California

Water Code

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

• § 52751 — The notice shall state the amount available for the redemption of bonds or refunding bonds and shall specify when and where the proposals will be opened.
• § 52752 — All proposals shall be opened at the office of the county treasurer at an open meeting of the board convened at the time specified in the notice or at some subsequent time to which the meeting is adjo
• § 52753 — Any or all proposals may be rejected by the county treasurer, and shall be rejected by him if requested to do so in writing by a majority of the board.
• § 52754 — If no bids are received, or if the bids accepted are not sufficient to exhaust the money available for the purchase of outstanding bonds or refunding bonds, the county treasurer may, with the written
• § 52755 — No proposal to sell bonds to the district at a price in excess of the par value thereof shall be accepted.
• § 52756 — All bonds purchased with sinking fund moneys shall forthwith be canceled.
• § 52757 — The board may, by resolution adopted prior to the time of issuing any refunding bonds, provide for the call and redemption thereof, in numerical order, or by lot, as prescribed in the resolution, on a
• § 52758 — Notice of redemption of callable refunding bonds shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the principal county.
• § 52759 — The first publication of the notice shall be not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed in the refunding bonds for the redemption.
• § 52760 — Interest on refunding bonds declared to be callable shall cease after the date fixed for redemption if the district has provided funds for the payment of the principal and interest thereof.
• § 528 — Notwithstanding Sections 526 and 527, any water purveyor that becomes an urban water supplier on or after January 1, 2005, shall do both the following: (a) Install water meters on all municipal and in
• § 52850 — When there is an agreement between a district and the United States of America, or any department or agency thereof, which provides for the issuance of refunding bonds of the district aggregating in p
• § 52851 — The money in the reserve fund shall be used to pay the installments of principal and interest of any outstanding bonds secured by the assessment when the amount in the bond fund is insufficient to mee
• § 52852 — If the bond fund contains a sum derived from an assessment securing the bonds to be refunded pursuant to the agreement which is in excess of the amount required to pay all installments of principal an
• § 52853 — The county treasurer shall call such part of the principal of the assessment securing the refunding bonds, not exceeding the amount by which the unpaid principal amount of the assessment exceeds the p
• § 52854 — The call shall be made at the time prescribed by Section 51420 for making the next call for the payment of principal or interest of the bonds after the reserve fund has been depleted.
• § 52855 — The board may direct that the restoration of the reserve fund be effected over a period not exceeding three years next after the reserve fund was depleted, in which case not less than one-third of the
• § 52856 — No call for the purpose of creating a reserve fund shall be made until the United States, or department or agency thereof, has accepted 50 percent or more of the refunding bonds proposed to be issued
• § 52857 — The county treasurer may invest any money in the reserve fund in bonds of the United States or of the State of California, and bonds so purchased and held in the reserve fund may be sold by the county
• § 52858 — Sales of bonds of the United States or of the State of California purchased with reserve fund money shall be made by the county treasurer in sufficient time that the proceeds may be applied to the pur
• § 52859 — The board of a district which has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 52850, may, by resolution, direct that any money on deposit in the county treasury to the credit of any bond fund or bon
• § 52860 — The county treasurer shall forthwith cancel all bonds purchased pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 52859.
• § 52861 — No purchase of bonds shall be made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 52859 unless the unpaid principal amount of the assessment securing such bonds is in excess of the principal amount of outstan
• § 52862 — No funds deposited pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 52859 may be withdrawn except to pay the principal or interests upon any bonds of the district held by Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or
• § 529 — (a) This article addresses a subject matter of statewide concern.
• § 529.5 — On and after January 1, 2010, any urban water supplier that applies for financial assistance from the state for a wastewater treatment project, a water use efficiency project, or a drinking water trea
• § 529.7 — This article does not limit the authority of a water purveyor that promotes conservation through volumetric water pricing, including, but not limited to, an urban water supplier that promotes conserva
• § 530 — 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
• § 53000 — The board may issue warrants drawn on the appropriate funds of the district to pay indebtedness of the district incurred in carrying out the works of reclamation and to raise money in anticipation of
• § 53001 — The board may draw demand warrants or time warrants, subject to the provisions of this part.
• § 53002 — Demand warrants are warrants, drawn for any purpose, which are payable upon demand.
• § 53003 — Time warrants are warrants, based upon an operation and maintenance assessment, payable at a specified future date expressed in the warrant.
