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CA Water Code § 8165 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 1 - LOCAL FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Transfer of Storm Drain Improvements, Drainage Improvements, and Drainage Systems to Flood Control Districts|ARTICLE 4 - Cancellation and Refund of Assessments|Section 8165.

8165.  The legislative body of the county or city which conducted the proceedings for the organization of such drainage improvement districts may do all of the following:(a) Order the cancellation of any special assessment district tax levied upon property within such special assessment districts subsequent to the date of transfer and any unpaid installments of specific or direct assessments becoming due or delinquent subsequent to the date of transfer.(b) Refund and adjust all payments made upon such installments becoming due or delinquent subsequent to the date of transfer.(c) Cancel any and all installments of specific or direct assessments levied to retire bonds issued under the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, due or delinquent prior to the date of transfer in any case in which the principal and interest upon such bonds maturing prior to the date of transfer have been paid and the bonds so matured have been canceled and retired.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 138.)
CA Water Code § 8350 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 1 - Adoption of Federal Policy|Section 8350.

8350.  The approval and adoption, by and on behalf of the State of California, of the conditions, plans, construction, and mode of maintenance and operation of works within the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, set forth in Senate Committee Print, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, as authorized and approved by Act of Congress, Public No. 392, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved August 26, 1937, including the holding and saving the United States from damages due to construction works, are continued in effect.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
CA Water Code § 8360 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 2 - Powers and Duties of Department of Water Resources|Section 8360.

8360.  On behalf of the State the department has supervisory powers over the maintenance and operation of the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
CA Water Code § 8361 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 2 - Powers and Duties of Department of Water Resources|Section 8361.

8361.  The department shall maintain and operate on behalf of the state the following units or portions of the works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, and the cost of maintenance and operation shall be defrayed by the state:(a) The east levee of the Sutter Bypass north of Nelson Slough.(b) The levees and channels of the Wadsworth Canal, Willow Slough Channel downstream from the Southern Pacific Railroad from Davis to Woodland except that portion of the north levee thereof lying within Reclamation District No. 2035, Putah Creek downstream from Winters, the intercepting canals draining into them, and all structures incidental thereto.(c) The collecting canals, sumps, pumps, and structures of the drainage system of Project No. 6 east of the Sutter Bypass.(d) The bypass channels of the Butte Slough Bypass, the Sutter Bypass, the Tisdale Bypass, the Yolo Bypass, and the Sacramento Bypass with all cuts, canals, bridges, dams, and other structures and improvements contained therein and in the borrow pits thereof.(e) The levees of the Sacramento Bypass.(f) The channels and overflow channels of the Sacramento River and its tributaries and the major and minor tributaries’ flood control projects as authorized and defined in Sections 12648, 12648.1, and 12656.5.(g) The Knights Landing ridge cut flowage area.(h) The flood relief channels controlled by the Moulton and Colusa Weirs and the training levees thereof.(i) The levee on the left bank of the Sacramento River adjoining Butte Basin, from the Butte Slough outfall gates upstream to a point four miles northerly from the Moulton Weir, after completion.(j) All weirs and flood relief structures.(k) The west levee of the Yolo Bypass, extending from the west end of the Fremont Weir southerly to the Cache Creek Settling Basin and from Willow Slough Channel to Putah Creek and the east levee of the Yolo Bypass from Fremont Weir southerly two miles.(l) The levee on the west bank of Feather River extending a distance of about two miles southerly from the Sutter-Butte Canal headgate.(m) The levees of Cache Creek and the easterly and westerly levees of Cache Creek Settling Basin; excepting the portion of the southerly levee of Cache Creek lying upstream from State Highway Route 7 (U.S. 99W).(n) The flowage area of Western Pacific Intercepting Canal extending northerly for a distance of five miles from Bear River.(o) The levees of Tisdale Bypass from Tisdale Weir 4.5 miles easterly to Sutter Bypass.(p) The flood relief structures or weirs and other structures or facilities essential for their proper functioning in the vicinity of the Sacramento River between Big Chico Creek and the north boundary of Glenn County Levee District No. 3.(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1090, Sec. 1. Effective September 24, 1987.)
CA Water Code § 8362 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 2 - Powers and Duties of Department of Water Resources|Section 8362.

8362.  The department may contribute funds to the United States and expend funds appropriated or otherwise available to provide all lands, easements, and rights of way for bank revetment for the protection of levees above Cache Slough and the levee reconstruction, including the costs of all alterations to highways, road crossings, and drainage and irrigation facilities incident to the work and the State’s contribution of one-third of the costs of bank revetment and levee construction, as provided for and required under the provisions of the Act of Congress, Public No. 392, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved August 26, 1937.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
CA Water Code § 8370 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 3 - Duties and Liabilities of Districts and Public Agencies|Section 8370.

