California Code
Water Code - WAT
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Water Code....

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code, in so far as...

Section 3. - 3. All persons who, at the time this code takes...

Section 4. - 4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...

Section 5. - 5. Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these...

Section 6. - 6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty...

Section 8. - 8. Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of...

Section 9. - 9. Whenever reference is made to any portion of this...

Section 10. - 10. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 11. - 11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses,...

Section 12. - 12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter....

Section 12.2. - 12.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 13. - 13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural,...

Section 14. - 14. “County” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1943,...

Section 15. - 15. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Enacted by...

Section 16. - 16. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

Section 17. - 17. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or...

Section 18. - 18. “State” means the State of California, unless applied to...

Section 19. - 19. “Person” means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business...

Section 20. - 20. “United States” means the United States of America, and...

Section 21. - 21. If any provision of this code, or the application...

Section 22. - 22. “Department,” unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water...

Section 23. - 23. “Director,” unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water...

Section 24. - 24. The standard miner’s inch of water is equivalent to...

Section 25. - 25. “Board,” unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources...

Section 26. - 26. For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or...