Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 1503

Current through the 2023 Legislative Session.
Section 1503 - Providing or extending service to area serviced by private utility constitutes taking of property

The Legislature finds and declares that whenever a political subdivision constructs facilities to provide or extend water service, or provides or extends such service, to any service area of a private utility with the same type of service, such an act constitutes a taking of the property of the private utility for a public purpose to the extent that the private utility is injured by reason of any of its property employed in providing the water service being made inoperative, reduced in value or rendered useless to the private utility for the purpose of providing water service to the service area.

Ca. Pub. Util. Code § 1503

Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1240.