
For the purpose of replenishing the ground water supplies within such district and to provide such makeup water, a district may cause assessments to be...
California Water Code Section 71683
As used in this article: "Include," except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district, does not necessarily exclude matters not...
California Water Code Section 71684
Proceeds raised by the water replenishment assessments hereunder may only be used for the purchase of water for replenishment of the ground waters of the...
California Water Code Section 71685
Not later than the second Tuesday in February each year the board shall order an engineering survey and report to be made regarding the ground...
California Water Code Section 71686
On or before the second Tuesday in March of each year, and provided the survey and report called for by Section 71685 has been made,...
California Water Code Section 71686.1
If the board, by resolution, determines that the funds needed to purchase replenishment or makeup water shall be raised by the levy of a replenishment...
California Water Code Section 71686.2
The hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the...
California Water Code Section 71686.3
The board may appoint a qualified registered engineer familiar with water problems as a hearing officer to conduct the hearing.
California Water Code Section 71686.4
All evidence relevant to the engineering survey and report and the board's determination that such a replenishment assessment shall be levied may be introduced.
California Water Code Section 71687
Upon completing the hearing, but no later than the second Tuesday in May, the board shall, by resolution, find: (a) The annual overdraft for the...
California Water Code Section 71687.1
Based on such findings the board shall, by resolution, determine what portion, if any, of the estimated cost of purchasing water for replenishment and makeup...
California Water Code Section 71687.2
If the board determines that a replenishment assessment should be levied upon the production of ground water from ground water supplies within the district during...
California Water Code Section 71688
The district, after the levying of the replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to the operators of all water-producing facilities in the district as disclosed...
California Water Code Section 71688.1
The operator of each water-producing facility within the district, on or before the last day of the month immediately following the respective quarterly periods ending...
California Water Code Section 71688.2
Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this article shall be due and payable to the district by each producer in quarterly installments on the last...
California Water Code Section 71688.3
The board shall authorize, and the district shall make, refunds in whole or in part of replenishment assessments theretofore paid, to any producer who has...
California Water Code Section 71689
If any producer shall knowingly fail to pay a replenishment assessment within 30 days of when due, such producer shall become liable to the district...
California Water Code Section 71689.1
Should any operator of a water-producing facility knowingly fail to register his water-producing facility or knowingly fail to file the ground water production statement, or...
California Water Code Section 71689.2
The board, at the time of fixing the replenishment assessment rate, may provide by resolution that any producer operating a water-producing facility having a discharge...
California Water Code Section 71689.3
(a) The superior court of the principal county may issue a temporary restraining order upon the filing by the district with the court of a...
California Water Code Section 71689.4
If the board shall have probable cause to believe that the production of ground water from any water-producing facility is in excess of that disclosed...
California Water Code Section 71689.5
The district may bring a suit in the court having jurisdiction against any producer of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district...
California Water Code Section 71689.6
It shall be unlawful to produce groundwater from any water-producing facility within any district from and after one year following the adoption of the resolution...
California Water Code Section 71689.7
Following a final adjudication of all or substantially all of the rights to extract ground water and a determination of the natural safe yield of...
California Water Code Section 71689.8
To the extent that the replenishment assessment after adjudication hereunder shifts from all producers to those who extract water in excess of their respective shares...
California Water Code Section 71689.9
To the extent that ground water supplies are replenished under this article no person shall acquire any property or other right in the waters provided...
California Water Code Section 71689.20
A district may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for, or may contract with others for, the collection and disposal of the garbage, waste, and trash...
California Water Code Section 71689.21
The district may prescribe, revise, and collect rates or other charges for the services furnished pursuant to this article.
California Water Code Section 71689.22
The district may provide that such rates or charges may be collected with the water or sewer rates, or both, of the district and that...
California Water Code Section 71689.23
The district may determine whether sanitary service is necessary or feasible for all residents or properties within the district and shall thereupon make a finding...
California Water Code Section 71689.24
The district shall determine the types of wastes to be excluded from service.
