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• California Water Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Water Code.
• California Water Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall...
• California Water Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
• California Water Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
• California Water Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Water Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Water Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Water Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is required or...
• California Water Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Water Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
• California Water Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
• California Water Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
• California Water Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
• California Water Code Section 14
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Water Code Section 15
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Water Code Section 16
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Water Code Section 17
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Water Code Section 18
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Water Code Section 19
  "Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.
• California Water Code Section 20
  "United States" means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to...
• California Water Code Section 21
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Water Code Section 22
  "Department," unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water Resources.
• California Water Code Section 23
  "Director," unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water Resources.
• California Water Code Section 24
  The standard miner's inch of water is equivalent to one and one-half cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice.
• California Water Code Section 25
  "Board," unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources Control Board.
• California Water Code Section 26
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section
• California Water Code Section 100
  It is hereby declared that because of the conditions prevailing in this State the general welfare requires that the water resources of the State be...
• California Water Code Section 100.5
  It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this state that conformity of a use, method of use, or method of diversion of...
• California Water Code Section 101
  Riparian rights in a stream or watercourse attach to, but to no more than so much of the flow thereof as may be required or...
• California Water Code Section 102
  All water within the State is the property of the people of the State, but the right to the use of water may be acquired...
• California Water Code Section 103
  In the enactment of this code the Legislature does not intend thereby to effect any change in the law relating to water rights.
• California Water Code Section 104
  It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a paramount interest in the use of all the water of the State and...
• California Water Code Section 105
  It is hereby declared that the protection of the public interest in the development of the water resources of the State is of vital concern...
• California Water Code Section 106
  It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of...
• California Water Code Section 106.5
  It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that the right of a municipality to acquire and hold rights to the...
• California Water Code Section 106.7
  (a) It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this state to support and encourage the development of environmentally compatible small hydroelectric projects...
• California Water Code Section 107
  The declaration of the policy of the State in this chapter is not exclusive, and all other or further declarations of policy in this code...
• California Water Code Section 108
  It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that in the development and completion of any general or co-ordinated plan prepared...
• California Water Code Section 109
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the use of water in an efficient manner and...
• California Water Code Section 112
  (a) The efficiency of a reverse osmosis water treatment device means the percentage of water which passes through the water treatment device that is available...
• California Water Code Section 120
  There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Water Resources, which is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of...
• California Water Code Section 122
  The director, in addition to being subject to removal from office by the Governor, may be removed from office by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution...
• California Water Code Section 123
  Except as provided in Section 179, the department succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters...
• California Water Code Section 124
  Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this code, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title...
• California Water Code Section 125
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor in the manner he deems necessary to segregate...
• California Water Code Section 126
  There shall be one Deputy Director of Water Resources who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and serve...
• California Water Code Section 127
  The department may employ legal counsel who shall advise the director, represent the department in connection with legal matters before other boards and agencies of...
• California Water Code Section 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 135
  The Water Resources Revolving Fund in the State Treasury is continued in existence. With the approval of the Department of Finance, there shall be transferred...
• California Water Code Section 135.1
  All sums in the Water Resources Revolving Fund in the State Treasury, maintained pursuant to Section 135, in a sum not to exceed seven hundred...
• California Water Code Section 136
  The Department of Water Resources shall file against the Water Resources Revolving Fund all claims covering expenditures incurred in connection with services, new construction, major...
• California Water Code Section 137
  The Department of Water Resources shall keep a record of all expenditures chargeable against each specific portion of the revolving fund, and any unused balance...
• California Water Code Section 138
  The director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of fees, licenses, permits, tolls, or for rentals, property...
• California Water Code Section 138.9
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), commencing on January 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a...
• California Water Code Section 138.10
  (a) On or before January 1, 2006, the director, in collaboration with the Secretary of Interior or his or her designee, shall prepare a plan...
• California Water Code Section 138.12
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in a general obligation bond act, the maximum amount that may be allocated for administrative expenses shall not exceed 5...
• California Water Code Section 139.2
  The department shall evaluate the potential impacts on water supplies derived from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta based on 50-, 100-, and 200-year projections for each...
• California Water Code Section 139.4
  (a) The department and the Department of Fish and Game shall determine the principal options for the delta. (b) The department shall evaluate and comparatively...
• California Water Code Section 141
  (a) The department may establish a program to authorize private entities to lease space above or adjacent to appropriate conveyance facilities of the State Water...
• California Water Code Section 141.5
  The department shall proceed with the construction of the South Delta Improvements Program, but shall not commence the operational phase of the program until the...
• California Water Code Section 142
  (a) In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with water and energy usage, on and after January 1, 2008, the department shall do all...
• California Water Code Section 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
  The terms of the members of the California Water Commission in office when this article takes effect shall expire as follows: one member on January...
• 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
  There is in the Resources Agency the State Water Resources Control Board consisting of five members appointed by the Governor. One of the members appointed...
• California Water Code Section 175.5
  (a) No member of the board shall participate in any board action pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320) of Chapter 5 of Division...
• California Water Code Section 176
  The annual salary of the members of the board is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing at Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Water Code Section 177
  All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for the unexpired portion...
• California Water Code Section 178
  The members of the board may be removed from office by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority vote of all members elected...
• California Water Code Section 179
  The board succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department and Director of Public...
• California Water Code Section 179.6
  The board, or representatives authorized by the board to do so, may call, conduct or attend conferences or hearings, official or unofficial, within or without...
• California Water Code Section 179.7
  As to any matter involving the United States, its departments or agencies, which is within the scope of the power and duties of the board,...
• California Water Code Section 181
  The board shall maintain its headquarters at Sacramento and may establish branch offices in such parts of the state as the board deems necessary. The...
• California Water Code Section 182
  The Governor shall designate the chairman of the board from the membership of the board. The person so designated shall hold the office of chairman...
• 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 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
  Any ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to Section 375 is effective upon adoption. Within 10 days after its adoption, the ordinance or resolution shall be...
• 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, including, but not limited to, an urban water supplier that promotes conservation through volumetric...
• 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 21/2...
• 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
  No person or entity shall be subject to both civil liability imposed under Section 1055 and civil liability imposed by the superior court under subdivision...
• 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 1062
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) The watershed of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary supplies a large percentage of water...
• California Water Code Section 1075
  As used in this chapter, "proceeding" means any inquiry, investigation, hearing, ascertainment, or other proceeding ordered or undertaken by the board pursuant to this code.
• California Water Code Section 1076
  As used in this chapter, "evidence" means any paper, book, map, account, or document.
• California Water Code Section 1080
  The board may administer oaths and issue subpenas for the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses and for the production of evidence in any...
• California Water Code Section 1081
  Each witness who appears by order of the board shall receive for his attendance the same fees and mileage allowed by law to witnesses in...
• California Water Code Section 1082
  When any witness who has not been required to attend at the request of any party is subpenaed by the board his fees and mileage...
• California Water Code Section 1083
  Any witness subpenaed, except one whose fees and mileage are payable from the funds of the board, may, at the time of service, demand the...
• California Water Code Section 1084
  If the witness demands the fees to which he is entitled at the time of service and they are not at that time paid or...
• California Water Code Section 1085
  All fees and mileage to which any witness is entitled under the provisions of this chapter may be collected by action therefor instituted by the...
• California Water Code Section 1086
  No witness shall be compelled to attend as a witness before the board under this division out of the county in which he resides, unless...
• California Water Code Section 1090
  The superior court of the county in which any proceeding is held by the board may compel the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses...
• California Water Code Section 1091
  In case of the refusal of any witness to attend or testify or produce any evidence required by a subpena issued by it, the board...
• California Water Code Section 1092
  The petition shall set forth the following: (a) That due notice has been given of the time and place of attendance of the witness or...
• California Water Code Section 1093
  The petition shall ask an order of court compelling the witness to attend, testify, and produce the evidence before the board.
• California Water Code Section 1094
  The court, upon the petition of the board, shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place...
• California Water Code Section 1095
  A copy of the order and of the petition shall be served upon the witness.
• California Water Code Section 1096
  If it appears to the court that the subpena was regularly issued, the court shall thereupon enter an order that the witness appear before the...
• California Water Code Section 1097
  Upon failure to obey the order the witness shall be dealt with as for contempt of court.
• California Water Code Section 1100
  The board or any party to a proceeding before it may, in any investigation or hearing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without...
• California Water Code Section 1105
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), no person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any evidence in any investigation or inquiry by...
• California Water Code Section 1106
  No person who is granted immunity under subdivision (b) of Section 1105 shall be criminally prosecuted or be subjected to any criminal penalty for or...
• California Water Code Section 1120
  This chapter applies to any decision or order issued under this part or Section 275, Part 2 (commencing with Section 1200), Part 2 (commencing with...
• California Water Code Section 1121
  The board shall serve a copy of a decision or order on the parties by personal delivery or registered mail.
• California Water Code Section 1122
  The board may order a reconsideration of all or part of a decision or order on the board's own motion or on the filing of...
• California Water Code Section 1123
  The decision or order may be reconsidered by the board on all the pertinent parts of the record and such argument as may be permitted,...
• California Water Code Section 1124
  The board at any time may amend or modify a decision or order to correct any obvious typographical or clerical error or oversight without the...
• California Water Code Section 1126
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all issues relating to state water law decided by the board be reviewed in state courts,...
• California Water Code Section 1126.2
  The provisions of Assembly Bill 3036 of the 1995-96 Regular Session, which, among other things, added this chapter, do not apply to any proceeding for...
• California Water Code Section 1200
  Whenever the terms stream, lake or other body of water, or water occurs in relation to applications to appropriate water or permits or licenses issued...
• California Water Code Section 1201
  All water flowing in any natural channel, excepting so far as it has been or is being applied to useful and beneficial purposes upon, or...
• California Water Code Section 1202
  The following are hereby declared to constitute unappropriated water: (a) All water which has never been appropriated. (b) All water appropriated prior to December 19,...
• California Water Code Section 1203
  Any water the right to the use of which is held by any municipality which is in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor may...
• California Water Code Section 1205
  (a) Following notice and hearing, the board may adopt a declaration that a stream system is fully appropriated. As used in this article, "stream system"...
• California Water Code Section 1206
  (a) From and after the date of adoption of a declaration that a stream system is fully appropriated, and subject to subdivision (b), the board...
• California Water Code Section 1207
  Notice of hearing pursuant to this article shall be given as follows: (a) The notice shall be published at least once a week for four...
• California Water Code Section 1203
  Any water the right to the use of which is held by any municipality which is in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor may...
• California Water Code Section 1210
  The owner of a waste water treatment plant operated for the purpose of treating wastes from a sanitary sewer system shall hold the exclusive right...
• California Water Code Section 1211
  (a) Prior to making any change in the point of discharge, place of use, or purpose of use of treated wastewater, the owner of any...
• California Water Code Section 1212
  The board shall not grant any permit or license to any person other than the treated waste water producer for the appropriation of treated waste...
• California Water Code Section 1215
  This article shall only apply to a water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area pursuant to applications to...
• California Water Code Section 1215.5
  (a) For the purposes of this article, "protected area", means all of lands which normally drain to the ocean, to a hydraulic sink, or to...
• California Water Code Section 1215.6
  For the purposes of this article, "water user or users" within a protected area means an appropriator or appropriators, a riparian user or users, or...
• California Water Code Section 1216
  A protected area shall not be deprived directly or indirectly of the prior right to all the water reasonably required to adequately supply the beneficial...
• California Water Code Section 1217
  (a) In addition to the right to obtain a water right which would have priority over the rights of an exporter, water users in a...
• California Water Code Section 1218
  Upon the request of an applicant for a permit to appropriate water for use outside a protected area, a county of origin shall cooperate with...
• California Water Code Section 1219
  A water supplier exporting or intending to export water outside a protected area, or a water user or users within a protected area, may declare...
• California Water Code Section 1219.5
  The provisions of this article shall not require any water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area to furnish...
• California Water Code Section 1220
  (a) No groundwater shall be pumped for export from within the combined Sacramento and Delta-Central Sierra Basins, as defined in the Department of Water Resources'...
• California Water Code Section 1221
  This article shall not be construed to authorize the board to regulate groundwater in any manner.
• California Water Code Section 1222
  Nothing in this article shall be deemed to diminish the rights and protections to watersheds of origin contained in existing law including, but not limited...
• California Water Code Section 1225
  Except as provided in Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 1226) of this chapter, no right to appropriate or use water subject to appropriation shall be...
• California Water Code Section 1226
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is necessary and beneficial to the state to clear up many heretofore uncertain conditions of water rights which...
• California Water Code Section 1226.1
  The owner of any dam or other water impoundment structure constructed prior to January 1, 1969, the capacity of which is not in excess of...
• California Water Code Section 1226.2
  (a) Any person who has a valid water right pursuant to Section 1226.1, who files a claim of water right with the board on or...
• California Water Code Section 1226.3
  Each claim of water right shall be accompanied by a fee which shall be in an amount determined by the board to cover the reasonable...
• California Water Code Section 1226.4
  The board may, after notice and hearing, revoke any certificate of a water right granted pursuant to this article upon a finding that the water...
• California Water Code Section 1227
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a priority of right to appropriate water for various beneficial water...
• California Water Code Section 1227.1
  (a) To obtain the priority of right set forth in Section 1227, any agency of the United States shall submit to the board, on or...
• California Water Code Section 1227.2
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), any use for which a statement is submitted to the board pursuant to Section 1227.1 has a priority...
• California Water Code Section 1227.3
  This article does not apply to uses involving the appropriation of water by any person, including any agency of the United States, pursuant to the...
• California Water Code Section 1227.4
  The board may, after following procedures set forth in Sections 1675 to 1675.2, inclusive, revoke any water right determined pursuant to this article upon a...
• California Water Code Section 1228
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Rights Permitting Reform Act of 1988.
• California Water Code Section 1228.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a timely, efficient, and economic procedure for the acquisition of...
