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2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71612.

71612. Whenever the board finds that there is a surplus of water above that which may be required by consumers within the district, the district may sell or otherwise dispose of such surplus water to any persons, public corporations or agencies, or other consumers.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71612.5.

71612.5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Marin Municipal Water District may sell water to any person, firm, public or private corporation, or public agency or other consumer within or without the district.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 933, Sec. 15.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71613.

71613. A district may supply and deliver water to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms, and conditions as are determined by the board for such service.
(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 83.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71614.

71614. A district may fix the rates at which water shall be sold. Different rates may be established for different classes or conditions of service, but rates shall be uniform throughout the district for like classes and conditions of service.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71615.

71615. Any special water rate fixed in accordance with the terms and conditions of an annexation shall be deemed to be a rate for a different class or condition of service.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71616.

71616. A district, so far as practicable, shall fix such rates for water in the district, and in each improvement district therein, as will result in revenues which will:
(a) Pay the operating expenses of the district and the improvement district.
(b) Provide for repairs and depreciation of works.
(c) Provide a reasonable surplus for improvements, extensions, and enlargements.
(d) Pay the interest on any bonded debt.
(e) Provide a sinking or other fund for the payment of the principal of such bonded debt as it becomes due.
(f) Repay advances, together with interest at a rate not to exceed the interest value of money to the district, made from the district to an improvement district.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 708.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71617.

71617. The rates for water in each improvement district may vary from the rates of the district and from other improvement districts therein.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 1 - Development and Sale › Section 71618.

71618. 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. 9.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71630.

71630. The district by ordinance may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix on or before the third Monday of August, in each fiscal year, a water standby assessment or availability charge in the district, in any portion thereof, or in any improvement district, to which water is made available by the district, whether the water is actually used or not.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 27, Sec. 38. Effective January 1, 2008.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71631.

71631. The standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) per acre per year for each acre of land on which the charge is levied or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel less than one acre.
(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 310.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71631.5.

71631.5. Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, the Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District, the Ramona Municipal Water District, the Rainbow Municipal Water District, or the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, the standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which the charge is levied or thirty dollars ($30) per year for a parcel less than one acre. In any such improvement district, the proceeds from any standby assessment or availability charge in excess of ten dollars ($10) per acre per year or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel less than one acre shall only be used for the purposes of such improvement district.
This section, applicable only to the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, the Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District, the Ramona Municipal Water District, the Rainbow Municipal Water District, and the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, is necessary because of the unique and special water management problems of those areas included within those districts.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 267, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71631.6.

71631.6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Otay Municipal Water District in San Diego County, the standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which the charge is levied or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel less than one acre. In any such improvement district the proceeds from any standby assessment or availability charge in excess of ten dollars ($10) per acre per year shall only be used for the purposes of such improvement district.
This section, applicable only to the Otay Municipal Water District of San Diego County is necessary because of the unique and special water management problems of the area included within such district.
(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 281.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71631.7.

71631.7. (a) Notwithstanding Section 71631, for the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District, the standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which the charge is levied or thirty dollars ($30) per year for a parcel less than one acre. The proceeds from any standby assessment or availability charge shall only be used for the purposes of management of local water supply and its quality.
(b) This section, applicable only to the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District, is necessary because of the unique and special water management problems of those areas included within that district.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 818, Sec. 1. (AB 2446) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71632.

71632. The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge shall be adopted by the board pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code and only after adoption of a resolution setting forth the particular schedule or schedules of charges or assessments proposed to be established by ordinance and after a hearing on said resolution.
If the procedures set forth in this section as it read at the time a standby assessment or availability charge was established were followed, the board may, by ordinance, continue the charge pursuant to this article in successive years at the same rate. If new, increased, or extended assessments are proposed, the board shall comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 27, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2008.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71633.

71633. The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of water availability.
(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 105.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71634.

71634. On or before the third Monday in August, the board shall furnish in writing to the board of supervisors and the county auditor of each affected county a description of each parcel of land within the district upon which a standby charge is to be levied and collected for the current fiscal year, together with the amount of standby charge fixed by the district on each parcel of land.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 132.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71635.

