BILL NUMBER: SB 629	CHAPTERED  07/06/99

	CHAPTER   62
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 6, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 6, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 16, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   APRIL 26, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kelley

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act to amend Section 13 of the County Water Authority Act
(Chapter 545 of the Statutes of 1943), relating to county water
authorities.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 629, Kelley.  County water authorities.
   Existing law provides for the formation of county water
authorities and grants specified powers to those entities, including
the authority to provide, by resolution or ordinance, for all matters
that are necessary for the proper administration of those
authorities.  Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local
public agency, by ordinance, to make any violation of an ordinance
enacted by the agency subject to an administrative fine or penalty,
as prescribed.
   This bill would authorize the board of directors of an authority
to adopt regulations regarding its facilities, property, and
rights-of-way.  The bill would authorize the board of directors, by
ordinance, to make a violation of those regulations subject to an
administrative fine, as specified.  The bill would require the board
of directors to set forth, by ordinance or resolution, the
administrative procedures that govern the imposition, enforcement,
collection, and administrative review by the authority of those
administrative fines in accordance with specified provisions of law,
except as otherwise specified.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 13 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter
545 of the Statutes of 1943) is amended to read:
  Sec. 13.  (a) All matters and things necessary for the proper
administration of the affairs of the authority that are not provided
for in this act shall be provided for by the board of directors of
the authority by ordinance or resolution.  Any action required by
this act to be done by resolution may be done, with equal validity,
by ordinance.
   (b) (1) The board of directors of the authority may adopt
regulations regarding its facilities, property, and rights-of-way.
The board of directors, by ordinance, may make a violation of any
regulation adopted pursuant to this subdivision subject to an
administrative fine.
   (2) The board of directors shall set forth, by ordinance or
resolution, the administrative procedures that govern the imposition,
enforcement, collection, and administrative review by the authority
of those administrative fines.
   (3) The amount of the administrative fine shall not exceed the
maximum fine for infractions set forth in subdivision (b) of Section
25132 and subdivision (b) of Section 36900 of the Government Code.
For the purpose of carrying out this subdivision, Section 53069.4 of
the Government Code shall apply, except that any action required by
that section to be taken by ordinance may be taken by resolution of
the board of directors.