Exhibit III.A.1

DRAFT

ORDINANCE NO. 112

An Ordinance of the Board of Directors of the

Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Rescinding Rules Requiring Disclosure of Ex Parte Communications

and Repealing Penalties and Remedies for Non-Disclosure

FINDINGS

1. On November 19, 2001, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Board of Directors adopted Ordinance No. 99 Requiring Disclosure of Ex Parte Communications and Establishing Penalties and Remedies for Non-Disclosure.

2. This ordinance shall rescind Ordinance No. 99, thereby removing Regulation XVIII and Rules 180, 181, 182 and 183 from the Rules and Regulations of the Water Management District.

THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District as follows:

Section One: Purpose

This ordinance shall rescind Ordinance No. 99 in its entirety.

Section Two: Rescission of Regulation XVIII

Rules 180, 181, 182, and 183 shall be rescinded from the Rules and Regulations of the Water Management District.

Section Three: Effective Date

This ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. thirty (30) days following enactment of this ordinance on second reading.

Section Four: Severability

If any subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity or enforcement of the remaining portions of this ordinance, or of any other provisions of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Rules and Regulation. It is the District’s express intent that each remaining portion that would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that one or more subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unenforceable.

On motion of Director _________________, and second by Director ____________ the foregoing ordinance is adopted upon this ________ day of _____________, 2004, by the following vote:

Ayes:

Nays:

Absent:

I, Fran Farina, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, hereby certify the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance duly adopted on the ______ day of ______, 2004.

Witness my hand and seal of the Board of Directors this ____ day of _________, 2004.

__________________________________

Fran Farina, Secretary to the Board

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