71635. The board shall direct that, at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes the board of supervisors shall levy, in addition to any other tax it levies, the standby charge in the amounts for the respective parcels fixed by the board.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 132.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71636.

71636. All county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes shall collect district standby charges with the regular tax payments to the county. Said charges shall be collected in the same form and manner as county taxes are collected, and shall be paid to the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 132.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2 - Standby Charges › Section 71637.

71637. Charges fixed by the district shall be a lien on all the property benefited thereby. Liens for said charges shall be of the same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection may be enforced by the same means as provided for the enforcement of liens for state and county taxes.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 132.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2.5 - Alternative Provisions for Standby Charges › Section 71638.

71638. If the procedures set forth in this article as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the district or improvement district may, by resolution, continue the charge pursuant to this article in successive years at the same rate. If new, increased, or extended assessments are proposed, the district or improvement district shall comply with the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 27, Sec. 40. Effective January 1, 2008.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2.5 - Alternative Provisions for Standby Charges › Section 71638.1.

71638.1. For property within a district, a portion thereof, or an improvement district, which property was previously charged or assessed for such purposes, the district by resolution may fix on or before the third Monday of August, in each fiscal year, a water standby assessment or availability charge in the district, in any portion thereof, or in any improvement district, to which water is made available by the district, whether the water is actually used or not.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 139.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2.5 - Alternative Provisions for Standby Charges › Section 71638.2.

71638.2. The resolution fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of water availability, subject to the maximum charges provided in Section 71631.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 139.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2.5 - Alternative Provisions for Standby Charges › Section 71638.4.

71638.4. The levy and collection of such assessment or charge shall be made as provided in Sections 71634 through 71637, inclusive.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 139.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 2.7 - Standby Assessments › Section 71639.

71639. (a) This article applies to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district, by resolution, may adopt an assessment with a schedule of annual adjustments, and adjust the amount of an assessment in accordance with this section, if the adjustment is made in the same manner as provided for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government Code.
(c) The district shall cause notice of the intent to adopt the resolution to be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code prior to the date set for the adoption of the assessment, and shall hear any and all objections at the time and place set forth in the notice. The district, at the time and place specified in the notice, shall conduct the hearing and consider all objections to the assessment. Thereafter, the district may adjust the assessment, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The amount of the assessment does not exceed twenty-nine dollars and forty-one cents ($29.41) per equivalent dwelling unit.
(2) The revenue raised by the assessment, including its annual adjustments, is used exclusively to fund the readiness-to-serve charge, or equivalent charge, imposed upon the district by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and related administrative costs.
(3) The district adjusts its water rates to its retail agencies by an amount necessary to prevent surplus funding of the readiness-to-serve charge imposed upon the district by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
(d) For the purposes of Article XIII C and Article XIII D of the California Constitution, the district has not increased an assessment if the district adjusts an assessment in the same manner as provided for taxes, fees, and charges in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 53750 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 210, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 3 - Water Shortages › Section 71640.

71640. A district may restrict the use of district water during any emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water shortage, and may prohibit the wastage of district water or the use of district water during such periods for any purpose other than household uses or such other restricted uses as the district determines to be necessary. A district may also prohibit use of district water during such periods for specific uses which it finds to be nonessential.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 3 - Water Shortages › Section 71641.

71641. A district may prescribe and define by ordinance the restrictions, prohibitions, and exclusions referred to in Section 71640. Such an ordinance is effective upon adoption; but, within 10 days after its adoption, the ordinance shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in full in a newspaper of general circulation which is printed, published, and circulated in the district. If there is no such newspaper the ordinance shall be posted within 10 days after its adoption in three public places within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 3 - Water Shortages › Section 71642.

71642. A finding by the board upon the existence, threat, or duration of an emergency or shortage, or upon the matter of necessity or of any other matter or condition referred to in Section 71640, shall be made by resolution or ordinance. The finding is prima facie evidence of the fact or matter so found, and such fact or matter shall be presumed to continue unchanged unless and until a contrary finding is made by the board by resolution or ordinance.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 3 - Water Shortages › Section 71643.

