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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 12 - REPEALS › Section 73001.

73001. The repeal effected by this part shall not be construed to deprive any district or person or any other entity of any substantial right which would have existed or hereafter exists had such repeal not been effected.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73500.

73500. This division shall be known as and may be cited as the Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73501.

73501. (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this division.
(b) “Association” means the San Francisco Bay Area Water Users Association.
(c) “Bay area regional water system” means the facilities for the storage, treatment, and transmission of water located in the Counties of Tuolumne, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Mateo, together with three terminal reservoirs in the city.
(d) “Bay area wholesale customers” means the 25 public agencies in the Counties of San Mateo, Alameda, and Santa Clara that purchase water from the city pursuant to the master water sales contract, including the Alameda County Water District, the City of Brisbane, the City of Burlingame, the Coastside County Water District, the City of Daly City, the City of East Palo Alto, the Estero Municipal Improvement District, Guadalupe Valley Municipal Improvement District, City of Hayward, the Town of Hillsborough, the City of Menlo Park, the Mid-Peninsula Water District, the City of Millbrae, the City of Milpitas, the City of Mountain View, the North Coast County Water District, the City of Palo Alto, the Purissima Hills Water District, the City of Redwood City, the City of San Bruno, the City of San Jose, the City of Santa Clara, the Skyline County Water District, the City of Sunnyvale, and the Westborough Water District, Stanford University, the California Water Service Company, and the Cordilleras Mutual Water Association.
(e) “City” means the City and County of San Francisco.
(f) “Master water sales contract” means the agreement entitled “Settlement Agreement and Master Water Sales Contract between the City and County of San Francisco and Certain Suburban Purchasers” entered into in 1984 by the city and the wholesale customers.
(g) “Regional water system” means facilities for the storage, treatment, and transmission of water owned and operated by a regional wholesale water supplier, other than the city.
(h) “Regional wholesale water supplier” means any city, county, or city and county, including the city, that operates a regional water system, and furnishes water on a wholesale basis to local government agencies and public utilities that, in turn, supply water to a combined population of 1.5 million or more residents of geographic areas outside the boundary of the regional wholesale water supplier.
(i) “Wholesale customers” means local government agencies and public utilities, including, but not limited to, the bay area wholesale customers, that purchase water from a regional wholesale water supplier and distribute that water to retail customers in their respective service areas.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 52, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73503.

73503. (a) The city, in consultation with the association and the offices of emergency services in Alameda County, Santa Clara County, and San Mateo County, shall prepare an emergency response plan describing how water service will be restored to the area served by the bay area regional water system after an interruption caused by earthquake or other natural or manmade catastrophe, and thereafter shall be implemented.
(b) During any interruption in supply caused by earthquake, or other natural or manmade catastrophe, a regional wholesale water supplier shall distribute water to customers on an equitable basis, to the extent feasible given physical damage to the regional water system, without preference or discrimination based on a customer’s geographic location within or outside the boundary of the regional wholesale water supplier.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 618, Sec. 302. (AB 2791) Effective January 1, 2011. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73504.

73504. (a) Commencing in 2003, a regional wholesale water supplier shall submit a report to the Legislature and the State Department of Public Health, on or before February 1 of each year, describing the progress made during the previous calendar year on securing supplemental sources of water to augment existing supplies during dry years.
(b) In order to supply adequately, dependably, and safely the requirements of all users of water, the city shall continue its practice of operating the reservoirs in the Counties of Tuolumne and Stanislaus in a manner that ensures that the generation of hydroelectric power will not cause any reasonably anticipated adverse impact on water service. The city shall assign higher priority to delivery of water to the bay area than to the generation of electric power, unless the Secretary of the Interior, in writing, notifies the city that doing so would violate the Raker Act (63 P.L. 41). The city shall make available to the public, on request, its plans of operations (rule curves) for these reservoirs.
(c) The city shall be deemed to be a local public agency for the purposes of Article 4 (commencing with Section 1810) of Chapter 11 of Part 2 of Division 2.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 99, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73505.

