California

Public Resources Code - PRC

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

• § 6216.1 — The commission may remove or cause to be removed any artificial structures or obstructions from ungranted lands under its jurisdiction if the commission determines that the removal is appropriate and
• § 6216.5 — The commission may prescribe such rules and regulations for the noncommercial hobby collection of minerals from state lands as are in the best interests of the state.
• § 6217 — With the exception of revenue derived from state school lands and from sources described in Sections 6217.
• § 6217.1 — (a) This section and the process described in this section governs the expenditure of any funds received by the State of California from the federal government for the purposes of salmon and steelhead
• § 6217.2 — Notwithstanding Section 16304.
• § 6217.3 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative approved
• § 6217.5 — Except for the revenues distributed pursuant to Section 3826, all net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the use of school lands and lieu lands shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the cred
• § 6217.6 — All rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission shall be deposited in the State Tre
• § 6217.6.1 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Account” means the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement Account created pursuant to this section.
• § 6217.7 — All net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the sale of school lands and lieu lands shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the School Land Bank Fund.
• § 6217.8 — (a) For purposes of this section, “fund” means the Oil Trust Fund established pursuant to subdivision (b).
• § 6218 — The commission may charge and collect reasonable fees for services performed by it, not exceeding the actual cost to the state of such services.
• § 6219 — The commission may, if it determines it is in the best interests of the state, accept on behalf of the state any gift, devise, grant, quitclaim, or other conveyance of title to, or interest in, real p
• § 6220 — Whenever authority is not vested in another officer, agency or commission to accept quitclaim deeds on behalf of the State, the authority is vested in the State Lands Commission.
• § 6221 — Any instrumentality, district, agency, or political subdivision of the state occupying or using, pursuant to law, lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission shall comply wit
• § 6222 — No county, city, district, political subdivision, agency or officer of the State shall request or make application to have any lands owned or controlled by the United States withdrawn or reserved from
• § 6223 — Applications for purchase, or lease of state lands shall be given the priority of time of filing; except that applications filed by any county, city, or officer of the State shall have priority over a
• § 6224 — The commission may adopt rules and regulations which provide for the payment of either a penalty or interest, or both, by any person who fails to pay the commission any sum when it is due under a leas
• § 6224.1 — Any person who trespasses upon any lands owned or controlled by the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission, including, but not limited to, tidelands, submerged lands, the beds of navigable
• § 6224.2 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), any person who appropriates or converts any mineral deposits reserved to, or owned by, the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission, incl
• § 6224.3 — (a) A person shall not construct, place, maintain, own, use, or possess a structure or facility on land that is under the commission’s jurisdiction and that is owned by the state without first obtaini
• § 6224.4 — (a) Before the commission considers whether to pursue a remedy provided under Section 6224.
• § 6224.5 — (a) If, as of January 1, 2013, a person is in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 6224.
• § 6225 — (a) The commission shall conduct research, investigations, and title searches on the real property in this state of the beaches of Lake Tahoe which is dedicated for public use and make a report of its
• § 6230 — An amount specified in the annual Budget Act shall be available for distribution for public and private higher education for use as up to two-thirds of the local matching share for projects under the
• § 6231 — There shall be a Sea Grant Advisory Panel consisting of 17 members as provided in Sections 6232, 6233, and 6234.
• § 6232 — The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall appoint the following members of the advisory panel, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary: (a) A representative of the Division of Boati
• § 6233 — (a) The Senate Committee on Rules shall appoint one Member of the Senate to the advisory panel, who shall serve at the pleasure of the Senate Committee on Rules.
• § 6234 — The Secretary of the Resources Agency, or the secretary’s designee shall be a member of the advisory panel and shall serve as chairperson of the advisory panel.
• § 6235 — All advisory panel members shall serve without compensation.
• § 6236 — The Sea Grant research projects selected for the state support under this chapter shall have a clearly defined benefit to the people of the State of California.
• § 6237 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the funding provided by this chapter is needed to stimulate the development and utilization of ocean and coastal resources by working constructively