71643. The finding made by the board pursuant to Section 71642 shall be received in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding in which it may be offered, and shall be proof and evidence of the fact or matter found until rebutted or overcome by other sufficient evidence received in such proceeding. A copy of any resolution or ordinance setting forth such finding shall, when certified by the secretary of the district, be evidence that the finding was made by the district as shown by the resolution or ordinance and certification.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 2 - Water › ARTICLE 3 - Water Shortages › Section 71644.

71644. From and after the publication or posting of any ordinance pursuant to Section 71641, and until the ordinance has been repealed or the emergency or threatened emergency has ceased, it is a misdemeanor for any person to use or apply water received from the district contrary to or in violation of any restriction or prohibition specified in the ordinance. Upon conviction thereof such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days, or by fine not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600), or by both.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 417. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 1 - Recreation and Electrical Power › Section 71660.

71660. A district may construct, maintain, improve, and operate public recreational facilities appurtenant to facilities operated or contracted to be operated by the district. It may by ordinance provide regulations binding upon all persons to govern the use of such facilities, including regulations imposing reasonable charges for the use thereof. Violation of district regulations relating to vehicle or boat speed limits, defacement of district property, the use, possession or discharge of firearms, weapons or fireworks, the creation of fire hazards, being under the influence of intoxicating beverages or dangerous drugs, or remaining on, or reentering district premises after an authorized district officer or employee has specifically withdrawn consent for a person to utilize district facilities, is a misdemeanor. Violation of any other regulation of the district adopted pursuant to this section is an infraction.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 127.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 1 - Recreation and Electrical Power › Section 71661.

71661. In addition to the activities authorized by Section 71660, the Big Bear Municipal Water District may construct, maintain, improve, and operate public recreational facilities which are not appurtenant to a water reservoir operated by the district, when such proposal is approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the district voting at a special district election held pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 71450) of Division 20.
This section, applicable only to the Big Bear Municipal Water District, is necessary because of the unique and special recreational problems of the area within such district.
(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 479.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 1 - Recreation and Electrical Power › Section 71662.

71662. A district may utilize any part of its water, and any part of its works, facilities, improvements, and property used for the development, storage, and transportation of water pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 71610) to provide, generate, and deliver hydroelectric power, and may acquire, construct, operate, and maintain any and all works, facilities, improvements, and property necessary or convenient for such utilization.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 146.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 1 - Recreation and Electrical Power › Section 71663.

71663. A district may (a) pursuant to contract, provide, sell, and deliver hydroelectric power to the United States of America or any board, department or agency thereof, to the State of California for the purposes of the State Water Resources Development System, and to any public agency, private corporation, or other person or entity, or any combination thereof, engaged in the sale of electric power at retail; or (b) use all or any part of such hydroelectric power directly, or indirectly through exchange, in exercising any of the powers described in Section 71590 or as otherwise provided by law.
For the purposes of this section, “public agency” means a city, county, city and county, district, local agency, public authority, or public corporation.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 146.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 1 - Recreation and Electrical Power › Section 71664.

71664. The Marin Municipal Water District may construct, maintain, and operate one or more plants for the generation of power from wind or solar radiation, and the transmission lines for the conveyance thereof, and in connection therewith shall have all the powers set forth in Sections 71662 and 71663 for the generation and transmission of hydroelectric power.
(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 657, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 2 - Sewage, Waste, and Storm Water Disposal › Section 71670.

71670. A district may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm water of the district and its inhabitants.
For purposes of this article, “waste” is as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 13050, and also includes any and all aquatic vegetation, except riparian vegetation, which threatens or adversely affects the quality of the waters within the district. “Quality of the waters” is as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 13050. “Disposal of sewage” includes the sale or resale of treated effluent for any purpose.
The district may prescribe, revise, and collect rates or other charges for the services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article.
The amendment to this section enacted at the 1977–78 Regular Session of the Legislature is declaratory of and does not constitute a change in existing law.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 418.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 2 - Sewage, Waste, and Storm Water Disposal › Section 71670.5.

