California

Public Resources Code - PRC

8,181 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 35172 — (a) Subject to Section 4 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, the authority may impose qualified special taxes within the authority’s jurisdiction pursuant to the procedures established i
• § 35173 — The authority may levy assessments pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911, Division 7 (commencing with Section 5000), the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 (commencing with Section 8500), and
• § 35174 — The authority may incur indebtedness to finance capital improvements pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 43600) of Division 4 of Title 4 of the Government Code.
• § 35175 — The authority may finance facilities and issue bonds under this division pursuant to the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 (Chapter 2.
• § 35180 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Coyote Valley Conservation Program.
• § 35181 — The authority may establish and administer the Coyote Valley Conservation Program to address the resource and recreational goals of the Coyote Valley, as provided in this chapter.
• § 35182 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Coyote Valley is a unique landscape providing agricultural, wildlife, recreational, climate, and other natural infrastructure benefits, cov
• § 35183 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Coyote Valley” means all areas southeast of a line drawn northeast to southwest through a point at the intersection of Coyote Creek
• § 35184 — The authority may collaborate with state, regional, and local partners to help achieve all of the following goals of the program: (a) To provide recreational opportunities, preserve open space, develo
• § 35185 — In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and without limiting the express or implied powers of the authority as provided in this division, the authority shall have, and may exercise, all necessar
• § 35186 — (a) A proponent or party to a proposed development project converting natural lands or working lands within Coyote Valley for a nonagricultural purpose shall provide notice to the authority of the pro
• § 35500 — This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Ocean Protection Act.
• § 35505 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California’s coastal and ocean resources are critical to the state’s environmental and economic security, and integral to the state’s high
• § 35510 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The coastal waters offshore of the state and the ocean ecosystems associated with those waters are natural resources that the state holds i
• § 35515 — The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this division is to integrate and coordinate the state’s laws and institutions responsible for protecting and conserving ocean resources, includi
• § 35550 — Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern this division: (a) “Council” means the Ocean Protection Council established pursuant to Section 35600.
• § 35600 — (a) The Ocean Protection Council is established in state government.
• § 35605 — The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall serve as the chairperson of the council, and the Secretary for Environmental Protection shall serve as the vice chairperson of the council.
• § 35610 — One Member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and one Member of the Assembly, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, shall meet with the council as nonvoting, ex officio mem
• § 35612 — (a) The council’s meetings shall be open to the public.
• § 35615 — The council shall do all of the following: (a) (1) Coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to the protection and conservation of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems to improve the eff
• § 35616 — (a) Subject to the availability of funding, the council shall develop and implement a coastal climate change adaptation, infrastructure, and readiness program to do all of the following: (1) Recommend
• § 35617 — (a) The Ocean Protection Council shall develop and implement a voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program for the state.
• § 35620 — (a) Consistent with this chapter, and subject to the availability of funding, the council shall support state agencies’ use and sharing of scientific and geospatial information for coastal- and ocean-
• § 35621 — Consistent with the council’s authority and responsibility under this chapter to coordinate activities of state agencies with ocean or coastal management interests or regulatory authority, to improve
• § 35625 — (a) Under the direction of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, the council shall administer its affairs, and provide the staff services that the council needs to carry out this division, in
• § 35630 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Ocean acidification and hypoxia, an abnormal deficiency of oxygen in marine environments, are two major threats to ocean and coastal ecosys
• § 35631 — (a) Subject to the availability of funding, the council may develop an ocean acidification and hypoxia science task force to ensure that decisionmaking is supported by the best available science.
• § 35632 — (a) To the extent funds are available from bonds or other sources, the council, in consultation with the State Coastal Conservancy and other relevant entities, shall establish and administer the Ocean
• § 35635 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Through the adoption of the California Ocean Litter Prevention Strategy, the council has led the development of long-term policies to a
• § 35640 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California’s seaports are North America’s primary intermodal gateway to Asia and Transpacific trade.
• § 35641 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that expansion of the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program by local air pollution control districts and air quality management districts and stakeholder
• § 35650 — (a) The California Ocean Protection Trust Fund is established in the State Treasury.
• § 35651 — The council shall use one million dollars ($1,000,000) of the amount appropriated to it in Item 0540-101-0001 of Section 2.
