Section 4840 Of Article 8. Joint Operation From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 5. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 8.
4840
. Whenever two or more sanitation districts find and declare by
resolution adopted by their respective district boards that it is
for the interest or advantage of the districts to do so, the
districts by their respective district boards may enter into an
agreement for the maintenance of a centralized and joint
administrative organization to care for the general administration of
the affairs of each of the districts, and the construction,
supervision, operation, and maintenance of the work of each of the
districts, and for that purpose the districts may agree to employ the
same engineers, surveyors, counsel, and other persons needed to
carry out the purposes of the districts.
Such agreement may also provide for participation by said
sanitation districts in the State Employees' Retirement System of the
State of California and for the payment of apportionments of costs
and the collection, receipt and distribution of pension payments by
one district designated for the purpose and acting on behalf of all
districts participating in the agreement in the same manner as
provided by Sections 4841 and 4842 of this code. When the agreement
so provides, the designated district shall have all the powers and
perform all the duties of a public agency for the purposes of the
State Employees' Retirement Law, both in respect to the joint
officers and employees of the participating districts and in respect
to the officers and employees separately employed by the
participating districts.