ARTICLE 1. Board of Directors [102100.1. - 102107.]

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC 1.
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Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.1. Section 102100.1.

(a) Except as otherwise provided, the government of the district shall be vested in a board of directors. The number of members on the board shall be not less than the number of voting entities. (b) Each appointee to the board shall serve a four-year term, unless earlier removed.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.2. Section 102100.2.

(a) The board of directors shall consist of members as follows: (1) The City Council of the City of Sacramento may appoint three members to the board. (2) The Board of Supervisors for the County of Sacramento may appoint three members to the board. (3) For as long as the City of Elk Grove is annexed into the district, the City of Elk Grove may appoint two members to the board. (4) A member entity that is not identified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) may appoint one member to the board. (b) A city or county that is not annexed to the district may become a participating entity that may appoint at least one member to the board if the participating entity enters into an agreement with the district that provides for all of the following: (1) The participating entity agrees to pay its proportionate share of the district’s cost to provide rail or other districtwide transit services. (2) The district agrees to maintain a specified level of rail or other districtwide transit services. (3) The district is not obligated to provide transit services to any particular location or along any particular route.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.4. Section 102100.4.

The appointing authority of a participating entity under subdivision (b) of Section 102100.2, and the term of its appointee to the board, shall terminate upon termination or cancellation of the agreement provided for in subdivision (b) of Section 102100.2, and that agreement shall automatically terminate upon the effective date of the entity’s annexation to the district pursuant to Section 102051 or 102055.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.5. Section 102100.5.

Each voting entity shall have the right to appoint fewer members than it is entitled to appoint under Section 102100.2, except that each voting entity shall appoint at least one member. Each voting entity shall determine, effective July 1 of each year, how many members it will appoint for the upcoming fiscal year. The legislative body of each voting entity shall provide written notification to the secretary of the board not more than 60 days and not less than 15 days before July 1 of the number of appointments it will make for the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1. Unless and until that notification is provided, the number of appointments made during the prior year shall govern.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.6. Section 102100.6.

An action by the board shall not be void or voidable if it is determined, subsequent to an action in which a member representing a participating entity casts a vote, that the agreement for that participating entity did not comply with subdivision (b) of Section 102100.2.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.7. Section 102100.7.

The appointments to the board may be changed in the following manner: Not more often than every two years, the voting entities may, by agreement, apportion the appointments to the board among them in the approximate ratio that the district provides transit service, as determined by the gross cost of the service without regard to income or revenues of the district, within their respective boundaries.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102100.10. Section 102100.10.

Each voting entity appointing members to the board in accordance with Section 102100.2 may also select, in the same manner as the primary member or members, one or more alternates, as the case may be, to serve on the board when the primary member or members are not available. Each alternate shall be appointed to serve for a specific member. The alternate shall be subject to the same restrictions and shall have the same powers, when serving on the board, as the primary member. The legislative body of any voting entity appointing an alternate shall provide written notification to the secretary of the board of each appointment of an alternate in order for the appointment to be effective.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102104. Section 102104.

The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings. In the event of his absence or inability to act, the members present, by an order entered in the minutes, shall select one of their members to act as chairman pro tem, who, while so acting, shall have all of the authority of the chairman.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102105. Section 102105.

The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. All meetings of the board shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102105.2. Section 102105.2.

(a) Each board member shall have one vote. (b) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum. (c) All official acts of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the board, unless a higher threshold is required by law. (d) The board shall post the voting procedure described in this section on the district’s internet website.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102106. Section 102106.

Each member of the board shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each attendance at up to four noticed meetings of the board per month, and shall be allowed actual necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of the member’s duties.

Cal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 102107. Section 102107.

(a) No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of its introduction, nor within three days thereafter, nor at any time other than at a regular or adjourned regular meeting. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: “The board of directors of the Sacramento Regional Transit District do ordain as follows:” (b) All ordinances shall be signed by the chairman of the board or the chairman pro tempore and attested by the secretary. Before the expiration of 15 days after the passage of an ordinance, it shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the district or on the district’s Internet Web site. An order entered in the minutes of the board that the ordinance has been duly published is prima facie proof of such publication.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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