Senate Bill No. 1378

Introduced by Senator Morrell

February 19, 2016

An act to amend Section 3 of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Law (Chapter 1435 of the Statutes of 1961), relating to the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1378, as introduced, Morrell. San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency: board of directors.

Existing law, the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Law, establishes the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency to, among other things, acquire, or contract to acquire, waterworks or a waterworks system, and other property useful or necessary to store, convey, supply, or otherwise make use of water, within a specified area of the County of Riverside. The law provides for a 7-member board of directors, 5 of whom are elected from 5 separate divisions, with 2 directors elected at large by the voters of the agency as a whole.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the board of directors provision.

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 3 of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency
Law (Chapter 1435 of the Statutes of 1961), as amended by Section
2 of Chapter 41 of the Statutes of 1983, is amended to read:

Sec. 3.  

The board of directors shall, at its first meeting, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, divide the agency into five divisions,
which shall be as nearly as practicable equal in area. The divisions
shall be numbered first, second, third, begin delete fourth end delete begin insert fourth, end insert and fifth. One
director shall be elected for each division by the voters thereof at
the next general agency election following the organization of the
agency, and two directors at large shall be elected at the election
by the voters of the agency as a whole. Each director elected or
appointed for a division shall be an elector in that division, and
each director at large shall be an elector in the agency. Each
director elected or appointed for a division is herein called a
“divisional director,” and each of the two directors elected or
appointed for the agency at large is herein called a “director at
large.” The two offices of directors at large shall respectively be
known as “director at large No. 1” and “director at large No. 2.”