§ 70-3. Definitions.

Sec. 3. As used in this act the following words shall have the respective meanings stated:

(a)

"District" means the San Benito County Water District.

(b)

"Board" means the board of directors of the district.

(c)

"County" means the County of San Benito, State of California.

(d)

"United States" means the United States of America and all bureaus, commissions, divisions, departments, boards, agencies, and officers of the United States of America.

(e)

"State of California" includes the State of California and all bureaus, commissions, divisions, departments, boards, agencies, and officers of the State of California.

(f)

"Work or works" includes the dams and damsites, reservoirs and reservoir sites, conduits and other facilities useful in the control, conservation, diversion and transmission of waters and all land, property, franchises, easements, rights-of-way, and privileges necessary or useful to operate or maintain any of the foregoing.

(g)

"Elector" means any person who qualifies under Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of this state. "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California.

(h)

"Flood and storm waters" means in excess of the seasonal normal flow of the streams in which they occur that are not usable beneficially as part of the ordinary flow of such streams and which, if not intercepted, would escape from the County of San Benito.

(i)

"May" is permissive, and "shall" is mandatory.

(Stats.1953, c. 1598, p. 3281. Amended by Stats.1955, c. 999, p. 1900, § 1.5; Stats. 1957, c. 361, p. 1171, § 1, eff. May 10, 1957; Stats.1967, c. 934, § 1, eff. July 27, 1967; Stats.1988, c. 655, § 3.)