BILL NUMBER: AB 1484	CHAPTERED  07/20/99

	CHAPTER   132
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 20, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 19, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 21, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 3, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 14, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maldonado
   (Coauthor:  Senator O'Connell)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 61601.18 to the Government Code, relating to
community services districts, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1484, Maldonado.  Heritage Ranch Community Services District.
   Existing law authorizes the creation of community services
districts for the performance of various specified public and utility
services.
   This bill would grant limited authority to the Heritage Ranch
Community Services District to acquire, construct, improve, upgrade,
maintain, or operate storage tanks and related facilities to provide
petroleum to the district, its inhabitants, and visitors.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 61601.18 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   61601.18.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 61600 and 61601, whenever
the Board of Directors of the Heritage Ranch Community Services
District determines by resolution that it is feasible, economically
sound, and in the public interest for the district to exercise its
power for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving,
upgrading, maintaining, or operating storage tanks and related
facilities to provide petroleum to the district, its inhabitants, and
visitors to the Heritage Ranch community, the board may adopt those
additional purposes by resolution in the minutes, and the powers of
the district may thereafter be exercised for those purposes.
   (b) The authority granted by this section shall expire when a
private person or entity is ready, willing, and able to acquire,
construct, improve, upgrade, maintain, or operate storage tanks and
related facilities to provide petroleum to the Heritage Ranch
Community Services District, its inhabitants, and visitors to the
community.  At that time, the district shall diligently transfer any
and all of its title, ownership, maintenance, control, and operation
of those tanks and related facilities at a fair market value to that
private person or entity.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to alleviate the safety hazards and inconvenience to
district residents who need to store gasoline in their garages
because of the unavailability of gasoline in the district due to the
expiration of the underground storage tank cleanup period on December
22, 1998, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.