California

Public Resources Code - PRC

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

• § 5001.67 — (a) Qualified institutions and individuals shall be encouraged to conduct nondestructive forms of scientific investigation within state park system units, upon receiving prior approval from the direct
• § 5001.7 — The landing of aircraft in units of the state park system is subject to the following limitations: (a) Airport facilities and services may be allowed in a unit of the state park system, other than a s
• § 5001.8 — (a) The use of motor vehicles in units of the state park system is subject to the following limitations: (1) In state wildernesses, natural preserves, and cultural preserves, use is prohibited.
• § 5001.9 — (a) Any improvement existing within the state park system as of January 1, 1979, which fails to comply with the provisions of former Section 5001.
• § 5001.95 — No state park system unit, other than a state wilderness, a natural preserve, or a cultural preserve, shall be located within the boundaries of another state park system unit.
• § 5001.96 — Attendance at state park system units shall be held within limits established by carrying capacity determined in accordance with Section 5019.
• § 5002 — All parks, public camp grounds, monument sites, landmark sites, and sites of historical interest established or acquired by the State, or which are under its control, constitute the State Park System
• § 5002.1 — Prior to the classification or reclassification of a unit of the state park system into any of the categories specified in Article 1.
• § 5002.2 — (a) (1) Following classification or reclassification of a unit by the State Park and Recreation Commission, and prior to the development of any new facilities in any previously classified unit, the de
• § 5002.3 — A public hearing shall be scheduled by the State Park and Recreation Commission to consider each matter of classification or reclassification of a unit and of approval of the department’s general plan
• § 5002.4 — The department shall furnish a copy of the general plan for any unit of the state park system for which a plan has been prepared to any Member of the Legislature, upon request.
• § 5002.45 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, upon completion of the land transfer authorized in Section 6 of Chapter 1234 of the Statutes of 1980, the department shall prepare a general pl
• § 5002.5 — The department may accept a gift of title to the Chinese Taoist Temple in Hanford, Kings County, for the state park system in the event such gift of title is offered to the department.
• § 5002.6 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and upon the adoption of a resolution of acceptance pursuant to subdivision (j), the director shall grant to the County of Los Angeles, at no cost to the county, in
• § 5002.7 — (a) The beach bicycle path in the County of Los Angeles, which runs 22.
• § 5002.8 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Avoidance area” means the lands encompassed within the avoidance area as defined in the consent decree.
• § 5003 — The department shall administer, protect, develop, and interpret the property under its jurisdiction for the use and enjoyment of the public.
• § 5003.01 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the East Bay Regional Park District is contemplating the development of extensive new marina facilities at the Robert W.
• § 5003.02.1 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the department and the City of Grover Beach, in a joint project, are in the process of entering into an operating agreement for the purpose of negoti
• § 5003.03 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to provide for the acquisition, planning, and operation of a state park project located on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay.
• § 5003.05 — Rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section 5003 shall also apply on any granted or ungranted tidelands or submerged lands abutting property of the department and used for recreational purposes
• § 5003.06 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may grant, in trust, and subject to the conditions set forth in this section, all of the rights, title, and interest of the State of Califo
• § 5003.1 — The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to permit hunting, fishing, swimming, trails, camping, campsites, and rental vacation cabins in certain state recreation areas, or
• § 5003.10 — (a) The department may convey, in trust for the development, improvement, operation, and maintenance of trails, to the County of San Mateo, for administration through its parks and recreation departme
• § 5003.11 — (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Division 3 (commencing with Section 11000) of Title 2 of the Government Code that relate to the disposition of state-owned real property, the director may grant t
• § 5003.12 — The department may convey, in trust for the development, improvement, operation, and maintenance of trails, to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District all rights, title, and interest held or own
• § 5003.13 — (a) The director may grant, in trust, an easement, subject to an agreement reached between the department and the County of Santa Cruz, of 420 feet of Aptos Creek Road as it extends northward from Soq
• § 5003.14 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may grant, in trust and subject to the conditions set forth in this section, all of the rights, title, and interest of the State of Califor
• § 5003.15 — The net proceeds of any sale made on behalf of the department pursuant to Section 11011 of the Government Code of any real property originally acquired for state park purposes, regardless of whether t
• § 5003.16 — (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) to (f), inclusive, and notwithstanding the provisions of Division 3 (commencing with Section 11000) of Title 2 of the Government Code that relate to the disposition of
• § 5003.17 — (a) The department may lease, for any use, all or any portion of any parcel of real property acquired for state park system purposes, if the director finds that the use would be compatible with the us
• § 5003.18 — (a) The director may lease to the City of Los Angeles a parcel, not to exceed 20 acres of unimproved real property situated in the City of Los Angeles, that parcel being a portion of the property owne
• § 5003.19 — (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Division 3 (commencing with Section 11000) of Title 2 of the Government Code that relate to the disposition of state-owned real property, the director may grant t
• § 5003.2 — Without limiting any statutory powers of the Department of Parks and Recreation, real property which is in the control and possession and under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreati
• § 5003.3 — The State Park and Recreation Commission shall allow, in accordance with Section 5003.
