California

Water Code

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

• § 79567 — The sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) shall be available for appropriation by the Legislature from the fund to the department for grants for canal lining and related projects necessary to re
• § 79568 — (a) The sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) shall be available for appropriation by the Legislature from the fund to the Wildlife Conservation Board for the acquisition, protection, and restora
• § 79570 — The sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available for appropriation by the Legislature from the fund for expenditures and grants for the purpose of protecting coastal watersheds
• § 79571 — Ten percent of the money allocated in each of the categories in Section 79570 shall be used for grants for the acquisition and development of facilities to promote public access to and participation i
• § 79572 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the sum of seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000) is hereby continuously appropriated from the fund to the Wildlife Conservation B
• § 79573 — (a) The purchase price for each acquisition made pursuant to Section 79572 shall not exceed the fair market value of the property as defined in Section 1263.
• § 79575 — Not later than January 1, 2005, and on or before January 1 of each year thereafter, each state agency expending funds pursuant to this division for projects, grants, or loans shall report to the Legis
• § 79580 — Bonds in the total amount of three billion four hundred forty million dollars ($3,440,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Section 79588, or so much ther
• § 79581 — The bonds authorized by this division shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of P
• § 79582 — (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this division, the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water,
• § 79583 — The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this division in order to carry out the actions specified in this division and, if so, t
• § 79584 — There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pay the
• § 79585 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, for purposes of this division, an amount that will equal the total of the following: (a) The s
• § 79586 — For the purposes of carrying out this division, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds that hav
• § 79587 — All money derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to expenditures for bond interest.
• § 79588 — Any bonds issued or sold pursuant to this division may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4
• § 79589 — The people of California hereby find and declare that inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this division are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of
• § 79590 — Pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the cost of bond issuance shall be paid out of the bond proceeds.
• § 79591 — Notwithstanding any other law, ninety-five million dollars ($95,000,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purposes of this division are reallocated for the purposes of, and shall be authorized
• § 79700 — This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
• § 79701 — The people of California find and declare all of the following: (a) Safeguarding California’s supply of clean and safe water for homes, businesses, and farms is an essential responsibility of governme
• § 79702 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this division, as follows: (a) “Acquisition” means obtaining a fee interest or any other int
• § 79703 — An amount that equals not more than 5 percent of the funds allocated for a grant program pursuant to this division may be used to pay the administrative costs of that program.
• § 79704 — Unless otherwise specified, up to 10 percent of funds allocated for each program funded by this division may be expended for planning and monitoring necessary for the successful design, selection, and
• § 79705 — Chapter 3.
• § 79706 — (a) Prior to disbursing grants or loans pursuant to this division, each state agency that receives an appropriation from the funding made available by this division to administer a competitive grant o
• § 79707 — It is the intent of the people that: (a) The investment of public funds pursuant to this division will result in public benefits that address the most critical statewide needs and priorities for publi
• § 79708 — (a) The Department of Finance shall provide for an independent audit of expenditures pursuant to this division.
• § 79708.5 — In addition to the information required pursuant to Section 79708, in order to facilitate oversight of funding and projects, the secretary shall post on the Natural Resources Agency’s Internet Web sit
• § 79709 — (a) Funds expended pursuant to this division for the acquisition of a permanent dedication of water shall be in accordance with Section 1707 where the state board specifies that the water is in additi
• § 79710 — (a) Funds provided by this division shall not be expended to pay the costs of the design, construction, operation, mitigation, or maintenance of Delta conveyance facilities.
• § 79711 — (a) This division does not diminish, impair, or otherwise affect in any manner whatsoever any area of origin, watershed of origin, county of origin, or any other water rights protections, including, b
• § 79712 — (a) Eligible applicants under this division are public agencies, nonprofit organizations, public utilities, federally recognized Indian tribes, state Indian tribes listed on the Native American Herita
• § 79713 — The Legislature may enact legislation necessary to implement programs funded by this division, except as otherwise provided in Section 79760.
