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1.14 “SGMA” refers to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act as defined in the
Recitals.

1.15 “State” means the State of California.

1.16 “Supermajority Vote” means five (5) affirmative votes.

ARTICLE 2.
CREATION OF THE AUTHORITY
2.1 Creation of Authority. There is hereby created pursuant to the Act a joint powers
authority, which shall be a public entity separate from the Members to this Agreement. This Agreement
terminates the MOU and the joint powers authority hereby assumes the role of the SCV-GSA and shall
be known as the SCV-GSA. Within ten (10) days after the Effective Date of this Agreement, the SCV-
GSA shall cause a statement of the information concerning the SCV-GSA, required by Government
Code section 53051, to be filed with the office of the California Secretary of State and with the County
Clerk for the County of Los Angeles, setting forth the facts required to be stated pursuant to Government
Code section 53051(a). Within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date of this Agreement and after any
amendment, the SCV-GSA shall cause a notice of this Agreement or amendment to be prepared and
filed with the office of the California Secretary of State containing the information required by
Government Code section 6503.5. Within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date, the SCV-GSA shall
send a copy of this Agreement to DWR.

2.2 Purpose of the Joint Powers Authority. Each Member to this Agreement has in common
the power to study, plan, develop, finance, acquire, construct, maintain, repair, manage, operate, control,
and govern water supply projects and exercise groundwater management authority within the Basin
either alone or in cooperation with other public or private non-member entities, and each is a local
agency eligible to serve as the GSA, either alone or jointly through a joint powers agreement as provided
for by SGMA. This Agreement is being entered into in order to jointly exercise some or all of the
foregoing common powers, as appropriate, and for the exercise of such additional powers as may be
authorized by law in the manner herein set forth, in order to effectuate the purposes of this Agreement.
The purpose of the SCV-GSA is to serve as the GSA for the Basin and to develop, adopt, and implement
the GSP for the Basin pursuant to SGMA and other applicable provisions of law.

ARTICLE 3.
TERM

This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution by each of the Members and shall
remain in effect until terminated pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 (Withdrawal of Members) of
this Agreement.

ARTICLE 4.
POWERS

The SCV-GSA shall possess the power in its own name to exercise any and all common powers
of its Members reasonably related to the purposes of the SCV-GSA, including but not limited to the
following powers, together with such other powers as are expressly set forth in SGMA and as it may be
amended in the future. For purposes of Government Code section 6509, the powers of the SCV-GSA

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