Title WAT, California Water Code

(a) The state board shall, on or before January 1, 1986, rank all solid waste disposal sites, as defined in paragraph (5) of subdivision (i) of Section 41805.5 of the Health and Safety Code, based upon the threat they may pose to water quality. On or before July 1, 1987, the oper…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an operator of a solid waste disposal site may submit a solid waste assessment questionnaire to the appropriate regional board at least 24 months prior to the site’s solid waste water quality assessment test due date as established pursu…

Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 13273.1, a regional board may reevaluate the status of any solid waste disposal site ranked pursuant to Section 13273, including those sites exempted pursuant to Section 13273.1, and may require the operator to submit or revise a solid w…

As used in Sections 13273, 13273.1, and 13273.2, “operator” means a person who operates or manages, or who has operated or managed, the solid waste disposal site. If the operator of the solid waste disposal site no longer exists, or is unable, as determined by the regional board,…

Notwithstanding Section 13273, a small city which operates a Class III solid waste disposal site is not required to submit a solid waste water quality assessment test report pursuant to Section 13273 if the city has a population of less than 20,000 persons, the solid waste dispos…

(a) (1) The state board or a regional board, upon receipt of applications for waste discharge requirements for discharges of dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge and other biological solids, shall prescribe general waste discharge requirements for that sludge and…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a public water system regulated by the state board pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code shall have the same legal rights and remedies against a responsible party, when th…

(a) The multiagency task force, the Department of Fish and Wildlife and state board pilot project to address the Environmental Impacts of Cannabis Cultivation, assigned to respond to the damages caused by cannabis cultivation on public and private lands in California, shall conti…

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicabl…

All acts, proceedings, conclusions, and findings of fact, including the levy of an assessment, by a board of a district concerning an improvement district therein shall be conclusive except in an action or proceeding instituted within six months after the acts, proceedings, concl…

An action to determine the validity of an assessment or of warrants may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1541.)

A board shall order the collector to cancel or modify, as may be proper, an assessment when it finds that any property has been either: (a) Assessed in any year more than once. (b) Assessed by reason of a clerical error for more than its full cash value. (c) Computed for assessme…

On order of the board any assessments, penalties or costs thereon, or portions thereof, shall be refunded by the treasurer if they were either: (a) Paid more than once. (b) Erroneously or illegally collected. (c) Paid with respect to property not in the district and which has nev…

No order for a refund under this article shall be made except upon a claim both: (a) Verified by the person who paid the assessments, penalties, or costs, his guardian, executor, or administrator. (b) Filed within three years after the making of the payment sought to be refunded.…

The board may order the collector to cancel the uncollected assessment on any property which because of transfer to the State or another public agency is determined to be uncollectible. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 475.)

Bondholders owning or holding 25 percent or more of any outstanding and unpaid issue of revenue bonds may, when payments of principal or interest, or both, have been in default for not less than one year, institute proceedings in the superior court of the principal county to comp…

The complaint shall: (a) Name the district as a defendant. (b) State that on the date therein named bond principal payments, interest thereon, or both, were in default for a period of more than one year. (c) Pray: (1) That the district be adjudged in default of payments of its ob…

The summons in the proceeding shall be served by publishing a copy thereof once a week for four weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each affected county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

Within 30 days after publication of the summons has been completed and proof filed with the court any person may appear and answer the complaint. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

On the expiration of 60 days after the publication of summons has been completed and proof filed with the court, after proof to the court that a default exists and continues, the court shall assume jurisdiction over the affairs of the district and appoint a receiver for the purpo…

The jurisdiction of the court over the affairs of the district shall continue until the default for which the receiver was appointed has been discharged. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

A receiver has no power to dispose of any part of the property of the district except in the ordinary course of business. The authority of a receiver is limited to the operation and maintenance of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

No court has jurisdiction to enter any order or decree requiring or permitting a receiver to sell, assign, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber the district or any part thereof. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

Whenever all that is due upon all obligations and interest thereon which are a charge, lien, or encumbrance on the revenues of the district has been paid and all defaults have been cured and made good, the court, after such notice and hearing as it deems reasonable and proper, sh…

For the purpose of enabling it to make decisions as compatible with economy and public safety as possible the department shall make or cause to be made such investigations and shall gather or cause to be gathered such data as may be needed for a proper review and study of the var…

The department shall also make or cause to be made such watershed investigations and studies as may facilitate its decisions. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

On or before 120 days after the effective date of this chapter, and on or before the last day of July of each year after 1975, each producer within the Chino Basin shall furnish the assessing district with an annual report of production for the preceding fiscal year, on a form to…

If any producer subject to production assessments, after having been given notice as required by Section 72142.2, fails to file an annual report on production, such producer shall, in addition to the liability for interest provided in Section 72142.4, become liable to the assessi…

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

The district shall issue warrants for the amount of the project assessment, which warrants shall be made payable in the amount and at times corresponding substantially to the payments of the installments of the project assessment, plus any money to be paid from funds secured by a…

Such warrants shall be payable only out of funds derived from the levy and collection of the project assessment and, if so stated in the resolution proposing the project, from the assessments made for general district purposes. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

The proceeds arising from the sale of the warrants shall be paid into the treasury of the district and placed to the credit of a special project fund and expended only for the purpose for which the project assessment was authorized to be levied. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Delta Levee Rehabilitation Subaccount. (b) For the purposes of this article, “subaccount” means the Delta Levee Rehabilitation Subaccount created by subdivision (a). (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204…

The sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the subaccount for the purpose of implementing this article. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, election.)

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the subaccount is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the department, as follows: (a) Twelve million five hundred thousand dollars ($12,500,000) for local assistance under the delt…

The expenditure of funds under this article is subject to Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 12306) of Part 4.8 of Division 6. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, election.)

(a) No expenditure of funds may be made under this article unless the Department of Fish and Game makes a written determination as part of its review and approval of a plan or project pursuant to Section 12314 or 12987 that the proposed expenditures are consistent with a net long…

For the purposes of this article, a levee project includes levee improvements and related habitat improvements which may be undertaken in the delta at a location other than the location of that levee improvement. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204…

The expenditure of funds under this article shall result in levee rehabilitation improvement projects that, to the greatest extent possible, are consistent with the CALFED program. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, electi…

Flood plain regulations established to comply with requirements of Section 8411 shall meet the following criteria: (a) Construction of structures in the designated floodway which may endanger life or significantly restrict the carrying capacity of the designated floodway shall be…

All public agencies shall comply with flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411. For the purposes of this section, “public agencies” includes the state or any department or agency thereof. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 410.)

Within any area classified “designated floodway” by the department or board after completion of a federal project report the appropriate public agency shall establish the necessary flood plain regulations within one year following notification by the department or board. The stat…

The department or board shall review the adequacy of flood plain regulations established by a public agency to meet the requirements of Section 8411, and shall notify the appropriate public agency in the event the flood plain regulations are determined by the department or board …

Flood plain regulations adopted pursuant to Section 8412 shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the public agency and shall be deemed to meet the requirements of Section 8411 unless the department or board determines that such flood plain regulations are not adequ…

If a public agency fails to adopt flood plain regulations pursuant to Section 8411, or fails to adopt new flood plain regulations within 180 days of receipt of the department’s or board’s notice pursuant to Section 8412, or fails to adopt or modify such regulations in the manner …

No public agency shall revise flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411 or shall grant a variance from such regulations without the consent of the department or board and of the local flood control agency having jurisdiction over the project are…