• § 79714 — (a) Unless otherwise specified, any state agency that has the statutory authority to implement one or more of the purposes specified in this bond may be eligible for appropriations from the funding ma
• § 79715 — The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this division shall be deposited in the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Fund of 2014, which is hereby created in the State Treas
• § 79716 — Each state agency that receives an appropriation of funding made available by this division shall be responsible for establishing metrics of success and reporting the status of projects and all uses o
• § 79716.5 — Each state agency that receives an appropriation of funding made available by this division shall do the following: (a) Evaluate the outcomes of projects funded by this division.
• § 79720 — The sum of five hundred twenty million dollars ($520,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, for expenditures, grants, and loans for projects that improve wat
• § 79721 — The projects eligible for funding pursuant to this chapter shall help improve water quality for a beneficial use.
• § 79722 — The contaminants that may be addressed with funding pursuant to this chapter may include, but shall not be limited to, nitrates, perchlorate, MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), arsenic, selenium, hex
• § 79723 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79720, two hundred sixty million dollars ($260,000,000) shall be available for deposit in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund
• § 79724 — (a) (1) Of the funds authorized by Section 79720, two hundred sixty million dollars ($260,000,000) shall be available for grants and loans for public water system infrastructure improvements and relat
• § 79725 — (a) For the purposes of awarding funding under this chapter, a local cost share of not less than 50 percent of the total costs of the project shall be required.
• § 79726 — For the purpose of providing the state share needed to leverage federal funds to assist communities in providing safe drinking water, any funds appropriated for the purposes of Section 79724 shall be
• § 79730 — The sum of one billion four hundred ninety-five million dollars ($1,495,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, in accordance with this chapter, for competiti
• § 79731 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79730, the sum of three hundred twenty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($327,500,000) shall be allocated for multibenefit water quality, water supply, an
• § 79732 — (a) In protecting and restoring California rivers, lakes, streams, and watersheds, the purposes of this chapter are to: (1) Protect and increase the economic benefits arising from healthy watersheds,
• § 79733 — Of the funds made available by Section 79730, the sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be administered by the Wildlife Conservation Board for projects that result in enhanced stream
• § 79734 — For restoration and ecosystem protection projects under this chapter, the services of the California Conservation Corps or a local conservation corps certified by the California Conservation Corps sha
• § 79735 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79730, one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for projects to protect and enhance an urban creek,
• § 79736 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79730, four hundred seventy-five million dollars ($475,000,000) shall be available to the Natural Resources Agency to support projects that fulfill the obligations o
• § 79737 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79730, two hundred eighty-five million dollars ($285,000,000) shall be available to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for watershed restoration projects statew
• § 79738 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79730, eighty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($87,500,000) shall be available to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for water quality, ecosystem re
• § 79740 — The sum of eight hundred ten million dollars ($810,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, for expenditures on, and competitive grants and loans to, projects
• § 79741 — In order to improve regional water self-reliance security and adapt to the effects on water supply arising out of climate change, the purposes of this chapter are to: (a) Help water infrastructure sys
• § 79742 — (a) In selecting among proposed projects in a watershed, the scope of the adopted integrated regional water management plan may be considered by the administering state agency, with priority going to
• § 79743 — Subject to the determination of regional priorities in the regional water management group, eligible projects may include, but are not limited to, projects that promote any of the following: (a) Water
• § 79744 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79740, five hundred ten million dollars ($510,000,000) shall be allocated to the hydrologic regions as identified in the California Water Plan in accordance with
• § 79745 — The Department of Water Resources shall expend, either directly or for noncompetitive grants, no less than 10 percent of the funds from the regional allocations specified in Section 79744 for the purp
• § 79746 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79740, the sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) may be used for direct expenditures, and for grants and loans, for the following water conservation
• § 79747 — (a) Of the funds authorized by Section 79740, two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available for grants for multibenefit stormwater management projects.
• § 79748 — In order to receive funding authorized by this chapter to address groundwater quality or supply in an aquifer, the applicant shall demonstrate that a public agency has authority to manage the water re
• § 79750 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 162, the commission may make the determinations, findings, and recommendations required of it by this chapter independent of the views of the director.
