{"data":{"id":"us-ca/ccp-1240.650","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CCP § 1240.650","heading":"","body":"(a) Where property has been appropriated to public use by any person other than a public entity, the use thereof by a public entity for the same use or any other public use is a more necessary use than the use to which such property has already been appropriated.\n(b) Where property has been appropriated to public use by a public entity, the use thereof by the public entity is a more necessary use than any use to which such property might be put by any person other than a public entity.\n(c) Where property which has been appropriated to a public use is electric, gas, or water public utility property which the public entity intends to put to the same use, the presumption of a more necessary use established by subdivision (a) is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof, unless the acquiring public entity is a sanitary district exercising the powers of a county water district pursuant to Section 6512.7 of the Health and Safety Code.","path":["Code of Civil Procedure - CCP","PART 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE [1063. - 1822.60.]","TITLE 7. EMINENT DOMAIN LAW [1230.010. - 1273.050.]","CHAPTER 3. The Right to Take [1240.010. - 1240.700.]","ARTICLE 7. Condemnation for More Necessary Public Use [1240.610. - 1240.700.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"d837f6bb47ca23cf0000310a410eb62a6bbf22064ad0279ab09d6635421e72ae","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/ccp-1240.640","next":"us-ca/ccp-1240.655"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}