Amended in Assembly June 4, 2013

Senate Bill No. 614

Introduced by Senator Wolk

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 21100 of the Water Code, relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 614, as amended, Wolk. Irrigation districts: directors.

Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, with certain exceptions, requires a director elected at a formation election to be a resident, landowner, and voter in the proposed district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the division that he or she represents during his or her entire term. Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires a director of the board of an irrigation district to be a voter and, unless exempted under certain circumstances, a landowner in the district and a resident of the division that the director represents at the time of his or her nomination or appointment and during the director’s entire term.

This bill would eliminate the begin delete landownership requirement pertaining to a director of the board of an irrigation district end delete begin insert circumstances in which a director of the board of an irrigation district may be exempt from the landownership requirement end insert .

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Existing law requires a director on the board of an irrigation district that provides retail electricity for residents of the district to be a voter of the district and a resident of the division that the director represents at the time of his or her nomination or appointment and during his or her entire term. Existing law requires a director elected at a formation election to be a resident in the proposed district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the division that he or she represents during his or her entire term.

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This bill would apply these requirements to a director on the board of an irrigation district that provides water for agricultural purposes and water for municipal or industrial purposes.

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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 21100 of the Water Code is amended to
read:

21100.  

(a) Each director, except as begin insert provided in subdivisions
(c) or (d) or end insert otherwise provided in this division, shall be a voter
begin insert and a landowner end insert in the district and a resident of the division that
he or she represents at the time of his or her nomination or
appointment and through his or her entire term, except in the case
of the director elected at a formation election. A director elected
at a formation election shall be a begin delete resident end delete begin insert resident, landowner, end insert and
voter in the proposed district at the time of his or her nomination
and a resident of the division that he or she represents during his
or her entire term.

(b) In any district having no more than 15 landowners who are
voters in the district, a person need not be a voter but shall be
qualified to be a director of the district if he or she is a landowner
of the district at the time of his or her nomination or appointment
and during his or her entire term.

(c) In a district begin delete providing end delete begin insert that provides end insert retail electricity for
residents of the district, each director, except as otherwise provided
in this division, shall be a voter of the district and a resident of the
division that he or she represents at the time of his or her
nomination or appointment and during his or her entire term, except
in the case of a director elected at a formation election. A director
elected at a formation election shall be a resident in the proposed
district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the
division that he or she represents during his or her entire term.

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(d) In a district that provides water for agricultural purposes
and water for municipal or industrial purposes, each director,
except as otherwise provided in this division, shall be a voter of
the district and a resident of the division that he or she represents
at the time of his or her nomination or appointment and during
his or her entire term, except in the case of a director elected at a
formation election. A director elected at a formation election shall
be a resident in the proposed district at the time of his or her
nomination and a resident of the division that he or she represents
during his or her entire term.

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