Under such regulations and upon such terms, limitations, and conditions as it prescribes, the department may do any of the following:
(a) Fix and establish the prices, rates, and charges at which the resources and facilities made available by the project shall be sold and disposed of.
(b) (1) Enter into contracts and agreements and do any and all things which in its judgment are necessary, convenient, or expedient for the accomplishment of the purposes and objects of this part.
(2) The contracts and agreements may include provisions for the indemnification of parties with whom the department contracts as necessary to accomplish the purposes and objects of this part, except that the contracts and agreements may not include provisions for the indemnification, including indemnification for any costs of defense, of any party to those contracts or agreements for that party’s acts or omissions involving negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct or for acts or omissions involving negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct on the part of that party’s employees, agents, or contractors.
(3) The Legislature finds and declares that the amendments made to this subdivision during the 1997 portion of the 1997–98 Regular Session are declaratory of existing law.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 566, Sec. 1. Effective September 29, 1997.)
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