California Water Code Section 71689.25
Any contract with other parties for the supplying of this service for the district shall be granted by public bid for such periods as the...
California Water Code Section 71689.26
A district may adopt ordinances relating to the provision of sanitation services and the regulation of such services. Every such ordinance shall be in full...
California Water Code Section 71689.27
From and after the posting or publication of any ordinance as provided in Section 71689.26, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to violate...
California Water Code Section 71690
A district may, within or without the district: (a) Take real and personal property of every kind by grant, purchase, gift, device, or lease. (b)...
California Water Code Section 71691
A district may: (a) Acquire, or contract to acquire, waterworks or a waterworks system, waters, water rights, lands, rights, and privileges. (b) Construct, maintain, and...
California Water Code Section 71692
A district may lease from any person, or public corporation or agency, with the privilege of purchasing or otherwise, all or any part of water...
California Water Code Section 71693
A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to supply the district or any portion thereof with water. The...
California Water Code Section 71694
A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to carry out any powers of the district. The district, in...
California Water Code Section 71695
A district may construct works along and across any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, canal, ditch, or flume, or across any railway which...
California Water Code Section 71696
Every company whose right-of-way is intersected or crossed by district works shall unite with the district in forming the intersections or crossings and grant the...
California Water Code Section 71697
(a) A district may locate, construct, and maintain district works along and across any street or public highway and on any lands that are now...
California Water Code Section 71698
Any use by the district of a public highway now or hereafter constituted a state highway shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3...
California Water Code Section 71699
No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a municipal water district which is subject...
California Water Code Section 71700
Any publicly owned utility which commences to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a municipal water district which is providing...
California Water Code Section 71720
As used in this article: (a) "Public agency" means and includes the United States or any department or agency thereof, the State or any department...
California Water Code Section 71721
Contracts mentioned in this article include those made with the United States under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory...
California Water Code Section 71722
A district may join with one or more public agencies, private corporations, or other persons for the purpose of carrying out any of the powers...
California Water Code Section 71723
The contracts with other public agencies, private corporations, or persons may provide for contributions to be made by each party thereto, for the division and...
California Water Code Section 71724
Any such contract with the United States or any department or agency thereof, or with any private corporation organized under the laws of the United...
California Water Code Section 71725
The exact final form of a proposed contract required to be approved by the voters of the district or an improvement district need not be...
California Water Code Section 71726
Any proposed contract approved by the voters of the Rainbow Municipal Water District, as provided in this article, at a special election held prior to...
California Water Code Section 71750
A district may sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided in this division or by law, in all actions and proceedings in all courts...
California Water Code Section 71751
A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, and compromise, in the name of the district, any action or proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or...
California Water Code Section 71752
An action to determine the validity of any contract authorized by Article 1 (commencing with Section 71720) of Chapter 5 of this part and any...
California Water Code Section 71753
All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
California Water Code Section 71757
To carry out the purposes of this division, a district shall have the power to commence, maintain, intervene in, defend and compromise, in the name...
California Water Code Section 71758
The district may employ counsel to defend any action brought against it or against any of its officers, agents or employees on account of any...
California Water Code Section 71759
If any officer, agent or employee of the district is held liable for any act or omission in his official capacity, except in case of...
California Water Code Section 71800
A district may issue warrants to pay the formation expenses of the district. The warrants may bear interest at a rate not exceeding 8 percent...
California Water Code Section 71801
Formation expenses may include the fees of attorneys and others employed to conduct the formation proceedings, but shall not include the expenses of holding and...
California Water Code Section 71810
A district may issue negotiable promissory notes pursuant to Sections 71811 and 71812. Such promissory notes shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed...
California Water Code Section 71810.5
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71810 which limit the rate of interest which promissory notes issued by a district may bear, the Otay Municipal Water...
California Water Code Section 71811
A district may issue negotiable promissory notes pursuant to this section to acquire funds for any district purposes. The maturity of the promissory notes shall...
