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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

§ 1240.050

California Code of Civil Procedure · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A local public entity may acquire by eminent domain only property within its territorial limits except where the power to acquire by eminent domain property outside its limits is expressly granted by statute or necessarily implied as an incident of one of its other statutory powers.

(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch 1275.)

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