Title WAT, California Water Code

Any person interested in any land upon which any charge has been assessed, who is aggrieved by the decision of the board approving the assessment, may commence an action against the district in the superior court of the county in which the land or the greater part thereof is situ…

The action shall be commenced within 60 days after the board has approved the assessment and the assessment list for the county has been deposited in the office of the county treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

This action shall have preference over all civil actions in fixing the time of trial. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The polls at each polling place for the election shall be kept open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the day appointed for the election. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

At the close of the polls the board of election shall deliver to the elections official all ballots, voting lists, lists of ballots cast at the election, and all documents and paper used at the election. The county elections official shall do both of the following: (a) Proceed to…

The board shall examine and canvass the certificates received from the boards of election, and shall determine therefrom and declare, and enter in its minutes as the managing body of the drainage district, the total result of the election. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any person interested may within 10 days after the result of the election has been determined and declared by the board, contest the election so far and to such an extent as the contest depends upon the votes or proceedings had in the matter of the election in any county, by brin…

If no contest is commenced within the time mentioned in the next preceding section, the declaration of the result by the board is final and conclusive. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The department is authorized to make state grants to public agencies from moneys available for such purpose. Grants in excess of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for any one project for the purposes authorized by subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 12884.2 may be made by …

Grants in furtherance of a project that involves the development of a new water supply or a project that involves the repair, alteration, or replacement of dam and reservoir facilities which are subject to storage restrictions for dam safety purposes pursuant to Part 1 (commencin…

(a) A person who (1) violates a cease and desist order or cleanup and abatement order hereafter issued, reissued, or amended by a regional board or the state board, or (2) in violation of a waste discharge requirement, waiver condition, certification, or other order or prohibitio…

In determining the amount of civil liability to be imposed pursuant to this chapter, the superior court shall take into consideration the nature, circumstance, extent, and gravity of the violation or violations, whether the discharge is susceptible to cleanup or abatement, the de…

Every district by its board, each year within 15 days after the close of its session as a board of equalization, shall levy an assessment sufficient to raise all of the following: (a) Annual interest on any outstanding bonds of the district except to the extent that provision is …

The date of the sale of assessed property shall not be less than 10 days after the date of the last publication of the notice of sale. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

At the time stated in the notice, or such other time to which the sale may have been postponed, the county treasurer shall sell the property to the highest bidder for lawful money of the United States. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Out of the proceeds of sale, the county treasurer shall deposit the amount due on the property as shown in the notice in the proper fund of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The county treasurer shall pay to the owner of the property any surplus remaining after the deposit to the credit of the district, after first deducting any expense of sale. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board may direct the county treasurer to postpone the sale from time to time, for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days at one time, by a written notice posted at the place of sale. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Except where bonds have been issued upon an assessment, the board of directors may, by resolution filed with the county treasurer of the affected county on or before the time for the sale, order the treasurer to sell all the property to the district for the amount due. Upon recei…

Upon filing of a resolution pursuant to Section 46759.5 or if no bid is made for the property equal to the amount due thereon, the property shall be sold to the district for the amount due. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1086.)

A certificate of sale shall be executed by the county treasurer to the purchaser, and this certificate of sale shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

(a) (1) There is hereby created in the account the Delta Tributary Watershed Subaccount. (2) For the purposes of this article, “subaccount” means the Delta Tributary Watershed Subaccount created by paragraph (1). (3) The sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) is hereby tran…

(a) After providing notice and an opportunity for public comment with regard to an application submitted under Section 78647.6, the board shall approve or disapprove the application, in whole or in part, not later than 120 days after the date of submission of the application. The…

The board may adopt regulations to implement this article. The regulations shall include all of the following: (a) Criteria for the assessment of watershed areas. (b) Procedures for the submission of applications. (c) Procedures for the approval or disapproval of an application s…

Grant recipients shall submit a report on completion of the project to the board indicating whether the purposes of the project have been met. The board shall make the report available to interested federal, state, and local agencies. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Appro…

Not more than 3 percent of the total amount deposited in the subaccount may be used to pay the costs incurred in connection with the administration of this article. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, election.)

(a) The board shall administer a program under which a county, or a joint powers authority in which a county is a participant, may submit an application to the board for an eligible project requesting financial or technical assistance for the purpose of developing a voluntary, in…

(a) “Eligible project” means a watershed rehabilitation project undertaken on lands owned or operated by the federal, state, or a local government, or a private person or entity within the delta tributary watershed. (b) For the purposes of this article, “delta tributary watershed…

An eligible project shall include one or more of the following purposes: (a) A reduction in the presence of contaminants in drinking water by addressing the origins of the contaminants, including, to the maximum extent practicable, the specific activities that affect the drinking…

(a) Every project funded under this article shall comply with state and federal law, regulations, and policies, and shall not degrade the quality of any waters of the state. (b) An application submitted to the board under this article shall include all of the following informatio…

An application submitted to the board under Section 78647.6 shall also include the following information: (a) A delineation of the watershed area or areas critical for project purposes using available hydrogeologic or other pertinent information. If no information is available, t…

The board may approve a grant for an eligible project to develop or implement a project, not to exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000) per project. A grant shall not exceed 50 percent of the administrative costs incurred, or estimated to be incurred, by the applicant in connecti…

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Urban Stream Restoration Subaccount. (b) For the purposes of this article, “subaccount” means the Urban Stream Restoration Subaccount created by subdivision (a). (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at t…

The sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the subaccount for the purposes of implementing this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)

The money in the subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the department, may be used by the department for both of the following: (a) Grants to local agencies and nonprofit organizations for effective, low-cost flood control projects pursuant to Section 7048. (b) Gra…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulations set forth in Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 451.1) of Division 2 of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations that are in effect on March 8, 2000, may be used to carry out this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. …

As used in this article map means a map or maps prepared by the assessors appointed for any assessment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The assessors appointed for any assesssment may prepare or cause to be prepared a map for the whole or any part or parts of the land to be assessed with sufficient detail to indicate thereon and identify the several tracts of land to be separately assessed. (Added by Stats. 1943,…

Each of the separate tracts shall be designated on the map by a distinctive number. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Each of the maps shall be inscribed and designated as “reclamation board assessment map No.____,” giving each map a distinctive number. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any map may consist of any number of sheets attached together and designated as one map. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The map when approved by the board, shall be certified by the secretary of the board as having been so approved. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The approved map shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county wherein the land indicated on the map is situated. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

For the purpose of any assessment levied by the board, the assessment list for any county may, for the description of any tract of land indicated on any map, refer to the map and to the number by which the tract is designated on the map. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any reference to a map and tract is a sufficient description of the tract for the purposes of an assessment list, and for the purposes of the notice of delinquent sale, certificate of sale and deed in pursuance of said sale, and all other proceedings based upon the assesssment. (…

No provision of any other statute of this State relative to the filing or recording of maps in the office of the county recorder shall apply to the maps referred to in this article. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)