2007 California Government Code Article 4. Streams And Flood Waters

CA Codes (gov:25680-25684)

25680.  The board of supervisors may appropriate and expend money
from the general fund of the county for the following purposes:
   (a) The construction of works, improvements, levees, or check dams
to prevent the overflow and flooding of streams and rivers in the
county.
   (b) The protection and reforestation of the watersheds of such
streams and rivers.
   (c) The conservation of the flood waters of such streams and
rivers.
   (d) The making of all surveys, maps, and plats necessary to carry
out any work, construction, or improvment authorized by this section.

   (e) The carrying out of any work, construction, or improvement
authorized by this section outside the county, if the rivers or
streams flow in or through more than one county.



25681.  The board may appropriate and expend money from the general
or other appropriate funds of the county for the construction of
works, improvements, levees, or check dams to prevent the overflow
and flooding of streams and rivers in the county, and may construct
works, improvements, levees, or check dams outside the county for
such purposes upon channels, streams, or rivers which flow or lie in
or through more than one county, or where any of such work is
reasonably necessary for the control of flood waters in the county,
although the channel, river, or stream does not lie or flow in or
through two or more counties.


25681.1.  A county may reclaim public and private lands therein by
levees, bulkheads, breakwaters, fills, embankments, basins, drains,
canals, excavations, sluices, pipes, watergates, pumping plants and
all works and structures useful therefor.  This work is a local
improvement and a county affair.  The costs of reclamation shall be
borne solely by the lands reclaimed.
   This section shall not be construed as affecting any public
district or public entity now or hereafter established and having
similar powers.



25682.  In connection with flood control work done by the county or
by any district therein or agency thereof, highways, bridges, and
other public works affected thereby or which will be of public
benefit, whether located in the county or wholly or partially in
incorporated or unincorporated territory outside the county, may be
constructed, reconstructed, remodeled, maintained, repaired, or
demolished at the expense of the county doing the flood control work,
or in which any district or agency thereof is doing the work, or at
the joint expense of the county and the county or city in which the
work is done, as may be provided by agreement between the board of
supervisors of the county doing the flood control work, or in which
any district or agency thereof is doing the work, and the board of
supervisors or other legislative body of the county or city in which
any of the work is wholly or partially performed.



25683.  This article does not authorize the imposition of any tax or
special assessment on any property outside the county doing the
flood control work whether the work is done directly by the county or
by any district in, or agency of the county, nor the doing of any
work pursuant to this article outside the county without the consent
of the board of supervisors of the county in which the work is to be
done if in  unincorporated territory or of the legislative body of
any city in which any of the works are situated in whole or in part.



25684.  The board of supervisors may provide by ordinance for the
organization and government of districts:  (a) to protect and
preserve the banks of rivers and streams and lands lying contiguous
thereto from injury by overflow or the washing thereof, (b) to
provide for the improvement of such rivers and streams, and (c) to
prevent their obstruction.  The board may provide for the assessment,
levy, and collection within such districts of a tax for the purposes
of this section.