• California Water Code Section 1228.2
  (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), any person may obtain a right to appropriate water for a small domestic or livestock stockpond use upon first...
• 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 or livestock stockpond use pursuant to this article shall be renewed prior to the expiration of each five-year period...
• 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) Any 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 1228.9
  With regard to a small domestic use of water, no right to appropriate or use water subject to appropriation may be initiated on and after...
• California Water Code Section 1229.1
  This article does not apply to those stream segments for which the Director of Fish and Game establishes proposed streamflow requirements pursuant to Section 10002...
• 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
  When the person entitled to the use of water fails to use beneficially all or any part of the water claimed by him, for which...
• California Water Code Section 1241.5
  The laws of this State with respect to loss of water rights by nonuse, abandonment, prescription, and lack of diligence shall not apply to water...
• California Water Code Section 1241.6
  When 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 1490
  Applications or petitions for retrofit hydroelectric plants at existing dams, canals, or conduits where the streamflow regime will not be changed and where there will...
• California Water Code Section 1491
  Applications for hydroelectric powerplants with a generating capacity not to exceed five megawatts, which do not impound water during times of high waterflow to be...
• California Water Code Section 1525
  (a) Each person or entity who holds a permit or license to appropriate water, and each lessor of water leased under Chapter 1.5 (commencing with...
• California Water Code Section 1528
  Each person or entity who files a proof of claim under Article 4 (commencing with Section 2575) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 shall pay...
• California Water Code Section 1529
  Each person or entity who files a notice pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 4999) shall pay an annual fee according to a fee...
• California Water Code Section 1530
  (a) The board shall adopt, by emergency regulation, the schedules of fees authorized under this article. The emergency regulation may include provisions concerning the administration...
• California Water Code Section 1535
  (a) Any fee subject to this chapter that is required in connection with the filing of an application, registration, request or proof of claim, other...
• California Water Code Section 1536
  All annual fees, other than the initial filing fee required in connection with the filing of an application, registration, petition, or request, or proof of...
• California Water Code Section 1537
  (a) The State Board of Equalization shall collect any fee or expense required to be paid to the State Board of Equalization under this chapter....
• California Water Code Section 1538
  In any proceeding pursuant to Section 1052 in which it is determined that there has been a violation of the prohibition against the unauthorized diversion...
• California Water Code Section 1539
  If a permit or license holder fails to pay an annual fee imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1525 for a period of five...
• California Water Code Section 1540
  If the board determines that the person or entity on whom a fee or expense is imposed will not pay the fee or expense based...
• California Water Code Section 1541
  This article applies to any fee established or required to be paid under Article 1 (commencing with Section 1525), to any fee or expense set...
• California Water Code Section 1550
  There is in the State Treasury a Water Rights Fund, which is hereby established.
• California Water Code Section 1551
  All of the following shall be deposited in the Water Rights Fund: (a) All fees, expenses, and penalties collected by the board or the State...
• California Water Code Section 1552
  The money in the Water Rights Fund is available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the following purposes: (a) For expenditure by the...
• California Water Code Section 1560
  (a) The fees and expenses established under this chapter and Part 3 (commencing with Section 2000) apply to the United States and to Indian tribes,...
• California Water Code Section 1600
  Immediately upon completion of the construction of works and application of the water to beneficial use the permittee shall report the completion to the board.
• California Water Code Section 1605
  The board shall as soon as practicable after receiving the report of completion cause to be made a full inspection and examination of the works...
• California Water Code Section 1610
  If the determination of the board as to completion is favorable to the permittee, the board shall issue a license which confirms the right to...
• California Water Code Section 1610.5
  Before issuing a license for an amount of water or season of use less than that specified in the permit, the board shall either obtain...
• California Water Code Section 1611
  If the board determines that the construction and condition of the works or the use of water therefrom are not in conformity with the law,...
• California Water Code Section 1625
  Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms as may be prescribed by the board.
• California Water Code Section 1626
  All licenses shall be under the terms and conditions of this division.
• California Water Code Section 1627
  A license shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity...
• California Water Code Section 1628
  Every license shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of this article and the statement that...
• California Water Code Section 1629
  Every licensee, if he accepts a license, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual amount paid to...
• California Water Code Section 1630
  At any time after the expiration of twenty years after the granting of a license, the State or any city, city and county, municipal water...
• California Water Code Section 1631
  In the event that the State, or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or political subdivision of the State...
• California Water Code Section 1650
  A true copy of each license issued or of each order modifying or changing a license shall within 30 days after issuance thereof be recorded...
• California Water Code Section 1651
  Whenever an order revoking a license in whole or in part becomes final a true copy of the order shall be recorded promptly by the...
• California Water Code Section 1627
  A license shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity...
• California Water Code Section 1628
  Every license shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of this article and the statement that...
• California Water Code Section 1629
  Every licensee, if he accepts a license, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual amount paid to...
• California Water Code Section 1630
  At any time after the expiration of twenty years after the granting of a license, the State or any city, city and county, municipal water...
• California Water Code Section 1631
  In the event that the State, or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or political subdivision of the State...
• California Water Code Section 1675
  If at any time after a license is issued, the board finds that the licensee has not put the water granted under the license to...
• 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 article 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 5108
  Statements filed pursuant to this part shall be for informational purposes only, and neither the failure to file a statement nor any error in the...
• 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 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 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 8010
  Any city may, pursuant to this chapter, incur indebtedness and liability, although in excess of the income and revenue provided by it for the current...
• California Water Code Section 8011
  The works may be situated within or without the territorial limits of the city.
• California Water Code Section 8012
  The city council shall have some competent person make general plans and estimates of the cost of the contemplated works.
• California Water Code Section 8013
  The general plans and estimates shall, after adoption, be filed in the office of the clerk of the city, and shall be substantially adhered to...
• California Water Code Section 8014
  After the filing of the general plans and estimates, and by resolution or ordinance of intention passed at a regular meeting by a vote of...
• California Water Code Section 8015
  The city council, by the same resolution or ordinance, shall determine, if so advised, that the cost of the works will be too great to...
• California Water Code Section 8016
  The resolution or ordinance of intention, shall, after its passage and approval, be published.
• California Water Code Section 8020
  Within one month after the publication of the resolution or ordinance of intention, and by resolution or ordinance passed at a regular meeting by a...
• California Water Code Section 8021
  The resolution or ordinance calling the special election shall specify the following: (a) The purpose for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred. (b)...
• California Water Code Section 8022
  The resolution or ordinance calling the election shall be published.
• California Water Code Section 8023
  The city council shall publish, after the publication of the resolution or ordinance calling the election and prior to the day of holding the special...
• California Water Code Section 8024
  The special election shall be held in the manner provided by law for holding elections in the city.
• California Water Code Section 8025
  The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting at the special election are necessary to authorize the incurring of any indebtedness or the issuance...
• California Water Code Section 8026
  If two-thirds of all the votes cast at the special election are in favor of the proposition submitted, the city council may, by ordinance reciting...
• California Water Code Section 8030
  All bonds issued under this chapter shall be serial bonds and of such denominations as the city council determines.
• California Water Code Section 8031
  No bond shall be for less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor for more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• California Water Code Section 8032
  Not less than one-fortieth part of the whole indebtedness evidenced by the whole of the issue of bonds shall be, by the terms of the...
• California Water Code Section 8033
  Each bond shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States on a day and at a place designated in the bond, with...
• California Water Code Section 8034
  The interest rate shall not exceed 8 percent per annum, and shall be fixed by the city council.
• California Water Code Section 8035
  The place of payment shall be either at the office of the treasurer of the city, or at some designated bank in San Francisco, Chicago,...
• California Water Code Section 8036
  The bonds shall be executed on the part of the city by the mayor or other executive, and the treasurer, and countersigned by the clerk...
• California Water Code Section 8037
  The interest coupons shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the treasurer.
• California Water Code Section 8038
  Any of the bonds may be issued and sold by the city council at not less than its face value.
• California Water Code Section 8039
  The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited in the city treasury to the credit of a designated fund and shall be...
• California Water Code Section 8050
  The city council of every city in or for which any works are constructed for the purposes specified in this chapter, and for which indebtedness...
• California Water Code Section 8051
  All contracts for the works shall be let, in such parcels as the city council determines, to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice inviting sealed...
• California Water Code Section 8052
  Security or bonds may be required in order to guarantee good faith in bidding and in the performance of contracts, or either, in such amount...
• California Water Code Section 8053
  The city council may reject any or all bids.
• California Water Code Section 8054
  The city council may, by resolution, require the treasurer of the city to give additional bonds for the safe custody and care of public funds...
• California Water Code Section 8060
  The city council, at the time of fixing the general tax levy, and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, shall levy and...
• California Water Code Section 8061
  The taxes required by this chapter to be levied and collected shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall...
• California Water Code Section 8100
  Under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, and in addition to jurisdiction and powers otherwise conferred, the boards of supervisors, in their...
• California Water Code Section 8101
  A board of supervisors may appropriate and expend money from the general or other appropriate funds of the county for the construction of works, improvements,...
• California Water Code Section 8102
  Work under this article may be done upon channels, streams or rivers which flow through or lie in more than one county, or where the...
• California Water Code Section 8103
  In connection with flood control work under this article, whether done by the county or by any district therein or agency thereof, highways, bridges and...
• California Water Code Section 8104
  The work described in the next preceding section may be done at the expense of the county doing the flood control work, or of any...
• California Water Code Section 8105
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the imposition of any tax or special assessment either by the county or any district in,...
• California Water Code Section 8106
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the doing of any work outside the county without the consent of the legislative body of...
• California Water Code Section 8110
  The board of supervisors may provide by ordinance for the organization and government of districts for the following purposes: (a) To protect and preserve the...
• California Water Code Section 8125
  "Non-navigable streams," as used in this article, means streams and washes in a county which are not declared by law to be navigable and which...
• California Water Code Section 8126
  The board of supervisors may provide for widening, deepening, straightening, removing obstructions from, and otherwise improving non-navigable streams the overflow of which interferes with highways,...
• California Water Code Section 8127
  The board may make regulations for the use of the streams and the repair and control of the works.
• California Water Code Section 8128
  No regulations of the board nor improvements directed by it to be made shall in any manner interfere with the private rights or privileges of...
• California Water Code Section 8129
  Whenever, in the opinion of the board of supervisors, the general fund is insufficient to defray the cost of the improvements provided for under this...
• California Water Code Section 8150
  As used in this chapter, "drainage improvement" means any storm drain improvement, drainage improvement, or drainage system, authorized to be transferred pursuant to this chapter.
• California Water Code Section 8151
  As used in this chapter, "date of transfer" means (a) the date of the resolution of the governing body of a flood control district accepting...
• California Water Code Section 8152
  As used in this chapter "city" includes city and county, and "county" does not include city and county.
• California Water Code Section 8155
  Drainage improvements authorized to be transferred and conveyed by this article are those which lie within the territorial limits of the flood control district to...
• California Water Code Section 8156
  Any county within the limits of which there are drainage improvements within any of the classes mentioned in Section 8155 may, by a four-fifths vote...
• California Water Code Section 8157
  The flood control district to which such drainage improvements are transferred shall, upon acceptance of such transfer by four-fifths vote of the members of the...
• California Water Code Section 8158
  From and after the date of transfer no tax shall be levied upon the lands within any such drainage district for the payment of the...
• California Water Code Section 8160
  Any city within the limits of which any drainage improvement has been constructed, and which drainage improvement also lies within the territorial limits of a...
• California Water Code Section 8161
  Thereupon the flood control district shall assume and provide for the operation, maintenance, repair, and improvement of such drainage improvements.
• California Water Code Section 8162
  From and after the date of transfer such flood control district is solely liable for the payment of the principal upon the general obligation bonds...
• California Water Code Section 8163
  From and after the date of transfer no tax shall be levied upon the lands within any such drainage district for the payment of the...
• California Water Code Section 8164
  The proceeds of the collection of such drainage district taxes and assessments shall be applied solely and exclusively to the payment of the principal and...
• California Water Code Section 8165
  The legislative body of the county or city which conducted the proceedings for the organization of such drainage improvement districts may do all of the...
• California Water Code Section 8200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Local Flood Protection Planning Act.
• California Water Code Section 8201
  (a) A local agency may prepare a local plan of flood protection in accordance with this chapter. (b) A local plan of flood protection shall...
• California Water Code Section 8300
  The department may make examinations of lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood waters and of the waters causing the inundation or overflow and...
• California Water Code Section 8301
  Whenever the law provides for any drainage or improving or rectifying river channels or other work on any river or slough flowing into San Francisco...
• California Water Code Section 8302
  The department shall have charge of all expenditures unless otherwise provided by law for all public works relating to general river and harbor improvements, including...
• California Water Code Section 8303
  The department may purchase, construct and operate one or more dredges or any other needed appliances to promote or properly carry out the work of...
• California Water Code Section 8304
  The department may obtain or condemn any right-of-way necessary for any construction under this chapter.
• California Water Code Section 8306
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may provide meals and other necessary support to any person, including, but not limited to, an...
• California Water Code Section 8306
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may provide meals and other necessary support to any person, including, but not limited to, an...
• California Water Code Section 8307
  (a) A city or county may be required to contribute its fair and reasonable share of the property damage caused by a flood to the...
• California Water Code Section 8325
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) A large portion of the land resources of the state is subject to recurrent flooding causing loss...
• California Water Code Section 8326
  For the purpose of providing state cooperation under a national flood insurance program, the department may: (a) Cooperate with the United States in carrying out...
• California Water Code Section 8350
  The approval and adoption, by and on behalf of the State of California, of the conditions, plans, construction, and mode of maintenance and operation of...
• California Water Code Section 8360
  On behalf of the State the department has supervisory powers over the maintenance and operation of the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood...
