60001-60029
WATER CODE
SECTION 60001-60029
60001. The definition of a word applies to any of its variants. 60002. "Include" except when used in relation to the inclusion of land into a district does not necessarily exclude matters not enumerated. 60003. "District" means a water replenishment district formed under the provisions of the Water Replenishment District Act, or this division. 60004. "Board" means the board of directors of a district. 60005. "Land" means land in the district or proposed district involved. 60006. "President" means the president of the board. 60007. "Secretary" means the secretary of the board. 60008. "General water replenishment district election" means the election required to be held in each district at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year. 60009. "Special water district election" means any district election other than a general water replenishment district election. 60010. "Elector," "voter," and "precinct board" have respectively the same meaning as in the Elections Code, but an "elector" or "voter" shall also be a resident of the district or proposed district involved. 60011. "Person" means any public agency or public corporation, whether federal, state, or local, or any private corporation, firm, partnership, individual, or group of individuals. 60012. "Water replenishment district" means a special water replenishment district. 60013. "Water year" means the period commencing on October 1st of one calendar year and ending on September 30th of the calendar year immediately following. 60014. "Fiscal year" means the period commencing on July 1st of one calendar year and ending on June 30th of the calendar year immediately following. 60015. "Ground water" means nonsaline water beneath the surface of the ground, whether or not flowing through known and definite channels. 60016. "Nonsaline water" means water which has less than 1,000 parts of chlorides to 1,000,000 parts of water. 60017. "Production" or "producing" means the extraction or extracting of ground water, by pumping or any other method, from shafts, tunnels, wells (including, but not limited to, abandoned oil wells), excavations, or other sources of such ground water, for domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial use, except that such terms shall not mean or include the extraction or extracting of ground water incidentally produced with oil in the production of oil or gas nor the extraction or extracting of ground water incidentally produced in a bona fide mining operation or in the bona fide construction of a tunnel for railroad, highway, aqueduct, pipeline, or other useful purpose (except the production of ground water for use or sale) unless the ground water so extracted shall be used or sold by the producer for domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial purpose. 60018. "Water-producing facility" means any device or method, mechanical or otherwise, for the production of ground water from the ground water supplies within a replenishment district. 60019. "Owner" means the person or persons owning any water-producing facility or any interest therein other than a lien to secure the payment of a debt or other obligation. 60020. "Operator" means the person or persons operating a water-producing facility; the owner thereof shall be conclusively presumed to be such operator unless satisfactory showing be made to the board of directors of the replenishment district that such water-producing facility actually is operated by some other person or persons. "Operator" shall mean any "person" mentioned in Section 60011 of this act who is operating a water-producing facility, it being the purpose of this act to include any such person within the provisions hereof. 60021. "Producer" means any operator producing ground water. 60022. "Annual overdraft" means the amount, as determined by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during the water year exceeds the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water year by any natural or artificial means other than replenishment under the provisions of Part 6 of this act or by any other governmental agency or entity. 60023. "Accumulated overdraft" means the aggregate amount, as determined from time to time by the board of directors of the replenishment district, by which the quantity of ground water removed by any natural or artificial means from the ground water supplies within such replenishment district during all preceding water years shall have exceeded the quantity of nonsaline water replaced therein by the replenishment of such ground water supplies in such water years by any natural or artificial means, the respective determination to be based upon reports, records, and other data or evidence found by such board of directors to be adequate for the purpose of making such determination. 60024. "Principal county" means the county in which the greater portion of the land in a district or a proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county. If the district is situated in only one county then "principal county" shall mean that county. 60025. "Participating county" is any county other than the principal county in which the district or proposed district is situated, if the district or proposed district is located in more than one county. 60026. "Affected county" means each county in which some land of the district or proposed district is located. 60027. "Replenishment assessment" means any assessment levied pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 60300). 60028. "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance, or substances, of a concentration which, if contained in water, will cause a significant impairment to a domestic drinking water supply. 60029. "Existing agency" shall mean any public corporation, agency, district, or political subdivision created prior or subsequent to the formation of a replenishment district under this law and which has any of the same powers as a replenishment district.