Any municipal corporation may acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 10002
Acquisition and Operation
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 71 Cal. App. 4th 948 - Turlock Irrigation District v. Hetrick (1999)
Most recently applied in Merced Irrigation District v. Superior Court of Merced County (January 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.