74550-74554
WATER CODE
SECTION 74550-74554
74550. A district, for the full exercise of its powers and the accomplishment of the purposes of this division, may within or without the district: (a) Take real and personal property of every kind by grant, appropriation, purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or lease. (b) Hold, use, enjoy, manage, occupy, possess, lease, or dispose of real and personal property of every kind. 74551. The legal title to all property acquired by a district shall immediately and by operation of law vest in such district, and shall be held in trust for and set apart for the uses and purposes set forth in this division. 74552. A district may take conveyances or other assurances for all property acquired by it. 74553. A district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to be used for dams, damsites, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, ditches and conduits, spreading basins, sinking wells or sinking basins, or otherwise necessary to accomplish the purposes of this division, or to operate or to make use of such works. 74554. The right of eminent domain shall not extend to any property used for, or dedicated to, cemetery purposes.