BILL NUMBER: AB 981	CHAPTERED  07/25/05

	CHAPTER  122
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 25, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 25, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 13, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 23, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 25, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Negrete McLeod
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Soto)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2005

   An act to add Section 6536 to the Government Code, relating to
joint powers authority.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 981, Negrete McLeod  Joint powers authority: Los Angeles.
   The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public
agencies, by agreement, to exercise any power common to the
contracting parties. The act also provides that 2 or more public
agencies having the power to conduct agricultural, livestock,
industrial, cultural, or other fairs or exhibitions shall be deemed
to have common power with respect to any such fair or exhibition
conducted by any one or more of those public agencies or by an entity
created pursuant to a joint powers agreement entered into by those
public agencies.
   This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other provision
of the act, a private, nonprofit corporation that conducts fairs and
other events and exhibitions on land leased from the County of Los
Angeles may enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency
for mutually beneficial uses of the public land.
   This bill would state the finding and declaration of the
Legislature that, due to unique circumstances applicable to the
County of Los Angeles, a statute of general applicability cannot be
made applicable.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 6536 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   6536.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
private, nonprofit corporation that conducts fairs and other events
and exhibitions on land leased from the County of Los Angeles may
enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency, as defined
in Section 6500, for mutually beneficial uses of the public land. The
agency formed pursuant to this joint powers agreement shall be
deemed a public entity as described in Section 6507.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that, due to the unique
circumstances applicable to the County of Los Angeles, a statute of
general applicability cannot be made applicable within the meaning of
subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article VI of the California
Constitution.