• § 53004 — The date of a warrant is the date inserted as such on the face of the warrant.
• § 53020 — Demand warrants may be in substantially the following form: Face No.
• § 53021 — Demand warrants shall be presented to the county treasurer, and, if not paid on presentation, shall be registered and an endorsement of nonpayment made thereon.
• § 53022 — Demand warrants not paid on presentation shall bear interest from date of registration at the rate adopted by the board, pursuant to Section 53300.
• § 53023 — Demand warrants registered for nonpayment shall be paid by the county treasurer either in the order of registration or in the order agreed to, in writing, by all of the holders of the district’s outst
• § 53040 — When the board has filed an operation and maintenance assessment roll in the office of the county treasurer, and has directed an assessment levied against that roll to be paid in annual installments,
• § 53041 — Time warrants may be in substantially the following form: Face No.
• § 53042 — The time warrants which may be issued to mature in any year shall not exceed the amount of the assessment installment payable in such year, and the principal amount of time warrants which is outstandi
• § 53042.5 — Time warrants may be issued for more than the amount set forth in Section 53042 and with a maturity longer than five years, provided that a special election is held pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing w
• § 53043 — No time warrants shall be issued, sold, or disposed of for less than the face amount thereof and accrued interest thereon to date of delivery.
• § 53044 — The proceeds from the issuance and sale of time warrants shall be deposited in the maintenance fund and shall be applicable to the payment of the expenses payable from that fund, or to the payment of
• § 53045 — Time warrants shall be registered with the county treasurer prior to their issuance.
• § 53046 — Time warrants shall be paid upon their due date upon presentation and surrender to the county treasurer.
• § 53047 — If time warrants are not paid by reason of lack of funds, no further registration is required, and they shall continue to bear interest after their due date until paid, reissued, extended or canceled.
• § 53048 — Time warrants which are not paid on their due date because of lack of funds have priority and shall be paid out of the proceeds of the collection of the operation and maintenance assessment against wh
• § 53049 — The county treasurer, upon the request of the board, shall pay all time warrants before the maturity thereof, providing there are sufficient funds, after payment of all outstanding demand warrants, an
• § 53070 — A demand warrant on the maintenance fund pursuant to Section 51546 shall designate that it is so drawn and is to be paid therefrom, and is not required to be in the form specified in Article 2 of this
• § 53071 — A demand warrant drawn on the maintenance fund shall be presented to the county treasurer and, if there is insufficient money in the maintenance fund to pay it, endorsement of that fact shall be made
• § 53072 — A demand warrant unpaid for want of funds at the time of presentation shall be registered by the county treasurer separately from other warrants of the district and shall bear interest from date of re
• § 53073 — A demand warrant issued pursuant to this article, shall be paid only from the maintenance fund, and, when registered, either in the order of its registration or in the order agreed to, in writing, by
• § 53074 — The provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Article 2, Chapter 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of a demand warrant apply to a warrant issued pursuant to this article.
• § 53090 — A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall designate that it shall be paid therefrom, and is not required to be approved by the board of supervisors nor be in the form prescribed by Article 2 of thi
• § 53091 — A warrant drawn on the irrigation fund shall be presented for payment to the county treasurer.
• § 53092 — If there is insufficient money in the irrigation fund to pay a warrant when presented, endorsement of that fact shall be made thereon by the county treasurer, who shall register it separately from oth
• § 53093 — All the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter and Chapter 2, Article 2 of this part relating to the payment or renewal of warrants apply to a warrant drawn on the irrigation fund.
• § 531 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this article.
• § 531.10 — (a) (1) An agricultural water supplier shall submit an annual report to the department that summarizes aggregated farm-gate delivery data, on a monthly or bimonthly basis, using best professional prac
• § 531.15 — Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, state agencies shall carry out the duties described in this article only to the extent that funds are made available for the purposes of implementing th
• § 531.2 — The department, the board, and the State Department of Public Health shall coordinate the collection, management, and use of agricultural and urban water measurement information provided to each agenc
• § 531.20 — To the extent that the provisions of this article conflict with the requirements of Chapter 4800 of the State Administrative Manual, the requirements of that chapter shall control.
• § 531.5 — (a) The board, in collaboration with the department, the authority or its successor agency, and the State Department of Public Health, shall prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by January 1
• § 53200 — The board, at the request of the holder of any warrant, may cancel it and issue two or more warrants in lieu thereof.
