Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Definitions
Chapter 3 Basin Boundaries
Chapter 4 Establishing Groundwater Sustainability Agencies
Chapter 5 Powers and Authorities
Chapter 6 Groundwater Sustainability Plans
Chapter 7 Technical Assistance
Chapter 8 Financial Authority
Chapter 9 Groundwater Sustainability Agency Enforcement Powers
Chapter 10 State Evaluation and Assessment
Chapter 11 State Intervention
Chapter 12 Determination of Rights to Groundwater

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Terms Used In California Codes > Water Code > Division 6 > Part 2.74 - Sustainable Groundwater Management

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Authority: means the Yolo County Transit Authority, a joint exercise of powers agency. See California Public Utilities Code 60002
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Board of directors: means the Board of Directors of the Yolo County Transportation District. See California Public Utilities Code 60002
  • Board of supervisors: means the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. See California Public Utilities Code 60002
  • City: includes city and county and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Public Utilities Code 19
  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission created by §. See California Public Utilities Code 20
  • Condition of long-term overdraft: means the condition of a groundwater basin where the average annual amount of water extracted for a long-term period, generally 10 years or more, exceeds the long-term average annual supply of water to the basin, plus any temporary surplus. See California Water Code 10735
  • County: means the County of Yolo. See California Public Utilities Code 60002
  • County: includes city and county. See California Public Utilities Code 18
  • County: includes city and county. See California Water Code 14
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • District: means the Yolo County Transportation District created by Section 60004. See California Public Utilities Code 60002
  • Establish: includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend, or reroute. See California Public Utilities Code 40221
  • Existing system: means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility situated entirely within Orange County, or at least 75 percent of whose revenue vehicle miles for the preceding calendar year were operated within Orange County, and has been in operation since at least January 1, 1982. See California Public Utilities Code 40221
  • Member: as used in this chapter , means all persons who become members of the plan under this part on or after October 16, 1992, and all persons who were members as of October 15, 1992, who elected, pursuant to Chapter 21. See California Education Code 23850
  • Person: includes , to the extent authorized by federal or tribal law and subject to the limitations described in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 10720. See California Water Code 10735
  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Water Code 19
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Probationary basin: means a basin for which the board has issued a determination under Section 10735. See California Water Code 10735
  • Significant depletions of interconnected surface waters: means reductions in flow or levels of surface water that is hydrologically connected to the basin such that the reduced surface water flow or levels have a significant and unreasonable adverse impact on beneficial uses of the surface water. See California Water Code 10735
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
  • 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 Public Utilities Code 10
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10
  • surplus money: means any money in any sinking fund established for the purpose of payment of any bonded or other indebtedness or any money in the treasury not required for the immediate necessities of the district. See California Water Code 31335
  • United States: means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to act in relation thereto. See California Water Code 20