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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All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...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 106.3
(a) It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and...
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 138.10
(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 147.5
At least 60 days prior to the final approval of the renewal or extension of a long-term water supply contract between the department and a...
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) A member of the board shall not participate in any board action pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320) of Chapter 5 of...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 10570
This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.
California Water Code Section 10571
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) As California has grown and developed, the amount of stormwater flowing off buildings, parking lots,...
California Water Code Section 10572
Nothing in this part shall be construed to do any of the following: (a) Alter or impair any existing rights. (b) Change existing water rights...
California Water Code Section 10573
Solely for the purposes of this part, and unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Developed or...
California Water Code Section 10574
Use of rainwater collected from rooftops does not require a water right permit pursuant to Section 1201.
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 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 10950
The following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Conveyor car wash" means a commercial car wash where the vehicle moves on a conveyor...
California Water Code Section 10951
An in-bay car wash or a conveyor car wash permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, shall do either of the following: (a) Install, use,...
California Water Code Section 10952
This part shall not apply to a self-service car wash.
California Water Code Section 10953
This part shall not be construed to limit the power of any city, city and county, or county to require more stringent levels of recycled...
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 11913.1
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds sufficient to cover the costs incurred by the department for recreation and fish and...
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 [Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720)...
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 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 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 Central Valley Flood Protection Board. (b) "Delta" means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section...
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 intent of the Legislature to reimburse an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred in any year for...
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 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 13167.6
For each meeting agenda notice that the state board provides pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 11125 of the Government Code, the state board shall...
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 seven members appointed by the...
California Water Code Section 13202
(a) Each member of a regional board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for...
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) A member of a regional board shall not participate in any board action pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 13260) of this chapter,...
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 13263.5
(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 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 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 13287
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Board" means the state board or a regional board. (2) "Ex parte communication" means an oral or...
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 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) The state board, in consultation with the regional boards, the California Coastal Commission, and other appropriate state agencies and advisory groups, as necessary, shall...
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
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division or Section 175, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a person shall not be a member...
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 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 13999.18
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 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

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