BILL NUMBER: AB 1892	CHAPTERED  06/30/02

	CHAPTER  79
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 30, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 28, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 24, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 12, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Harman, John Campbell, Correa, and
Daucher
   (Principal coauthors:  Senators Dunn and Johnson)

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2002

   An act to add Section 4730.66 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to sanitation districts, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1892, Harman.  Orange County Sanitation District.
   The County Sanitation District Act authorizes a sanitation
district to acquire, construct, and complete certain works, property,
or structures necessary or convenient for sewage collection,
treatment, and disposal.
   This bill would authorize the Orange County Sanitation District to
acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and furnish facilities for
the diversion of urban runoff from drainage courses within the
district, the treatment of the urban runoff, the return of the water
to the drainage courses, or the beneficial use of the water.
   This bill would declare that it constitutes necessary special
legislation.
  This bill would declare that it shall take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 4730.66 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   4730.66.  (a) This section applies only to the consolidated
sanitation district in Orange County described in Section 4730.65.
The powers granted in this section supplement the existing powers of
the district.
   (b) The district may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and
furnish facilities for all or any of the following purposes:
   (1) The diversion of urban runoff from drainage courses within the
district.
   (2) The treatment of the urban runoff.
   (3) The return of the water to the drainage courses.
   (4) The beneficial use of the water.
   (c) In order to carry out the powers and purposes granted under
this section, the district may exercise any of the powers otherwise
granted to a district by this chapter to the extent those powers may
be made applicable.
   (d) Nothing in this section affects any obligation of the district
to obtain a permit that may be required by law for the activities
undertaken pursuant to this section.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a general statute
cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article
IV of the Constitution due to the unique circumstances of the
consolidated sanitation district in Orange County.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to timely provide authority to the Orange County
Sanitation District to effectively deal with the urban water runoff
problem, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.