California Water Code ARTICLE 4 - Waste from Artesian Wells

• 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...
• 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 any natural...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 308.
  Each day’s continuance of waste constitutes a new offense.(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018