Title WAT, California Water Code

The improvement district assessment may be made payable in not to exceed 10 annual installments and the board shall, at the time of the levy of the annual assessments of the district, if any, add to the amount of the annual assessment levied upon the lands within the improvement …

The improvement district assessment, or any installment thereof, shall be and remain a lien on the lands in the same manner as, and shall be a part of, the annual district assessment. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

The district shall issue warrants for the amount of the improvement district assessment, which warrants shall be made payable in amounts and at the times corresponding substantially to the payment of the installments of the improvement district assessment and shall bear interest …

If the improvement district assessment is insufficient to pay in full the cost of the improvements or pay the warrants issued for such improvements, an additional and supplemental assessment shall be made and levied upon all of the lands in the improvement district sufficient to …

Prior to the end of the water year in which the hearing is held, and based upon the findings and determinations from the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not a zone or zones should be established and a ground water charge levied therein. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75…

If the board determines that a zone or zones should be established and a ground water charge levied therein, it shall establish the zone or zones and levy, assess, and affix the charge against all persons operating ground water-producing facilities within the zone or zones during…

The charge shall be computed at a fixed and uniform rate per acre-foot for agricultural water, and at a fixed and uniform rate per acre-foot for all water other than agricultural water. However, a different fixed and uniform rate per acre-foot may be used to compute the charge fo…

Different rates may be established in different zones; provided, however, that in each zone the rate for agricultural water shall be fixed and uniform and the rate for water other than agricultural water shall be fixed and uniform. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

Except as provided in Section 75595, any ground water charge in any year shall be established at a fixed and uniform rate for each acre-foot for water other than agricultural water which is not less than three times nor more than five times the fixed and uniform rate established …

In any county which has a population of 503,000 or more and less than 600,000, any ground water charge in any year shall be established at a fixed and uniform rate for each acre-foot for water other than agricultural water in such proportion to the fixed and uniform rate establis…

Any ground water charge levied pursuant to this part shall be in addition to any general tax or assessment levied within the district or a zone or zones thereof; provided, that in any fiscal year, the sums raised by any ground water charge levied by the district in any zone or zo…

In addition to the information required to be given to the board of supervisors and the auditor of each affected county pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 75350) of Part 8 of this division, the board shall at the same time annually furnish the board of supervisors and…

Clerical errors occurring or appearing in the name of any person or in the description of the water-producing facility where the production of water therefrom is otherwise properly charged, or in the making or extension of any charge upon the records which do not affect the subst…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may amend the report prepared pursuant to Section 75561 at any time during the water year. Upon completion of any amended report, the board shall deliver the report to the secretary. (b) The secretary shall publish a notic…

Within 30 days after the receipt of an annexation petition from a petitioning district, the board of the annexing district shall, if it favors the annexation, adopt a resolution setting forth its intention to annex the petitioning district, and shall cause the resolution of inten…

If, on the date set by the board for the final action on the annexation petition, there is presented to the board of the annexing district written protests signed by 3 percent, or 1,000, or more, of the electors of the annexing district, the board shall call and provide for an el…

If the question of annexation is submitted to the electors of the annexing district, the election shall be held in the same manner as provided in this chapter for the election in the petitioning district. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

If a majority of all votes cast at the election are against the proposed annexation, the annexation petition shall be denied. If a majority of all votes cast are in favor of the proposed annexation, the board of the annexing district shall thereupon adopt an order annexing the pe…

The order annexing the petitioning district shall describe the boundaries of the land to be annexed to the annexing district, and if such land adjoins any portion of the annexing district, the order shall also describe that portion of the boundary of the annexing district which c…

Upon the annexation of a district as provided in this chapter, the annexation order and the annexation petition shall be recorded. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

Any city within the limits of which any drainage improvement has been constructed, and which drainage improvement also lies within the territorial limits of a flood control district, may, by four-fifths vote of the legislative body of the city, transfer and convey to the flood co…

Thereupon the flood control district shall assume and provide for the operation, maintenance, repair, and improvement of such drainage improvements. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 138.)

From and after the date of transfer such flood control district is solely liable for the payment of the principal upon the general obligation bonds of any such drainage improvement district and upon bonds of such district secured by and payable out of a fund derived from specific…

From and after the date of transfer no tax shall be levied upon the lands within any such drainage district for the payment of the subsequently maturing principal and interest upon the bonds of such district, except such levy as may be made by the flood control district. However,…

The proceeds of the collection of such drainage district taxes and assessments shall be applied solely and exclusively to the payment of the principal and interest for which they were levied and the surplus, if any, of the proceeds of such collections shall be deposited in the co…

It is the responsibility, liability and duty of the reclamation districts, levee districts, protection districts, drainage districts, municipalities, and other public agencies within the Sacramento River Flood Control Project limits, to maintain and operate the works of the proje…

The department shall, in connection with the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, make inspections and prepare reports which are required because of assurances given to the Secretary of the Army pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 8615) of…

As used in this article the term “levee” means any levee within the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may promote the construction, completion, maintenance and repair of levees along all rivers, streams, overflow channels, basins and by-passes where, in the opinion of the board, the levees are insufficient or necessary for the purpose of the plans for flood control to b…

Whenever any levee is in the opinion of the board insufficient or necessary for flood control, the board shall publish notice to that effect. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The published notice shall state that the levee is insufficient or necessary, that it is the intention of the board to construct, repair or complete the levee and pay the cost out of an assessment levied or to be levied and assessed upon the lands within the drainage district dir…

The notice shall be signed in the name of the board by its president and secretary and shall be published once a week for three weeks in some newspaper published in the county wherein the levee or the greater part of it is situated or is to be constructed. (Added by Stats. 1943, …

The giving of the notice by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any landowner, reclamation district, drainage district, levee district, municipal corporation or other organization or association authorized by law to construct, repair or complete a levee shall have 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication within which to…

The application shall be in writing and signed by the applicants or their respective executors, administrators, guardians, trustees or duly constituted and authorized officers. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The application shall be filed in the office of the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

When an application is filed within the required 30 days, the applicants shall have 60 days after filing the application, or any further time that the board allows, within which to do the following: (a) Present to the board plans and specifications. (b) Obtain the board’s approva…

The application for leave to construct, repair or complete a levee shall designate the name and post-office address of at least one and not more than three of the applicants as the person or persons to whom any notice or communication may be addressed by the board in the matter o…

In case there are two or more applications filed in the office of the board within the required 30 days the board may determine which of such applications shall be recognized and may reject the others. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any levee constructed or work done by the applicants, pursuant to notice from the board and according to plans and specifications approved by the board, shall be considered as constructed or done with the permission of the board within the meaning of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of thi…

If the application is not filed in the office of the board within 30 days after completion of the giving of notice by publication, or if the applicants fail to present to the board and obtain its approval of the plans and specifications and to commence the work within 60 days aft…

The assessment may be either an assessment specially levied and assessed for that purpose, or any assessment levied and assessed by the board and applicable to the payment of such work. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Notwithstanding anything in this article the board may determine a case of emergency exists requiring immediate action to preserve life or property or to protect or preserve the safety of any levee along any river, stream, overflow channel, basin or by-pass. (Added by Stats. 1943…

The board may do the necesssary work immediately for the protection or preservation of the levee, without giving the notice provided for in this article. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may pay the cost, including any damage that may result from the performance of the work, by an assessment to be levied and assessed as provided in this article or out of the funds of any assessment available for that purpose under the provisions of this part. (Added by …

The board or any party to a proceeding before it may, in any investigation or hearing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for depositions in civil actions in the superior courts of this state under Ti…