Appendix 4872. Definitions.

For the purposes of this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)

"Incipient public water system" means any actual or potential water supplier that meets all of the following criteria:

(1)

Is party to a water will-serve letter or letters;

(2)

Is not a public water system; and

(3)

Would be a public water system if it had completed all of the future connections to which the water will-serve letter or letters pertains.

(b)

"Public water system" means a public water system as defined in Health and Safety Code section 4010.1 as it read on January 1, 1988.

(c)

"Water will-serve letter" means a binding agreement that meets all of the following criteria:

(1)

Was entered into between an actual or potential water supplier and the owner of land;

(2)

Is enforceable by the owner of that land or the owner's successors in interest in that land;

(3)

Provides for the future connection to the water supplier's system of one or more lots within a subdivision of that land effected by a recorded final map, parcel map or parcel map waiver; and

(4)

Was required by the County of Ventura as the condition precedent to recordation of the final map, parcel map or parcel map waiver that effected the subdivision.

(d)

"Safe Drinking Water Act" means the California Safe Drinking Water Act, set forth in Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 5 (commencing with section 4010) of the Health and Safety Code, and all rules, regulations and standards promulgated or adopted thereunder, as such act, rules, regulations and standards read on January 1, 1988.