• § 79751 — Projects for which the public benefits are eligible for funding under this chapter consist of only the following: (a) Surface storage projects identified in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program Record of Deci
• § 79752 — A project shall not be funded pursuant to this chapter unless it provides measurable improvements to the Delta ecosystem or to the tributaries to the Delta.
• § 79753 — (a) Funds allocated pursuant to this chapter may be expended solely for the following public benefits associated with water storage projects: (1) Ecosystem improvements, including changing the timing
• § 79754 — In consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state board, and the Department of Water Resources, the commission shall develop and adopt, by regulation, methods for quantification and
• § 79755 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), no funds allocated pursuant to this chapter may be allocated for a project before December 15, 2016, and until the commission approves the project based on t
• § 79756 — (a) The public benefit cost share of a project funded pursuant to this chapter, other than a project described in subdivision (c) of Section 79751, shall not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of an
• § 79757 — (a) A project is not eligible for funding under this chapter unless, by January 1, 2022, all of the following conditions are met: (1) All feasibility studies are complete and draft environmental docum
• § 79758 — Surface storage projects funded pursuant to this chapter and described in subdivision (a) of Section 79751 may be made a unit of the Central Valley Project as provided in Section 11290 and may be fina
• § 79759 — (a) The funds allocated for the design, acquisition, and construction of surface storage projects identified in the CALFED Bay-Delta Record of Decision, dated August 28, 2000, pursuant to this chapter
• § 79760 — (a) In approving the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, the people were informed and hereby declare that the provisions of this chapter are necessary, integral, and ess
• § 79765 — The sum of seven hundred twenty-five million dollars ($725,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, for grants or loans for water recycling and advanced treatm
• § 79766 — At least a 50-percent local cost share shall be required for projects funded pursuant to this chapter.
• § 79767 — Projects funded pursuant to this chapter shall be selected on a competitive basis, considering all of the following criteria: (a) Water supply reliability improvement.
• § 79768 — For purposes of this chapter, competitive programs shall be implemented consistent with water recycling programs administered pursuant to Sections 79140 and 79141 or consistent with desalination progr
• § 79770 — Prevention and cleanup of groundwater contamination are critical components of successful groundwater management.
• § 79771 — (a) The sum of nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, for expenditures on, and competitive grants, and loans for, projects
• § 79772 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79771, eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) shall be available for grants for treatment and remediation activities that prevent or reduce the contamination of ground
• § 79772.5 — Notwithstanding any other law, eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purposes of Section 79772 are reallocated to finance the purposes of, and shall be authoriz
• § 79773 — The contaminants that may be addressed with funding pursuant to this chapter may include, but shall not be limited to, nitrates, perchlorate, MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), arsenic, selenium, hex
• § 79774 — (a) A project that receives funding pursuant to this chapter shall be selected by a competitive grant or loan process with added consideration for those projects that leverage private, federal, or loc
• § 79775 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79771, one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be made available for competitive grants for projects that develop and implement groundwater plans and projec
• § 79780 — The sum of three hundred ninety-five million dollars ($395,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to the Department of Water Resources and the Central Valley
• § 79781 — Of the funds authorized by Section 79780, two hundred ninety-five million dollars ($295,000,000) shall be available to reduce the risk of levee failure and flood in the Delta for any of the following:
• § 79785 — (a) Bonds in the total amount of seven billion one hundred twenty million dollars ($7,120,000,000), and any additional bonds authorized, issued, and appropriated in accordance with this division pursu
• § 79786 — The bonds authorized by this division shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of P
• § 79787 — (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the G
• § 79788 — The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized by this division in order to carry out the actions specified in this division and, if so, the amount
• § 79789 — For purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law, “board,” as defined in Section 16722 of the Government Code, means the secretary.
• § 79790 — There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pa
• § 79791 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this division, an amount that will equal the total o
• § 79792 — The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code for the purpose of carrying out
• § 79793 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds that include a bond counsel opinion to the effect that the interest on t
• § 79794 — For the purposes of carrying out this division, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds that hav
• § 79795 — All moneys deposited in the fund that are derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this division shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the Gen
• § 79796 — Pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the cost of bond issuance shall be paid out of the bond proceeds, including premium, if
• § 79797 — The bonds issued and sold pursuant to this division may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code,
• § 79798 — The proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this division are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the California Constitution, and the disbursement of these proceed
• § 8 — Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means.