• § 5003.35 — Notwithstanding Section 5003.
• § 5003.4 — (a) There shall be provided in each state park in which camping is permitted those parking facilities for recreational vehicles, as defined by Section 18010 of the Health and Safety Code, that can be
• § 5003.5 — The department is authorized to provide means of ingress to and egress from all state parks in order to provide ready access thereto by the public and to provide means of ingress and egress to highway
• § 5003.6 — The planning, design, and construction of a boating facility within the state park system shall be the responsibility of the Division of Boating and Waterways within the department pursuant to Section
• § 5003.6.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, the department may negotiate a service contract with an entity qualified
• § 5003.7 — (a) For due, owing, and unpaid charges or fees for water, sewage, gas, electricity, garbage, or other utility services furnished by the Department of Parks and Recreation or the Department of General
• § 5003.8 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law (Part 2.
• § 5004 — The department shall gather, digest, and summarize, in its annual reports to the Governor, information concerning the State Park System and the relation to it of other available means for conserving,
• § 5004.5 — (a) The California Youth Soccer and Recreation Development Program is hereby created in the department.
• § 5005 — (a) The department may receive and accept in the name of the people of the state any gift, dedication, devise, grant, or other conveyance of title to or any interest in real property, including water
• § 5005.01 — (a) The Department of Parks and Recreation shall, after consultation with appropriate Native American groups, receive and accept a donation of Indian artifacts found in the vicinity of the Los Encinos
• § 5005.1 — The Department of Parks and Recreation may with approval of the Department of General Services transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of personal property under its jurisdiction and may contract with oth
• § 5005.3 — The department shall identify a site on its lands at the head of Bodega Bay, which shall be mutually agreed upon by the department and the Board of Directors of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherm
• § 5005.6 — The department has exclusive jurisdiction with respect to property salvage and recovery operations in and upon the lands of the state park system.
• § 5006 — (a) The department, with the consent of the Department of Finance, and subject to Section 15853 of the Government Code, may acquire title to or any interest in real property, including personal proper
• § 5006.1 — (a) (1) Before submitting a proposal pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 5006, for an appropriation for the acquisition of real property in excess of five million dollars ($5,000,000) in value for
• § 5006.10 — (a) The department shall notify the State Parks and Recreation Commission of any proposed development that may substantially impact the historical, cultural, or recreational significance of the Colone
• § 5006.15 — The department may acquire real property by donation or purchase that is subject to a conservation easement, deed restriction, or other limitation, if the director determines that the conservation eas
• § 5006.2 — The Director of Parks and Recreation with the consent of the Director of Finance may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation any interest, including options, in those properties known as Aptos Fores
• § 5006.25 — The Director of Parks and Recreation is authorized to convey and grant to the County of Santa Cruz, for a site for a dam and reservoir in Aptos Creek, that portion hereinafter described of those prope
• § 5006.3 — The department shall acquire sites for wayside campgrounds adjacent to the Westside Freeway, State Highway Route 5.
• § 5006.4 — (a) The department may acquire, on behalf of the state, a fee or lesser interest in real and personal property located near Hollister in San Benito County for the state park system.
• § 5006.41 — The department may enter into agreements with the Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Game to plan, develop, and administer real and personal property located in the vicinity
• § 5006.42 — (a) On or before February 1, 2002, the director shall establish the Cornfield State Park Advisory Committee, which shall be responsible for assisting the department, in an advisory capacity, to plan f
• § 5006.45 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may acquire, on behalf of the state, a fee or lesser interest in such real and personal property located in the vicinit
• § 5006.47 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may acquire, on behalf of the state, a fee or lesser right or interest in such real and personal property in the Counti
• § 5006.48 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may acquire, on behalf of the state, a fee or lesser right or interest in real and personal property in the Counties of
• § 5006.49 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the California State Mining and Mineral Museum located in the City of Mariposa, including all assets, exhibits, and materials, shall be transferred from the
• § 5006.5 — The department may lease any interest in real or personal property that the department deems necessary or proper for the extension, improvement, or development of the state park system.
