PART 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE 1063-1822.60›TITLE 7. EMINENT DOMAIN LAW 1230.010-1273.050›CHAPTER 3. The Right to Take 1240.010-1240.700›ARTICLE 1. General Limitations on Exercise of Power of Eminent Domain 1240.010-1240.055
§ 1240.020
California Code of Civil Procedure · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
The power of eminent domain may be exercised to acquire property for a particular use only by a person authorized by statute to exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire such property for that use.
(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1275.)
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