(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, until January 1, 2014, the department may enter into an operating agreement with a qualified nonprofit organization for the development, improvement, restoration, care, maintenance, administration, and control of a children’s museum in Old Sacramento State Historic Park in the City of Sacramento. The agreement shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) The district superintendent for the department shall provide liaison with the department, the nonprofit organization, and the public.
(2) The operating agreement shall specify the manner in which the children’s museum is proposed to be operated.
(3) All revenues received from the operation of the children’s museum shall be expended only for the care, maintenance, operation, administration, improvement, or development of the museum.
(4) In constructing the children’s museum, the nonprofit organization shall incorporate historical architectural features consistent with buildings existing in Sacramento in the mid-1800s.
(b) Whenever the department intends to enter into an operating agreement with respect to a children’s museum in Old Sacramento State Historic Park in the City of Sacramento, the department shall notify each Member of the Legislature in whose district the unit is located of that intention.
(c) This section does not authorize the demolition of any state building.
(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 761, Sec. 3. Effective September 30, 2008.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018