California · Public Utilities Code - PUC

PUC §7808: Any city or city and county may own and operate street railways within or without its corporate limits and may occupy the same street or tracks occupied or used by any street railway within its limits

What this law says, in plain English

Cities may own and operate street railways within or outside their boundaries and may use streets or tracks already occupied by existing street railways.

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Any city or city and county may own and operate street railways within or without its corporate limits and may occupy the same street or tracks occupied or used by any street railway within its limits for any number of blocks, upon payment to the owner thereof of an equal portion of the estimated cost of construction, at the time of such occupation, of such tracks or appurtenances as the city or city and county elects to use jointly with the street railway.

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