SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS"Board" means the Board of Directors of the District."Conduits" means canals, laterals, ditches, drains, flumes, pipes, measurement, and control devices, and all related operational facilities. "Distribution System Operator" means the District employee serving under the direction of the Water Operations Manager in regard to the control and delivery of irrigation water. "District" means the OAKDALE IRRIGATION DISTRICT functioning under Irrigation District Laws of the California Water Code. "District Conduit" means any conduit owned or leased by the District according to District records but does not include Improvement District Facilities. "District Facilities" includes dams, structures, wells, conduits, pumps, reservoirs, and all other facilities of the District as identified by records, but do not include Improvement District Facilities. "Engineer" means the District employee serving under the direction of the Manager in regard to the management and supervision of any and all engineering activities. "Improvement District" means an improvement district formed under the California Water Code pursuant to the Irrigation Improvement Act. "Improvement District Facilities" include conduits, pumps, wells, structures, and other facilities owned by an Improvement District. "Irrigator" means the person responsible for the distribution and control of irrigation water applied to the irrigated parcel. "Landowner' means holder of title or evidence of title to land. "Manager" means the General Manager of the District. "Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company. "Private" means any interest belonging to, restricted to, or intended for an individual or group of individuals benefit. "Pollutant" means any foreign or deleterious substance or material including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, refuse, animal carcasses, matter from any barnyard, stable, dairy or hog pen, herbicides, pesticides, or any other material which is offensive to the senses or injurious to health, or which pollutes or degrades the quality of the receiving water as defined by federal, state or local law. "Tenant" means a person or entity that leases, rents, or sharecrops land from a Landowner. "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive. "Support Services Manager" means the District employee serving under the direction of the General Manager in regard to the management and supervision of the Support Services Department. "Vehicle" means any motor vehicle, self propelled vehicle, motorcycle, motorized bicycle, or all terrain vehicle. "Water Allotment" means the base quantity of water which is set annually by the Board for each acre of land within the District which can receive District water from District Facilities directly or through Improvement District or Private Facilities which comply with these rules. "Watermaster" see "Water Operations Manager" -- used interchangeably "Water Operations Manager" means the District employee serving under the direction of the General Manager in regard to the management and supervision of the Water Operations Department. Used interchangeably with "Watermaster". "Water User" means the person who has the primary responsibility for irrigating the parcel. "Works of the District" include canals, laterals, ditches, drains, pipelines, conduits, pumps, reservoirs, valves, check gates, weirs, measuring devices in or used in connection with such facilities, and all other facilities of the District used in connection with the performance of its business in place or hereafter installed according to District records.
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