A city may acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation, water, water rights, reservoir sites, rights of way for pipes, aqueducts, flumes, or other conduits, and all other property and appliances suitable and proper to supply water for the use of the city and its inhabitants.
Cal. Gov. Code § 38730
Water
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Kern-Tulare Water District v. City of Bakersfield (1987)
Most recently applied in 71 Cal. App. 4th 965 - County of Del Norte v. City of Crescent City (April 1999)
Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.
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