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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21555.

21555. With regard to submitting a proposal at the general district election, the notices required by Section 12112 of the Elections Code shall contain a statement of the change or changes proposed to appear on the ballot.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 588, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21555.5.

21555.5. (a) Notice of a special election called pursuant to Section 21554 shall specify the purpose of the election and the day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election, and shall be posted in three public places in each election precinct in the district for at least 20 days and published in a newspaper published in the county once a week for at least three successive weeks.
(b) The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with general district elections.
(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 209.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21556.

21556. Each proposal shall be stated on the ballot, and the method of voting on it shall be as nearly as practicable in conformity with the provisions relating to bond elections.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21557.

21557. If a proposal receives the approval of a majority of the voters voting on it in the district and also a majority of the voters voting on it in each of a majority of the divisions, the board shall order the change or changes in accordance with the proposal.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21558.

21558. If an order made pursuant to this article changes the method of electing directors, all directors thereafter elected in the district shall be elected as provided in the order.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21559.

21559. If an order made pursuant to this article changes the number of divisions, the board shall forthwith redivide the district into the number of divisions specified in the order.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21560.

21560. If an order made pursuant to this article changes the number of divisions, the terms of office of all directors shall expire at noon on the first Friday in December following the next general district election after the order, and the directors elected at that election shall be equal in number to the number of divisions as changed and these directors shall at their first meeting classify themselves and determine the length of their respective terms in the manner provided in subdivision (c) of Section 10505 of the Elections Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 923, Sec. 229. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21561.

21561. Notwithstanding Sections 21550 and 21551, or any other provision of law to the contrary, directors of the Jackson Valley Irrigation District shall be nominated and elected at large.
All vacancies in the offices of directors of the Jackson Valley Irrigation District shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1059.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 1 - Divisions and Methods of Electing Directors › Section 21562.

21562. Notwithstanding Section 21550, if a district contains no divisions and the board consists of three members, without establishing divisions the district may increase the number of directors from three to five by following the procedure set forth in this article.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 178.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21575.

21575. Any district having less than 2,500 acres within its boundaries, having less than 100 electors residing within it, and having only three divisions may abolish the divisions in it pursuant to this article.
Any district having not more than 15 freeholders who are voters shall have no divisions.
(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 454, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21576.

21576. The board of the district may petition the board of supervisors of the principal county for an order by the board of supervisors abolishing the divisions in the district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21577.

21577. The board of supervisors shall thereupon find whether or not there are less than 2,500 acres in the district, less than 100 electors residing in it, and only three divisions in it.
(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 454, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21578.

21578. If the board of supervisors finds as to all of such matters in the affirmative, it may order that there shall be no divisions in the district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21579.

21579. Upon the making of the order, there shall be no divisions in the district, the directors of the district need only be voters and freeholders in the district, and the directors of the district shall be elected, and appointed to fill vacancies, at large from the whole district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21580.

21580. From the adoption of the order the district shall have three directors, and the offices of the directors shall have the numbers formerly identifying the division represented by each director, or if none, last incumbent director, and candidates for election for director shall be nominated and elected for a particular office.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21582.

21582. At least 120 days before any general district election a majority of the electors in the district having no divisions may file in the district office a petition signed by them requesting the board to establish divisions.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21583.

21583. The petition shall contain a showing that it is expedient to divide the district into three divisions as nearly equal in area and population as may be practicable and to elect the directors of the district therefrom.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21584.

21584. The board may independently investigate whether or not the facts are consistent with the showing made in the petition and shall hear any evidence produced to sustain or disprove the showing.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21585.

21585. Within 30 days after the filing of the petition the board shall find whether or not it is expedient to divide the district into three divisions as nearly equal in area and population as may be practicable and to elect the directors of the district therefrom.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21586.

21586. If the board finds in the affirmative, it shall forthwith order the establishment of divisions in the district and divide the district into three divisions as nearly equal in area and population as may be practicable.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21587.

21587. At the general district election next following the making of the order directors shall be elected at large in the district, one director to represent each division.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 2 - Abolition and Reestablishment of Divisions › Section 21605.

21605. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subdivision (b) applies to districts in which directors are elected by divisions.
(b) 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.
(Added by renumbering Section 21065 by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 557. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Division and Precinct Boundaries › Section 21606.

