Title WAT, California Water Code

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an agricultural water supplier shall prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan in the manner set forth in this chapter on or before December 31, 2012, and shall update that plan on December 31, 2015. (2) (A) The agricultu…

(a) An agricultural water supplier required to prepare a plan pursuant to this part shall notify each city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies that the agricultural water supplier will be preparing the plan or reviewing the plan and considering amendments …

The department shall keep full and complete accounts concerning all matters and things relating to the project and annually shall prepare balance sheet and income and profit and loss statements showing the financial condition of the project. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

All books and papers pertaining to matters provided for in this part shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any party interested or any citizen of the State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 370.)

The plan for improvement of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta levees, as set forth in Bulletin No. 192 of the Department of Water Resources, dated May 1975, is approved as a conceptual plan to guide the formulation of projects to preserve the integrity of the delta levee system. (…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Flood Control Law of 1946.” (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1285.)

As used in this chapter: (a) “Public agency” means any state agency, county, city and county, city, or district of the State, except the department. (b) “Flood control project” means any project heretofore or hereafter adopted and authorized by the Congress requiring local cooper…

In pursuance of the policy declared in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, the Legislature finds a state interest in assuming the cost of cooperation by the State with the United States in the construction of flood control projects to the extent provided in Chapters 1 and 2 of this pa…

The Legislature intends that from time to time by law allocations from the General Fund for flood control projects will be made to pay for the cost of all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of flood control projects adopted and authorized by the Le…

As soon as practicable after the receipt of an application for a permit to appropriate water which conforms to the rules and regulations of the board and to law, the board shall issue and deliver a notice of the application (a) to the applicant, (b) to the district attorney of ea…

The notice shall specify all of the following: (a) The number of the application. (b) The name and address of the applicant. (c) The date of filing. (d) The source of supply. (e) The amount applied for. (f) The season of diversion. (g) The location of the point of diversion. (h) …

If the application is for more than three cubic feet per second or for more than 200 acre-feet per annum of storage, the notice shall state that protests against the approval of the application may be filed within 60 days from the date of issuance of the notice or within such fur…

If the application is for three cubic feet or less per second, or for 200 acre-feet or less per annum of storage, the notice shall state that protests may be filed within 40 days from date thereof or within such further time as the board may, for good cause shown, allow. (Amended…

The notice shall contain appropriate general information as to what protests against the approval of the application shall contain in order to accord with the requirements of law and the rules and regulations of the board. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

There is in the Resources Agency the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards. The organization, membership, and some of the duties of the state board are provided for in Article 3 (commencing with Section 174) of Chapter 2 of D…

Upon making the order on final hearing of the formation petition, the board of supervisors shall call and give notice of a formation election to be held in the proposed district for the purpose of determining whether or not it shall be formed and electing persons to fill the offi…

The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) Date and hours of election. (b) Place of polls in each precinct. (c) Description of the land. (d) Name of the proposed district. (e) Offices for which candidates shall be elected at the election. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 3…

Notice of the formation election shall be published once a week for three weeks previous to the election, in a newspaper published in each affected county. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the election call to the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the coun…

The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of citizens entitled to vote on the district formation proposition, or any combination of such voters and associations of citizens, may file a …

If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time prescribed, such election officials shall select one of the arguments for printing and distribution to the voters. In selecting the…

(a) The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed and mailed to each voter entitled to vote on the district formation question. (b) The ballot pamphlet printed and mailed…

A district may acquire by any means any property or interest in property to carry out its purposes, including any of the following: (a) Property for the construction, improvement, and operation of works in this state or in any other state or in a foreign nation. (b) Works being c…

Any property necessary for the purposes of the district may be acquired by the district and held subject to any liens, incumbrances, or obligations on it at the time of its acquisition. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

If any road, railroad, canal, or other property subject or devoted to public use will become subject to flooding or other interference by reason of the construction or proposed construction of any works of a district, the district may acquire the right to flood or otherwise inter…

If by a judgment or agreement a district is required to relocate any road, railroad, canal, or other property subject or devoted to public use, the district may acquire all property necessary to comply with the agreement or judgment and make conveyances of the relocated road, rai…

The right is hereby granted to locate, construct, and maintain any of the works of a district on any land which is now or hereafter owned by the State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

There is given, dedicated, and set apart for the uses and purposes of each district all water and water rights belonging to this State within the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

A district may construct any works across any watercourse, road, railway, conduit, or other property subject or devoted to public use in a manner that will afford security to life and property. The district shall restore the property crossed as near as may be to its former state …

A district may on terms its board deems for the best interests of the district take a deed or release from any claimant, including any other taxing or assessing agency, to any interest in any property owned or claimed by the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

A district may purchase pursuant to law property tax sold or tax deeded to the State on which the district has a claim, lien, or deed for unpaid assessments or any right, title, interest, or claim. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Any district when it appears to its board to be for the best interest of the district may discharge with or without compromise any overlapping tax or assessment liens equal or superior in rank to those of the district existing on any property to which the district has title and m…

A district may notwithstanding any other provisions of this division use any of its funds to carry out the provisions of Section 22434 and may with these funds purchase written evidences of indebtedness of overlapping taxing or assessing agencies for this purpose. (Added by Stats…

A district may in its name take conveyances, leases, contracts, or other assurances for all property acquired by it. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The title to all property acquired by a district is held in trust for its uses and purposes. The district may hold, use, acquire, manage, sell, or lease the property as provided in this division. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

(a) A district which is the owner of an easement for an open canal or other water conveyance facility for the transportation of water across lands not owned by the district, other than an easement evidenced by a written grant or judgment providing a legal description of the easem…

The provisions of this chapter do not extend the right of eminent domain to any public use in behalf of which it may not otherwise be exercised. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Districts may enter into agreements with irrigation districts in adjoining States for the joint acquisition, management, and control of diverting, impounding, or distributing works for irrigating or draining land within the boundaries of the respective districts. (Added by Stats.…

Agreements pursuant to this article may be evidenced by written contracts executed on behalf of the board of directors or trustees of each respective district or by resolutions entered upon their respective minutes. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The contracts or certified copies of them and certified copies of the resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the land of the districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property owned by the district…

Agreements made pursuant to this article may provide for joint ownership, several ownership, or ownership in common of the property convenient for their joint purposes and may provide for the terms under which or the respective proportions in which the property shall be held. (Ad…

Any rights or disputes arising out of or from the agreements may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Any meeting of a board regularly adjourned to or called substantially in the manner for calling special meetings may be held in conjunction with the board of the cooperating district in the cooperating district in the adjoining State with the same validity as if held at the distr…

For the purposes of cooperative action pursuant to this article either district may divert water from either or both States for either or both impounding in the adjoining State or for distribution to the land of either or both cooperating districts. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372…

So far as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this article a cooperating district in an adjoining State may hold title to property in this State, and a cooperating district in this State may hold title to property in the adjoining State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

In a district containing a distribution district the board and all of the officers of the district each respectively has all of the rights, powers, and privileges as to the distribution district, its land, and the proceedings in relation to the distribution district that each res…