BILL NUMBER: AB 2168	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Yamada

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 6523.3 to the Government Code, relating to
joint exercise of powers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2168, as introduced, Yamada. Joint exercise of powers: Dixon
Regional Watershed Authority.
   Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or
more public agencies, if authorized by their legislative or governing
bodies, to agree to jointly exercise any power common to the
contracting parties, as specified.
   This bill would authorize the Dixon Regional Watershed Authority,
a joint powers agency, to accomplish the purposes and projects
necessary to improve and maintain drainage and stormwater management,
and to exercise the authority to acquire, maintain, and sell
property in the same manner as a reclamation district may acquire,
maintain, and sell property.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Dixon Regional Watershed
Authority.
   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 6523.3 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   6523.3.  The Dixon Regional Watershed Authority, a joint powers
entity that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into in
accordance with this article by the City of Dixon, Reclamation
District Number 2068, the Maine Prairie Water District, and the Dixon
Resource Conservation District, is granted the authority to
accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to improve and
maintain drainage and stormwater management, and may exercise the
authority granted to reclamation districts pursuant to Chapter 3
(commencing with Section 50930) of Part 5 of Division 15 of the Water
Code.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances affecting the Dixon Regional
Watershed Authority.