• California Water Code Section 8361
  The department shall maintain and operate on behalf of the state the following units or portions of the works of the Sacramento River Flood Control...
• California Water Code Section 8362
  The department may contribute funds to the United States and expend funds appropriated or otherwise available to provide all lands, easements, and rights of way...
• California Water Code Section 8370
  It is the responsibility, liability and duty of the reclamation districts, levee districts, protection districts, drainage districts, municipalities, and other public agencies within the Sacramento...
• California Water Code Section 8371
  The department shall, in connection with the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, make inspections and prepare reports which are required...
• California Water Code Section 8400
  This chapter may be cited as the Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act.
• California Water Code Section 8401
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) A large portion of the state's land resources is subject to recurrent flooding by overflow of streams and...
• California Water Code Section 8402
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (a) "Department" means Department of Water Resources. (b) "Board" means the State Reclamation...
• California Water Code Section 8403
  Prior to the establishment by a public agency of flood plain management regulations, the public agency may request and receive a review by the department...
• California Water Code Section 8404
  Where adequate personnel are not available to a public agency to prepare the necessary flood routing or other engineering data needed for support of its...
• California Water Code Section 8410
  Flood plain regulations established to comply with requirements of Section 8411 shall meet the following criteria: (a) Construction of structures in the designated floodway which...
• California Water Code Section 8410.5
  All public agencies shall comply with flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411. For the purposes of this section, "public agencies"...
• California Water Code Section 8411
  Within any area classified "designated floodway" by the department or board after completion of a federal project report the appropriate public agency shall establish the...
• California Water Code Section 8412
  The department or board shall review the adequacy of flood plain regulations established by a public agency to meet the requirements of Section 8411, and...
• California Water Code Section 8413
  Flood plain regulations adopted pursuant to Section 8412 shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the public agency and shall be...
• California Water Code Section 8414
  If a public agency fails to adopt flood plain regulations pursuant to Section 8411, or fails to adopt new flood plain regulations within 180 days...
• California Water Code Section 8414.2
  No public agency shall revise flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411 or shall grant a variance from such regulations without...
• California Water Code Section 8415
  The department and the board, within their respective jurisdictions as provided in this chapter, shall establish general policy and may prescribe such rules and regulations...
• California Water Code Section 8450
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Although the levees of flood control projects in this state have in the past been considered to...
• California Water Code Section 8451
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in providing for state participation in the additional costs attributable to the non-flood-control activities described in this chapter,...
• California Water Code Section 8452
  Wherever the words "department or the Reclamation Board" are used together in this chapter, they shall mean the Reclamation Board as to any flood control...
• California Water Code Section 8453
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is the intention of the Legislature that the state shall pay 50 percent of the...
• California Water Code Section 8454
  Local agencies maintaining project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this chapter...
• California Water Code Section 8455
  Local agencies entering into agreements with the state shall annually prepare a work program and estimate of cost for conducting any maintenance activities necessary to...
• California Water Code Section 8456
  Administrative costs incurred by the department or the Reclamation Board under this chapter in any fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the annual...
• California Water Code Section 8457
  State expenditures for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per year.
• California Water Code Section 8500
  The "Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District" is continued in existence.
• California Water Code Section 8501
  The boundaries of the district are set forth and described in Chapter 170, Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, California, 1913, and the description is...
• California Water Code Section 8502
  The management and control of the district are vested in the reclamation 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" means the levees, weirs, channels, and other features of the State Plan of Flood Control.
• California Water Code Section 8522.3
  "Facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control" means the levees, weirs, channels, and other features of the State Plan of Flood Control.
• California Water Code Section 8522.5
  "Project levee" means any levee that is a part of the facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control.
• California Water Code Section 8522.5
  "Project levee" means any levee that is a part of the facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control.
• California Water Code Section 8523
  "State Plan of Flood Control" means the state and federal flood control works, lands, programs, plans, policies, conditions, and mode of maintenance and operations of...
• California Water Code Section 8523
  "State Plan of Flood Control" means the state and federal flood control works, lands, programs, plans, policies, conditions, and mode of maintenance and operations of...
• 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 board constitutes a quorum.
• California Water Code Section 8560
  No action of the board shall be effective unless it is concurred in by a majority of the members of the board.
• 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 8562
  Any meeting of the board, at its office, when all of the members are present, is a legal meeting at which any business may be
• 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 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 concerning matters, other than purely procedural matters, under the...
• California Water Code Section 8578
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "ex parte communication" means any oral or written communication concerning matters, other than purely procedural matters, under the...
• California Water Code Section 8580
  (a) The board may appoint an executive officer. (b) The board may appoint a chief engineer. (c) The board may employ legal counsel and other...
• California Water Code Section 8580
  (a) The board may appoint an executive officer. (b) The board may appoint a chief engineer. (c) The board may employ legal counsel and other...
• California Water Code Section 8585
  The president, any member of the board, the secretary, assistant secretary, general manager and chief engineer may administer oaths and take and certify affidavits relating...
• California Water Code Section 8590
  To carry out the primary state interest described in Section 8532, the board may do any of the following: (a) Acquire either within or outside...
• California Water Code Section 8590.2
  In acquiring interests in land necessary for the purposes specified in Section 8590 and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8676, the board in determining whether...
• California Water Code Section 8591
  The board has no power, authority, or jurisdiction, either directly or indirectly, except as provided in this division, to incur any indebtedness or expend any...
• California Water Code Section 8592
  The board has the same power, authority and jurisdiction in reference to the adoption and carrying to completion of any work or project involved in...
• California Water Code Section 8593
  The board may acquire by eminent domain in the name of the drainage district any property necessary for any of the purposes set forth in...
• California Water Code Section 8596
  The board may maintain actions in the name of the people of the State to restrain, or to recover damages for, the doing of any...
• California Water Code Section 8597
  Any damages so recovered shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to the credit of the drainage district and the assessment for the particular portion...
• California Water Code Section 8598
  The board may also do any of the following: (a) Establish a standard of levee construction. (b) Do any and all things necessary or incident...
• California Water Code Section 8598.5
  Notwithstanding Section 6402 of the Public Resources Code, the board may sell or lease surplus real property which is held in fee by the Sacramento...
• California Water Code Section 8599
  The board may undertake any construction work that it is authorized to do by this part, free from any control or jurisdiction of the department.
• California Water Code Section 8600
  Subject to the provisions of the State Contract Act any construction work undertaken by the board may be done wholly or partly by contract let...
• California Water Code Section 8600.5
  (a) The governing body of a public entity that is authorized by law to construct, manage, maintain, or repair levees, channels, or other flood control...
• California Water Code Section 8601
  The board may construct, purchase, rent, sell or exchange dredgers, machines, appliances, tools, apparatus and other property necessary or convenient for doing any construction work.
• California Water Code Section 8602
  The cost of the equipment and property shall be apportioned to and paid from the funds raised from the several assessments levied or to be...
• California Water Code Section 8603
  The board may rent for use by others idle dredgers or other equipment.
• California Water Code Section 8604
  The rental received shall be paid to the State Treasurer and credited to the balance remaining unexpended of the assessments against which the cost of...
• California Water Code Section 8605
  The board may inspect and supervise any work done or under construction pursuant to the provisions of this part.
• California Water Code Section 8606
  The board may insert a stipulation providing for such inspection and supervision in any order, contract or other instrument, relating to the work authorized in...
• California Water Code Section 8608
  The board shall establish and enforce standards for the maintenance and operation of levees, channels, and other flood control works of an authorized project or...
• California Water Code Section 8609
  (a) The board may designate floodways throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers drainage to control encroachments in, and to preserve the flow regimens of,...
• California Water Code Section 8610
  The board shall offer to lease to the Department of Fish and Game, or to an appropriate public resource protection or public conservation agency or...
• California Water Code Section 8610.5
  (a) (1) The board shall adopt regulations relating to evidentiary hearings pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Water Code Section 8611
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), prior to construction at a site of a flood control, channel clearance, or bank stabilization project, the board,...
• California Water Code Section 8612
  (a) On or before December 31, 2008, the department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a schedule for mapping areas at risk of flooding...
• California Water Code Section 8612
  (a) On or before December 31, 2008, the department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a schedule for mapping areas at risk of flooding...
• California Water Code Section 8613
  (a) The board or the department may establish a program of mitigation banking for the activities of the board or the department under this part...
• California Water Code Section 8613
  (a) The board or the department may establish a program of mitigation banking for the activities of the board or the department under this part...
• California Water Code Section 8615
  The board may, in cooperation with the United States, adopt and carry out any plan or plans or project of flood control in the Sacramento...
• California Water Code Section 8616
  It is the intent of this article to enlarge and extend the power, jurisdiction and authority of the board outside the drainage district to the...
• California Water Code Section 8617
  The board may give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of Defense of the United States that the state will do all of the following: (a)...
• California Water Code Section 8617.1
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 (commencing with Sections 12570 and 12800, respectively) of Part 6 of Division 6, the board...
• California Water Code Section 8617.5
  (a) In connection with any work done on projects authorized by the board in the repair or reconstruction of levees or other flood control works...
• California Water Code Section 8618
  All political subdivisions, agencies of the State, and municipal and quasi-municipal corporations may make agreements with the board obligating themselves to do or perform those...
• California Water Code Section 8619
  In case any land, right of way, or easement is needed and is required to be provided free of cost to the State or the...
• California Water Code Section 8620
  Whenever any work to be done by the board of the drainage district under any of the provisions of this part is such that it...
• California Water Code Section 8621
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 of Part 6 of Division 6, the board, with the approval of the Department of...
• California Water Code Section 8622
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapters 1 and 3 (commencing with Sections 12570 and 12800 respectively) of Part 6 of Division 6, the board...
• California Water Code Section 8623
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) of Part 6 of Division 6,...
• California Water Code Section 8630
  As used in this article the term "levee" means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
• California Water Code Section 8631
  The board may promote the construction, completion, maintenance and repair of levees along all rivers, streams, overflow channels, basins and by-passes where, in the opinion...
• California Water Code Section 8632
  Whenever any levee is in the opinion of the board insufficient or necessary for flood control, the board shall publish notice to that effect.
• California Water Code Section 8633
  The published notice shall state that the levee is insufficient or necessary, that it is the intention of the board to construct, repair or complete...
• California Water Code Section 8634
  The notice shall be signed in the name of the board by its president and secretary and shall be published once a week for three...
• California Water Code Section 8635
  The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication.
• California Water Code Section 8636
  Any landowner, reclamation district, drainage district, levee district, municipal corporation or other organization or association authorized by law to construct, repair or complete a levee...
• California Water Code Section 8637
  The application shall be in writing and signed by the applicants or their respective executors, administrators, guardians, trustees or duly constituted and authorized officers.
• California Water Code Section 8638
  The application shall be filed in the office of the board.
• California Water Code Section 8639
  When an application is filed within the required 30 days, the applicants shall have 60 days after filing the application, or any further time that...
• California Water Code Section 8640
  The application for leave to construct, repair or complete a levee shall designate the name and post-office address of at least one and not more...
• California Water Code Section 8641
  In case there are two or more applications filed in the office of the board within the required 30 days the board may determine which...
• California Water Code Section 8642
  Any levee constructed or work done by the applicants, pursuant to notice from the board and according to plans and specifications approved by the board,...
• California Water Code Section 8643
  If the application is not filed in the office of the board within 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication, or...
• California Water Code Section 8644
  The assessment may be either an assessment specially levied and assessed for that purpose, or any assessment levied and assessed by the board and applicable...
• California Water Code Section 8645
  Notwithstanding anything in this article the board may determine a case of emergency exists requiring immediate action to preserve life or property or to protect...
• California Water Code Section 8646
  The board may do the necesssary work immediately for the protection or preservation of the levee, without giving the notice provided for in this article.
• California Water Code Section 8647
  The board may pay the cost, including any damage that may result from the performance of the work, by an assessment to be levied and...
• California Water Code Section 8650
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Consolidated permit or approval" means a permit or approval incorporating the permit...
• California Water Code Section 8650.6
  The secretary shall convene, in a duly noticed public hearing, those permitting agencies with jurisdiction over urgent levee repairs for the purposes of coordinating and...
• California Water Code Section 8650.7
  Nothing in this article affects the requirements, duties, or authority established by statute or regulation on a permitting agency.
• California Water Code Section 8650.8
  This article shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Water Code Section 8655
  The board may determine that any land acquired by the drainage district and deeded to the State for any right of way for river improvement...
• California Water Code Section 8656
  The Department of General Services upon request of the board may sell the excess land at a purchase price determined upon by the board.
• California Water Code Section 8657
  The Department of General Services when authorized by the board may execute and deliver in the name and on behalf of the state, a conveyance...
• California Water Code Section 8658
  The purchase price when paid to the State Treasurer shall be credited to such fund as the board directs.
• California Water Code Section 8659
  All or any part of any land, right-of-way or easement required for any work of channel excavation, enlargement, rectification or control or for any site...
• California Water Code Section 8660
  The Department of General Services may execute and deliver pursuant to the next preceding section a conveyance in the name and on behalf of the...
• California Water Code Section 8661
  The purchase price, when paid to the State Treasurer, shall be credited back to the appropriation out of which the cost of acquiring the land,...
• California Water Code Section 8662
  Any lease of property of the drainage district for the production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbons may be made upon such consideration or for...
• California Water Code Section 8663
  The board, before ordering the lease of any property pursuant to the next preceding section, shall, in a regular open meeting, adopt a resolution declaring...
• California Water Code Section 8664
  The resolution shall: (a) Describe the property proposed to be leased in such manner as to identify it. (b) Specify the minimum rental or royalty....
• California Water Code Section 8665
  The meeting shall be held at the board's regular place of meeting, at which meeting sealed proposals to lease the property will be received and
• California Water Code Section 8666
  Notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the time and place for holding the meeting shall be given by publishing a notice containing...
