Title WAT, California Water Code

(a) There is a regional board for each of the regions described in Section 13200. Each board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor, each of whom shall represent, and act on behalf of, all the people and shall reside or have a principal place of business within …

(a) Each member of a regional board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor for the unexpired portion of the terms in which they occur. (b) The term of office for members of each regional board shall be staggered and shal…

The official designation of each regional board shall be: California Regional Water Quality Control Board, (region name). (Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 482.)

Each regional board shall hold at least six regular meetings each calendar year and the additional special meetings or hearings as shall be called by the chairperson or any two members of the regional board. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 288, Sec. 19. (SB 1169) Effective January 1…

Each member of a regional board shall receive two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each day during which that member is engaged in the performance of official duties. The performance of official duties includes, but is not limited to, reviewing agenda materials for no more than o…

Public officers associated with any area of government, including planning or water, and whether elected or appointed, may be appointed to, and may serve contemporaneously as members of, a regional board. (Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 622.)

(a) A member of a regional board shall not participate in any board action pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 13260) of this chapter, or Article 1 (commencing with Section 13300) of Chapter 5, in which he or she has a disqualifying financial interest in the decision w…

(a) No regional board executive officer may make, participate in making, or use his or her official position to influence, any decision of the regional board, or made on behalf of the regional board, affecting any person or entity subject to waste discharge requirements under thi…

A district may commence and maintain any actions and proceedings to carry out its purposes or protect its interests and may defend in any action or proceeding brought against it. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

In all actions or proceedings the board may sue, appear, and defend in person or by attorneys and in the name of the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

(a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a district to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an ordinance, resolution, or motion fixing or changing a rate or charge for an electric commodity or an electric service furnished by the …

Service of summons upon a district may be made by serving it upon either the secretary or a majority of the directors elected. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Before an action or proceeding by the holders of bonds of a district to compel or restrain the doing of an act by the district or its board may be commenced or maintained, the holders of 10 per cent or more of the outstanding bonds of the district shall join in the action or proc…

A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, compromise, and assume the costs of any action or proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or use of waters or water rights within the district used or useful for any purpose of the district or of benefit to any land. (Added…

A district may commence, maintain, intervene in, defend, and compromise actions and proceedings to prevent interference with or diminution of the natural flow of any stream or natural or artificially created subterranean supply of waters which may: (a) Be used or be useful for an…

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

The board may also hold property used or acquired in connection with the improvement in the name of the directors and their successors in office as trustees for the improvement district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The board of a district in which an improvement district exists may allow on terms that may be agreed upon any person to carry water through any conduit for the improvement of which the improvement district was formed and may cancel the right in the event that payments are not ma…

The work of improvement provided for in this part and the purchase of all supplies, material, and equipment therefor shall be performed by the district, or in the discretion of the board contracts may be made for the work and material after notice calling for bids, as prescribed …

The board of the district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying assessments for the operation of improvement district works fix and collect charges for the use of water or for any other service furnished by means of the improvement district works in the same manner and with …

The board of the district may, provide for the maintenance and operation of the works of an improvement district from the funds of the irrigation district, in lieu of levying further improvement district assessments for such purposes. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 301.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the board of a district in which an improvement district exists may establish facilities use charges for the use of irrigation facilities in such improvement district and, in establishing such charges, may provide that water shall…

No claim shall be paid by the treasurer until allowed by the board, and only upon a warrant signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

All claims against any district presented by any officer or employee for mileage, personal expenses, or for money expended by the claimant for the district shall be filed with the board upon a form furnished by the district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Claims set forth in Section 24601 shall be itemized in detail to show: (a) Date of each expenditure. (b) Place where the expenditure was made. (c) Purpose for which any money claimed was expended. (d) Miles traveled and purposes of trips for which mileage is claimed. (e) Any othe…

The officer or employee presenting any claim provided for in Section 24601 shall verify it before the secretary, who is authorized to administer oaths for that purpose, or before any person authorized by law to administer oaths. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The verification shall state in substance all of the following: (a) The money claimed was actually expended or the mileage stated was actually traveled for the district in pursuance of the duties of the officer or employee presenting the claim. (b) The claim is presented in good …

Except as provided in Section 25806, the annual district assessment upon land is a lien against the property assessed from and after the first day in March of the year in which the assessment is levied. (Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 911.)

The collector within 20 days after receiving the assessment book from the secretary shall start the publication of a notice specifying all of the following: (a) The assessments are due and payable. (b) The times when these assessments will be delinquent. (c) The penalties for del…

The assessment notice shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published in the office county and in a newspaper published in each other affected county. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

Failure to publish the assessment notice in any county other than the office county shall not affect any assessment on land in a county in which notice was published. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The collector shall attend at the time and place specified in the assessment notice to receive assessment payments. The collector shall accept payment of current year assessments even though prior year delinquencies on the real property may exist. The acceptance of the payment sh…

Assessments or any other charge owed to the district shall be paid in lawful money of the United States. A reasonable additional charge may be made for processing or reprocessing an invalid check or other invalid instrument as provided in Section 25809. (Amended by Stats. 1975, C…

The collector shall mark the date of payment of any assessment in the assessment book opposite the name of the assessee. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)

The collector shall give to the person making the payment, one of the following: (a) A receipt which specifies when applicable, (1) the amount of the assessment or charge, (2) the amount paid, and (3) the description of the property assessed. (b) A statement or bill for the asses…

If a revenue bond issue is contemplated, there shall be included in the estimate required by Section 35950 every expense of the district that it is probable will be incurred for and limited to the purpose of acquiring or constructing works for irrigation, domestic, municipal, and…

Revenue bonds shall be issued in the name of the district and shall be obligations of the district, limited, however, to the payment or redemption of the revenue bonds and the payment of interest thereon from the revenues of the district, or such portion thereof as may be prescri…

Revenue bonds are not a general debt, liability, or obligation of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board may, in the resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds, provide that the bonds or any part thereof shall be subject to call and redemption before maturity, at the option of the district, at such price or prices as may be fixed in the resolution, not exceeding …

Revenue bonds issued subject to call and redemption prior to maturity shall contain a recital to that effect on the face of the revenue bonds, and no revenue bond shall be subject to call or redemption prior to its fixed maturity date unless it contains such recital. (Added by St…

The board in its resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds shall fix the method of giving notice of redemption to the holders of revenue bonds to be redeemed and the price or prices at which the revenue bonds shall be subject to redemption. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1…

The department shall have the powers and duties conferred upon it by this division and further powers and authority necessary to enable it to fully perform the duties imposed upon it by this division, including the employment of any assistants it deems necessary, and the fixing o…

The department shall give information, so far as may be practicable, to persons contemplating the formation of a district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of proposed district projects shall be made at the expense of the State the department shall make the surveys and investigation and prepare a report thereof which shall be ke…

Upon filing the order on final hearing of the formation petition, the department shall within 60 days give notice of an election to be held in the proposed district for the purpose of determining whether or not it shall be formed. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The notice of the formation election shall contain: (a) A description of the boundaries of the proposed district or the land included. (b) A description of each division. (c) The name of the proposed district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)