California Water Code CHAPTER 4 - Property

• Section 71690.
  A district may, within or without the district:(a) Take real and personal property of every kind by grant, purchase, gift, device, or lease.(b) Hold, use, enjoy, lease,...
• Section 71691.
  A district may:(a) Acquire, or contract to acquire, waterworks or a waterworks system, waters, water rights, lands, rights, and privileges.(b) Construct, maintain, and operate conduits, pipelines, reservoirs,...
• Section 71692.
  A district may lease from any person, or public corporation or agency, with the privilege of purchasing or otherwise, all or any part of water...
• Section 71693.
  A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to supply the district or any portion thereof with water. The...
• Section 71694.
  A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to carry out any powers of the district. The district, in...
• Section 71695.
  A district may construct works along and across any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, canal, ditch, or flume, or across any railway which...
• Section 71696.
  Every company whose right-of-way is intersected or crossed by district works shall unite with the district in forming the intersections or crossings and grant the...
• Section 71697.
  (a) A district may locate, construct, and maintain district works along and across any street or public highway and on any lands that are now or...
• Section 71698.
  Any use by the district of a public highway now or hereafter constituted a state highway shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3...
• Section 71699.
  No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a municipal water district which is subject...
• Section 71700.
  Any publicly owned utility which commences to provide any water service for, on, or to any land within a municipal water district which is providing...

Last modified: October 22, 2018