California Public Utilities Code CHAPTER 8 - Determination of Just Compensation for Acquisition of Utility Properties

• Section 1401.
  As used in this chapter, “lands, property, and rights” includes a part or portion thereof.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
• Section 1402.
  As used in this chapter, “political subdivision” means a county, city and county, city, municipal water district, county water district, irrigation district, public utility district,...
• Section 1403.
  Any political subdivision may, at any time, file with the commission either a petition of the first class, setting forth the intention of the political...
• Section 1404.
  Each such petition shall contain the name of the political subdivision appearing as petitioner therein, a description of the lands, property, and rights which the...
• Section 1405.
  Upon the filing of the petition the commission shall make its order to show cause. The order shall specify the nature of the proceeding, contain...
• Section 1405.1.
  With respect to water corporations and water companies, the following procedures shall apply:(a) Upon the filing of the petition, the commission shall make its order to...
• Section 1406.
  Service of the order to show cause shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure or by depositing a...
• Section 1407.
  If any owner or claimant named in the petition resides out of the State or has departed from the State or cannot after due diligence...
• Section 1408.
  Within 10 days prior to the time set for the first hearing on the petition, which time shall be not less than 30 days after...
• Section 1409.
  At the time and place specified in the order to show cause, or at such other time and place as, for good cause, is otherwise...
• Section 1410.
  The commission may, at any time subsequent to the filing of the petition, and prior to making and filing its finding as to just compensation,...
• Section 1411.
  When the proceeding has been submitted, the commission shall make and file its written finding fixing, in a single sum, the just compensation to be...
• Section 1412.
  Within 20 days after the commission has made and filed its finding, the owner of the lands, property, and rights may file with the legislative...
• Section 1413.
  In the case of a petition of the first class, if the owner does not file the stipulation within such 20 days, the political subdivision,...
• Section 1414.
  If the political subdivision, in a petition of the first class, fails to file such action in a court of competent jurisdiction within such period...
• Section 1415.
  If the commission determines that the political subdivision, in case of a petition of the first class, has failed to commence the action in a...
• Section 1416.
  The finding of the commission fixing the just compensation to be paid by the political subdivision for the lands, property, and rights shall be final...
• Section 1417.
  At any time within 30 days subsequent to the entry of such judgment, the owner of the lands, property, and rights may file with the...
• Section 1418.
  After a hearing, the commission shall make and file its finding fixing, as of the date on which the finding is made and filed, the...
• Section 1419.
  The commission shall thereupon transmit to the court its finding, certified under the seal of the commission, fixing the extent to which the just compensation...
• Section 1420.
  (a) The provisions of this part with reference to rehearing and review shall be applicable to the findings of the commission made and filed under this...
• Section 1421.
  The procedure provided in this chapter shall be alternative and cumulative and not exclusive, and the political subdivision shall continue to have the right to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018