BILL NUMBER: AB 2168INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Yamada FEBRUARY 18, 2010 An act to add Section 6523.3 to the Government Code, relating to joint exercise of powers. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2168, as introduced, Yamada. Joint exercise of powers: Dixon Regional Watershed Authority. Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by their legislative or governing bodies, to agree to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. This bill would authorize the Dixon Regional Watershed Authority, a joint powers agency, to accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to improve and maintain drainage and stormwater management, and to exercise the authority to acquire, maintain, and sell property in the same manner as a reclamation district may acquire, maintain, and sell property. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Dixon Regional Watershed Authority. 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 6523.3 is added to the Government Code, to read: 6523.3. The Dixon Regional Watershed Authority, a joint powers entity that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into in accordance with this article by the City of Dixon, Reclamation District Number 2068, the Maine Prairie Water District, and the Dixon Resource Conservation District, is granted the authority to accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to improve and maintain drainage and stormwater management, and may exercise the authority granted to reclamation districts pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 50930) of Part 5 of Division 15 of the Water Code. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances affecting the Dixon Regional Watershed Authority.