{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wat-31053","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WAT § 31053","heading":"","body":"No publicly owned utility shall commence to provide any service for, on, or to any land within a county water district which is subject to the lien of a general obligation bonded indebtedness or which was the subject of a lease-purchase, revenue, or other type of debt incurred for capital improvements by or on behalf of the district incurred by the district for the purpose of providing a service similar to that which the utility proposes to provide.\nHowever, a publicly owned utility may commence to provide service, otherwise prohibited, upon either of the following conditions:\n(a) If the board of directors of the county water district, by resolution permits the service.\n(b) In any portion of such a county water district proposed to be served by the publicly owned utility in which the total number of registered voters residing therein exceeds 200, if at least two-thirds of the voters voted at a special county water district election to permit the service. The election shall be called and held as an initiative measure pursuant to Section 30830.","path":["Water Code - WAT","DIVISION 12. COUNTY WATER DISTRICTS [30000. - 33901.]","PART 5. POWERS AND PURPOSES [31000. - 31182.]","CHAPTER 1. Powers and Purposes Generally [31000. - 31149.7.]","ARTICLE 3. Property Generally [31040. - 31054.]"],"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":"edcb00ed748832506671036c7f48296e9e6ca33680ffc749e06554e92fc5dbe1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wat-31052","next":"us-ca/wat-31054"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}