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. For purposes of this chapter, "community choice aggregator"
means any of the following entities, if that entity is not within the
jurisdiction of a local publicly owned electric utility that
provided electrical service as of January 1, 2003:
(a) Any city, county, or city and county whose governing board
elects to combine the loads of its residents, businesses, and
municipal facilities in a communitywide electricity buyers' program.
(b) Any group of cities, counties, or cities and counties whose
governing boards have elected to combine the loads of their programs,
through the formation of a joint powers agency established under
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of
the Government Code.
(c) The Kings River Conservation District, the Sonoma County Water
Agency, and any California public agency possessing statutory
authority to generate and deliver electricity at retail within its
designated jurisdiction, provided the entity may only combine the
loads of residences, businesses, and governmental facilities of
cities and counties within, or contiguous to, its jurisdiction that
have, by resolution exercised pursuant to paragraph (12) of
subdivision (c) of Section 366.2, requested the agency to implement a
community choice aggregation program.