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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Caballero</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend the heading of Article 8 (commencing with Section 801) of, and to add Sections 802 and 803 to, the North Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency (Chapter 392 of the Statutes of 2016), relating to groundwater agencies. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>North Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency: lien authority.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified. The act authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law establishes the North Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency, requires the agency to be a
groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act for that portion of the Kings Subbasin that lies within the boundaries of the agency, and requires the agency to develop and implement a groundwater sustainability plan to achieve sustainable groundwater management within the territory of the agency. Existing law generally specifies the powers of the agency, including the power to impose fees, including, but not limited to, permit fees and fees on groundwater extraction or other regulated activity, to fund the costs of a groundwater sustainability program.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would authorize the agency to impose civil penalties on any person who extracts groundwater in excess of the amount that person is authorized to extract under a rule, regulation, ordinance, or resolution adopted by the agency. If any charges for water and other services, or civil penalties imposed by the agency pursuant to its authority, remain unpaid, the bill would
authorize the amount of unpaid charges or penalties, in the discretion of the agency, to be secured at any time by filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county a certificate specifying the amount of the charges or penalties and the name and address of the person liable for the charges. The bill would require that, from the time of recordation of the certificate, the amount required to be paid together with interest and penalties would constitute a lien upon all real property in the county owned by the person or afterwards, and before the lien expired, acquired by that person. The bill would require that the lien has the force, priority, and effect of a judgment lien, and that the lien shall continue for 10 years from the date of the filing of the certificate unless sooner released or otherwise discharged. The bill would also authorize the lien to be extended, as provided.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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The heading of Article 8 (commencing with Section 801) of the
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(Chapter 392 of the Statutes of 2016) is amended to read:
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<ns0:LawHeadingText>Fee Authority: Liens: Collection of Unpaid Fees or Penalties</ns0:LawHeadingText>
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Section 802 is added to the
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<html:p>Pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 10732) of Part 2.74 of Division 6 of the Water Code, the agency may impose civil penalties on any person who extracts groundwater in excess of the amount that person is authorized to extract under a rule, regulation, ordinance, or resolution adopted by the agency.</html:p>
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Section 803 is added to the
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(Chapter 392 of the Statutes of 2016), to read:
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(a)
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In the event that any charges for water and other services, or civil penalties imposed by the agency pursuant to its authority pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 10730) or Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 10732) of Part 2.74 of Division 6 of the Water Code, remain unpaid, the amount of unpaid charges or penalties may, in the discretion of the agency, be secured at any time by filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county a certificate specifying the amount of the charges or penalties and the name and address of the person liable therefor.
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(b)
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From the time of recordation of the certificate, the amount required to be paid together with any interest and penalties constitutes a lien upon all real property in the county owned by the
person or afterwards, and before the lien expired, acquired by that person. The lien has the force, priority, and effect of a judgment lien and shall continue for 10 years from the date of the filing of the certificate unless sooner released or otherwise discharged. The lien may, within 10 years from the filing of the certificate or within 10 years from the date of the last extension of the lien in the manner herein provided, be extended by filing for record a new certificate in the office of the county recorder of any county, and from the time of that filing, the lien shall be extended to the real property in that county for 10 years unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.
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