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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP

PART 2. OF CIVIL ACTIONS [307 - 1062.34]

  ( Part 2 enacted 1872. )
  

TITLE 10. ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES [725a - 871.12]

  ( Title 10 enacted 1872. )
  

CHAPTER 7. Actions Relating to Groundwater Rights [830 - 852]

  ( Chapter 7 added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 672, Sec. 1. )
  

ARTICLE 4. Intervention [837 - 837.5]
  ( Article 4 added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 672, Sec. 1. )

  
837.  

(a) A groundwater sustainability agency for the basin or a portion of the basin may intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter.

(b) A city, county, or city and county that overlies the basin or a portion of the basin may intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter.

(c) The court shall allow any person to intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter upon an ex parte application that demonstrates that the person holds fee simple ownership in a parcel in the basin, or extracts or stores water in the basin. A person filing an ex parte application pursuant to this subdivision shall give notice to the plaintiff consistent with the California Rules of Court.

(d) A person may apply to intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter pursuant to Section 387.

(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 672, Sec. 1. (AB 1390) Effective January 1, 2016.)