California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Water Code - WAT |
Division 5. FLOOD CONTROL |
Part 4. THE CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD |
Chapter 3. Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction |
ARTICLE 6. Encroachments on Flood Control Works |
Section 8706.
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The board may maintain actions in the name of the State to compel by injunction the owner or owners of any bridge, trestle, wire line, viaduct, or embankment or other structure or obstruction which shall be intersected, traversed or crossed by any by-pass, drainage canal, channel, or overflow channel, to construct or alter any structure in order to offer a minimum of obstruction to the free flow of water.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)