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2021 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 3 - OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE
TITLE 7 - EMINENT DOMAIN LAW
CHAPTER 3 - The Right to Take
ARTICLE 1 - General Limitations on Exercise of Power of Eminent Domain
Section 1240.010.
Universal Citation: CA Civ Pro Code § 1240.010 (2021)
1240.010.
The power of eminent domain may be exercised to acquire property only for a public use. Where the Legislature provides by statute that a use, purpose, object, or function is one for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised, such action is deemed to be a declaration by the Legislature that such use, purpose, object, or function is a public use.
(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1275.)
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