Title WAT, California Water Code

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) “Eligible project” means a project or activity described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 13480 that is all of the following: (1) Necessar…

There is hereby created in the account all of the following subaccounts: (a) The State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount. (b) The Small Communities Grant Subaccount. (c) The Wastewater Construction Grant Subaccount. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 …

The following amounts are hereby transferred from the account to the following subaccounts and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, are hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board, as follows: (a) Thirty million five hundred th…

The sum of thirty-five million five hundred thousand dollars ($35,500,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the Wastewater Construction Grant Subaccount and, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the board, may be used by the board for the purposes of providing grants…

The board may transfer unallocated funds from the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount to the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 13477 for the purposes of meeting federal requirements for state matching funds to provide loans in accordance wi…

The board may adopt regulations to carry out this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)

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 each subaccount created pursuant to this article may be used to pay the costs incurred in connection with the administration of this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7…

Not more than 2 percent of the total amount deposited in each subaccount under this article may be used for the purposes of Section 79124. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)

For the purposes of implementing subdivision (a) of Section 79122, the board may make loans to municipalities, pursuant to contract, to aid in the construction or implementation of eligible projects. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1078, Sec. 6.5. Effective January 1, 2001. Note: Th…

(a) For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 79122, the board may make grants to small communities so that any state grant does not exceed 9712 percent of the eligible cost of necessary studies, planning, design, and construction of the eligible project determined in accordance…

For the purposes of Section 79122.2, the board may make grants for the cost of planning, design, and construction of treatment works necessary to comply with waste discharge requirements. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1078, Sec. 6.9. Effective January 1, 2001. Note: This section w…

Any contract entered into pursuant to this article for a loan or grant 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 subject to both of the following requirements: (a) Municipalities seeking assistance shall demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the board, that an adequate opportunity for public participation regarding th…

Any loan made pursuant to Section 79127 shall meet the requirements of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 13480. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, 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 the purposes of entering into additional loans under this article, and shall not be transferred to the …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, of the continuously appropriated funds described in subdivision (a) of Section 79122, the sum of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) shall be used by the Department of Toxic Substances Control for allocation to local agencie…

The board shall cancel all proceedings taken in connection with the bond issue of the drainage district based upon and secured by Sutter-Butte By-pass assessment number six of the district now authorized but not sold. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The Controller shall request the State Treasurer to transfer and the Treasurer shall immediately transfer, any and all moneys deposited in the Bond Fund or Bond Interest Fund of the assessment from the fund or funds into the Construction Fund of the assessment to be used for the …

Immediately upon the bonds authorized and directed to be canceled by this article being canceled, the board may order that assessment number six shall be paid in semiannual installments equal to not less than 312 per cent of the principal of the assessment for each installment. (…

If a supplementary assessment number six is levied by the board, immediately upon the supplementary assessment number six becoming a lien upon the lands, the board shall rescind and cancel its then existing order and the board may order that thereafter the assessment number six a…

Each of the semiannual installments upon each tract shall be based upon the original principal amount of the assessment on the tract less any deductions theretofore made by reason of any credits made upon the tract pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 556 of the Statutes of 1919…

The board may, by order entered in its minutes, postpone or discontinue from time to time the calling of the semiannual installments or any of them for such periods of time as it deems advisable. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any owner or holder of lands within the boundaries of the drainage district whose lands are subject to the lien of assessment number six or supplemental assessment number six levied in connection with project number six may present to any officer authorized by law to collect such…

Any officer mentioned in the next preceding section shall accept such warrants so presented or tendered in payment of the assessment, or any part thereof, at the face value of the warrant or warrants so presented, plus accrued interest. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All warrants when received by any officer authorized by law to receive them shall be by him transmitted to the Controller who shall give the officer a receipt for the warrants. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date of the tender of the warrants in payment of assessments to the fund upon which the warrants were originally drawn and charge the fu…

Partial payments on any tract in excess of any regular installment amount shall be credited to the payment of the principal amount of the assessment upon that tract thereby reducing the interest that would thereafter accrue upon that tract. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any and all partial payments of principal may, and upon request of the person making payment shall, be credited to the amounts charged against the tract by reason of benefits other than flood control until such charges have been paid in full and thereafter to the amounts charged …

Any person interested in any tract of land sold at a delinquent sale, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, may redeem the tract of land at any time within one year after the date of sale by paying to the county treasurer for the purchaser a sum equal to the purchase p…

If no redemption is made within one year the board upon demand and the surrender of the certificate of purchase and the delivery of a certificate of the county treasurer that no redemption has been made within the year from date of sale, shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs …

The deed shall convey to the grantee therein named the land free and clear of all encumbrances except State, county and municipal taxes, assessments levied or assessed by statutory authority, and the unpaid balance of any assessment made by the drainage district. (Added by Stats.…

Each installment of the encumbrances mentioned in the preceding section may be called and collected as provided by law. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

No parcel sold and conveyed to the drainage district shall thereafter, until redeemed or until sold and disposed of by the board, be subject to sale by the treasurer for delinquent installments of any assessment as provided in this part. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Every deed by the board purporting to be executed under this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein recited and of ownership by the grantee of the lands therein described. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All deeds required by this chapter to be executed by the board may be executed by the president and secretary thereof on behalf of the board. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Any contract or lease made by the department with any person, other than a state agency, providing for the furnishing by the department of water, the use of water, water storage, electric power, or other service for resale shall be subject to cancellation by the department upon f…

The department shall not cancel any contract or lease under the next preceding section unless and until it first determines and assures itself that notwithstanding the cancellation, it will receive and be paid a total revenue or consideration at least equal to that which would be…

As used in this article “recycling criteria” are the levels of constituents of recycled water, and means for assurance of reliability under the design concept which will result in recycled water safe from the standpoint of public health, for the uses to be made. (Amended by Stats…

The State Department of Public Health shall establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 700, Sec. 2. (SB 918) Effective January 1, 2011.)

(a) By December 31, 2016, the state board, in consultation with impacted state agencies, shall determine whether the use of disinfected tertiary treated recycled water, as defined by Section 60301.230 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, for the purpose of providing…

(a) On or before January 1, 2023, the state board shall update the uniform statewide criteria for nonpotable recycled water uses established in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 60301.050) of Division 4 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. The deadline imposed by t…

(a) If the State Department of Public Health or a local health officer finds that a contamination exists as a result of the use of recycled water, the department or local health officer shall order the contamination abated in accordance with the procedure provided for in Chapter …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any person recycling or proposing to recycle water, or using or proposing to use recycled water, within any region for any purpose for which recycling criteria have been established, shall file with the appropriate regional board a repor…

Any person failing to furnish a report under Section 13522.5 when so requested by a regional board is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 918.)

The Attorney General, at the request of the regional board, shall petition the superior court for the issuance of a temporary restraining order, temporary injunction or permanent injunction, or combination thereof, as may be appropriate, requiring any person not complying with Se…