• California Water Code Section 8667
  At the time and place fixed in the resolution for the meeting of the board, all sealed proposals which have been received shall, in public...
• California Water Code Section 8668
  Upon a call for oral bidding, at the session, any person may offer to lease the property upon the terms and conditions specified in the...
• California Water Code Section 8669
  The highest of any of the oral bids made by a responsible person shall be finally accepted.
• California Water Code Section 8670
  The board may make a final acceptance either at the same session or at any adjourned session of the same meeting held within the 10...
• California Water Code Section 8671
  The board may, at such session, if it deems the action to be for the best public interest, reject any and all bids either written...
• California Water Code Section 8672
  The resolution of acceptance of any bid shall provide for the proper execution of a lease upon behalf of the drainage district, and delivery of...
• California Water Code Section 8673
  The board, in lieu of leasing property as provided in this article, if it deems such action to be for the best public interest, may...
• California Water Code Section 8674
  No joint lease shall be entered into until after adoption of a resolution and publication of notice as provided in this article and after a...
• California Water Code Section 8675
  A joint lease shall provide for the payment of a minimum royalty to the drainage district of not less than 15 per cent of the...
• California Water Code Section 8676
  Whenever the board has acquired or shall in the future acquire title in fee to any land in the name and in behalf of the...
• California Water Code Section 8677
  All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in the land are reserved to the State and shall...
• California Water Code Section 8678
  Every lease, rental, letting or license to use real property owned in fee by the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, which is executed by...
• California Water Code Section 8679
  Revenues, rents, and proceeds from sale of crops from lands under control of the board shall be paid into the State Treasury as follows: (a)...
• California Water Code Section 8685
  The board may determine that any construction, repair work, maintenance, or operation of flood control works or structures shall be done by the department.
• California Water Code Section 8686
  The plans and specifications for the work shall be prepared and approved by the board and delivered to the department with a request that the...
• California Water Code Section 8687
  The work shall be done under the sole charge and direct control of the department.
• California Water Code Section 8688
  The cost and expenses incurred by the department in connection with work under this article is a legal charge against the drainage district and shall...
• California Water Code Section 8689
  Any contract let by the department for any work under this article shall be approved by the board before becoming effective.
• California Water Code Section 8690
  Any cash, bond, check or other security forfeited by any bidder or contractor for failure to enter into or to perform any contract for doing...
• California Water Code Section 8691
  Any forfeiture, as soon as received or recovered, shall be paid to the State Treasurer and placed to the credit of the assessment out of...
• California Water Code Section 8692
  The board may furnish to the department any of its dredges, machines, appliances, tools, apparatus or other property which may be necessary or convenient for...
• California Water Code Section 8693
  The department shall advise and assist the board.
• California Water Code Section 8694
  The department shall be reimbursed by the board for any necessary expenses incurred by it under the direction of the board.
• California Water Code Section 8695
  The department may at its option appoint the chief engineer of the board to act also as its assistant in the performance of the duties...
• California Water Code Section 8696
  The compensation of the chief engineer while acting also as assistant to the department shall be apportioned as may be agreed upon between the board...
• California Water Code Section 8697
  All maps, records and engineering data prepared or obtained by the department for the use of the board shall be deposited in the office of...
• California Water Code Section 8698
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall cooperate with the department in all matters of mutual concern to the fullest extent
• California Water Code Section 8700
  Whenever so required and notified by the board the owner and the operator of any railroad, electric railroad, wire line, wagon road or other structure...
• California Water Code Section 8701
  The draws or appliances shall be opened for any person desiring to pass who gives reasonable notice and pays a fee of fifty dollars ($50).
• California Water Code Section 8702
  The draws or appliances shall be located at points designated by the board.
• California Water Code Section 8703
  A failure to comply with any of the preceding provisions of this article renders the owner or operator of any of the structures liable to...
• California Water Code Section 8704
  The board may enforce compliance with the provisions of this article by mandamus, mandatory injunction or by any other appropriate remedy authorized by law. The...
• California Water Code Section 8705
  The remedies provided by this article are not exclusive of, but shall be concurrent with and in addition to, any other remedy which may exist...
• California Water Code Section 8706
  The board may maintain actions in the name of the State to compel by injunction the owner or owners of any bridge, trestle, wire line,...
• California Water Code Section 8707
  The board may in the case of existing works compel the removal or alteration of structures or obstructions that impede the free flow of water.
• California Water Code Section 8708
  Whenever assurances shall have been given to the Secretary of War pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 3 of this part, that the State will...
• California Water Code Section 8709
  Any use of any such land, right of way, or easement in violation of the preceding section, whether for cultivation, planting of crops or trees,...
• California Water Code Section 8709.2
  "Water side of levee" means the area on the levee slope between the edge of the crown nearest the water to the water side levee
• California Water Code Section 8709.3
  (a) Fences that are designed to give way during high water events shall not be allowed on the water side of a levee. Fences on...
• California Water Code Section 8709.4
  (a) Before taking action to remove or modify encroachments on levees, channels, and other flood control works pursuant to powers granted by this part or...
• California Water Code Section 8710
  Every plan of reclamation, flood control, drainage, improvement, dredging or work, that includes or contemplates the construction, enlargement, revetment or alteration of any levee, embankment,...
• California Water Code Section 8710.1
  The provisions of Section 8710 shall not apply to any work of interior irrigation or drainage upon reclaimed land, which work is not actually on,...
• California Water Code Section 8710.5
  Whenever any irrigation, drainage, levee, or flood control district makes application for the approval required by the next preceding section, all of the provisions of...
• California Water Code Section 8711
  Any such plan is void until approved by the board, and no work shall be done without the permission of the board.
• California Water Code Section 8712
  No levee along a river or by-pass at any of the places mentioned in this article, nor any levee forming part of any of the...
• California Water Code Section 8713
  The owner of any existing levee at any of the places mentioned in this article may raise, widen, or strengthen the levee, if before work...
• California Water Code Section 8714
  No claim shall ever be made against the board or the drainage district for compensation, through or by assessment or otherwise, for any part of...
• California Water Code Section 8715
  Any existing levee may be protected or strengthened in case of emergency during the season of flood water, where it is in danger of injury...
• California Water Code Section 8716
  Notice of emergency work shall be immediately given to the board.
• California Water Code Section 8717
  All emergency work shall be subject to the subsequent approval of the board, and the board may require its removal or alteration if not approved.
• California Water Code Section 8718
  No levee, embankment or other structure within any by-pass or overflow channel adopted by the board shall be raised, widened, strengthened or altered without permission...
• California Water Code Section 8719
  The doing of any act or construction of any work mentioned in this article, or permitting the work to remain after such construction, without the...
• California Water Code Section 8720
  Any person who does any act contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Water Code Section 8721
  Any plans or specifications adopted or approved by the board for any work to be done pursuant to this part may be changed or altered,...
• California Water Code Section 8722
  The board may at any time change or alter the plans or specifications for work undertaken upon its own initiative.
• California Water Code Section 8723
  The board may refuse to approve any such plan if in the judgment of the board the plan will or may 1. Be injurious to...
• California Water Code Section 8730
  Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made...
• California Water Code Section 8730.1
  The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt. All applications shall be acted upon within 90 days...
• California Water Code Section 8730.2
  Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon. This section shall not apply...
• California Water Code Section 8730.3
  Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and their content and shall...
• California Water Code Section 8731
  The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it.
• California Water Code Section 8732
  The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, or before the general manager...
• California Water Code Section 8732.5
  All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public.
• California Water Code Section 8733
  The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board.
• California Water Code Section 8734
  The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the
• California Water Code Section 8735
  The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the...
• California Water Code Section 8736
  All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the...
• California Water Code Section 8737
  The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before...
• California Water Code Section 8738
  The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths.
• California Water Code Section 8739
  The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in...
• California Water Code Section 8740
  When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application.
• California Water Code Section 8741
  An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this...
• California Water Code Section 8742
  In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication,...
• California Water Code Section 8750
  Whenever in the opinion of the board it is necessary to levy an assessment upon any lands within the drainage district for any of the...
• California Water Code Section 8751
  The estimate shall include the following: (a) The expenses of bonding the assessment if authorized by law, other than an assessment to pay the costs...
• California Water Code Section 8752
  The plans to be carried out shall be divided by the board into separate projects or units in such manner as will in its judgment...
• California Water Code Section 8753
  Each separate and particular project or unit shall include all by-passes, cuts, canals, sumps, levees, pumping plants and other works of flood control and drainage...
• California Water Code Section 8754
  The board shall enter in the minutes of the board a resolution to the effect that the execution of each separate project or unit which...
• California Water Code Section 8755
  Each project or unit shall be designated by the board in the resolution by name and number.
• California Water Code Section 8756
  All assessments, plans and funds intended for or connected with the execution of each project or unit shall be designated by name and number and...
• California Water Code Section 8757
  In determining the benefits that will or may accrue to each particular tract of land by the construction or maintenance of the works contemplated by...
• California Water Code Section 8758
  No land shall be considered as benefited by the construction or maintenance of the works embraced in a project or unit, nor shall any land...
• California Water Code Section 8759
  Whenever an assessment has been levied by the board upon land in the district for general administrative expenses and other expenses not pertaining to any...
• California Water Code Section 8760
  The board shall levy and cause to be assessed, equalized and collected in the manner provided in this part, an assessment to the amount of...
• California Water Code Section 8761
  Whenever in the opinion of the board it appears that the total amount of any assessment previously levied and assessed and which has become a...
• California Water Code Section 8762
  The portions of the assessment to be first abandoned and released shall be such portions of the charges on each tract as are based upon...
• California Water Code Section 8763
  No assessment upon any tract shall be released or abandoned in pursuance to Section 8761 until all delinquent installments which have accrued thereon, together with...
• California Water Code Section 8764
  The resolution shall be annexed by the county treasurer to the assessment list of the assessment for his county.
• California Water Code Section 8765
  When any payment has been made upon an assessment so abandoned and released, in whole or in part, the board may issue such warrants in...
• California Water Code Section 8766
  The board may in its discretion abandon any assessment in whole or in part at any time prior to the time when the lien of...
• California Water Code Section 8767
  In all cases in which an assessment is levied upon land within the drainage district, and the assessment upon any tract is thereafter adjudged invalid...
• California Water Code Section 8768
  Instead of proceeding under the next preceding section a subsequent reassessment of the tract may be made separately for the purpose of charging the land...
• California Water Code Section 8769
  In case of any change of county boundary lines or creation of any new county, all acts and proceedings provided for in this chapter relating...
• California Water Code Section 8770
  The board has no power or authority to levy any assessment for any purpose upon property outside of the boundaries of the drainage district.
• California Water Code Section 8771
  Assessments shall be numbered consecutively.
• California Water Code Section 8772
  The Reclamation Board shall, by resolution entered in its minutes, order the release of the lien and abandonment of the charges against tracts assessed and...
• California Water Code Section 8773
  In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court...
• California Water Code Section 8774
  In pursuance to Section 8765, the Reclamation Board, after June 30, 1946, shall take no action except in accordance with a judgment of a court...
• California Water Code Section 8775
  When an assessment is to be levied, the board shall appoint three assessors.
• California Water Code Section 8776
  The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have no interest in any real estate within the drainage district.
• California Water Code Section 8777
  Each assessor before entering upon his duties, shall make and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested in any real estate...
• California Water Code Section 8778
  The compensation of assessors shall be fixed and allowed by the board.
• California Water Code Section 8779
  After the assessors have examined the plan or plans of the works contemplated and the estimates of the cost, they shall make a preliminary report...
• California Water Code Section 8780
  The assessors, after performing their duties pursuant to Section 8779, shall appoint a time and place in each county in which any of the land...
• California Water Code Section 8781
  The assessors shall give notice of the hearing in each of the counties by publication in a newspaper published in the county once a week...
• California Water Code Section 8782
  The notice shall contain a general designation of the land which will in the assessors' opinion be benefited, and shall refer to the preliminary report...
• California Water Code Section 8783
  The assessors, may amend, modify or change the exterior boundaries of the land that, in their opinion, will be benefited by such expenditures.
• California Water Code Section 8784
  The board shall levy an assessment pursuant to this chapter if, within six months after the completion of the hearings there is filed with the...
• California Water Code Section 8785
  If consent in writing is not filed in the manner and at the time provided, no further expenditures for the project shall be made, nor...
• California Water Code Section 8786
  If consent is not filed the board may cause an assessment to be levied in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of...
• California Water Code Section 8787
  The assessors shall assess upon the lands within the drainage district proposed to be assessed for the plans adopted by the board the sums included...
• California Water Code Section 8788
  The assessors in apportioning the assessment on each tract of land shall, as information for the board set out, opposite each sum assessed for each...
• California Water Code Section 8789
  The assessors shall, in the case of all assessments of the drainage district which may hereafter be levied by the board and all assessments which...
• California Water Code Section 8790
  The amounts stated and placed opposite each assessment shall be no part of the assessment and shall in no way affect the assessment charged against...
• California Water Code Section 8795
  Whenever any tract of land upon which an assessment has been made, including assessments which have been bonded under and pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Water Code Section 8796
  Assessments and delinquencies on tracts of land which have become delinquent and which have been sold for delinquency pursuant to the provisions of this part...
• California Water Code Section 8797
  Whenever application is made to the board for reapportionment, the board shall reapportion the assessment upon the tract or tracts in such manner as in...
• California Water Code Section 8798
  Before the reapportionment becomes final, the board shall appoint a time when it will meet for the purpose of hearing objections to the reapportionment.
• California Water Code Section 8799
  Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the...
• California Water Code Section 8800
  The notice need not describe the land with particularity, but it is sufficient to describe the tract or tracts of land subdivided as a tract...
• California Water Code Section 8801
  As many tracts may be embraced in one application as applicant is the owner of, or interested in.
• California Water Code Section 8802
  At the time appointed, or such other time to which the hearing may be postponed, or which may be appointed by the board, the board...
