PART 6. WATER REPLENISHMENT ASSESSMENT [60300. - 60352.]

Part 6 added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1514.

§§ 60300–60352 · 30 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. Survey §§ 60300–60301 · 2 sections

   • § 60300 Not later than the second Tuesday in February each year the board shall order an engineering survey and report to be made regarding the ground water supplies…
   • § 60301 If the district has received an engineering evaluation as to any matter within the powers of the district under Section 60224 and containing proposed action or…
2. CHAPTER 2. Hearings §§ 60305–60309 · 5 sections

   • § 60305 On or before the second Tuesday in March of each year, and provided the survey and report called for by Section 60300 has been made, the board, by resolution,…
   • § 60306 If the board, by resolution, determines that all or a portion of the funds needed to purchase replenishment water, or to remove contaminants from the…
   • § 60307 Said hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the president or presiding officer…
   • § 60308 The board may appoint a qualified registered engineer familiar with water problems as a hearing officer to conduct said hearing.
   • § 60309 All evidence relevant to the engineering survey and report and the board’s determination that such a replenishment assessment shall be levied may be introduced.
3. CHAPTER 3. Findings and Order §§ 60315–60318 · 5 sections

   • § 60315 Upon completing the hearing, but no later than the second Tuesday in May, the board shall, by resolution, find all of the following: (a) The annual overdraft…
   • § 60316 Based on the findings pursuant to Section 60315, the board shall, by resolution, determine all of the following: (a) What portion, if any, of the estimated…
   • § 60317 (a) If the board determines that a replenishment assessment shall be levied upon the production of groundwater from groundwater supplies within the district…
   • § 60317.5 Except as set forth in this section, nothing in this division prevents the use of district funds from any source for powers and functions authorized under this…
   • § 60318 (a) If the board determines, by resolution, that there is a problem of groundwater contamination that a proposed program will remedy or ameliorate, an operator…
4. CHAPTER 4. Collection of Assessments §§ 60325–60329 · 7 sections

   • § 60325 The district, after the levying of the replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to the operators of all water-producing facilities in the district…
   • § 60326 The operator of each water-producing facility within the district, on or before the last day of the month immediately following the respective quarterly…
   • § 60326.1 Notwithstanding Section 60326, the operator of each water-producing facility in the Water Replenishment District of Southern California shall file with the…
   • § 60327 Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this act shall be due and payable to the district by each producer in quarterly installments on the last day…
   • § 60327.1 Notwithstanding Section 60327, each producer shall pay the Water Replenishment District of Southern California a replenishment assessment, imposed pursuant to…
   • § 60328 The board shall authorize, and the district shall make, refunds in whole or in part of replenishment assessments theretofore paid, to any producer who has…
   • § 60329 The board, by action uniformly applicable as to any quarter, and adopted prior to the commencement of the quarter, may provide that there shall not be due or…
5. CHAPTER 5. Penalties and Exemptions §§ 60335–60343 · 8 sections

   • § 60335 If any producer shall knowingly fail to pay a replenishment assessment within 30 days of when due, such producer shall become liable to the district for…
   • § 60336 (a) Should any operator of a water-producing facility knowingly fail to register his or her water-producing facility or knowingly fail to file the groundwater…
   • § 60337 The board, at the time of fixing the replenishment assessment rate, may provide by resolution that any producer operating a water-producing facility having a…
   • § 60339 (a) The superior court of the county in which the major portion of the district lies may issue a temporary restraining order upon the filing by the district…
   • § 60340 If the board of a district shall have probable cause to believe that the production of ground water from any water-producing facility is in excess of that…
   • § 60341 The district may bring a suit in the court having jurisdiction against any producer of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district for the…
   • § 60342 It shall be unlawful to produce groundwater from any water-producing facility within any district from and after one year following the adoption of the…
   • § 60343 If another public entity, or public entities, or a watermaster, or watermasters, appointed in one or more court adjudications, or any combination of the…
6. CHAPTER 6. Adjudication §§ 60350–60352 · 3 sections

   • § 60350 Commencing with the third fiscal year following a final adjudication of all or substantially all of the rights to extract ground water and a determination of…
   • § 60351 To the extent that ground water supplies are replenished under this act no person shall acquire any property or other right in the waters distributed by the…
   • § 60352 To the extent that the replenishment assessment after adjudication hereunder shifts from all producers to those who extract water in excess of their respective…