§ 74553

California Water Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to be used for dams, damsites, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, ditches and conduits, spreading basins, sinking wells or sinking basins, or otherwise necessary to accomplish the purposes of this division, or to operate or to make use of such works.

(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 582.)

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