CHAPTER 2. Water [71610. - 71644.]

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 156.

§§ 71610–71644 · 33 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Development and Sale §§ 71610–71618 · 12 sections

   • § 71610 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a district may acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any…
   • § 71610.5 A district may undertake a water conservation program to reduce water use and may require, as a condition of new service, that reasonable water-saving devices…
   • § 71611 A district may sell water under its control, without preference, to cities, other public corporations and agencies, and persons, within the district for use…
   • § 71611.5 (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), upon the request of an Indian tribe and the satisfaction of the conditions stated in subdivision (b), a district…
   • § 71612 Whenever the board finds that there is a surplus of water above that which may be required by consumers within the district, the district may sell or otherwise…
   • § 71612.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Marin Municipal Water District may sell water to any person, firm, public or private corporation, or public…
   • § 71613 A district may supply and deliver water to property not subject to district taxes at special rates, terms, and conditions as are determined by the board for…
   • § 71614 A district may fix the rates at which water shall be sold. Different rates may be established for different classes or conditions of service, but rates shall…
   • § 71615 Any special water rate fixed in accordance with the terms and conditions of an annexation shall be deemed to be a rate for a different class or condition of…
   • § 71616 A district, so far as practicable, shall fix such rates for water in the district, and in each improvement district therein, as will result in revenues which…
   • § 71617 The rates for water in each improvement district may vary from the rates of the district and from other improvement districts therein.
   • § 71618 No district furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to or for the tenant’s…
2. ARTICLE 2. Standby Charges §§ 71630–71637 · 11 sections

   • § 71630 The district by ordinance may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753 of the Government Code, fix on or before the third…
   • § 71631 The standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) per acre per year for each acre of land on which the charge is levied or ten…
   • § 71631.5 Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District of…
   • § 71631.6 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71631, in any improvement district situated within the Otay Municipal Water District in San Diego County, the standby…
   • § 71631.7 (a) Notwithstanding Section 71631, for the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District, the standby assessment or availability charge shall not exceed thirty dollars…
   • § 71632 The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge shall be adopted by the board pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in…
   • § 71633 The ordinance fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of…
   • § 71634 On or before the third Monday in August, the board shall furnish in writing to the board of supervisors and the county auditor of each affected county a…
   • § 71635 The board shall direct that, at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes the board of supervisors shall levy, in…
   • § 71636 All county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes shall collect district standby charges with the regular tax payments to the county. Said charges…
   • § 71637 Charges fixed by the district shall be a lien on all the property benefited thereby. Liens for said charges shall be of the same force and effect as other…
3. ARTICLE 2.5. Alternative Provisions for Standby Charges §§ 71638–71638.4 · 4 sections

   • § 71638 If the procedures set forth in this article as it read at the time a standby charge was established were followed, the district or improvement district may, by…
   • § 71638.1 For property within a district, a portion thereof, or an improvement district, which property was previously charged or assessed for such purposes, the…
   • § 71638.2 The resolution fixing a standby assessment or availability charge may establish schedules varying the charges according to land uses, water uses, and degree of…
   • § 71638.4 The levy and collection of such assessment or charge shall be made as provided in Sections 71634 through 71637, inclusive.
4. ARTICLE 2.7. Standby Assessments § 71639 · 1 section

   • § 71639 (a) This article applies to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the district, by resolution, may adopt…
5. ARTICLE 3. Water Shortages §§ 71640–71644 · 5 sections

   • § 71640 A district may restrict the use of district water during any emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water shortage, and may prohibit the…
   • § 71641 A district may prescribe and define by ordinance the restrictions, prohibitions, and exclusions referred to in Section 71640. Such an ordinance is effective…
   • § 71642 A finding by the board upon the existence, threat, or duration of an emergency or shortage, or upon the matter of necessity or of any other matter or condition…
   • § 71643 The finding made by the board pursuant to Section 71642 shall be received in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding in which it may be offered, and shall…
   • § 71644 From and after the publication or posting of any ordinance pursuant to Section 71641, and until the ordinance has been repealed or the emergency or threatened…