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(a) “Private corporation” means and includes any private corporation
organized under federal law or the laws of any state.
(b) “Public agency” means and includes the federal government, the
State of California, a county, a city, a public corporation, the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California, or other public district of this state.
(c) “Purveyor” means the Los Angeles County Waterworks District No.
36, Val Verde, which is a retail water supplier that has facilities connected
to the agency’s water transmission system and is under contract with the
agency for water.
Sec. 8. (a) The agency shall be governed by a board of directors that
shall initially consist of 15 members as follows:
(1) The five members of the Newhall County Water District board of
directors in office as of December 31, 2017.
(2) The appointed member representing the purveyor described in
subdivision (a) of Section 10 and the nine elected members of the Castaic
Lake Water Agency board of directors in office as of December 31, 2017.
(b) Each elected member of the board of directors shall be a resident
within the agency’s service territory and shall hold office until his or her
successor is elected pursuant to Section 9.
(c) Each of the initial members of the board of directors of the agency,
except for the initial appointed member, are deemed to be designated as a
director from the electoral division, as described in Section 5, in which his
or her residence is located.
(d) Each of the initial members of the board of directors of the agency,
except for the initial appointed member, shall hold office as follows:
(1) The initial terms of directors whose respective terms as a member of
the Castaic Lake Water Agency or Newhall County Water District board
of directors would have expired following the 2018 general election shall
expire following the 2020 general election.
(2) The initial terms of directors whose respective terms as a member of
the Castaic Lake Water Agency or Newhall County Water District board
of directors would have expired following the 2020 general election shall
expire following the 2022 general election.
(3) If any elected initial member of the board of the agency resigns,
vacates, or is removed from office before the expiration of his or her initial
term, the board may, in its discretion, decide not to appoint a successor. The
board shall appoint a successor if the electoral division in which the vacancy
occurs will have less than four members representing the electoral division
on the board of directors.
Sec. 9. (a) All elected successors of the first board of directors shall be
elected at the time and in the manner provided in the Uniform District
Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of
the Elections Code).
(b) Successors to the first board of directors shall be elected by the voters
for each electoral division as follows:
(1) Two directors elected for each electoral division at the 2020 general
election, and at every election on that four-year election cycle thereafter.

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