Title WAT, California Water Code

As used in this chapter, “person” includes any city, county, district, the state, or any department or agency thereof, and the United States to the extent authorized by law. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 933, Sec. 13.)

Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the board from issuing any order or taking any other action authorized pursuant to Sections 275 and 1052. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 933, Sec. 13.)

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a person who, on or after January 1, 2016, diverts 10 acre-feet of water per year or more under a permit or license shall install and maintain a device or employ a method capable of measuring the rate of direct diversion, rate of col…

(a) The board may adopt regulations requiring measurement and reporting of water diversion and use by either of the following: (1) Persons authorized to appropriate water under a permit, license, registration for small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use, or ce…

(a) For the purposes of a device installed pursuant to Section 1840 or 1841 or a method of measurement proposed and adopted pursuant to Section 934 or 935 of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations, any diverter who has completed an instructional course regarding the devic…

(a) Upon the failure of any person to comply with a cease and desist order issued by the board pursuant to this chapter, the Attorney General, upon the request of the board, shall petition the superior court for the issuance of prohibitory or mandatory injunctive relief as approp…

(a) A person or entity may be liable for a violation of any of the following in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day in which the violation occurs: (1) A term or condition of a permit, license, certificate, or registration issued under this division.…

(a) An urban retail water supplier who commits any of the violations identified in subdivision (b) may be liable in an amount not to exceed the following, as applicable: (1) If the violation occurs in a critically dry year immediately preceded by two or more consecutive below nor…

(a) A person or entity may be liable for a violation of any of the requirements of subdivision (b) in an amount not to exceed the sum of the following: (1) Five hundred dollars ($500), plus two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each additional day on which the violation continues …

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), remedies under this chapter are in addition to, and do not supersede or limit, any other remedy, civil or criminal. (b) Civil liability shall not be imposed both administratively and by the superior court for the same violation.…

Any factual or legal determinations made pursuant to a cease and desist order shall be conclusive and shall preclude any party to the order from raising those issues in any subsequent administrative proceeding. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 652, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2003.…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or abridge the right of any person to bring an action for equitable or legal relief for harm caused by an unauthorized diversion or a violation of a term or condition of a permit or license. No such person shall be required to e…

Except as provided in this chapter, an adjudication action to determine rights to groundwater in a basin shall be conducted in accordance with the Code of Civil Procedure, including pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 10 of Part 2 of that code. (Added by …

In an adjudication action for a basin required to have a groundwater sustainability plan under this part, the court shall manage the proceedings in a manner that minimizes interference with the timely completion and implementation of a groundwater sustainability plan, avoids redu…

(a) (1) Unless otherwise ordered by the court, all monitoring and reporting required under all groundwater sustainability plans approved by the department, or submitted to and awaiting approval by the department, for a basin subject to an adjudication, or under any interim plan a…

(a) Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 10735) shall not apply to a judgment approved by the court pursuant to Section 850 of the Code of Civil Procedure if both of the following apply: (1) A local agency or a party directed by the court to file the submission submits the judgmen…

If the department determines that a judgment satisfies the objectives of this part in accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 10737.4, the department shall submit to the court the assessments and any recommended corrective actions that the department issues pu…

In addition to making any findings required by subdivision (a) of Section 850 of the Code of Civil Procedure or any other law, the court shall not approve entry of judgment in an adjudication action for a basin required to have a groundwater sustainability plan under this part un…

(a) (1) Upon receiving notice that an adjudication has commenced in its basin, a groundwater sustainability agency shall host a public meeting to explain the adjudication process and the status of the adjudication to water users within the basin and the public. A groundwater sust…

