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CA Pub Util Code § 10153 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 4 - Rights in Public Lands and Waters|Section 10153.

10153.  There is granted to every municipal corporation of the State the right to take, in the manner provided by law, any waters belonging to the State, not otherwise disposed of, flowing or existing in any stream or lake intersected, crossed, or tapped by its water works, so far as is necessary to give such municipality and its inhabitants an ample supply of water for all municipal, domestic, irrigation, and manufacturing purposes.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10154 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 4 - Rights in Public Lands and Waters|Section 10154.

10154.  If the route or location of any works or adjuncts is changed so as not to cover or cross the lands selected under this article, or the use of the land selected is abandoned, the selected lands revert, and the title thereto is reinvested in the State or its grantees free from all such uses.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10155 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 4 - Rights in Public Lands and Waters|Section 10155.

10155.  When any selection of a right of way or land is made under this article by any municipal corporation, the legislative body thereof shall transmit to the State Lands Commission, State Controller, and recorder of the county in which the selected lands are situated, a verified plat of the lands selected, giving the extent thereof and the uses for which the lands are claimed or desired. If approved, the State Lands Commission shall so endorse the plat and issue to the corporation a permit to use the right of way and lands, unless on petition properly presented to a court of competent jurisdiction a review is had and such use prohibited.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10201 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10201.

10201.  This article is intended to provide a means of making the work and improvements herein mentioned useful and beneficial to the lands or property assessed to pay the costs and expenses of the construction thereof. The powers herein granted are supplemental to any other powers granted by law to any county or city, and this article does not repeal any other powers to use or utilize such work or improvements.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10202 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10202.

10202.  When any legislative body elects to proceed under this article, the provisions hereof only shall apply and the limitations herein shall be followed.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10203 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10203.

10203.  This article and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed to the end that the purposes hereof may be effective.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10204 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10204.

10204.  “District,” as used in this article, includes any district for which the legislative body of any county or city may make contracts.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10205 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10205.

10205.  Whenever, under any street improvement act under which public work or improvements may be installed or constructed and the costs and expenses assessed in whole or in part against the lands or property benefited, there have been installed or constructed within any city or within the unincorporated territory of any county any wells, pumps, dams, reservoirs, storage tanks, channels, tunnels, conduits, pipes, hydrants, meters, or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic water supply, or all or any combinations thereof, and whenever there have been installed or constructed within any city or within the unincorporated territory of any county any mains, services, pipes, fittings, valves, regulators, governors, meters, drips, drains, tanks, ditches, tunnels, conduits, channels, or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic or industrial gas supply, or all or any combinations thereof, and no provision has been made for the maintenance, operation, and use of the work or improvement constructed, and the city owns no plant or system which can conveniently furnish water or gas, or the county owns no plant or system which can conveniently furnish the water or gas, the legislative body of the city or county, as the case may be, may grant permission to furnish water or gas therefor to any district, public corporation, mutual company, public utility company, private company, or individual.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10206 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10206.

10206.  Before granting such permission the legislative body of the county or city shall find that the public interest, convenience, and necessity require that the work or improvement be used, that water or gas is necessary therefor, and that a certain, named, district, public corporation, mutual company, public utility company, private corporation, or individual can most conveniently furnish water or gas. Thereupon the county or city may grant to such district, public corporation, mutual company, public utility company, private corporation, or individual the right to attach his lines or system to the work or improvement, and to furnish water or gas through the work or improvement to all lands which were assessed to pay the costs and expenses of constructing the work or improvement.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10207 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10207.

10207.  The permission shall be signed by the mayor or other chief executive of the city or by the chairman of the board of supervisors of a county, and by the person or authorized officers of the permittee.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10208 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10208.

10208.  The permission shall state the time for which it is given, which shall not exceed two years, and describe the work or improvement for which it is given, and shall require the permittee to maintain the work or improvement during the term of the permission, and to make all necessary repairs thereto during such term, and to furnish gas or water, as the case may be, to all lands assessed to pay all or any part of the costs and expenses of the work or improvement.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10209 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10209.

10209.  If any extensions of or additional installations for the work or improvement are necessary in order to serve all of the lands required to be served, the permittee shall not be obligated to make such extensions or additional installations, but shall permit any owner of such land to make the extensions and installations under reasonable regulations to be fixed by the city engineer or county surveyor, to attach them to the work or improvement, and to receive gas or water therefrom.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10210 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10210.

10210.  The permission shall provide that the charge made by the permittee for gas or water shall not be greater than the charge therefor made by the permittee for such service elsewhere, and shall provide that the permittee shall pay a reasonable charge, to be determined by the legislative body granting the permission, for the use of the work or improvement. Such rental shall be paid to the treasurer of the county or city at least semiannually and placed in a special fund, which shall be used for the improvement or replacement of the work or improvement or any part thereof.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10211 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10211.

10211.  The permission granted under this article to a private corporation or individual, not a public utility, and the furnishing of gas or water thereunder shall not be construed as a holding out or undertaking of such corporation or individual to serve any and all persons or as constituting the corporation or individual a public utility or as being any evidence thereof.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10212 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10212.

10212.  The permission shall expressly reserve to the legislative body granting it the right to terminate it whenever the city or county can conveniently furnish gas or water. If so terminated, the county or city shall thereafter furnish such gas or water.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10213 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements|Section 10213.

10213.  The permission shall provide that if any district or public corporation is formed or extended, and if the district or public corporation can conveniently serve the territory with gas or water, any permission granted to any public utility, private corporation, or individual may be terminated by the legislative body. If permission is so terminated, the legislative body may grant permission to use the work or improvement and furnish gas or water to such district or public corporation in the manner and under the limitations provided in this article.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10251 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 6 - Injury to Property|Section 10251.