• California Water Code Section 8803
  When the reapportionment has been made by the board, it shall deposit, in the office of the county treasurer of the county in which the...
• California Water Code Section 8804
  The filing of the lists shall be conclusive evidence that the requisite notice has been given, and that all acts required to be done before...
• California Water Code Section 8805
  The expenses of publication and such other expenses as the board may order shall be borne and paid by the applicant.
• California Water Code Section 8810
  The assessors shall make a separate list of the lands assessed in each county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
• California Water Code Section 8811
  The list shall contain a description of the tracts of land assessed by swamp land surveys, legal subdivisions, or other boundaries or references sufficient to...
• California Water Code Section 8812
  The list shall also contain the name of the owner, if known, or if unknown, that fact, and the amount of the charge assessed against...
• California Water Code Section 8813
  The name of the owner of land which is or is supposed to be the property of the estate of a deceased person in course...
• California Water Code Section 8814
  When there are two or more owners or supposed owners of any tract of land, partly known and partly unknown, the assessment may be to...
• California Water Code Section 8815
  No mistake in the name of the owner, or supposed owner, of any real estate invalidates the assessment.
• California Water Code Section 8816
  In the assessment list for any county the assessors may use any abbreviation in common use in that county, without explanation thereof.
• California Water Code Section 8817
  The assessors may also in the assessment list for any county make use of other abbreviations, if a schedule and explanation thereof with reasonable certainty...
• California Water Code Section 8818
  In case any land in the assessment list for any county is described in whole or in part by reference to a map, plat or...
• California Water Code Section 8819
  The schedule shall be prefixed to the assessment list and shall set forth with reasonable certainty where each such map, plat or survey may be...
• California Water Code Section 8820
  The assessment lists when completed shall be filed with the secretary of the board and the secretary shall forward to the county treasurer of each...
• California Water Code Section 8821
  The assessment list shall be open for inspection by the public for at least 60 days.
• California Water Code Section 8822
  The board shall appoint a time and place not less than 60 days after the assessment list has been filed with the county treasurer when...
• California Water Code Section 8823
  The notice of hearing in each county shall be filed with the county treasurer and published once a week for four weeks in some newspaper...
• California Water Code Section 8824
  At any time before or during the hearing any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, may file in the...
• California Water Code Section 8825
  The statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the person objecting or some other person who is familiar with the facts.
• California Water Code Section 8826
  At the hearing, the board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment or the manner of its apportionment.
• California Water Code Section 8827
  The board may modify or amend the assessment, and may reapportion all or any part of the entire assessment.
• California Water Code Section 8828
  Unless the aggregate amount of the whole of the assessment is modified or amended by the board so as to cause a difference of more...
• California Water Code Section 8829
  If the assessment is reapportioned the board shall give two weeks notice as provided in this article and proceed to hear objections in each county...
• California Water Code Section 8830
  The decision of the board shall be final, and thereafter the assessment list shall be conclusive evidence, except in the suit provided in this article,...
• California Water Code Section 8831
  Any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, who is aggrieved by the decision of the board approving the assessment,...
• California Water Code Section 8832
  The action shall be commenced within 60 days after the board has approved the assessment and the assessment list for the county has been deposited...
• California Water Code Section 8833
  This action shall have preference over all civil actions in fixing the time of trial.
• California Water Code Section 8835
  As used in this article map means a map or maps prepared by the assessors appointed for any assessment.
• California Water Code Section 8836
  The assessors appointed for any assesssment may prepare or cause to be prepared a map for the whole or any part or parts of the...
• California Water Code Section 8837
  Each of the separate tracts shall be designated on the map by a distinctive number.
• California Water Code Section 8838
  Each of the maps shall be inscribed and designated as "reclamation board assessment map No.____," giving each map a distinctive number.
• California Water Code Section 8839
  Any map may consist of any number of sheets attached together and designated as one map.
• California Water Code Section 8840
  The map when approved by the board, shall be certified by the secretary of the board as having been so approved.
• California Water Code Section 8841
  The approved map shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county wherein the land indicated on the map...
• California Water Code Section 8842
  For the purpose of any assessment levied by the board, the assessment list for any county may, for the description of any tract of land...
• California Water Code Section 8843
  Any reference to a map and tract is a sufficient description of the tract for the purposes of an assessment list, and for the purposes...
• California Water Code Section 8844
  No provision of any other statute of this State relative to the filing or recording of maps in the office of the county recorder shall...
• California Water Code Section 8845
  The maps referred to in this article shall have no legal effect for any purpose except for the convenient reference to and description of the...
• California Water Code Section 8846
  No fee shall be charged by any county recorder for the filing for record of any map as provided in this article.
• California Water Code Section 8850
  After the board has held the hearings in each county pursuant to this chapter and the assesssment lists have been made to conform with its...
• California Water Code Section 8851
  The county treasurer shall indorse upon the assesssment list the date and time to the hour and minute when it was filed in his office;...
• California Water Code Section 8852
  The assessment shall be paid to the respective county treasurers in one or more installments of such amounts, and at such time, respectively, as the...
• California Water Code Section 8853
  At any time within 30 days after the assessment list has been filed in the office of the county treasurer, the whole amount of the...
• California Water Code Section 8854
  The county treasurer shall issue his receipt and shall endorse the fact and date of the payment in full upon the assessment list, and thereupon...
• California Water Code Section 8855
  No interest shall be charged on any assessment paid in full within this 30-day period.
• California Water Code Section 8856
  All assessments not paid in full within the period of 30 days shall bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum from...
• California Water Code Section 8857
  The remaining portion not yet ordered paid by the board of the assessment upon any tract of land may be voluntarily paid in full, with...
• California Water Code Section 8858
  If any installment is unpaid at the expiration of 30 days from the date of the board order calling the installment, the installment is delinquent,...
• California Water Code Section 8859
  When any installment is delinquent, a penalty of 10 per cent of the amount of the installment plus interest, shall be added and collected for...
• California Water Code Section 8860
  If any action is pending in any court to have the assessment on any tract of land reviewed, modified or annulled, pursuant to the provisions...
• California Water Code Section 8861
  From date of delinquency until time of delinquent sale, the unpaid installment, together with added interest and penalty, bears interest at the rate of 7...
• California Water Code Section 8862
  When the installment is delinquent, the board, when it deems it advisable, shall publish in each county where the delinquency exists, a list in one...
• California Water Code Section 8863
  The notice shall contain: (a) A description of the property assessed as described in the assessment list by reference number or by other descriptions sufficient...
• California Water Code Section 8864
  The notice shall also state that each of the parcels will be sold at public auction by the county treasurer in front of the courthouse...
• California Water Code Section 8870
  At the time and place stated in the notice of sale, or such other time to which the sale is postponed, the county treasurer shall...
• California Water Code Section 8871
  If not completed on the first day the sale may be continued from day to day and over Sundays and legal holidays until completed.
• California Water Code Section 8872
  No license shall be required of the county treasurer for conducting the sale.
• California Water Code Section 8873
  No bid for any parcel shall be accepted which is less than the aggregate sum then due for the installment thereon, together with accrued interest,...
• California Water Code Section 8874
  If no bid is made for any parcel at the delinquent sale which is equal to the total amount when due on the parcel, the...
• California Water Code Section 8875
  The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser at the delinquent sale, including the drainage district, a certificate of sale which shall be recorded by...
• California Water Code Section 8876
  Out of the proceeds of the sales the county treasurer shall transmit to the State Treasurer the total amount then due on the property so...
• California Water Code Section 8877
  The county treasurer shall, when directed by the board, postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
• California Water Code Section 8878
  The notice of postponement shall be substantially as follows: The sale of property for delinquent assessment under (name and number of assessment) of the Sacramento...
• California Water Code Section 8879
  Any person interested in any tract of land sold at the delinquent sale may redeem the tract at any time within one year after the...
• California Water Code Section 8880
  If no redemption is made within one year the board, upon demand and the surrender of the certificate of purchase and the delivery of a...
• California Water Code Section 8881
  The deed conveys to the grantee the land free and clear of all encumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, assessments levied or assessed by...
• California Water Code Section 8882
  The unpaid balance of any assessment made by the drainage district, shall be called in and collected in the same manner as other assessments, except...
• California Water Code Section 8883
  Each deed by the board purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited...
• California Water Code Section 8884
  All deeds required by this chapter to be executed by the board may be executed by the president and secretary thereof on behalf of the
• California Water Code Section 8885
  Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by the drainage district at the delinquent sale shall be held in trust for the assessment under...
• California Water Code Section 8886
  The parcels of land specified in Section 8885 may be sold and conveyed by the board at any time after the expiration of the redemption...
• California Water Code Section 8887
  Payment for the land purchased pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made in lawful money of the United States.
• California Water Code Section 8888
  The board, when any land has been sold pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall execute a deed to the purchaser at the sale...
• California Water Code Section 8889
  When any lands purchased at the delinquent sale by the drainage district remain unsold then the board shall sell all such lands so held by...
• California Water Code Section 8890
  The proceeds of the sale shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to the credit of the assessment under which the property became delinquent.
• California Water Code Section 8935
  The board shall cancel all proceedings taken in connection with the bond issue of the drainage district based upon and secured by Sutter-Butte By-pass assessment...
• California Water Code Section 8936
  The Controller shall request the State Treasurer to transfer and the Treasurer shall immediately transfer, any and all moneys deposited in the Bond Fund or...
• California Water Code Section 8937
  Immediately upon the bonds authorized and directed to be canceled by this article being canceled, the board may order that assessment number six shall be...
• California Water Code Section 8938
  If a supplementary assessment number six is levied by the board, immediately upon the supplementary assessment number six becoming a lien upon the lands, the...
• California Water Code Section 8939
  Each of the semiannual installments upon each tract shall be based upon the original principal amount of the assessment on the tract less any deductions...
• California Water Code Section 8940
  The board may, by order entered in its minutes, postpone or discontinue from time to time the calling of the semiannual installments or any of...
• California Water Code Section 8941
  Any owner or holder of lands within the boundaries of the drainage district whose lands are subject to the lien of assessment number six or...
• California Water Code Section 8942
  Any officer mentioned in the next preceding section shall accept such warrants so presented or tendered in payment of the assessment, or any part thereof,...
• California Water Code Section 8943
  All warrants when received by any officer authorized by law to receive them shall be by him transmitted to the Controller who shall give the...
• California Water Code Section 8944
  The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date...
• California Water Code Section 8945
  Partial payments on any tract in excess of any regular installment amount shall be credited to the payment of the principal amount of the assessment...
• California Water Code Section 8946
  Any and all partial payments of principal may, and upon request of the person making payment shall, be credited to the amounts charged against the...
• California Water Code Section 8950
  All money collected upon sales or otherwise shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated, and the...
• California Water Code Section 8951
  The money in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District Fund shall be paid out upon warrants of the Controller, and the Controller shall issue...
• California Water Code Section 8952
  The State Treasurer shall pay such Controllers warrants when there is sufficient money in the fund of the drainage district.
• California Water Code Section 8938
  If a supplementary assessment number six is levied by the board, immediately upon the supplementary assessment number six becoming a lien upon the lands, the...
• California Water Code Section 8939
  Each of the semiannual installments upon each tract shall be based upon the original principal amount of the assessment on the tract less any deductions...
• California Water Code Section 8940
  The board may, by order entered in its minutes, postpone or discontinue from time to time the calling of the semiannual installments or any of...
• California Water Code Section 8941
  Any owner or holder of lands within the boundaries of the drainage district whose lands are subject to the lien of assessment number six or...
• California Water Code Section 8942
  Any officer mentioned in the next preceding section shall accept such warrants so presented or tendered in payment of the assessment, or any part thereof,...
• California Water Code Section 8943
  All warrants when received by any officer authorized by law to receive them shall be by him transmitted to the Controller who shall give the...
• California Water Code Section 8944
  The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date...
• California Water Code Section 8945
  Partial payments on any tract in excess of any regular installment amount shall be credited to the payment of the principal amount of the assessment...
• California Water Code Section 8946
  Any and all partial payments of principal may, and upon request of the person making payment shall, be credited to the amounts charged against the...
• California Water Code Section 8953
  All money collected by any of the county treasurers of the State as assessments of the defunct Sacramento drainage district, and unexpended in the hands...
• California Water Code Section 8955
  All money collected from assessments shall be paid out only on warrants issued for works or other expenses covered by the assessment from which the...
• California Water Code Section 8956
  Each warrant shall designate the name and number of the assessment from which it is to be paid.
• California Water Code Section 8957
  Drafts of the board may be presented to the Controller and warrants drawn against the funds to be raised by an assessment as soon as...
• California Water Code Section 8958
  In case there are not sufficient funds applicable thereto for the payment of the warrants when presented to the State Treasurer, he shall indorse on...
• California Water Code Section 8959
  All such warrants shall be considered as contracts in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action...
• California Water Code Section 8960
  No statute of limitations shall be deemed to have run against any action upon or affecting any warrant drawn against any assessment under this part...
• California Water Code Section 8961
  The warrants shall, at any time within the period of four years, be received in payment of any assessment for work or expenses for which...
• California Water Code Section 8962
  The board may, at its option, at any time before payment of any warrant renew it upon application of the owner or holder thereof by...
• California Water Code Section 8963
  Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants of the drainage district, the State Treasurer shall give...
• California Water Code Section 8964
  The notice shall be published for 10 days in one newspaper published in the City of Stockton and one published in the City of Sacramento.
• California Water Code Section 8965
  After the last publication of the notice the warrants therein mentioned cease to bear interest.
• California Water Code Section 8966
  The board shall designate a paper in each of the cities of Stockton and Sacramento which shall be the official papers of the drainage district...
• California Water Code Section 8967
  All warrants of the drainage district when received by the board, Department of Finance, the respective county treasurers or any other officer authorized by law...