• § 5006.6 — The department, with the approval of the Administrator of the Resources Agency and the Department of Finance, is authorized to cooperate and participate with the federal government pursuant to Public
• § 5006.7 — Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1.
• § 5007 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department consistently operate the state park system to preserve public access and provide protection of natural, cultural, and historic resources.
• § 5007.1 — (a) Lands purchased or otherwise acquired by the department at the Pan Pacific project, which are to be operated and maintained by other public agencies under agreements entered into pursuant to Secti
• § 5007.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contract for services under the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to restore artifacts at the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument is exem
• § 5007.3 — (a) In planning, developing, managing, and operating lands acquired for the Citrus Heritage Park at Mockingbird Canyon, the department and the State Park and Recreation Commission shall adhere to the
• § 5007.4 — Consistent with the general plan for the unit, the department may enter into an operating agreement, at no cost to the state, with a qualified nonprofit organization for the California Citrus State Hi
• § 5007.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall have the right to remove and dispose of all floating logs, timber, lumber, and other debris deposited on public beaches, waterways or l
• § 5008 — (a) The department shall protect the state park system and the state vehicular recreation area and trail system from damage and preserve the peace therein.
• § 5008.1 — (a) When it is determined by the director to be in the public interest, and subject to the fees, rules, and regulations of the department, visitors to units of the state park system may bring animals
• § 5008.10 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Cigar” has the same meaning as defined in Section 104550 of the Health and Safety Code and, for purposes of this section, may co
• § 5008.2 — (a) Peace officers and other designated employees of the department may capture any animal (1) which is not confined or under the immediate control of a person visiting the unit, (2) which poses a thr
• § 5008.4 — Moneys deposited in the State Parks and Recreation Fund pursuant to Section 1463.
• § 5008.5 — In any prosecution charging a violation within any unit of the state park system of the rules and regulations of the department, Section 655.
• § 5008.6 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the judge before whom any person is tried for a violation of any provision of this code within the jurisdiction of the department, or regulation adopted pur
• § 5008.7 — Every person convicted of a violation of any rule or regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this division prohibiting the leaving, depositing, dropping, or scattering of bottles, broken glas
• § 5008.8 — After January 1, 1989, every peace officer authorized pursuant to Section 5008, shall have satisfactorily completed, prior to the date he or she is first designated a peace officer, the basic training
• § 5009 — The State Park Contingent Fund is continued in existence.
• § 5009.1 — (a) (1) The department may enter into an agreement to accept funds from any person, educational institution, tribal government, corporation or other business entity, or organization for the maintenanc
• § 5009.2 — (a) The department may enter into an agreement to accept funds from any person, business entity, educational institution, tribal government, or organization for the maintenance, operation, restoration
• § 5009.3 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may enter into an agreement or agreements with private, nonprofit public benefit corporations or other private entities, as may be appropriat
• § 5009.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Community access agreement” means an agreement entered into pursuant to this section that allows eligible entities to use proper
• § 501 — There is in the Resources Agency, the Department of Parks and Recreation.
• § 5010 — (a) The department may collect fees, rents, and other returns for the use of any state park system area, the amounts to be determined by the department.
• § 5010.1 — (a) All fees, rents, and other returns for the use of any state park system area are the property of the state or the public agency operating a state park system area pursuant to an agreement entered
• § 5010.1.5 — (a) On and after January 1, 2024, any contract the department enters into for purposes of managing the department’s reservation system pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 5010.
• § 5010.1.6 — (a) On or before January 1, 2025, the department shall implement a reservation drawing for up to five of the most popular units of the state park system.
• § 5010.2 — The department shall not collect from any group of pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or their escorts, including, but not limited to, teachers, other supervisory personnel, and busd
• § 5010.2.5 — (a) The department may establish the California State Park Adventure Pass.
• § 5010.3 — The department may waive all fees for the use, including camping where permitted, of any unit of the state park system by students of the California Cadet Corps or of a public military academy, pursua
• § 5010.4 — (a) The department may license, sell, or license and sell, its branded merchandise, images, and other state-park-related merchandise, directly to the public for revenue generation, if the department i
• § 5010.5 — The director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by himself or by the department illegally, or by mistake, inadvertence, or error.
