California

Water Code

10,139 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 41361 — The inspector is chairman of the election board.
• § 41362 — Any member of the election board may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of an election.
• § 41363 — Before opening the polls, each member of the election board must take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon him by law.
• § 41364 — Unless the board fixes other hours, the polls shall be opened at 6 a.
• § 41365 — The board may, in the notice of election, fix the hours for the opening and closing of the polls; but the polls shall be kept open for not less than six consecutive hours between the hours of 6 a.
• § 41366 — A list shall be kept by the election board containing the names of each voter who has voted and the number of votes cast by each.
• § 41367 — Voting may commence as soon as the polls are opened, may continue during all the time the polls remain opened, and shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of the
• § 41390 — The ballots shall be strung upon a cord or thread by the inspector during the counting in the order in which they are entered upon the tally list by the judges.
• § 41391 — As soon as all votes are counted a certificate shall be drawn upon each of the papers containing the poll lists and tallies, or attached thereto, stating in words and figures at full length the number
• § 41392 — One of the certificates, with the poll list and the tally paper to which it is attached, shall be retained by the inspector and preserved by him at least six months.
• § 41393 — The ballots, together with the other certificate with the poll list and tally paper to which it is attached, shall be: (a) Sealed by the inspector in the presence of the judges and endorsed “Election
• § 41394 — If any voter of the district is of the opinion that the vote of any precinct has not been correctly counted, he may appear on the day appointed for the board to open and canvass the returns, and deman
• § 41395 — No list, tally paper, or certificate returned from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form if it can be satisfactorily understood.
• § 41415 — The board shall meet at its usual place of meeting on the first Monday after each election to canvass the returns.
• § 41416 — If at the time of meeting the returns from each precinct in the district in which the polls were opened have been received, the board shall then and there proceed to canvass the returns.
• § 41417 — The canvass shall be made in public and by opening the returns and ascertaining the vote of the district for each person voted for, and declaring the result.
• § 41440 — The person receiving the highest number of votes for each office to be filled at the election shall be elected.
• § 41441 — The board shall declare elected as director the person having the highest number of votes for that office in each division.
• § 41442 — The secretary shall immediately make out and deliver to the elected persons certificates of election signed by him and authenticated with the seal of the district.
• § 41443 — The secretary shall enter in the records of the board a statement of the result of the election as soon as it is declared.
• § 4150 — The department may make such reasonable regulations to secure distribution of water in accordance with determined rights as may be needed.
• § 4151 — The watermaster shall divide the water of the streams or other sources of supply among the several conduits and reservoirs taking water therefrom and so adjust or close the headgates of conduits and r
• § 4152 — Whenever in pursuance of his duties the watermaster regulates a headgate to a conduit or the controlling works of a reservoir, he may attach to the headgate or controlling works a written notice prope
• § 4153 — The notice is legal notice to all persons interested in the diversion and distribution of the water of the conduit or reservoir.
• § 41550 — If a general election is not held as provided in this part, then upon the filing of a petition with the secretary, signed by the holders of title to more than 15 percent of the total assessed valuatio
• § 41551 — Notice of any special election to be held pursuant to the provisions of this division shall be given by posting notices in three public places in each election precinct in the district for at least 20
• § 41552 — The notice shall specify the time, place, and purpose of the election.
• § 41553 — If, by the ninth day prior to the special election, only one person has been nominated as provided in Section 41555, or no one has been nominated for the office, the board may order that an election n
• § 41554 — No informalities in conducting the special election shall invalidate it, if otherwise fairly conducted.
• § 41555 — Not less than 10 days before the special election, any 10 or more voters in any division of the district may file with the board a petition requesting that the name of a specified person be placed on
• § 4160 — Any person who is injured by the action of any watermaster may apply to the superior court of the county in which the injury takes place, for an injunction.
• § 4161 — Such injunction shall be issued only in case it is shown at the hearing that the watermaster has failed to distribute the water according to the rights as determined by decrees of court, agreements, p
• § 4175 — Every person who wilfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate, waterbox, or measuring device while it is under the control of the wastermaster, or who wilfull
• § 4176 — The possession or use of water when it has been so denied him by the watermaster is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person using it.
