BILL NUMBER: AB 1968	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Steinorth

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to amend Section 5541.1 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to parks.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1968, as introduced, Steinorth. East Bay Regional Park
District.
   Existing law authorizes the East Bay Regional Park District to
plan, adopt, lay out, plant, develop, and otherwise improve, extend,
control, operate, and maintain vehicular recreational areas and
trails for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the district.
Existing law prohibits the board of directors of the district from
interfering with the control of a vehicular recreational area or
trail that is existing, owned, or controlled by a municipality or
county in the district, except with the consent of the governing body
of the municipality or county, and upon terms as may be mutually
agreed upon between the board and the governing body.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   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 5541.1 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   5541.1.   (a)    The East Bay Regional Park
District may  plan,   do all of the following:

    (1)     Plan,  adopt, lay out, plant,
develop, and otherwise improve, extend, control, operate, and
maintain vehicular recreational areas and trails for the use and
enjoyment of all  of  the inhabitants of the
district, and it may select,   district. 
    (2)     Select,  designate, and
acquire land, or rights in land, within or without the district, to
be used and appropriated for  such purposes. The East Bay
Regional Park District may cause such   the purposes
described in paragraph (1). 
    (3)     Cause the  vehicular
recreational areas and trails  described in paragraph (1) 
to be opened, altered, widened, extended, graded or regraded, paved
or repaved, planted or replanted, repaired, and otherwise improved.

   The 
    (b)     The  Board of Directors of the
East Bay Regional Park District shall not interfere with the control
of  any   a  vehicular recreational area
or trail that is existing, owned, or controlled by a municipality or
county in the district, except with the consent of the governing body
of the municipality, or of the county if the  same 
 vehicular recreational area or trail  is in unincorporated
territory, and upon  such   those  terms
as may be mutually agreed upon between the board of directors of the
district and the governing body.