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Cal. WAT § 11853

This is the official text of Cal. WAT § 11853, part of California’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.

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Official statutory text

The department may carry insurance or indemnity bonds insuring against the loss of revenues to be derived from the project by reason of any interruption in the use of the project, or any part thereof, from any cause whatever, and the proceeds of such insurance or indemnity bonds shall be paid into the fund into which the revenues are required to be paid and shall be applied to the same purposes and in the same manner as other moneys in the fund.

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