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or convenient to accomplish the purposes of the contract. In addition to and
without limiting all of the other powers of the agency, the agency may
contract with the State of California for delivery of water under the State
Water Resources Development System. Contracts under this subdivision
include those made with the federal government under the Federal
Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, as amended, or any other act of the
United States Congress enacted permitting cooperation.
(f) To require reporting to the agency of all production, distribution, and
reclamation of water within the agency in excess of 10 acre-feet per annum.
(g) To join with one or more local agencies to form a groundwater
sustainability agency pursuant to Section 10723.6 of the Water Code and
to participate with a groundwater sustainability agency to develop and
implement a groundwater sustainability plan within the agency in accordance
with Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 10727) of Part 2.74 of Division
6 of the Water Code.
(h) To contract with the purveyor or successor in interest to the purveyor.
(i) (1) To construct works along and across any stream of water,
watercourse, channel, flood control channel, storm channel, canal, ditch or
flume, street, avenue, highway, or across any railway that the route of the
works may intersect or cross, if the works are constructed in a manner as
to afford security for life and property and the agency restores the crossings
and intersections to their former state as near as may be or in a manner not
to have impaired unnecessarily their usefulness. This paragraph grants the
agency a statutory franchise right and therefore the agency may not be
charged any use fees or be made subject to any conditions that unreasonably
interfere with the franchise rights.
(2) The statutory franchise right and right-of-way granted in paragraph
(1) is hereby given, dedicated, and set apart to locate, construct, and maintain
the works along and across any street or public highway and over and
through any of the lands that are now or may be the property of this state,
and to have the same rights and privileges as have been or may be granted
to cities within the state. Any use under this section of a public highway
shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section
660) of Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code.
Sec. 19. The financial or other interest of any appointed director in any
contract between the purveyor or successor in interest to the purveyor and
the agency, or the fact that an appointed director may hold the position of
a director, officer, agent, or employee of the purveyor or successor in interest
to the purveyor, shall not constitute a violation of Section 1090 of the
Government Code, and that interest or fact shall not render the contract void
or make it avoidable under Section 1092 of the Government Code, at the
instance of any party, if either the fact of the interest or the fact of the
relationship as director, officer, agent, or employee, or both, are disclosed
to the board of directors of the agency and noted in its official records and
the board authorizes, approves, or ratifies the contract by a vote of its
membership sufficient for the purpose without counting the vote of the
interested appointed director.

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