SECTIONS 22280-22284 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 22280-22284

22280. Any district may in lieu in whole or in part of levying
assessments fix and collect charges for any service furnished by the
district, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a) (1) Use, sale, or lease of water, which may include, pursuant
to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of
the Government Code, a standby charge whether the water is actually
used or not.
(2) If the procedures set forth in this section as it read at the
time a standby charge was established were followed, the district
may, by resolution, continue the charge pursuant to this section in
successive years at the same rate. If new, increased, or extended
assessments are proposed, the district shall comply with the notice,
protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government
Code.
(b) Delivery of water for irrigation in excess of a specified
quantity per unit of land.
(c) Water and the service thereof required by law or provisions of
agreements under which all or part of the water supply of the
district was acquired to be furnished outside its boundaries to
consumers whose rights to service were at the time the supply of
water was acquired by the district enforceable by reason of their
status as persons of the class for whose benefit the water was
appropriated or dedicated.
(d) Use of water for power purposes.
(e) Sale of electric power.
(f) Connections to new pipelines or extensions of existing
pipelines required to serve water to lands in the district not
adjacent to existing distribution works and which have been
constructed in whole or in part at the expense of the district.
(g) Services performed under contracts made pursuant to Section
22234.
(h) Use of water for groundwater recharge.

22281. A district may charge higher rates for the service of water
to any land that is not subject to assessment by the district than is
charged other land in the district for similar service.

22281.1. A district may establish a charge for the right to connect
to new pipelines or extensions of existing pipelines constructed in
whole or in part at the expense of the district in such amounts as in
the opinion of the board will reimburse the district for the cost of
construction advanced by the district.
The connection charge shall be as nearly as possible an amount
equal to that proportion of the cost of construction of the new
pipeline or extension that the area to be served by the connection
bears to the total area to be served by the new pipeline or
extension.

22282. Whenever any charges for any service provided for by this
division have been fixed, they may be made payable in advance.

22282.1. A district may refuse service to any land if outstanding
charges for services already rendered such land have not been paid
within a reasonable time.

22283. A district may prescribe reasonable rules to carry out the
provisions of this article.

22284. A district may prescribe by rule that when any charges fixed
for services under Section 22280 become delinquent, the charges may
be collected in accordance with procedures specified in Section
25806.