21606. When land is excluded from a district after its formation, if the board deems it desirable, but not less than 120 days before any election in the district, it may reestablish the boundaries of the divisions within the district.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1045, Sec. 10.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Division and Precinct Boundaries › Section 21607.

21607. When land is included within a district after its formation, its board shall, not less than 120 days before any election in the district, reestablish the boundaries of the divisions within the district so as to include the included land therein and so as to make the divisions as nearly equal in size and population as may be practicable.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1045, Sec. 11.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › ARTICLE 3 - Division and Precinct Boundaries › Section 21608.

21608. When land is included within a district after its formation and less than 120 days before an election, the voters in the area included shall not be entitled to vote at the election.
(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1045, Sec. 12.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21925.

21925. After an order determining the amount of bonds which should be issued, the board shall call a bond election to submit to the voters a proposal of whether or not bonds in the amount determined in the order should be authorized when either:
(a) The board so determines.
(b) The board receives a petition requesting the election signed by either:
(1) A majority in number of the holders of title to land who are also the holders of title to a majority in value of all of the land.
(2) Five hundred or more persons, each of whom is either an elector or a holder of title to land and which petitioners include the holders of title to not less than 20 per cent in value of all of the land.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21927.

21927. Notice of a bond election shall specify:
(a) The day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election.
(b) The amount of bonds proposed to be issued.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21928.

21928. At a bond election several proposals as to the issuance of bonds may be submitted separately on the same ballot if:
(a) Estimates of the cost of the respective projects have been made.
(b) The commission has reported thereon.
(c) The respective proposals have been stated in the notices of the election.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21929.

21929. The ballots shall contain a general statement of the proposals to be voted on, including the amount of bonds proposed to be issued for each purpose, but no informality in the statement shall vitiate the election. Each proposal shall be followed by the words “Yes” and “No” on separate lines with a small inclosed space after each of the two words.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21930.

21930. On bond election ballots there shall be printed under the heading “Instructions to voters”: “To vote for a proposal, stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word " yes’ following the proposal. To vote against a proposal, stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word ‛ No’ following the proposal.”
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21931.

21931. The voters shall vote for or against any proposal at a bond election by stamping a cross (+) in the voting space after the word “Yes” or “No” respectively.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21933.

21933. The issuance of bonds is authorized when, at a bond election, any of the following occurs:
(a) Two-thirds of the votes cast on the proposal are “yes.”
(b) A majority of the votes cast on the proposal are “yes” when the election was called pursuant to a petition sufficient to require it to be called.
(c) A majority of the votes cast on the proposal are “Yes” when the bonds to be issued are payable both as to principal and interest solely from revenue and not directly or indirectly from assessments and the board finds that in its judgment the proposed revenues will each year, after deducting a reasonable allowance for the cost of operation and maintenance, if any, which must be paid from the revenues, be at least one and one-tenth times the debt service requirements for that year for principal, interest, sinking funds and reserve funds of all the bonds, including the bonds to be issued, payable from the revenues.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1993.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 4 - ELECTIONS › CHAPTER 4 - Bond Elections › Section 21934.

21934. If the number of votes for any bond proposal is less than the number required to authorize the issuance of the bonds, the result of the vote shall be entered of record. The proposal may be again submitted at a bond election upon the presentation to the board of a petition for the subsequent election signed as required for the calling of the previous election.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1 - Water › Section 22078.

22078. A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water including but not limited to sewage waters for the beneficial use or uses of the district or its inhabitants or the owners of rights to waters therein.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 719.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1 - Water › Section 22078.5.

22078.5. A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. The special taxes shall be applied uniformly to all taxpayers or all real property within the district, except that unimproved property may be taxed at a lower rate than improved property.
(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 70, Sec. 13.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1 - Water › Section 22079.

22079. No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or for the tenant’s residential use from any subsequent tenant on account of nonpayment of charges by a previous tenant. The district may, however, require that service to subsequent tenants be furnished on the account of the landlord or property owner.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1251, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22080.