71670.5. A district may supply sewage and waste services to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms and conditions as are determined by the board for such services.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1864.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 2 - Sewage, Waste, and Storm Water Disposal › Section 71671.

71671. The revenues from the rates and charges for services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article may be used for the following purposes:
(a) To pay the operating and maintenance expenses of the facilities.
(b) To provide a reasonable surplus for improvements, extensions, and enlargements.
(c) To pay the interest on any bonded debt for the facilities.
(d) To provide a sinking or other fund for the payment of the principal of such bonded debt as it becomes due.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 2 - Sewage, Waste, and Storm Water Disposal › Section 71672.

71672. The district may provide that the rates and charges for services and facilities furnished pursuant to this article may be collected with the water rates of the district, that all rates shall be billed upon the same bill and collected as one item, and that in the event of failure to pay the whole or any part of the bill, the district may discontinue any or all service for which the bill is rendered. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the collection of rates or charges by the district in any other lawful manner.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 2 - Sewage, Waste, and Storm Water Disposal › Section 71674.

71674. A district may fix, levy and collect a sewage and waste water service standby or availability charge in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as are provided for a water standby or availability charge in Articles 2 (commencing with Section 71630) and 2.5 (commencing with Section 71638) of Chapter 2 of this part.
(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 139.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 3 - Fire Protection › Section 71680.

71680. (a) A district may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to the Fire Protection District Law of 1987, Part 3 (commencing with Section 13800) of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code.
(b) If the district includes any part of any local agency which provides fire protection service to any territory in the district, the district shall have no authority regarding the prevention or suppression of fires, in that territory unless the district has obtained the consent of the other local agency.
(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1013, Sec. 20.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71682.

71682. The provisions of this article apply only to districts in which the producers of a majority of the production of ground water within the boundaries of the district are or will within one year from the enactment of this article be subject to a court judgment requiring the delivery of makeup water to downstream users.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71682.1.

71682.1. For the purpose of replenishing the ground water supplies within such district and to provide such makeup water, a district may cause assessments to be levied as provided in this article. Provided, that:
(a) This article shall not apply to a district 80 percent of the area of which is included within the boundaries of a water replenishment district organized pursuant to Division 18 (commencing with Section 60000) of this code or 80 percent of the area of which is included within the boundaries of any other special district of any kind or type having replenishment powers and the power to levy an assessment on the ground water extractions.
(b) This article shall cease to apply to a district as of the end of any water year during which 80 percent of the area thereof becomes included within the boundries of such a water replenishment district or any such other special district denoted in subdivision (a) of this section.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71684.

71684. Proceeds raised by the water replenishment assessments hereunder may only be used for the purchase of water for replenishment of the ground waters of the district and for the purchase, in whole or in part, of makeup water requirements.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71685.

71685. Not later than the second Tuesday in February each year the board shall order an engineering survey and report to be made regarding the ground water supplies of the district. The same shall include, among all other information and data which the board may require, the following:
(a) Records, data and other information for the consideration of the board in its determination of the annual overdraft.
(b) Records, data and other information for the consideration of the board in its determination of the accumulated overdraft as of the last day of the preceding water year.
(c) A report, with supporting data, as to the total production of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district during the preceding water year.
(d) A report, with supporting data, as to the changes during the preceding water year in the ground water levels and pressure levels or piezometric heights of the ground water contained within pressure-level areas of the district, and as to the effects thereof upon the ground water supplies within the district.
(e) An estimate of the annual overdraft for the current water year and for the ensuing water year.
(f) An estimate of the accumulated overdraft as of the last day of the current water year.
(g) An estimate of the total production of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district for the current water year and for the ensuing water year.
(h) An estimate of the changes during the current water year in the ground water levels, pressure levels or piezometric heights of the ground water contained within pressure-level areas of the district, and of the effects thereof upon the ground water supplies and makeup water requirements of the district.
(i) An estimate of the quantity, source, and cost of water available for replenishment of the ground water supplies and meeting the makeup water requirements of the district during the ensuing water year under the provisions of Section 71687.
(j) Records, data, estimates and other information for the consideration of the board in its determination of the makeup water requirements for the preceding, current and ensuing water years.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71686.

