Klajic v. Castaic Lake Water Agency

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.—

INTRODUCTION

We are asked by the Castaic Lake Water Agency (the Agency) to construe section 15.1 of its enabling act, effective January 2002. (Stats. 2001, ch. 929, § 3, 72A West’s Ann. Wat.—Appen. (2004 Supp.) § 103—1 et seq., p. 487 et seq., hereinafter the Agency Enabling Act.) The Agency has appealed from the judgment of the trial court ordering the issuance of a writ of mandate that prohibits the Agency from selling drinking water directly to consumers. The court ruled that section 15.1 of the Agency Enabling Act is not an independent grant of authority, and to sell…