BILL NUMBER: SB 673	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 14, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 24, 2009
	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, 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 2, number 3, or number 4, there being as many
numbers as there are directors at large to be elected.
   This bill would 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.


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"
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.