71686. On or before the second Tuesday in March of each year, and provided the survey and report called for by Section 71685 has been made, the board, by resolution, shall declare whether funds shall be raised to purchase water for replenishment and makeup water for the next ensuing water year pursuant to this article and whether the replenishment assessment will benefit, directly or indirectly, all of the persons or real property and improvements within the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71686.1.

71686.1. If the board, by resolution, determines that the funds needed to purchase replenishment or makeup water shall be raised by the levy of a replenishment assessment, then the board shall immediately publish a notice that a public hearing will be held on the second Tuesday of April for the purpose of determining whether and to what extent the estimated cost of purchasing water for replenishment and makeup requirements for the ensuing water year shall be paid for by a replenishment assessment. Such notice shall contain a copy of the board’s resolution, the time and place of the hearing, and an invitation to all interested parties to attend and be heard in support of or opposition to the proposed assessment, the engineering survey and report, and the board’s determination, and shall invite inspection of the engineering survey and report upon which the board acted. The notice shall be published in each affected county pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, at least 10 days before the hearing date.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71686.2.

71686.2. The hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the president or presiding officer or hearing officer but shall be completed by the first Tuesday in May next following.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71686.3.

71686.3. The board may appoint a qualified registered engineer familiar with water problems as a hearing officer to conduct the hearing.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71686.4.

71686.4. All evidence relevant to the engineering survey and report and the board’s determination that such a replenishment assessment shall be levied may be introduced.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71687.1.

71687.1. Based on such findings the board shall, by resolution, determine what portion, if any, of the estimated cost of purchasing water for replenishment and makeup for the ensuing fiscal year shall be paid for by a replenishment assessment, and what portion, not exceeding 25 percent of the said portion, of the estimated cost of purchasing in the future that quantity of water which should be purchased during the ensuing water year, but which is estimated to be unavailable during that year, should be raised by a replenishment assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71687.2.

71687.2. If the board determines that a replenishment assessment should be levied upon the production of ground water from ground water supplies within the district during the ensuing fiscal year, then immediately following the making of such determination the board shall levy a replenishment assessment on the production of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district during the fiscal year commencing on July 1st next, and such replenishment assessment shall be fixed by the board at a uniform rate per acre-foot of ground water so produced. The producers of such ground water shall pay such replenishment assessment to the district at the times and in the manner hereinafter in this article provided.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71688.

71688. The district, after the levying of the replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to the operators of all water-producing facilities in the district as disclosed by the records of such district, which notice shall state the rate of replenishment assessment for each acre-foot of ground water to be produced during the ensuing fiscal year. The notice may be sent by postal card or by other first-class mail with postage prepaid by the district.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71688.1.

71688.1. The operator of each water-producing facility within the district, on or before the last day of the month immediately following the respective quarterly periods ending March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st of each year, shall file with the district a sworn statement setting forth the total production in acre-feet of ground water from such water-producing facility during the respective quarterly periods immediately preceding the filing of the respective statements, a general description or number locating such water-producing facility, and the method or basis of the computation of such ground water production. Each statement also shall contain such other information as the district may require.
If the board by its resolution determines that additional reports or statements are necessary or useful to carry out the purposes of this article and to administer the replenishment of the ground water supplies and meet the makeup water requirements of the district, then the board shall by its resolution so declare and shall give notice of the adoption of the resolution by immediately publishing the same in each affected county pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. Effective 30 days after such publication, the operator of each water-producing facility in such district shall file with the district the report or statement required by such resolution, at such times and in such manner and form as are provided in such resolution.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71688.2.

71688.2. Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this article shall be due and payable to the district by each producer in quarterly installments on the last day for filing the statement of the production of ground water from the water-producing facility operated by such producer during the quarterly period required to be covered by such statement. The amount so due and payable shall be computed by multiplying the production in acre-feet of ground water so produced from such water-producing facility, as reported in such statement, by the rate of the replenishment assessment fixed and levied by the board for the fiscal year in which such production shall occur.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71688.3.

