Section 2708 Of Chapter 2. Water Companies From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2.
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. Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own
motion or upon complaint, finds that any water company which is a
public utility operating within this State has reached the limit of
its capacity to supply water and that no further consumers of water
can be supplied from the system of such utility without injuriously
withdrawing the supply wholly or in part from those who have
theretofore been supplied by the corporation, the commission may
order and require that no such corporation shall furnish water to any
new or additional consumers until the order is vacated or modified
by the commission. The commission, after hearing upon its own motion
or upon complaint, may also require any such water company to allow
additional consumers to be served when it appears that service to
additional consumers will not injuriously withdraw the supply wholly
or in part from those who theretofore had been supplied by such
public utility.