California Assembly Bill AB1968 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1968INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Steinorth FEBRUARY 16, 2016 An act to amend Section 5541.1 of the Public Resources Code, relating to parks. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1968, as introduced, Steinorth. East Bay Regional Park District. Existing law authorizes the East Bay Regional Park District to plan, adopt, lay out, plant, develop, and otherwise improve, extend, control, operate, and maintain vehicular recreational areas and trails for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the district. Existing law prohibits the board of directors of the district from interfering with the control of a vehicular recreational area or trail that is existing, owned, or controlled by a municipality or county in the district, except with the consent of the governing body of the municipality or county, and upon terms as may be mutually agreed upon between the board and the governing body. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those 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 5541.1 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 5541.1.  (a)    The East Bay Regional Park District may  plan,   do all of the following:   (1)     Plan,  adopt, lay out, plant, develop, and otherwise improve, extend, control, operate, and maintain vehicular recreational areas and trails for the use and enjoyment of all  of  the inhabitants of the district, and it may select,   district.   (2)     Select,  designate, and acquire land, or rights in land, within or without the district, to be used and appropriated for  such purposes. The East Bay Regional Park District may cause such   the purposes described in paragraph (1).   (3)     Cause the  vehicular recreational areas and trails  described in paragraph (1)  to be opened, altered, widened, extended, graded or regraded, paved or repaved, planted or replanted, repaired, and otherwise improved.  The   (b)     The  Board of Directors of the East Bay Regional Park District shall not interfere with the control of  any   a  vehicular recreational area or trail that is existing, owned, or controlled by a municipality or county in the district, except with the consent of the governing body of the municipality, or of the county if the  same   vehicular recreational area or trail  is in unincorporated territory, and upon  such   those  terms as may be mutually agreed upon between the board of directors of the district and the governing body.