California Health and Safety Code

§ 116686

HSC § 116686 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 104 · Part 12 · Ch. 4 · Art. 9

Statute text

(a)(1) To provide an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities, voluntary participants, and public water systems that have demonstrated difficulty in maintaining technical, managerial, and financial capacity and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, the state board may do any of the following, if sufficient funding is available:

(A)(i) Contract with, or provide a grant to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to a designated water system to assist the designated water system with the provision of an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water, which services may include steps necessary to enable consolidation.

(ii)To fulfill the requirements of this section, the state board may contract with more than one administrator, but only one administrator may be assigned to provide services to a given designated water system.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 681, Sec. 2. (SB 1254) Effective January 1, 2023.