• § 3600 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any well hereafter drilled for oil or gas, or hereafter drilled and permitted to produce oil or gas, which is located within 100 feet of an outer boundary
• § 36000 — This division shall be known and may be cited as the California Ocean Resources Management Act of 1990 (CORMA).
• § 36001 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Pacific Ocean and its many renewable and nonrenewable resources are of economic, environmental, aesthetic, recreational, militar
• § 36002 — The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the policy of the State of California to do the following: (1) Assess the long-term values and benefits of the conservation a
• § 36003 — (a) No authority is created under this division, nor shall any of its purposes or provisions be used by any public or private agency or person, to delay or deny any existing or future project or activ
• § 3601 — Where several contiguous parcels of land in one or different ownerships are operated as a single oil or gas lease or operating unit, the term “outer boundary line” means the outer boundary line of the
• § 3602 — Where a parcel of land contains one acre or more, but is less than 250 feet in width, there may be drilled on the parcel of land not more than one well to each acre of the area if the surface location
• § 3602.1 — Where a parcel of land contains one acre or more and the hydrocarbons to be developed are too heavy or viscous to produce by normal means, and the supervisor so determines, the supervisor may approve
• § 3602.2 — In determining the area of parcels of land for the purposes of this chapter, the area of the oil and gas mineral estate shall be used exclusively.
• § 3603 — For the purposes of this chapter, an alley which intersects or lies within any block or other subdivision unit is not a public street or road.
• § 3604 — Each day in which the drilling of any well is carried on, or on which it is permitted to produce oil or gas in violation of this chapter is a separate nuisance.
• § 3605 — The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any field producing oil or gas on August 14, 1931.
• § 3606 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where a parcel of land contains one acre or more and where all or substantially all of the surface of such parcel of land is unavailable for the s
• § 3606.1 — The 150-foot restriction in Sections 3600 and elsewhere in this chapter shall apply only to wells drilled and producing from the same zone or pool; provided, however, that the well density shall not e
• § 3607 — The prohibition set forth in Section 3600 against drilling within 100 feet of any public street or highway shall not apply in the case of any street or highway which is opened through a field in which
• § 3608 — Where land aggregating less than one acre is surrounded by other lands, which other lands are subject to an oil and gas lease aggregating one acre or more, and if, under the provisions of Sections 360
• § 3608.1 — The owner or operator of any leasehold, into which land has been included under the provisions of Section 3608, shall cause to be recorded an appropriate quitclaim to such land in the proper county re
• § 3609 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if the supervisor determines, pursuant to rules and regulations and after a public hearing, that the development of a pool discovered after the ef
• § 36100 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the interpretation of this division.
• § 36101 — “Advisory committee” means the California Ocean Resources Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 36302.
• § 36102 — “Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)” means the zone as measured from the mean high tide line seaward to 200 nautical miles as set forth in the Presidential Proclamation 5030 of March 10, 1983, in which the
• § 36103 — “High Seas” means offshore waters beyond 200 nautical miles from the coastline.
• § 36104 — “Program” means the California Ocean Resources Management Program established by Section 36200.
• § 36105 — “Ocean” and “marine” mean those waters from the coastline into the high seas.
• § 36106 — “Ocean resources” means all living and nonliving resources found in the Pacific Ocean and its contiguous saline or brackish bays and estuaries.
• § 36107 — “Report and plan” means the report and plan prepared by the task force.
• § 36108 — “State waters” means the zone as measured from the mean high tide line to three nautical miles offshore, as set forth by the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.
• § 36109 — “Task force” means the Ocean Resources Task Force created by Section 36300.
• § 36110 — “Territorial sea” means the zone as measured from mean high tide line to 12 nautical miles offshore as set forth in the Presidential Proclamation on December 27, 1988, in which the United States exten
• § 36200 — To ensure the conservation and development of ocean resources consistent with purposes of this division, a coordinated program of ocean resources planning and management is established.
• § 36201 — The California Ocean Resources Management Program consists of all of the following: (a) The Ocean Resources Task Force.
• § 36202 — (a) The State of California is hereby authorized to participate with the States of Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington in a joint liaison program with the Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction o
• § 3630 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the management, development, and operation of lands as a unit for the production of oil and gas aids in preventing waste, increases the ultimate recovery
• § 36300 — The Ocean Resources Task Force is hereby created in state government.