California Water Code Section 71812
A district may issue negotiable promissory notes pursuant to this section for the purpose of acquiring funds to finance the construction or acquisition of administrative...
California Water Code Section 71813
A district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of, but not in excess of the principal amount of, authorized bonds of an improvement...
California Water Code Section 71814
A district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of, but not in excess of the principal amount of, authorized bonds of the district...
California Water Code Section 71820
A district may use the Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 for the construction...
California Water Code Section 71821
The powers and duties conferred pursuant to Section 71820 on the various boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the corresponding boards,...
California Water Code Section 71822
In the application of the improvement acts specified in Section 71820 to proceedings instituted by a district, the terms used in such improvement acts have...
California Water Code Section 71823
Any certificates or documents required by the improvement acts specified in Section 71820 to be filed or recorded in the office of the superintendent of...
California Water Code Section 71852
A district may issue bonds pursuant to Chapters 2 (commencing with Section 71860) and 5 (commencing with Section 71940) of this part for the purpose...
California Water Code Section 71853
A district may issue revenue bonds for any purpose for which general obligation bonds may be issued. Such revenue bonds may be issued pursuant to...
California Water Code Section 71854
A district that has outstanding revenue bonds which were approved by more than two-thirds of the votes cast at the election authorizing such bonds may...
California Water Code Section 71860
Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, completion, or repair of any or all...
California Water Code Section 71861
The resolution calling the bond election shall state all of the following: (a) The purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, which...
California Water Code Section 71870
Whenever the board deems it necessary to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, completion, or repair of any or all improvements, works, or...
California Water Code Section 71871
The resolution of intention shall state that the board intends to form an improvement district of a portion of the district which in the opinion...
California Water Code Section 71872
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred. (b) The amount of debt to...
California Water Code Section 71873
The resolution of intention shall also state that a general description of the proposed improvement, together with a map showing the exterior boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 71874
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The time and place for a hearing by the board on the questions of the formation and...
California Water Code Section 71875
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code prior...
California Water Code Section 71880
At the time and place fixed in the resolution of intention, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board...
California Water Code Section 71881
The board may change the purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred or the amount of bonded debt to be incurred, or...
California Water Code Section 71882
The purpose or amount of bonded debt or the boundaries of the proposed improvement district shall not be changed by the board except after notice...
California Water Code Section 71883
At the time and place fixed in the notice of intention, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board...
California Water Code Section 71890
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether it is deemed necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness. If so, the...
California Water Code Section 71891
The determinations made in the resolution of formation shall be final and conclusive.
California Water Code Section 71892
After the formation of the improvement district pursuant to this chapter, all proceedings for the purpose of a bond election shall be limited, and shall...
California Water Code Section 71900
After the Board has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by the resolution of formation, and if the board deems it...
California Water Code Section 71901
The resolution calling the bond election shall contain all of the statements required by Section 71861 and, in addition, shall state: (a) That the board...
California Water Code Section 71910
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of an improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 71911
The board may repay the district for any advance of funds from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized for the purposes of the...
California Water Code Section 71920
Whenever the board deems it necessary to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, completion, or repair of any or all improvements, works, or...
California Water Code Section 71921
For the purposes of this chapter the portion of a district formed into an uninhabited improvement district shall be deemed uninhabited if less than 12...
California Water Code Section 71922
The resolution of intention shall state that the board intends to form an improvement district of an uninhabited portion of the district which in the...
California Water Code Section 71923
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred. (b) The amount of debt to...
California Water Code Section 71924
The resolution of intention shall also state that a general description of the proposed improvement, together with a map showing the exterior boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 71930
After the board has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by the resolution of intention, and if the board deems it...
California Water Code Section 71930.5
The provisions of this article apply only to bond elections called pursuant to this chapter. The provisions of Section 2502 of the Elections Code, relating...
California Water Code Section 71931
Voter means a person who is a holder of title. Each voter shall have one vote for each dollar's worth of assessed value of land...
