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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 2 - Creation of Watermaster Service Areas › Section 4028.5.

4028.5. When rights are ascertained and determined by court decree, certified copies of the decree shall be recorded as agreements are required to be recorded by Section 4028.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 375.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 2 - Creation of Watermaster Service Areas › Section 4029.

4029. Upon the creation of a service area the department shall record in the office of the county recorder of each county in which a portion of the service area is situated a certified copy of the order creating the service area and a description by 40-acre subdivision or other smallest subdivisions of the public land surveys of all of the land within the service area which is within the county in which the description is recorded.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 51.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 2 - Creation of Watermaster Service Areas › Section 4032.

4032. Service areas may be enlarged, reduced, consolidated, or abolished from time to time as convenience of administration may require.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 3 - Watermasters › Section 4050.

4050. (a) Upon written request submitted to the department by the owners or governing bodies of at least 15 percent of the conduits lawfully entitled to directly divert water from the streams or other sources of water supply in any service area, the department may, if it determines that it is necessary, appoint a watermaster and if necessary, in its discretion, one or more deputy watermasters for the service area.
(b) Upon petition, made to a court in which a relevant judicial decree has been entered, by the owners or governing bodies of at least 15 percent of the conduits lawfully entitled to directly divert water from the streams or other sources of water supply in any service area, the court may appoint a public agency as watermaster under this part to replace the watermaster appointed by the department.
(c) (1) A watermaster appointed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall have the powers and duties prescribed by the court pursuant to the exercise of its judicial authority, which may include any powers and duties prescribed by this part.
(2) This part shall apply to the service area for which a watermaster is appointed pursuant to subdivision (b) only to the extent determined by the court.
(d) (1) If in response to a petition made to a court, the court appoints a watermaster in a service area in which the department previously appointed a watermaster, upon the appointment of the new watermaster becoming effective, the department shall not be responsible for carrying out any of the duties and obligations of this part, including any responsibility for the funding of the expenses of administration or distribution pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 4200).
(2) If in response to a petition made to a court, the court appoints a watermaster in a service area in which the department previously appointed a watermaster, upon the appointment of the new watermaster becoming effective and in the discretion of the department, any fixed waterflow measuring device and fixed distribution structure installed by the department shall either be removed from the service area by the department, or transferred at no charge to the new watermaster appointed by the court. With respect to any waterflow measuring device or fixed distribution structure transferred to the new watermaster, all rights, duties, and obligations of the department shall accompany the transfer and shall be assumed by the new watermaster, and the new watermaster shall hold the department harmless for any and all claims or causes of action relative to the items transferred that arise subsequent to the transfer.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 246, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 3 - Watermasters › Section 4051.

4051. The department may from time to time discontinue watermaster service in any service area, if necessity therefor ceases, and revive the service whenever and as frequently as necessity exists.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 3 - Watermasters › Section 4052.

4052. The watermaster shall be properly qualified and shall perform the duties imposed on him by this part as an employee under the general supervision and control of the department.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 3 - Watermasters › Section 4053.

4053. Watermasters, in addition to compensation for their services, shall receive necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 1 - By Owners of Conduits › Section 4100.

4100. The owner of every conduit subject to regulation by a watermaster shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable diversion dam or works in the channel of the stream from which the water is diverted.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 1 - By Owners of Conduits › Section 4101.

4101. The owner of a conduit shall construct and maintain to the satisfaction of the department a substantial and serviceable headgate in the conduit through which the water is diverted at or near the diversion dam or works.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 1 - By Owners of Conduits › Section 4102.

4102. The headgate shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the watermaster.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 1 - By Owners of Conduits › Section 4103.

4103. 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 department for the purpose of assisting the watermaster in determining the amounts of water which are being diverted and applied to beneficial use.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 1 - By Owners of Conduits › Section 4104.

4104. 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 department 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 department as to the diversion dam or works, the headgate, or the measuring devices have been complied with.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 2 - By Owners of Reservoirs › Section 4125.

4125. 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 department for the purpose of assisting the department 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.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 4 - Construction and Maintenance of Works and Measuring Devices › ARTICLE 2 - By Owners of Reservoirs › Section 4126.