• § 36301 — The chairperson of the task force shall be the Secretary of the Resources Agency, who shall provide all staff support required by the task force.
• § 36302 — The chairperson of the task force, with advice from the task force, shall appoint the California Ocean Resources Advisory Committee, which, at a minimum, shall consist of the following: representative
• § 3631 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in such a manner as to conflict with the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 6826) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 6.
• § 3635 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 3635.1 — “Person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or other representa
• § 3635.2 — “Land” means both surface and mineral rights.
• § 3635.3 — “Pool” means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both.
• § 3635.4 — “Field” means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools.
• § 3635.5 — “Tracts of land” means land areas under separate ownership which are all of the following: (a) Contiguous either on the surface or in the subsurface.
• § 3636 — “Unit agreement” means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 3640) of this chapter, any consent agreement or oth
• § 3636.1 — “Unit area” means all lands included within an area subject to a unit agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 3640) of this chapter.
• § 3636.2 — “Unit production” means all oil, gas, and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of a unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to Section 3643.
• § 3636.3 — “Unit operator” means the person or persons designated by the working interest owners as operator or operators of the unit area.
• § 3637 — “Working interest” means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement, or otherwise, under which the owner of such interest has the rig
• § 3637.1 — “Working interest owner” means a person owning a working interest.
• § 3637.2 — “Royalty interest” means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof other than a working interest.
• § 3637.3 — “Royalty interest owner” means a person owning a royalty interest.
• § 3640 — Tracts of land may be unitized as provided in this article to provide for the management, development, and operation thereof as a unit to prevent, or to assist in preventing, waste and to increase the
• § 36400 — The task force shall prepare a report and plan as required by Section 36500.
• § 36401 — The chairperson of the task force shall submit the report and plan to the Governor and the Legislature as specified in Section 36500.
• § 36402 — The task force shall provide opportunity for public review and comment following release of a draft scoping document and also following release of a draft report and plan.
• § 3641 — An agreement for the management, development, and operation of two or more tracts of land in the same field or in the same producing or prospective pool as a unit without regard to separate ownerships
• § 3642 — Any proposed agreement for unit operation of tracts of land which has been consented to by persons who own title to working interests which aggregate at least an undivided three-fourths of the total w
• § 3643 — The unit agreement shall be approved, if, after a public hearing, the supervisor finds all of the following: (a) The unit area of the proposed agreement for unit operation takes in all tracts which, c
• § 3644 — A tract of land’s fair, equitable, and reasonable share of the unit production shall be measured by the value of such tract for oil and gas purposes and its contributing value to the unit in relation
• § 3645 — Upon giving his approval to the unit agreement pursuant to Section 3643, the supervisor shall issue an order directing unit operations of the unit area in accordance with the unit agreement, directing
• § 3646 — The supervisor’s order shall include fair and reasonable provisions for all of the following: (a) The date when all tracts of land not theretofore committed to the unit shall be subject to unit operat
• § 3647 — The owner of any working interest or royalty interest in a tract which is the subject of a unit agreement who did not consent to the proposed unit agreement shall, 60 days following the date upon whic
• § 3648 — Any unit agreement approved by the supervisor shall contain a provision under which a party whose surface land is being utilized for the benefit of the unit area shall be entitled to compensation for
• § 3649 — Any proposed modification of an approved unit agreement shall be submitted by the unit operator to the supervisor for his review and approval.
• § 3650 — If at any time after the entry of an order of unitization issued pursuant to Section 3645, it develops that all or a portion of a further tract or tracts of land should be included within the unit are
• § 36500 — The task force shall prepare a report regarding existing ocean resources management activities and impacts, including a plan to increase coordination and consolidation of these activities.
• § 3651 — The supervisor shall issue his order that such further tract or tracts of land insofar as they contain the pool or pools, or portions thereof, and the interests of all persons therein, upon recordatio
• § 3652 — The supervisor’s order issued pursuant to Section 3651 shall contain a fair basis for allocating production to such further tract or tracts of land and make fair and reasonable provisions under the ci
• § 3653 — Any disagreement with respect to the unit operation between persons owning any interest in the pool or pools, or portions thereof, subject to the unit agreement may be submitted to the supervisor for
• § 3653.5 — A petition requesting approval of a unit agreement and each copy thereof shall contain or have attached to it: (a) A request that the supervisor approve the unit agreement.