California Water Code Section 71931.5
The form and type of ballot to be used in the election and the manner of distribution thereof, to the voters, will be determined by...
California Water Code Section 71932
All ballots shall be returned to the secretary of the district at the office of the district on or before the last date established for...
California Water Code Section 71932.5
Within 10 days after the date on which all ballots must be received by the district, the board shall canvass the votes and declare the
California Water Code Section 71933
Each ballot will give the voter the option of voting in favor of or in opposition to the formation of the improvement district and incurring...
California Water Code Section 71933.5
If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the formation of the improvement district and incurring indebtedness by the issuance of bonds...
California Water Code Section 71934
Voting may be by proxy and every appointment of a proxy is revocable at the pleasure of the person executing it by giving written notice...
California Water Code Section 71936
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of an improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 71937
The board may repay the district for any advance of funds from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized for the purposes of the...
California Water Code Section 71940
The board shall provide for holding the bond election on the day fixed in the resolution calling the election and in accordance with the provisions...
California Water Code Section 71941
Notice of the holding of the bond election shall be given by publishing, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, the resolution calling the...
California Water Code Section 71942
If the bond election is to be held in an improvement district, notice of the holding of such election shall be given by publishing, pursuant...
California Water Code Section 71943
The returns of the bond election shall be made, the votes canvassed by the board within seven days following the election, and the results thereof...
California Water Code Section 71944
The secretary, as soon as the result of the bond election is declared, shall enter in the records of the board a statement of such
California Water Code Section 71945
No irregularities or informalities in conducting the bond election shall invalidate it, if the election has otherwise been fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 71946
Any action or proceeding in which the validity of any bonds or of the proceedings in relation thereto (including the formation of an improvement district...
California Water Code Section 71947
If bonds have been authorized at an election held pursuant to this chapter prior to January 1, 1960, a portion of which bonds have not...
California Water Code Section 71950
If from the bond election returns it appears that more than two-thirds of the votes cast in such election were in favor of and assented...
California Water Code Section 71951
The full amount of the authorized bonds may be divided into two or more series and different dates fixed for the bonds of each series....
California Water Code Section 71952
The board shall, by resolution, prescribe the form of the bonds and of the coupons attached thereto and fix the time when the whole or...
California Water Code Section 71953
The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not to exceed 8 percent per year, payable semiannually, except that interest for the first...
California Water Code Section 71954
The board may provide for the call and redemption of bonds prior to maturity at such times and prices and upon such other terms as...
California Water Code Section 71955
The denomination of the bonds shall be stated in the resolution providing for their issuance but shall not be less than one hundred dollars ($100).
California Water Code Section 71956
The principal and interest on the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of the...
California Water Code Section 71957
The bonds shall be dated, numbered consecutively, signed by the president and treasurer of the district, countersigned by the secretary, and the official seal of...
California Water Code Section 71958
If the bond election proceedings have been limited to and have applied only to an improvement district, the bonds are bonds of the district, shall...
California Water Code Section 71959
Any bonds issued by a district have the same force, value, and use as bonds issued by a city and are exempt from all taxation...
California Water Code Section 71960
The board may, without a vote of the electors, provide for the issuance of, and issue, general obligation bonds of the district or for an...
California Water Code Section 71970
Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner as it may prescribe. If satisfactory...
California Water Code Section 71971
The proceeds from the sale of bonds shall be paid into the treasury of the district, placed to the credit of a special improvement fund,...
California Water Code Section 71972
Any moneys remaining in the special improvement fund from the sale of bonds of the district after the purpose for which the indebtedness was created...
California Water Code Section 71973
Interest on any bonds issued by the district coming due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the next general tax levy after the...
California Water Code Section 71974
The proceeds from the sale of bonds of the district issued for an improvement district thereof may be expended for the purpose for which the...
California Water Code Section 71975
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within the Rainbow Municipal Water District, if bonds have been authorized or issued pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 71980
Whenever the board deems it necessary to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, completion, or repair of any or all improvements, works or...
