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shall be entitled without further board action to take an oath of office as
required by law and to thereafter serve as an appointed director of the agency.
A successor appointed director shall take office on the first Monday in
January in odd-numbered years, or as soon thereafter as qualifying by taking
the required oath of office. A successor appointed director appointed to or
otherwise entitled to fill a vacancy shall take office immediately upon taking
the required oath of office. A nominee of a purveyor who is the general
manager of the purveyor shall be rejected for appointment only on the ground
that the nominee is legally disqualified from holding the office of director
by a provision of applicable law.
(c) An incumbent in the office of appointed director shall be subject to
recall by the voters of the entire agency in accordance with Division 11
(commencing with Section 11000) of the Elections Code, except that any
vacancy created by a successful recall shall be filled in accordance with
subdivision (b).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this act, the position of
appointed director shall be eliminated and abolished effective January 1,
2023. The position of appointed director shall be eliminated and abolished
before January 1, 2023, if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The agency acquires the purveyor or the purveyor is annexed or
consolidated into the agency.
(2) The Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles by an
affirmative vote of a majority of its membership eliminates the appointed
director position.
(e) Notwithstanding any other law, the provisions of Article 4.7
(commencing with Section 1125) of Chapter 1 of Division 4 of Title 1 of
the Government Code shall not be applicable to the appointed director. The
fact that the appointed director is simultaneously a director, officer, agent,
or employee of the purveyor shall not in any way constitute the holding of
incompatible offices under or for purposes of any common law doctrine
prohibiting the simultaneous holding of these offices, and shall not disqualify
the director from serving as a director of the agency or from discharging
fully the responsibilities of the office of appointed director with respect to
any matter coming before the board of directors of the agency for
consideration, decision, determination, or other form of action.
Sec. 11. (a) A person who may vote at any agency election held under
the provisions of this act shall be a voter within the meaning of the Elections
Code, residing in the electoral division of the agency in which he or she
casts his or her vote. For the purpose of registering voters who shall be
entitled to vote at agency elections, the county elections official is authorized,
in any county in which the agency is located, to indicate upon the affidavit
of registration whether the voter is a voter of the agency.
(b) In case the boundary line of the agency crosses the boundary line of
a county election precinct, only those voters within the agency and within
the precinct who are registered as being voters within the agency shall be
permitted to vote, and for that purpose the county elections official may
provide two sets of ballots within those precincts, one containing the names

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