SECTIONS 1460-1464 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 1460-1464

1460. The application for a permit by a municipality for the use of
water for the municipality or the inhabitants thereof for domestic
purposes shall be considered first in right, irrespective of whether
it is first in time.

1461. The application for, or the granting of, a permit to any
municipality to appropriate water does not authorize the
appropriation of any water for other than municipal purposes.

1462. Where permission to appropriate is granted to any
municipality for any quantity of water in excess of the existing
municipal needs therefor, the board may, pending the application to
beneficial use of the entire appropriation permitted, issue permits
for the temporary appropriation of the excess of the permitted
appropriation over and above the quantity being applied to beneficial
use from time to time by the municipality.

1463. When the municipality desires to use the additional water
granted in its application it may do so upon making just compensation
for the facilities for taking, conveying, and storing the additional
water rendered valueless for said purposes to the person who
constructed the facilities. The compensation, if not agreed upon, may
be determined in the manner provided by law for determining the
value of property taken by eminent domain proceedings.

1464. In lieu of the granting of such temporary permits for
appropriation, the board may authorize the municipality to become as
to such surplus a public utility, subject to the jurisdiction and
control of the Public Utilities Commission of the State for such
period from and after the date of the issuance of such permission to
appropriate, as may be allowed for the application to municipal uses
of the entire appropriation permitted.