SECTIONS 60001-60029 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 60001-60029

60001. The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.

60002. "Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of
land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not
enumerated.

60003. "District" means a water replenishment district formed under
the provisions of the Water Replenishment District Act, or this
division.

60004. "Board" means the board of directors of a district.

60005. "Land" means land in the district or proposed district
involved.

60006. "President" means the president of the board.

60007. "Secretary" means the secretary of the board.

60008. "General water replenishment district election" means the
election required to be held in each district at the time of the
general election in each even-numbered year.

60009. "Special water district election" means any district
election other than a general water replenishment district election.

60010. "Elector," "voter," and "precinct board" have respectively
the same meaning as in the Elections Code, but an "elector" or "voter"
shall also be a resident of the district or proposed district
involved.

60011. "Person" means any public agency or public corporation,
whether federal, state, or local, or any private corporation, firm,
partnership, individual, or group of individuals.

60012. "Water replenishment district" means a special water
replenishment district.

60013. "Water year" means the period commencing on October 1st of
one calendar year and ending on September 30th of the calendar year
immediately following.

60014. "Fiscal year" means the period commencing on July 1st of one
calendar year and ending on June 30th of the calendar year
immediately following.

60015. "Ground water" means nonsaline water beneath the surface of
the ground, whether or not flowing through known and definite
channels.

60016. "Nonsaline water" means water which has less than 1,000
parts of chlorides to 1,000,000 parts of water.

60017. "Production" or "producing" means the extraction or
extracting of ground water, by pumping or any other method, from
shafts, tunnels, wells (including, but not limited to, abandoned oil
wells), excavations, or other sources of such ground water, for
domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial use,
except that such terms shall not mean or include the extraction or
extracting of ground water incidentally produced with oil in the
production of oil or gas nor the extraction or extracting of ground
water incidentally produced in a bona fide mining operation or in the
bona fide construction of a tunnel for railroad, highway, aqueduct,
pipeline, or other useful purpose (except the production of ground
water for use or sale) unless the ground water so extracted shall be
used or sold by the producer for domestic, municipal, irrigation,
industrial, or other beneficial purpose.

60018. "Water-producing facility" means any device or method,
mechanical or otherwise, for the production of ground water from the
ground water supplies within a replenishment district.

60019. "Owner" means the person or persons owning any
water-producing facility or any interest therein other than a lien to
secure the payment of a debt or other obligation.

60020. "Operator" means the person or persons operating a
water-producing facility; the owner thereof shall be conclusively
presumed to be such operator unless satisfactory showing be made to
the board of directors of the replenishment district that such
water-producing facility actually is operated by some other person or
persons. "Operator" shall mean any "person" mentioned in Section
60011 of this act who is operating a water-producing facility, it
being the purpose of this act to include any such person within the
provisions hereof.

60021. "Producer" means any operator producing ground water.

60022. "Annual overdraft" means the amount, as determined by the
board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the
quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means
from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district
during the water year exceeds the quantity of nonsaline water
replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies
in such water year by any natural or artificial means other than
replenishment under the provisions of Part 6 of this act or by any
other governmental agency or entity.

60023. "Accumulated overdraft" means the aggregate amount, as
determined from time to time by the board of directors of the
replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed
by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies
within such replenishment district during all preceding water years
shall have exceeded the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein
by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water
years by any natural or artificial means, the respective
determination to be based upon reports, records, and other data or
evidence found by such board of directors to be adequate for the
purpose of making such determination.

60024. "Principal county" means the county in which the greater
portion of the land in a district or a proposed district is situated,
if the district or proposed district is located in more than one
county. If the district is situated in only one county then
"principal county" shall mean that county.

60025. "Participating county" is any county other than the
principal county in which the district or proposed district is
situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more
than one county.

60026. "Affected county" means each county in which some land of
the district or proposed district is located.

60027. "Replenishment assessment" means any assessment levied
pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 60300).

60028. "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or
radiological substance, or substances, of a concentration which, if
contained in water, will cause a significant impairment to a domestic
drinking water supply.

60029. "Existing agency" shall mean any public corporation, agency,
district, or political subdivision created prior or subsequent to
the formation of a replenishment district under this law and which
has any of the same powers as a replenishment district.