ARTICLE 1. Contracts With Other Agencies [71720. - 71726.]

Cal. Water Code - WAT 1.

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Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71720. Section 71720.

As used in this article: (a) “Public agency” means and includes the United States or any department or agency thereof, the State or any department or agency thereof, and a county, city, public corporation, or public district of the State. (b) “Private corporation” means and includes any private corporation organized under the laws of the United States or of this or any other state thereof.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71721. Section 71721.

Contracts mentioned in this article include those made with the United States under the Federal Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, or any other act of Congress heretofore or hereafter enacted permitting co-operation.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71722. Section 71722.

A district may join with one or more public agencies, private corporations, or other persons for the purpose of carrying out any of the powers of the district, and for that purpose may contract with such other public agencies, private corporations, or persons to finance acquisitions, constructions and operations.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71723. Section 71723.

The contracts with other public agencies, private corporations, or persons may provide for contributions to be made by each party thereto, for the division and apportionment of the expenses of the acquisitions and operations, and for the division and apportionment of the benefits, the services, and products therefrom. Such contracts may also provide for an agency to effect the acquisitions and to carry on the operations, and shall provide in the powers and methods of procedure for such agency the method by which the agency may contract. Such contracts may contain such other and further covenants and agreements as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes thereof.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71724. Section 71724.

Any such contract with the United States or any department or agency thereof, or with any private corporation organized under the laws of the United States, by which the district or an improvement district thereof incurs an indebtedness or liability exceeding in any year the income and revenue for such year, shall not be executed without the assent of a majority of the qualified electors of the district or the improvement district voting at an election to be held for that purpose. Such election shall be called and held, so far as practicable, in the same manner as bond elections for the district or an improvement district.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71725. Section 71725.

The exact final form of a proposed contract required to be approved by the voters of the district or an improvement district need not be available at the time of the special election, but the purpose of the contract, the maximum amount of the indebtedness created thereby, the maximum term of repayment, and the maximum interest rate on such indebtedness shall be known and included in the proposition or measure submitted to the voters of the district or the improvement district at the special election.

Cal. Water Code - WAT § 71726. Section 71726.

Any proposed contract approved by the voters of the Rainbow Municipal Water District, as provided in this article, at a special election held prior to January 1, 1978, shall be an approved contract notwithstanding that the maximum interest rate on such indebtedness was not known at the time of the special election and was not included in the proposition submitted to the voters of the district at the special election. The provisions of this section are necessary because of special circumstances within the Rainbow Municipal Water District. A special election was held in the Rainbow Municipal Water District at which there was submitted to the voters of the district the proposition to approve a contract with the United States for a loan for the acquisition and construction of water facilities. At the time the proposed contract was submitted to the voters of the district the maximum interest rate on the indebtedness was not known and was not included in the proposition, although the voters were informed of the approximate rate of interest on the indebtedness. The proposed contract was approved by the voters and the district must enter into the contract in order to provide needed water to the inhabitants of the district. It is therefore hereby declared that a general law cannot be made applicable and that the enactment of this section as a special law is necessary for the solution of problems existing in the Rainbow Municipal Water District.

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