• § 5010.6 — (a) For purposes of this section, “subaccount” means the State Parks Revenue Incentive Subaccount created pursuant to this section.
• § 5010.7 — (a) The department shall develop a revenue generation program as an essential component of a long-term sustainable park funding strategy.
• § 5011 — (a) Any person receiving aid to the aged, blind, or disabled under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, any person receiving aid unde
• § 5011.5 — (a) A veteran of a war in which the United States has been, or may be engaged, who is a resident of this state, upon presentation to the department of proof of disability, proof of being held captive
• § 5011.6 — The department may offer a reduced fee or free day use of any unit of the state park that is operated by the state and accessible with a vehicle day use annual pass, as those parks are listed on the d
• § 5011.7 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the use of conservation easements can assist the department in protecting the natural resources of the state park system and prevent incompatible uses on pr
• § 5012 — The department may, upon application by the proper authorities, grant permits and easements for the following purposes and upon the terms as the department may prescribe: (a) To a public agency for pu
• § 5012.1 — In any lease, easement, right-of-way, license, or permit entered into whereby the department leases real property, obtains a license, permit, or a grant of easement or right-of-way to enter upon the p
• § 5012.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subsequent to the creation of an easement for a roadway connecting to Mulholland Drive through the Mulholland Scenic Corridor and Topanga State Park or
• § 5013 — The department may acquire, purchase, and obtain objects of historical interest, and it may purchase sites for and establish and maintain museums for such objects.
• § 5014 — The Director of Parks and Recreation shall convey to the Hussey Ranch Corporation, upon such terms and conditions as he determines are in the best interests of the State, all of the right, title, and
• § 5015 — (a) In recognition of the late Robert H.
• § 5015.5 — The Baldwin Hills State Recreation Area is hereby designated and shall be known as the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area.
• § 5015.6 — In recognition of the late Ed Z’berg’s many contributions to the growth and improvement of the state park system, Sugar Pine Point State Park is hereby designated and shall be known as the Ed Z’berg S
• § 5015.8 — (a) The department shall provide assistance acquiring and accepting land immediately adjacent to, and that expands, Chino Hills State Park, by transferring three properties into the state park system.
• § 5016 — In order to eliminate or acquire privately owned lands situated within the exterior boundaries of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the department is authorized to exchange for such lands other land
• § 5016.1 — In order to exchange certain lands patented to the State of California for park purposes situated outside and within 10 miles of the exterior boundaries of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for the p
• § 5016.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Parks and Recreation may enter into an agreement for the acquisition of the “Freeman Property,” as identified in subdivision (d).
• § 5018 — Whenever, after the receipt of a report submitted pursuant to Section 5017 with respect to a state beach or park or recreational area, the Legislature appropriates money for the acquisition, developme
• § 5018.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Finance may delegate to the department the right to exercise the same authority granted to the Division of the State Architect and the Real Estate
• § 5019 — When property is deeded to the State for park or beach purposes, oil and mineral rights in such property may be reserved in such deeds by the grantor; provided, that any prospecting or extracting of o
• § 5019.10 — (a) The Parks Project Revolving Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 5019.11 — The department shall file against the fund all claims covering expenditures incurred in connection with services, new construction, major construction and equipment, minor construction, maintenance, i
• § 5019.12 — The department shall keep a record of all expenditures chargeable against each specific portion of the fund.
• § 5019.13 — At any time, the department, without furnishing a voucher or itemized statement, may withdraw from the fund a sum not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
• § 5019.14 — The department shall annually submit to the Department of Finance a report that reconciles, by project, all of the following: (a) Amounts transferred to the fund.
• § 5019.5 — Before any park or recreational area developmental plan is made, the department shall cause to be made a land carrying capacity survey of the proposed park or recreational area, including in such surv
• § 5019.50 — All units that are or shall become a part of the state park system, except those units or parts of units designated by the Legislature as wilderness areas pursuant to Chapter 1.
• § 5019.53 — State parks consist of relatively spacious areas of outstanding scenic or natural character, oftentimes also containing significant historical, archaeological, ecological, geological, or other similar
• § 5019.56 — State recreation units consist of areas selected, developed, and operated to provide outdoor recreational opportunities.
• § 5019.59 — Historical units, to be named appropriately and individually, consist of nonmarine areas established primarily to preserve objects of historical, archaeological, and scientific interest, and archaeolo
• § 5019.62 — State seashores consist of relatively spacious coastline areas with frontage on the ocean, or on bays open to the ocean, including water areas landward of the mean high tide line and seasonally connec
• § 5019.65 — State reserves consist of areas embracing outstanding natural or scenic characteristics or areas containing outstanding cultural resources of statewide significance.