73505. The State Department of Health Services shall conduct an audit, or arrange for an audit to be performed by contract, of the city’s program of maintenance of the bay area regional water system prior to July 1, 2004. The audit shall include both of the following:
(a) A review of the adequacy of the city’s procedures and resources for all of the following:
(1) Identifying needed maintenance.
(2) Planning, budgeting, scheduling, and completing maintenance.
(3) Recordkeeping of maintenance activities.
(b) A field investigation of the major facilities of the bay area regional water system to determine the general condition of those facilities and the adequacy of existing maintenance efforts.
(c) The State Department of Health Services shall submit a report to the city, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and the Seismic Safety Commission on its findings and recommendations based on the audit on or before January 1, 2005.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73506.

73506. The State Department of Health Services shall conduct an audit of the regional water systems operated by all regional wholesale water suppliers, other than the city, subject to this division and shall submit to the Legislature a report thereon on or before February 1, 2006.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73508.

73508. If the city and the bay area wholesale customers that are public agencies form a special district with authority and responsibility to own, operate, and manage the bay area regional water system and whose governing board’s composition reflects the proportionate use of water delivered by the bay area regional water system within the city and within the aggregate geographic area served by the bay area wholesale customers, the obligations imposed on the city by this division shall be applicable to that district. The city shall be relieved of all obligations under this division at the time the ownership and control of the bay area regional water system are transferred to that district.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73510.

73510. Notwithstanding Section 116500 of the Health and Safety Code, the State Department of Public Health shall ensure that the bay area regional water system is operated in compliance with the California Safe Drinking Water Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116275) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code) and the guidelines established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the purposes of administering the comparable provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300f et seq.).
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 99, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2009. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73511.

73511. A special district composed of some or all of the bay area wholesale customers may receive state funds for the purpose of protecting the bay area regional water system against seismic risk, without regard to whether the city is a member of that district.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73512.

73512. A regional wholesale water supplier shall reimburse the state for all costs incurred by the State Department of Public Health or the Seismic Safety Commission in carrying out the duties imposed by this division. The bay area wholesale customers shall reimburse the city for their share of those costs as provided in the master water sales contract. The wholesale customers of regional wholesale water suppliers other than the city are responsible for reimbursing the regional wholesale water supplier for their proportionate share of those costs, through the imposition of water charges.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 99, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2009. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73513.

73513. Nothing in this division affects the rights and obligations of the city, the Modesto Irrigation District, or the Turlock Irrigation District, as between themselves, whether arising from statute or contract.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73513.5.

73513.5. Nothing in this division changes the governance, control, or ownership of the bay area regional water system.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 841, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 73514.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20.5 - WHOLESALE REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY ACT › Section 73514.

73514. This division shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2026, deletes or extends that date.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 214, Sec. 2. (SB 699) Effective January 1, 2020. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, by its own provisions. Note: Repeal affects Division 20.5, commencing with Section 73500.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 74012.

74012. “District” means a water conservation district formed pursuant to the Conservation Act of California (Chapter 332, Statutes of 1919), the Water Conservation Act of 1929 (Chapter 166, Statutes of 1929), the Water Conservation Act of 1931 (Chapter 1020, Statutes of 1931), or this division.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 74014.

74014. “Principal county” means the county in which the lands within a district or a proposed district, or the greater portion thereof, are situated, and is the county in which the petition for the formation of a district is filed.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 1 - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 2 - Definitions › Section 74019.

74019. “General district election” means the election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year, after the organization of the district, at which directors for the district shall be elected to fill the offices of the directors whose terms of office shall then expire, in accordance with the provisions of this division and the Uniform District Election Law. The election shall be called and conducted and the results canvassed, returned, and declared pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform District Election Law.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 74030.

74030. A district may be organized and established by the board of supervisors of any county in this state, as expressly provided in this part, when the conditions stated in this part are found to exist, and may exercise the powers expressly granted in this division, or necessarily implied.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 74031.