• § 3654 — Any and all decisions or determinations made by the supervisor under the provisions of this chapter shall be appealable to any court of competent jurisdiction by any person whose interests are affecte
• § 3655 — The three-fourths interests referred to in Sections 3642, 3649, and 3651 shall be determined as follows: (a) A total value, composed of the combined value of all of the primary tract assignment and se
• § 3656 — No unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall effect or result in, or be construed to effect or result in, the alienation, transfer, or change of any ti
• § 3657 — Operations incident to the drilling, producing, or operating of a well or wells on any portion of a unit area under a unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to the provisions of this chapt
• § 3658 — Any order of the supervisor issued pursuant to this article shall, from and after its effective date, be effective as to, and be binding upon, each person owning an interest in the unit area covered t
• § 3659 — Prior to any public hearing held by the supervisor pursuant to this chapter, the supervisor shall give reasonable written notice of the hearing to all persons shown by the records of the tax assessor
• § 36600 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Marine Managed Areas Improvement Act.
• § 36601 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California’s extraordinary ocean and coastal resources provide a vital asset to the state and nation.
• § 36602 — The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Committee” is the State Interagency Coordinating Committee established pursuant to Section 36800.
• § 36620 — The mission of the state MMA system is to ensure the long-term ecological viability and biological productivity of marine and estuarine ecosystems and to preserve cultural resources in the coastal sea
• § 36700 — Six classifications for designating managed areas in the marine and estuarine environments are hereby established as described in this section, to become effective January 1, 2002.
• § 36710 — (a) In a state marine reserve, it is unlawful to injure, damage, take, or possess any living geological, or cultural marine resource, except under a permit or specific authorization from the managing
• § 36711 — The classifications contained in Section 36710 may not be inconsistent with United States military activities deemed mission critical by the United States military.
• § 36725 — (a) The Fish and Game Commission may designate, delete, or modify state marine recreational management areas established by the commission for hunting purposes, state marine reserves, and state marine
• § 36750 — Any MMA in existence on January 1, 2002, that has not been reclassified in accordance with the Marine Life Protection Act (Chapter 10.
• § 3680 — A person to whom another is indebted for expenses incurred in carrying on unit operations may, in order to secure payment of the amount due, fix a lien upon the interest of the debtor in the unit prod
• § 36800 — The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall establish and chair the State Interagency Coordinating Committee, whose members are representatives from those state agencies, departments, boards, commissi
• § 3681 — The lien shall be a first lien on the production and otherwise shall be of the same nature and subject to foreclosure in the same manner and within the same time as mechanics’ liens.
• § 3685 — Within three months after the effective date of this chapter, the supervisor shall, after one or more public hearings, adopt regulations governing the submittal of proposed unit agreements, modificati
• § 36850 — Designation guidelines based on the classification goals adopted for the state system of MMAs shall be developed jointly by the appropriate managing agencies in cooperation with the committee on or be
• § 36870 — On or before January 1, 2002, the committee shall establish a standard set of instructions for each classification to guide organizations and individuals in submitting proposals for designating specif
• § 3690 — This chapter shall not be deemed a preemption by the state of any existing right of cities and counties to enact and enforce laws and regulations regulating the conduct and location of oil production
• § 36900 — Individuals or organizations may submit a proposal to designate an MMA directly through the committee or an appropriate designating entity.
• § 36970 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Ocean Resources Stewardship Act of 2000 (CORSA).
• § 36971 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Pacific Ocean and its rich and varied resources provide great environmental, economic, aesthetic, recreational, health, educational, an
• § 36972 — The Legislature further finds that it is the policy of the state to do all of the following: (a) Ensure adequate coordination of ocean resources management science among state, regional, and federal a
• § 36973 — (a) No authority is established by this chapter, nor shall any of its purposes or provisions be used by any public or private agency or person, to delay or deny any existing or future project or activ
• § 36979 — For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Ocean resources” means all living and nonliving resources found in the Pacific Ocean and its contiguous saline
• § 36990 — (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency may enter into an agreement with an existing nonprofit corporation with broad experience as the trustee of public funds, court-ordered mitigation fund
• § 36991 — The trust shall be subject to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code.