• § 4177 — Every person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($5
• § 4178 — A watermaster may arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) and to deliver the person to the sheriff or other competent police of
• § 41900 — Any election held under the provisions of this division may be contested by any holder of title to land liable to assessment.
• § 41901 — The contest shall be brought in the superior court of any affected county and shall be conducted in the manner provided for contests of election by the Elections Code.
• § 41902 — The court shall determine upon the hearing whether the election was fairly conducted and in substantial compliance with the requirements of this division.
• § 41903 — The contest shall be brought within 20 days after the declaration of the result.
• § 41904 — Either party of record has the right to appeal within 30 days from entry of judgment.
• § 41905 — The appeal shall be heard and determined by the Supreme Court within 60 days from the time of the filing of the notice of appeal.
• § 420 — The weather resources management project operator shall keep a record of all operations conducted, showing the equipment, the methods, the types, amounts, times, and places of seeding agents employed,
• § 4200 — The department may incur such expense and make such expenditures as may be necessary to provide for the administration of any service area and the distribution of water therein.
• § 4201 — All of the cost of administration of a service area and the distribution of water therein shall be paid by the owners of the rights to divert or store water within the service area as provided in this
• § 42200 — Upon the organization of a district, the board shall make or cause to be made all examinations, surveys, plans and specifications, and estimates of costs for the acquisition, appropriation, diversion,
• § 42201 — The board may use and adopt all previous estimates, surveys, reports, and other data it may have or acquire.
• § 42202 — The cost of the examinations, surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates is a part of the expense of the project.
• § 42225 — The board may at any time and from time to time segregate and divide the plans, specifications, and estimates of cost into one or more units of construction, and may provide at that time that one or m
• § 42226 — In the event of the division of the project into units of construction, and the specification of one or more units for future construction, the board shall, when it determines upon the construction of
• § 42227 — Upon resolving to construct a unit, the board may amend the plans, specifications, and estimates of costs of the unit by making changes, modifications, and additions.
• § 4225 — The department shall, prior to June 15th of each year, prepare a statement for each service area.
• § 42250 — If the board proposes to acquire property for the purposes or use of the district by purchase or lease, or in any manner other than by condemnation proceedings, that fact shall be stated in its report
• § 42251 — Except where it is proposed to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings, no property belonging to any water corporation which is a public utility shall be acquired by a district, nor shall any proper
• § 42252 — A certified copy of any order of authority made by the Public Utilities Commission shall be made a part of and filed with the report of the board.
• § 4226 — The budget shall include all of the following: (a) Expenses theretofore incurred for the payment of which funds are not available.
• § 4227 — The statement shall also contain an apportionment of the amount of the budget among the owners of the various rights to store or divert within the service area.
• § 42275 — Upon completion of the examination and study of the proposed project by the board, the board shall prepare and file a report with the secretary.
• § 42276 — The report shall set forth in detail all the following: (a) The character and nature of the proposed works.
• § 42279 — If the board determines before preparing and filing its report to segregate and divide the plans, specifications, and estimates into more than one unit of construction, the plans, specifications, and
• § 4228 — In all cases where a water right is owned by two or more persons, they shall pay in proportion to their respective interests in the water right, and, when the extent of the several interests is known
• § 42280 — If the board of any district fails to complete and file its report within 10 years from the date of the filing of the order of the department declaring the district duly organized, the project of the
• § 42290 — The board may by resolution determine that it is likely that the project or unit will benefit only a portion of the district.
• § 42291 — The board shall fix the time and place for any such hearing, and shall cause notice of such hearing, setting forth the purpose, time and place thereof, to be given by publication once a week for two s
• § 42292 — At the time and place fixed for the hearing, or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall proceed with the hearing.
• § 42293 — At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution determine whether the whole or only a portion of the district will be benefited by the project or unit.
• § 42294 — The determination of the board establishing an improvement district shall be final and conclusive.
• § 42295 — After the establishment of an improvement district within a district pursuant to this article: (a) All proceedings with respect to the project or unit for which the improvement district was establishe
• § 42296 — An improvement district shall be governed, and its business shall be conducted, by the board and officers of the district in the name of the improvement district.
