It is reaffirmed that districts are state agencies formed and existing for governmental purposes.
Cal. Water Code § 20570
General Provisions
Known as the Irrigation District Law
The act spans §§ 20500 to 29978 (1,017 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 154 Cal. App. 2d 720 - Ambrosini v. Alisal Sanitary District (1957)
Most recently applied in Basurto v. Imperial Irrigation District (November 2012)
Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1366.
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.