GENERAL PROVISIONS
General Provisions enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
§§ 1–26 · 27 sections
- § 1 This act shall be known as the Water Code.
- § 2 The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be…
- § 3 All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code,…
- § 4 No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein…
- § 5 Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this…
- § 6 Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
- § 7 Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer…
- § 8 Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is…
- § 9 Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions heretofore or…
- § 10 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. “Subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which that term…
- § 11 The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
- § 12 The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
- § 12.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
- § 13 The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
- § 14 “County” includes city and county.
- § 15 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
- § 16 “Oath” includes affirmation.
- § 17 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a…
- § 18 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of Columbia and…
- § 19 “Person” means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.
- § 20 “United States” means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or…
- § 21 If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such…
- § 22 “Department,” unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water Resources.
- § 23 “Director,” unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water Resources.
- § 24 The standard miner’s inch of water is equivalent to one and one-half cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice.
- § 25 “Board,” unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources Control Board.
- § 26 For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or “reclaimed water” has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section 13050.