• § 42297 — All of the provisions of this part, except Section 42280, all of the provisions of Part 6 (commencing with Section 43000) of this division, all of the provisions of Part 7 (commencing with Section 444
• § 42301 — If the board recommends that the project be abandoned, the board may call a special election to be held in the district for the purpose of determining whether the recommendation of the board shall be
• § 42325 — If a special election is called by the board pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter, the board shall within 30 days after calling the election give notice of the election.
• § 42326 — The notice shall be published once a week for at least three weeks previous to the election in each affected county.
• § 42328 — For the purposes of the special election, the board shall establish a convenient number of election precincts and define their boundaries.
• § 42329 — At the time of calling the election, the board shall in its order designate voting places and appoint three landholders of the district to act as a board of election at each voting place.
• § 42330 — The election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this division relating to general elections, but no particular form of ballot shall be required.
• § 42331 — The qualifications of voters at the election shall be the same as prescribed for the formation election.
• § 42332 — The votes cast at the election shall be canvassed by the board in the same manner as votes cast at the formation election, and the result of the special election shall be declared and entered of recor
• § 42355 — If the canvass of the votes cast at the special election shows more than one-half of all votes cast are “Completion of project—Yes” and also shows that more than one-half of the qualified voters who v
• § 42356 — If completion of the project is not approved at the election, the board may modify the project or propose a new project.
• § 42357 — The order of abandonment shall require all persons having claims against the district or proposed district, except the holders of warrants issued pursuant to the provisions of this division and presen
• § 42358 — Notice of the order requiring presentation of claims stating the time and place shall be published by the board in the county in which the office of the district is located once a week for four succes
• § 42359 — After all warrants issued under the provisions of this division which have been presented for payment and all claims that have been presented and have been allowed and approved by the board have been
• § 42360 — After the filing of the copy of the order the district is dissolved.
• § 42361 — All liens which have attached to land under any provisions of this division are discharged with the filing of the copy of the order, and any undertakings given are annulled.
• § 4251 — One-tenth of the budget for the service area shall be apportioned equally among the respective ownerships of all water rights involved, and except as otherwise provided in this article the remaining n
• § 4252 — In all cases of rights to divert the direct flow of a stream, without storage, for power development or other nonconsumptive use, where the entire flow so diverted, with the exception of reasonable tr
• § 42525 — Within 45 days after the board approves the report, it shall call a district election for the purpose of determining whether the recommendation and report shall be adopted.
• § 42526 — The election shall be noticed, held, and conducted and the result determined and declared in all respects as nearly as possible as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 42325) of Chapter 2 of
• § 4253 — In all cases where rights exist to store or divert water for use for more than one purpose, the amount to be paid by the owner of such rights shall be based upon the total amount of water he is entitl
• § 4254 — In making an apportionment to any owner of the right to store water, 350 acre-feet of storage capacity which the owner is entitled to use shall be considered the equivalent of the right to divert one
• § 42550 — If a majority of all votes cast are “Completion of project—Yes” and also a majority of the qualified voters who voted at the election voted “Completion of project—Yes,” the report and recommendation i
• § 42551 — The board shall carry out the project of the district in accordance with the plans and specifications of the approved and adopted report of the board.
• § 42552 — If completion of the project is not approved at the election, the project is abandoned.
• § 42700 — If any project, whether original, modified, substituted or other, already adopted under this part, remains uncompleted, whether in whole or in part, and any assessment levied under Part 9 (commencing
• § 42701 — The report shall specify what disposition or use shall be made in the new project or otherwise of such parts of the existing project as have been completed and are in process of completion and of such
• § 42702 — Thereafter all proceedings in respect of the new report shall be conducted as set forth in this part for an original report.
• § 42725 — If the vote at either of the elections prescribed in this part is adverse to the report, the proposed project is abandoned.
• § 42726 — If the vote at either of the elections is favorable to the new report, nothing further shall be done toward completion of the former project so modified or eliminated.
• § 42727 — To the extent that the district is indebted or has any outstanding liabilities at the time of adoption of the report, whether contingent or otherwise, the board shall levy, by order from time to time,
• § 42728 — If, after all debts and liabilities have been paid, any funds remain on hand which have been collected under the original assessment or any funds are subsequently collected through redemptions from an
• § 42729 — If for any reason funds are not available to the district to defray all expenses under this article, as estimated by the board to be incurred for the general benefit of the district up to the time tha
• § 4275 — Except as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 4300), the department, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, shall certify, to the auditor and the board of supervisors of each cou
• § 42750 — If the board shall find, by a two-thirds vote of its entire membership, that some project, other than any project (whether original, modified, substituted, or other) already adopted, should be adopted
• § 42751 — Thereafter all proceedings in respect of the additional report shall be conducted as set forth in this part for an original report.