74031. A district may be organized upon petition by the qualified electors in an area comprising the whole or a part or parts of one or more watersheds of any stream or streams of water or unnavigable river or rivers, or territory adjacent to such watershed or watersheds, or deriving such area’s water supply, in whole or in part, from such stream or streams, or river or rivers, or the subterranean supply of waters therefrom, for the conservation of the waters of such stream or streams or unnavigable river or rivers.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 74032.

74032. A district may be entirely within unincorporated territory or partly within unincorporated and partly within incorporated territory, and may be within one or more counties.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74050.

74050. A petition for the formation of a district, signed by at least 20 percent or 500 of the qualified electors within the proposed district, shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the principal county. The petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74051.

74051. Any elector residing within the proposed district, whose name appears on the register of voters of the last general election, or on the register of voters at any time within 30 days preceding the presentation of a petition for the formation of a district, shall be deemed to be a qualified elector of the proposed district eligible to sign the petition.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74052.

74052. The petition shall set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of the district, shall pray that the district be organized under the provisions of this division, and shall propose a name by which the district shall be known. The petition shall also request the board of supervisors, upon its definition and establishment of the proposed boundaries of the district, to divide the district into either three, five, or seven divisions.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74053.

74053. The petition shall be published once a week for at least three weeks before the presentation to the board of supervisors in some newspaper printed and published in the principal county, together with a notice stating the date of the meeting of the board at which the petition will be presented.
If any portion of the proposed district lies within another county, or counties, the petition and notice shall be likewise published in a newspaper printed and published in each of such counties.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74054.

74054. The petition may consist of any number of separate instruments, and, when contained upon more than one instrument, one copy only of the petition need be published, but the names of all the petitioners shall be published the same as if appended to the original petition.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74055.

74055. All copies of the petition filed prior to the hearing of the petition shall be considered by the board of supervisors the same as though filed with the petition first placed on file.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 2 - Formation Petition › Section 74056.

74056. The petition may include a statement that all bonds of the district and all bonds of any improvement district created therein shall be payable from assessments to be levied upon all real property in the proposed district or in the improvement district created therein. If such a statement is included in the petition, the notice of hearing of the petition and the notice of election for the formation of the district shall so state, and, if the district is formed, all bonds thereafter issued by the district and all bonds of any improvement district organized therein shall be payable from assessments levied upon all real property in district or improvement district, as the case may be, and such real property shall be liable to be taxed for the payment of principal and interest of such bonded indebtedness until the bonds are fully paid. Any such assessment shall be levied in the manner provided in this division.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74070.

74070. When a formation petition is presented, the board of supervisors shall hear it, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time. If any hearing or continued hearing is continued to a time more than 60 days from the date of the order making the continuance, a notice of the continued hearing shall be published in some newspaper or newspapers printed and published in each of the counties in which any portion of the proposed district lies once a week for at least two weeks immediately prior to the time appointed for the continued hearing.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74071.

74071. On the final hearing the board of supervisors shall make such changes in the proposed boundaries as may be deemed advisable, and shall define and establish such boundaries. The board of supervisors shall not modify such boundaries so as to exclude from the proposed district any territory which would be benefited by the formation of the district; nor shall any land be included within the proposed district which will not, in the judgment of the board, be benefited by the formation of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74072.

74072. Any person whose lands would be benefited by the district may, upon his application and in the discretion of the board of supervisors, have such lands included within the proposed district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74073.

74073. Upon the hearing of the formation petition the board of supervisors shall determine whether or not the petition complies with the requirements of this division, and for that purpose shall hear all competent and relevant testimony offered in support thereof or in opposition thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74074.

74074. No defect in the contents of the formation petition, or in the title to or form of the notice, or signature, shall vitiate any proceedings thereon; provided, such petition or petitions have a sufficient number of qualified signatures attached thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 3 - Hearing › Section 74076.

