AB 1173, as introduced, Williams. Water equipment: backflow protection programs.
Existing law authorizes local health officials to maintain programs, in cooperation with water suppliers, to protect against backflow through service connections into the public water supply system, and, with the consent of the water supplier, to collect fees from the water supplier to offset the costs of implementing these programs. Existing law requires that these programs be conducted in accordance with backflow protection regulations adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change by updating a reference from the State Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 116805 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) Local health officers may maintain programs, in
2cooperation with water suppliers, to protect against backflow
3through service connections into the public water supply, and, with
4the consent of the water supplier, may collect fees from the water
5supplier to offset the costs of implementing these programs.
6(b) The fees authorized under this section and under Section
7116800 shall be limited to the costs of administering these
8programs. At the discretion of the water supplier, the fees collected
9from the water supplier by the local health officer may be passed
10through to water users.
11(c) Programs authorized under this section and Section 116800
12shall be conducted in accordance with backflow protection
13regulations adopted by thebegin delete departmentend deletebegin insert
State Water Resources
14Control Boardend insert.
15(d) Nothing in this article shall prevent a water supplier from
16directly charging those water users required to install backflow
17prevention devices for the costs of the programs authorized in this
18section and Section 116800.
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