• § 5019.68 — State wildernesses, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, are hereby recognized as areas where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man and
• § 5019.71 — Natural preserves consist of distinct nonmarine areas of outstanding natural or scientific significance established within the boundaries of other state park system units.
• § 5019.74 — Cultural preserves consist of distinct nonmarine areas of outstanding cultural interest established within the boundaries of other state park system units for the purpose of protecting such features a
• § 5019.80 — (a) The Marine Managed Areas Improvement Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 36600) of Division 27) establishes a uniform classification system for state marine managed areas and is incorporated h
• § 5019.90 — This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the California State Park Stewardship Act of 2012.
• § 5019.91 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California’s state parks are an essential part of California’s unique heritage, and protect important natural, cultural, and historical res
• § 5019.92 — (a) The department shall develop a prioritized action plan to increase revenues and collection of user fees at state parks.
• § 5020 — The Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee is continued in existence as the State Historical Resources Commission.
• § 5020.1 — As used in this article: (a) “California Register” means the California Register of Historical Resources.
• § 5020.2 — (a) The commission consists of nine members appointed by the Governor.
• § 5020.3 — (a) The commission shall meet at least four times per year in places it deems necessary to fulfill its responsibilities.
• § 5020.4 — (a) The commission shall do all of the following: (1) Receive and evaluate applications for, and make recommendations with respect to entries on, the National Register of Historic Places to the office
• § 5020.5 — (a) The commission shall develop criteria and methods for determining the significance of archaeological sites, for selecting the most important archaeological sites, and for determining whether the m
• § 5020.6 — (a) The Governor shall appoint the State Historic Preservation Officer.
• § 5020.7 — The Legislature recognizes that the long-term preservation and enhancement of historical resources is dependent, to a large extent, on the good will and cooperation of the general public and of the pu
• § 5021 — The department shall consider all recommendations for registration made by the commission, and shall register, as state historical landmarks, those buildings, structures, sites, or places which the de
• § 5022 — The department may contract with or cooperate with public or private agencies for suitable plaques, markers, and directional signs at the site of, or on the approaches to, registered historical landma
• § 5022.5 — There shall be two categories of places of historical significance: the registered historical landmark and the registered point of historical interest.
• § 5022.6 — The department shall adopt standard design and detail for the marker and for the plaque which may be erected or raised at registered historical landmarks.
• § 5023 — (a) It shall be the duty of the Department of Transportation to keep in repair all objects or markers adjacent to a state highway which have been erected to mark registered historical places and to ke
• § 5024 — (a) On or before January 1, 1982, each state agency shall formulate policies to preserve and maintain, when prudent and feasible, all state-owned historical resources under its jurisdiction listed in
• § 5024.1 — (a) A California Register of Historical Resources is hereby established.
• § 5024.5 — (a) No state agency shall alter the original or significant historical features or fabric, or transfer, relocate, or demolish historical resources on the master list maintained pursuant to subdivision
• § 5024.6 — There is in the department the State Office of Historic Preservation, which is under the direction of the officer.
• § 5025 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is a need for state repositories dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic artifacts relating to the science, art, and practice
• § 5025.11 — The department shall, with the advice of the Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee, or, as to certifications on or after January 1, 1975, with the advice of the commission, certify the route followe
• § 5025.12 — The department is authorized to place suitable markers along these certified routes at intervals and at each intersection with a state highway or county road.
• § 5025.2 — It shall be the duty of the department to keep in repair, or cause to be kept in repair, all markers of such historical routes.
