CHAPTER 7. Expenses of Distribution [4200. - 4335.]

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

§§ 4200–4335 · 29 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 4200–4201 · 2 sections

   • § 4200 The department may incur such expense and make such expenditures as may be necessary to provide for the administration of any service area and the distribution…
   • § 4201 All of the cost of administration of a service area and the distribution of water therein shall be paid by the owners of the rights to divert or store water…
2. ARTICLE 2. Statement and Budget §§ 4225–4228 · 4 sections

   • § 4225 The department shall, prior to June 15th of each year, prepare a statement for each service area. The statement shall contain a budget showing the amount of…
   • § 4226 The budget shall include all of the following: (a) Expenses theretofore incurred for the payment of which funds are not available. (b) The cost of an annual…
   • § 4227 The statement shall also contain an apportionment of the amount of the budget among the owners of the various rights to store or divert within the service area.
   • § 4228 In all cases where a water right is owned by two or more persons, they shall pay in proportion to their respective interests in the water right, and, when the…
3. ARTICLE 3. Apportionment of Expense §§ 4251–4254 · 4 sections

   • § 4251 One-tenth of the budget for the service area shall be apportioned equally among the respective ownerships of all water rights involved, and except as otherwise…
   • § 4252 In all cases of rights to divert the direct flow of a stream, without storage, for power development or other nonconsumptive use, where the entire flow so…
   • § 4253 In all cases where rights exist to store or divert water for use for more than one purpose, the amount to be paid by the owner of such rights shall be based…
   • § 4254 In making an apportionment to any owner of the right to store water, 350 acre-feet of storage capacity which the owner is entitled to use shall be considered…
4. ARTICLE 4. Payment and Collection §§ 4275–4279 · 5 sections

   • § 4275 Except as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 4300), the department, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, shall certify, to the auditor…
   • § 4276 The auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective apportionments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on the current assessment roll. If…
   • § 4277 The board of supervisors of each county in which there lies a watermaster service area or any portion thereof shall annually, and at the time of levying county…
   • § 4278 Apportionments levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. So far as applicable, all provisions…
   • § 4279 All money raised by such apportionments shall be accounted for separately as to each watermaster service area. All such money shall be transmitted by January 1…
5. ARTICLE 5. Payment by and Collection From State Agencies and Public Entities §§ 4300–4305 · 6 sections

   • § 4300 If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, or is public utility as defined in…
   • § 4301 Service on such owners may be made personally, or by mail as provided by Section 1013 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
   • § 4302 Each such owner shall, on or before the 10th day of December of the year in which the apportionment was made, pay to the department the amount apportioned to…
   • § 4303 If the owner of the right is a county, municipality, district, political subdivision, public corporation, or state agency, the amount apportioned, together…
   • § 4304 If the owner of the right is a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Code, the amount apportioned, together with the penalty in case of…
   • § 4305 At any time after 30 days after any payment due under this article becomes delinquent the department may institute in the name of the people of the State an…
6. ARTICLE 6. Alternative Method of Payment by Owners §§ 4325–4335 · 8 sections

   • § 4325 The procedure set forth in this article for collecting and making available money for watermaster distribution is in lieu of that set forth in the other…
   • § 4326 Whenever all the owners of rights to water within any service area, by agreement in writing, shall have organized themselves into an association for the…
   • § 4327 The statement shall be submitted on or before the first day of September of the year preceding that for which it is made.
   • § 4329 The association shall pay the total amount apportioned to it to the department on or before the first day of December next succeeding the receipt of the…
   • § 4330 The department shall deposit the money in the Water Resources Revolving Fund to the credit of the amount of the service area affected.
   • § 4331 The department may refuse to render watermaster service to such service area during any calendar year next succeeding the first day of December of any year…
   • § 4334 All of the provisions of this chapter relating to the expenses of service areas which are not in conflict with this article shall apply to expenses of service…
   • § 4335 If, at the time of creation of a service area, all the owners have formed an association by agreement in writing and have filed a certified copy of the…