BILL NUMBER: SB 673	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2009

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 amended, 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   authorize the board
of directors of a district to adopt an ordinance that provides that
the candidates seeking election for directors at large receiving the
greatest number of votes districtwide as there are directors to be
elected would be elected to the board  .
   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.   (a)    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." A director at large may be determined
either by those candidates receiving the greatest number of votes
districtwide, or as director number   large" number
 one, number two, number three, or number four, there being as
many numbers as there are directors at large to be elected. 
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or any other provision of this
article, the board of directors of a district may adopt an ordinance
that requires that candidates for directors at large need not
designate a numbered office. The ordinance shall instead require that
the candidates receiving the greatest number of votes districtwide
as there are directors to be elected shall be elected to the board of
directors.