Title WAT, California Water Code

“Property” embraces all real and personal property, including water, water rights, works, easements, and rights of way. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Contract” includes agreement, lease, conveyance, and obligation. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Works” includes works to supply water for domestic, industrial, and municipal purposes, irrigation works, drainage works, reclamation works, distributing systems, dams, reservoirs, and canals. (Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1329.)

“Charges” includes tolls and rates. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

“Bonds” includes both general obligation bonds and revenue bonds except as otherwise expressly provided. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number of weeks, the notice need be published on only one day of each week and for only the same number of times as the number of weeks designated. (Add…

During or prior to the hearing of the petition: (a) Any holder of title to land may request the exclusion of any part of his land from the proposed district. (b) Any holder of title to land not within the proposed district but contiguous to any part of it and susceptible to irrig…

At the hearing the board shall hear all relevant evidence in support of or in opposition to the petition, or in support of or in opposition to requests for inclusion of land in or exclusion of land from the proposed district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The hearing may be continued by the board from time to time but shall not be continued after 30 days from the time originally fixed for the hearing, except from day to day, if any petitioner objects to the continuance. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

Following such hearing, the board may terminate the proceeding if it finds that there is good cause for not forming the district. If proceedings are not terminated, the board shall make the determinations, findings, or orders as hereinafter provided. (Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 13…

At the hearing the board shall fix the boundaries of the proposed district if it is shown to the board that the petition conforms to the requirements of this division and that the required notice of the hearing has been given. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board shall exclude any land which it finds will not be benefited by the water service of the proposed district. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 899.)

Upon application of the owner the board may include in the proposed district any land which is susceptible of water service from any source proposed in the petition and will be benefited by the water service if in the judgment of the board the proposed district will have or may o…

After the board has determined the land to be included within the proposed district, it shall make an order doing all of the following: (a) Establishing and describing the exterior boundaries of the proposed district. (b) Describing any land within the boundaries which is to be e…

The order shall be entered in full upon the minutes of the board. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

A finding of the board in favor of the genuineness and sufficiency of the petition and notice is conclusive against all persons except the State in a quo warranto proceeding brought by the Attorney General and commenced before the district has instituted a proceeding to determine…

The board shall elect a president from its members and appoint the secretary. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board shall select and maintain an office for the district, at a fixed place which place need not be within the district. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 2041.)

The board shall hold regular meetings at such time and place as may be agreed upon by resolution. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 2041.)

Special meetings of the board shall be held pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 9 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code). (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 28. Effective January 1, 1993.)

Notwithstanding Section 54954 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, the Board of Directors of the Elsinore Water District may conduct its meetings at the district office, or at any publicly owned location that is within the boundaries, or not more than one mile o…

A majority of the membership of the board shall constitute a quorum of the board for the transaction of business. (Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1323.)

The vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting attended by a quorum is necessary to determine any proposition or resolution presented. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or before January 1, 1964, listing: (a) The name of the district. (b) The date of formation. (c) The county or counties in which the district is loca…

Within 10 days after the hearing on assessment is completed, duplicate copies of each of the following shall be signed by the president and secretary and attached to the last volume of each part of the assessment book: (a) The statement of the assessor showing the total valuation…

Within 10 days after the assessment is completed, the assessor shall do each of the following: (a) Compute and charge in the proper part of the assessment book in a place provided therefor in the record of each parcel of land assessed the assessment due on the parcel. (b) In the …

After each separate part of the assessment book has been filed with the tax collector the assessments listed are due and payable to the tax collector of the district. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

No action to determine the validity of any district assessment or assessment levied thereon shall be maintained unless the action is commenced within 30 days after all separate parts of the assessment book are filed with the tax collector. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 390.)

In case any charges for water or other services, or either, remain unpaid the amount of the unpaid charges may in the discretion of the district be secured at any time by filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county, a certificate specifying the amount of …

The West Plains Water Storage District is, on the effective date of this section, hereby merged into the Westlands Water District. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

The surviving district comprises all land in the water district immediately following the merger plus inclusion, and less exclusions, of land thereafter made pursuant to law. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

The name of the surviving district is Westlands Water District. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

The surviving district is a public agency of the state. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

Upon the merger of the two districts, the water storage district for all purposes ceases to exist, and the offices of its directors and officers are terminated. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

Upon the merger, the directors and officers of the California water district then in office constitute the directors and officers of the surviving district. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 746.)

Upon the merger, the surviving district succeeds to all properties, rights, and contracts of each of the two districts and any funds to which it succeeds may be expended and properly disposed of as provided by law for California water districts generally. (Added by Stats. 1965, C…

Notwithstanding any other law or the bylaws of the district, all elections for the board of directors of the district shall be conducted in accordance with this part. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 350, Sec. 1. (AB 2453) Effective January 1, 2015.)

The composition of the board of directors shall be as follows: (a) There shall be a total of nine directors. A person may only be a candidate for one director. (b) Six of the directors shall be qualified for office by being persons who hold title to land within the district or pe…

District elections shall be conducted in conformance with the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code) and the laws generally applicable to districts created and operated pursuant to this division, provided the fo…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division or the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code), for the purposes of election participation by landowners, the following definitions apply: (a) “Landowner” mean…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

The definition of a word applies to any of its variants. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

“District” means any water storage district formed pursuant to the California Water Storage District Act or this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)

“Include,” except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district, does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)