• § 53201 — If the canceled warrant has been registered each new warrant shall state that it is issued partly in lieu of a registered warrant, giving the dates of issuance and registration thereof, and upon regis
• § 53202 — New warrants issued pursuant to this article shall be issued for the principal only of the old warrant, but, upon registration, shall bear interest from the date of registration of the canceled warran
• § 53220 — The board shall, on demand of the holder of any demand warrant outstanding one year or more, or any time warrant overdue one year of more, cancel the same and issue a new demand warrant for the face v
• § 53221 — Warrants issued for interest pursuant to this article shall not bear interest.
• § 53222 — Upon drawing an interest warrant the board shall endorse on the reverse of the old warrant the fact that interest has been paid to the date of drawing the interest warrant.
• § 53223 — An interest warrant shall state that it is drawn for interest on warrant No.
• § 53224 — The board shall notify the county treasurer upon drawing an interest warrant, and he shall note on his register of warrants the fact that interest has been paid on the warrant for which the interest w
• § 53225 — A demand warrant not paid or presented for reissuance within four years after its date, or a time warrant not paid within four years after its maturity may, upon the demand of the holder, be extended
• § 53226 — The board and the county treasurer may cancel all warrants which have not been paid or reissued, or which have not been extended one or more times, within four years after the date of demand warrants,
• § 53240 — When the board is convinced by clear and unequivocal proof that a warrant of the district, without bad faith on the part of the holder, has been lost, destroyed, or so mutilated or defaced as to impai
• § 53241 — A holder desiring to have a duplicate warrant issued shall make a written application to the board stating the facts, and shall accompany the application with a deposit of such a sum of money as is re
• § 53242 — The holder of a lost or destroyed warrant shall file, with the application, a bond in double the face value of the lost or destroyed warrant.
• § 53243 — The bond must be approved by the board and conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the district for any claim upon the lost or destroyed warrant.
• § 53244 — The bond of indemnification shall be executed jointly and severally by the holder and a corporate surety approved by the board and duly authorized to do business, and doing business, in the State.
• § 53245 — The holder of a mutilated or defaced warrant shall, at the time of filing the application for a duplicate, deliver the mutilated or defaced warrant to the board for cancellation.
• § 53246 — The board, upon receipt of an application for the replacement of a lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced warrant, shall pass a resolution stating the facts, the filing of the application, the complia
• § 53247 — The duplicate warrant shall be signed by the same officers and issued in all respects as nearly as possible as the original instrument, and shall have all the force, effect and validity of the origina
• § 53300 — The board may provide, by resolution entered in its minutes, such rate of interest upon warrants as it deems reasonable, not to exceed 12 percent per year.
• § 53320 — When there is sufficient money in the hands of the county treasurer applicable to the payment of any outstanding warrants which have not been presented for payment, the county treasurer may give notic
• § 53340 — An action based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant shall be commenced within four years from the date of the warrant, and an action based upon, or connected with, a time warrant shall be commen
• § 53341 — If an action or proceeding based upon, or connected with, a demand warrant is commenced within four years after the date of the warrant, or within four years after the maturity of a time warrant, and
• § 53342 — In any proceeding to compel the board to issue a warrant, if a controversy arises as to the amount that is due to the plaintiff, the court shall determine the same in the manner provided for determini
• § 535 — (a) A water purveyor shall require as a condition of new retail water service on and after January 1, 2008, the installation of separate water meters to measure the volume of water used exclusively fo
• § 53500 — A copy of any proposal for consolidation shall be forwarded to the State Lands Commission prior to the circulation of any petition or the adoption of any resolution making such proposal.
• § 53504 — The State Lands Commission shall assign to the consolidated district the number of the original district containing the largest area of land, and the consolidated district shall thereafter be known by
• § 53508 — This chapter shall apply only to those districts formed to operate without a board.
• § 53660 — Land in compact form, capable of being embraced in a district, and not a part of another district, may be annexed to a district.
• § 537 — (a) The structures in all of the following categories shall be exempt from this article: (1) Low-income housing.
