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Health & Saf. Code, § 116920 · Chapter 6. Discontinuation of Residential Water Service

Health & Saf. Code, § 116920

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) The Attorney General, at the request of the board or upon the Attorney General’s own motion, may bring an action in state court to do either of the following:

(1) Restrain by temporary or permanent injunction the use of any method, act, or practice declared in this chapter to be unlawful.

(2) Restore to any person in interest any money or real property acquired by any method, act, or practice declared by this chapter to be unlawful.

(b) For a covered water system regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, the commission may bring an action in state court to restrain by temporary or permanent injunction the use by a covered water system regulated by the commission of any method, act, or practice declared in this chapter to be unlawful.

(c) Nothing in this section provides public water systems with authorities not otherwise provided to those systems by law.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 411, Sec. 3. (AB 2599) Effective January 1, 2025.

Source of truth

Edition
As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&sectionNum=116920.
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