California Water Code Section 71981
The resolution of intention shall state that the board intends to form a revenue improvement district of a portion of the district which in the...
California Water Code Section 71982
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred and a general description of the...
California Water Code Section 71983
The resolution of intention shall also state that a general description of the proposed enterprise, together with a map showing the exterior boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 71984
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The time and place for a hearing by the board on the questions of the formation and...
California Water Code Section 71985
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code prior...
California Water Code Section 71986
Except as otherwise provided in this article, the board shall proceed with the hearing, conduct the hearing, make changes to the enterprise or the estimated...
California Water Code Section 71987
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether it is deemed necessary to form the proposed revenue improvement district and...
California Water Code Section 71988
The determinations made in the resolution of formation shall be final and conclusive.
California Water Code Section 71989
After the formation of the revenue improvement district pursuant to this chapter, all proceedings for the purpose of a revenue bond election by the revenue...
California Water Code Section 71990
Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, after the formation of the improvement district pursuant to this chapter, the improvement district shall be a local...
California Water Code Section 71991
After the board has made its determination of the matters required to be determined by the resolution of formation, and if the board deems it...
California Water Code Section 71992
The resolution calling the revenue bond election shall be adopted, contain the statement, be published and provide for issuance of the revenue bonds in accordance...
California Water Code Section 71993
If the issuance of the revenue bonds is authorized at the election, the board shall provide for their issuance, sale, authentication, form and redemption in...
California Water Code Section 71994
It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this article shall be in addition to, and not exclusive of, the powers and...
California Water Code Section 71995
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of a revenue improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 71996
The board may repay the district for any advance of funds from the proceeds of the sale of revenue bonds authorized for the purposes of...
California Water Code Section 72000
Whenever the board deems it necessary to form an improvement district of a portion of the district for a purpose other than the incurring of...
California Water Code Section 72001
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The purpose for which the proposed improvement district is to be formed. (b) The estimated expense of...
California Water Code Section 72002
The resolution of intention shall also state that a map showing the exterior boundaries of the proposed improvement district, with relation to the territory immediately...
California Water Code Section 72003
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The time and place for a hearing by the board on the questions of the formation and...
California Water Code Section 72004
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code, prior...
California Water Code Section 72010
At the time and place so fixed in the resolution of intention, or at any time or place to which the hearing is adjourned, the...
California Water Code Section 72011
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether it is necessary to form the improvement district. If so, the resolution...
California Water Code Section 72012
The determinations made in the resolution of formation shall be final and conclusive.
California Water Code Section 72013
After the formation of the improvement district pursuant to this part, all taxes levied for the carrying out of its purpose shall be levied exclusively...
California Water Code Section 72014
A copy of the resolution of formation shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper printed and published in...
California Water Code Section 72020
If a petition signed by not less than 10 percent of the voters of the proposed improvement district requesting that an election be held on...
California Water Code Section 72020.5
In addition to the provisions of Section 72020, in the Casitas Municipal Water District, the board may by resolution call a special election in the...
California Water Code Section 72021
The board shall provide for holding the special election on the day fixed in the resolution calling the election and in accordance with the provisions...
California Water Code Section 72022
Notice of the holding of the special election shall be given by publishing the resolution calling the election, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government...
California Water Code Section 72023
The returns of the special election shall be made, the votes canvassed by the board within seven days following the election, and the results thereof...
California Water Code Section 72024
The secretary, as soon as the result of the special election is declared, shall enter in the records of the board a statement of such
California Water Code Section 72025
If from the special election returns it appears that a majority of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the formation of...
California Water Code Section 72026
No irregularities or informalities in conducting the special election shall invalidate it, if the election has otherwise been fairly conducted.
California Water Code Section 72027
Any action or proceeding in which the validity of the formation of the improvement district or of any of the proceedings in relation thereto is...
California Water Code Section 72028
Whenever the board determines that it is necessary to equitably apportion any extraordinary costs of water delivery, including, but not limited to, filtration costs, to...
