Amended
IN
Assembly
March 09, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Maienschein |
February 17, 2023 |
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems, as defined, and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act prohibits a person from operating a public water system without a permit from the state board. The act exempts from its provisions a public water system that meets specified conditions, including, but not limited to, a public water system that obtains all of its water from, but is not owned or operated by, a public water system subject to the act.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision exempting certain public water systems from the act.
(C) If a local agency adopts an
This chapter does not apply to a public water system that meets all of the following conditions:
(a)The public water system consists only of distribution and storage facilities and does not have any collection and treatment facilities.
(b)The public water system obtains all of its water from, but is not owned or operated by, a
public water system to which this chapter applies.
(c)(1)The public water system does not sell water to any person or user. For purposes of this subdivision, sale of water shall not include the sale of water, obtained from a public water system that is subject to this chapter, through a submetered distribution system if each user of the system is charged no more than the rate the user would be charged by the public water system.
(2)By enacting this subdivision, it is not the intent of the Legislature to change existing law as to responsibility or liability for distribution systems beyond the mastermeter.