Title WAT, California Water Code

Any funds derived pursuant to Section 35470 in excess of the amount necessary for operating or maintenance expenses and other lawful district purposes shall be applied by the treasurer upon the payment of interest on general obligation bonds or to create a sinking fund. (Amended …

For the purpose of providing funds to pay revenue bonds and interest when due the board shall fix and collect charges for the sale of water. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon when due shall be fixed by the board before April 1st of each year. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon shall be fixed by the board upon a flat rate per acre or connection or on a metered basis or on a combination of a flat rate and metered basis and shall be sufficient to raise the amount specified on the face of the bonds when…

The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon may include a stand-by or carrying charge notwithstanding the water is not actually used, under such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon may be made payable in advance before service of water is made to the land. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The collection of charges to pay revenue bonds and interest thereon shall be continued each year until all revenue bonds, together with interest thereon, are fully redeemed and paid. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

All revenue bond redemption and interest charges are a first lien on all revenues received from the sale of water unless the district, by a limitation clearly expressed in the ballots used at the election at which the bonds are voted and in all the bonds, limits the charge and li…

The district may elect, if it is using the alternative provisions for levy, collection and enforcement of district assessments by the county as provided in Part 7.5 hereof, to have the county levy and collect standby charges. If the district so elects, it shall certify to the cou…

The county assessor and county auditor shall thereafter add to the tax bills for each assessee and assessee parcel as so certified, in addition to the other charges, the standby charges of the district. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1153.)

The county tax collector and treasurer shall thereupon collect, receive and disburse to the district the standby charges as collected with the regular tax payments to the county. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1153.)

No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or for the tenant’s residential use from any subsequent tenant on account of nonpayment of charges by a previous tenant. The district may, ho…

In the event objections are filed with respect to a particular assessment roll, as provided in Sections 46206 and 46207, the department shall appoint two disinterested persons, who together with the president of the board constitute a board in the nature of a board of equalizatio…

The adjustment board shall at once organize by the election from its members of a president and a secretary and shall appoint times and places not less than 30 days after the assessment rolls have been filed in the records of the board of directors when and where it will meet wit…

Notice of the hearing shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in each affected county. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The adjustment board may postpone the hearings on objections to assessments from time to time. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

At the hearings, the adjustment board shall hear such evidence as may be offered touching the correctness of the assessment, and may modify, amend, or approve the assessment in any particular and may reapportion the whole or any part of it. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

No assessment shall be increased if the holder of title to land affected is known except after personal notice or notice by registered mail given to the holder of title by depositing the notice at least two weeks before the hearing in the postoffice at the place in which the offi…

Any person who cuts, injures, or destroys reclamation works in any district, is responsible for all damages occasioned thereby to such works. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

An action for damages caused by cutting, injuring, or destroying reclamation works may be commenced in the superior court of any county in which the works are situated, in the names of the trustees of the district. If there is no board, the action may be brought in the name of an…

Damages recovered in the action shall be paid to the treasurer of the county in which the action is brought, who shall credit the amount to the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Any district which has issued bonds of different denominations, may, by order entered in its minutes, upon request of holders thereof, and upon the deposit of the outstanding bonds with the board, issue to the holders of the deposited bonds, bonds in the same form but in differen…

Exchange bonds shall be executed by all persons required by law to execute the bonds for which the exchange is made. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

Bonds deposited for exchange shall be canceled by the county treasurer and the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)

The Revenue Bond Law of 1941 is applicable to districts for the purpose of financing the production, transmission and distribution of water for public or private purposes. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 53.)

After the formation of the special improvement district, the board shall call an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters therein the question of incurring the bonded indebtedness, approving the contract, or levying the special assessment for which it was formed, whic…

When a district has not been formed pursuant to Section 74056, and it is proposed that the basis of taxation in the special improvement district shall be changed from land to land and improvements, a statement to that effect shall be contained in the proposition submitted to the …

If a proposition of incurring the bonded indebtedness is approved by two-thirds of the voters voting on such proposition, or if a proposition of approving a contract, of levying a special assessment, or of changing the basis of taxation is approved by a majority of the voters vot…

No informality in any proceeding under this chapter, including the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any person, shall invalidate any such proceedings. Any action wherein the validity of any such proceeding is denied shall be comme…

If a protest against the inclusion of lands, signed by not less than 3 percent of the holders of title or evidence of title to lands within the district who hold the title or evidence of title to not less than 3 percent in value of the lands within the district according to the l…

Upon the adoption of the resolution pursuant to Section 75900, the board shall order that an election be held within the district to determine whether the boundaries shall be changed as mentioned in such resolution; and shall fix the time at which such election shall be held, and…

Before calling the election, the board may require an undertaking from the petitioners for the inclusion of the land, conditioned that the petitioners or the sureties will pay all the costs of holding the election in case the inclusion is denied. (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 517,…

Notice of the election shall be given and published, the election shall be held and conducted, the returns thereof shall be made and canvassed, and the result of the election ascertained and declared, and all things pertaining thereto conducted, in the manner prescribed by Chapte…

The notice of election shall describe the proposed change of the boundaries in such manner and terms that it can readily be traced. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

The ballots cast at the election shall contain the words “For change of boundaries,” or “Against change of boundaries,” or words equivalent thereto. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

If a majority of all the votes cast at the election are against change of the boundaries of the district, the board shall order that the petition for inclusion of lands be denied and shall proceed no further in the matter. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)

If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the change of the boundaries of the district, the board shall order that the boundaries be changed in accordance with the resolution adopted by the board pursuant to Section 75900. The order shall describe the entire…

“Non-navigable streams,” as used in this article, means streams and washes in a county which are not declared by law to be navigable and which are not in fact navigable for commercial purposes. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The board of supervisors may provide for widening, deepening, straightening, removing obstructions from, and otherwise improving non-navigable streams the overflow of which interferes with highways, and for protecting the banks and adjacent lands from overflow of non-navigable st…

The board may make regulations for the use of the streams and the repair and control of the works. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

No regulations of the board nor improvements directed by it to be made shall in any manner interfere with the private rights or privileges of riparian owners, miners, or others. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Whenever, in the opinion of the board of supervisors, the general fund is insufficient to defray the cost of the improvements provided for under this article, the board may levy a tax or contract a bonded indebtedness therefor in the manner provided by Title 3 of the Government C…

The unit designated as Friant Dam consists of a dam, reservoir, and one or more hydroelectric power plants to be located on the San Joaquin River at or near Friant. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 370.)

Friant Dam shall be constructed and used primarily for improvement of navigation, flood control, and storage and stabilization of the water supply of the San Joaquin River, for irrigation and domestic use, and secondarily for the generation of electric power and other beneficial …

The dam shall be built to such height and the power plant or plants shall be of such capacity as the department determines. The reservoir shall have such capacity as the department determines but the capacity shall be not less than 400,000 acre-feet of water. (Amended by Stats. 1…

During the construction of any works of a district to be paid for out of the proceeds of any bond issue, the department shall have access to all plans, specifications, and records of the construction and shall from time to time make any investigations and reports to the board the…