• § 537.1 — (a) Each water purveyor that sells, leases, rents, furnishes, or delivers water service to a newly constructed multiunit residential structure or newly constructed mixed-use residential and commercial
• § 537.2 — (a) A final occupancy permit for a building shall not be denied by a local building official if water submeters or meters have not been installed for each residential unit as required by this chapter
• § 537.3 — (a) This article does not preclude or preempt an ordinance or regulation that regulates the approval of submeter types or the installation, maintenance, reading, billing, or testing of submeters and a
• § 537.4 — It is the intent of the Legislature that this article should not be construed to impose costs on any local government agency, except to the extent that the local government agency is a water purveyor.
• § 537.5 — This article shall become operative on January 1, 2018.
• § 53800 — When a district, by a legislative act changing county boundaries, is transferred wholly from one county to another, the board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, shall e
• § 53801 — The board of supervisors of the county to which the district is transferred, the officers thereof, and the officers of the district shall thereafter perform all acts required to be performed in connec
• § 53802 — The auditor and treasurer of the county to which a district is transferred shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of the county within which the district was previously situated for all of the fu
• § 53803 — After a district is transferred to another county, all assessments shall be collected and paid into the treasury of the county to which the district is transferred.
• § 53804 — When, by any change of county boundaries made by the Legislature of this State, any district is transferred in whole or in part to another county than the one within which it was organized, then as to
• § 53805 — When a district is transferred in whole or in part to another county from that in which it was organized, all proceedings, petitions or orders which should have been recorded in the county to which th
• § 53900 — The following sections of the Political Code are repealed: 3446 3463 3478 3447 3464 3479 3448 3465 3480 3449 3466 3480a 3450 3466a 3480b 3451 3466.
• § 53901 — The following acts are repealed: Yr.
• § 540 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a water district, as defined in Section 20200, may serve as an aggregator to facilitate direct transactions within the boundaries of the district in accorda
• § 550 — (a) The department and the board have discretion to provide advance payments to local agencies for projects that satisfy the following criteria: (1) Have at least one of the following project purposes
• § 55000 — This division shall be known and may be cited as the County Waterworks District Law.
• § 55010 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.
• § 55011 — The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.
• § 55012 — “District” means any county irrigation district or county waterworks district formed pursuant to the County Waterworks District Act or any county waterworks district formed pursuant to this division.
• § 55013 — “Board” means the governing body of a district.
• § 55014 — “County” means the county within which the district or proposed district is located.
• § 55030 — This division shall not affect any other law relating to the same or a similar subject, but is intended to provide an alternative method of procedure governing the subject to which it relates.
• § 55031 — The provisions of this division shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
• § 55100 — Any portion of a county, containing unincorporated territory, or containing the whole or any portion of one or more incorporated cities and contiguous unincorporated territory, and not included in a d
• § 55101 — A district may be formed of two or more parcels of noncontiguous territory within the same county if the board of supervisors determines that the single district may be more efficiently and economical
• § 55102 — A petition for the formation of a district may be presented to the board of supervisors.
• § 55103 — The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors and shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of the freeholders resident within the proposed district, or by not les
• § 55104 — The formation petition shall contain: (a) The name and boundaries of the proposed district to be benefited by the improvement.
• § 55105 — The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the exterior boundaries of the proposed district, with relation to the territory immediately contiguous thereto, and contain a general description of
• § 55106 — There shall also be filed with the petition a good and sufficient undertaking, to be approved by the board of supervisors, in double the amount of the probable cost of forming the district, conditione
• § 55107 — The failure of the petition to contain any of the matters required to be contained therein shall not affect the legality of the organization of the district if it is thereafter organized.
• § 55108 — If the petitioners so desire, the petition may also contain a statement that the taxes provided for in this division shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property.
• § 55109 — Upon the request of 25 or more freeholders, or a majority of the freeholders, if less than 50 in number, needing water service within a given area, the board of supervisors may instruct any county off
• § 55130 — Upon the presentation of a formative petition the board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing thereon, and protests of interested parties, not less than 21 nor more than 30 days after the date o
• § 55131 — The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause notices of the filing and hearing of the petition to be posted in three of the most public places in the district.
• § 55132 — The notice shall be headed “Notice of the formation of __________ County Waterworks District No.
• § 55133 — The clerk shall also cause a notice, similar in substance, to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county in
• § 55134 — The date set for the hearing shall be at least 13 days after the date of the posting and the date of last publication of the notice.
• § 55150 — Any person interested, including any freeholder or qualified voter resident within the proposed district or the owner of any real or personal property located in the proposed district, objecting to th
• § 55151 — The clerk of the board of supervisors shall endorse on each protest the date of its receipt and, at the time appointed for the hearing, shall present to the board all protests filed with him.
