California Laws: Water Code Sections 1-26
- California Laws: Water Code Section 1
This act shall be known as the Water Code. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 2
The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 3
All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 4
No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 5
Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this code. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 6
Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 7
Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 8
Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is required or...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 9
Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 10
"Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 11
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 12
The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 13
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 14
"County" includes city and county. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 15
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 16
"Oath" includes affirmation. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 17
"Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 18
"State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 19
"Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 20
"United States" means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 21
If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 22
"Department," unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water Resources. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 23
"Director," unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water Resources. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 24
The standard miner's inch of water is equivalent to one and one-half cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 25
"Board," unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources Control Board. ...
- California Laws: Water Code Section 26
For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...