Terms Used In California Codes > Water Code > Division 26.5 > Chapter 5 - Clean Water and Water Quality

• Acquisition: means the acquisition of a fee interest or any other interest, including easements, leases, and development rights. See California Water Code 79505
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Board: means the State Water Resources Control Board. See California Water Code 79505
• City: includes city and county. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 15
• Fund: means the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Fund of 2002 created pursuant to Section 79510. See California Water Code 79505
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Resources Agency. See California Water Code 79505
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 35
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10
• Wetlands: means lands that may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow water and include saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, fens, and vernal pools. See California Water Code 79505