• § 55152 — The board shall hear and pass upon the petition and protests at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
• § 55153 — If any of the protests against the formation of the district or against the proposed improvement is sustained, no further proceedings shall be had or taken pursuant to the petition, but a new petition
• § 55154 — If any of the protests are against the extent of the district or against the inclusion of property in the district, the board of supervisors may make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed dis
• § 55155 — The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which will be benefited by the improvement, and any territory which will not, in the
• § 55156 — The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries except after notice of such intention is published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation printe
• § 55157 — Written objections to the proposed modification may be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors by any interested person at or before the time set for hearing the objections.
• § 55158 — The board of supervisors shall hear and pass upon the objections to the proposed modification at the time appointed, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, and its decision thereon shal
• § 55159 — If any objection is sustained, no further proceedings pursuant to the petition shall be taken, but a new petition for the same or a similar purpose may be filed at any time.
• § 55160 — The board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to proceed further with respect to the formation of a district under any of the following circumstances: (a) If no protests to th
• § 55161 — If the board of supervisors determines that the formation petition was signed by all of the owners of the real property in the proposed district and if protests are not made to the formation of the pr
• § 55162 — Notwithstanding anything in this division to the contrary, if the board of supervisors finds that protests have been made, prior to the close of the hearing for the formation of the district, by the o
• § 55180 — Unless the board of supervisors proceeds pursuant to Section 55161, the board of supervisors shall, by ordinance or resolution adopted at a regular or special meeting after having acquired jurisdictio
• § 55181 — The ordinance or resolution calling the special election shall also recite the objects and purposes for which any proposed indebtedness is to be incurred, the estimated cost of the proposed improvemen
• § 55182 — If a statement is made in the formation petition that taxes shall be levied upon the land within the district and upon no other property, the board of supervisors shall recite the statement in any res
• § 55183 — For the purposes of the election, the board of supervisors shall, in the ordinance or resolution, establish one or more precincts within the boundaries of the proposed district, designate a polling pl
• § 55184 — The ordinance or resolution ordering the holding of the election shall, prior to the date set for the election, be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general c
• § 55184.1 — Within five days after the district formation election has been called, the legislative body which has called the election shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the election ca
• § 55184.2 — The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board authorized by the board, or any individual voter or bona fide association of citizens entitled to vote on the district formation proposit
• § 55184.3 — If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed district formation is filed with the election officials within the time prescribed, such election officials shall select on
• § 55184.4 — The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed and mailed to each voter entitled to vote on
• § 55185 — In all particulars not recited in the ordinance or resolution, the election shall be held as provided by law for holding general elections in the county.
• § 55186 — If at the election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the formation of the district and the incurring of the bonded indebtedness, if any is proposed, the board of supervisors shall enter an
• § 55186.5 — The county clerk of the county shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing: (a) The name of the district.
• § 55187 — All acts and proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken by or on behalf of a county waterworks district for the formation of a district or for the annexation to an existing district and for the authori
• § 55200 — A separate petition for the formation of a zone or zones within a proposed district for any of the purposes specified in Section 55650 may be presented to the board of supervisors at the same time and
• § 55201 — The petition for the formation of a zone or zones and the proceedings thereon shall be in conformity with and subject to the provisions of Article 6, Chapter 2, Part 4 of this division, and except as
• § 55202 — The board of supervisors may direct that notice of hearing, hearing, notice of election, or election upon the formation and zone petitions shall be consolidated and combined into one notice of hearing
• § 55203 — The formation of a zone or zones pursuant to this chapter shall in no event be effective for any purpose unless and until the district is established; but the nonformation of a proposed zone or zones
• § 55300 — The powers of the district enumerated in this division shall, except as therein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board.
• § 55301 — The board of supervisors of the county is the governing board of the district unless a board of directors has been appointed under the provisions of this chapter as they existed prior to their repeal
• § 55302 — The board of supervisors of the county may, at any time, dissolve any board of directors governing any district, and thereafter the board of supervisors shall serve as the governing board of the distr
• § 55305 — (a) The board of directors may fix the compensation of its members for their services as directors not to exceed ten dollars ($10) for each meeting attended, not exceeding two meetings in any calendar
• § 55307 — Any board of directors in existence on the effective date of the amendment of this section at the 1967 Regular Session of the Legislature succeeds to and has all the powers conferred upon the board of
• § 55308 — The board of directors shall appoint a clerk who shall perform all of the duties pertaining to the district required to be performed by the clerk of the board of supervisors and such other duties as m
• § 55309 — 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.
