Title WAT, California Water Code

The board may order a reconsideration of all or part of a decision or order on the board’s own motion or on the filing of a petition of any interested person or entity. The petition shall be filed not later than 30 days from the date the board adopts a decision or order. The auth…

The decision or order may be reconsidered by the board on all the pertinent parts of the record and such argument as may be permitted, or a further hearing may be held, upon notice to all interested persons, for the purpose of receiving such additional evidence as the board may, …

The board at any time may amend or modify a decision or order to correct any obvious typographical or clerical error or oversight without the necessity of notice and a hearing thereon. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 659, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)

The definitions in this article govern the contruction of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1886.)

“Lands, easements and rights of way” includes lands and rights or interests in lands whereon channel improvements and channel rectifications, debris dams and water retarding structures are located; lands, rights, or interests in lands necessary in connection with the construction…

“Local organizations” means any county, city, state agency or public district. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1886.)

Each regional board shall do all of the following: (a) Establish an office. (b) Select one of its members as chairperson at the first regular meeting held each year. (c) Appoint as its confidential employee, who may be exempt from civil service under Section 4 of Article VII of t…

Members of the regional board shall be empowered to administer oaths and issue subpoenas for the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses and for the production of evidence in any proceeding before the board in any part of the region. The provisions of Chapter 3 (commencin…

Pursuant to such guidelines as the state board may establish, each regional board shall adopt regulations to carry out its powers and duties under this division. (Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 482.)

(a) Each regional board may delegate any of its powers and duties vested in it by this division to its executive officer excepting only the following: (1) the promulgation of any regulation; (2) the issuance, modification, or revocation of any water quality control plan, water qu…

Each regional board may issue policy statements relating to any water quality matter within its jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 482.)

Each regional board, with respect to its region, shall do all of the following: (a) Coordinate with the state board and other regional boards, as well as other state agencies with responsibility for water quality, with respect to water quality control matters, including the preve…

Consistent with classifications adopted by the state board pursuant to Section 13172, each regional board shall review and classify any proposed or currently operating waste disposal site, except any sewage treatment plant or any site which primarily contains fertilizer or radioa…

(a) Each regional board, with respect to its region, shall review the facility closure and postclosure plans submitted pursuant to Section 25246 of the Health and Safety Code, to ensure that water quality is adequately protected during closure and the post-closure maintenance per…

(a) Concerning any matter that may be submitted to a regional board by a person or entity that is subject to regulation by more than one regional board, the person or entity may submit the matter to one of those regional boards if both of the following requirements are met: (1) T…

(a) Any hearing or investigation by a regional board relating to investigating the quality of waters of the state, prescribing waste discharge requirements, issuing cease and desist orders, requiring the cleanup or abatement of waste, or imposing administrative civil liabilities …

The members of a regional board, or their designees, with respect to matters within the regional board’s jurisdiction, may carry out prehearing conferences to address any of the matters described in subdivision (b) of Section 11511.5 of the Government Code. No party who appears a…

An action to determine the validity of any contract entered into for a period of more than three years or the levy of any assessment or of bonds, including whether or not the bonds when delivered to the person entitled to them under the terms of a contract will or do constitute v…

A district may issue improvement district warrants signed by its president and secretary in face amount not exceeding in the aggregate the cost of the improvements exclusive of interest and amounts paid prior to the issuance of these warrants on the assessment levied to pay for t…

Improvement district warrants shall be made payable in amounts and at the times corresponding substantially to the amounts and times of payment of the installments of the improvement district assessment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Improvement district warrants shall bear interest at the rate fixed at the time of the levy of the improvement district assessment, and the interest may be made payable semiannually. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Coupons for the interest on these warrants may be attached to them. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Improvement district warrants may be made payable to any of the following: (a) Bearer. (b) Persons furnishing work, labor, or material. (c) The contractor if the work of improvement is to be done under contract. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Improvement district warrants may be sold by the district for not less than par at either public or private sale. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Any surplus funds and any money held by a district in a sinking or depreciation fund may in the discretion of its board be invested in the warrants of any improvement district within the district. (Amended by Stats. 1947, Ch. 536.)

If any contract or lease for the acquisition of property provides for any future payments by the district, warrants may be issued, on order of the board, for the payments, which warrants shall be made payable at the times provided in the contract or lease. (Added by Stats. 1943, …

When a particular purpose or emergency assessment has been authorized, warrants in an amount equal to the amount of the assessment may be issued on order of the board to carry out the purpose for which the assessment was authorized. These warrants shall be made payable at the tim…

Any outstanding registered warrants and their accrued interest may be refunded by the issuance of warrants payable at stated times fixed by the board. These warrants may be exchanged for the registered warrants or sold for not less than their par value to provide funds for the pa…

Warrants payable at a future time or times may be issued in consideration of money loaned to the district for the purchase of any of its outstanding bonds or the refinancing or retiring of any outstanding contract. The annual interest payable on these warrants shall be less than …

Warrants payable at a future time or times may also be issued to obtain funds or property for any lawful purpose of the district. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1226, Sec. 35.)

Any warrant authorized in the preceding sections of this article shall draw interest at a rate to be fixed by the board not to exceed 8 percent per year payable annually or semiannually as the board may prescribe. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 130.)

Coupons payable to bearer in a form and signed as prescribed by the board may be attached to warrants payable at a future date to evidence their interest. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Warrants of any district may be issued to evidence the indebtedness allowed to be incurred prior to the levy of the first district assessment, bearing interest fixed by the board at not more than 8 percent per year. These warrants shall be made payable on a date not later than th…

If any district owns any property which it is authorized to lease or sell, its board may in the contract providing for the issuance of warrants payable at a future time, agree that the proceeds of the lease or sale of the property, not required by law to be used for other purpose…

No warrants issued pursuant to this article made payable more than five years from the date of issuance shall be valid unless their issuance is authorized by a majority of the voters voting at an election called by the board for the purpose of determining whether or not the warra…

Notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be held and the result determined as nearly as practicable in the manner provided for bond elections. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

All warrants issued pursuant to this article shall be sold by the board in such manner and in such quantities as may be determined by the board in its discretion, but except as otherwise expressly provided in this article, no such warrants shall be sold for less than 95 percent o…

The board may when it so desires and shall, when a written petition signed by a majority of the assessment payers in the district is filed requesting it, pass a resolution providing that thereafter annual assessments, including improvement district assessments or installments the…

The two installments shall be equal unless the resolution specifies different percentages to be paid in each installment, in which case the installments shall be payable as specified in the resolution. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The resolution shall be adopted at or prior to the time of the levy of any annual assessment it is to affect. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The resolution may be rescinded or modified only so as to affect any assessment levied subsequent to the rescission or modification. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The payment of both principal and interest of revenue bonds shall be secured only by the revenues pledged therefor. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 6, Sec. 10. Effective February 4, 1980.)

No holder of any revenue bond may ever compel any exercise of the taxing power to pay the bond, interest thereon, or any part of either. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

All revenue bonds of the same issue shall, subject to the prior and superior rights of outstanding bonds, claims, or obligations, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 35471, have a prior and paramount lien on the revenue pledged for the payment or red…

All revenue bonds of the same issue shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date of bonds, of sale, of execution, or of delivery, by a lien on the district’s revenue in accordance with the provisions of this division and the resolutions authoriz…