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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Flora</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 50067 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>San Joaquin Regional Transit District: board of directors.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>The San Joaquin Regional Transit District Act authorizes the creation of the San Joaquin Regional Transit District and vests the government of the district in a board of 5 directors. The act establishes a 4-year term of office for each director, except for the directors first appointed to the board, as provided.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would authorize a director to continue serving as a director if the director leaves the legislative body that appointed the director to the board, as specified. The bill would provide that no incompatibility of office results from an elected official serving on the governing board of a legislative body within the district’s service area and as a director.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 50067 of the
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                                 is amended to read:
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                Except as otherwise provided in this section, the term of office of each director is four years from the time of appointment, except that the chairperson
                                  first appointed shall hold office for two years, and the remaining directors first appointed to the board shall classify themselves by lot, so that the two appointed by the board of supervisors shall hold office for one and three years and the two appointed by the city council shall hold office for two and four years.
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                                                                (b)
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                                                                If a director appointed by a legislative body is a member of the legislative body within the district’s service area and the appointee leaves the legislative body, the appointee may continue to serve as a director until a qualified successor is appointed, unless the appointing legislative body takes express action to unseat the director.
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                                                                An appointment to fill a midterm vacancy on the board shall be for the unexpired portion of the term.
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                                                                No incompatibility of office shall result from an elected official serving on the governing board of a legislative body within the district’s service area and as a director.
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