SECTIONS 81445-81452 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 81445-81452

81445. The agency may do all of the following:
(a) Acquire water and water rights within or outside the state.
(b) Develop, store, and transport water.
(c) Provide, deliver, and sell water at wholesale for municipal,
domestic, and industrial purposes to any city, county, district,
other local public entity, public utility, or mutual water company
located within the boundaries of the agency, and to Stanford
University.
(d) Acquire, construct, operate, and maintain any and all works,
facilities, improvements, and property within or outside the
boundaries of the agency necessary or convenient to carry out this
division.

81446. The agency may conduct studies of the water supplies
available to its members, and their current and future demand for
water. The agency may develop plans for projects and programs that
can assist its members to meet those future water needs.

81447. The agency may provide, deliver, and sell water not needed
for municipal, domestic, or industrial uses within the boundaries of
the agency for beneficial purposes but shall give preference to users
within the agency. The supply of surplus water shall in every case
be subject to the paramount right of the agency to discontinue that
supply in whole or in part upon one year's notice to the purchaser or
user of that surplus water.

81448. The agency may not sell water to any retail user within the
boundaries of the agency. Sales to Stanford University shall not be
deemed sales to a retail user.

81449. Except as provided in Section 81452, the agency may exercise
the right of eminent domain in the manner provided by law to acquire
any property, within or outside the boundaries of the agency,
necessary or convenient to carry out this division.

81450. The agency is entitled to the benefit of any reservation or
grant, in all cases, where any right has been reserved or granted to
the state, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any
public corporation, to construct or maintain water-related facilities
in, under, or over any public or private lands. Nothing in this
section authorizes the agency to construct facilities on lands owned
or controlled by San Francisco without the consent of San Francisco.

81451. The agency may construct and operate works and facilities
in, under, over, across, or along any street or public highway or
over any of the lands which are the property of the state to the same
extent that those rights and privileges are granted to cities within
the state.

81452. The agency may not acquire by eminent domain, interfere
with, or exercise any control over, any water distribution facility
owned and operated by any city, city and county, local public entity,
or public utility without the consent of, and upon those terms that
are mutually agreed to by, that city, city and county, local public
agency, or public utility.