Amended in Assembly June 5, 2014

Senate BillNo. 946


Introduced by Senator Huff

February 5, 2014


An act to amend Section 4730.65 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to community facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 946, as amended, Huff. Community facilities:begin delete consolidated sanitation district.end deletebegin insert Orange County Sanitation District.end insert

Under the Community Facilities Law of 1911, the governing body of a consolidated sanitation district located in Orangebegin delete County, whichend deletebegin insert County thatend insert has been formed under specified circumstances,begin delete is composed ofend deletebegin insert now known as the Orange County Sanitation District, includes, among other persons,end insert one member of the city council of each city located wholly or partially within the district’s boundaries,begin delete as specified, one member of the county board of supervisors, one member of the governing body of each sanitary district, as specified, and one member of the governing body of a public agency empowered to and engaged in the collection, transportation, treatment, or disposal of sewage,end delete as specified.

This bill would revise the governing body ofbegin delete a consolidated sanitation district located inend deletebegin insert theend insert Orange Countybegin insert Sanitation Districtend insert to instead include one member of the city council of each city, except the City of Yorba Linda, as specified,begin delete one member of the county board of supervisors, one member of the governing body of each sanitary district, as specified, one member of the governing body of a public agency empowered to and engaged in the collection, transportation, treatment, or disposal of sewage, as specified,end delete and one member of the governing body of the Yorba Linda Water District.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for thebegin delete consolidated sanitation district inend delete Orange Countybegin insert Sanitation Districtend insert, the City of Yorba Linda, and the Yorba Linda Water District.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 4730.65 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:

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4730.65.  

(a)  Notwithstanding Sections 4730,begin delete 4730.1end deletebegin insert 4730.1,end insert
4 and 4730.2, or any otherbegin delete provision of law, a sanitation district in
5Orange County, that has been created by the consolidation,
6pursuant to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government
7Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section
856000) of Title 5 of the Government Code), of one or more
9sanitation districts, originally established pursuant to Section 4730,
10and one or more sanitation districts, originally established pursuant
11to Section 4730.1, shall be referred to, for purposes of this section
12only, as a consolidated sanitation district and the governing body
13shall be constituted in accordance with subdivision (b).end delete

14begin delete(b) end deletebegin deleteend deletebegin deleteTheend deletebegin insert law, theend insert governing body of the begin delete consolidated sanitation
15districtend delete
begin insert Orange County Sanitation Districtend insert shall be a board of
16directors composed of all of the following:

17(1)  One member of the city council of each city located wholly
18or partially within the district’s boundaries, except the City of
19Yorba Linda, provided, however, a city within thebegin delete consolidated
20district,end delete
begin insert Orange County Sanitation District,end insert the sewered portion
21of which city lies entirely within another sanitary district, shall
22have no representation on the board.

23(2)  One member of the county board of supervisors.

24(3)  One member of the governing body of each sanitary district,
25the whole or part of which is included in thebegin delete consolidated sanitation
26district.end delete
begin insert Orange County Sanitation District.end insert

27(4)  One member of the governing body of a public agency
28empowered to and engaged in the collection, transportation,
29treatment, or disposal of sewage and which was a member agency
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2district.end delete
begin insert the Orange County Sanitation District.end insert

3(5) One member of the governing body of the Yorba Linda
4Water District.

begin delete

32 5(c)

end delete

6begin insert(b)end insert The governing body of the county and each city, sanitary
7district, and public agency that is a member agency having a
8representative on the board of directors of thebegin delete consolidated
9sanitation district,end delete
begin insert Orange County Sanitation District,end insert may
10designate one of its members to act in the place of its regular
11member in his or her absence or his or her inability to act.

begin delete

5 12(d)

end delete

13begin insert(c)end insert No action shall be taken at any meeting of thebegin delete consolidated
14district’send delete
begin insert Orange County Sanitation District’send insert board of directors
15unless a majority of all authorized members of the board of
16directors is in attendance.

begin delete

8 17(e)

end delete

18begin insert(d)end insert A majority of the members of the board of directors present
19shall be required to approve or otherwise act on any matter except
20as otherwise required by law.

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SEC. 2.  

The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
22is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
23within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
24Constitution because of the special circumstances surrounding the
25change in composition of the governing body of thebegin delete consolidated
26sanitation district inend delete
Orange Countybegin insert Sanitation Districtend insert resulting
27from the transfer of sanitation duties from the City of Yorba Linda
28to the Yorba Linda Water District.



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