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PART 2. STATE FLOOD CONTROL [8300. - 8457.]

Part 2 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.

§§ 8300–8457 · 36 sections

  1. CHAPTER 1. General Powers of Department of Water Resources §§ 8300–8307 · 7 sections
    • § 8300 The department may make examinations of lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood waters and of the waters causing the inundation or overflow and may…
    • § 8301 Whenever the law provides for any drainage or improving or rectifying river channels or other work on any river or slough flowing into San Francisco Bay, San…
    • § 8302 The department shall have charge of all expenditures unless otherwise provided by law for all public works relating to general river and harbor improvements,…
    • § 8303 The department may purchase, construct and operate one or more dredges or any other needed appliances to promote or properly carry out the work of the…
    • § 8304 The department may obtain or condemn any right-of-way necessary for any construction under this chapter.
    • § 8306 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may provide meals and other necessary support to any person, including, but not limited to, an…
    • § 8307 (a) (1) A city or county may be required to contribute its fair and reasonable share of the property damage caused by a flood to the extent that the city or…
  2. CHAPTER 2. Cooperation in National Flood Insurance Program §§ 8325–8326 · 2 sections
    • § 8325 The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) A large portion of the land resources of the state is subject to recurrent flooding causing loss of life…
    • § 8326 For the purpose of providing state cooperation under a national flood insurance program, the department may: (a) Cooperate with the United States in carrying…
  3. CHAPTER 3. Maintenance and Operation at Sacramento River Flood Control Project §§ 8350–8371 · 6 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Adoption of Federal Policy § 8350 · 1 section
      • § 8350 The approval and adoption, by and on behalf of the State of California, of the conditions, plans, construction, and mode of maintenance and operation of works…
    2. ARTICLE 2. Powers and Duties of Department of Water Resources §§ 8360–8362 · 3 sections
      • § 8360 On behalf of the State the department has supervisory powers over the maintenance and operation of the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood…
      • § 8361 The department shall maintain and operate on behalf of the state the following units or portions of the works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project,…
      • § 8362 The department may contribute funds to the United States and expend funds appropriated or otherwise available to provide all lands, easements, and rights of…
    3. ARTICLE 3. Duties and Liabilities of Districts and Public Agencies §§ 8370–8371 · 2 sections
      • § 8370 It is the responsibility, liability and duty of the reclamation districts, levee districts, protection districts, drainage districts, municipalities, and other…
      • § 8371 The department shall, in connection with the flood control works of the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, make inspections and prepare reports which are…
  4. CHAPTER 4. Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act §§ 8400–8415 · 13 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Declaration of Policy §§ 8400–8401 · 2 sections
      • § 8400 This chapter may be cited as the Cobey-Alquist Flood Plain Management Act.
      • § 8401 The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) A large portion of the state’s land resources is subject to recurrent flooding by overflow of streams and…
    2. ARTICLE 2. Definitions § 8402 · 1 section
      • § 8402 Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (a) “Department” means Department of Water Resources. (b)…
    3. ARTICLE 3. Review of Flood Plain Management Plans §§ 8403–8404 · 2 sections
      • § 8403 Prior to the establishment by a public agency of flood plain management regulations, the public agency may request and receive a review by the department or…
      • § 8404 Where adequate personnel are not available to a public agency to prepare the necessary flood routing or other engineering data needed for support of its flood…
    4. ARTICLE 4. Establishment of Flood Plain Regulations §§ 8410–8414.2 · 7 sections
      • § 8410 Flood plain regulations established to comply with requirements of Section 8411 shall meet the following criteria: (a) Construction of structures in the…
      • § 8410.5 All public agencies shall comply with flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411. For the purposes of this section, “public…
      • § 8411 Within any area classified “designated floodway” by the department or board after completion of a federal project report the appropriate public agency shall…
      • § 8412 The department or board shall review the adequacy of flood plain regulations established by a public agency to meet the requirements of Section 8411, and shall…
      • § 8413 Flood plain regulations adopted pursuant to Section 8412 shall take effect 60 days from the date of adoption by the public agency and shall be deemed to meet…
      • § 8414 If a public agency fails to adopt flood plain regulations pursuant to Section 8411, or fails to adopt new flood plain regulations within 180 days of receipt of…
      • § 8414.2 No public agency shall revise flood plain regulations established to meet the requirements of Section 8411 or shall grant a variance from such regulations…
    5. ARTICLE 5. Administrative Regulations § 8415 · 1 section
      • § 8415 The department and the board, within their respective jurisdictions as provided in this chapter, shall establish general policy and may prescribe such rules…
  5. CHAPTER 5. Maintenance Costs of Vegetation on Levees §§ 8450–8457 · 8 sections
    • § 8450 The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Although the levees of flood control projects in this state have in the past been considered to be…
    • § 8451 It is the intent of the Legislature, in providing for state participation in the additional costs attributable to the non-flood-control activities described in…
    • § 8452 Wherever the words “department or the Reclamation Board” are used together in this chapter, they shall mean the Reclamation Board as to any flood control…
    • § 8453 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is the intention of the Legislature that the state shall pay 50 percent of the costs associated…
    • § 8454 Local agencies maintaining project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of…
    • § 8455 Local agencies entering into agreements with the state shall annually prepare a work program and estimate of cost for conducting any maintenance activities…
    • § 8456 Administrative costs incurred by the department or the Reclamation Board under this chapter in any fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the annual cost…
    • § 8457 State expenditures for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per year.