Sec. 4.
(a) The definition of a word applies to any of its variants.(b) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
(1) “Accumulated overdraft” means the aggregate amount by which the quantity of ground water removed from the ground water supplies within the district during all preceding water years shall have exceeded the quantity of water replaced therein by the replenishment of the ground water supplies in such water years by any natural or artificial means, based upon reports, records, and other data or evidence appropriate for the purpose of making such determination.
(2) “Administration division” means the budgeting and accounting division established by Section 9 which is primarily concerned with administration of the district and with obtaining and making available to the other divisions a supply of water.
(3) “Advisory commission” means the California District Districts Securities Advisory Commission.
(4) “Agricultural division” means the budgeting and accounting division established by Section 9 which is primarily concerned with the supply of water for agricultural purposes.
(5) “Agricultural water” and “water used for
agricultural purposes” shall
mean water used primarily in the commercial production of agricultural crops or livestock on parcels of land of more than two acres and shall do not include water used for agricultural product-processing purposes.
(6) “Annual overdraft” means the amount by which the production of water from the ground water supplies within the district during the water year exceeds the natural replenishment of such ground water supplies in such year.
(7) “Assessor” means the assessor of the county.
(8) “Auditor” means the auditor of the county.
(9) “Benefit review
procedure” means the procedure set forth in subdivisions (g) through (i)
to (i), inclusive, of Section 28.
(10) “Board” means the board of directors of the Stockton-East Water District.
(11) “Board of supervisors” means the board of supervisors of the county.
(12) “Collector” means the person appointed by the board to determine and collect the accounts due the district prior to their transfer to the auditor, as set forth in this act. The collector shall be appointed by the board and hold office at the pleasure of the board. The collector may hold other offices, including, but not limited to, the office of secretary, or may perform other duties for the district but shall not be a member of the board.
(13) “Committee” means a group of directors of the district consisting of three
directors, one of whom shall be appointed chairperson by the president of the board, together with an alternate member, which shall study particular areas and recommend policy to the full board. The members and alternate member shall be appointed by the president of the board. There shall be the Agricultural Operations Committee and the Municipal Operations Committee, and there may be such other committees as may be established by the board.
(14) “County” means the County of San Joaquin.
(15) “Delinquent account” means any sum or sums due the district from an owner as disclosed by an annual bill presented by the collector pursuant to Section 13 which is not paid within the times set forth in Section 15, together with all penalties applicable to such sum or sums pursuant to this act
act.
(16) “Delinquent landowner” means the owner or owners of a parcel of land upon which one or more delinquent water-producing facilities are located as such ownership is disclosed by the last equalized assessment roll of the county.
(17) “Delinquent parcel” means a parcel of land upon which one or more delinquent water-producing facilities are located.
(18) “Delinquent water-producing facility” means a water-producing facility for which payment is required by this act and for which payment in full has not been received by the district within the times set forth in Section 15.
(19) “Director” means a member of the board.
(20) “District” means the
Stockton-East Water District.
(21) “Division” means a division of the district established pursuant to the Water Conservation District Act of 1931, Division 1931 (Division 21 (commencing with Section 74000) of the Water Code. Code).
(22) “Domestic ground water” means water produced from the underground on any parcel of two acres or less where the water is used and disposed of on that parcel, and also means water produced from the underground and used for residential or commercial purposes on agricultural
parcels larger than two acres.
(23) “Dry year” means any year in which the board determines that there may be insufficient quantities of surface water to meet the needs of users who are dependent upon surface water sources.
(24) “Full tax area” means any area within a planning area which has been excluded from the partial tax area in the manner provided in subdivision (b) of Section 27 27.
(25) “Ground water” means potable water beneath the surface of the ground suitable for municipal, domestic
domestic, and irrigation use.
(26) “Ground water assessment” means “ground water assessment or charge.”
(26)
(27) “Municipal division” means the budgeting and accounting division established by Section 9 which is primarily concerned with the supply of water for municipal and industrial purposes.
(27)
(28) “Municipal ground water” means water produced from the underground other than domestic ground water or agricultural ground water water.
(28)
(29) “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.
Unless there is filed with the district by an owner,
owner information to the contrary, the district may presume that the owner of the parcel of land on which a water-producing facility is located is the owner of the water-producing facility.
(29)
(30) “Partial tax area” means all areas of the district which pursuant to the terms of subdivision (a) of Section 27 are not required to pay the taxes, assessments, and charges specified in subdivision (a) of Section 27.
(30)
(31) “Person” means any public agency or public corporation, whether federal, state, or local, or any private corporation, firm, partnership, individual, or group of individuals.
(31)
(32) “Planning area” means any one of the planning areas mentioned in subdivision (a) of Section 24 or in Section 35.
(32)
(33) “Prior act” means
Chapter 1775 of the Statutes of 1963, as amended.
(33)
(34) “Production” or “producing” means the diversion or taking of stream-delivered water or the extraction or extracting of ground water, by any means, for domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, or other beneficial use.
(34)
(35) “Revenue sources” means those sources of expected
revenue which shall be used to establish a budget, respectively, for each of the administration, agricultural, and municipal divisions. These revenue sources for each division are as follows:
(i)
(A) Administration division· division: General property taxes, other general revenue sources which may be provided by state law, payments from other divisions, or other sources of revenue which may be established in the future by law or by rule of the board.
(ii)
(B) Agricultural division·
division: Stream-delivered water charges, domestic ground water assessments, assessments and charges, agricultural ground water assessments, assessments and charges, penalties collected on such charges and assessments, and other sources of revenue which may be established in the future by law or by rule of the board.
(iii)
(C) Municipal division· division: Contract sales of treated surface water, contract sales of ground water, municipal ground water assessments, assessments and charges, penalties collected on such sales and assessments, sales, assessments and charges, and other sources of revenue which may be established in the future by law
or by rule of the board board.
(35)
(36) “Stream-delivered water” means surface water used for agricultural purposes and taken by an owner’s water-producing facility directly from the Stockton Diverting Canal, the Calaveras River, the Old Calaveras River, Mosher Creek, Mormon Slough, Potter Creek, or any other watercourse within the district except those portions of any of the foregoing watercourses which are located within the boundaries of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as such
boundaries are presently defined by Section 12220 of the California Water Code Code.
(36)
(37) “Tax collector” means the tax collector of the county county.
(37)
(38) “Treasurer” means the treasurer of the county.
(38)
(39) “Water-producing facility” means any device or method, mechanical or otherwise, for the production of ground water from the ground water supplies within the district, or for the diversion of stream-delivered water.