California Water Code Section 72028.1
The resolution of intention shall include the nature of the extraordinary costs of water delivery, the amount of the cost which is to be borne...
California Water Code Section 72028.2
The election called by the resolution of intention shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 71940) of Part...
California Water Code Section 72028.3
If the majority of the registered voters in all of the combined improvement districts in which the election is held voting on the proposition vote...
California Water Code Section 72028.4
When additional debt is imposed on improvement districts pursuant to this chapter, the board shall take action at the time and in the manner required...
California Water Code Section 72030
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of an improvement district formed pursuant to this part.
California Water Code Section 72031
The board may provide that the district shall be repaid for any advance of funds, with interest at a rate not to exceed the interest...
California Water Code Section 72060
The provisions of this chapter apply only to the Pomona Valley Municipal Water District.
California Water Code Section 72061
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, within the Pomona Valley Municipal Water District, bonds may be issued by such district and the debt service thereon...
California Water Code Section 72062
Whenever the board deems it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness for the acquisition, construction, completion, or repair of any or all...
California Water Code Section 72063
The resolution calling the bond election shall state all of the following: (a) The purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, which...
California Water Code Section 72064
If, from the bond election returns, it appears that more than one-half of the votes cast in such election were in favor of, and assented...
California Water Code Section 72064.1
Except as provided otherwise herein, such election, issuance, and sale of bonds shall be governed by the provisions of this division.
California Water Code Section 72065
For the purpose of issuing bonds pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, nine improvement districts, the designations and boundaries of which are described as...
California Water Code Section 72066
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning described in this article:
California Water Code Section 72066.1
"Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Pomona Valley Municipal Water District.
California Water Code Section 72066.2
"Charges" shall mean charges made for metered water or for minimum charges for services, including customers' charges, service charges, demand charges, and capacity charges, but...
California Water Code Section 72066.3
"Month" shall mean a calendar month.
California Water Code Section 72066.4
"Person" shall mean any domestic or foreign corporation, association, syndicate, joint stock company, partnership of any kind, joint venture, club, Massachusetts business or common law...
California Water Code Section 72066.5
"Service user" shall mean any person required to pay a tax imposed under the provisions of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 72066.6
"Service supplier" shall mean any person required to collect a tax under the provisions of this chapter.
California Water Code Section 72067
The board may exercise all of its powers and duties in regard to improvement districts established by this chapter in the same manner as to...
California Water Code Section 72068
Any portion of the district, whether contiguous or not to an improvement district established by this chapter, may be annexed to such improvement district in...
California Water Code Section 72069
Any portion of the district may be excluded from an improvement district established by this chapter in the manner provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with...
California Water Code Section 72070
The board may advance general funds of the district to accomplish the purposes of an improvement district performed pursuant to this chapter.
California Water Code Section 72071
The board may repay the district for any advance of funds, together with interest, at a rate not to exceed the interest value of money...
California Water Code Section 72071.1
The board may levy an ad valorem property tax in each improvement district established pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 72062) of this chapter,...
California Water Code Section 72072
In addition to the powers otherwise provided for improvement districts under this division, the board shall have the power to levy a utility tax, as...
California Water Code Section 72072.1
Nothing in this article shall be construed as imposing a tax upon any person when the imposition of such tax upon that person would be...
California Water Code Section 72072.2
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission need not obtain an authorization from...
California Water Code Section 72072.3
The board hereby is authorized to impose a tax upon every person using water within any of the improvement districts established by this chapter or...
California Water Code Section 72072.4
The tax imposed in this article shall be collected from the service user by the service supplier. The amount collected in one month shall be...
California Water Code Section 72072.5
The taxes imposed by this article shall be collected, insofar as practicable, at the same time as, and along with, the charges made in accordance...
California Water Code Section 72072.6
Taxes collected from the service user which are not remitted to the board on or before the due dates provided in this article are delinquent.
California Water Code Section 72072.7
Interest and penalties for delinquency in remittance of any tax collected by a service supplier and not remitted to the board shall be assessed as...
