SECTIONS 74520-74527 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 74520-74527

74520. A district may make surveys and investigations of the water
supply and resources of the district.

74521. A district may appropriate, acquire, and conserve water and
water rights for any useful purpose.

74522. A district may conserve, store, spread, and sink water and
for such purposes may acquire or construct dams, damsites, reservoirs
and reservoir sites, canals, ditches and conduits, spreading basins,
sinking wells, and sinking basins.

74523. A district may maintain, operate, and repair any of the
works described in Section 74522.

74524. A district may provide for the construction, operation, and
maintenance of such works, facilities, or operations within or
without the district boundaries as the board deems necessary to
protect the land or property in the district from damage by flood or
overflow.

74525. A district may drill, construct, install, and operate wells,
pumps, pipelines, conduits, valves, gates, meters, and other
appurtenances to such wells, pipelines and conduits, and may pump
water therefrom and thereby for sale, delivery, distribution, or
other disposition.

74526. A district may sell, deliver, distribute, or otherwise
dispose of any water that may be stored or appropriated, owned, or
controlled by the district.

74527. A district may fix the rates at which water may be sold by
the district. The rates shall be uniform for like classes of service
throughout the district.