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. (a) The district may acquire, construct, develop, lease,
jointly develop, own, operate, maintain, control, use, jointly use,
or dispose of rights-of-way, rail lines, monorails, buslines,
stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, air
rights, land rights, development rights, entrances and exits, and any
and all other facilities for, incidental to, necessary for, or
convenient for rapid transit service, including, but not limited to,
facilities and structures physically or functionally related to rapid
transit service, within or partly without the district, underground,
upon, or above the ground and under, upon, or over public street,
highways, bridges, or other public ways or waterways, together with
all physical structures necessary for, incidental to, or convenient
for the access of persons and vehicles thereto, and may acquire,
lease, sell, or otherwise contract with respect to any interest in or
rights to the use or joint use of any or all of the foregoing.
However, installations in state freeways are subject to the approval
of the Department of Transportation and installations in other state
highways are subject to Article 2 (commencing with Section 670) of
Chapter 3 of Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code.
(b) The use of the streets, highways, freeways, and other public
places by the district for any of the purposes permitted herein is
presumed to be no greater burden on adjoining properties than the
uses existing as of August 22, 1964. If facilities, other than state
highways or freeways referred to above, (including, but not limited
to, streets, highways, pipelines, sewers, water mains, storm drains,
poles, communications wires, and electric transmission wires) of
another public agency, of the state, or of a private owner are
necessarily required to be relocated, replaced, or altered in order
for the district to construct or operate its system, or if the
construction or operation by the district of its system makes
necessary the relocation, replacement, or alteration of any of those
facilities of another public agency, of the state, or of a private
owner in order to maintain the functioning of the facilities at their
previous level of service, the facilities shall be relocated,
replaced, or altered with reasonable promptness by the respective
public corporation, state, or private owner and the district shall,
by prior agreement, reimburse the public corporation, state, or
private owner for the actual cost necessarily incurred in the
relocation, replacement, or alteration.
(c) The district may enter into an agreement with any city or
county having jurisdiction over the street or highway involved, and,
as may be provided in the agreement, may close any city street or
county highway at or near the point of its interception with any
district facility or may make provision for carrying the city street
or county highway over or under or to a connection with the district
facility and may do any and all work on the city street or county
highway as is necessary therefor. No city street or county highway
shall be closed, either directly or indirectly, by the construction
of district facilities except pursuant to such an agreement or while
temporarily necessary during the construction of district facilities
if the district has first obtained a temporary street or highway
closing permit.