No person shall undertake to dig, bore, or drill a water well, cathodic protection well, groundwater monitoring well, or geothermal heat exchange well, to deepen or reperforate such a well, or to abandon or destroy such a well, unless the person responsible for that construction, alteration, destruction, or abandonment possesses a C-57 Water Well Contractor’s License.
Cal. Water Code § 13750.5
Reports
Known as the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
The act spans §§ 13000–16201 (413 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 130 Cal. App. 4th 162 - Communications Relay Corp. v. County of Los Angeles (2005)
Most recently applied in 178 Cal. App. 4th 1460 - California Groundwater Ass'n v. Semitropic Water Storage District (November 2009)
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 581, Sec. 5
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.