CHAPTER 7. Priorities [1450. - 1491.]

Chapter 7 enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.

§§ 1450–1491 · 13 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Priority of Application § 1450 · 1 section

   • § 1450 Any application properly made gives to the applicant a priority of right as of the date of the application until such application is approved or rejected. Such…
2. ARTICLE 2. Effect of Issuance of Permit § 1455 · 1 section

   • § 1455 The issuance of a permit continues in effect the priority of right as of the date of the application and gives the right to take and use the amount of water…
3. ARTICLE 3. Preferred Priorities of Municipalities §§ 1460–1464 · 5 sections

   • § 1460 The application for a permit by a municipality for the use of water for the municipality or the inhabitants thereof for domestic purposes shall be considered…
   • § 1461 The application for, or the granting of, a permit to any municipality to appropriate water does not authorize the appropriation of any water for other than…
   • § 1462 Where permission to appropriate is granted to any municipality for any quantity of water in excess of the existing municipal needs therefor, the board may,…
   • § 1463 When the municipality desires to use the additional water granted in its application it may do so upon making just compensation for the facilities for taking,…
   • § 1464 In lieu of the granting of such temporary permits for appropriation, the board may authorize the municipality to become as to such surplus a public utility,…
4. ARTICLE 4. Priority of Reservoir Systems Constituting Single Unit § 1475 · 1 section

   • § 1475 In any case where a reservoir has been or shall hereafter under the provisions of this division be constructed, or surveyed, laid out, and proposed to be…
5. ARTICLE 5. Applications in Aid of State Water Plan § 1480 · 1 section

   • § 1480 An application by the Department of Water Resources, or an application by the Department of Finance prior to July 5, 1956, in aid of any general or coordinated…
6. ARTICLE 6. Applications by Governmental Agencies Discharging Disposal Water §§ 1485–1486 · 2 sections

   • § 1485 Any municipality, governmental agency, or political subdivision operating waste disposal plants producing disposal water meeting the requirements of the…
   • § 1486 (a) The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District, and any successor thereto, with respect to treated wastewater produced by the sanitation district that…
7. ARTICLE 7. Priority of Applications for Hydroelectric Power §§ 1490–1491 · 2 sections

   • § 1490 Applications or petitions for retrofit hydroelectric plants at existing dams, canals, or conduits where the streamflow regime will not be changed and where…
   • § 1491 Applications for hydroelectric powerplants with a generating capacity not to exceed five megawatts, which do not impound water during times of high waterflow…