• § 8000 — The provisions of this chapter are intended to be paramount and controlling as to all matters provided for in, and as to all questions arising out of procedure under, this chapter.
• § 80000 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The furnishing of reliable reasonably priced electric service is essential for the safety, health, and well-being of the people of C
• § 80002 — Nothing in this division shall be construed to reduce or modify any electrical corporation’s obligation to serve.
• § 80002.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature that power acquired by the department under this division shall be sold to all retail end use customers being served by electrical corporations, and may be sold, to
• § 80003 — (a) The development and operation of a program as provided in this division is in all respects for the welfare and the benefit of the people of the state, to protect the public peace, health, and safe
• § 80004 — (a) The powers and responsibilities of the department established under this division are within the scope of the primary duties of the department, but are not governed by the provisions relating to t
• § 8001 — As used in this chapter, “works” includes canals, ditches, levees, dikes, embankments, dams, machinery, and other appropriate or ancillary means of accomplishing the purposes mentioned in this chapter
• § 80010 — As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Bonds” means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued solely for t
• § 80012 — The department shall do those things necessary and authorized under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 80100) to make power available directly or indirectly to electric consumers in California.
• § 80014 — (a) The department and commission may adopt regulations for purposes of this division as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 80016 — All state agencies and other official state organizations, and all persons connected therewith, shall and are hereby authorized to, at the request of the department, give the department reasonable ass
• § 8002 — As used in this chapter, “city” means any city, town, or municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this State.
• § 8003 — As used in this chapter, “city council” includes the legislative body of any city by whatever name it may be designated.
• § 8004 — Every publication required by this chapter shall be made in some newspaper published in the city.
• § 8005 — Except as otherwise specifically provided, if publication is in a daily paper the publication shall appear in at least 10 issues thereof, and if in a weekly paper in at least two issues thereof.
• § 8006 — No publication shall be deemed to have begun until any required preceding publication has been completed.
• § 8007 — A capital improvement project undertaken by a charter city to extend that city’s water, sewer, or storm drain system or similar system to a disadvantaged community in an unincorporated area shall be c
• § 8010 — Any city may, pursuant to this chapter, incur indebtedness and liability, although in excess of the income and revenue provided by it for the current fiscal year, but not so that the aggregate funded
• § 80100 — Upon those terms, limitations, and conditions as it prescribes, the department may contract with any person, local publicly owned electric utility, or other entity for the purchase of power on such te
• § 80102 — (a) Contracts under this division may provide for the assignment thereof on any terms and conditions as the contracts may specify.
• § 80104 — Upon the delivery of power to them, the retail end use customers shall be deemed to have purchased that power from the department.
• § 80106 — (a) The department may contract with the related electrical corporation or its successor in the performance of related service, for the electrical corporation or its successor in the performance of re
• § 80108 — The commission may issue rules regulating the enforcement of the agency function pursuant this division, including collection and payment to the department.
• § 8011 — The works may be situated within or without the territorial limits of the city.
• § 80110 — (a) The department shall retain title to all electricity sold by it to the retail end-use customers.
• § 80112 — All money collected with respect to any power acquired and sold pursuant to this division and the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation dated January 17, 2001, and all money paid directly or indirectly to
• § 80116 — The department may sell any power acquired by the department pursuant to this division to retail end use customers, and to local publicly owned electric utilities, at not more than the department’s ac
• § 8012 — The city council shall have some competent person make general plans and estimates of the cost of the contemplated works.
• § 80120 — The department may fix and establish the procedure and charges for the sale or other disposal of power purchased by the department.
• § 80122 — The department may do any of the following as may be, in the determination of the department, necessary for the purposes of this division: (a) Hire and appoint employees as required, at salary levels
• § 8013 — The general plans and estimates shall, after adoption, be filed in the office of the clerk of the city, and shall be substantially adhered to thereafter in proceedings under this chapter.
