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CA Water Code § 60020 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60020.

60020.  “Operator” means the person or persons operating a water-producing facility; the owner thereof shall be conclusively presumed to be such operator unless satisfactory showing be made to the board of directors of the replenishment district that such water-producing facility actually is operated by some other person or persons. “Operator” shall mean any “person” mentioned in Section 60011 of this act who is operating a water-producing facility, it being the purpose of this act to include any such person within the provisions hereof.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60021 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60021.

60021.  “Producer” means any operator producing ground water.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60022 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60022.

60022.  “Annual overdraft” means the amount, as determined by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during the water year exceeds the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water year by any natural or artificial means other than replenishment under the provisions of Part 6 of this act or by any other governmental agency or entity.(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 585.)
CA Water Code § 60023 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60023.

60023.  “Accumulated overdraft” means the aggregate amount, as determined from time to time by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during all preceding water years shall have exceeded the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water years by any natural or artificial means, the respective determination to be based upon reports, records, and other data or evidence found by such board of directors to be adequate for the purpose of making such determination.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60024 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60024.

60024.  “Principal county” means the county in which the greater portion of the land in a district or a proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county. If the district is situated in only one county then “principal county” shall mean that county.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60025 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60025.

60025.  “Participating county” is any county other than the principal county in which the district or proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60026 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60026.

60026.  “Affected county” means each county in which some land of the district or proposed district is located.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60027 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60027.

60027.  “Replenishment assessment” means any assessment levied pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 60300).(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 389, Sec. 1.)
CA Water Code § 60028 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60028.

60028.  “Contaminant” means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance, or substances, of a concentration which, if contained in water, will cause a significant impairment to a domestic drinking water supply.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 389, Sec. 2.)
CA Water Code § 60029 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Definitions|Section 60029.

60029.  “Existing agency” shall mean any public corporation, agency, district, or political subdivision created prior or subsequent to the formation of a replenishment district under this law and which has any of the same powers as a replenishment district.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60040 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60040.

60040.  Districts, regardless of the date of formation, are subject to the provisions of this division.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60041 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60041.

60041.  The inclusion in or annexation or addition to a replenishment district, of the corporate area of any existing agency, shall not destroy the identity or legal existence or impair the powers of any such existing agency, notwithstanding the identity of purpose, or substantial identity of purpose, of such replenishment district.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60042 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60042.

60042.  Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number of weeks, the notice need be published on only one day of each week, and for only the same number of times as the number of weeks designated.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60043 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60043.

60043.  Whenever any act is required to be done or proceeding taken on or set for a particular day or day of the week in any month, the act may be done or proceeding set for and acted upon on a day of the month otherwise specified for a regular meeting of the board.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 536, Sec. 1.)
CA Water Code § 60044 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60044.

60044.  A district may be organized entirely within unincorporated territory, or partly within unincorporated territory and partly within incorporated territory, and within one or more counties in this State.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60045 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60045.

60045.  No area included within any existing agency or annexations thereto, one of the purposes of which is replenishing the ground water supplies within such existing agency and which agency is empowered to levy assessments or charges upon the production of water from such ground water supplies, shall be included within any replenishment district or annexations thereto created or annexed under this division.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60046 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60046.

60046.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60047 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60047.

60047.  The provisions of this division apply to the replenishment of ground water within all areas in this state, except those areas therein now or hereafter included within the Orange County Water District as provided by the Orange County Water District Act. The Legislature finds and declares that the problems of providing replenishment of the underground basin in the area of the Orange County Water District are peculiar to that area and for that reason it is necessary to deal specially with such area, and that this fact was recognized by the Legislature when it enacted the Orange County Water District Act and the amendments thereto to provide for such problems in that area.(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 389.)
CA Water Code § 60048 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60048.

60048.  No informality in any proceeding or informality in the conduct of any election, not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen, shall be held to invalidate any incorporation, annexation, exclusion, or other action under this act. Any action or proceeding wherein the validity of any such incorporation, annexation, exclusion or disincorporation is denied or questioned, shall be commenced within three (3) months from the date of the certificate of incorporation, annexation or exclusion issued by the Secretary of State, or from the date of the order of the board of supervisors declaring the disincorporation, as the case may be; otherwise, said actions and/or proceedings in respect thereto shall be held to be valid, and in every respect legal and incontestable.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60050 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60050.

60050.  If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this act, or of the act or acts of which this act is amendatory or supplemental, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses or phrases of the act or acts of which this act is amendatory or supplemental, be declared unconstitutional. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this act for any reason be held to be unconstitutional and such unconstitutional provision shall have purported to repeal or amend any provision of the acts or acts of which this act is amendatory or supplemental, the provision existing and in force at the time of the enactment of this act shall remain and be in full force and effect notwithstanding such purported repeal or amendment.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60051 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - General Provisions|Section 60051.

60051.  No language or provision in this division shall be interpreted or construed so as to limit, abridge or otherwise affect the water or water rights of any existing agency or person or affect the rights of existing agencies or persons with respect to any legal proceeding pending on May 1, 1955, wherein any water or water right or the protection thereof is involved; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the provisions of subdivision (7) of Section 60230 of this division.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60060 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 4 - Information by Department|Section 60060.

60060.  The department shall supply information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
CA Water Code § 60061 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 4 - Information by Department|Section 60061.

60061.  Whenever the department deems it in the public interest that preliminary surveys and field investigations of a proposed district project should be made at the expense of the State, the department shall make the surveys and field investigations.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60080 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - Petition for Formation|Section 60080.