• § 42752 — If for any reason funds are not available to the district to defray all expenses under this chapter as estimated by the board to be incurred for the general benefit of the district up to the time that
• § 4276 — The auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective apportionments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on the current assessment roll.
• § 4277 — The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a watermaster service area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time of levying county taxes, levy on the land within the count
• § 4278 — Apportionments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
• § 4279 — All money raised by such apportionments shall be accounted for separately as to each watermaster service area.
• § 4300 — If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, or is public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the department
• § 43000 — The board may acquire, improve, and operate the necessary works for the storage and distribution of water, and any drainage or reclamation works connected therewith.
• § 43001 — The board may sell, distribute, or otherwise dispose of water and water rights not necessary for the uses and purposes of the district.
• § 43002 — The board may grant to the owner or lessee of a right to the use of any water permission to store the water in any reservoir of the district or to carry it through any conduit of the district.
• § 43003 — The board shall establish equitable rules and regulations for the most economical and efficient distribution and use of water within the district, and pursuant thereto may enter into long-term water s
• § 43003.5 — Upon adoption of rules and regulations, or the adoption of any amendment thereto, a certified copy thereof shall be recorded with the county recorder of each affected county, and until so recorded, no
• § 43004 — In the event that the volume of water under the control of any district is in any season so diminished below normal, by reason of water shortage or otherwise, as to make it probable that all the land
• § 43005 — The board may enter into contracts with any or all interested parties for settlement or determination of any or all water rights on any stream system or on any part thereof which concerns the district
• § 43006 — In addition to levying assessments or fixing tolls and charges under Part 9 (commencing with Section 46000) of this division, and in lieu either in whole or in part of calling such assessments, the bo
• § 43007 — If tolls or charges are levied and collected in order to provide, in whole or in part, for the payment of amounts due under more than one contract, such tolls and charges may be fixed, levied and coll
• § 4301 — Service on such owners may be made personally, or by mail as provided by Section 1013 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• § 4302 — Each such owner shall, on or before the 10th day of December of the year in which the apportionment was made, pay to the department the amount apportioned to such owner.
• § 43025 — The board may provide for the generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy incidental to water storage and distribution.
• § 43026 — The board may sell, distribute, or otherwise dispose of hydroelectric energy not necessary for the uses and purposes of the district.
• § 4303 — If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in case of delinquency, is
• § 4304 — If the owner of the right is a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in case of delinquency, is a lien against any money of the publ
• § 4305 — At any time after 30 days after any payment due under this article becomes delinquent the department may institute in the name of the people of the State an action to compel payment of the charge agai
• § 43150 — The board has all powers and authority necessary to enable it to fully perform the duties imposed upon it by this division.
• § 43151 — The board may enter into any agreement with the United States or with any state, county, district, public corporation, or municipality of any kind, for a purpose appertaining to or beneficial to the p
• § 43152 — The board may: (a) Adopt a seal.
• § 43153 — The board may construct works across or intersecting any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, railway, or conduit in such manner as to afford security for life and property.
• § 43154 — The board shall restore any property altered or damaged when so crossed or intersected to its former state as nearly as may be, or in a manner so as not to have impaired unnecessarily its usefulness.
• § 43155 — Every company whose railroad is intersected or crossed by the works shall unite with the board in forming intersections and crossings, and grant privileges necessary to construct the works.
• § 43156 — If any railroad company and the board, or the owners and controllers of the property to be crossed, cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for the privilege, or the points or the matter of the crossi
• § 43157 — The right of way is hereby given, dedicated, and set apart for the location, construction, and maintenance of works over and through any land which is or may be the property of this State.
• § 43158 — All waters and water rights belonging to this State within the district are given, dedicated, and set apart for the uses and purposes of the district.
• § 43159 — The department and board shall, respectively, cause to be entered in books to be kept for that purpose a complete and connected record of all their acts and transactions.