74076. If the board of supervisors finds that protest has been made prior to its final determination for formation of the district, by the owners of land, or by the owners of real property in the event of the applicability of the provisions of Section 74056, within the proposed district the assessed value of which, as shown by the last equalized assessment roll, constitutes more than one-half of the total assessed value of the land or real property, as the case may be, within the proposed district, the proceeding shall terminate. The board of supervisors shall order the proceeding terminated when such protests are received.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74090.

74090. When the boundaries of the proposed district are defined and established by the board of supervisors, it shall make an order dividing the district into three, five, or seven divisions, as requested in the formation petition. Such divisions shall be as nearly equal in area as practicable and shall be numbered consecutively.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74091.

74091. One director, who shall be an elector of the division, shall be elected from each division by vote of the electors of the division in which such director resides. In order to qualify to be elected a director, a person shall be a qualified elector of the district and shall be a resident of the county, or of one of the counties, in which the district is situated.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74092.

74092. When the order dividing the proposed district into divisions has been made, the board of supervisors shall call an election within the proposed district to determine whether the district shall be formed and also to elect the first board of directors if the district is formed.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74094.

74094. The board of supervisors shall divide the district, and the divisions thereof, into convenient precincts and fix a polling place in each precinct. There shall be at least one precinct in each division of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74095.

74095. The board of supervisors shall appoint an inspector, a judge, and two clerks for each of the precincts established to conduct the election. The inspector, judge, and clerks of election in each precinct shall constitute the board of election for such precinct.
If the board of election, or any member thereof, fails to appear at the opening of the polls on the morning of the election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint a board or supply the place of an absent member thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74096.

74096. The inspector shall be chairman of the election board, and may appoint judges and clerks, if, during the progress of the election, any judge or clerk cease to act. The chairman or any member of the board of election may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of the election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74097.

74097. The formation election shall be called by publication of notice thereof in a daily or weekly paper in each of the counties in which the district is situated, if there is one, at least once a week for three weeks previous to the election, and by posting notice thereof in three public places.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74098.

74098. The notice of the formation election shall designate a name for the proposed district and describe the boundaries thereof. The notice shall also designate the respective election precincts and the polling place in each, the election officers, the time of the election, and the hours during which the polls will be kept open; provided, that the polls shall be opened not later than 8 o'clock a.m. and kept open until 7 o'clock p.m.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74099.

74099. The board of supervisors shall require the clerk of the board to provide and furnish ballots for the formation election. No particular form of ballot shall be required except that the ballot shall contain the words “Water conservation district—Yes” or “Water conservation district—No,” or words equivalent thereto, and shall also contain the names of candidates for the position of director of the district who shall have been endorsed by petitions to the board of supervisors in the manner prescribed in Section 74100.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74100.

74100. A nominating petition for a director in any division shall be signed by 10 or more electors entitled to vote in such division and shall be filed with the board of supervisors calling the formation election within 15 days from the first publication of the notice calling the election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74102.

74102. The ballots shall contain as many blank spaces for the names of directors as there are directors to be elected, and the writing of the name of any qualified person in any of the spaces shall be deemed to be a vote for such person.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74104.

74104. The election officers shall publicly count the votes immediately after the close of the formation election, and shall make a report of the result of the election to the board of supervisors within five days subsequent to the holding thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74105.

74105. The board of supervisors shall, on the first Monday succeeding the formation election, if then in session, or at its next meeting, general or special, proceed to canvass the votes cast at the election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 4 - Formation Election › Section 74106.

74106. Where a vote to form a district is lost, no petition for the formation of a district comprising any portion of the same territory shall be presented or considered for a period of 12 months thereafter.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District › Section 74120.

74120. If a majority of all the votes cast at the formation election are “Water conservation district—Yes,” the board of supervisors shall by an order entered in its minutes declare the territory duly formed as a water conservation district, under the designated name, and shall declare the persons receiving, respectively, the highest number of votes for director to be duly elected to such offices.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District › Section 74121.

