Bill Text: CA AB688 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 688 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Irrigation districts.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB688 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB688-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 688	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 20740 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 688, as introduced, Nazarian. Irrigation districts.
   The Irrigation District Law provides for the formation of
irrigation districts with prescribed powers. Existing law requires a
petition for the formation of a district and a notice of the time of
the meeting at which the petition will be presented to be published,
as specified.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 20740 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   20740.  The petition and a notice of the time of the meeting at
which it will be presented shall be published for at least two weeks
before the time at which it is to be presented.  Publication
  The publication  shall be in a newspaper of
general circulation printed and published in the principal county and
in a newspaper published in each other affected county. The notice
shall be signed by the county elections official of the principal
county.