California Codes, Code of Civil Procedure - CCP, Part 2 — Of Civil Actions, Title 10 — Actions in Particular Cases, Chapter 7 — Actions Relating to Groundwater Rights, Article 4 — Intervention, Section 837
(a) A groundwater sustainability agency for the basin or a portion of the basin may intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter.
(b) A city, county, or city and county that overlies the basin or a portion of the basin may intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter.
(c) The court shall allow any person to intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter upon an ex parte application that demonstrates that the person holds fee simple ownership in a parcel in the basin, or extracts or stores water in the basin. A person filing an ex parte application pursuant to this subdivision shall give notice to the plaintiff consistent with the California Rules of Court.
(d) A person may apply to intervene in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter pursuant to Section 387.
Notes
Allows a groundwater sustainability agency and an overlying city or county to intervene in a groundwater adjudication under this chapter. The court must allow intervention on an ex parte application showing fee ownership of a basin parcel or basin extraction or storage, with notice to the plaintiff; other persons may seek intervention under the general intervention statute.
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