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AB-2909 Horseracing revenue: appropriation for state designated fairs; joint powers agreements.(1993-1994)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 3200 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:

3200.
 All funds appropriated or designated  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all funds appropriated  for California fairs and expositions pursuant to this chapter or any other law shall be deposited into the Fair and Exposition Fund and be continuously appropriated as specified in Sections 19606.1 and 19620.2  Sections 19622, 19627, 19627.1, and subdivision (c) of Section 19627.2 of the Business and Professions Code for the 1994–95 fiscal year shall not be utilized for the purposes specified in those sections but shall, instead, be utilized for the purposes specified in Section 19630  of the Business and Professions Code. Code, and may be allocated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to all state designated fairs as defined by Section 19418 of the Business and Professions Code, for the purposes specified in Section 19630. 

SEC. 2.

 Section 6516.9 is added to the Government Code, to read:

6516.9.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to this article, the members of which may conduct agricultural, livestock, industrial, cultural, or other types of fairs and exhibitions, may establish and administer risk pooling arrangements for the payment of general liability losses incurred by nonprofit corporations conducting or benefiting agricultural, livestock, industrial, cultural, or other types of fairs and exhibitions, and by nonprofit corporations or auxiliary organizations operating facilities, programs, or events at public schools, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, or the University of California. The joint powers agency may provide the nonprofit corporations with any services provided to the agency’s members. Aggregate payments made under each risk pooling arrangement shall not exceed the amount available in the pool established for that arrangement. The joint powers agency may establish and administer as many separate risk pooling arrangements as it deems desirable. A general liability risk pooling arrangement established pursuant to this section may also provide for the payment of losses incurred by special events users, lessees, and licensees of facilities operated by nonprofit corporations, auxiliary organizations, public schools, community colleges, the California State University, or the University of California and for the payment of losses incurred by participants and exhibitors in programs sponsored by those entities.