8000-8007

WATER CODE
SECTION 8000-8007




8000.  The provisions of this chapter are intended to be paramount
and controlling as to all matters provided for in, and as to all
questions arising out of procedure under, this chapter.



8001.  As used in this chapter, "works" includes canals, ditches,
levees, dikes, embankments, dams, machinery, and other appropriate or
ancillary means of accomplishing the purposes mentioned in this
chapter.


8002.  As used in this chapter, "city" means any city, town, or
municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this State.



8003.  As used in this chapter, "city council" includes the
legislative body of any city by whatever name it may be designated.



8004.  Every publication required by this chapter shall be made in
some newspaper published in the city.



8005.  Except as otherwise specifically provided, if publication is
in a daily paper the publication shall appear in at least 10 issues
thereof, and if in a weekly paper in at least two issues thereof.



8006.  No publication shall be deemed to have begun until any
required preceding publication has been completed.



8007.  A capital improvement project undertaken by a charter city to
extend that city's water, sewer, or storm drain system or similar
system to a disadvantaged community in an unincorporated area shall
be considered a public work for the purpose of Section 1720 of the
Labor Code, but any subsequent project to construct, expand,
reconstruct, install, or repair such systems that have been so
extended and that are conducted within that city's political
boundaries shall not be considered a public work for the purpose of
Section 1720 of the Labor Code as a result of the extension. For the
purpose of this section, "disadvantaged community" means a
disadvantaged community as defined in Section 79505.5.