California 2015 2015-2016 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB1794 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/04/2016

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1794INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Cristina Garcia (Coauthor: Assembly Member Rendon) FEBRUARY 4, 2016 An act to amend Section 71250 of the Water Code, relating to municipal water districts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1794, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Municipal water districts: board of directors. Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, provides for the formation of municipal water districts and grants to those districts' specified powers. Existing law permits a district to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district. Existing law requires the board of directors of a district to consist of 5 members and each director to be a resident of the division from which the director is elected. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions. 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 71250 of the Water Code is amended to read: 71250. The board of directors shall consist of five members. Each director shall be a resident of the division from which he  or she  is elected.