• California Water Code Section 8968
  The Controller upon demand by the board shall cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of...
• California Water Code Section 8969
  The Controller shall notify the State Treasurer of the cancellation and the State Treasurer shall then make the proper entries in his books.
• California Water Code Section 8970
  Whenever any warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter has been presented to the State Treasurer and not...
• California Water Code Section 8971
  When the State Treasurer pays a warrant he shall, in addition to the amount for which the warrant was drawn, pay the interest accrued thereon...
• California Water Code Section 8972
  Whenever any unpaid, outstanding and interest-bearing warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter is presented to the board...
• California Water Code Section 8973
  The sum of the substituted warrants shall equal the principal amount of the original warrant.
• California Water Code Section 8974
  The Controller shall credit the original warrant to the fund upon which it was originally drawn and shall prepare and issue warrants in accordance with...
• California Water Code Section 8975
  When, upon presentation to the State Treasurer, payment can not be made for want of funds the State Treasurer shall register the warrants as of...
• California Water Code Section 8976
  The Department of Finance may, out of any funds of the State which it is authorized by law to invest, purchase at their face value...
• California Water Code Section 8977
  The Department of Finance may exchange any warrants purchased pursuant to the next preceding section for other warrants drawn against the same assessment, and sell...
• California Water Code Section 8978
  All such exchanges or sales of warrants shall be effected without loss to the State.
• California Water Code Section 8979
  All warrants purchased or acquired by exchange by the Department of Finance shall be registered by the State Treasurer, unless already registered.
• California Water Code Section 8980
  The warrants shall be payable with interest in their proper order of registration, as provided in this part.
• California Water Code Section 8981
  The warrants shall, unless sold or exchanged, be held by the Department of Finance until paid.
• California Water Code Section 8982
  Upon payment of the warrants the proceeds thereof shall be returned into the fund out of which the purchase or investment was made.
• California Water Code Section 8990
  If any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, private corporation, association or person has since February 28, 1928, or shall hereafter, advance or...
• California Water Code Section 8991
  All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940)...
• California Water Code Section 8995
  Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, or municipal corporation, wholly or partly within the drainage district, may, with the permission of the board, acquire...
• California Water Code Section 8996
  The right of way or other easement acquired pursuant to the next preceding section shall be required by the plans of the reclamation, levee, or...
• California Water Code Section 8997
  Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district or municipal corporation, wholly or partly within the drainage district may with the permission of the board, construct...
• California Water Code Section 8998
  The title to any such right of way or other easement or levees, cuts, canals or gates shall be conveyed to the drainage district upon...
• California Water Code Section 8999
  If any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, or person within the drainage district, with the consent of the board, provides or leaves...
• California Water Code Section 9000
  When the compensation has been made, the reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation, or person shall convey to the drainage district a perpetual...
• California Water Code Section 9001
  Any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district, municipal corporation or person which does any of the following, with the consent of the board has a...
• California Water Code Section 9002
  An easement shall be levied upon the lands in the drainage district benefited thereby so that the claim may be paid.
• California Water Code Section 9003
  In lieu of levying an assessment pursuant to Section 9002 the cost of the claim may be included as one of the items in any...
• California Water Code Section 9004
  The words "with the permission of the board" or "with the consent of the board," as used in this article mean the express permission or...
• California Water Code Section 9005
  Before granting its permission for the acquiring of any right of way or easement or for the construction of any of the levees or other...
• California Water Code Section 9006
  In case the board determines that the ownership in fee of, instead of the right of way or easement over, any land required for use...
• California Water Code Section 9010
  Any compensation made to any municipal corporation, or person, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall be applied toward the payment of any...
• California Water Code Section 9011
  The compensation made to any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district shall be applied and credited pro rata toward the payment of the balance...
• California Water Code Section 9012
  When the compensation applied pursuant to the provisions of the next preceding section exceeds the total amount of such credits upon the assessments upon the...
• California Water Code Section 9013
  Whenever any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district has warrants or a bond issue outstanding, or both, compensation made pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Water Code Section 9014
  The compensation, or the proceeds thereof, when received by any reclamation district shall be paid or delivered by the board of trustees thereof to the...
• California Water Code Section 9015
  The county treasurer shall place the compensation paid to a reclamation district in the fund of the district out of which warrants are payable.
• California Water Code Section 9016
  When compensation is received by any levee district, or drainage district, it shall be paid or delivered by the governing body thereof to the officer...
• California Water Code Section 9017
  Any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district, to which compensation is made, shall apply the same, or the proceeds thereof, to the payment of...
• California Water Code Section 9018
  If any reclamation district, levee district, or drainage district, has a bond issue outstanding, the board of trustees of the district shall direct the county...
• California Water Code Section 9019
  The county treasurer, or other officer having the custody of the funds of the district shall comply with such directions and transfer to the proper...
• California Water Code Section 9020
  The county treasurer shall transfer sufficient funds from the general fund of the district to the bond and interest fund for the purpose of carrying...
• California Water Code Section 9021
  Any district, association or corporation may act under this article through a majority of its trustees or other governing body.
• California Water Code Section 9025
  Any reclamation district that has sold or transferred any of its levees, or other reclamation or flood control works, easements, or property of any kind,...
• California Water Code Section 9026
  Any person, owning and holding any warrants of a reclamation district may apply to the board of trustees of the reclamation district for an exchange...
• California Water Code Section 9027
  Upon application made pursuant to the next preceding section the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall make the exchange.
• California Water Code Section 9028
  When any such exchange has been effected, the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall notify the county treasurer of the county in which...
• California Water Code Section 9029
  After the exchange has been effected, the warrants of the district shall be marked: "Surrendered for warrants of Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District."
• California Water Code Section 9030
  Proper entries of the surrender payment shall be made upon the books of the reclamation district, and also of the county treasurer of the county...
• California Water Code Section 9031
  If the warrants of the drainage district, or any of its units or projects, are at the time of the offer for exchange, in the...
• California Water Code Section 9035
  In any new, additional, or supplemental assessment of any reclamation district, the following shall be determined: (a) The amount that should be assessed upon each...
• California Water Code Section 9036
  If it appears that the amount that would have been assessed against any tract of land is greater than the amount to which the tract...
• California Water Code Section 9037
  If the amount is less than the amount to which the tract or owner would have been entitled, the difference shall be paid to the...
• California Water Code Section 9040
  Any reclamation district, levee district or drainage district in which there are lands within the boundaries of the drainage district, which lands are subject to...
• California Water Code Section 9041
  Any officer authorized by law to collect the assessments named in this article shall accept at the face value, plus accrued interest, the warrant or...
• California Water Code Section 9042
  Payment in warrants shall be made on a pro rata basis on all lands in the district subject to such assessment.
• California Water Code Section 9043
  It is discretionary with the board of trustees of any such reclamation district, levee district or drainage district to apply such warrants in payment of...
• California Water Code Section 9044
  If any such warrants are delivered by the board of trustees to the county treasurer having the custody of the funds of any district, under...
• California Water Code Section 9045
  If the assessment, or any part of it has been paid in warrants by the district on any lands in the district by funds other...
• California Water Code Section 9046
  If it appears to the trustees of any such district that any such warrants owned by it will be paid from any assessment thereafter to...
• California Water Code Section 9047
  The trustees shall not return the warrants to the board for cancellation, without the consent of the board, if an assessment is then in process...
• California Water Code Section 9048
  Any reclamation, levee, irrigation, drainage or other district whatever, or any city, county, or political subdivision may make any contract, expend any of its money,...
• California Water Code Section 9110
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Fiscal year" has the same meaning...
• California Water Code Section 9120
  (a) The department shall prepare and the board shall adopt a flood control system status report for the State Plan of Flood Control. This status...
• California Water Code Section 9121
  (a) On or before September 1, 2010, and on or before September 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall provide written notice to each...
• California Water Code Section 9122
  The board shall determine the areas benefited by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control based on information developed by the department.
• California Water Code Section 9130
  (a) The department shall prepare and maintain maps for levee flood protection zones. The department shall prepare the maps by December 31, 2008, and shall...
• California Water Code Section 9140
  (a) On or before September 30 of each year, a local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee shall prepare and...
• California Water Code Section 9141
  (a) The department shall prepare and transmit to the board a report on the project levees operated and maintained by each local agency, using information...
• California Water Code Section 9142
  A local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee may propose to the board an upgrade of the project levee if...
• California Water Code Section 9110
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Fiscal year" has the same meaning...
• California Water Code Section 9120
  (a) The department shall prepare and the board shall adopt a flood control system status report for the State Plan of Flood Control. This status...
• California Water Code Section 9121
  (a) On or before September 1, 2010, and on or before September 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall provide written notice to each...
• California Water Code Section 9122
  The board shall determine the areas benefited by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control based on information developed by the department.
• California Water Code Section 9130
  (a) The department shall prepare and maintain maps for levee flood protection zones. The department shall prepare the maps by December 31, 2008, and shall...
• California Water Code Section 9140
  (a) On or before September 30 of each year, a local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee shall prepare and...
• California Water Code Section 9141
  (a) The department shall prepare and transmit to the board a report on the project levees operated and maintained by each local agency, using information...
• California Water Code Section 9142
  A local agency responsible for the operation and maintenance of a project levee may propose to the board an upgrade of the project levee if...
• California Water Code Section 9250
  Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part of this division of this code.
• California Water Code Section 9251
  "Board" means the reclamation board.
• California Water Code Section 9252
  "Drainage district" means the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.
• California Water Code Section 9260
  Whenever any assessment levied by the board upon lands within the drainage district has been completed and all of the hearings before the board in...
• California Water Code Section 9261
  If the board by its order determines to issue bonds, the subsequent proceedings in the matter of the assessment and the collection thereof and all...
• California Water Code Section 9262
  If the board determines that it is best to issue bonds, the original assessment lists shall not be deposited in the offices of the respective...
• California Water Code Section 9263
  With the money received from the sale of bonds, the board as the managing body of the drainage district shall proceed with the construction and...
• California Water Code Section 9264
  No officer shall charge or receive any fee for any services required to be performed by him under the provisions of this part.
• California Water Code Section 9265
  Any reasonable and necessary expense actually incurred by any officer in carrying out any of the provisions of this part relating in any manner to...
• California Water Code Section 9266
  If the board or any member, officer, appointee, or employee thereof or any public officer mentioned or referred to in this part fails to perform...
• California Water Code Section 9275
  If the board determines, pursuant to the provisions of this part, that bonds should be issued, an action to determine the validity of the assessment...
• California Water Code Section 9276
  No objection to the assessment shall be considered by the court unless the objection has been made in writing to the board as provided in...
• California Water Code Section 9277
  The judgment shall refer to the assessment apportioned to each county separately and it shall be sufficient to refer to the portions of the assessment...
• California Water Code Section 9278
  Unless the aggregate amount of the whole of the assessment is modified or amended by the judgment in the proceedings so as to cause a...
• California Water Code Section 9279
  The assessment lists, unless annulled by the judgment in the judicial proceeding, embracing any modifications made by the judgment are conclusive evidence that the assessment...
• California Water Code Section 9280
  A certified copy of the judgment referring to the assessment lists shall be filed in the office of the board.
• California Water Code Section 9281
  A certified copy of so much of the judgment as relates to the lands in each of the counties affected thereby shall be affixed to...
• California Water Code Section 9282
  The assessment lists as amended or modified shall be certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of the board as being in conformity with the...
• California Water Code Section 9305
  In the event that the assessment is annulled as a whole by the judicial proceeding, the board shall cause a new assessment to be made...
• California Water Code Section 9306
  When, if necesssary, the assessment lists have been modified and amended to conform to the requirements of the judgment and have been certified as provided...
• California Water Code Section 9307
  Each county treasurer shall indorse on the assessment list the time to the hour and minute when it was so filed in his office.
• California Water Code Section 9308
  From the time of filing as provided in the next preceding section the assessment constitutes a lien upon the lands in the county so assessed...
• California Water Code Section 9309
  At any time within 30 days after the assessment list is filed in the office of the county treasurer as provided in Section 9307, the...
• California Water Code Section 9310
  Upon such payment the county treasurer shall issue his receipt and indorse the fact and date of payment upon the assessment list, and thereupon the...
• California Water Code Section 9311
  The report of payment of the assessment shall be made by the county treasurer at once to the secretary of the board.
• California Water Code Section 9312
  The amount of assessments received by the county treasurer shall, within 30 days after receipt thereof by him, be deposited by him with the State
• California Water Code Section 9313
  The State Treasurer shall credit the amount of assessments received by him to the construction fund of the assessment.
• California Water Code Section 9314
  All assessments not paid in full within the 30-day period bear interest thereafter at the rate of 7 per cent per annum.
• California Water Code Section 9315
  If the amounts raised by means of the assesssment as provided in this part prove insufficient to pay in full all of the bonds and...
• California Water Code Section 9316
  The supplemental assessment shall be levied by resolution of the board entered in its minutes.
• California Water Code Section 9317
  The board need not appoint assessors nor prepare new or additional assessment lists for any supplemental assessment, but the assessment shall be levied and apportioned...
• California Water Code Section 9318
  The board shall, for the purpose of collecting the supplemental assessment, prepare and certify to the county treasurers of the several counties annual assessment collection...
• California Water Code Section 9319
  The supplemental assessment shall be collected by the county treasurers, and the same percentages, penalties and costs added for delinquency and the same proceedings had...
• California Water Code Section 9320
  All money collected for or on account of any supplemental assessment shall be paid over to the State Treasurer in the manner provided in this...
• California Water Code Section 9330
  Upon the expiration of the 30-day period mentioned in Chapter 4 of this part, an election shall be called and held by the board in...
• California Water Code Section 9331
  The unpaid amount shall be entered by the board in its records and stated by the board in its order for the election and the...
• California Water Code Section 9332
  At the election the owner of each tract of land assessed in and by the assessment, upon which the assessment has not been paid as...
