PART 5. RECORDATION OF WATER EXTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS [4999. - 5009.]

Part 5 added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1869.

§§ 4999–5009 · 11 sections

• § 4999 The Legislature finds and declares that by reason of the combination of light rainfall, concentrated population, the transition of considerable areas of land…
• § 5000 As used in this Part 5, the following terms shall have the respective meanings stated below, viz: (a) “Ground water” means water beneath the surface of the…
• § 5001 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), each person who, after 1955, extracts ground water in excess of 25 acre-feet in any year shall file with the board a…
• § 5002 Each notice shall be on a form provided by the board. The first notice filed by any person shall state: (a) The name of the person extracting ground water or…
• § 5003 No prescriptive right that might otherwise accrue to extract ground water shall arise or accrue to, nor shall any statute of limitations operate in regard to…
• § 5004 After the year 1959, failure to file with the board a notice for any calendar year within six months after the close of such calendar year shall be deemed…
• § 5005 Except as specified in Section 5004, failure to file the notice or delay in filing the same shall not cause the loss of rights to ground water which existed on…
• § 5006 Each notice shall be sworn to and shall be accompanied by a filing fee which shall be fixed by the board pursuant to Section 1529.
• § 5007 Any person may apply to the board to investigate the facts stated in any specified notice so filed and to state in writing its determination of the facts found…
• § 5008 The making of any willful misstatement in any notice shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by…
• § 5009 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after January 1, 2005, each person who extracts groundwater in a board-designated local area,…