74121. The board of supervisors shall immediately cause a copy of the order declaring the district formed, duly certified by the clerk of the board, to be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of any county in which any portion of the lands embraced in the district is situated, and shall also immediately forward a copy thereof to the clerk of the board of supervisors of each of such counties. From and after such filing, the formation of the district is complete.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 5 - Establishment of District › Section 74122.

74122. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall immediately file with the Secretary of State a certificate listing:
(a) The name of the district.
(b) The date of formation.
(c) The county or counties in which the district is located, and a description of the boundaries of the district, or reference to a map showing such boundaries, which map shall be attached to the certificate, or reference to the county recorder’s office where a description of such boundaries has been recorded.
If the order declaring the district formed contains all of the information required to be in the certificate, the clerk of the board may file a copy of the order in lieu of the certificate.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election › Section 74130.

74130. The formation election may be contested by any person holding property within the proposed district liable to be assessed for the raising of funds to carry out the purposes of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 2 - FORMATION › CHAPTER 6 - Contest of Election › Section 74133.

74133. The court shall immediately try the election contest, and determine, upon the hearing, whether the election was fairly conducted and in substantial compliance with the requirements of this division. The court shall enter its judgment accordingly.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74200.

74200. The board of directors shall consist of three, five, or seven members, depending on the number of divisions in the district. Each director shall be an elector of the division for which he is elected, a qualified elector of the district, and a resident of the county, or of one of the counties, in which the district is situated.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74200.5.

74200.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single water conservation district may, pursuant to subdivisions (k) and (n) of Section 56886 of the Government Code, increase the number of directors to serve on the board of directors of the consolidated or reorganized district to 7, 9, or 11, who shall be members of the board of directors of the districts to be consolidated or reorganized as of the effective date of the consolidation or reorganization.
(b) Unless the local agency formation commission provides for an alternative schedule for reducing the size of the board of directors of the consolidated or reorganized district, upon the expiration of the terms of the members of the board of directors of the consolidated or reorganized district whose terms first expire following the effective date of the consolidation or reorganization, the total number of members on the board of directors shall be reduced until the number equals 5, 7, or 9, as may be determined by the local agency formation commission in approving the consolidation or reorganization.
(c) In addition to the powers granted under Section 1780 of the Government Code, in the event of a vacancy on the board of directors of the consolidated or reorganized district at which time the total number of directors is greater than five, the board of directors may, by majority vote of the remaining members of the board, choose not to fill the vacancy. In that event, the total membership of the board of directors shall be reduced by one board member. Upon making the determination not to fill a vacancy, the board of directors shall notify the board of supervisors of its decision.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 514, Sec. 1. (AB 1172) Effective January 1, 2010.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74201.

74201. The directors elected at the formation election shall immediately enter upon their duties as such upon qualifying in the manner provided in this chapter. Such directors shall hold office respectively until their successors are elected and qualified.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74202.

74202. The directors of any district who are elected shall hold office pursuant to Section 10505 of the Elections Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 267. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74204.

74204. Vacancies occurring in the board, by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1059.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74205.

74205. Upon his election or appointment, each person who shall be elected or appointed to the office of director shall qualify as such by taking and subscribing to an official oath and executing and filing a bond as provided in Section 74206.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74206.

74206. Each director shall execute an official bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000). The director shall file that official bond, together with his or her official oath, with the secretary.
(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 167, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 1 - Directors › Section 74208.

74208. Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day’s attendance at meetings of the board or for each day’s service rendered as a director by request of the board, not exceeding a total of six days in any calendar month, together with any expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties required or authorized by the board. For purposes of this section, the determination of whether a director’s activities on any specific day are compensable shall be made pursuant to Article 2.3 (commencing with Section 53232) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. Reimbursement for these expenses is subject to Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 700, Sec. 40. Effective January 1, 2006.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74220.

74220. On the first Tuesday next following the formation election, as to the first board, and at the first meeting of the board following the time of taking office of the directors elected in each subsequent general district election, but in no event later than the last day of December, the directors shall meet and organize as a board.
(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 167, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74222.

