Canals

Artificial channels for the conveyance of water, used for navigation, transportation, drainage, or irrigation of land.

As a general rule, states supervise the construction and operation of canals by private canal companies. The site of the canal is selected by the state. State law determines the manner of acquiring property used for construction or maintenance of canals. Condemnation or appropriation and contract or grant are the usual methods of acquisition. Additional methods include accretion — the gradual accumulation of land by natural causes — and dedication — the gift of land to the government by its owner for public use.

The state has authority to supervise the construction of bridges over public canals. A city may build bridges over canals within its limits, but it cannot interfere with one constructed and managed by the state on its own property.

State law can confer the power to charge tolls for use of a canal. Rates can be neither discriminatory nor in excess of the amount authorized by law.

Canal may refer to:

• Canals, man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans
• Canals, a commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne département, in France
• Canals, Valencia, a municipality in Spain
• [[Canal+ Group]], a French film and television studio and distributor owned by Vivendi.
• Canal (anatomy), one of several anatomical structures which connect regions of the body
• Canal (gastropod), an extension of the aperture in gastropod molluscs.
• Knallgas, sometimes misspelt as "canal gas" or "canalgas," is a term used in microbial metabolism; it originated as a German name for oxyhydrogen.
• Esteban Canal, a chess player from Peru

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