Membership of a public entity in the agency does not affect the identity or legal existence, nor impair the powers, of that public entity.
Chapter 7Miscellaneous
Section § 81457
Joining an agency doesn't change a public entity's identity or its legal powers.
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Section § 81459
This law section means that the rules in this division should be interpreted in a broad and flexible way to effectively achieve their intended goals.
This division shall be liberally construed to carry out its purposes.
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Section § 81460
This law outlines the average daily water deliveries from San Francisco to various entities for the 2000–01 fiscal year. In outlining these quantities, the law lists each entity along with its respective daily water delivery measured in hundred cubic feet.
Additionally, if San Francisco becomes a member of the water agency, its average daily delivery is set at 118,973 hundred cubic feet for the same fiscal year. Lastly, the law states that if one entity takes over another's rights and responsibilities under the Water Supply Agreement, their water quantity entitlements may be adjusted without needing to amend the list.
(a)CA Water Code § 81460(a) The water delivery quantities set forth in subdivision (b) describe, for the purposes of this division, the average daily deliveries of water from San Francisco to the identified entities during the 2000–01 fiscal year.
(b)CA Water Code § 81460(b) The water delivery quantities are as follows:
Name
Average Daily Deliveries in
Hundred Cubic Feet
Hundred Cubic Feet
Alameda County Water District
15,709
California Water Service Company
49,610
City of Brisbane
489
City of Burlingame
6,503
City of Daly City
6,070
City of East Palo Alto
2,864
City of Hayward
24,546
Town of Hillsborough
5,099
City of Menlo Park
4,616
City of Millbrae
3,669
City of Milpitas
9,437
City of Mountain View
14,860
City of Palo Alto
18,438
City of Redwood City
15,753
City of San Bruno
3,266
City of San Jose
6,436
City of Santa Clara
5,473
City of Sunnyvale
13,112
Coastside County Water District
2,070
Estero Municipal Improvement District
7,873
Guadalupe Valley Municipal Improvement District
611
Mid-Peninsula Water District
4,789
North Coast County Water District
4,594
Purissima Hills Water District
2,921
Stanford University
3,604
Westborough Water District
1,352
(c)CA Water Code § 81460(c) If San Francisco becomes a member of the agency, the average daily delivery of water to San Francisco during the 2000–01 fiscal year, for the purposes of this division, shall be determined to be 118,973 hundred cubic feet.
(d)CA Water Code § 81460(d) If one of the entities listed in subdivision (b) succeeds, whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition, assignment, or otherwise, to the rights and obligations of another entity under the July 2009 Water Supply Agreement, or any subsequent water supply contract, the successor entity’s
quantity of water shall be increased, for purposes of Section 81405, by the amount of the nonsucceeding entity’s quantity of water, without the necessity for an amendment to subdivision (b).
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Section § 81461
This section states that the act does not alter who governs, controls, or owns the regional water system. Everything stays the same.
Nothing in this act changes the governance, control, or ownership of the regional water system.
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