There is in the Resources Agency the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards. The organization, membership, and some of the duties of the state board are provided for in Article 3 (commencing with Section 174) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of this code.
Cal. Water Code § 13100
State Water Resources Control Board
Known as the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
The act spans §§ 13000–16201 (413 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 35 Cal. 4th 613 - City of Burbank v. State Water Resources Control Board (2005)
Most recently applied in 12 F. Supp. 3d 1208 - San Francisco Baykeeper v. Levin Enterprises, Inc. (December 2013)
Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 596
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.