CHAPTER 1. Definitions and Interpretation of Division
Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
§§ 1000–1018 · 25 sections
- § 1000 As used in this division, “water” includes the term “use of water.”
- § 1001 Nothing in this division shall be construed as giving or confirming any right, title, or interest to or in the corpus of any water.
- § 1002 This division shall not be held to bestow upon any person, except as expressly provided in it, any right where no such right existed prior to the time this…
- § 1003 As used in this division, “Water Commission Act” means Chapter 586, Statutes of 1913, as amended.
- § 1004 As used in this division, “useful or beneficial purposes” shall not be construed to mean the use in any one year of more than 21/2 acre-feet of water per acre…
- § 1005 Nothing in this division shall be construed as depriving any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, or lighting district of the…
- § 1005.1 Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water by the owner of a right to extract, as the result of the use of an alternate supply of water from a…
- § 1005.2 Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water, to permit the replenishment of such ground water by the use of water from an alternate…
- § 1005.3 During the pendency of an action to adjudicate substantially all water rights in a ground water basin situated in whole or in part within the…
- § 1005.4 (a) Cessation of or reduction in the extraction of ground water, to permit the replenishment of such ground water by the use of water from an alternate…
- § 1006 Nothing in this division affects or limits in any manner whatsoever the right or power of any municipality which, prior to December 19, 1914, had appropriated…
- § 1007 Nothing in this division shall be construed to deprive the State or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting…
- § 1008 Nothing in this division shall be construed as depriving any person of the right of appeal conferred under the laws of this State.
- § 1009 Any supplier of water in this state for municipal use, including the state, or any city, county, city and county, district, individual, partnership,…
- § 1009.5 (a) A water district and the district attorney of any county in which the water district is located may enter into an agreement authorizing the attorney for…
- § 1010 (a) (1) The cessation of, or reduction in, the use of water under any existing right regardless of the basis of right, as the result of the use of recycled…
- § 1011 (a) When any person entitled to the use of water under an appropriative right fails to use all or any part of the water because of water conservation efforts,…
- § 1011.5 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the use of water in an efficient manner and that the efficient…
- § 1012 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where any person, public agency, or agency of the United States undertakes any water conservation effort, either…
- § 1013 (a) The Imperial Irrigation District, acting under a contract with the United States for diversion and use of Colorado River water or pursuant to the…
- § 1014 The transfer of water, or the offer of water for transfer, shall not cause, or be the basis for, a forfeiture, abandonment, or modification of any water right,…
- § 1015 During the term of a temporary change, as defined in Section 1725.5, if an enforcement action or other proceeding is commenced that alleges that the use of…
- § 1016 (a) At the conclusion of the term of a water transfer agreement, all rights in, and the use of, the water subject to the agreement revert back to the…
- § 1017 The beneficial use of water pursuant to a transfer or exchange authorized pursuant to Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 1435) of, Chapter 10 (commencing…
- § 1018 When agricultural lands are being idled in order to provide water for transfer pursuant to this division, and an amount of water is determined to be made…