4126. 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 department, the watermaster may open the outlet of the reservoir and the outlet shall not be closed, except by order of the department, until the requirements of the department as to the measuring devices are complied with.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Procedure of Distribution › Section 4150.

4150. The department may make such reasonable regulations to secure distribution of water in accordance with determined rights as may be needed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Procedure of Distribution › Section 4151.

4151. 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.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Procedure of Distribution › Section 4152.

4152. 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.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Procedure of Distribution › Section 4153.

4153. The notice is legal notice to all persons interested in the diversion and distribution of the water of the conduit or reservoir.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 2 - Remedies for Improper Distribution › Section 4160.

4160. 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.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 5 - Distribution of Water in Service Areas › ARTICLE 2 - Remedies for Improper Distribution › Section 4161.

4161. 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 as provided in this part.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 6 - Offenses › Section 4175.

4175. Every person who wilfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate, waterbox, or measuring device while it is under the control of the wastermaster, or who wilfully takes or uses water which has been denied him by the watermaster under the provisions of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 6 - Offenses › Section 4176.

4176. The possession or use of water when it has been so denied him by the watermaster is prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person using it.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 6 - Offenses › Section 4177.

4177. Every person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), 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.
(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 212.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 6 - Offenses › Section 4178.

4178. A watermaster may arrest any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) and to deliver the person to the sheriff or other competent police officer within the county, and immediately thereafter file a complaint with a magistrate against the person so arrested.
(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 213.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 4200.

4200. The department may incur such expense and make such expenditures as may be necessary to provide for the administration of any service area and the distribution of water therein.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 4201.

4201. All of the cost of administration of a service area and the distribution of water therein shall be paid by the owners of the rights to divert or store water within the service area as provided in this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 24. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 2 - Statement and Budget › Section 4225.

4225. The department shall, prior to June 15th of each year, prepare a statement for each service area. The statement shall contain a budget showing the amount of money estimated to be necessary to pay the costs of administration of the service area and the distribution of water therein for the ensuing fiscal year.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 2 - Statement and Budget › Section 4226.

4226. The budget shall include all of the following:
(a) Expenses theretofore incurred for the payment of which funds are not available.
(b) The cost of an annual watermaster report covering the current calendar year to be prepared at the end of said year.
(c) A reasonable estimate for contingencies.
(d) Other costs of administration of the service area or of distribution of water therein.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 2 - Statement and Budget › Section 4227.

4227. The statement shall also contain an apportionment of the amount of the budget among the owners of the various rights to store or divert within the service area.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 25. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 2 - Statement and Budget › Section 4228.

4228. In all cases where a water right is owned by two or more persons, they shall pay in proportion to their respective interests in the water right, and, when the extent of the several interests is known to the department, the statement prepared by the department shall contain an apportionment of the amount to be paid by the various owners of the water right.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 3 - Apportionment of Expense › Section 4251.

4251. One-tenth of the budget for the service area shall be apportioned equally among the respective ownerships of all water rights involved, and except as otherwise provided in this article the remaining nine-tenths shall be apportioned among the ownerships of the respective water rights in accordance with the quantities of water that the owners of the respective water rights are entitled to store or divert within the service area.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 27. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 3 - Apportionment of Expense › Section 4252.

4252. In all cases of rights to divert the direct flow of a stream, without storage, for power development or other nonconsumptive use, where the entire flow so diverted, with the exception of reasonable transportation losses, is returned to the same stream system above the next lower diversion, the owners of these rights shall share on account of these rights only in the equal apportionment of one-tenth of the budget for the service area, and shall not share in so far as these rights are concerned in the apportionment of the remaining nine-tenths.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 28. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 3 - Apportionment of Expense › Section 4253.

4253. In all cases where rights exist to store or divert water for use for more than one purpose, the amount to be paid by the owner of such rights shall be based upon the total amount of water he is entitled to store or divert, and he shall not be required to pay more than one amount on the same water so stored or diverted notwithstanding use for more than one purpose.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 3 - Apportionment of Expense › Section 4254.

4254. In making an apportionment to any owner of the right to store water, 350 acre-feet of storage capacity which the owner is entitled to use shall be considered the equivalent of the right to divert one cubic foot per second of the direct flow of a stream.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Collection › Section 4275.

