Opinion ID: 3030204
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Heading: Power to Take Property in its Name

Text: [11] California law also authorizes the District to “take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, to hold, use, and enjoy, and to lease or dispose of any real or personal property within or without the district necessary to the full exercise of its (and therefore, an air pollution control district) a “state agency.” This is a mischaracterization of Sherwin-Williams, however, which used the phrase “state agency” only in its statement of the standard of review in environmental agency cases. Leaving aside the fact that Sherwin-Williams never addressed sovereign immunity, it is obvious that “[l]abeling an entity as a ‘state agency’ in one context does not compel treatment of that entity as a ‘state agency’ in all contexts.” Lynch, 65 Cal. Rptr. 2d at 623. BEENTJES v. PLACER COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL 1559 powers.” Cal. Health & Safety Code § 40701(d). A district even may use the proceeds from property transactions to replenish its general fund. See id. § 40701(e). This factor also weighs in favor of finding that the District is not an arm of the state.