A. There is specified and adopted the original system or plan of the storm and surface water public utility described as set forth on the map labeled “Exhibit A,” on file in office of the city clerk, and made a part hereof by this reference, and which shall include all properties, interest and physical and intangible rights of every kind or nature owned or held by the city, however acquired, insofar as they relate to or concern storm or surface water sewage; further including, without limitation, all such properties, interests and rights acquired by adverse possession or by prescription, directly or through another, in and to the drainage or storage, or both, of storm or surface waters, or both, through, under or over lands, landforms, watercourses, sloughs, streams, ponds, lakes and swamps, all beginning in each case or instance at a point where storm or surface waters first enter the storm or surface water system of the city and ending in each case or instance at a point where such storm or surface waters exit from the storm or surface water system of the city, and in width to the full extent of inundation caused by the largest storm or flood condition.

B. The city council expressly finds that the value of the above-described original system or plan of storm and surface water public utility is equal to the value of release from primary responsibility therefor insofar as they relate to or concern storm or surface waters. Accordingly, all of the city’s above-mentioned facilities and rights, insofar as they relate to or concern storm or surface waters, are transferred to and subject to the administration of the storm and surface water utility created by this chapter, and each institution and department of the city having responsibility therefor is, to the same extent, released from such primary responsibility. (Ord. 2003 § 3, 1974.)