74222. The office of the board may be established by it at some proper and convenient place within or near the district, but after the office is once established, it shall not be changed without giving notice thereof by posting in three public places in the district and by publishing a similar notice at least once a week for 30 days in some newspaper of general circulation published in the principal county.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74223.

74223. The board shall hold regular meetings in its office on the first Tuesday in March, June, September, and December, and such special meetings as may be required for the proper transaction of business. Upon a finding by the board for good cause, the board may, by resolution, increase the frequency and number of regular meetings.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 183, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74224.

74224. Notwithstanding Section 74223, the board may, by resolution, change the day and location for holding regular meetings. Notice of any change shall be published once a week for at least two consecutive weeks before the date for a regular meeting in a newspaper of general circulation circulated in the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 566, Sec. 4. Effective September 29, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74225.

74225. Special meetings may be ordered by the president or by a majority of the members of the board, specifying in writing the business to be transacted. The order calling for a special meeting shall be entered in the minutes of the board. Three days’ notice shall be given by the secretary to any member not joining in the order, by mailing the notice to him at his last address. Only the business specified in the order shall be transacted at the special meeting.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74228.5.

74228.5. A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 158, Sec. 44. Effective January 1, 2006.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 2 - The Board › Section 74229.

74229. The board shall, annually, make and render a verified statement of the financial condition of the district, showing particularly the receipts and disbursements of the last preceding year, together with the source of such receipts and purpose of such disbursements. This statement shall be placed on file in the office of the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 371.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 3 - INTERNAL ORGANIZATION › CHAPTER 3 - Officers › Section 74250.

74250. At each of its organization meetings the board shall elect a president from their number, and shall appoint a secretary, who shall each hold office at the pleasure of the board.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74430.

74430. The board of directors shall, by resolution, adjust the boundaries of any divisions pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 22000) of Division 21 of the Elections Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 435, Sec. 17. Effective January 1, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74431.

74431. Before any change of the boundaries of the divisions is made pursuant to Section 74430, the board shall give notice of its intention to do so. Such notice shall specify, in a general way, the changes which the board proposes to make and a time and place for a hearing at which any owner of land in the district may appear before the board and object to the making of the proposed change or changes or petition that a change be made otherwise than as proposed.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74432.

74432. The notice of intention to change the boundaries of the divisions shall be published at least once a week for two weeks before the time appointed for the hearing in some newspaper or newspapers published in each of the counties in which any part of the district is situated.
At the time and place appointed for the hearing, or at the time and place to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board shall hear all the objections and petitions which are presented to the board, and, thereupon, the board may make such change or changes in the boundaries of the divisions as it determines to be for the best interests of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74433.

74433. If land is excluded from a district pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 75750) of Part 10 of this division, the board not less than 30 days before any election in the district, may reestablish the boundaries of the divisions and election precincts within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74434.

74434. If land is included within a district pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 75850) of Part 10 of this division, the board shall, not less than 30 days before any election in the district, reestablish the boundaries of the divisions and election precincts within the district so as to include such lands therein and so as to make such divisions as nearly equal in area as may be practicable. In case of the inclusion of any land less than 30 days before an election within the district, the inhabitants of the land so included shall not be entitled to vote at such election.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 3 - Relocation of Division Boundaries › Section 74435.

74435. If another district is annexed to a district pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 75940) of Part 10 of this division the board of the annexing district shall reestablish the boundaries of the divisions and election precincts within the district in the same manner as provided in Section 74434.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 75.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Redivision of a District Within Ventura County › ARTICLE 1 - Introduction › Section 74450.

74450. The provisions of this chapter apply only to districts within Ventura County.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1836.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Redivision of a District Within Ventura County › ARTICLE 1 - Introduction › Section 74451.

74451. Except as provided in this chapter every district within Ventura County shall be governed by the provisions of this division.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1836.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 21 - WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Redivision of a District Within Ventura County › ARTICLE 2 - Redivision Procedure › Section 74460.

74460. The number of members of the board and the basis for dividing a district into divisions for the election of directors may be changed in the manner prescribed in this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1836.)