BILL NUMBER: SB 673	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cox

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 15956 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utility districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 673, as introduced, Cox. Public utility districts.
   The existing Public Utility District Act authorizes the formation
of public utility districts and authorizes a district to acquire,
construct, own, operate, or control works for supplying its
inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone
service, or other means of communication, or for the means for the
disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter. The act provides
for the election of directors at large and requires that each office
of director at large shall be designated as "director at large"
number one, number two, number three, or number four, there being as
many numbers as there are directors at large to be elected.
   This bill would provide that a director at large may be determined
either by those candidates receiving the greatest number of votes
districtwide, or as director number one, number two, number three, or
number four, there being as many numbers as there are directors at
large to be elected.
   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 15956 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   15956.  Candidates for directors at large shall be designated in
all declarations of candidacy, nominating certificates, and on all
official election ballots as candidates for a particular directorship
at large, in accordance with the declarations of candidacy which the
candidates have filed with the county elections official or the
clerk of the district, as the case may be. Each office of director at
large shall be designated as "director at  large" 
 large." A director at large may be determined either by those
candidates receiving the greatest number of votes districtwide, or as
director  number one, number two, number three, or number four,
there being as many numbers as there are directors at large to be
elected.