California Senate Bill SB673 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 673INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Cox FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to amend Section 15956 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utility districts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 673, as introduced, Cox. Public utility districts. The existing Public Utility District Act authorizes the formation of public utility districts and authorizes a district to acquire, construct, own, operate, or control works for supplying its inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone service, or other means of communication, or for the means for the disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter. The act provides for the election of directors at large and requires that each office of director at large shall be designated as "director at large" number one, number two, number three, or number four, there being as many numbers as there are directors at large to be elected. This bill would provide that a director at large may be determined either by those candidates receiving the greatest number of votes districtwide, or as director number one, number two, number three, or number four, there being as many numbers as there are directors at large to be elected. 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 15956 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 15956. Candidates for directors at large shall be designated in all declarations of candidacy, nominating certificates, and on all official election ballots as candidates for a particular directorship at large, in accordance with the declarations of candidacy which the candidates have filed with the county elections official or the clerk of the district, as the case may be. Each office of director at large shall be designated as "director at  large"   large." A director at large may be determined either by those candidates receiving the greatest number of votes districtwide, or as director  number one, number two, number three, or number four, there being as many numbers as there are directors at large to be elected.