Title WAT, California Water Code

The receipts from the rates or charges may also be used to reduce the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness that the waterworks district may have. (Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 674.)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the board may establish and include in the annual budget for a district a general unappropriated reserve not to exceed 25 percent of the total appropriations contained in the budget, exclusive of all items for bond interest and redempt…

The board may borrow funds from the county, other waterworks districts, and, where the district is a subsidiary district, the city, not to exceed 85 percent of the district’s anticipated revenue for the fiscal year in which they are borrowed or for the next ensuing fiscal year. I…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, such funds, when so borrowed by a waterworks district, shall forthwith increase the appropriations of the district for which they are needed. The governing body of the entity from which the funds are borrowed may specify the date and m…

The district shall pay interest on all funds borrowed from the county, at the same rate that the county applies to funds of the district on deposit with the county. (Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 674.)

Where a district has an assessed valuation of less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the board of supervisors of the county may loan county funds, in a sum not in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), to the district to be used for the purpose of repairing, improv…

The board may by resolution establish a revolving fund for any officer or employee of the district in the same manner revolving funds for county officers are established by the board of supervisors of a county pursuant to Sections 29321 to 29330, inclusive, of the Government Code…

Any money belonging to the district or paid into the county treasury to the credit of the district may be deposited by the officer of the district who has legal custody of the money, in accordance with the general laws governing the deposit of public money. (Added by Stats. 1971,…

A district may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix a sewer service standby or immediate availability charge to be applied on a parcel basis within the district to be charged to the parcels to which sewer service is…

Any portion or portions of a county containing unincorporated territory, or containing the whole or any portion of one or more incorporated cities, and not included in a district, may be added to any district as prescribed in this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 155.)

Territory within the same county but not contiguous with the district may be annexed to the district if the board determines that the district resulting from the annexation may be more efficiently and economically operated than if a separate district were formed. No parcel of non…

This part shall be known and cited as the “County Drainage District Act.” (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)

“District” as used in this part means any county drainage district formed pursuant to this part or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)

“District board” as used in this part means the board of directors of a district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)

Districts may be formed, maintained and governed in any county as provided in this part. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1232.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

This division shall be known and may be cited as the Water Replenishment District Act. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

“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 25 feet or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or watercourse at the downstream toe of the barrier, as determined by th…

“Critical appurtenant structure” means a water surface barrier or hydraulic control structure that is 25 feet or more in height, that impounds 5,000 acre-feet of water or more, or that the department determines poses a significant downstream hazard potential. (Added by Stats. 201…

(a) Any barrier that is or will be not in excess of six feet in height, regardless of storage capacity, or that has or will have a storage capacity not in excess of 15 acre-feet, regardless of height, shall not be considered a dam. (b) (1) Any barrier that does not impound water …

(a) An obstruction in a canal used to raise or lower water therein or divert water therefrom, a levee, including, but not limited to, a levee on the bed of a natural lake with the primary purpose to control floodwaters, a railroad fill or structure, a road or highway fill or stru…

“Reservoir” means any reservoir which contains or will contain the water impounded by a dam. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1225.)

“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, institutions, agencies, and political subdivisions. (b) Every municipal or quasi-municipal corporation. (c) Every publi…

“Alterations,” “repairs,” or either of them, mean only such alterations or repairs as may affect the safety of the dam or reservoir. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1225.)

“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 impounded by the dam or reservoir. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1225.)

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 outflow and were the reservoir full of water. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1225.)

A petition, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the county elections official of the principal county in which the proposed water replenishment district is located, signed by registered voters residing within the boundaries of the proposed…

Such petition shall describe the proposed boundaries of the district, recite the reasons for the proposed formation, pray that the same be organized under this act, and propose a name by which such district shall be known. The persons seeking to organize a district shall include …

If the proposed district is situated in more than one county, the county elections official of the principal county shall immediately transmit to the county elections officials of the participating counties the petitions containing the signatures of the voters of each participati…

Within 30 days of the date of filing the petition with the county elections official of the principal county, the county elections officials of the affected counties shall examine the petition and ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters w…

“State jurisdictional dam” means a dam not wholly under the control of the federal government. (Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 26, Sec. 85. (SB 92) Effective June 27, 2017.)

If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of organizing such district, the persons voted for as directors who receive the highest number of votes within the respective divisions shall be duly elected as directors of the district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 151…

The board of a district organized under this act shall consist of five members, and one director, who shall be a resident of the division, shall be elected by the voters thereof, for each of the five divisions of such district, which divisions shall be numbered first, second, thi…

The board of directors shall, by resolution, adjust the boundaries of any divisions pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 22000) of Division 21 of the Elections Code. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 435, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1999.)

The members of the first board shall be elected at the time and in the manner provided in Chapter 3 of Part 2 of this act, and their successors shall be elected or chosen at the times and in the manner hereinafter provided. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Each director shall hold office for the term of four (4) years from and after the date for his taking of office, as herein provided, and until the election and qualification of his successor, except that the five members of the first board shall classify themselves by lot so that…

In the case of all districts (except as to the election of the first board) the elections of directors shall be held at the time of the general election and shall be consolidated therewith. (Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 7, Sec. 1.5. Effective February 8, 1984.)

Each candidate for director who at the election of directors receives votes on a plurality of all the ballots cast for candidates for the office for which he or she seeks election shall be elected to that office. (Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 7, Sec. 2. Effective February 8, 1984.…

Candidates shall declare their candidacy and shall be nominated, election returns shall be canvassed, the election shall be held and conducted, the results shall be declared, and the certificates of election shall be issued, in the same manner as the declaration of candidacy, nom…

Directors elected hereunder, except the first board, shall take office at the same time provided by the Government Code for county officers. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

The election of directors held at the time of the general election and consolidated therewith shall be known as the general water replenishment district election, and each other election which may be held by authority of this division or the Elections Code or other law applicable…

If, on the sixty-fifth day prior to the day fixed for the district general election, only one person has been nominated for each office of member of the board to be filled at that election, said board shall by resolution entered in their minutes order that an election shall not b…

Notice that such appointment may be made in the event that only one nomination is made, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the district, once, not less than seven days and not more than 14 days prior to the final day on which nominations may be made. (Add…

Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each day’s attendance at meetings of the board or for each day’s service rendered as a director by request of the board, not exceeding a total of six days in any calendar month, tog…

Any vacancy in the board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code. The person so chosen shall be a resident of and otherwise qualified to be a director from the division in which the vacancy shall occur. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1059.)

A district may do any act necessary to replenish the ground water of said district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)