Bill Text: CA SB614 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local government: jurisdictional changes: infrastructure financing.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 784, Statutes of 2014. [SB614 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB614-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 614	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 21100 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 614, as introduced, Wolk. Irrigation districts: directors.
   Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, with certain
exceptions, requires a director elected at a formation election to be
a resident, landowner, and voter in the proposed district at the
time of his or her nomination and a resident of the division that he
or she represents during his or her entire term. Existing law, with
certain exceptions, requires a director of the board of an irrigation
district to be a voter and, unless exempted under certain
circumstances, a landowner in the district and a resident of the
division that the director represents at the time of his or her
nomination or appointment and during the director's entire term.
   This bill would eliminate the landownership requirement pertaining
to a director of the board of an irrigation district.
   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 21100 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   21100.  (a) Each director, except as otherwise provided in this
division, shall be a voter  and a landowner  in the
district and a resident of the division that he or she represents at
the time of his or her nomination or appointment and through his or
her entire term, except in the case of the director elected at a
formation election. A director elected at a formation election shall
be a resident  , landowner,  and voter in the
proposed district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident
of the division that he or she represents during his or her entire
term.
   (b) In any district having no more than 15 landowners who are
voters in the district, a person need not be a voter but shall be
qualified to be a director of the district if he or she is a
landowner of the district at the time of his or her nomination or
appointment and during his or her entire term.
   (c) In a district providing retail electricity for residents of
the district, each director, except as otherwise provided in this
division, shall be a voter of the district and a resident of the
division that he or she represents at the time of his or her
nomination or appointment and during his or her entire term, except
in the case of a director elected at a formation election. A director
elected at a formation election shall be a resident in the proposed
district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the
division that he or she represents during his or her entire term.

   (d) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 21100, except
as provided in paragraph (2), for the purpose of meeting the
requirements of that subdivision, a person need not be a landowner
within the district to be qualified to be a director of the district
if either of the following applies:  
   (A) The person serves or seeks to serve on the board of directors
of a district without divisions and the district is required to
submit an urban water management plan pursuant to the Urban Water
Management Planning Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) of
Division 6).  
   (B) The person serves or seeks to serve on the board of directors
of a district with divisions, the district is required to submit an
urban water management plan pursuant to the Urban Water Management
Planning Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) of Division
6), and the district, within the division that the person represents
or seeks to represent, supplies water as a public water system
subject to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270) of Part 12 of
Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.  
   (2) A director appointed or elected before January 1, 2007, shall
be subject to the qualification requirements imposed by subdivision
(a) until the expiration of his or her term.