Title WAT, California Water Code

Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number of weeks, the notice need be published on only one day of each week, and for only the same number of times as the number of weeks designated. (Ad…

Whenever any act is required to be done or proceeding taken on or set for a particular day or day of the week in any month, the act may be done or proceeding set for and acted upon on a day of the month otherwise specified for a regular meeting of the board. (Amended by Stats. 19…

A district may be organized entirely within unincorporated territory, or partly within unincorporated territory and partly within incorporated territory, and within one or more counties in this State. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

No area included within any existing agency or annexations thereto, one of the purposes of which is replenishing the ground water supplies within such existing agency and which agency is empowered to levy assessments or charges upon the production of water from such ground water …

Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

The provisions of this division apply to the replenishment of ground water within all areas in this state, except those areas therein now or hereafter included within the Orange County Water District as provided by the Orange County Water District Act. The Legislature finds and d…

No informality in any proceeding or informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held to invalidate any incorporation, annexation, exclusion, or other action under this act. Any action or proceeding wh…

If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this act, or of the act or acts of which this act is amendatory or supplemental, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act…

No language or provision in this division shall be interpreted or construed so as to limit, abridge or otherwise affect the water or water rights of any existing agency or person or affect the rights of existing agencies or persons with respect to any legal proceeding pending on …

If the department determines that the persons or property within a proposed district will benefit directly or indirectly from the use of or right to use the ground water supplies therein or the replenishment waters thereof, the board of supervisors of the principal county shall f…

When such order dividing the proposed district into five (5) divisions is made, said board of supervisors shall call and provide for the holding of an election to be held in said proposed district for the purpose of determining whether or not the same shall be incorporated, and f…

The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

On all ordinances the roll shall be called and the ayes and noes recorded in the journal of the proceedings of the board. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Resolutions and motions may be adopted by voice vote, but on demand of any member the roll shall be called. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

No ordinance, motion or resolution shall be passed or become effective without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the board shall be: “Be it ordained by the Board of Directors of _______ Water Replenishment District as follows:”. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Ordinances may be passed by the voters of any district organized under the provisions of this act in accordance with the methods provided by the Elections Code for direct legislation in cities. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Ordinances may be disapproved and thereby vetoed by the voters of any such district by proceeding in accordance with the methods provided by the Elections Code for protesting against legislation in cities. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

(a) In addition to the prohibitions set forth in the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000) of the Government Code), a board member of a district may not make, or in any way attempt to use his or her official position to influence, a decision in whi…

To the extent that the revenues resulting from water charges authorized by Section 60245 of this act are inadequate to meet the obligations and expenses therein set out, the board may cause a tax to be levied, as herein provided, sufficient to pay the expenses and charges set out…

The board shall determine the amounts necessary to be raised by taxation during the fiscal year and shall fix the rate or rates of tax to be levied which will raise the amounts of money required by the district, and within a reasonable time previous to the time when the board of …

The board shall direct that at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes, such board of supervisors shall levy, in addition to such other tax as may be levied by such board of supervisors, at the rate or rates so fixed and determined …

Taxes for the payment of the interest on or principal of any bonded debt shall be levied on the real property and improvements thereon, but not on personal property within the district, as determined by the board in the resolution declaring the necessity to incur the debt. (Added…

Taxes for other purposes of the district shall be levied on all real property and improvements thereon, but not on personal property in the district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

It shall be the duty of all county officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect the taxes provided for herein in time, form and manner as county taxes are collected, and when collected pay the same to the district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

All taxes provided for herein shall be a lien on all the real property and improvements thereon, but not on personal property within the district, and their collection may be enforced by the same means as provided for in the enforcement of liens for state and county taxes. (Added…

When mineral rights are assessed separately from other rights in any parcel of real property no tax shall be levied under this division upon such mineral rights and any such tax shall be levied upon such real property exclusive of such mineral rights. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1…

Upon completing the hearing, but no later than the second Tuesday in May, the board shall, by resolution, find all of the following: (a) The annual overdraft for the preceding water year. (b) The estimated annual overdraft for the current water year. (c) The estimated annual over…

Based on the findings pursuant to Section 60315, the board shall, by resolution, determine all of the following: (a) What portion, if any, of the estimated cost of purchasing water for replenishment for the ensuing fiscal year shall be paid for by a replenishment assessment. (b) …

(a) If the board determines that a replenishment assessment shall be levied upon the production of groundwater from groundwater supplies within the district during the ensuing fiscal year, immediately following the making of that determination the board shall levy a replenishment…

Except as set forth in this section, nothing in this division prevents the use of district funds from any source for powers and functions authorized under this division. That part of a replenishment assessment levied pursuant to determinations under subdivisions (a) and (b) of Se…

(a) If the board determines, by resolution, that there is a problem of groundwater contamination that a proposed program will remedy or ameliorate, an operator may make extractions of groundwater to remedy or ameliorate that problem exempt from any replenishment assessment if the…

A petition may be filed with the county elections official of the principal county in which the district is located, signed by at least 25 percent of the voters of the district applying for disorganization and disincorporation of the district, and briefly stating the reasons ther…

Upon the filing of a petition the county elections official shall examine the petition within 30 days and ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 187. Effective January 1, 2003.)

When the county clerk has completed his examination of the petition he shall attach to the same his certificate properly dated, showing the result of such examination, and if from such examination he shall find that said petition is signed by the requisite number of voters residi…

After an election for the disincorporation of a district hereunder the sufficiency of such petition in any respect shall not be subject to judicial review or be otherwise questioned. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

If by the certificate of the county elections official the petition is shown to be sufficient, the county elections official of the principal county shall present the petition to the board of supervisors of the principal county without delay. When the petition is presented by the…

Said notice of election shall be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper published in said district and determined by said board most likely to give notice to those interested in said hearing. Publication shall be complete at least seven, but not …

The board of supervisors shall cause a copy of said notice to be mailed by the clerk of said board to each of the directors of said district, within five days after the date of the first publication thereof, and no election shall be had until proof of such mailing is furnished by…

Such election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as the election on the organization of said district, as nearly as practicable. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Within seven days after the date of said election, the board of supervisors shall proceed to canvass the vote cast thereat; if it be found by the canvass of said votes that less than a majority of the votes cast were in favor of disincorporation, said board of supervisors shall d…

In case it should appear from said canvass of said votes that a majority of all the votes cast were in favor of disincorporation, said board of supervisors shall make and cause to be entered upon the records of their proceedings an order that the petition for such disincorporatio…

The board of supervisors shall in case the district is disincorporated, forthwith cause its county elections official to make and transmit to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the notice of election hereinbefore provided for, and a statement of the number of voters votin…

Twenty days from and after the holding of the election, in case a majority of said votes were cast in favor of said disincorporation, said district shall be forever disincorporated. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)

Upon the disincorporation of any district in the manner hereinbefore provided for, the board of supervisors shall forthwith, after ascertaining by said canvass that the disincorporation has been carried, determine the amount of the indebtedness of said district, the amount of mon…

Upon the disincorporation of said district every public officer of said district shall immediately turn over to the board of supervisors of the principal county in which said district is situated, all public property of every nature and description in their possession, and includ…