California Water Code ARTICLE 1 - General Powers

• 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 the boundaries...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 to the powers granted...
• 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...
• 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.(Added...
• 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...
• 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 works...
• 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.(Added...
• 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...
• Section 8603.
  The board may rent for use by others idle dredgers or other equipment.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
• 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...
• Section 8605.
  The board may inspect and supervise any work done or under construction pursuant to the provisions of this part.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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, floodways...
• 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...
• 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 of Title...
• 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, in...
• 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 in...
• 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 and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018