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TITLE 5. LOCAL AGENCIES 50001-57550›DIVISION 2. CITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER AGENCIES 53000-55821›PART 1. POWERS AND DUTIES COMMON TO CITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER AGENCIES 53000-54999.7›CHAPTER 6. Revenue Bond Law of 1941 54300-54700›ARTICLE 2. Powers of a Local Agency 54340-54358

§ 54341

California Government Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A local agency may construct or improve any enterprise wholly or partially within or wholly without the local agency. By gift, lease, purchase, eminent domain, or otherwise, it may acquire any real or personal property, or any interest in or improvement on any such property, or any water rights for an enterprise, except that no property of a state public body may be acquired without its consent. A local agency may sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property or any interest in such property. It may lay out, open, extend, widen, straighten, establish or change the grade of any real property or public rights of way necessary or convenient for any enterprise.

(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 811.)

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