• § 80130 — (a) The department may incur indebtedness and issue bonds as evidence thereof, provided that bonds may not be issued in an amount the debt service on which, to the extent payable from the fund, is est
• § 80132 — (a) Bonds may be issued by the department upon authorization by written determination of the director of the department with the approval of the Director of Finance and the State Treasurer.
• § 80134 — (a) The department shall, and in any obligation entered into pursuant to this division may covenant to, at least annually, and more frequently as required, establish and revise revenue requirements su
• § 8014 — After the filing of the general plans and estimates, and by resolution or ordinance of intention passed at a regular meeting by a vote of two-thirds of all its members and approved by the executive of
• § 8015 — The city council, by the same resolution or ordinance, shall determine, if so advised, that the cost of the works will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary income or revenue of the city.
• § 8016 — The resolution or ordinance of intention, shall, after its passage and approval, be published.
• § 8020 — Within one month after the publication of the resolution or ordinance of intention, and by resolution or ordinance passed at a regular meeting by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, and approved
• § 80200 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Department of Water Resources Electric Power Fund.
• § 8021 — The resolution or ordinance calling the special election shall specify the following: (a) The purpose for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred.
• § 8022 — The resolution or ordinance calling the election shall be published.
• § 8023 — The city council shall publish, after the publication of the resolution or ordinance calling the election and prior to the day of holding the special election, a notice of the election, which shall se
• § 8024 — The special election shall be held in the manner provided by law for holding elections in the city.
• § 8025 — The votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting at the special election are necessary to authorize the incurring of any indebtedness or the issuance of any bonds under this chapter.
• § 8026 — If two-thirds of all the votes cast at the special election are in favor of the proposition submitted, the city council may, by ordinance reciting the result of the election, provide for the issuance
• § 80260 — On and after January 1, 2003, the department shall not contract under this division for the purchase of electrical power.
• § 80270 — The California State Auditor’s Office shall conduct a financial and performance audit of the department’s implementation of this division.
• § 8030 — All bonds issued under this chapter shall be serial bonds and of such denominations as the city council determines.
• § 8031 — No bond shall be for less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor for more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• § 8032 — Not less than one-fortieth part of the whole indebtedness evidenced by the whole of the issue of bonds shall be, by the terms of the bonds, made payable each and every year.
• § 8033 — Each bond shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States on a day and at a place designated in the bond, with interest at the rate specified in the bond.
• § 8034 — The interest rate shall not exceed 8 percent per annum, and shall be fixed by the city council.
• § 8035 — The place of payment shall be either at the office of the treasurer of the city, or at some designated bank in San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
• § 8036 — The bonds shall be executed on the part of the city by the mayor or other executive, and the treasurer, and countersigned by the clerk of the city.
• § 8037 — The interest coupons shall be numbered consecutively and signed by the treasurer.
• § 8038 — Any of the bonds may be issued and sold by the city council at not less than its face value.
• § 8039 — The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited in the city treasury to the credit of a designated fund and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects for which the electors hav
• § 80400 — (a) (1) The department shall procure eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources to satisfy the state agency obligations imposed on the State Water Resources Development System, comm
• § 8050 — The city council of every city in or for which any works are constructed for the purposes specified in this chapter, and for which indebtedness has been incurred under the provisions of this chapter m
• § 80500 — Nothing in this division shall be construed to reduce or modify an electrical corporation’s obligation to serve.
• § 80502 — (a) The development and operation of a program as provided in this division is in all respects for the welfare and the benefit of the people of the state, to protect the public peace, health, and safe
• § 80504 — (a) The powers and responsibilities of the department established pursuant to this division are separate from, and not governed by, the provisions relating to the State Water Resources Development Sys
• § 80506 — As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires, all of the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Account” means the Continuation Account created pursuant to Section 3298 o
• § 80508 — (a) The department may prescribe, adopt, and enforce emergency regulations relating to the administration and enforcement of this division.
• § 8051 — All contracts for the works shall be let, in such parcels as the city council determines, to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice inviting sealed proposals has been published.
