California Water Code 12980 – As used in this part:(a) “Board” means the Central Valley Flood …
As used in this part:
(a) “Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.
Terms Used In California Water Code 12980
- Board: means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. See California Water Code 12980
- County: includes city and county. See California Water Code 14
- Delta: means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section 12220. See California Water Code 12980
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Local agency: means any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the state which is authorized to maintain levees. See California Water Code 12980
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water Code 18
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10
(b) “Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section 12220.
(c) “Local agency” means any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the state which is authorized to maintain levees.
(d) “Net long-term habitat improvement” means enhancement of riparian, fisheries, and wildlife habitat.
(e) “Nonproject levee” means a local flood control levee in the delta that is not a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, as shown on page 38 of the Department of Water Resources “Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,” dated 1993.
(f) “Project levee” means a federal flood control levee, as shown on page 40 of the Department of Water Resources “Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,” dated 1993, that is a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) of Part 6), if not less than a majority of the acreage within the jurisdiction of the local agency that maintains the levee is within the primary zone of the delta, as defined in § 29728 of the Public Resources Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 549, Sec. 1. (SB 200) Effective January 1, 2013.)