• § 43160 — The records and all documents, instruments, or other papers filed with the department, commission, or board, or a copy or copies of any thereof certified by the department, commission, or secretary, s
• § 43161 — Whenever it deems it necessary for its own guidance or for the best interests of the district, the board may submit any question or proposition relating to the construction, improvement, or operation
• § 4325 — The procedure set forth in this article for collecting and making available money for watermaster distribution is in lieu of that set forth in the other provisions of this chapter.
• § 4326 — Whenever all the owners of rights to water within any service area, by agreement in writing, shall have organized themselves into an association for the purpose of financing the distribution of the wa
• § 4327 — The statement shall be submitted on or before the first day of September of the year preceding that for which it is made.
• § 4329 — The association shall pay the total amount apportioned to it to the department on or before the first day of December next succeeding the receipt of the statement.
• § 4330 — The department shall deposit the money in the Water Resources Revolving Fund to the credit of the amount of the service area affected.
• § 4331 — The department may refuse to render watermaster service to such service area during any calendar year next succeeding the first day of December of any year during which the association fails to pay th
• § 4334 — All of the provisions of this chapter relating to the expenses of service areas which are not in conflict with this article shall apply to expenses of service areas under this article.
• § 4335 — If, at the time of creation of a service area, all the owners have formed an association by agreement in writing and have filed a certified copy of the agreement as provided in this article, the depar
• § 43500 — The board may acquire by any means any property or interest in property to carry out the district purposes, including any of the following: (a) Property either within or without the boundaries of the
• § 43501 — The board may pay for property and rights with bonds of the district upon such terms and conditions as it deems best.
• § 43502 — No bonds shall be given in payment for property or rights at a valuation less than 90 percent of their face value and accrued interest.
• § 43504 — The board may take conveyances, leases, contracts, or other assurances for all property acquired by it under the provisions of this division in the name of the district, to and for the uses and purpos
• § 43505 — The legal title to all property acquired under the provisions of this division vests in the district immediately.
• § 43506 — The board may hold, use, manage, occupy, and possess property of the district, and may lease property of the district for oil, gas and other mineral development or for agricultural or other purposes i
• § 43507 — The board may determine by resolution entered upon its minutes that any property, real or personal, held by the district is not necessary for the uses and purposes thereof and may sell the same for an
• § 43508 — The rights of way, ditches, canals, flumes, pipelines, dams, water rights, reservoirs, power plants, and transmission lines, and all other property of like character belonging to a district shall not
• § 4351 — Separate accounts shall be established in the fund to the credit of the various service areas now in existence or hereafter created from time to time.
• § 43530 — The board may acquire by condemnation all property it deems necessary for the construction, maintenance, improvement, and operation of the works or the carrying out of the project of the district, exc
• § 43532.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision in this article, the board shall not commence any proceedings in eminent domain with respect to property located outside of a county in which the district is locate
• § 43555 — Where the district has acquired fee title to, or any interest in, land through condemnation proceedings and the board, pursuant to Section 43507, determines that said property or any part thereof or i
• § 43556 — Written notice of sale shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or if there is no such newspaper, then within the county in which the district or any part th
• § 43557 — At the time and place set for the sale the board shall open any bids received in response to the notice, announce such bids, and call for oral bids.
• § 43558 — The owners of contiguous land have a preference for a period of thirty (30) days after the highest bid is announced to purchase at such highest bid price.
• § 43559 — Upon the expiration of the 30-day period any sale and conveyance made pursuant to the board’s award of bid or any sale and conveyance made pursuant to the exercise of a preference by the owner of cont
• § 4357 — The expenditures for the supervision of the distribution of water in any service area shall be paid from that portion or account of the Water Resources Revolving Fund credited on the department’s book
• § 4358 — Any money remaining in the watermaster service area accounts of the Water Resources Revolving Fund at the end of any year shall be available for use the following year for the respective service areas
• § 43700 — A district may commence and maintain any actions and proceedings to carry out its purposes or protect its interests and may defend in any action or proceeding brought against it.
• § 43701 — In all actions or proceedings the board may sue, appear, and defend in person or by attorneys and in the name of the district.
• § 43702 — Service of summons upon a district may be made by serving it upon the secretary or a majority of the directors.