22080. As used in this article:
(a) “Conduit” includes ditches, pipelines, and other means of diversion.
(b) “District” means any irrigation district which includes land included within a watermaster service area for which a watermaster has previously been appointed by the Department of Water Resources, but which elects to provide watermaster service pursuant to the provisions of this article.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22080.5.

22080.5. Any duty or authority vested in a watermaster appointed by a district may be exercised by the watermaster directly or through the agency of a deputy watermaster if there is one.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22081.

22081. A district, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 22080, may appoint one or more watermasters to regulate the use of water within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22081.5.

22081.5. The owner of every conduit subject to regulation by an irrigation district shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the district a substantial and serviceable diversion dam or works in the channel of the stream from which the water is diverted.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22082.

22082. The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the district a substantial and serviceable headgate in the conduit through which the water is diverted at or near the diversion dam or works.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22082.5.

22082.5. The headgate shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the watermaster.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22083.

22083. The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain such water flow measuring devices at such points along the conduit as may be required and approved by the district for the purpose of assisting the watermaster in determining the amounts of water which are being diverted and applied to beneficial use.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22083.5.

22083.5. If the owner of any conduit refuses or neglects to construct and maintain the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days’ notice by the district so to do, the watermaster may close the conduit, and it shall not be opened or any water diverted from the source of supply until the requirements of the district as to the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices have been complied with.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22084.

22084. The owner of every reservoir which is subject to regulation by a watermaster and which is located across or upon the bed of a natural stream or requires the use of a natural stream channel shall construct and maintain such measuring devices below the reservoir in the stream and such measuring devices above the reservoir on each stream or source of supply discharging into the reservoir as may be required and approved by the district for the purpose of assisting the district or the watermaster in determining the amounts of water to which the owner is entitled and the amounts of water which the owner is diverting, storing, and applying to beneficial use.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22084.5.

22084.5. If the owner of any reservoir neglects or refuses to construct and maintain the measuring devices provided for in this article after 30 days’ notice by the district, the watermaster may open the outlet of the reservoir and the outlet shall not be closed, except by order of the district, until the requirements of the district as to the measuring devices are complied with.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22085.

22085. The district may make such reasonable regulations to secure distribution of water in accordance with determined rights as may be needed.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22085.5.

22085.5. The watermaster shall divide the water of the streams or other sources of supply among the several conduits and reservoirs taking water therefrom and so adjust or close the headgates of conduits and regulate the controlling works of reservoirs as may be necessary to insure a distribution of the water among the water users entitled to its use, according to the rights of the users.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22086.

22086. Whenever in pursuance of his duties the watermaster regulates a headgate to a conduit or the controlling works of a reservoir, he may attach to the headgate or controlling works a written notice properly dated and signed setting forth the fact that the headgate or controlling works have been properly regulated and are wholly under his control.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22086.5.

22086.5. The notice is legal notice to all persons interested in the diversion and distribution of the water of the conduit or reservoir.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22087.

22087. Any person who is injured by the action of any watermaster may apply to the superior court of the county in which the injury takes place for an injunction.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22087.5.

22087.5. Such injunction shall be issued only in case it is shown at the hearing that the watermaster has failed to distribute the water according to the rights as determined by decrees of court, agreements, permits, or licenses.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22088.

22088. Every person who willfully and without authority closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate, waterbox, or measuring device while it is under the control of the watermaster, or who willfully takes or uses water which has been denied him by the watermaster under the provisions of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22088.5.

22088.5. The possession or use of water when it has been so denied by the watermaster is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person using it.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22089.

22089. Every person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 1.5 - Watermaster Service › Section 22089.5.

22089.5. A watermaster has the power to arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this article and to give him into the custody of the sheriff or other competent police officer within the county, and immediately thereafter make a complaint before a magistrate against the person so arrested.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 780, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 2 - Drainage › Section 22096.

22096. All laws respecting irrigation by districts or respecting districts shall also be so construed and enforced as to apply to drainage.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 2 - Drainage › Section 22097.

22097. The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting drainage and construction, operation, and control relating to it as they have respecting irrigation.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 2 - Drainage › Section 22098.

22098. Whenever it appears necessary to drain any land within a district on account of the irrigation which has been done or which is intended to be done by the district under laws relating to it, whether for the purpose of more beneficially carrying on the irrigation or to protect the district from liability by reason of the irrigation, its board, if it is reasonable from an economic standpoint that the drainage be provided, shall provide for the drainage.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 2 - Drainage › Section 22099.

