SECTIONS 1625-1631 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 1625-1631

1625. Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms as
may be prescribed by the board.

1626. All licenses shall be under the terms and conditions of this
division.

1627. A license shall be effective for such time as the water
actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial
purpose in conformity with this division but no longer.

1628. Every license shall include the enumeration of conditions
therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of
this article and the statement that any appropriator of water to whom
a license is issued takes the license subject to the conditions
therein expressed.

1629. Every licensee, if he accepts a license, does so under the
conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the actual
amount paid to the State therefor shall at any time be assigned to
or claimed for any license granted or issued under the provisions of
this division, or for any rights granted or acquired under the
provisions of this division, in respect to the regulation by any
competent public authority of the services or the price of the
services to be rendered by any licensee or by the holder of any
rights granted or acquired under the provisions of this division or
in respect to any valuation for purposes of sale to or purchase,
whether through condemnation proceedings or otherwise, by the State
or any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation
district, lighting district, or any political subdivision of the
State, of the rights and property of any licensee, or the possessor
of any rights granted, issued, or acquired under the provisions of
this division.

1630. At any time after the expiration of twenty years after the
granting of a license, the State or any city, city and county,
municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or
any political subdivision of the State shall have the right to
purchase the works and property occupied and used under the license
and the works built or constructed for the enjoyment of the rights
granted under the license.

1631. In the event that the State, or any city, city and county,
municipal water district, irrigation district, lighting district, or
political subdivision of the State so desiring to purchase and the
owner of the works and property can not agree upon the purchase
price, the price shall be determined in such manner as is now or may
hereafter be provided by law for determining the value of property
taken in eminent domain proceedings.