Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 10. TRANSIT DISTRICTS [24501 - 107025]
( Division 10 repealed and added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036. ) PART 5. SAN JOAQUIN REGIONAL TRANSIT DISTRICT [50000 - 50507]
( Heading of Part 5 amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 704, Sec. 9. ) CHAPTER 6. Powers and Functions of District [50160 - 50220]
( Chapter 6 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 839. ) ARTICLE 1. Corporate Power [50160 - 50162]
( Article 1 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 839. ) 50162.
The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this part. The district, in exercising such power shall, in addition to the damage for the taking, injury, or destruction of property, also pay the cost of removal, reconstruction, or relocation of any structure, railways, mains, pipes, conduits, cables, or poles of any public utility or public district which is required to be moved to a new location.
No action in eminent domain to acquire property within any incorporated city or any county shall be commenced unless the legislative body of
the affected city or county has consented to such acquisition by resolution.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1176.)