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2025 California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 3 - PUBLIC UTILITY FRANCHISES BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
CHAPTER 2 - Gas, Oil, Electric, and Water Franchises by Municipalities
ARTICLE 3 - Scope of Franchise
Section 6262.
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CA Pub Util Code § 6262 (2025)
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6262. No franchise granted under this chapter in any way impairs or affects the right of the granting municipality to acquire the property of the grantee by purchase or condemnation, and nothing contained in such a franchise shall be construed to contract away, modify or abridge either for a term or in perpetuity the municipality’s right of eminent domain in respect to any public utility.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
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