The approval of a groundwater sustainability plan by the department shall not be construed to be a determination by or otherwise an opinion of the department that the allocation of groundwater pumping rights in the plan are consistent with groundwater rights law. (Added by Stats.…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon any district in the Lake Tahoe Basin providing in any area of the district a sewer system and treatment facilities sufficient to handle and treat any resultant waste and transportation facilities sufficient to transport any resulta…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 1, 1972, waste from within the Lake Tahoe watershed shall be placed only into a sewer system and treatment facilities sufficient to handle and treat any such waste and transportation facilities sufficient to transpor…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 13950 and 13951, water containing waste which has been placed in a sanitary sewer system for treatment and transportation outside of the Lake Tahoe Basin may be reclaimed in a pilot reclamation project to demonstrate the technological an…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 13951, the South Tahoe Public Utility District may provide recycled water only to prevent the destruction of its Luther Pass recycled water pump station from a catastrophic fire if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The district submits an en…

The declared statewide interest in the preservation of Lake Tahoe, and the state and federal actions mandating the transportation of treated sewage effluent out of the Lake Tahoe watershed, requires that the law relating to the authority for prescribing waste discharge requiremen…

When a district has levied an assessment and it appears to the board that the assesssment or some part thereof, together with the interest thereon, will provide an amount greater than is required to meet all obligations incurred or to be incurred for the purposes for which the as…

In the resolution of intention the board shall specify the portion of the assessment balance proposed to be canceled and appoint a time not less than three weeks nor more than five weeks from the date of the resolution when it will hold a meeting and hear any objections. (Amended…

A copy of the resolution of intention shall be published once a week for three successive weeks before the time appointed by the board for the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in each affected county. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 821.)

Objections shall be written, verified, and filed with the secretary, and no objection shall be considered by the board or allowed in any other action or proceeding unless made in writing and filed with the secretary prior to the meeting. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 821.)

At the meeting the board shall hear any evidence offered in support of the written objections, after which the board may, by resolution, cancel all or a part of the assessment balance to the extent that the board finds that the assessment balance will provide an amount greater th…

When a resolution to cancel is adopted, a copy thereof, certified by the secretary, shall be attached to the assessment roll by the county treasurer of each county in which the assessment roll is filed. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 128. Effective January 1, 1993.)

When the resolution to cancel is attached to the assessment roll the secretary shall endorse upon the assessment roll after each tract assessed the amount of the assessment balance which has been canceled with respect to such tract. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 181.)

When a landowner, in a district in which the board has canceled any assessment balance or portion thereof, has paid all or a part of his share of the canceled assessment balance or portion thereof, the board shall issue a warrant of the district in favor of the landowner in an am…

The warrants shall be payable out of the fund of the district into which the proceeds of the assessment had been paid. The board shall not cancel so much of an assessment balance as to leave insufficient funds for this purpose. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 181.)

No assessment balance or part thereof shall be canceled pursuant to this chapter if bonds based thereon and secured thereby have been issued and remain unpaid and provision has not been made for the payment thereof. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 181.)

(a) Bonds in the total amount of seven billion one hundred twenty million dollars ($7,120,000,000), and any additional bonds authorized, issued, and appropriated in accordance with this division pursuant to other provisions of law, or so much thereof as is necessary, not includin…

The bonds authorized by this division shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and all of the provision…

(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code) of the bonds authorized by this division, the Water Quality, Sup…

The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized by this division in order to carry out the actions specified in this division and, if so, the amount of bonds to be issued and sold. Successive issues of bonds may be authorized an…

For purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law, “board,” as defined in Section 16722 of the Government Code, means the secretary. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 188, Sec. 8. (AB 1471) Approved in Proposition 1 at the November 4, 2014, election.)

There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds each year. It is the duty of all …

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this division, an amount that will equal the total of the following: (a) The sum annually necessary to pay the principal of, and int…

The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code for the purpose of carrying out this division less any amount withdrawn pursuant to Section 79794. The amount of…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds that include a bond counsel opinion to the effect that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income for federal tax purposes under designated…

For the purposes of carrying out this division, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds that have been authorized by the committee to be sold for the purpose of carrying out th…

All moneys deposited in the fund that are derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this division shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to expenditures for bond interest, except that amounts der…