Title WAT, California Water Code

If its board deems it to be for the best interests of the district, a district may enter into a contract for the lease, sale, or use of any surplus water not then necessary for use within the district, for use either within or without the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.…

Nothing in this article authorizes the sale of any water right. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

No right in any water or water right owned by the district shall be acquired by use permitted under this article. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board may grant to the owner or lessee of a right to the use of any water permission to store the water in any reservoir of the district or to carry it through any conduit of the district. (Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 393, Sec. 1.)

Unless otherwise provided in the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds, they and the interest on them shall be paid from an annual assessment upon land or charges which in the discretion of the board are fixed and collected in lieu thereof and all land shall be and remain lia…

At any time before a district has incurred any indebtedness or obligation, or after all indebtedness and obligations have been discharged, two-thirds or more in number of the holders of title to an area of land in the distribution district, as appears on the last equalized assess…

The secretary of the district, upon the filing of the petition, shall examine it and if, in his opinion, the petition has been signed by the requisite number of landowners, he shall set it for hearing at the first regular meeting of the board of the district held after the expira…

The secretary of the board shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing to be posted for a period of two weeks next preceding the hearing (a) in three public places in the area requested to be excluded, and (b) in three public places in the area of the distribution distric…

At the time and place of the hearing, anyone interested in the petition for exclusion may appear before the board of the district and urge or oppose its approval. After the hearing, if the board of the district determines that it is for the best interests of the distribution dist…

All expenses incurred in connection with a petition to exclude lands from a distribution district shall be paid by the petitioners. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1935.)

If a special election is called by the board pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter, the board shall within 30 days after calling the election give notice of the election. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1607.)

The notice shall be published once a week for at least three weeks previous to the election in each affected county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

For the purposes of the special election, the board shall establish a convenient number of election precincts and define their boundaries. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1607.)

At the time of calling the election, the board shall in its order designate voting places and appoint three landholders of the district to act as a board of election at each voting place. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1607.)

The election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this division relating to general elections, but no particular form of ballot shall be required. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The qualifications of voters at the election shall be the same as prescribed for the formation election. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The votes cast at the election shall be canvassed by the board in the same manner as votes cast at the formation election, and the result of the special election shall be declared and entered of record in the minutes of the board. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1607.)

The provisions of this article are applicable only to warrants payable on demand. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Whenever any warrant of the district is presented for payment when funds are not available for payment, it shall thereafter draw interest at a rate determined by resolution of the board, not to exceed 7 percent per year, until public notice is given that such funds are available.…

Upon the presentation of warrants for payment when funds for payment are not available, the treasurer of the district or of the county, as the case may be, shall endorse on them all of the following: (a) “Funds not available for payment.” (b) The date of presentation. (c) The int…

The treasurer shall keep a record showing all of the following: (a) Number and amount of each registered warrant. (b) Date of its issuance. (c) Person in whose favor it was issued. (d) Date of its presentation for payment. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The registered warrant is a contract in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action based upon the warrant is four years from the date of issuance. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury to pay all outstanding registered warrants or whenever the board orders that all registered warrants presented for payment prior to a certain date be paid and there is sufficient money available for payment, the proper treasurer …

The notice shall state that the treasurer is prepared to pay all registered warrants or all registered warrants presented for payment prior to the date fixed by the board. No further description of the warrants entitled to payment need be made in the notice. (Added by Stats. 1951…

The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the office county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

All warrants designated in the notice shall cease to draw interest at the time of the first publication of the notice. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Upon the presentation of any warrant entitled to payment under the terms of the notice, the treasurer shall pay it together with interest due on it from the date of its original presentation for payment to the date of the first publication of the notice. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch…

The treasurer shall enter all of the following in the record of registered warrants he is required to keep: (a) Dates of the payment of all the warrants. (b) Names of the persons to whom payments are made. (c) Amount paid to each person. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Only holders of title to land which has been assessed as provided in this division shall be qualified to vote at the election. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

To the right of or below the question on the ballot, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 303, Sec. 57. (AB 1512) Effective January 1, 2026.)

A list of the ballots cast shall be made by the board of election, containing the name of each voter who has voted at the election, and if the ballot was cast by proxy also the name of the person casting it, and the number of votes cast by each voter. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 3…

At the close of the polls the board of election shall at once proceed to canvass the votes and declare the result. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The board of election shall deliver a certificate showing the result and the number of votes cast for and against the issuing of the bonds to the county elections official of each county, and a duplicate to the board of directors. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 170. Effec…

The board of election shall deliver to the county elections official of each county all ballots cast at the election within that county and all documents and papers used at the election. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 171. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The county elections officials of the respective counties shall immediately upon receipt of the ballots, papers, and documents from the board of election certify to the board of directors at its office a statement of the result of the election held in each of the counties with a …

The board of directors shall certify in its minutes that the proposal to issue bonds has carried or has been defeated. The certificate shall state the vote cast throughout the entire district. A duplicate of the certificate shall be immediately transmitted to the department. (Add…

Except as in this part specifically provided, the provisions of this division with reference to all matters pertaining to elections shall govern bond elections. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The commissioners appointed pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter shall assess the costs of the project, or in the event the board has divided the project into units of construction, the cost of the unit or units specified for immediate construction, upon the benefited land. In t…

The commissioners shall apportion the cost in accordance with the benefits that will accrue to each tract of land held in separate ownership by reason of the expenditures of the money and the completion of the project, or such units of it as have been specified for immediate cons…

If the project includes plans for the generation of electric power, the commissioners shall ascertain the total cost of all the properties which are necessary to be used in connection with the generation of electric power as set forth in the plan, and shall also ascertain what po…

Where any tract of land consists of more than one section, the apportionment to that tract of land shall be made according to legal subdivisions or to other boundaries sufficient to identify the land in subdivisions not greater than one section in area. Any failure or defect in c…

If the district project as adopted, as provided in Part 5 (commencing at Section 42200) of this division, provides that all of the costs of the project are to be borne by certain designated lands within the district and there is on file with the board a written stipulation or agr…

At the time and place mentioned in the notice of filing of the inclusion petition, or at such other time or times to which the hearing of the inclusion petition may be adjourned, the board shall proceed to hear the petition and all the objections thereto presented in writing by a…

The failure of any interested person to show cause in writing as provided in this article shall be an assent on his part to a change of the boundaries of the district as prayed for in the petition, or to any such change thereof as will include a part of the land. (Added by Stats.…

The board shall order the boundaries of the district changed so as to include the land described in the inclusion petition, or such portion thereof as the board has found it feasible to serve by the system of works of the district and for the best interests of the district to inc…

The order of the board shall describe the boundaries as changed, and shall also describe the entire boundaries of the district as they will be after the change is made; and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of the boundaries as it deems nec…