• California Water Code Section 9333
  In case there is more than one owner of any tract of land separately assessed in and by the assessment, all of the owners shall...
• California Water Code Section 9334
  Guardians, conservators, executors, administrators and other persons holding land in a trust capacity under appointment of court may vote at the election without obtaining special...
• California Water Code Section 9335
  The vote of any public or private corporation or of any reclamation district, levee district, drainage district or other public agency entitled to vote at...
• California Water Code Section 9336
  The authorization shall be in writing and certified to by the secretary or clerk of the district or public agency and attested by its seal...
• California Water Code Section 9337
  No person shall vote by proxy at the election unless authority to vote is evidenced by an instrument in writing duly executed, acknowledged and certified...
• California Water Code Section 9338
  In case of change of ownership of any tract of land, or in case the name of the owner of any tract of land is...
• California Water Code Section 9339
  If the right of any person to vote as the owner of any such tract of land is disputed or challenged, the question of his...
• California Water Code Section 9340
  The oath may be administered by any member of the board of election.
• California Water Code Section 9341
  Any person testifying falsely upon such examination is guilty of perjury.
• California Water Code Section 9342
  Any person voting or attempting to vote at the election who is not entitled to vote at it, as provided in this part, is subject...
• California Water Code Section 9343
  For the purpose of determining the "reference number" of each tract separately assessed upon the assessment lists, the board shall, before preparing the voting lists,...
• California Water Code Section 9344
  If the result of the election provided for in this chapter is against the issuance of bonds, then the assessment, or that portion thereof involved...
• California Water Code Section 9345
  All subsequent proceedings in regard to the assessment shall be conducted as provided in Part 4 of this division and without any further reference to...
• California Water Code Section 9355
  The board shall, in its order providing for the election, specify the day on which the election is to be held and shall specify and...
• California Water Code Section 9356
  In case the board considers it necessary or proper to provide more than one polling place in any supervisor district for the holding of the...
• California Water Code Section 9357
  The board shall designate and provide one polling place within each voting district at which shall be cast the votes of the owners of land...
• California Water Code Section 9358
  The board may combine contiguous portions of different supervisor districts into one voting district in cases where the lands in the voting district are not...
• California Water Code Section 9359
  The board shall in the order providing the election, appoint a board of election for each polling place.
• California Water Code Section 9360
  The board of election shall consist of three owners of land assessed in and by the assessment and situated within the voting district where the...
• California Water Code Section 9361
  Each member of the board of election, whether appointed by the board or whether acting as a substitute as provided in this part, is entitled...
• California Water Code Section 9362
  The compensation of the election officers shall be paid by the board out of any funds of the drainage district or of the board applicable
• California Water Code Section 9363
  If any person appointed as a member of the board of election fails to attend at the opening of the polls, the voters then present...
• California Water Code Section 9364
  Each member of the board of election before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an official oath, which may be...
• California Water Code Section 9365
  The oath shall be to the effect that he will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State and that...
• California Water Code Section 9366
  Notice of the election shall be given by the board by posting notices thereof in at least three public places in each voting district at...
• California Water Code Section 9367
  The notice shall specify the time and place of holding the election, the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued, and the names...
• California Water Code Section 9368
  Affidavits of publication and posting of the notices shall be filed with the county elections official of the county in which the notices have been...
• California Water Code Section 9369
  Duplicate original affidavits of publication and posting of the notice, shall be filed in the office of the board.
• California Water Code Section 9375
  The board shall, prior to the election, cause to be prepared and certified by its secretary or assistant secretary, and furnished to the board of...
• California Water Code Section 9376
  The voting list shall be used by the board of election in determining the right to vote and the number of votes to be cast...
• California Water Code Section 9377
  The ballot cast at the election shall contain the words "Bonds --Yes," or the words "Bonds--No," and also the signature of the person casting the...
• 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...
• California Water Code Section 9415
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Water Code Section 9440
  The State Treasurer shall receive and place the bonds to the credit of the drainage district, and shall when and as directed by the board...
• California Water Code Section 9441
  The bonds shall not be sold for less than 95 per cent of their face value and the accrued interest thereon.
• California Water Code Section 9442
  Before making a sale of any of the bonds, notice shall be given by the State Treasurer that he will sell a specified amount of...
• California Water Code Section 9443
  The notice shall state that sealed proposals will be received by him for the purchase of the bonds or any part thereof at the day...
• California Water Code Section 9444
  The notice shall be given by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of
• California Water Code Section 9445
  At the time and place appointed in the notice the State Treasurer shall open the bids and shall award the purchase of the bonds or...
• California Water Code Section 9446
  If the highest bid is not equal to par and accrued interest the State Treasurer shall notify the board of the amounts of the highest...
• California Water Code Section 9447
  At any time before all the bonds held by the State Treasurer have been sold by him, the board may: (a) Draw upon the State...
• California Water Code Section 9448
  In making payments in bonds, the board shall draw orders upon the State Treasurer payable in bonds to the amount therein named.
• California Water Code Section 9449
  The orders shall be countersigned by the Controller and shall be paid with bonds by the State Treasurer upon presentation to the amount therein provided
• California Water Code Section 9450
  In drawing any order upon the State Treasurer payable in bonds, the board may specify the maturity of the bonds which are to be delivered...
• California Water Code Section 9455
  The principal of the bonds shall, by an order of the board entered in its minutes, be made payable on the first day of July...
• California Water Code Section 9456
  Not less than 10 per cent of the aggregate face value of the bonds shall be payable within 10 years from their date, and not...
• California Water Code Section 9457
  The board may call and redeem in their numerical order such an amount of the bonds as it may see fit on any interest date...
• California Water Code Section 9458
  To effect such redemption, the board shall cause to be published once each week for two successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the City...
• California Water Code Section 9459
  Out of the bond fund of the assessment the State Treasurer shall, on presentation at or after its maturity, pay the holder of each bond...
• California Water Code Section 9460
  If any bond or interest coupon has not been presented to the State Treasurer for payment when it becomes due, it shall cease to bear...
• California Water Code Section 9461
  The indorsed bond or coupon shall bear interest at the rate expressed in the bond until paid or until funds have been provided in the...
• California Water Code Section 9465
  The money derived from the sale of any of the bonds shall be received by the State Treasurer and placed to the credit of the...
• California Water Code Section 9466
  Whenever the drainage district has any money in the bond fund of any assessment which money is not immediately required for the purpose of paying...
• California Water Code Section 9467
  The investment may be made by the board by direct purchase of the bonds from time to time and in such manner as it determines...
• California Water Code Section 9468
  Any bonds purchased pursuant to the provisions of this article, and held in the bond fund may from time to time be sold and the...
• California Water Code Section 9469
  Sales of any bonds purchased and held in the bond fund shall from time to time be made so that the proceeds may be applied...
• California Water Code Section 9470
  Any bonds purchased pursuant to the provisions of this article, may be delivered to the State Treasurer for cancellation and the bonds shall thereupon be...
• California Water Code Section 9471
  The bond fund of each assessment shall be held by the State Treasurer and shall be applied by him toward the payment of the bonds...
• California Water Code Section 9472
  If any balance remains in the bond fund of the assessment after payment in full of the principal and interest of all outstanding bonds issued...
• California Water Code Section 9473
  The balance may be distributed by the board to the owners or other persons interested in the lands.
• California Water Code Section 9474
  The board shall from time to time when necessary, present its written request to the Controller for the issuance of warrants for the purpose of...
• California Water Code Section 9475
  The board's request shall specify the amount of the warrant and the name of the payee thereof and upon receipt of the request the Controller...
• California Water Code Section 9476
  The State Treasurer shall pay the warrants or make delivery of the bonds as provided in this part.
• California Water Code Section 9477
  Warrants issued by the Controller and payable out of the assessment as provided by Part 4 of this division shall be paid by the State...
• California Water Code Section 9478
  No warrant issued pursuant to any of the provisions of this part or of Part 4 of this division shall be accepted or received by...
• California Water Code Section 9485
  Upon the sale of any of the bonds of the drainage district based upon any assessment levied by the board, as provided by this part,...
• California Water Code Section 9486
  The board may also in the order fix and determine upon such additional sum as the board deems proper to be collected to provide a...
• California Water Code Section 9487
  Immediately upon making the order the board shall prepare in duplicate, retaining one original, and causing the other original to be certified by its secretary...
• California Water Code Section 9488
  To the assessment referred to in the preceding section shall be added and collected an additional amount of 15 per cent of the amount to...
• California Water Code Section 9489
  The statement provided for in Section 9487 shall also include, and there shall be added and collected, such additional sum as the board in its...
• California Water Code Section 9490
  The amount necessary to pay the interest and principal, or either, falling due, together with the additional 15 per cent of that amount and the...
• California Water Code Section 9491
  Unless otherwise determined by the board or by an order entered in its minutes, a copy of which duly certified shall be transmitted to the...
• California Water Code Section 9492
  For convenience in entering payments of the installment for bonds, the board shall furnish to the county treasurer of each county affected, an annual collection...
• California Water Code Section 9493
  The list shall contain appropriate columns for the entry of payments, sales and redemptions.
• California Water Code Section 9494
  The county treasurer shall enter on the annual collection list in the proper column the following: (a) All payments, with date of payment. (b) The...
• California Water Code Section 9495
  The county treasurer shall make a report to the board as often as requested of all entries made by him on the collection list.
• California Water Code Section 9496
  When either portion of any installment for bonds becomes delinquent, a penalty of one dollar ($1) together with 20 per cent of the amount of...
• California Water Code Section 9497
  All money collected by the several county treasurers upon the installment for bonds or for the penalty thereon in case of delinquency shall, within 30...
• California Water Code Section 9505
  The board shall maintain in its office and open to public inspection at all reasonable times during office hours, a book or books to be...
• California Water Code Section 9506
  In case there are several bond issues under this part based upon several different assessments all of the proceedings, records and transactions of every kind...
• California Water Code Section 9510
  The board may, by resolution entered in its minutes, order the refunding of the whole or any part of the principal of any bond issue...
• California Water Code Section 9511
  Refunding bonds may be issued for the purpose, and when issued their proceeds may be used to refund outstanding bonds either as they mature or...
• California Water Code Section 9512
  The resolution ordering refunding of bonds shall designate the numbers, denominations, dates of maturity and aggregate principal amounts of the bonds to be refunded, and...
• California Water Code Section 9513
  Refunding bonds shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board in its resolution.
• California Water Code Section 9514
  The payment of the refunding bonds shall begin not later than five years from the date thereof and shall be completed in not more than...
• California Water Code Section 9515
  The refunding bonds, together with interest thereon, shall be payable at the office of the State Treasurer.
• California Water Code Section 9516
  Refunding bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board may determine except that no bonds shall be of a denomination of less than...
• California Water Code Section 9517
  The refunding bonds shall be signed by the president of the board or such other member of the board as the board may by resolution...
• California Water Code Section 9518
  The interest coupons of the refunding bonds shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the secretary of the board by his engraved or lithographed signature.
• California Water Code Section 9519
  In case any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the refunding bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the...
• California Water Code Section 9520
  The refunding bonds may be issued and sold by the board as it may determine but for not less than their par value and accrued...
• California Water Code Section 9521
  The proceeds of the refunding bonds shall be placed in the State Treasury to the credit of the drainage district in the bond fund of...
• California Water Code Section 9522
  The proceeds may also be used to defray the expenses of refinancing the obligations.
• California Water Code Section 9523
  The principal and interest of the refunding bonds shall be based upon, secured by and payable out of the assessment or assessments upon which the...
• California Water Code Section 9524
  Upon the sale of any of the refunding bonds, installments of the assessment upon which the bonds are based shall be called and collected and...
• California Water Code Section 9525
  The refunding bonds or any part thereof when sold may be called and redeemed by the board in the manner provided by Chapter 6 of...
• California Water Code Section 9526
  The refunding bonds issued by the drainage district pursuant to this part shall be legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of...
• California Water Code Section 9527
  Whenever bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties or school districts may by law be issued as security for the performance of any act or...
• California Water Code Section 9535
  If both portions of the installments, levied pursuant to Chapter 6 of this part, are not paid before the last Monday in April at 6...
• California Water Code Section 9536
  The notice shall contain the following: (a) A description of each parcel of land assessed within the county whereon an installment or installments are delinquent,...
• California Water Code Section 9537
  The sale shall be held not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days from the date of delinquency.
• California Water Code Section 9538
  At the time and place stated in the notice the county treasurer shall sell each parcel of land described in the notice to the highest...
• California Water Code Section 9539
  No bid for any parcel shall be accepted less than the aggregate sum then due for the installment or installments thereon, together with the penalty,...
• California Water Code Section 9540
  Any bonds or coupons so received in payment shall be canceled by the county treasurer and transmitted to the State Treasurer.
• California Water Code Section 9541
  If the entire amount of any bond or coupon tendered in payment is not required to complete payment of the purchase money, the county treasurer...
• California Water Code Section 9542
  The bond fund of the assessment shall be credited with the amount of purchase money paid in bonds or coupons on delinquent sales, and of...
• California Water Code Section 9543
  The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser at the delinquent sale including the drainage district, a certificate of sale, which shall be recorded by...
• California Water Code Section 9544
  The county treasurer may if directed by the board postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
• California Water Code Section 9550
  If no bid is made for any parcel at the delinquent sale equal to the amount of installment or installments delinquent thereon, including the penalty,...
• California Water Code Section 9551
  Any parcel of land bid in and purchased by the drainage district at the delinquent sale shall be held in trust for the bond fund...
• California Water Code Section 9552
  Payment for the land purchased under the next preceding section may be made by the purchaser either in cash or matured bonds and coupons issued...
• California Water Code Section 9553
  The board shall execute a deed to the purchaser at the sale conveying the property, free of encumbrances except State, county and other municipal taxes,...
