BILL NUMBER: AB 1578	CHAPTERED  09/03/99

	CHAPTER   321
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 23, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 20, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 19, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cunneen

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to amend Sections 5540.5 and 5546 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to parks and recreation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1578, Cunneen.  Park and open-space districts.
   Existing law authorizes the East Bay Regional Park District to
exchange up to a maximum of 40 acres of district-owned real property
in any calendar year for other real property, and requires that any
real property so acquired by the district be adjacent to other real
property owned by the district.
   This bill would make those provisions also applicable to the
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
   Existing law authorizes a park or open-space district to
contribute money, in those amounts as the board of directors of the
district may by resolution find to be proper, to the California State
Park Commission or to any municipality, county, or other public
corporation within or outside of the district for specified purposes
relating to park management, whenever in the judgment of the board of
directors the acquisition or improvement is so located and planned
as to be of benefit to the district.
   This bill would authorize a district to provide grant funds to a
private or nonprofit entity for those purposes relating to park
acquisitions and improvements and would correct an obsolete reference
in those provisions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 5540.5 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   5540.5.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5540, a district, with the
approval by a unanimous vote of the members of its board of
directors, may exchange any real property dedicated and used for park
or open-space, or both, purposes for real property that the board of
directors determines to be of equal or greater value and is
necessary to be acquired for park or open-space, or both, purposes.
   (b) A district shall not in any calendar year exchange more than
10 acres of district-owned real property pursuant to this section for
other real property, and any real property acquired by the district
shall be adjacent to other real property owned by the district.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the East Bay Regional Park
District and the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District may
exchange up to a maximum of 40 acres of district-owned real property
in any calendar year pursuant to this section for other real
property, and any real property so acquired by the district shall be
adjacent to other real property owned by the district.
  SEC. 2.  Section 5546 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   5546.  A district may contribute money, in those amounts the board
of directors, by resolution, finds to be proper, to the State Park
and Recreation Commission or to any municipality, county, or other
public corporation, district, or agency, for the purpose of assisting
in the acquisition of lands within or  outside of the district for
the purposes specified in section 5541, or for improving the lands in
the manner therein specified, when in the judgment of the board of
directors the acquisition or improvement is so located and planned as
to be of benefit to the district.  A district may grant funds to a
private nonprofit entity for the purposes of this section.