The California Constitution permits private property to be taken or damaged for public use only when just compensation is paid. The Eminent Domain Law prescribes how that constitutionally authorized power may be exercised and permits that exercise only for a public use. The law permits a local public entity to acquire by eminent domain property within its territorial limits only, except if the power to acquire property outside its limits is expressly granted by statute or necessarily implied.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive, technical change to these provisions.