§ 10205 Water Supply Infrastructure Costs

This law lets a city or county let other companies or people provide water or gas when they have built the pipes but don’t have their own system to run them.

Key Takeaways

•If a city or county builds water or gas pipes under a street‑improvement plan and has no plant to run them, they can let others operate the service.
•The permission can go to any kind of group – a public district, a utility company, a private firm, or even an individual.
•The rule only applies when no maintenance plan was set up and the city or county doesn’t already own a water or gas system.

Example

A small town builds new water pipes to a new neighborhood but doesn’t have a water plant of its own.

Because the town has no way to treat or move the water itself, the town council can give a private water company permission to supply the water through those pipes.

Whenever, under any street improvement act under which public work or improvements may be installed or constructed and the costs and expenses assessed in whole or in part against the lands or property benefited, there have been installed or constructed within any city or within the unincorporated territory of any county any wells, pumps, dams, reservoirs, storage tanks, channels, tunnels, conduits, pipes, hydrants, meters, or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic water supply, or all or any combinations thereof, and whenever there have been installed or constructed within any city or within the unincorporated territory of any county any mains, services, pipes, fittings, valves, regulators, governors, meters, drips, drains, tanks, ditches, tunnels, conduits, channels, or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic or industrial gas supply, or all or any combinations thereof, and no provision has been made for the maintenance, operation, and use of the work or improvement constructed, and the city owns no plant or system which can conveniently furnish water or gas, or the county owns no plant or system which can conveniently furnish the water or gas, the legislative body of the city or county, as the case may be, may grant permission to furnish water or gas therefor to any district, public corporation, mutual company, public utility company, private company, or individual. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

This law lets a city or county let other companies or people provide water or gas when they have built the pipes but don’t have their own system to run them.

Key Takeaways

•If a city or county builds water or gas pipes under a street‑improvement plan and has no plant to run them, they can let others operate the service.
•The permission can go to any kind of group – a public district, a utility company, a private firm, or even an individual.
•The rule only applies when no maintenance plan was set up and the city or county doesn’t already own a water or gas system.

Example

A small town builds new water pipes to a new neighborhood but doesn’t have a water plant of its own.

Because the town has no way to treat or move the water itself, the town council can give a private water company permission to supply the water through those pipes.

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