• § 5025.3 — The Governor’s Mansion, located at 1526 H Street, Sacramento, shall be under the control and management of the department and shall be named the Old Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park, subject to
• § 5026 — Upon receipt of an application for an entry on the National Register of Historic Places and prior to making any evaluation and recommendation with respect to such application, the commission shall fir
• § 5027 — Any building or structure that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is transferred from state ownership to another public agency shall not be demolished, destroyed, or significant
• § 5027.1 — (a) As required by Section 5027, the Legislature hereby approves demolition of the Transbay Terminal building at First and Mission Streets in the City and County of San Francisco, including its associ
• § 5028 — (a) No structure that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, on the California Register of Historic Places, or on any local public register of historic places, and that has been damage
• § 5029 — (a) The commission shall, within 90 days after the approval by the director of the issuance by the commission of an historical resources designation for an individual property, submit to the county re
• § 5029.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, fifty percent (50%) of the revenue collected by the Department of Transportation, in each fiscal year, from rental receipts from a federally designated
• § 5029.6 — Notwithstanding the nomination process established pursuant to Section 5021, the land known as Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz, which includes the home and burial site of the late Cesar Chavez, shall b
• § 5029.7 — (a) Subdivision (f) of Section 5024 shall not apply to the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, San Quentin: Demolition of Building 38 and Construction of New Educational and Vocational Center project a
• § 503 — The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural Resources or the Director of Natural Resources
• § 5031 — “Qualified historical property” means privately owned property which is not exempt from property taxation, is visually accessible to the public, and which is: (a) All landmark registrations up to and
• § 5032 — (a) “Qualified historical property” pursuant to Section 5031 includes: (1) Individual sites having structures.
• § 5033 — The department shall adopt all rules and regulations relating to standards for qualifying as a historical property.
• § 5038 — (a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of California to establish and preserve, as a unique historical and cultural resource for the people of the state, the Mexican and early Califor
• § 5038.1 — The parties to the joint powers agreement of April 1, 1974, and to subsequent amendments to the agreement regarding the El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, being the City of Los Angeles, the
• § 5038.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other provision of law, the length of the term of any concession contract or approval within the El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic
• § 5038.3 — “Concession,” as used in this article, does not include those premises at El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park which are primarily rented and used for offices, banking, or storage.
• § 504 — The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration of the statutes the administration of which is commit
• § 5040 — It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of California to establish and preserve as a historical monument representative of the early gold mining days of this State that portion of the old
• § 5041 — To assure the accomplishment of this policy it is directed that: (a) The department shall make a survey based on historical research to determine the type and materials of construction, location, and
• § 5042 — The Columbia Historic Park Association, a nonprofit corporation, is designated as a committee advisory to the department in the research incident to and adoption of the master plan for development and
• § 5043 — Columbia Historic State Park is a unit of the State Park System and shall be administered in accordance with the laws applying thereto subject to the provisions of this article.
• § 5045 — (a) The tufa and associated sand structures at Mono Lake are a valuable geologic and scientific natural resource and are unique in North America for their beauty, abundance, diversity, and public acce
• § 5046 — (a) The reserve shall be managed primarily for the purpose of protecting the tufa and associated sand structures and providing for their interpretation.
• § 5047 — (a) No provision of this article shall be construed to interfere with any reasonable use of land or other activity existing or occurring on or before January 1, 1981, within the boundary of the reserv
• § 5048 — Any disturbance, defacement, displacement, or other interference with any tufa or associated sand structure by any person or instrumentality is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than fiv
• § 5049 — Natural or artificially caused accretion or reliction of the waters of Mono Lake shall not be deemed contrary to the purposes of this article.
• § 505 — The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal, held for the ben
• § 5050 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Collier-Keene State Hostel Facilities Act.
• § 5051 — The Legislature finds that a substantial number of Californians bicycle and walk for recreational enjoyment and that, given safer routes and more suitable accommodations, would choose such travel mean
• § 5052 — As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) “Hostel facility” means a supervised overnight lodging or sleeping accommodation provided primarily for use by per
• § 5053 — (a) The department may provide hostel facilities in any unit of the state park system where consistent with the general development plan for such unit, and may provide for hostel facilities in the gen
• § 5054 — The department may acquire land for, develop, and maintain recreational trails to and between units of the state park system.
• § 5055 — Except as provided in Section 18930 of the Health and Safety Code, the director shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to administer the provisions of this article.
• § 506 — The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director.
• § 5060 — The department may enter into contracts with individuals or with other governmental agencies or departments for the lease, for park and recreational purposes and for the development and expansion of p
• § 5061 — The term of such a lease shall not exceed twenty years nor be less than two years.
• § 5062 — Any such lease contract shall contain an option permitting the State to purchase the lands under lease.
• § 5063 — Before entering into any lease contract, the lands proposed to be leased shall be appraised by the department to determine the fair market value of the lands.
• § 5064 — The department for a consideration may assign such options to other governmental agencies or departments.
• § 5065 — Lands leased shall be administered as a part of the California State park system, subject to existing laws affecting the operation and administration of State parks.
• § 5066 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Parks and Recreation shall extend until December 31, 1979 the existing concession agreement, dated May 6, 1948, as amended March 21,