California Codes > Water Code > Division 12 > Part 6 > Chapter 7 – Coachella Valley Water District Water Replenishment Assessments
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- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- District: means the Coachella Valley Water District. See California Water Code 31630.5
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
- produce: means the extraction of groundwater by pumping or any other method within the boundaries of the district or the diversion within the district of surface supplies which naturally replenish the groundwater supplies within the district and are used therein. See California Water Code 31630.5
- Producer: means any individual, partnership, association or group of individuals, lessee, firm, private corporation, or any public agency or public corporation, including, but not limited to, the Coachella Valley Water District. See California Water Code 31630.5
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- replenishing: include incentive programs encouraging producers to use reclaimed water supplied by the district, or Colorado River water from the district's Coachella Branch Canal, for irrigation or other purposes, instead of groundwater. See California Water Code 31630.5
- 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 Water Code 10
- year: means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning. See California Water Code 31630.5