Amended in Senate April 25, 2016

Senate Bill No. 1378

Introduced by Senator Morrell

February 19, 2016

An act to amend begin delete Section 3 end delete begin insert Sections 3 and 5 end insert 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 amended, 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 begin delete make a nonsubstantive change to the board of directors provision. end delete begin insert decrease to 5 the number of members on the board of directors of the agency by removing the 2 directors elected end insert begin insert at large. end insert

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 begin delete board of directors shall, at its first meeting, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, divide the end delete agency begin delete into end delete begin insert shall be
comprised of end insert five divisions, which shall be as nearly as practicable
equal in area. The divisions shall be numbered first, second, third,
fourth, 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 begin delete agency, and two directors at large shall be
elected at the election by the voters of the agency as a whole. end delete
begin insert agency. end insert Each director elected or appointed for a division shall be
an elector in that begin delete division, and each director at large shall be an
elector in the agency. end delete begin insert division. end insert Each director elected or appointed
for a division is herein called a “divisional begin delete 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.” end delete begin insert director. end insert

begin insert

begin insert SEC. 2. end insert   

end insert

begin insert Section 5 of the end insert begin insert San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Law end insert

begin insert (Chapter 1435 of the Statutes of 1961), as amended by Section 1
of Chapter 249 of the Statutes of 1967, is amended to read: end insert

Sec. 5.  

The board of directors of the agency organized under
this act shall consist of begin delete seven end delete begin insert five end insert members. The Board of
Supervisors of Riverside County shall appoint the first board of
directors, each of whom shall be a resident or owner of real
property within the agency, and shall hold office until his begin insert or her end insert
successor is elected. Following the creation of the five divisions
of the agency by the first board of directors, and at the first agency
election thereafter, all successors of the first board shall be elected
or chosen at the time and in the manner provided in the Uniform
District Election Law, which shall apply to the agency.