Bill Text: CA AB2612 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - Died at Desk. [AB2612 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2612-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2612 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brown
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 5621 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to parks.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2612, as introduced, Brown. Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban
Open-Space and Recreation Program: definitions.
The Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program
Act requires annual grants to be made to cities, counties, and
districts for recreational purposes, open-space purposes, or both, on
the basis of population and need, as specified. The act defines
certain terms for these purposes.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these definitions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 5621 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
5621. As used in this chapter:
(a) "City" and "county" both include the City and County of San
Francisco; "county" Francisco. "County"
does not include a county service area, or zone therein,
in a county service area, within the County of
San Bernardino empowered to provide public park and recreation
services pursuant to the County Service Area Law (Chapter 2.5
(commencing with Section 25210) of Part 2 of Division 2 of Title 3 of
the Government Code).
(b) "Districts" means regional park districts formed under Article
3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Chapter 3; recreation and park
districts formed under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 5780);
any a public utility district formed
under Division 7 (commencing with Section 15501) of the Public
Utilities Code in a nonurbanized area that employs a full-time park
and recreation director and offers year-round park and recreation
services on lands and facilities owned by the district; any
a community services district formed under
Division 3 (commencing with Section 61000) of Title 6 of the
Government Code in a nonurbanized area which
that is authorized to provide public recreation as
specified in subdivision (e) of Section 61600 of the Government Code;
any recreation; a memorial district formed
under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1170) of Division 6 of the
Military and Veterans Code that employs a full-time park and
recreation director and offers year-round park and recreation
services on lands and facilities owned by the district; the Malaga
County Water District exercising powers authorized under Section
31133 of the Water Code; and any a
county service area, or zone therein, in a
county service area, within the County of San Bernardino
which that is empowered to provide
public park and recreation services pursuant to the County Service
Area Law (Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 25210) of Part 2 of
Division 2 of Title 3 of the Government Code), which is actually
providing public park and recreation services, and which
that was reorganized prior to January 1, 1987,
from a park and recreation district to a county service area or zone.
(c) "Urbanized area" consists of a central city or cities and
surrounding closely settled territory, as determined by the
Department of Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable
census data. "Urbanized county" means any a
county with a population of 200,000 or more, as determined by
the Department of Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable
census data.
(d) "Heavily urbanized area" means a large city with a population
of 300,000 or more and a large county or regional park district with
a population of 1,000,000 or more, as determined by the Department of
Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable census data.
(e) "Nonurbanized area" means any a
city, county, or district which that
does not qualify as an urbanized area or urbanized county under the
definitions in subdivision (c).
(f) "Block grant" means the allocation of moneys for one or more
projects for the acquisition or development of recreational lands and
facilities.
(g) "Need basis grant" means the allocation of moneys for one or
more projects for the acquisition or development of recreational
lands and facilities on a project-by-project basis, based upon need.
(h) "Account" means the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and
Recreation Program Account in the General Fund.
(i) "Special major maintenance project" means a rehabilitation or
refurbishing activity performed on an annual or more infrequent
interval, excluding capital improvements and routinized or other
regularly scheduled and performed tasks such as grounds mowing, hedge
trimming, garbage removal, and watering. Special major maintenance
project includes activities which that
will reduce energy requirements to operate recreational lands or
facilities.
(j) "Innovative recreation program" means specially designed,
creative social, cultural, and human service activities
which that by their nature are intended to
respond to the unique and otherwise unmet recreation needs of special
urban populations, including, but not limited to, senior citizens,
physically or emotionally handicapped,
handicapped persons, chronic and "new" poor, single parents,
"latchkey" children, and minorities. The term includes special
transportation programs designed to facilitate access of these groups
to parks and recreational programs and facilities.