4275. Except as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 4300), the department, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, shall certify, to the auditor and the board of supervisors of each county having a watermaster service area, or part of a watermaster service area, the amount required, in order to pay the apportionments for the ensuing fiscal year, to be levied on the land used in the storage or diversion, conveyance or distribution of the water stored or diverted under the right and the land on which the water is, or is entitled to be, used.
(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 282, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1993.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Collection › Section 4276.

4276. The auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective apportionments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on the current assessment roll. If any parcel is part of a larger parcel, the auditor may enter the apportionment against the larger parcel.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Collection › Section 4277.

4277. The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a watermaster service area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time of levying county taxes, levy on the land within the county and within the watermaster service area apportionments sufficient to raise the amounts certified by the department.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Collection › Section 4278.

4278. Apportionments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. So far as applicable, all provisions of law relating to the equalization, levy, payment, and collection of county taxes shall apply to such apportionments and all provisions of law relating to the duties of county officers in relation to county taxes shall apply to such apportionments, except as otherwise expressly provided by this chapter, so far as the same are or may be made applicable.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 4 - Payment and Collection › Section 4279.

4279. All money raised by such apportionments shall be accounted for separately as to each watermaster service area. All such money shall be transmitted by January 1 and July 1 of each year to the department for deposit in the Water Resources Revolving Fund.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4300.

4300. If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, or is public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the department shall, on or before the 15th day of June of each year, serve each such owner named in the statement with a true copy thereof.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4301.

4301. Service on such owners may be made personally, or by mail as provided by Section 1013 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4302.

4302. Each such owner shall, on or before the 10th day of December of the year in which the apportionment was made, pay to the department the amount apportioned to such owner. Unless payment is made on or before said date, payment shall become delinquent and 10 percent thereof shall be added thereto as a penalty for delinquency.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4303.

4303. If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in case of delinquency, is a legal charge against the general fund thereof or such fund as may be provided for the maintenance and operation of its public works.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4304.

4304. If the owner of the right is a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in case of delinquency, is a lien against any money of the public utility.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 5 - Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities › Section 4305.

4305. At any time after 30 days after any payment due under this article becomes delinquent the department may institute in the name of the people of the State an action to compel payment of the charge against the owner and, in the case of a public utility, to foreclose the lien against any money of the public utility.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 360.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4325.

4325. The procedure set forth in this article for collecting and making available money for watermaster distribution is in lieu of that set forth in the other provisions of this chapter.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4326.

4326. Whenever all the owners of rights to water within any service area, by agreement in writing, shall have organized themselves into an association for the purpose of financing the distribution of the water to which they are entitled and shall have agreed therein as to the apportionment of the expense and the payment thereof and shall have filed with the department a copy of the agreement duly certified and authenticated by the president and secretary of the association, the department shall thereafter submit the statement provided for in this chapter to the association.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4327.

4327. The statement shall be submitted on or before the first day of September of the year preceding that for which it is made.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 29. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4329.

4329. The association shall pay the total amount apportioned to it to the department on or before the first day of December next succeeding the receipt of the statement.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1411.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4330.

4330. The department shall deposit the money in the Water Resources Revolving Fund to the credit of the amount of the service area affected.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1411.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4331.

4331. The department may refuse to render watermaster service to such service area during any calendar year next succeeding the first day of December of any year during which the association fails to pay the total amount apportioned to it on or before the first day of December of such year.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4334.

4334. All of the provisions of this chapter relating to the expenses of service areas which are not in conflict with this article shall apply to expenses of service areas under this article.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 7 - Expenses of Distribution › ARTICLE 6 - Alternative Method of Payment by Owners › Section 4335.

4335. If, at the time of creation of a service area, all the owners have formed an association by agreement in writing and have filed a certified copy of the agreement as provided in this article, the department need not file a certified copy of the order creating the service area or a description of the land within the service area in the office of any county recorder.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 8 - The Water Resources Revolving Fund › Section 4351.

4351. Separate accounts shall be established in the fund to the credit of the various service areas now in existence or hereafter created from time to time.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1411.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 8 - The Water Resources Revolving Fund › Section 4357.

4357. The expenditures for the supervision of the distribution of water in any service area shall be paid from that portion or account of the Water Resources Revolving Fund credited on the department’s books to that service area, upon claims approved by the department and otherwise audited and approved as may be required in the case of other claims against the state.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 30. Effective August 16, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 8 - The Water Resources Revolving Fund › Section 4358.

