CHAPTER 7. Coachella Valley Water District Water Replenishment Assessments
Heading of Chapter 7 amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 226, Sec. 1.
§§ 31630–31639 · 18 sections
- § 31630 The Coachella Valley Water District shall have the power to levy and collect water replenishment assessments, as provided in this chapter, for the purpose of…
- § 31630.5 As used in this chapter: (a) “Annual” or “year” means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning. (b) “District” means the Coachella…
- § 31631 By May 1 of each year the board shall have prepared and presented to it an engineering survey and report concerning the groundwater supplies within the…
- § 31631.5 If the board determines that funds should be raised by a replenishment assessment, it shall call a public hearing, and shall publish notice at least 10 days in…
- § 31632 The hearing shall be held before the board and a quorum shall be present. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the president. All evidence…
- § 31632.5 Before July 1 of each year, the board may by resolution levy a replenishment assessment upon all water production during the following fiscal year within each…
- § 31633 The amount of any replenishment assessment levied within an area of benefit shall be established at the discretion of the board, except that no assessment…
- § 31633.5 Minimal pumpers may be excluded from the engineering survey and report on water production, and they shall be exempt from any replenishment assessments and…
- § 31634 The district, after the levying of any replenishment assessment, shall give notice thereof to all affected producers as disclosed by the records of the…
- § 31634.5 Except as provided in Section 31636, each producer, on or before the dates when the assessment or installments thereof are due and payable, shall file with the…
- § 31635 Any replenishment assessment levied pursuant to this chapter shall be due and payable to the district at the time or times determined by the district and…
- § 31636 If the district has an agreement with any producer whereby the district regularly reads and maintains the water-measuring devices which record the production…
- § 31636.5 If any producer subject to a replenishment assessment, after notice has been given pursuant to Section 31634, shall fail to pay a replenishment assessment or…
- § 31637 Should any producer, subject to a replenishment assessment, knowingly fail to file the water-production statement, such producer shall, in addition to interest…
- § 31637.5 If the district has probable cause to believe that the production by any producer is unreported or, if reported, is substantially in excess of that disclosed…
- § 31638 The district may, in any court having jurisdiction, bring suit against any producer to enjoin any water production in violation of any of the provisions of…
- § 31638.5 It shall be unlawful to produce water from within any area of benefit after one year following the levy of a replenishment assessment within such area, unless…
- § 31639 This chapter, applicable only to the Coachella Valley Water District, is necessary because of the special and unique problems of imported ground water recharge…