• § 80510 — All state agencies and other official state organizations, and all persons connected with those agencies and organizations, shall, at the request of the department, give the department assistance or o
• § 8052 — Security or bonds may be required in order to guarantee good faith in bidding and in the performance of contracts, or either, in such amount as the city council determines.
• § 80520 — (a) The department may contract with an electrical corporation or its successor in the performance of related service, as an agent of the department, to provide billing, collection, and other related
• § 80522 — The commission may issue rules regulating the enforcement of the agency functions pursuant this division, including collection and payment to the department.
• § 80524 — (a) (1) The revenue requirement for each year or, with respect to the first year and last year, the pro rata portion of the year, shall be equal to the average annual amount of collections by the depa
• § 80526 — To the extent any moneys are received by an electrical corporation pursuant to Section 80520 in the process of collection, and pending their transfer to the department, those moneys shall be segregate
• § 80528 — (a) The department may do any of the following as may be, in the determination of the department, necessary for the purposes of this division: (1) Engage the services of private parties to render prof
• § 8053 — The city council may reject any or all bids.
• § 8054 — The city council may, by resolution, require the treasurer of the city to give additional bonds for the safe custody and care of public funds derived under this chapter.
• § 80540 — (a) (1) The department may incur indebtedness and issue bonds as evidence thereof solely for purposes of supporting the Wildfire Fund and other related expenses incurred by the department pursuant to
• § 80542 — (a) Bonds may be issued by the department, upon authorization by written determination of the director of the department, with the approval of the Director of Finance and the Treasurer, on terms accep
• § 80544 — (a) If, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 80524, the commission makes a just and reasonable determination with respect to that revenue requirement, the department shall, and in any obligation ent
• § 80544.5 — (a) If, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 80524, the commission makes a just and reasonable determination with respect to that revenue requirement, the department shall, and in any obligation ent
• § 80550 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Department of Water Resources Charge Fund.
• § 8060 — The city council, at the time of fixing the general tax levy, and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, shall levy and collect each year for the term of 40 years, a tax sufficient to pay th
• § 8061 — The taxes required by this chapter to be levied and collected shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as o
• § 80700 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California is a leader in driving the affordable and equitable transition to a clean reliable energy system and economy.
• § 80700.5 — This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the Electricity Supply Strategic Reliability Reserve Program.
• § 80701 — For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply: (a) “California balancing authority” has the same meaning set forth in Section 399.
• § 80710 — (a) The department, in consultation with the commission, shall implement projects, purchases, and contracts to carry out the purposes of Chapter 8.
• § 80711 — The department, in consultation with the commission, shall recover all of the costs it incurs pursuant to this chapter from the Department of Water Resources Electricity Supply Reliability Reserve Fun
• § 80712 — The department may do any of the following as necessary, as determined by the department, for purposes of this division: (a) Engage the services of private parties to render professional and technical
• § 80713 — (a) (1) On and before June 30, 2027, if the Department of Water Resources determines that resources it procured through the Electricity Supply Strategic Reliability Reserve Program were used in a give
• § 80714 — (a) (1) Upon the submission of the report pursuant to subdivision (d) and on and before June 30, 2027, if the Department of Water Resources determines that resources it procured through the Electricit
• § 80720 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Department of Water Resources Electricity Supply Reliability Reserve Fund.
• § 80730 — (a) Beginning on January 31, 2023, and every May 1, August 1, and December 1 annually thereafter, the department shall issue a written report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, detailing the a
• § 80800 — This division does not reduce or modify an electrical corporation’s obligation to serve.
• § 80801 — The commission shall issue orders it determines are necessary to carry out this division.
• § 80802 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California has significantly reduced the emissions of greenhouse gases from its electricity sector by fostering the development of rene
• § 80803 — The development and operation of a central procurement function program by the department, as provided in this division, is in all respects for the welfare and benefit of the people of the state, to p
• § 80804 — This division shall be liberally construed in a manner so as to effectuate its purposes and objectives.
• § 80805 — (a) The powers and responsibilities of the department established pursuant to this division are separate from, and not governed by, the provisions relating to the State Water Resources Development Sys
• § 80806 — The department may adopt regulations for purposes of administering this division.