SECTIONS 31040-31054 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 31040-31054

31040. A district may take any property necessary to carry out the
business of the district by grant, purchase, gift, devise,
condemnation, or lease with or without the privilege of purchase.

31041. A district may hold, use, enjoy, lease, or dispose of
property within or without the district necessary to the full
exercise of its powers.

31042. A district may construct, purchase, lease, or otherwise
acquire works, water rights, land, rights, and privileges useful or
necessary to convey, supply, store, or otherwise make use of water
for any purposes authorized by this division.

31045. A district may, on terms and conditions agreed upon by the
board and the board of directors of a municipal water district formed
pursuant to the Municipal Water District Act of 1911:
(a) Transfer, sell, lease, or convey to the municipal water
district any works, land, or structures within any improvement
district formed pursuant to any of the provisions of this division.
(b) Transfer to the municipal water district the proceeds of any
bonds theretofore authorized by or for the improvement district.

31046. A district may sell or lease the mineral or hydrocarbon
rights in any land belonging to it when deemed by the board for the
best interest of the district.

31047. A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink,
treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water, including sewage and
storm waters, for the beneficial use or uses of the district or its
inhabitants or the owners of rights to water therein.

31048. A district may cooperate, act in conjunction and contract
with the State of California or any agency thereof, municipalities,
public and private corporations of any kind, and persons with respect
to the salvage, control, storage, spreading, distribution,
treatment, purification, and recapture of any waters, including
sewage and storm waters, and the construction of any works, the
acquisition of any property, or the doing of any act with respect
thereto, or for the protection of property, watersheds, water
courses, and underground water supplies, and for the use, operation,
management, or control of any public works or property.

31049. A district may make and perform any agreement with the State
of California or any agency thereof, any public or private
corporation of any kind, and any person, or any of them for the joint
construction, acquisition, disposition or operation of any property
or works of a kind which might be constructed, acquired, disposed of
or operated by the district.

31051. A district may acquire by any means stock of any mutual
water company or corporation for the purpose of furnishing a supply
of water for public, municipal or governmental purposes.

31052. The North Marin County Water District may purchase devices
for generation of energy from solar radiation and may resell such
devices for use within the district. Resales shall be on reasonable
terms and conditions, which may include warranties and guarantees by
the district of payment of purchase loans.

31053. No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any
service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which
is subject to the lien of a general obligation bonded indebtedness or
which was the subject of a lease-purchase, revenue, or other type of
debt incurred for capital improvements by or on behalf of the
district incurred by the district for the purpose of providing a
service similar to that which the utility proposes to provide.
However, a publicly owned utility may commence to provide service,
otherwise prohibited, upon either of the following conditions:
(a) If the board of directors of the county water district, by
resolution permits the service.
(b) In any portion of such a county water district proposed to be
served by the publicly owned utility in which the total number of
registered voters residing therein exceeds 200, if at least
two-thirds of the voters voted at a special county water district
election to permit the service. The election shall be called and held
as an initiative measure pursuant to Section 30830.

31054. No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any
water service for, on, or to any land within a county water district
which is subject to a lien of an indebtedness arising under any
contract between the district and the United States of America
incurred or contracted by the district for the purpose of providing
water service, provided two-thirds of the voters voting at an
election within the district have approved the incurrence of the
indebtedness and, provided further, that the district has water
available and is ready, able, and willing to serve such land.
However, a publicly owned utility may commence to provide service,
otherwise prohibited, upon either of the following conditions:
(a) If the board of directors of such a county water district
shall by resolution permit such service; or
(b) In any portion of such a county water district proposed to be
served by the publicly owned utility in which the total number of
registered voters residing therein exceeds 200, and in which at least
a majority of the voters voting on the proposition shall have voted
at a special county water district election to permit such service
within that portion of the district. The election shall be called and
held within that portion of the district as an initiative measure
pursuant to Section 30830.