• California Water Code Section 9554
  The purchase price received in cash shall be paid by the board to the State Treasurer and any bonds or coupons received in payment by...
• California Water Code Section 9555
  All such money paid over and the canceled bonds or coupons delivered to the State Treasurer shall be credited to the bond fund of the
• California Water Code Section 9556
  If any land held by the drainage district, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, remains unsold after the final installment of the assessment has...
• California Water Code Section 9557
  The board shall execute to the purchaser a conveyance of the land free of incumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, and assessments levied or...
• California Water Code Section 9558
  The board shall deposit the proceeds of the sale with the State Treasurer to the credit of the bond fund of the assessment.
• California Water Code Section 9544
  The county treasurer may if directed by the board postpone the delinquent sale from time to time for not less than 10 nor more than...
• California Water Code Section 9565
  Any person interested in any tract of land sold at a delinquent sale, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, may redeem the tract...
• California Water Code Section 9566
  If no redemption is made within one year the board upon demand and the surrender of the certificate of purchase and the delivery of a...
• California Water Code Section 9567
  The deed shall convey to the grantee therein named the land free and clear of all encumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, assessments levied...
• California Water Code Section 9568
  Each installment of the encumbrances mentioned in the preceding section may be called and collected as provided by law.
• California Water Code Section 9569
  No parcel sold and conveyed to the drainage district shall thereafter, until redeemed or until sold and disposed of by the board, be subject to...
• California Water Code Section 9570
  Every deed by the board purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited...
• California Water Code Section 9571
  All deeds required by this chapter to be executed by the board may be executed by the president and secretary thereof on behalf of the
• California Water Code Section 9575
  Out of the proceeds of a delinquent sale, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the county treasurer shall transmit to the State Treasurer...
• California Water Code Section 9576
  The State Treasurer shall place the amount to the credit of the bond fund of the drainage district for the particular bond issue upon the
• California Water Code Section 9577
  The county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the property any surplus remaining after the payment to the State Treasurer.
• California Water Code Section 9600
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Central Valley Flood Protection Act of 2008.
• California Water Code Section 9601
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Central Valley of California is experiencing unprecedented development, resulting in the conversion of historically...
• California Water Code Section 9602
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Board" means the Central Valley Flood...
• California Water Code Section 9603
  (a) The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan shall be a descriptive document, and neither the plan nor anything in this part shall be construed to...
• California Water Code Section 9610
  (a) (1) By July 1, 2008, the department shall develop preliminary maps for the 100- and 200-year flood plains protected by project levees. The 100-year...
• California Water Code Section 9611
  The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Flood Management System comprises all of the following: (a) The facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control as that plan...
• California Water Code Section 9612
  (a) The department shall prepare, and the board shall adopt, a plan identified as the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan in accordance with this part....
• California Water Code Section 9613
  (a) Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 5096.821 of the Public Resources Code, the department may implement flood protection improvements for urban areas protected by...
• California Water Code Section 9614
  The plan shall include all of the following: (a) A description of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Flood Management System and the cities and counties included...
• California Water Code Section 9615
  For the purposes of preparing the plan, the department shall collaborate with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the owners and operators of...
• California Water Code Section 9616
  (a) The plan shall include a description of both structural and nonstructural means for improving the performance and elimination of deficiencies of levees, weirs, bypasses,...
• California Water Code Section 9620
  Upon the adoption of the plan by the board, all of the following apply: (a) The facilities identified pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 9614...
• California Water Code Section 9621
  Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each county shall collaborate with cities within its jurisdiction to...
• California Water Code Section 9622
  Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each city, county, and city and county shall collaborate with...
• California Water Code Section 9623
  Consistent with the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan pursuant to this part, each city, county, and city and county shall collaborate with...
• California Water Code Section 9624
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this part applies to all cities, including charter cities, and counties included in the plan pursuant to Section 9614....
• California Water Code Section 9625
  (a) By January 1, 2010, the department shall develop cost-sharing formulas, as needed, for funds made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond...
• California Water Code Section 9625
  (a) By January 1, 2010, the department shall develop cost-sharing formulas, as needed, for funds made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond...
• California Water Code Section 9650
  (a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2008, the allocation or expenditure of funds by the state for the upgrade of a project levee, if that upgrade...
• California Water Code Section 9651
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Emergency plan" and "state emergency plan"...
• California Water Code Section 9650
  (a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2008, the allocation or expenditure of funds by the state for the upgrade of a project levee, if that upgrade...
• California Water Code Section 9651
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part. (a) "Emergency plan" and "state emergency plan"...
• California Water Code Section 10000
  The coordinated plan for the conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of the State (except the project known as the "Trinity River Diversion,"...
• California Water Code Section 10001
  The approval and adoption of the State Water Plan by Chapter 1185 of the Statutes of 1941 are continued in effect, except that the project...
• California Water Code Section 10001.3
  The American River Development, as described in Public Law 356 of the Eighty-first Congress, First Session, and as constructed by the Federal Government, is part...
• California Water Code Section 10001.5
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this article or any other provision of law to the contrary, the project known as the "Coloma Dam and Reservoir" constitutes...
• California Water Code Section 10001.6
  (a) The Georgetown Divide Public Utility District has the right to pursue, without any right of assignment to other parties, the district's preliminary permit number...
• California Water Code Section 10002
  The approval and adoption of the State Water Plan do not repeal any of the provisions of the Central Valley Project Act of 1933, and...
• California Water Code Section 10003
  Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, all applications heretofore filed by the Department of Finance under Part 2 of Division 6 shall remain valid and...
• California Water Code Section 10004
  (a) The plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of the state which is set forth...
• California Water Code Section 10004.5
  As part of the requirement of the department to update The California Water Plan pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10004, the department shall include...
• California Water Code Section 10004.6
  (a) As part of updating The California Water Plan every five years pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10004, the department shall conduct a study...
• California Water Code Section 10005
  (a) It is hereby declared that the people of the state have a primary interest in the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and...
• California Water Code Section 10005.1
  The department or, at the department's request, the California Water Commission, shall conduct a series of hearings with interested persons, organizations, local, state, and federal...
• California Water Code Section 10005.2
  Prior to holding a hearing pursuant to Section 10005.1, the department shall give notice by mail of the hearing to persons and entities which have...
• California Water Code Section 10006
  The provisions of this part do not repeal or modify any of the provisions of Part 3 of this division.
• California Water Code Section 10007
  Notwithstanding anything contained in this part, all applications heretofore filed by the Department of Finance or by the Department of Water Resources under Part 2...
• California Water Code Section 10008
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that agreements which provide for the transfer of water from the federal Central Valley Project to public entities supplying...
• California Water Code Section 10009
  The director shall pursue discussions with the United States Bureau of Reclamation to permit persons and public entities which have entitlements to water from the...
• California Water Code Section 10011
  (a) In preparing the California Water Plan, the director shall conduct at least one public hearing within the boundaries of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and...
• California Water Code Section 10013
  The department, as a part of the preparation of the department's Bulletin 160-03, shall include in the California Water Plan a report on the development...
• California Water Code Section 10015
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The state's growth requires policymakers to seek creative ways to maximize the use of...
• California Water Code Section 10016
  (a) The Department of Water Resources shall complete the development of a standard data protocol for evapotranspiration data, to ensure that the data is available...
• California Water Code Section 10500
  The department shall make and file applications for any water which in its judgment is or may be required in the development and completion of...
• California Water Code Section 10504
  All applications made and filed pursuant to Section 10500 shall be transferred to the State Water Resoures Control Board and held by the board for...
• California Water Code Section 10504.01
  Each petition for assignment of all or a portion of an application filed pursuant to this part, which application has not been completed in accordance...
• California Water Code Section 10504.02
  Procedure with respect to petitions for assignment of all or a portion of applications filed pursuant to this part, which applications have been completed in...
• California Water Code Section 10504.1
  Before any application made and filed pursuant to Section 10500 is assigned or released from priority, the State Water Resources Control Board shall hold a...
• California Water Code Section 10504.5
  In order to insure that projects will be constructed in accordance with a general or coordinated plan for the development of water: (a) The recipient...
• California Water Code Section 10505
  No priority under this part shall be released nor assignment made of any application that will, in the judgment of the board, deprive the county...
• California Water Code Section 10505.5
  Every application heretofore or hereafter made and filed pursuant to Section 10500, and held by the State Water Resources Control Board, shall be amended to...
• California Water Code Section 10506
  Every state department or state officer, upon request of the department, shall furnish any service or assistance in the investigation of the need or feasibility...
• California Water Code Section 10520
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Agricultural Water Conservation and Management Act of 1992.
• California Water Code Section 10521
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) "Water conservation" means the reduction of the amount of water...
• California Water Code Section 10522
  A water supplier, individually or in cooperation with other public agencies or persons, may institute a water conservation or efficient water management program, including, but...
• California Water Code Section 10523
  In formulating a water conservation or efficient water management program, a water supplier may take into account the positive or negative effect of the program,...
• California Water Code Section 10530
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002.
• California Water Code Section 10531
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Water is a valuable natural resource in California, and should be managed to ensure the availability of...
• 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
  "Local public agency" means any city, county, city and county, special district, corporation, or mutual water company.
• California Water Code Section 10534
  "Qualified projects or programs" means regional projects or programs that improve source water quality, improve drinking water quality, provide flood protection, improve levee stability, provide...
• California Water Code Section 10535
  "Qualified reports or studies" means reports or studies relating to regional water quality, water supply planning, flood protection, or environmental mitigation, restoration, or enhancement projects...
• California Water Code Section 10536
  "Regional plan" means a plan for the implementation or operation of qualified projects or programs or the preparation of qualified reports or studies.
• California Water Code Section 10537
  "Regional water management group" means a group in which three or more local public agencies, at least two of which have statutory authority over water...
• California Water Code Section 10540
  (a) A regional water management group may prepare and adopt a regional plan in accordance with this part. (b) The plan may address qualified programs...
• California Water Code Section 10540
  (a) A regional water management group may prepare and adopt a regional plan in accordance with this part. (b) The plan may address qualified programs...
• California Water Code Section 10541
  (a) A regional water management group shall publish a notice of intention to prepare a regional plan in accordance with Section 6066 of the Government...
• California Water Code Section 10543
  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 10545
  Nothing in this part affects any powers granted to a local public agency by any authority other than this part.
• California Water Code Section 10546
  Nothing in this part authorizes a regional water management group to define, or otherwise determine, the water rights of any person or entity.
• 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 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 and 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
  The plan shall provide an urban water shortage contingency analysis which includes each of the following elements which are within the authority of the urban...
• 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. If...
• 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 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 as follows: (a) The waters of the state are a limited and renewable resource. (b) The Constitution requires that water...
• California Water Code Section 10802
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state as follows: (a) The conservation of water shall be pursued actively to...
• California Water Code Section 10810
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Water Code Section 10811
  "Conservation" means the use of cost-effective measures that reduce evapotranspiration, evaporation, or flows to unusable water bodies in order to prevent the waste, the unreasonable...
• California Water Code Section 10812
  "Customer" means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses water for agricultural purposes.
• California Water Code Section 10813
  "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 10814
  "Plan" means an agricultural water management plan prepared pursuant to this part. A plan shall describe and evaluate reasonable and practical efficient uses and conservation...
• California Water Code Section 10815
  "Public agency" means any board, commission, county, city and county, city, regional agency, district, or other public entity.
• California Water Code Section 10816
  "Agricultural water supplier" or "supplier" means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, supplying more than 50,000 acre-feet of water annually for agricultural purposes. An...
• California Water Code Section 10820
  (a) The requirements of this part shall be satisfied by any water management or conservation plan prepared to meet federal or state laws or regulations...
• California Water Code Section 10821
  (a) Every agricultural water supplier serving water directly to customers shall prepare an informational report based on information from the last three irrigation seasons on...
• California Water Code Section 10822
  Every person that becomes an agricultural water supplier after December 31, 1988, shall comply with the requirements of this part within two years after becoming...
• California Water Code Section 10823
  An agricultural water supplier indirectly providing water to customers may adopt an agricultural water management plan or participate in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide agricultural...
• California Water Code Section 10824
  An agricultural water supplier may satisfy the requirements of this part by participation in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide agricultural water management planning where those...
• California Water Code Section 10825
  To the extent information is available, the reports shall address all of the following: (a) The quantity and source of water delivered to, and by,...
• California Water Code Section 10826
  To the extent information is available, the plans shall address all of the following: (a) The quantity and source of surface water, groundwater, and recycled...
• California Water Code Section 10840
  Every agricultural water supplier required to prepare a water management plan pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 10821 shall prepare its plan pursuant to Section
• California Water Code Section 10841
  (a) An agricultural water supplier required to prepare a plan may consult with, and obtain comments from, any public agency or state agency or any...
• California Water Code Section 10842
  Prior to adopting a plan, the agricultural water supplier shall make the plan available for public inspection and shall hold a public hearing thereon. Prior...
• California Water Code Section 10843
  An agricultural water supplier shall implement its plan adopted pursuant to this chapter in accordance with the schedule set forth in its plan, as determined...
• California Water Code Section 10844
  An agricultural water supplier shall file with the department a copy of its plan no later than 30 days after adoption. Copies of amendments or...
• California Water Code Section 10845
  The adoption of a plan or submission of a report as specified in subdivision (d) of Section 10821 satisfies any requirements of state statute, regulation,...
• California Water Code Section 10850
  (a) Any actions or proceedings 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
  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 10853
  The department, from funds appropriated for this purpose, shall reimburse each supplier preparing an informational report pursuant to this part for the cost incurred in...
• California Water Code Section 10854
  No agricultural water supplier shall be required to prepare an agricultural water management plan pursuant to this part unless funds are appropriated by the Legislature...
• California Water Code Section 10855
  This part shall remain operative only until January 1, 1993, except that, if an agricultural water supplier fails to submit its information report or agricultural...
• 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 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...