BILL NUMBER: AB 17	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 5, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 15, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 13, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 11, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act to amend Section 71253 of the Water Code, relating to
municipal water districts, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 17, as amended, Davis. Municipal water districts: board of
directors.
   Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, authorizes
the formation of a municipal water district to acquire and sell
water. Existing law generally requires the board of directors of a
municipal water district to consist of 5 members who hold office for
a term of 4 years from and after the date of the director taking
office and until the election and qualification of the director's
successor. Under existing law, except as prescribed, directors take
office at the time county officers take office, at 12 o'clock noon on
the first Monday after the January 1st succeeding their election.
   Existing law establishes certain dates during which elections are
to be held each year, including the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November of each year.
   This bill would specify that directors elected to office at
 an   a general district  election held on
the first Monday in November take office at the time county officers
take office, on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding their
election. This bill would further specify that directors elected at
 an   a general district  election held at
a date other than the above-mentioned November date take office 30
days following the date of certification of the results of that
election. Under this bill, these provisions would become operative on
January 1, 2013.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 71253 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   71253.  (a) Except for the directors elected at the formation
election, directors elected to office at  an   a
general district  election held on a date specified in
subdivision (d) of Section 1000 of the Elections Code shall take
office at the time provided by Section 24200 of the Government Code
for county officers to take office.
   (b) Directors elected to office at  an   a
general district  election held on a date other than that
specified in subdivision (d) of Section 1000 of the Elections Code
shall take office 30 days following the date of certification of the
results of that election.
   (c) The changes made to this section by the act that added this
subdivision shall become operative on January 1, 2013.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure the integrity of municipal water district
elections, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.