4358. Any money remaining in the watermaster service area accounts of the Water Resources Revolving Fund at the end of any year shall be available for use the following year for the respective service areas to which credited.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1411.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4400.

4400. The foregoing provisions of this part shall be applicable to this chapter, so far as adaptable thereto or consistent therewith, and whenever rights to water have been ascertained and determined as specified in Section 4027 the department may elect to proceed under this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4401.

4401. Insofar as the foregoing provisions of this part may not be adaptable to or may be inconsistent with the provisions of any decree of court, the department may conform to the requirements of such decree of court and observe the foregoing provisions of this part only insofar as the same may be adaptable to or consistent with such decree of court.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4402.

4402. In the event an order or decree of court provides for an allocation among and payment of costs of water distribution by the owners of the rights decreed, the department, in lieu of the procedures provided in the foregoing provisions of this part for allocation and payment of costs, may proceed in accordance with such decree and as hereinafter provided.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4403.

4403. A certified copy of the order or decree shall be recorded in the county or counties wherein the water is diverted or used and a certified copy filed in the office of the department and such recordation and filing shall constitute constructive notice of the provisions of the order or decree to the owners of the rights decreed and their successors in interest.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4404.

4404. Obligations to pay for the respective allocations of cost set forth in the order or decree may be enforced by the department against the respective owners or their successors by execution or as may be otherwise provided in such order or decree.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4406.

4406. The total sum thus made available shall be subject to expenditure by the department in performing said work, and any money remaining at the end of any year shall be available for use the following year for the respective watermaster district to which credited.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 4 - DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN WATERMASTER SERVICE AREAS › CHAPTER 9 - Alternative Distribution Procedure › Section 4407.

4407. Any moneys collected or received by the department for or on account of owners of the rights involved may be placed in a special deposit fund and paid out in accordance with the provisions of the order or decree or as provided for by the agreement between the owners of the rights affected thereby.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 657.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 4999.

4999. The Legislature finds and declares that by reason of the combination of light rainfall, concentrated population, the transition of considerable areas of land from agricultural use to urban use, and a similar dependence on ground water supplies which prevails in the Counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Ventura, together with the fact that most such underground water supplies are overdrawn, it is necessary that the provisions of this part apply to said counties only.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 526.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5000.

5000. As used in this Part 5, the following terms shall have the respective meanings stated below, viz:
(a) “Ground water” means water beneath the surface of the ground whether or not flowing through known and definite channels.
(b) “Surface water” means water on the surface of the ground.
(c) “Four counties” means the Counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Ventura.
(d) “Person” means all persons whether natural or artificial, including the United States of America, the State of California, and all political subdivisions, districts, municipalities and public agencies of or in either the State or the United States.
(e) “Sources” means any point of diversion or extraction of water and includes among other things wells, tunnels, and headworks.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 526.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5001.

5001. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), each person who, after 1955, extracts ground water in excess of 25 acre-feet in any year shall file with the board a “Notice of Extraction and Diversion of Water” (hereinafter called “notice”) in the form provided in Section 5002, as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) (1) For extractions after December 31, 1955, and before January 1, 2021, the notice shall be filed before March 1 of the year after the extraction.
(2) For extractions after December 31, 2020, and before October 1, 2021, the notice shall be filed before February 1, 2022.
(3) For extractions after September 30, 2021, the notice shall include extractions during the one-year period from October 1 of each year through September 30, inclusive, of the following year, and shall be filed before February 1 of the year after that one-year period.
(c) No notice need be filed with respect to, and there shall not be required to be included in a notice, any of the following:
(1) Information concerning the extraction or diversion of water from a source from which less than 10 acre-feet has been taken during the year.
(2) Information concerning a taking or diversion of surface water for the purpose of generating electrical energy and other nonconsumptive uses, and for incidental uses in connection with that taking or diversion.
(3) Information concerning extractions or diversions of water that are included in annual reports filed with a court or the board by a watermaster appointed by a court or pursuant to statute to administer a final judgment determining rights to water, which reports identify the persons who have extracted or diverted water and give the general place of use and the quantity of water that has been extracted or diverted from each source.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 258, Sec. 43. (SB 155) Effective September 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5002.