• § 36992 — The trust shall have 10 trustees, who shall be appointed as follows: (a) The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall appoint the following trustees, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary: (
• § 36993 — (a) Any person who might reasonably be expected at some time to derive a direct financial benefit from the activities of the trust shall be ineligible to serve as a trustee.
• § 36994 — (a) The trust shall do all of the following: (1) Expend funds only for the purposes of the trust enumerated in Section 36990 and as further restricted by the sources of the trust’s funding.
• § 36995 — (a) The trust may seek the assistance of advisers, form advisory committees, or otherwise consult with knowledgeable individuals in regard to the business of the trust.
• § 3700 — It is hereby found and determined that the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in the development of geothermal resources, and that the State of California, through th
• § 37000 — This division shall be known and may be cited as the “Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000.
• § 37001 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The continued economic development of California will be fostered and improved if conflicts over the use of natural resources can be resolv
• § 37002 — As used in this division, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Approval” or “approval for acceptance” means the board’s approval of the granting of a tax credit for a donation of prop
• § 37005 — The Wildlife Conservation Board shall implement the program.
• § 37006 — (a) Under the program, upon approval by the board, a donor may contribute qualified property to a donee and receive a tax credit for a portion of the value of the property, as provided in Sections 170
• § 3701 — For the purposes of this chapter, “geothermal resources” shall mean geothermal resources as defined in Section 6903 of this code.
• § 37010 — Applications shall be submitted to the donee to which the donor proposes to contribute the property.
• § 37011 — At a minimum, each application shall contain all of the following: (a) The identification of the donor and donee.
• § 37012 — (a) Each donee shall evaluate applications submitted to it and prepare a plan for the board that sets forth the donee’s priorities for acquisition of property that qualifies under the program.
• § 37013 — The board shall provide a list to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the Franchise Tax Board, in the form and manner determined by the Franchise Tax Board, of the names, taxpayer identificatio
• § 37014 — Assets received by a donee pursuant to this division shall not be deemed transfers pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 2780) of Division 3 of the Fish and Game Code.
• § 37015 — The board shall approve only contributions of properties that meet one or more of the following criteria: (a) The property will help meet the goals of a habitat conservation plan, multispecies conserv
• § 37016 — (a) The board shall grant approval of a proposed contribution of property under the program only upon a determination that: (1) (A) The donation of property satisfies the requirements for a qualified
• § 3702 — For the purposes of this chapter, “geothermal resources area” means the same general surface area which is underlaid, or reasonably appears to be underlaid, by geothermal resources.
• § 37020 — (a) Nothing in this division authorizes or increases the authority of any state or local public agency to use eminent domain to acquire private property.
• § 37021 — (a) If any property approved for acceptance pursuant to this division is later transferred by the donee, the use of the property shall be restricted by deed to the conservation purposes for which the
• § 37022 — (a) Tax credits may be awarded pursuant to this division only if the amount of all lost revenue resulting from the award of tax credits is reimbursed by transfer to the General Fund of moneys that are
• § 37023 — The donee shall allow public access to the property to the extent that public access is consistent with the purposes for which the property is accepted.
• § 37024 — If the city, county, or city and county in which the property is located objects to acceptance of the property, the city, county, or city and county, as appropriate, may request the Director of Financ
• § 37025 — Any donee accepting property pursuant to the program shall own and maintain any setback or buffer area that may be necessary for the use of that property in accordance with this division, in order to
• § 3703 — “Well” means any well for the discovery of geothermal resources or any well on lands producing geothermal resources or reasonably presumed to contain geothermal resources, or any special well, convert
• § 3703.1 — “Low-temperature geothermal resources” are fluids that have value by virtue of the heat contained therein and have a temperature that is not more than the boiling point of water at the altitude of occ
• § 37030 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Current justifiable needs for the acquisition of property for environmental purposes substantially exceed state-approved bond funds availab
• § 37031 — (a) For bond provisions listed in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (c) of Section 37032, “purpose” means scheme and design.
• § 37032 — (a) If a department or local government identifies property that may be acquired pursuant to this division and determines that the acquisition would comply with the purpose of a bond provision listed
• § 37034 — (a) (1) If a department determines that property is available for acquisition by donation, and that the acquisition of the property would comply with the requirements of an applicable bond provision s
• § 37035 — (a) (1) If a department determines that a designated nonprofit organization, in lieu of the department, should accept property that the department applies to acquire pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdi
• § 37036 — (a) The Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Reimbursement Account is established in the General Fund to receive moneys paid pursuant to this chapter.
