SECTIONS 23375-23383 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 23375-23383

23375. The provisions of this chapter do not extend the right of
eminent domain to any public use in behalf of which it may not
otherwise be exercised.

23376. Districts may enter into agreements with irrigation
districts in adjoining States for the joint acquisition, management,
and control of diverting, impounding, or distributing works for
irrigating or draining land within the boundaries of the respective
districts.

23377. Agreements pursuant to this article may be evidenced by
written contracts executed on behalf of the board of directors or
trustees of each respective district or by resolutions entered upon
their respective minutes.

23378. The contracts or certified copies of them and certified
copies of the resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the
county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the land
of the districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property
owned by the districts or acquired pursuant to this article.

23379. Agreements made pursuant to this article may provide for
joint ownership, several ownership, or ownership in common of the
property convenient for their joint purposes and may provide for the
terms under which or the respective proportions in which the property
shall be held.

23380. Any rights or disputes arising out of or from the agreements
may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent
jurisdiction in this State.

23381. Any meeting of a board regularly adjourned to or called
substantially in the manner for calling special meetings may be held
in conjunction with the board of the cooperating district in the
cooperating district in the adjoining State with the same validity as
if held at the district office in this State.

23382. For the purposes of cooperative action pursuant to this
article either district may divert water from either or both States
for either or both impounding in the adjoining State or for
distribution to the land of either or both cooperating districts.

23383. So far as necessary for carrying out the purposes of this
article a cooperating district in an adjoining State may hold title
to property in this State, and a cooperating district in this State
may hold title to property in the adjoining State.