California Water Code Section 72072.8
Failure by a service user to pay any tax imposed by this article shall result in the following interest and penalties on the service user:...
California Water Code Section 72072.9
Any tax required to be paid by a service user under the provisions of this article shall be deemed a debt owed by the service...
California Water Code Section 72072.10
The board shall enforce the provisions of this article and may prescribe, adopt and enforce rules and regulations relating to the administration and enforcement of...
California Water Code Section 72072.11
Whenever the amount of any tax has been overpaid or paid more than once or had been erroneously or illegally collected or received by the...
California Water Code Section 72072.12
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 72072.11, a service supplier may claim a refund or take as credit against taxes collected and remitted the amount overpaid,...
California Water Code Section 72073
The board annually shall cause to be prepared a written report stating the reasons for and conclusions of the board upon the following, together with...
California Water Code Section 72074
Annually, prior to approving the annual budget for the district, the board of directors shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of considering the...
California Water Code Section 72075
Notice of the hearing to be held pursuant to Section 72074 shall be given by publishing a copy, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government...
California Water Code Section 72076
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall, by resolution, determine the following: (a) The amount of the total debt service on any bond...
California Water Code Section 72077
The amount of such debt service and maintenance and operation costs to be raised in each improvement district established under this chapter shall be paid...
California Water Code Section 72080
Proceedings to exclude territory from an improvement district, formed pursuant to this division, may be initiated by the board upon its own motion, or shall...
California Water Code Section 72081
Upon adoption of a motion to initiate exclusion proceedings or upon receipt of a petition for exclusion, the board shall adopt a resolution of intention...
California Water Code Section 72082
The resolution of intention to exclude shall also state that a map showing the exterior boundaries of the proposed territory to be excluded, with relation...
California Water Code Section 72083
The resolution of intention shall also state: (a) The time and place for a hearing by the board on the questions of the proposed exclusion...
California Water Code Section 72084
Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the resolution of intention to exclude, pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government...
California Water Code Section 72085
At the time and place so fixed in the resolution of intention to exclude, or at any time or place to which the hearing is...
California Water Code Section 72086
At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether it is necessary or desirable to exclude the territory. If so, the...
California Water Code Section 72087
The determinations made in the resolution of exclusion shall be final and conclusive.
California Water Code Section 72088
After the exclusion of territory from the improvement district pursuant to this division, all taxes levied for the carrying out of the improvement district's purpose...
California Water Code Section 72089
A copy of the resolution of exclusion shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper printed and published in...
California Water Code Section 72089.5
Any action or proceeding in which the validity of the exclusion of territory from the improvement district or of any of the proceedings in relation...
California Water Code Section 72090
A district may cause taxes to be levied, in the manner provided in this part, for the purpose of paying any obligation of the district,...
California Water Code Section 72090.5
A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of...
California Water Code Section 72091
If the revenues of the district, or of any improvement district therein, are or in the judgment of the board will probably be inadequate for...
California Water Code Section 72092
If, in the opinion of the board of a municipal water district, the corporate area of which has been included in or annexed to a...
California Water Code Section 72093
The board shall determine the amounts necessary to be raised by taxation during the fiscal year and shall fix the rate or rates of tax...
California Water Code Section 72094
On or before September 1, the board shall certify to the board of supervisors and county auditor the tax rate or rates fixed for the...
California Water Code Section 72095
The county auditor shall compute and enter in the county assessment roll the respective sums to be paid as a district tax on the property...
California Water Code Section 72096
Taxes for the payment of the interest on or principal of any bonded debt shall be levied on the property within the district, or improvement...
California Water Code Section 72096.5
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a mobilehome which occupies a rental space and is not permanently attached to the land is not property subject...
California Water Code Section 72097
All county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes shall collect district taxes at the same time and in the same form and manner...
California Water Code Section 72098
Taxes for the payment of a bonded debt and the interest thereon shall be a lien on all the property benefited thereby as stated in...
