George Basye

Of Counsel

621 Capitol Mall
18th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Areas of Law:

Water, Flood Control, Public Agency Law

Admitted to Practice in:

California, (inactive)

EXPERIENCE/Representative Clients

Flood Control Clients

California Central Valley Flood Control Association (60 member districts).

Approximately 20 reclamation districts, including Nos. 3, 108, 800 (Cosumnes), 900, 999, and 1500.

Sacramento River West Side Levee District, Brannan-Andrus Levee Maintenance District, Knights Landing Ridge Drainage, Colusa Basin Drainage District.

Water Services Agency Clients

•  Sacramento River Water Contractors Association.

•  North Delta Water Agency.

•  South Sutter Water District.

•  Maine Prairie Water District.

•  Omochumne-Hartnell Water District.

•  Colusa Drain Mutual Water Company.

•  Sutter Mutual Water Company.

•  Pelger Mutual Water Company.

•  Pleasant Grove-Verona Mutual Water Company.

Water Quality Clients

Sacramento Valley Water Quality Committee (which represented approximately one million acres of agricultural lands in the Sacramento Valley ) North Delta Water Quality Committee (which represented 300,000 acres in northern portion of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta) - committees no longer active.

Water-Related Recreational Activity Clients

Special counsel for County of Kern in reserving a minimum recreation pool at Lake Isabella on Kern River, 1963.

Oil and Gas Clients

County of Sacramento.

City of Davis.

El Macero Country Club.

Reclamation District Nos. 108, 1000 and others.

Sacramento Yolo Port District.

Numerous farm operators from Contra Costa and Merced Counties on the South to Butte County and North.

MEMBERSHIPS

U.S. Supreme Court & Federal Courts, Admitted to Practice

Sacramento County Bar Association, Member

Excellence in Water Leadership Award from Association of California Water Agencies, Past Recipient

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) (LL.M.. 1956)
University of California Berkeley (LL.B., Order of the Coif, 1954)
University of the Pacific (B.A., 1948)
University of Uppsala, Sweden (Research on the Comparative Law of Insurance, 1955)
University of Stockholm, Sweden (Graduate Work 1948-1949)

PUBLICATIONS

California Historian, "An Overview of Water Rights and Development in California,"Spring 2004, Co-Author

"Battling the River - a History of Reclamation District 108," 2003, Author

California Water Law & Policy Reporter , "Water-User Transfer Legislation: Is it needed?" November 1993, Co-Author with David Aladjem

Landman (Official Publication of The American Association for Petroleum Landmen) “Landowner's Approach to the Oil and Gas Lease -- A California Perspective,” August 1981, Author

PRESENTATIONS

Sacramento Rotary, “History of Water and Flood Control,” 2001, Speaker

McGeorge School of Law, 1958-1964, Professor of Law

CHARITABLE

California State Library Foundation, Vice President and Past President

California Historical Foundation, Past President and Past Trustee

California Historical Society, Past President

Sacramento Metropolitan YMCA, Past President

Rotary Club of Sacramento, Past President

Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation, Past President

Sacramento Symphony Association, Past President

Crocker Art Museum Association, Past President

Crocker Art Museum Foundation, Past Trustee

Sacramento YMCA Foundation, Past President and Trustee

California Capitol Historic Preservation Society, Past Trustee

Sacramento Trust for Historic Preservation, Trustee

Pfund Family Foundation, Trustee

Sacramento Pioneer Association, Past Trustee