(a) The North Coast Railroad Authority is hereby created, having a service area comprising the Counties of Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Trinity.
(b) On March 1, 2022, the North Coast Railroad Authority shall be renamed the Great Redwood Trail Agency.
(c) Whenever the term “North Coast Railroad Authority” appears in a law, the term means the “Great Redwood Trail Agency.”
(d) Existing supplies, forms, insignias, signs, logos, uniforms, emblems, and other materials shall not be destroyed or changed as a result of renaming the North Coast Railroad
Authority as the Great Redwood Trail Agency, and those materials shall continue to be used until exhausted or unserviceable.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 423, Sec. 10. (SB 69) Effective January 1, 2022.)
(a) The agency shall be governed by a board of directors, composed as follows:
(1) Two persons appointed by each of the boards of supervisors of the Counties of Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, and Sonoma.
(2) A city representative, selected by the cities served by the rail line.
(3) The Governor may appoint a nonvoting director from the Transportation Agency and a nonvoting director from the Natural Resources Agency.
(b) All directors, except the nonvoting directors, shall serve for terms of two years and until their successors have qualified.
(c) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, including the common law doctrine that precludes the simultaneous holding of incompatible offices, a local government officer or a member of a state commission may be appointed and may serve as a member of the agency’s board of directors if the person also meets the other applicable qualifications of this title.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law, including the common law doctrine that precludes the simultaneous holding of incompatible offices, a member of the agency’s board of directors may also serve as a local government officer or a member of a state commission.
(d) This section shall become operative on March 1, 2022.
(Amended (as added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 423, Sec. 12) by Stats. 2022, Ch. 981, Sec. 2. (SB 307) Effective January 1, 2023.)