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2013 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE
TITLE 7. EMINENT DOMAIN LAW
CHAPTER 1. General Provisions
1230.030

CA Civ Pro Code § 1230.030 (2013) What's This?

Nothing in this title requires that the power of eminent domain be exercised to acquire property necessary for public use. Whether property necessary for public use is to be acquired by purchase or other means or by eminent domain is a decision left to the discretion of the person authorized to acquire the property.

(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1275.)

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