Title WAT, California Water Code

The county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the district assessment on all lands assessed as being in the district using the rates fixed by the district’s board of directors and the assessed value of the lands in the assessment book at the time and in the ma…

The assessment so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and paid into the county treasury. The net amount of the taxes, after the deduction of the county’s compensation for the services of its treasurer, assessor and tax collector shall be paid t…

The compensation paid to the county for assessing or collecting assessments for a district shall be that fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors and the district’s board of directors. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1938.)

Unpaid district assessments are delinquent on the same hour and day that county taxes are delinquent and the lands subject thereto shall either be sold to the district or be declared tax-defaulted in the manner, at the time, and upon the penalties of default of property for nonpa…

Lands sold for delinquent district assessments may be redeemed within five years from date of sale in the same manner as the redemption of property after sale for nonpayment of county taxes. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1346.)

The county auditor shall apportion to the district the money paid for redemption in the manner provided by Division 1, Part 8, Chapter 1(c) of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1938.)

Lands sold to the district remaining unredeemed after five years have elapsed from the date of their sale for delinquent district assessments shall be deeded to the district by the county tax collector. The deed shall be substantially in the form provided for collector’s deeds by…

When any installment has become delinquent, the county treasurer shall, within 10 days, publish a notice in the county once a week for two successive weeks containing all the following: (a) A description of each parcel of land within the county, as described on the assessment lis…

At the time stated in the notice, the county treasurer shall sell each parcel of land described in the notice to the highest bidder, unless prior thereto he shall have received payment in full of the delinquent installment, together with interest and penalty. No bid for any parce…

The sale shall be made for cash, except the treasurer may receive from any purchaser, at their face value in lieu cash, bonds of the district or their interest coupons, issued on the assessment and then matured or to mature within 60 days after the sale. Any bond or coupon receiv…

If no bid is made for any parcel at the sale equal to the amount of the installment delinquent thereon, with interest and penalty, the county treasurer shall bid in and sell the parcel to himself and his successors in office, as trustee of the bond fund of the district, as purcha…

The county treasurer shall execute to each purchaser, including himself as trustee, a certificate of sale, and shall record a duplicate in the county recorder’s office. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, pursuant to the primary interest of the people of the state to put the limited available supplies of water in this state to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and to prevent waste, unreasonable use, or u…

The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) Water furnished or used without any method of determination of the quantities of water used by the person to whom the water is furnished has caused, and will continue to cause, waste and unreasonable use of wate…

The Legislature further finds and declares that waste or unreasonable use of water imposes unnecessary and wasteful consumption of energy to deliver or furnish the water, and it is necessary, therefore, to determine the quantities of water in use throughout the state to the maxim…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the California goal for measurement of water use is the achievement by January 1, 1992, of the installation of water meters on all new water service connections after that date to systems and facilities owned, operated, or under the …

(a) The sum of thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the department, shall be used by the department for loans to local agencies to aid in the acquisition and construction of agricultural water conservation projects, an…

(a) The department may make grants to local agencies, under any terms and conditions that may be determined necessary by the department, for the purpose of financing feasibility studies of projects potentially eligible for a loan under Section 79157. (b) No single feasibility stu…

Any reclamation district that has sold or transferred any of its levees, or other reclamation or flood control works, easements, or property of any kind, to the drainage district, Sutter-Butte By-Pass Project No. 6, or of any other unit or project, and received warrants issued by…

Any person, owning and holding any warrants of a reclamation district may apply to the board of trustees of the reclamation district for an exchange of the warrants. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Upon application made pursuant to the next preceding section the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall make the exchange. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

When any such exchange has been effected, the board of trustees of the reclamation district shall notify the county treasurer of the county in which the land, or the largest portion thereof, is situated, of the exchange. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

After the exchange has been effected, the warrants of the district shall be marked: “Surrendered for warrants of Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.” (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Proper entries of the surrender payment shall be made upon the books of the reclamation district, and also of the county treasurer of the county having the custody of the funds of the reclamation district. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

If the warrants of the drainage district, or any of its units or projects, are at the time of the offer for exchange, in the hands and custody of the county treasurer of the county in which the land of the reclamation district, or of the largest portion thereof, is situated, the …

The department shall determine the form, conditions, and denominations of all bonds and the dates which the bonds shall bear. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

The department and the Treasurer shall determine the interest rate or rates on the bonds. The rate or rates may be fixed or variable and shall not exceed 12 percent per annum, except that the rate on any bond may, on any day, exceed 12 percent per annum if the interest borne by t…

It is not necessary that all bonds of the same authorized issue bear the same interest rate. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 370.)

Principal and interest on bonds shall be payable at such place or places as may be fixed and determined by the department. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

Bonds may contain provisions for registration thereof as to principal only or as to both principal and interest. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 370.)

Bonds may be issued in coupon form with interest payable at such times as determined by the department and shall mature at such times and in such amounts as the department prescribes. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 404, Sec. 1. Effective July 27, 1983.)

The department may provide for the retirement of bonds at any time or times prior to their maturity and in such manner and upon payment of such premiums as may be fixed and determined in the proceedings providing for the issuance of the bonds and referred to therein. (Amended by …

The department may enter into banking, insurance, remarketing, and other financial arrangements as may be necessary or desirable to provide additional security for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds or to provide the holders of the bonds the right to tender bonds …

All bonds shall be signed by the director and countersigned by the Governor. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

The signature of the director and the Governor may be by facsimile. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 411.)

All interest coupons shall bear the facsimile signature of the director. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

In case any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, his signature or countersignature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had…

(a) The fees and expenses established under this chapter and Part 3 (commencing with Section 2000) apply to the United States and to Indian tribes, to the extent authorized under federal or tribal law. (b) If the United States or an Indian tribe declines to pay a fee or expense, …

Any person interested in property sold pursuant to this chapter may redeem it at any time within three years after the date of sale by paying to the county treasurer a sum equal to the purchase price stated in the certificate, with interest thereon at the rate of 12 percent per y…

If no redemption is made within three years, the county treasurer, upon demand and surrender of the certificate of purchase, shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a deed of conveyance of the parcel of land described in the certificate. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 3…

The deed shall convey the land to the grantee free and clear of all encumbrances, except state, county, and municipal taxes, assessments or taxes levied or assessed by or under statutory authority, and any district assessment, or portion thereof, remaining unpaid at the date of t…

No parcel sold and conveyed to the district shall thereafter be subject to sale by the county treasurer for delinquent installments. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Every deed by a county treasurer 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 land therein described. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

Domestic cold water meters shall be in compliance with relevant standards of the American Water Works Association and shall be of the type approved by the Director of Food and Agriculture pursuant to Section 12500.5 of the Business and Professions Code. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch.…

(a) The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) in the account is hereby appropriated to the department, without regard to fiscal years, for use by the department for loans and grants to local agencies for the acquisition and construction of groundwater recharge facilities. (…

(a) The department may make grants to local agencies, under any terms and conditions that may be determined necessary by the department, for the purpose of financing feasibility studies of projects potentially eligible for a loan under Section 79161. (b) No single feasibility stu…