(A) Generally. As defined in other documents, except as otherwise required by the context of this article, the terms used in this article shall have the same meaning as in Cal. Water Code Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Division 7 and the Department of Water Resources Bulletin 74-81 and subsequent supplements or revisions.
ADMINISTRATOR. The person to whom authority and responsibility for implementing and enforcing this article is delegated by the enforcing agency. The Administrator shall have the power to hold hearings, certify environmental review documents, issue, condition, revise and revoke permits and to designate deputies to assist in carrying out these duties.
BOARD. The Board of Supervisors of the county.
ENFORCING AGENCY, ENFORCEMENT AGENCY and AGENCY. That agency designated by the Board to administer and enforce this article, and shall include any person designated by the Board of the enforcing agency to whom its authority to administer this article is delegated by resolution; the person shall be referred to in this article as the “Administrator”. The Administrator may exercise, by delegation from the agency, all powers of the agency under this article, with the exception of the hearing of appeals.
PERSON. Any person, firm, corporation or governmental agency, to the extent authorized by law.
WELL or WATER WELL. The Cal. Water Code § 13710, defines well or water well to mean “. . .any artificial excavation constructed by any method for the purpose of extracting water from, or injecting water into, the underground.” The Board of Supervisors does not intend that potholes, drainage trenches or canals, waste water ponds, shallow root zone piezometers, stock ponds, springs or similar excavations be included within the definition of wells. The enforcement agency, in determining what constitutes “similar excavations,” shall exclude from the definition of WELL, those excavations which by reason of their depth, use, location, geologic setting or other reasonable hydrologic factors do not pose a substantial risk of polluting the groundwater of the county.
(B) Tense or gender. Words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
(C) Section headings. When contained in this article, shall not govern, limit, modify or, in any manner, affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any section.
(1966 Code, § 17C-2) (Ord. 779, § 1(part))