California Water Code CHAPTER 7 - Coachella Valley Water District Water Replenishment Assessments

• Section 31630.
  The Coachella Valley Water District shall have the power to levy and collect water replenishment assessments, as provided in this chapter, for the purpose of...
• Section 31630.5.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Annual” or “year” means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning.(b) “District” means the Coachella Valley Water District.(c) “Fiscal year”...
• Section 31631.
  By May 1 of each year the board shall have prepared and presented to it an engineering survey and report concerning the groundwater supplies within...
• Section 31631.5.
  If the board determines that funds should be raised by a replenishment assessment, it shall call a public hearing, and shall publish notice at least...
• Section 31632.
  The hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the...
• Section 31632.5.
  Before July 1 of each year, the board may by resolution levy a replenishment assessment upon all water production during the following fiscal year within...
• Section 31633.
  The amount of any replenishment assessment levied within an area of benefit shall be established at the discretion of the board, except that no assessment...
• Section 31633.5.
  Minimal pumpers may be excluded from the engineering survey and report on water production, and they shall be exempt from any replenishment assessments and reporting...
• Section 31634.
  The district, after the levying of any replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to all affected producers as disclosed by the records of the district....
• Section 31634.5.
  Except as provided in Section 31636, each producer, on or before the dates when the assessment or installments thereof are due and payable, shall file...
• Section 31635.
  Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this chapter shall be due and payable to the district at the time or times determined by the district...
• Section 31636.
  If the district has an agreement with any producer whereby the district regularly reads and maintains the water-measuring devices which record the production of such...
• Section 31636.5.
  If any producer subject to a replenishment assessment, after notice has been given pursuant to Section 31634, shall fail to pay a replenishment assessment or...
• Section 31637.
  Should any producer, subject to a replenishment assessment, knowingly fail to file the water-production statement, such producer shall, in addition to interest as provided in...
• Section 31637.5.
  If the district has probable cause to believe that the production by any producer is unreported or, if reported, is substantially in excess of that...
• Section 31638.
  The district may, in any court having jurisdiction, bring suit against any producer to enjoin any water production in violation of any of the provisions...
• Section 31638.5.
  It shall be unlawful to produce water from within any area of benefit after one year following the levy of a replenishment assessment within such...
• Section 31639.
  This chapter, applicable only to the Coachella Valley Water District, is necessary because of the special and unique problems of imported ground water recharge of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018