Title WAT, California Water Code

The board may, by contract or otherwise, undertake plans, surveys, research, development, and studies necessary or desirable to carry out this article, and may prepare recommendations with regard thereto, including the preparation of comprehensive statewide or areawide studies an…

Not more than 3 percent of the total amount deposited in the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount and the Small Communities Grant Subaccount may be used for both of the following purposes: (a) To pay the costs incurred in connection with the administration of this article. (b) Fo…

The following amounts are hereby transferred from the account to the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount and the Small Communities Grant Subaccount and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, from the suba…

For purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 78613, the board may make loans to municipalities, pursuant to contract, to aid in the construction or implementation of eligible projects. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, elec…

For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 78613, the board may make grants to small communities so that any combined federal and state grant does not exceed 9712 percent of the eligible cost of necessary studies, planning, design, and construction of the eligible project determi…

Any contract entered into pursuant to this article for loans or grants may include provisions determined by the board, and shall include all of the following provisions: (a) An estimate of the reasonable cost of the project. (b) A description of the type of assistance being offer…

All contracts entered into pursuant to this article for loans or grants are also subject to both of the following requirements: (a) Public entities seeking assistance shall demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the board, that an adequate opportunity for public participation regard…

Any loan made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 78613 shall be for a period not to exceed 20 years, with an interest rate set in accordance with Section 13480. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, election.)

All principal and interest payments received pursuant to loan contracts entered into pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount for additional loans under subdivision (a) of Section 78613, and shall not be transferred to the General Fu…

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Floodplain Mapping Subaccount. (b) The sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the Floodplain Mapping Subaccount for the purposes of implementing this article. (Added by…

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Agriculture and Open Space Mapping Subaccount. (b) The sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the Agriculture and Open Space Mapping Subaccount. (Added by Stats. 1999, …

The money in the Floodplain Mapping Subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the department, may be used by the department for the purpose of assisting local land-use planning, and to avoid or reduce future flood risks and damages. The use of the funds in that subacco…

(a) The money in the Agriculture and Open Space Mapping Subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the Department of Conservation, may be used by the Department of Conservation for the purposes of assisting local land-use planning by making available Important Farmland …

When an assessment is to be levied, the board shall appoint three assessors. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have no interest in any real estate within the drainage district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Each assessor before entering upon his duties, shall make and subscribe an oath that he is not in any manner interested in any real estate within the drainage district, and that he will perform the duties of an assessor to the best of his ability. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)…

The compensation of assessors shall be fixed and allowed by the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

After the assessors have examined the plan or plans of the works contemplated and the estimates of the cost, they shall make a preliminary report to the board indicating the exterior boundaries of the land that in their opinion will be benefited by the expenditures. (Added by Sta…

The assessors, after performing their duties pursuant to Section 8779, shall appoint a time and place in each county in which any of the land proposed to be assessed is situated, when and where they will hear objections to the report and evidence concerning the manner in which th…

The assessors shall give notice of the hearing in each of the counties by publication in a newspaper published in the county once a week for three weeks, the first publication to be not later than the twenty-first day before the day of hearing. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The notice shall contain a general designation of the land which will in the assessors’ opinion be benefited, and shall refer to the preliminary report on file in the office of the board for the exterior boundaries. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The assessors, may amend, modify or change the exterior boundaries of the land that, in their opinion, will be benefited by such expenditures. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board shall levy an assessment pursuant to this chapter if, within six months after the completion of the hearings there is filed with the board, written consent to the contemplated project, signed and acknowledged by the following: (a) Owners of land representing 66 per cent…

If consent in writing is not filed in the manner and at the time provided, no further expenditures for the project shall be made, nor shall any obligations be incurred therefor. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

If consent is not filed the board may cause an assessment to be levied in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of paying the necessary engineering and other expenses in preparing the plans for the project, in making the preliminary report of the assessors and in ho…

The assessors shall assess upon the lands within the drainage district proposed to be assessed for the plans adopted by the board the sums included in the estimates of the board, and shall apportion the sums according to the benefits that will accrue to each tract of land in the …

The assessors in apportioning the assessment on each tract of land shall, as information for the board set out, opposite each sum assessed for each particular tract of land, in separate columns respectively, the amount that they determine that each tract is so assessed by reason …

The assessors shall, in the case of all assessments of the drainage district which may hereafter be levied by the board and all assessments which have heretofore been commenced but on which the assessment lists have not been made to conform with the decision of the board after eq…

The amounts stated and placed opposite each assessment shall be no part of the assessment and shall in no way affect the assessment charged against each tract of land as the same may be fixed, but shall be subject to review and readjustment in the same manner as the assessment it…

The board shall, in its order providing for the election, specify the day on which the election is to be held and shall specify and designate one or more polling places in each supervisor district wherein are situated any of the lands affected by the assessment. (Added by Stats. …

In case the board considers it necessary or proper to provide more than one polling place in any supervisor district for the holding of the election, the board shall in its order divide the lands in the supervisor district and within the drainage district, into separate voting di…

The board shall designate and provide one polling place within each voting district at which shall be cast the votes of the owners of land within the voting district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may combine contiguous portions of different supervisor districts into one voting district in cases where the lands in the voting district are not assessed to more than 100 different owners, counting one owner for each tract assessed to unknown owners and counting the e…

The board shall in the order providing the election, appoint a board of election for each polling place. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board of election shall consist of three owners of land assessed in and by the assessment and situated within the voting district where the polling place is located. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Each member of the board of election, whether appointed by the board or whether acting as a substitute as provided in this part, is entitled to the sum of five dollars ($5) for his services. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The compensation of the election officers shall be paid by the board out of any funds of the drainage district or of the board applicable thereto. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

If any person appointed as a member of the board of election fails to attend at the opening of the polls, the voters then present at the polling place may appoint in his place any landowner of the district then present and entitled to vote at the election. (Added by Stats. 1943, …

Each member of the board of election before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an official oath, which may be administered by any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, or by any landowner in the drainage district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch…

The oath shall be to the effect that he will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State and that he will faithfully perform his duties as member of the election board to the best of his ability. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Notice of the election shall be given by the board by posting notices thereof in at least three public places in each voting district at least 21 days prior to the election, and also by publication for the same length of time in some newspaper of general circulation published in …

The notice shall specify the time and place of holding the election, the aggregate face value of bonds proposed to be issued, and the names of the persons appointed to act as the board of election. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Affidavits of publication and posting of the notices shall be filed with the county elections official of the county in which the notices have been posted or published, together with a copy of the order calling the election certified to by the secretary or assistant secretary of …

Duplicate original affidavits of publication and posting of the notice, shall be filed in the office of the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The construction of all or any part of the San Joaquin Pumping System may be deferred until such time as the department determines that the construction of it is required and is economically justified. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

In case the construction of all or any part of the San Joaquin Pumping System is deferred, the construction of all other units of the project shall be commenced and carried to completion without reference to the construction so deferred. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 370.)