BILL NUMBER: AB 2662	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 10156 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to the Silver Lake Reservoir.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2662, as introduced, Gatto. Silver Lake Reservoir: drainage:
civil penalty.
   Under existing law, a municipality or municipal corporation may
operate as a public utility to supply its own water service.
   This bill would require, if the Los Angeles Department of Water
and Power drains the Silver Lake Reservoir and the reservoir is not
filled with water to at least 80% of its water capacity within 18
months of being drained, the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $100,000 per week for
each week that the Silver Lake Reservoir is not filled with water to
at least 80% of its water capacity to the City of Los Angeles to
mitigate the effects of the drainage of the Silver Lake Reservoir on
the Silver Lake neighborhood.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Silver Lake Reservoir.
   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 10156 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   10156.  (a) If the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
drains the Silver Lake Reservoir, the reservoir shall be filled with
water to at least 80 percent of its water capacity within 18 months
of being drained.
   (b) If the reservoir is not filled as required pursuant to
subdivision (a), the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shall
pay a civil penalty in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000) per week, for each week that the reservoir is not filled
with water to at least 80 percent of its water capacity, to the City
of Los Angeles to mitigate the effects of the drainage of the Silver
Lake Reservoir on the Silver Lake neighborhood.
   (c) Funds paid pursuant to subdivision (b) shall not be payable
from rate-payer funds.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances surrounding the Silver Lake
Reservoir and the effects drainage of the reservoir would have on the
surrounding community.