CHAPTER 1. Definitions

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.

§§ 6000–6009 · 11 sections

• § 6000 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• § 6002 “Dam” means any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works, which does or may impound or divert water, and which either (a) is or will be 25 feet or…
• § 6002.5 “Critical appurtenant structure” means a water surface barrier or hydraulic control structure that is 25 feet or more in height, that impounds 5,000 acre-feet…
• § 6003 (a) Any barrier that is or will be not in excess of six feet in height, regardless of storage capacity, or that has or will have a storage capacity not in…
• § 6004 (a) An obstruction in a canal used to raise or lower water therein or divert water therefrom, a levee, including, but not limited to, a levee on the bed of a…
• § 6004.5 “Reservoir” means any reservoir which contains or will contain the water impounded by a dam.
• § 6005 “Owner” includes any of the following who own, control, operate, maintain, manage, or propose to construct a dam or reservoir: (a)The state and its…
• § 6006 “Alterations,” “repairs,” or either of them, mean only such alterations or repairs as may affect the safety of the dam or reservoir.
• § 6007 “Enlargement” means any change in or addition to an existing dam or reservoir, which raises or may raise the water storage elevation of the water impounded by…
• § 6008 Water storage elevation means that elevation of water surface which could be obtained by the existing dam or reservoir, as previously operated, were there no…
• § 6009 “State jurisdictional dam” means a dam not wholly under the control of the federal government.