71688.3. The board shall authorize, and the district shall make, refunds in whole or in part of replenishment assessments theretofore paid, to any producer who has erroneously overstated his production of ground water in any sworn statement for a quarterly period required under the provisions of Section 71688.1, and who has overpaid his replenishment assessment for that quarter, but only upon compliance by the producer with the procedure hereinafter set forth and within the time hereinafter provided.
Any such producer, within one year of the last day for filing of the said sworn statement for the quarterly period in question, may file a verified application with the district on a form to be furnished by the district, containing such information as the district may require, requesting a refund of that portion of any replenishment assessment claimed to have been paid by reason of that producer’s erroneous overstatement of ground water production. If incomplete information is contained in said application, or if the board desires other or further information than called for by that application, the same shall also be furnished by a verified statement within 30 days of mailing of written notice of request therefor to the producer at his address as shown by the district’s records, or the application shall be deemed abandoned. Such request by the board shall not cause any application otherwise timely filed to be considered as not filed within said one-year period. The board may authorize, and the district may pay, any refund claimed without a hearing thereon, but no application shall be denied in whole or in part without a hearing being accorded to the applicant in which he shall have the burden of proof. Any determination by the board on any matter in connection with said application shall be final and conclusive upon the producer.
Any refund authorized to be paid under the provisions of this section may be paid only out of moneys realized from replenishment assessments levied pursuant to Section 71687.2, then or thereafter raised. Upon election of the producer, any refund determined by the board to be owing may be credited to the producer against any subsequent replenishment assessments which might become due and owing from him. No refunds shall be made except as authorized by this section.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71689.

71689. If any producer shall knowingly fail to pay a replenishment assessment within 30 days of when due, such producer shall become liable to the district for interest at the rate of 1 percent per month on the delinquent amount of the assessment.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71689.1.

71689.1. Should any operator of a water-producing facility knowingly fail to register his water-producing facility or knowingly fail to file the ground water production statement, or knowingly fail to file and furnish any other reports or statements required by resolution of the board adopted pursuant to Section 71688.1, he shall, in addition to interest as provided in Section 71689, become liable to the district for a penalty of one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71689.2.

71689.2. The board, at the time of fixing the replenishment assessment rate, may provide by resolution that any producer operating a water-producing facility having a discharge opening not greater than two inches in diameter and providing ground water for domestic or irrigation uses on an area not exceeding one acre in extent, shall pay the amount fixed in such resolution as the replenishment assessment to be paid by such producer. No sworn statement as to the production of ground water from such water-producing facility need be filed.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1725.)
2023 California Code › Water Code - WAT › DIVISION 20 - MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICTS › PART 5 - POWERS AND PURPOSES › CHAPTER 3 - Other Functions › ARTICLE 4 - Water Replenishment Assessment › Section 71689.3.

71689.3. (a) The superior court of the principal county may issue a temporary restraining order upon the filing by the district with the court of a verified petition or complaint setting forth that the person named therein as defendant is the operator of a water-producing facility which has not been registered with the district or that the defendant is delinquent in the payment of a replenishment assessment. The temporary restraining order shall be returnable to the court on or before 10 days after its issuance.
(b) The court may issue and grant an injunction restraining and prohibiting the named defendant from the operation of any water-producing facility when it is established by the preponderance of the evidence at a hearing that the defendant has failed to register the water-producing facility with the district or that the defendant is delinquent in the payment of a replenishment assessment. The court may provide that the injunction so made and issued shall be stayed for a period not to exceed 10 days to permit the defendant to register the water-producing facility or to pay the delinquent replenishment assessment.
(c) Service of process shall be made by posting a copy of the summons and complaint upon the water-producing facility or the parcel of land upon which the water-producing facility is located and by personal service of summons and complaint upon the named defendant.
(d) The right to proceed for injunctive relief as provided in this section shall be in addition to any other right which may be provided elsewhere in this act or which may be otherwise allowed by law. The procedure provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 525) of Title 7 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure regarding injunctions shall be followed except insofar as it may be otherwise provided in this section.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 517, Sec. 410.)