California Water Code ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 the maintenance,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 8535.
  Consistent with Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, the board, after holding at least one public hearing, may set and charge...
• 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.(Added...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018