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California Code, Water Code - WAT § 81405

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Weighted voting shall be based on the average deliveries of water during the 2000-01 fiscal year, as set forth in Section 81460.

(b) When weighted voting is in effect, there shall be a total of 100 possible votes.  The allocation of these votes among the directors shall be determined as follows:

(1) The water deliveries to each member public entity, California Water Service Company, and Stanford University, as set forth in Section 81460, shall be totaled.

(2) Each director representing a member public entity whose individual water delivery is less than 1.5 percent of the total amount calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be assigned one vote.

(3) The water deliveries to all member public entities assigned one vote pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be totaled and that sum shall be subtracted from the total amount calculated pursuant to paragraph (1).

(4) The ratio of individual water deliveries to each remaining member public entity, California Water Service Company, and Stanford University to the total water deliveries calculated pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be determined and expressed as a fraction.

(5) The total number of votes assigned to directors pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be subtracted from 100.

(6) The number resulting from the calculation described in paragraph (5) shall be multiplied by the fractions calculated pursuant to paragraph (4), and the products of that multiplication shall be rounded to the nearest whole number.  Each director, other than those assigned one vote pursuant to paragraph (2), shall be assigned the number of votes resulting from this calculation.

(c) When weighted voting is in effect, the affirmative vote of directors representing both (1) a majority of the members of the board present and voting, and (2) a majority of the number of votes, determined pursuant to this section, represented by directors present and voting shall be necessary to carry any motion, resolution, or ordinance.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the board may establish alternative procedures and methods for weighted voting, including a limitation on the types of measures to which it applies, by a vote of (1) at least two-thirds of all the directors of the board, each director having one vote on the question, and (2) at least 51 votes, determined pursuant to this section.

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