22099. No drainage need be provided for land as to which the district is relieved from liability for seepage or flooding by reason of grant, waiver, prescription, statute, decree, or condemnation.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22115.

22115. Any district heretofore or hereafter formed may purchase or lease electric power from any agency or entity, public or private, and may provide for the acquisition, operation, leasing, and control of plants for the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and lease of electric power, including sale to municipalities, public utility districts, or persons.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22116.

22116. All provisions of the California Irrigation District Act, and of all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, applying to irrigation shall, as codified in this division, also be so construed and enforced as to apply to electric power.
(Amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 687.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22117.

22117. The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting electric power and the acquisition, operation, and control relating to it as they have respecting irrigation or districts.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22118.

22118. The board and the officers, agents, and employees of districts shall do all necessary and proper acts for the construction and operation of its electric power works.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22121.

22121. Subject to the conditions in this article a district may in the manner required by law make special appropriations of water for power purposes.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22122.

22122. Any use of water for generating electric power at any given time of the year which is in excess of the water appropriated and beneficially used for irrigation purposes by the district at that period of the year shall be subject to all prior existing appropriations by any municipal corporation which is proceeding in good faith in the expenditure of money and the construction of works designed to divert the water appropriated.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22123.

22123. Any district providing electric power to areas outside its boundaries shall be subject to reasonable rules, regulations, and orders of the governing body of the city or county area being served, but, in no event, more restrictive than the rules, regulations, and orders of the Public Utilities Commission upon utilities providing electric power to cities or counties. No district may impose rates, rules, regulations, or orders in any such area outside its boundaries which are different from rates, rules, regulations, or orders imposed within the district, except with the consent of the governing body of the affected area.
(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1374.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 3 - Electric Power › Section 22124.

22124. Every district furnishing electrical power shall comply with Section 8029.5 of the Public Utilities Code.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 549, Sec. 5.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 4 - Pension and Retirement Systems › Section 22140.

22140. The board may establish or modify any existing plan or system, so as to provide for a pension or retirement plan or system for the benefit of officers, including directors, and employees of the district and therein provide for the payment of annuities, pensions, retirement benefits, disability payments and death benefits or any one or more of them.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 726.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 4 - Pension and Retirement Systems › Section 22141.

22141. The district may maintain its own pension, retirement, disability benefit and death benefit fund or may provide for benefits to eligible officers and employees, or their beneficiaries, by means of group insurance, group annuities or other insurance, or by such means as in the opinion of the board will satisfactorily provide an adequate and sure method of meeting the payments contemplated by its plan or system.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 726.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 4 - Pension and Retirement Systems › Section 22143.

22143. This article does not affect the authority of any district to participate in the State Employees’ Retirement System or any county employees’ retirement system.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 726.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 4 - Pension and Retirement Systems › Section 22144.

22144. If a district has terminated a plan which did provide retirement benefits and has entered into a contract to participate in the Public Employees’ Retirement System, it may adopt a plan to increase retirement benefits for former employees who had retired prior to provision being made in the contract with the Public Employees’ Retirement System for past service credit. Such plan shall be designed to provide increased retirement benefits based on cost-of-living changes as determined by the board. Payments shall be from the general fund of the district and shall be limited to the benefits set forth in the terminated plan, plus the cost-of-living increases determined by the board.
(Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 840.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 5 - Flood Control › Section 22160.

22160. The district may, but shall not be required to, provide for, maintain and operate such works and facilities within or without its boundaries as the board may deem necessary to protect the land in, and the property of, the district, from damage by flood or overflow, and may pay the cost and expense thereof out of its general fund or any special fund provided therefor.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 352.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 5 - Flood Control › Section 22161.

22161. A district may, but shall not be required to, contract with the United States, the State, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person, for the construction, operation or maintenance of works, facilities or operations within or without the district boundaries which the board deems necessary to protect the land in, and property of, the district, from damage by flood or overflow, and may contribute to the cost or expense thereof out of its general fund or any special fund provided therefor.
(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 352.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 5 - Flood Control › Section 22162.

