CHAPTER 4. Hearings, Depositions and Notices [8730. - 8742.]

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Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8730. Section 8730.

Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made by the members, employees or special advisers of the board.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8730.1. Section 8730.1.

The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt. All applications shall be acted upon within 90 days of receipt, except that applications subject to the provisions of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code shall be acted upon within 180 days of receipt. Applicants may waive the requirement that applications be acted upon within such period. This section shall not apply to emergency permits.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8730.2. Section 8730.2.

Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon. This section shall not apply to emergency permits.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8730.3. Section 8730.3.

Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and their content and shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application. This section shall not apply to emergency permits.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8731. Section 8731.

The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8732. Section 8732.

The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, before a qualified neutral hearing officer designated by the board president, or before the executive officer or chief engineer of the board, at any place within the state.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8734. Section 8734.

The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the applicant.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8735. Section 8735.

The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the hearing, and a proportionate allowance, according to their usual rate of compensation, for the time of the members, officers and employees of the board required for the hearing.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8736. Section 8736.

All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the State Treasury and credited to the balance remaining unexpended of any appropriation or assessment available for the general administrative expenses of the board.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8737. Section 8737.

The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before the board.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8738. Section 8738.

The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8739. Section 8739.

The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in civil actions.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8740. Section 8740.

When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8741. Section 8741.

An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this part in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in Sections 2009 to 2015, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the affidavit shall be received as prima facie evidence of the service or publication in any court or elsewhere.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 8742. Section 8742.

In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication, mailing or otherwise, of any of its assessments, orders, proceedings, hearings or other acts done or contemplated.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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