Title WAT, California Water Code

(a) The department shall, and in any obligation entered into pursuant to this division may covenant to, at least annually, and more frequently as required, establish and revise revenue requirements sufficient, together with any moneys deposited into the fund, to provide all of th…

The agency may do all of the following: (a) Acquire water and water rights within or outside the state. (b) Develop, store, and transport water. (c) Provide, deliver, and sell water at wholesale for municipal, domestic, and industrial purposes to any city, county, district, other…

The agency may conduct studies of the water supplies available to its members, and their current and future demand for water. The agency may develop plans for projects and programs that can assist its members to meet those future water needs. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. …

The agency may provide, deliver, and sell water not needed for municipal, domestic, or industrial uses within the boundaries of the agency for beneficial purposes but shall give preference to users within the agency. The supply of surplus water shall in every case be subject to t…

The agency may not sell water to any retail user within the boundaries of the agency. Sales to Stanford University shall not be deemed sales to a retail user. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

Except as provided in Section 81452, the agency may exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner provided by law to acquire any property, within or outside the boundaries of the agency, necessary or convenient to carry out this division. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec.…

The agency is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to the state, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any public corporation, to construct or maintain water-related facilities in, under, or o…

The agency may construct and operate works and facilities in, under, over, across, or along any street or public highway or over any of the lands which are the property of the state to the same extent that those rights and privileges are granted to cities within the state. (Added…

The agency may not acquire by eminent domain, interfere with, or exercise any control over, any water distribution facility owned and operated by any city, city and county, local public entity, or public utility without the consent of, and upon those terms that are mutually agree…

Membership of any public entity in the authority does not affect the identity or legal existence, nor impair the powers, of that public entity. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

San Francisco shall provide the authority with prompt access to any public records requested by the authority unless those records are exempt from disclosure pursuant to a provision listed in Section 7920.505 of the Government Code. San Francisco may not withhold public records f…

If the proceeds of bonds issued by the authority are made available for use on projects described in subdivision (a) of Section 81658, with the agreement and consent of San Francisco as required by subdivision (b) of Section 81658, San Francisco may not, for as long as those bond…

This division does not modify the provisions of the master water sales contract. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The authority shall dissolve upon the repayment of all revenue bonds issued pursuant to this division and the satisfaction of all other debts and obligations of the authority. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

This division shall be liberally construed to carry out its purposes. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

San Francisco shall become a voting member of the authority if the surcharge is imposed on San Francisco’s retail water customers in accordance with subparagraph (B) of paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 81658. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1,…

(a) San Francisco shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on or before September 1 of each year describing the progress made on projects financed by the authority and on the implementation of the capital improvement program for the regional water system. (b…

The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Although the levees of flood control projects in this state have in the past been considered to be single-purpose, flood control features, many of these projects receive heavy nonlocal usage for recreation, transportation, and ot…

It is the intent of the Legislature, in providing for state participation in the additional costs attributable to the non-flood-control activities described in this chapter, that the Reclamation Board and the Department of Water Resources, in preparing rules and regulations to im…

Wherever the words “department or the Reclamation Board” are used together in this chapter, they shall mean the Reclamation Board as to any flood control project levees under its jurisdiction and the Department of Water Resources as to all other flood control project levees. (Add…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is the intention of the Legislature that the state shall pay 50 percent of the costs associated with the operation and maintenance of project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 which are directly a…

Local agencies maintaining project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this chapter if the cost of maintenance is increased by the planting or retention of vegetative cover on such levees, if the…

Local agencies entering into agreements with the state shall annually prepare a work program and estimate of cost for conducting any maintenance activities necessary to carry out the project maintenance and the purposes of this chapter and shall submit the proposed program and co…

Administrative costs incurred by the department or the Reclamation Board under this chapter in any fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the annual cost of the program established by this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 995.)

State expenditures for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per year. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 995.)

(a) The Delta Independent Science Board is hereby established in state government. (1) The Delta Independent Science Board shall consist of no more than 10 members appointed by the council. The term of office for members of the Delta Independent Science Board shall be five years.…