(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for the 1993–94 fiscal year, unreserved and undesignated fund balances in county or city and county special funds may be transferred to the county or city and county general fund for the general purposes of the county or city and county, provided that the special fund was created pursuant to Sections 41901 and 41902 of the Public Resources Code.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the legislative body of a county or city and county, which also acts as the legislative body of a special district, commencing with the 1993–94 fiscal year, may make transfers of unreserved and undesignated fund balances from the special district to the general fund of the county or city and county for the general purposes of the county or city and county, provided that the district contributed to the Special District Augmentation Fund during the 1990–91 fiscal year and received no distribution from that fund in the same fiscal year.

(c) No provision of this section shall be construed to permit the legislative body of a county or city and county to make transfers from a local hospital district, as described in Division 23 (commencing with Section 32000) of the Health and Safety Code, a water agency that does not sell water at retail other than an agency the primary function of which, as determined on the basis of total revenues, is flood control, a transit district, a police protection district formed pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 20000) of Division 14 of the Health and Safety Code, a district engaged in fire protection activities, or a special district that was a multicounty special district as of July 1, 1979.

(d) A transfer of moneys pursuant to this section shall be authorized by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the board of supervisors, specifying each fund and the amount of moneys in those funds that are to be transferred to the general fund.

(e) A transfer of moneys pursuant to this section shall not result in a county or city and county imposing or increasing any fee, assessment, or other charge to replace the moneys transferred to the general fund of the county or city and county.

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 905, Sec. 3. Effective October 8, 1993.)