This article shall only apply to the acquisition of property by school districts.
§ 1263.770.Applicability of Article to School Districts
Title 7. Eminent Domain Law · Chapter 9. Compensation · Article 8. Remediation of Hazardous Materials on Property to be Acquired by School Districts · Enacted 1995 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 29, 2026
In one sentenceSection 1263.770 limits this entire hazardous-materials article to acquisitions of property by school districts, leaving other public entities' contaminated-property condemnations to the ordinary rules governing compensation and appraisal.
Full Text of § 1263.770
Plain-English Summary
This closing section defines the article's scope in one sentence: it applies only to property acquisitions by school districts. Every mechanism the article sets up -- the hearing on hazardous material under § 1263.720, the trustee and funding cap, the appraisal exclusion in § 1263.740, the abandonment offset and lien in § 1263.750 -- exists specifically for school-district condemnations.
A public entity that is not a school district still has to deal with contaminated property it is condemning, but it does so under the general law rather than this article's specialized trustee-and-cost-recovery scheme.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which public entities can use this article's hazardous-materials procedures?
Only school districts -- this article applies solely to acquisitions of property by school districts.
What happens when a non-school-district public entity condemns contaminated property?
It is handled under general eminent domain and appraisal law rather than this article's specialized scheme.
Amendment History
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 247, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 29, 2026.
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