ARTICLE 1. STATE WATER QUALITY CONTROL
FUND
§ 13400. Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from
the context:
(a) “Facilities” means any of the following:
(1) Facilities for the collection, treatment, or export of
waste when necessary to prevent water pollution.
(2) Facilities to recycle wastewater and to convey
recycled water.
(3) Facilities or devices to conserve water.
(4) Any combination of the facilities described in
paragraph (1), (2), or (3).
(b) “Fund” means the State Water Quality Control Fund.
(c) “Not-for-profit organization” means an organization
operated on a not-for-profit basis, including, but not
limited to, an association, cooperative, or private
corporation that is a public water system, as defined in
Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code, that meets technical, managerial, and financial capacity criteria
specified by the State Department of Public Health for
public water systems, or that is subject to regulatory
authority pursuant to this division. “Not-for-profit
organization” includes only an organization that is either
controlled by a local public body or bodies or has a
broadly based ownership by, or membership of, people of
the local community.
(d) “Public agency” means any city, county, city and
county, district, or other political subdivision of the state.