SECTIONS 12721-12723 - California Statutes

PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE

SECTION 12721-12723

12721. A district may make contracts and enter into stipulations of
any nature whatsoever, either in connection with eminent domain
proceedings or otherwise, including, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, contracts and stipulations to indemnify and save
harmless, to employ labor, and to do all acts necessary and
convenient for the full exercise of the powers granted in this
division.

12722. Neither the general manager nor any director of the district
shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any
contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to
be derived therefrom. Any violation of this provision is a
misdemeanor, and conviction shall work a forfeiture of office. This
section has no application to contracts awarded to corporations in
which such officer owns less than 1 percent of the entire capital
stock.

12723. Whenever the board, by resolution passed by a majority of
its members, determines that the public interest will be served, a
district constructing or operating plants and appurtenant facilities
for the generation of electrical power by nuclear energy may purchase
or acquire insurance for such properties against physical loss or
damage and the resultant loss of capacity for the generation of
electrical power from insurance companies organized in the United
States or foreign countries as either stock companies or assessment
or nonassessment mutual companies. In the event such insurance is
acquired from an assessment mutual company, a district shall have
authority to share in the initial organization expenses of the
company, to become a member of the company, and to assume liability
for retrospective premium adjustments in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the policy or contract of insurance issued by such
company.