5002. Each notice shall be on a form provided by the board. The first notice filed by any person shall state:
(a) The name of the person extracting ground water or diverting surface water.
(b) The quantity of water taken and the method of measurement used by such person or his predecessor in interest in each preceding year from each surface or ground water source; provided, that if the period of such taking exceeds 10 years, such person is not required to state such quantities for any period greater than the preceding 10 calendar years.
(c) The location (sufficient for identification) of each surface or ground water source through or by means of which water has been taken, and if any person or persons other than the person filing said notice claims any interest in such source or the right to extract water therefrom, the name or names, so far as known, of such other person or persons.
(d) A general description of the area in which such water has been used.
(e) Any other facts which the board may require by general regulation and which tend to prove the facts required by this section to be stated, the origin of water supplying any ground water source mentioned in the notice, water levels in any such source, or the extent of any ground water basin from which such water is withdrawn.
(f) Any person diverting only surface water and not more than 25 acre-feet of ground water in any year need not file such notice for such year.
Notices, other than the first notice filed, shall state, in addition to the name of the person extracting or diverting such water:
First: The quantity of water taken from each surface and ground water source from which such person received any water in the preceding calendar year.
Second: Location of each such surface and ground water source through or by means of which water has been taken in such preceding year. This may be stated, so far as applicable, by reference to the water sources described in the original notice.
Third: If such person diverts surface water in excess of three miner’s inches, such person shall further state in said notice the period or periods of such diversion, and the maximum and minimum flows so diverted in each period.
Fourth: Any other facts which the board may require by general regulation, and which tend to prove facts required by this subdivision to be stated, the origin of water supplying any surface or ground water source mentioned in the notice, water levels or flow in any such source, or the extent or origin of the water source supplying the ground water supply from which such water is extracted.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5003.

5003. No prescriptive right that might otherwise accrue to extract ground water shall arise or accrue to, nor shall any statute of limitations operate in regard to the ground water in the four counties after the year 1956 in favor of any person required to file a notice of extraction and diversion of water, until that person files with the board the first “Notice of Extraction and Diversion of Water” substantially in the form mentioned in Section 5002. As to each person who fails to file that notice by the end of the year in 1957, it shall be deemed for the period from that time until the first notice of the person is filed, that no claim of right to the extraction of ground water from any source in the four counties has been made by the person, and that water extracted by the person from the ground water source during that period has not been devoted to or used for any beneficial use. The beneficial use of water from any ground water source within the four counties in any year by the person shall be deemed not to exceed the quantity reported in the notice filed for that year.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 669. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5004.

5004. After the year 1959, failure to file with the board a notice for any calendar year within six months after the close of such calendar year shall be deemed equivalent for all purposes to nonuse for such year of any ground water within the four counties by each person failing to so file a notice within said period; provided, that this section and Section 5003 shall not apply to any person whose aggregate extractions of ground water in any year does not exceed 25 acre-feet nor to any extractions of ground water with respect to which no notice is required to be filed under this part.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 526.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5005.

5005. Except as specified in Section 5004, failure to file the notice or delay in filing the same shall not cause the loss of rights to ground water which existed on January 1, 1956.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1869.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5006.

5006. Each notice shall be sworn to and shall be accompanied by a filing fee which shall be fixed by the board pursuant to Section 1529.
(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 741, Sec. 90. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5007.

5007. Any person may apply to the board to investigate the facts stated in any specified notice so filed and to state in writing its determination of the facts found by it upon such investigation. The cost of such investigation and determination shall be paid by such applicant by such deposits or in such payments as may be fixed by the board. In the event the board makes a determination which differs in any material respect from the facts contained in the notice, then, prior to making its final determination, the board shall notify both the person filing said notice and the person requesting a determination of facts of its proposed findings, and shall invite either party to submit further information prior to making its final determination, and no such final determination shall be made until sixty (60) days after the parties have been so notified of the board’s proposed determination.
In any action or proceeding hereafter pending in which the facts, or any of them, contained in the notices so filed are material, such notices shall not be evidence of any fact stated therein, but such determination by the board shall be prima facie evidence of said facts.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 2 - WATER › PART 5 - RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS › Section 5008.

5008. The making of any willful misstatement in any notice shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed six months, or both.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 408. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)