• § 55310 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 55301, the Board of Supervisors of Madera County may appoint a board of directors to serve as the governing board of Madera County Waterworks District #2.
• § 55310.2 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 55301, the Board of Directors of the Mendocino County Waterworks District #2 shall be elected.
• § 55311 — When a district is a subsidiary district of a city, the city council may, by resolution, change the name of the district.
• § 55330 — A district may provide for the supplying of the inhabitants of the district with water for irrigation, domestic, industrial, or fire protection purposes, through facilities of the district or other fa
• § 55331 — The district may do all things necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this division.
• § 55332 — The district may appoint or employ and prescribe the authorities and duties of a general manager, auditor, treasurer, and other officers, employees, attorneys, and engineers necessary or convenient fo
• § 55333 — The district may adopt and enforce all rules, regulations and ordinances which may be necessary and proper for: (a) The administration and government of the district.
• § 55333.5 — A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
• § 55334 — Any violation of a regulation or ordinance of a district is a misdemeanor punishable by fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
• § 55335 — A district may acquire and conserve water supplies from any available source, including underground water basins within the same county, imported supplies, streams, waste water and storm water.
• § 55335.5 — A district may construct, maintain, and operate sewage collection and treatment facilities and dispose of the effluent therefrom in any lawful manner and also do all things necessary or proper to acco
• § 55336 — Subject to Section 56133 of the Government Code, a district may sell water to any person, firm, public or private corporation, public agency, or other consumer outside the district when the governing
• § 55337 — A district may construct, maintain, improve, and operate recreational facilities in connection with any dams, reservoirs, or other works owned or controlled by the district.
• § 55338 — (a) The Department of Corrections and the Los Angeles County Waterworks District No.
• § 55339 — A district may contract with any state agency to finance any district improvement if the term of the contract does not exceed 30 years.
• § 55370 — A district may acquire property by purchase, gift, devise, exchange, descent, and eminent domain.
• § 55371 — The board may sell, exchange, or lease any property, or any interest in property, of the district, real or personal, if the board determines that the property is no longer needed for the uses of the d
• § 55371.5 — If the board determines that the property is needed for the uses of another county waterworks district governed by the same board or another public agency with a service area or jurisdictional boundar
• § 55372 — If the board determines the value of the property, or interest in the property, to be of a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less, or is being leased for one year or less, it may be sold, exc
• § 55373 — If the board determines the property, or interest in the property, to have a value of more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or is being leased for more than one year, a notice of time and place of
• § 55374 — Whenever any portion of the territory of a district shall be annexed to, or otherwise included within any one municipal corporation which owns works for supplying its inhabitants with water, the board
• § 55375 — The municipal corporation may use the leased distributing system for the purpose of distributing water directly to individual consumers, with the same power of regulating the service of water, and of
• § 55376 — The board shall, in the lease, reserve the right to use the leased distributing system, for the benefit of that portion of the district not annexed to or included in the municipal corporation, to the
• § 55377 — Any improvement provided for in this division may be located, constructed and maintained in, along, or across any public road or highway, or publicly owned right of way in the county, in such manner a
• § 55378 — The board of supervisors of any county which employs a purchasing agent may authorize the purchasing agent to sell or dispose of any personal property of the district no longer needed for the uses of
• § 55385 — Whenever in the opinion of the governing body of a county waterworks district the public interest and necessity require, it may order the formation of an improvement district for the purpose of constr
• § 55386 — The district shall be formed, the work or improvement done, and the cost thereof assessed and collected in accordance with the provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911.
• § 55400 — For the purposes of this chapter the following terms used in the Improvement Act of 1911 shall mean and include that which this article states each means and includes.
• § 55401 — “City” means and includes county waterworks district.
• § 55402 — “City council” or “legislative body” means and includes the governing body of the county waterworks district.
• § 55403 — “Clerk” means and includes the secretary of the governing body of the county waterworks district.
• § 55404 — “Council chambers” means and includes the place designated by the governing body of the county waterworks district for holding its regular meetings.
• § 55405 — “Treasurer” means and includes the county treasurer.