California Water Code Section 72099
Liens for district taxes, whether for payment of a bonded indebtedness and the interest thereon or for other purposes, shall be of the same force...
California Water Code Section 72100
The amount of any charges for water and other services or either included in the statement of delinquent and unpaid charges pursuant to subdivision (c)...
California Water Code Section 72101
A district shall notify the holder of title to land whenever delinquent and unpaid charges for water and other services or either which could become...
California Water Code Section 72102
In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the...
California Water Code Section 72110
If a district contains lands situated in more than one county, the duties imposed upon the board of supervisors and county officers by Chapter 1...
California Water Code Section 72111
In a district containing lands situated in more than one county, the auditor of each affected county shall immediately after equalization and not later than...
California Water Code Section 72112
Whenever an improvement district within a municipal water district is itself located in two or more counties, the method and procedure for the apportionment of...
California Water Code Section 72125
"Public agency," as used in this chapter, means any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of, or within, this state.
California Water Code Section 72126
On or before July 1st of each year, a district by resolution may authorize public agencies, located wholly or partially within the boundaries of the...
California Water Code Section 72127
On or before the first day of September, in any year the governing body of a public agency located wholly or partially within a district...
California Water Code Section 72128
All such declarations shall be made by order and resolution of the governing body of the public agency and shall state that payment shall be...
California Water Code Section 72129
Immediately upon the adoption of such declaration a certified copy shall be filed by such public agency with the secretary of the district to whom...
California Water Code Section 72130
Upon receipt of a certified copy of such declaration, the board of directors of the district may reject such declaration whenever the public agency has,...
California Water Code Section 72131
Upon receipt of a certifed copy of such declaration, the county assessor, county auditor, or other responsible officer shall reduce the amount of taxes to...
California Water Code Section 72132
A public agency which exercises its right to utilize its funds in avoidance of taxes shall retain its rights to state, county, or other public...
California Water Code Section 72140
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Chino Basin Production Assessment Law.
California Water Code Section 72140.1
As used in this chapter: (a) "Annual" or "year" means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning. (b) "Assessing district" means any...
California Water Code Section 72140.2
The powers conferred by this chapter are in addition to, and not in place of, any other powers conferred upon the Chino Basin districts. Production...
California Water Code Section 72141
To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the primary district shall cause a production assessment or assessments to be levied each year at a uniform...
California Water Code Section 72142
On or before 60 days after the effective date of this chapter, and on or before the third Wednesday in April of each year after...
California Water Code Section 72142.1
Immediately after adopting its resolution levying the assessment, which levy shall thereupon be effective as to all production from the Chino Basin within the primary...
California Water Code Section 72142.2
After the levy of a production assessment pursuant to this chapter the Chino Basin districts shall give notice thereof to all affected producers within the...
California Water Code Section 72142.3
Payment of the assessment shall accompany the filing of the annual report.
California Water Code Section 72142.4
If any producer after having been given notice as required by Section 72142.2 fails to pay a production assessment when due, such producer shall become...
California Water Code Section 72143
On or before 120 days after the effective date of this chapter, and on or before the last day of July of each year after...
California Water Code Section 72143.1
If any producer subject to production assessments, after having been given notice as required by Section 72142.2, fails to file an annual report on production,...
California Water Code Section 72144
The board shall appoint an advisory committee representative of the various categories of water use and institutional concern, including each city which is a producer,...
California Water Code Section 72144.1
The advisory committee shall organize, elect officers, and adopt reasonable rules for conduct of its affairs; provided, that all meetings of the committee shall be...
California Water Code Section 72144.2
The advisory committee shall review all proposed studies, programs, and expenditures of proceeds of production assessments under this chapter and shall advise and consult with...
California Water Code Section 72145
Any assessing district may bring a suit in the court having jurisdiction against any producer for the collection of any delinquent production assessments, interest, or...
California Water Code Section 72146
The assessment authority conferred pursuant to this chapter shall not extend beyond fiscal year 1976-77 production, and the power to collect production assessments shall cease...

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