California Water Code

§ 37950

WAT § 37950 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 13 · Part 8.2 · Ch. 5

Statute text

If the board determines after a noticed public hearing, and consideration of any relevant investigations, studies, and evidence, that groundwater management activities are necessary in order to improve or protect the quantity or quality of groundwater supplies within a groundwater basin or aquifer, the board may, by ordinance, exercise any of the following powers:

(a)Require conservation practices and measures within the affected portion of its territory.

(b)Control groundwater extractions by regulating, limiting, or suspending extractions from extraction facilities, the construction of new extraction facilities, the enlarging of existing extraction facilities, and the reactivation of abandoned extraction facilities.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 350, Sec. 1. (AB 2453) Effective January 1, 2015.