SECTIONS 25720-25721 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 25720-25721

25720. (a) The Legislature finds that local circumstances in Inyo
and Mono Counties require that those counties be given authority to
construct, operate, and maintain hydroelectric facilities, and that
no general law exists which provides the necessary authority.
(b) The Board of Supervisors of Inyo County or Mono County may
construct, operate, and maintain one or more plants, which plants are
constructed after the effective date of this section, for the
generation of hydroelectric power and transmission lines for the
conveyance thereof. Construction of the plant or plants and
transmission lines may be financed by any method of financing county
works.

25721. The hydroelectric plant or plants and transmission lines
constructed pursuant to Section 25720 may be leased for operation to,
or power generated may be sold to, a public utility or public agency
engaged in the distribution, use, or sale of electricity. The power
generated may be used by the county for its own purposes, or for the
production or transmission of water, but shall not be offered for
sale directly by the county to customers other than a public utility
or public agency. The power to acquire works and facilities shall not
include, and nothing in this article shall be construed to allow,
the acquisition of property already employed in the generation of
hydroelectric energy for public utility purposes, except by mutual
agreement between the county and the owner and operator of that
property.