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
§ 1240.010
California Code of Civil Procedure · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California
The power of eminent domain may be exercised to acquire property only for a public use. Where the Legislature provides by statute that a use, purpose, object, or function is one for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised, such action is deemed to be a declaration by the Legislature that such use, purpose, object, or function is a public use.
(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1275.)
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