This article shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws. This article shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate its purposes. To the extent that this article is inconsistent with any other general statute or special act or parts thereof, this article shall be deemed controlling.

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 902, Sec. 1. Effective October 8, 1993.)