• § 43703 — The costs of any action, proceeding, or contest may be allowed and apportioned between the parties or taxed to the defeated party in the discretion of the court or other tribunal before which it is he
• § 43704 — All findings of fact or conclusions of the department, commission, or board upon all matters shall be conclusive unless the action, proceeding, or contest is instituted within 60 days after the findin
• § 43705 — If two or more actions or contests are pending at the same time in the same court or before the same tribunal for the purpose of contesting or determining the validity of identical or similar acts or
• § 43706 — The court or other tribunal before which any action, proceeding, or contest is brought involving the regularity, legality, validity, or correctness of any proceeding taken or thing done pursuant to an
• § 43707 — In all actions, proceedings, or contests the rules of pleading and practice provided by the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply, insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this divisi
• § 43730 — An action to determine the validity of bonds, assessments, contracts, including contracts with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States, the adoption of a project or the tak
• § 43850 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, no action, proceeding, or contest shall be brought or maintained before any court or other tribunal unless the action, proceeding, or contest is b
• § 4400 — The foregoing provisions of this part shall be applicable to this chapter, so far as adaptable thereto or consistent therewith, and whenever rights to water have been ascertained and determined as spe
• § 44000 — Any district may cooperate and contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States under any laws of the state or the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all ac
• § 44001 — The cooperation and contract may be for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Construction, acquisition, purchase, extension, operation, or maintenance of works for irrigation, drainage, storage,
• § 44002 — Any contract made between a district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States may designate and describe the land which is to be served with water from the waterworks or
• § 44003 — The board may provide by contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States for the delivery and distribution of water for the land of the district under any laws of the
• § 44006 — The board shall perform all acts necessary to carry out the enlarged powers enumerated in this chapter.
• § 4401 — Insofar as the foregoing provisions of this part may not be adaptable to or may be inconsistent with the provisions of any decree of court, the department may conform to the requirements of such decre
• § 4402 — In the event an order or decree of court provides for an allocation among and payment of costs of water distribution by the owners of the rights decreed, the department, in lieu of the procedures prov
• § 4403 — A certified copy of the order or decree shall be recorded in the county or counties wherein the water is diverted or used and a certified copy filed in the office of the department and such recordatio
• § 44030 — If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the payment by the district of periodic service charges, the amount shall be levied from time to time as
• § 44031 — If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the payment by the district of capital charges in periodic installments, the total amount of such charge
• § 44032 — If a contract with the state, the department, any other district, or the United States requires the establishment of a reserve fund for the payment by the district under the contract of periodic servi
• § 4404 — Obligations to pay for the respective allocations of cost set forth in the order or decree may be enforced by the department against the respective owners or their successors by execution or as may be
• § 44055 — In case any contract is made with the United States, bonds of the district may be transferred to or deposited with the United States if so provided by the contract, at not less than their par value, t
• § 44056 — The bonds may: (a) Call for the payment of interest not exceeding 6 percent per year.
• § 44057 — The contract with the United States may call for the payment of the amount, or any part thereof, to be paid by the district to the United States at specified times, in installments, and with interest
• § 44058 — The board may accept, on behalf of the district, appointment of the district as fiscal agent of the United States or authorization of the district by the United States to make collection of money for
• § 44059 — The board as fiscal agent of the United States may do any and all things required by the federal statutes now or hereafter enacted in connection therewith and all things required by any rules or regul
• § 4406 — The total sum thus made available shall be subject to expenditure by the department in performing said work, and any money remaining at the end of any year shall be available for use the following yea
• § 4407 — Any moneys collected or received by the department for or on account of owners of the rights involved may be placed in a special deposit fund and paid out in accordance with the provisions of the orde
• § 44080 — All water which the district has the right to use under any contract with the United States may be distributed and apportioned by the district in accordance with acts of Congress applicable thereto an
• § 44081 — Provision may be made in the contract between the district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States for the refusal of water service to any land which may become delinqu
• § 44082 — As partial consideration for privileges obtained by the district under contract with the United States, any rights of way or rights to water or other property owned or acquired by the district may be
• § 44105 — A contract between the district and the state, the department, any other district, or the United States may provide that the district shall not be dissolved nor shall the boundaries be changed except
• § 44200 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Basin” means the Kern County Groundwater Basin, as defined in Bulletin 118.