8370.  It is the responsibility, liability and duty of the reclamation districts, levee districts, protection districts, drainage districts, municipalities, and other public agencies within the Sacramento River Flood Control Project limits, to maintain and operate the works of the project within the boundaries or jurisdiction of such agencies, excepting only those works enumerated in Section 8361 and those for which provision for maintenance and operation is made by Federal law.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
CA Water Code § 8371 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 3 - Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project|ARTICLE 3 - Duties and Liabilities of Districts and Public Agencies|Section 8371.

8371.  The department shall, in connection with the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, make inspections and prepare reports which are required because of assurances given to the Secretary of the Army pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 8615) of Chapter 3 of Part 4.(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 454, Sec. 185.)
CA Water Code § 8400 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 1 - Declaration of Policy|Section 8400.

8400.  This chapter may be cited as the Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8401 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 1 - Declaration of Policy|Section 8401.

8401.  The Legislature finds and declares that:(a) A large portion of the state’s land resources is subject to recurrent flooding by overflow of streams and watercourses causing loss of life and property, disruption of commerce, and interruption of transportation and communications, all of which are detrimental to the health, safety, welfare, and property of the people of this state.(b) The public interest necessitates sound development of land use, as land is a limited, valuable, and irreplaceable resource, and the flood plains of this state are a land resource to be developed in a manner which, in conjunction with economically justified structural measures for flood control, will result in (1) prevention of loss of life, and (2) prevention of economic loss caused by excessive flooding.(c) The primary responsibility for planning, adoption, and enforcement of land use regulations to accomplish flood plain management rests with local levels of government.(d) It is the policy of this state to encourage local levels of government to plan land use regulations to accomplish flood plain management and to provide state assistance and guidance therefor as appropriate.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8402 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 2 - Definitions|Section 8402.

8402.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter:(a) “Department” means Department of Water Resources.(b) “Board” means the State Reclamation Board.(c) Wherever the words “department or board” or “department and board” are used together in this chapter they shall mean board as to any area within a project which by law is under the jurisdiction of the State Reclamation Board, and the department in all areas of the state outside these areas.(d) “Public agency” means any city, city and county, county, or district organized, existing, and acting pursuant to the laws of this state.(e) “Design flood” means the selected flood against which protection is provided, or eventually will be provided, by means of flood protective or control works. When a federal survey has been authorized the design flood will be determined by the appropriate federal agency and in all other cases it will be determined by the responsible local agency. It is the basis for design and operation of a particular project after full consideration of flood characteristics, frequencies, and potentials and economic and other practical considerations.(f) “Designated floodway” means the channel of a stream and that portion of the adjoining flood plain required to reasonably provide for the construction of a project for passage of the design flood including the lands necessary for construction of project levees.(g) “Restrictive zone” means the portion of the natural floodway between the limits of the designated floodway and the limits of the flood plain where inundation may occur but where depths and velocities are generally low.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8403 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 3 - Review of Flood Plain Management Plans|Section 8403.

8403.  Prior to the establishment by a public agency of flood plain management regulations, the public agency may request and receive a review by the department or the board of the public agency’s flood plain management plans and shall furnish with the request necessary hydrologic studies, including flood routings or surveys adequate to properly delineate flood plain categories together with such additional supporting data as the department or the board may require.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8404 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 3 - Review of Flood Plain Management Plans|Section 8404.

8404.  Where adequate personnel are not available to a public agency to prepare the necessary flood routing or other engineering data needed for support of its flood plain management plans, the department or board may, upon request of the public agency, make or cause to be made the necessary investigation and provide the data to the requesting public agency for its use in developing such plans. The cost of such investigations shall be borne by the public agency making the request.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8410 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8410.

8410.  Flood plain regulations established to comply with requirements of Section 8411 shall meet the following criteria:(a) Construction of structures in the designated floodway which may endanger life or significantly restrict the carrying capacity of the designated floodway shall be prohibited. For the purpose of this subdivision, the word “structures” does not include public utility electric, gas, or communication lines which may be located within the designated floodway; provided, that any permit or permits as may be required by law, other than this chapter, to so locate such lines have been granted.(b) Developments shall be permitted within the restrictive zone in accordance with local agency policy, giving full consideration to the protection of human life and the carrying capacity of the flood plain.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8410.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8410.5.