22162. The provisions of Section 22160 apply only to districts containing 200,000 acres or more.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1513.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22170.

22170. This article applies only if an election is called and held as provided in this article and a majority of the votes cast on the proposal are “Yes.”
(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 340.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22171.

22171. The board may in its discretion by resolution call an election to be held in the entire district or only in that portion of the district proposed to be served to determine whether or not the district should provide for sewage disposal service. The ballots shall contain the following statement of the proposal:
“Shall the ____ Irrigation District provide for sewage disposal, or acquire existing sewage disposal facilities, within that portion of its boundaries as hereinafter described not now provided with adequate sewage collection and disposal works.”
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ballots of any district which is required to obtain the approval of the local agency formation commission before it may provide sewage disposal shall contain the following statement of the proposal:
“Shall the ____ Irrigation District provide for sewage disposal, or acquire existing sewage disposal facilities, within that portion of the district, and in the manner, set forth in the proposed application to the ____ Local Agency Formation Commission, dated ____, a copy of which application is on file in the office of the district.”
Such proposal shall be followed by the words “Yes” and “No” on separate lines with a small enclosed space after each of the two words.
(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 199.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22172.

22172. The ballots shall have printed on them under the heading “Instructions to Voters”:
“To vote for a proposal stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word ‛ Yes’ following the proposal. To vote against a proposal, stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word ‛ No’ following the proposal.”
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22173.

22173. The voters shall vote for or against the proposal by stamping a cross (+) in the voting space after the word “Yes” or “No” respectively.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22174.

22174. Notice of the election shall specify the purpose of the election and the day, hours, and polling places in each precinct for holding the election, and shall be posted in three public places in each election precinct in the area of the district in which the election is to be held for at least 20 days and published in a newspaper published in the county once a week for at least three successive weeks.
(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 199.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22175.

22175. The election shall be held and the result determined and declared as nearly as practicable in conformity with general district elections.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2019.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22176.

22176. A district, whether heretofore or hereafter formed, may provide for the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of sewage collection and disposal mains, and sewage treatment and disposal facilities for all or any portion of the lands within its boundaries.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22177.

22177. A district may charge reasonable connection charges to defray in whole or in part the cost of providing sewage disposal service and may levy and collect annual or semiannual charges to cover the cost of maintenance and operation of the sewage disposal system. Any charges authorized by this section shall be made only within the area to be served. If the sewage disposal service is provided to only a portion of the district, the area so served shall bear all costs of the maintenance, operation, and administration of such service.
(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 199.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22178.

22178. All provisions of the California Irrigation District Act, and of all other acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, applying to irrigation shall, as codified in this division, also be so construed and enforced as to apply to sewage disposal.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22179.

22179. The officers, agents, and employees of districts have the same powers, duties, and liabilities respecting sewage disposal and the acquisition, operation, and control relating to it as they have respecting irrigation in districts.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 6 - Sewage Disposal › Section 22180.

22180. The board and the officers, agents, and employees of districts shall do all necessary and proper acts for the construction and operation of its sewage collection and disposal system.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 420.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 7 - Recreational Facilities › Section 22185.

22185. A district may construct, maintain, and operate recreational facilities in connection with any dams, reservoirs, or other works owned or controlled by the district.
(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 533.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 1 - Powers and Purposes Generally › ARTICLE 7 - Recreational Facilities › Section 22186.

22186. A district may fix and assess reasonable charges for the use of the recreational facilities by members of the public.
(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 533.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Powers › ARTICLE 1 - Powers Generally › Section 22227.

22227. A district may acquire the right to store water in any reservoir or to carry water through any conduit not owned or controlled by the district and may grant to any owner or lessee of the right to the use of any water the right to store the water in any reservoir of the district or to carry the water through any conduit of the district.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Powers › ARTICLE 1 - Powers Generally › Section 22228.

22228. A district may contract to perform and perform any agreement with any number of persons or public corporations or agencies for the exchange, transfer, or delivery to or by either or both parties of any water right or water.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 11 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Powers › ARTICLE 1 - Powers Generally › Section 22231.

22231. A district by contract may acquire and operate any needed or desirable equipment to put water under its control to any beneficial use.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 372.)