Title WAT, California Water Code

The board may, by contract or otherwise, undertake plans, surveys, research, development, and studies necessary, convenient, or desirable to carry out the purposes of this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)…

Not more than 3 percent of the total amount deposited in the subaccount may be used to pay for both of the following: (a) To pay the costs incurred in connection with the administration of this article. (b) For the purposes of Section 79149.14. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec…

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Seawater Intrusion Control Subaccount. 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. (b) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of …

Unallocated funds remaining in the Seawater Intrusion Control Subaccount in the Clean Water and Water Recycling Account in the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Fund on March 8, 2000, and any funds deposited into that subaccount after that date, shall be transferred to, and all …

The board may enter into contracts to make loans to local agencies for the purposes set forth in this article. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 725, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, election.)

Any contract for a loan entered into pursuant to Section 79149.4 may include those provisions determined by the board to be necessary for the purposes of this article and shall include both of the following provisions: (a) An estimate of the reasonable cost of the eligible seawat…

(a) A contract for a loan may not provide for a moratorium on the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the loan. (b) Any loan made pursuant to Section 79149.4 shall be for a period not to exceed 20 years. (c) The board may enter into a contract for a loan amount that equa…

All money collected from assessments shall be paid out only on warrants issued for works or other expenses covered by the assessment from which the money was derived, to the end that all money raised by assessment upon any of the lands embraced in the drainage district, shall be …

Each warrant shall designate the name and number of the assessment from which it is to be paid. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Drafts of the board may be presented to the Controller and warrants drawn against the funds to be raised by an assessment as soon as the board has passed its order or resolution for the levy of the assessment and appointed the assessors. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

In case there are not sufficient funds applicable thereto for the payment of the warrants when presented to the State Treasurer, he shall indorse on the warrants the date of presentation and register the same, and thereafter the warrants shall bear interest at the rate of 7 per c…

All such warrants shall be considered as contracts in writing for the payment of money, and the period prescribed for the commencement of an action based upon any such warrants, or connected therewith, is four years from the date of the first publication of the notice specifying …

No statute of limitations shall be deemed to have run against any action upon or affecting any warrant drawn against any assessment under this part by reason of the lapse of time during which funds adequate for the payment of the outstanding warrants against the assessment were n…

The warrants shall, at any time within the period of four years, be received in payment of any assessment for work or expenses for which the warrants were issued. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board may, at its option, at any time before payment of any warrant renew it upon application of the owner or holder thereof by an indorsement thereon of the fact and date of the renewal and notice thereof to the State Treasurer and Controller. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.…

Whenever there is sufficient money in the treasury applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants of the drainage district, the State Treasurer shall give notice that there is money in the treasury to pay certain warrants, giving their numbers in the order of their registr…

The notice shall be published for 10 days in one newspaper published in the City of Stockton and one published in the City of Sacramento. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

After the last publication of the notice the warrants therein mentioned cease to bear interest. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board shall designate a paper in each of the cities of Stockton and Sacramento which shall be the official papers of the drainage district for the purpose of the publication. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All warrants of the drainage district when received by the board, Department of Finance, the respective county treasurers or any other officer authorized by law to accept them, for the cancellation or retirement thereof or in payment of assessments, shall be transmitted by the bo…

The Controller upon demand by the board shall cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of the tender of the warrants to the board, department or officer receiving them, to the fund upon which the warrants were originally dra…

The Controller shall notify the State Treasurer of the cancellation and the State Treasurer shall then make the proper entries in his books. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Whenever any warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter has been presented to the State Treasurer and not paid for want of funds and has not been registered by the State Treasurer and bears interest as provided in this chapter, the Contro…

When the State Treasurer pays a warrant he shall, in addition to the amount for which the warrant was drawn, pay the interest accrued thereon as certified to by the Controller. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Whenever any unpaid, outstanding and interest-bearing warrant drawn by the Controller upon the State Treasurer as provided in this chapter is presented to the board by the owner or holder thereof for the purpose of having two or more warrants issued to him in lieu thereof, the bo…

The sum of the substituted warrants shall equal the principal amount of the original warrant. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The Controller shall credit the original warrant to the fund upon which it was originally drawn and shall prepare and issue warrants in accordance with the claim so presented showing thereon that the substituted warrants are issued in lieu of warrant No.____ (giving the warrant n…

When, upon presentation to the State Treasurer, payment can not be made for want of funds the State Treasurer shall register the warrants as of the date of registration of the original warrant and the substituted warrants shall bear interest from the original date of registration…

The Department of Finance may, out of any funds of the State which it is authorized by law to invest, purchase at their face value and invest in any warrants of the drainage district drawn by the Controller as provided in this part and payable out of any assessment levied or to b…

The Department of Finance may exchange any warrants purchased pursuant to the next preceding section for other warrants drawn against the same assessment, and sell all or any part of the warrants so purchased or taken in exchange. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All such exchanges or sales of warrants shall be effected without loss to the State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

All warrants purchased or acquired by exchange by the Department of Finance shall be registered by the State Treasurer, unless already registered. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The warrants shall be payable with interest in their proper order of registration, as provided in this part. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The warrants shall, unless sold or exchanged, be held by the Department of Finance until paid. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Upon payment of the warrants the proceeds thereof shall be returned into the fund out of which the purchase or investment was made. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for nonpotable uses, including, but not limited to, cemeteries, golf courses, parks, highway landscaped areas, and industrial and irrigation uses, is a waste or an unreasonable use of the water w…

(a) A person or public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, shall not use water from any source of quality suitable for potable domestic use for nonpotable uses, including cemeteries, golf cour…

The amendments to Sections 13550 and 13551 of the Water Code made during the first year of the 1991–92 Regular Session are not intended to alter any rights, remedies, or obligations which may exist prior to January 1, 1992, pursuant to, but not limited to, those sections or Chapt…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of residential landscaping is a waste or an unreasonable use of water within the meaning of Section 2 of Article X of the California Constitution if recycled water, for this us…

(a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use of recycled water for irrigation of residential landscaping, if all of the following requirements are met: (1) Recycled w…

(a) (1) On or before July 31, 2009, the state board shall adopt a general permit for landscape irrigation uses of recycled water for which the State Department of Public Health has established uniform statewide recycling criteria pursuant to Section 13521. (2) The state board sha…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for floor trap priming, cooling towers, and air-conditioning devices is a waste or an unreasonable use of water within the meaning of Section 2 of Article X of the California Constitution if recy…

(a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use of recycled water in floor trap priming, cooling towers, and air-conditioning devices, if all of the following requiremen…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the use of potable domestic water for toilet and urinal flushing in structures is a waste or an unreasonable use of water within the meaning of Section 2 of Article X of the California Constitution if recycled water, for these us…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that certain coastal areas of the state have been using sea water to flush toilets and urinals as a means of conserving potable water; that this practice precludes the beneficial reuse of treated wastewater and has had a deleterious e…

(a) Any public agency, including a state agency, city, county, city and county, district, or any other political subdivision of the state, may require the use of recycled water for toilet and urinal flushing in structures, except a mental hospital or other facility operated by a …