(a) The Legislature finds that local circumstances in Inyo and Mono Counties require that those counties be given authority to construct, operate, and maintain hydroelectric facilities, and that no general law exists which provides the necessary authority.

(b) The Board of Supervisors of Inyo County or Mono County may construct, operate, and maintain one or more plants, which plants are constructed after the effective date of this section, for the generation of hydroelectric power and transmission lines for the conveyance thereof. Construction of the plant or plants and transmission lines may be financed by any method of financing county works.

(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1159, Sec. 1. Effective October 2, 1981.)