• § 37038 — If the board is the department that receives moneys pursuant to any of the bond provisions listed in subdivision (c) of Section 37032 and the board wishes to use those bond funds to acquire property p
• § 3704 — “Department”, in reference to the government of this state, means the Department of Conservation.
• § 37040 — (a) The board shall notify the Controller, the Treasurer, and the relevant department of the information listed in subdivision (b) after the board receives notification from the Franchise Tax Board pu
• § 37042 — The Legislature finds and declares that the expenditure of bond funds pursuant to this chapter does not constitute the use of bond proceeds or other indebtedness to pay a year-end state budget deficit
• § 3705 — “Division,” in reference to the government of this state, means the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation.
• § 3706 — “Director” means the Director of Conservation.
• § 3707 — “Supervisor” means the State Oil and Gas Supervisor.
• § 3708 — “Person” includes any individual, firm, association, corporation, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
• § 3709 — “Operator” means any person drilling, maintaining, operating, pumping, or in control of any well.
• § 3710 — “Owner” includes “operator” when any well is operated or has been operated or is about to be operated by any person other than the owner.
• § 3711 — “Operator” includes “owner” when any well is or has been or is about to be operated by or under the direction of the owner.
• § 3712 — This chapter shall be liberally construed to meet its purposes, and the director and the supervisor, acting with the approval of the director, shall have all powers which may be necessary to carry out
• § 3714 — The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall so supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance and abandonment of geothermal resources wells as to encourage the greatest ultimate economic recovery of geothe
• § 3714.5 — The supervisor, pursuant to regulation, shall designate geothermal resources areas and may exclude from the operation of this chapter certain wells within such geothermal resources areas when there is
• § 3715 — The supervisor shall also supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells so as to permit the owners or operators of such wells to utilize all methods and practices known to t
• § 3715.5 — (a) For the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (commencing with Section 21000), the division shall be the lead agency as defined in Section 21067 for all geothermal exploratory proje
• § 3716 — The district deputy in each district shall collect all information regarding the wells in the district necessary for the proper supervision of the wells.
• § 3717 — Upon request, the supervisor shall notify the Department of Fish and Game and the California regional water quality control board in the area affected of the location and abandonment of geothermal wel
• § 3718 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as superseding any of the provisions of Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code or Division 6 (commencing with Section 5650) of the Fish
• § 3719 — The supervisor shall publish any publications, reports, maps, statistical data or other printed matter relating to geothermal resources, for which there may be public demand.
• § 3720 — For the purposes of this chapter, the state may be divided into one or more districts, the boundaries of which shall be fixed by the director.
• § 3721 — Every owner or operator of any well shall designate an agent, giving his or her address, who resides in this state, to receive and accept all orders, notices, and processes of the supervisor or any co
• § 3722 — The owner or operator of any well shall notify the supervisor or the district deputy, in writing, in such form as the supervisor or the district deputy may direct, of the sale, assignment, transfer, c
• § 3723 — Every person who acquires the ownership or operation of any well, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or otherwise, shall, within 30 days after acquiring the well and the
• § 3723.5 — Any person who acquires the ownership or operation of any well or wells, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or otherwise, shall, within 30 days after acquiring the well o
• § 3724 — The owner or operator of any well, before commencing the original drilling of a well or the redrilling of an abandoned well, shall file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice of i
• § 3724.1 — An owner or operator may submit to the supervisor for approval a written program to drill a shallow well or wells for temperature-gradient monitoring purposes.
• § 3724.2 — If, after study by the supervisor, it is determined that one or all of the wells proposed pursuant to Section 3724.
• § 3724.3 — Drilling of program wells, as described in Section 3724.
• § 3724.32 — When an operator fails to pay a civil penalty imposed pursuant to Section 3754.
• § 3724.35 — The supervisor may adopt regulations governing intermediate and deep wells drilled for temperature-gradient monitoring purposes.
• § 3724.4 — The proposal, and all other data submitted as required by Sections 3724.
• § 3724.5 — To provide funds for the supervision of geothermal resource wells, the supervisor shall establish an annual well fee, and penalties for late payment, to be applied on an equal basis to all wells as pr