8410.5.  All public agencies shall comply with flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411. For the purposes of this section, “public agencies” includes the state or any department or agency thereof.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 410.)
CA Water Code § 8411 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8411.

8411.  Within any area classified “designated floodway” by the department or board after completion of a federal project report the appropriate public agency shall establish the necessary flood plain regulations within one year following notification by the department or board. The state shall not pay any of the cost of lands, easements, and rights-of-way associated with the flood control project as set forth in the project report of the federal agency unless flood plain regulations for the designated floodway are adopted in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1304, Sec. 1.)
CA Water Code § 8412 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8412.

8412.  The department or board shall review the adequacy of flood plain regulations established by a public agency to meet the requirements of Section 8411, and shall notify the appropriate public agency in the event the flood plain regulations are determined by the department or board to be inadequate to comply with the requirements of Section 8411. The department or board may recommend any provisions necessary to provide adequate flood plain regulations. Any such public agency shall within 180 days of receipt of the notice from the department or board, adopt new flood plain regulations. Upon their adoption a copy of such flood plain regulations shall be sent to the department or board.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1304.)
CA Water Code § 8413 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8413.

8413.  Flood plain regulations adopted pursuant to Section 8412 shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the public agency and shall be deemed to meet the requirements of Section 8411 unless the department or board determines that such flood plain regulations are not adequate to comply with the requirements of Section 8411. If the department or board makes such a determination, it shall so report to the public agency and shall recommend such regulations or modifications of the regulations of the agency, which it determines are necessary.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1304.)
CA Water Code § 8414 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8414.

8414.  If a public agency fails to adopt flood plain regulations pursuant to Section 8411, or fails to adopt new flood plain regulations within 180 days of receipt of the department’s or board’s notice pursuant to Section 8412, or fails to adopt or modify such regulations in the manner determined as necessary by the department or board pursuant to Section 8413 within 90 days of receipt of the department’s or board’s notice pursuant to Section 8413, the local flood control agency having jurisdiction over the project area may adopt flood plain regulations for the designated floodway necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 8411. Such flood plain regulations adopted by the local flood control agency shall take effect 30 days from the date of their adoption and shall be enforced by the public agency and have the same force and effect as if adopted as flood plain regulations by the public agency.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1304.)
CA Water Code § 8414.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 4 - Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations|Section 8414.2.

8414.2.  No public agency shall revise flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411 or shall grant a variance from such regulations without the consent of the department or board and of the local flood control agency having jurisdiction over the project area.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1304.)
CA Water Code § 8415 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 2 - STATE FLOOD CONTROL|CHAPTER 4 - Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act|ARTICLE 5 - Administrative Regulations|Section 8415.

8415.  The department and the board, within their respective jurisdictions as provided in this chapter, shall establish general policy and may prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 506.)
CA Water Code § 8520 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8520.

8520.  Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this part of this division of this code.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
CA Water Code § 8521 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8521.

8521.  “Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Any reference to the Reclamation Board in this or any other code means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 366, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2008.)
CA Water Code § 8522 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8522.

8522.  “Drainage district” means the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
CA Water Code § 8522.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8522.3.

8522.3.  “Facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control” has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 5096.805 of the Public Resources Code.(Amended (as added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 366) by Stats. 2009, Ch. 275, Sec. 4. (AB 1165) Effective January 1, 2010.)
CA Water Code § 8522.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8522.5.

8522.5.  “Project levee” has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 5096.805 of the Public Resources Code.(Amended (as added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 366) by Stats. 2009, Ch. 275, Sec. 6. (AB 1165) Effective January 1, 2010.)
CA Water Code § 8523 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 8523.

8523.  “State Plan of Flood Control” has the same meaning as that set forth in subdivision (j) of Section 5096.805 of the Public Resources Code.(Amended (as added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 366) by Stats. 2009, Ch. 275, Sec. 8. (AB 1165) Effective January 1, 2010.)
CA Water Code § 8525 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 8525.

8525.  The report of the California Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States by the Secretary of War on June 27, 1911, as modified by the report of the California Debris Commission, dated January 5, 1925, and as heretofore amended or modified by the board, is approved as a plan for controlling the flood water of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries, for the improvement and preservation of navigation and the reclamation and protection of lands that are susceptible to overflow from the rivers and their tributaries.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)
CA Water Code § 8526 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 5 - FLOOD CONTROL|PART 4 - THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD|CHAPTER 1 - Definitions and General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 8526.

8526.  The board in conjunction with the California Debris Commission shall execute the plan approved by this chapter, and the board may make such modifications and amendments to the plan as are necessary to execute the plan for the purpose stated.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)