60080.  A petition, which may consist of any number of separate instruments, shall be filed with the county elections official of the principal county in which the proposed water replenishment district is located, signed by registered voters residing within the boundaries of the proposed district equal in number to at least 10 percent of the number of the voters residing within the proposed district; provided, that where the proposed district is situated partly in different counties, the petition must be signed by at least 10 percent of the voters of each area situated within each county, and each petition shall clearly designate in which affected county it was circulated, and each petition shall contain names only of the voters of the affected county in which the petition was circulated.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 179. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Water Code § 60081 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - Petition for Formation|Section 60081.

60081.  Such petition shall describe the proposed boundaries of the district, recite the reasons for the proposed formation, pray that the same be organized under this act, and propose a name by which such district shall be known. The persons seeking to organize a district shall include in the petition a statement limiting the annual property tax rate, not to exceed twenty cents ($0.20) for each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation, which may be levied by the board for the purpose of purchasing water for replenishment purposes, and the board shall thereafter be limited to the rate so fixed in the petition for formation, unless a majority of the electors voting at an election held for that purpose later change the rate so fixed in the petition.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60082 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - Petition for Formation|Section 60082.

60082.  If the proposed district is situated in more than one county, the county elections official of the principal county shall immediately transmit to the county elections officials of the participating counties the petitions containing the signatures of the voters of each participating county.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 180. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Water Code § 60083 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 1 - Petition for Formation|Section 60083.

60083.  Within 30 days of the date of filing the petition with the county elections official of the principal county, the county elections officials of the affected counties shall examine the petition and ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters within the county. When the county elections officials of the affected counties have completed their examination of the petition, they shall each attach to the petition their certificates, properly dated, showing the results of the examination, and if from the examination they shall find that the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters residing within the boundaries of that portion of the proposed district within the affected county, or is not so signed, they shall certify the petition as sufficient or insufficient, as the case may be, and the certificates shall forthwith be transmitted to the county elections official of the principal county.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 181. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Water Code § 60095 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60095.

60095.  If the certificates of the county elections officials of each affected county as filed with the county elections official of the principal county show the petition to be sufficient, the county elections official of the principal county shall present the petition, together with the certificates of the county elections officials of the affected counties to the board of supervisors of the principal county.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 182. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Water Code § 60096 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60096.

60096.  Upon presentation of such petition and certificates, the board of supervisors of the principal county shall immediately file a copy of such petition with the department.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
CA Water Code § 60097 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60097.

60097.  Upon filing such petition with the department said department shall set the same for a public hearing within sixty (60) days, said hearing to determine whether or not other lands should be included within the proposed district, or whether some lands which are included should be excluded, and whether the proposed district, as modified by inclusions and exclusions, will be of benefit generally to all persons or property which rely directly or indirectly upon the use of or right to use the ground water supplies within such proposed district.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60098 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60098.

60098.  The department shall publish one copy of said petition, along with names of five of the persons signing such petition, together with a notice of the time, place and purpose of such hearing, and the same shall be published within each affected county pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
CA Water Code § 60099 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60099.

60099.  At said public hearing which may be adjourned from time to time, the department shall hear all evidence relevant to the inclusion of additional lands in or the exclusion of lands from the proposed district, as well as all evidence relevant to the benefits to be derived by the persons or property within said proposed district by a ground water replenishment program.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60100 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60100.

60100.  In the event the department determines that additional land should be included in the proposed district, it shall forthwith set a date for a public hearing to determine whether or not such land should be included. Notice of such hearing shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in each affected county in which the proposed land is to be included, and said notice shall contain time, place and purpose of such hearing, and shall describe the land so proposed to be included in the proposed district. In the event such hearing is held to consider the inclusion of additional land the department shall hear all evidence relevant to the inclusion of such additional land and the benefits to be derived by the persons or property within said land so to be included in the proposed district.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 357.)
CA Water Code § 60101 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60101.

60101.  Within thirty (30) days after concluding all said hearings, but in any event within six (6) months of the filing of said petition with said department, the department shall make its determination of the lands to be included within the proposed district and state whether or not the persons or property within such proposed district will benefit directly or indirectly from the use or right to use the ground water supplies within such proposed district and the replenishment thereof, and this determination shall be filed with the board of supervisors of the principal county.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60102 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 2 - Hearings on Formation|Section 60102.

60102.  If the department determines that the persons or property within the proposed boundaries of the district will not benefit directly or indirectly from the use of or right to use the ground water supply therein and the replenishment thereof, the board of supervisors of the principal county will take no further action, but the petition and report will be filed as a public record without prejudice to the filing of a new petition for organization of a water replenishment district, except that no such new petition shall be filed within six months after any such adverse determination by the department.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)
CA Water Code § 60110 (2021)
2021 California Code|Water Code - WAT|DIVISION 18 - WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICTS|PART 2 - FORMATION|CHAPTER 3 - Calling an Election|Section 60110.

60110.  If the department determines that the persons or property within a proposed district will benefit directly or indirectly from the use of or right to use the ground water supplies therein or the replenishment waters thereof, the board of supervisors of the principal county shall forthwith divide the proposed district into five (5) divisions, according to and based upon the population, as estimated by the board of supervisors of the principal county from the register of voters used at the last general election, in such manner as to equalize, as nearly as practicable, the population in the respective divisions. Such divisions shall be numbered first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and one director, who shall be a resident thereof, shall be elected for each division by the voters thereof, and shall take office as hereinafter provided.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.)