10251.  Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful facility or equipment of any municipal corporation is liable to the municipal corporation for all damages sustained thereby. The measure of damages to the facility or equipment injured or destroyed shall be the cost to repair or replace the property injured or destroyed including direct and allocated costs for labor, materials, supervision, supplies, tools, taxes, transportation, administrative and general expense and other indirect or overhead expenses, less credit, if any, for salvage. The specifying of the measure of damages for the facility or equipment shall not preclude the recovery of such other damages occasioned thereby as may be authorized by law.(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 617.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10301 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 7 - Financing Provisions|Section 10301.

10301.  The Legislature finds and declares that financing the acquisition of privately owned facilities of an electrical or gas corporation by a municipal corporation not previously engaged in furnishing electricity or gas to customers on a regular and ongoing basis or by a redevelopment agency should be subject to the investigation and safeguards provided by this article in the public interest. The Legislature further finds and declares that the purpose of this article is to ensure that the power to acquire and operate these facilities is exercised in the wisest manner consistent with its grant and in the public interest.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 266, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10302 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 7 - Financing Provisions|Section 10302.

10302.  As used in this article:(a) “Electrical corporation” means an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218.(b) “Gas corporation” means a gas corporation as defined in Section 222.(c) “Redevelopment agency” means a redevelopment agency as defined in Section 34102 of the Health and Safety Code.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 266, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Util Code § 10303 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities|ARTICLE 7 - Financing Provisions|Section 10303.

10303.  The use of certificates of participation by a municipal corporation not previously engaged in furnishing electricity or gas to customers on a regular and ongoing basis, or the use of any evidence of indebtedness, including, but not limited to, certificates of participation, by a redevelopment agency, for the acquisition of all, or any portion, of the facilities of an electrical or gas corporation for the purpose of furnishing electricity or gas to customers is subject to an election held pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 54380) of Chapter 6 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, except that, in the case of any acquisition by a redevelopment agency, the term “qualified voters,” as used in Section 54380 of the Government Code, means those persons who would be served by the facilities proposed to be acquired.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 266, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11501 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11501.

11501.  This division may be cited as the “Municipal Utility District Act.”(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11502 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11502.

11502.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this division.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11503 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11503.

11503.  “District” means a municipal utility district formed under this division or under Chapter 218 of the Statutes of 1921, as originally enacted or subsequently amended; “special district” means a special district for sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery purposes created under this division or under Chapter 218 of the Statutes of 1921, as originally enacted or subsequently amended; and “board” means the board of directors of a district.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 128.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11504 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11504.

11504.  “Public agency” includes a city, county water district, county sanitation district, or sanitary district.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11505 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11505.

11505.  “Voter” means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11506 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11506.

11506.  “Sewage disposal” means the acquisition, construction, enlargement, operation, and maintenance of intercepting sewers, sewage treatment works, pumping plants, outfall sewers, and appurtenances.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11507 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11507.

11507.  “Percent of the total vote cast,” when used with reference to the requirements of any petition or nomination paper, means percent of the total vote cast, exclusive of vote by mail ballots, within the proposed district, district, proposed special district, special district, or territory proposed to be annexed to a district, as the case may be at the last statewide general election.(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 118, Sec. 4. (AB 1412) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11508 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11508.

11508.  “Solid Waste Resource Recovery” means the acquisition, construction, enlargement, operation, and maintenance of facilities for the purpose of collecting, reducing, separating, recovering, converting, and recycling solid waste, and for the purpose of disposing of solid waste residues.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 128.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11509 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 11509.

11509.  “Electricity district” means a municipal utility district formed under this division that furnishes electricity to more than 100,000 customers.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1396, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11531 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11531.

11531.  A municipal utility district may be created as provided in this division and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11532 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11532.

11532.  All persons who, at the time this division goes into effect, hold offices under Chapter 218 of the Statutes of 1921, as originally enacted or subsequently amended, continue to hold them according to their former tenure.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11533 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11533.

11533.  Except as otherwise provided in this division elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in all respects as nearly as practicable in conformity with the general election laws of the State.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11534 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11534.

11534.  Except as otherwise provided in this division all ordinances, summaries of ordinances, and notices that are required to be published shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 118, Sec. 25. Effective January 1, 2005.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11535 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11535.

11535.  Whenever in this division publication in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district is required, and there is no such newspaper, then the publication may be made in a newspaper of general circulation published in any county where the district is situated.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11536 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 11536.

11536.  Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the Retirement Board or of any officer or employee of the Retirement System is authorized or required under the provisions of this division, except in the single instance provided in Section 13244, the signature may be made by the use of a plate bearing facsimiles of such signatures.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11561 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 2 - Formation of Districts|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 11561.

11561.  Any public agency together with unincorporated territory, or two or more public agencies, with or without unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as a municipal utility district. Public agencies and unincorporated territory included within a district may be in the same or separate counties and need not be contiguous. No public agency shall be divided in the formation of a district.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11562 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 2 - Formation of Districts|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 11562.

11562.  A request for the formation of a district may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 11581 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 6 - MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ACT|CHAPTER 2 - Formation of Districts|ARTICLE 2 - Request by Resolution|Section 11581.

11581.  Legislative bodies of half or more of the public agencies proposed to be included in the proposed district may pass resolutions declaring that in their opinion public interest or necessity demands the creation and maintenance of a municipal utility district to be known as the “(giving the name) municipal utility district.”(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)