• § 6238 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude the application for funding of any project that would be eligible for funding under the terms of the National Sea Grant College and Program Act o
• § 6240 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Coastal Sanctuary Act of 1994.
• § 6241 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that offshore oil and gas production in certain areas of state waters poses an unacceptably high risk of damage and disruption to the marine environment of th
• § 6242 — (a) A California Coastal Sanctuary is hereby created which includes all state waters subject to tidal influence, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c).
• § 6243 — Notwithstanding any provision of Article 4 (commencing with Section 6870) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 or any other provision of law, no state agency or state officer shall enter into any new lease for the
• § 6244 — The commission may enter into any lease for the extraction of oil or gas from state-owned tide and submerged lands in the California Coastal Sanctuary if the commission determines that those oil or ga
• § 6245 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), the commission or a local trustee shall not enter into any new lease or other conveyance authorizing new construction of oil- and gas-related infrastructure
• § 6301 — The commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the State, and of the beds of navigable rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, inlets, and straits
• § 6301.2 — Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No.
• § 6301.5 — The commission may act in behalf of the State of California pursuant to Section 7 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, an Act of Congress approved by the President on August 7, 1953 (67 Stat.
• § 6301.6 — If any funds are impounded pursuant to Section 6301.
• § 6301.7 — The commission may negotiate with, and with the approval of the Governor may enter into agreements with, the United States, or any official, agency, licensee, permittee, or lessee thereof, concerning
• § 6302 — The commission may eject from any tide and submerged lands, beds of navigable channels, streams, rivers, creeks, lakes, bays, and inlets under its jurisdiction, any person, firm, or corporation, tresp
• § 6302.1 — (a) (1) The commission may take immediate action, without notice, to remove from areas under its jurisdiction a vessel that is left unattended and is moored, docked, beached, or made fast to land in a
• § 6302.2 — (a) The commission shall, in consultation with other relevant state and local agencies directly involved in the removal of abandoned vessels, by July 1, 2019, develop a plan for the removal of abandon
• § 6302.3 — (a) The commission, at a properly noticed commission hearing, may take title to an abandoned vessel subject to disposal pursuant to Section 6302.
• § 6302.4 — (a) At the request of the commission, an employee or agent of the commission or a peace officer of the federal or state government or a city, county, or other political subdivision of the state shall
• § 6303 — (a) The commission may grant the privilege of depositing material upon or removing or extracting material from swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide or submerged lands, beds of navigable streams, channels, r
• § 6303.1 — Any person who knowingly and willfully fills, dredges, or reclaims any state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the commission underlying any navigable waters, or who erects, maintains, removes, or
• § 6304 — The commission may cooperate with the Coastal Engineering Research Board of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and may expend such moneys as are necessary for cooperative work with that board
• § 6305 — The powers granted by this chapter to the commission as to leasing or granting of rights or privileges with relation to the lands owned by the state are hereby conferred upon the local trustee of gran
• § 6306 — (a) For purposes of this division, “local trustee of granted public trust lands” means a county, city, or district, including a water, sanitary, regional park, port, or harbor district, or any other l
• § 6306.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Lands Commission and the City of Los Angeles, acting by and through its Board of Harbor Commissioners, may take all actions which are necessary fo
• § 6306.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to mitigate the effects of the project which is the subject of the Department of the Army Permit No.
• § 6307 — (a) The commission may enter into an exchange, with any person or any private or public entity, of filled or reclaimed tide and submerged lands or beds of navigable waterways, or interests in these la
• § 6307.1 — (a) This section applies only to land in which California has a sovereign interest that lies within the boundaries of the State of Arizona and land in which Arizona has a sovereign interest that lies
• § 6308 — If an action or proceeding is commenced by or against a county, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the state involving the title to or the boundaries of tidelands or submerged lands tha
• § 6309 — (a) The commission shall administer the Shipwreck and Historic Maritime Resources Program, which consists of the activities of the commission pursuant to this section and Sections 6313 and 6314.
• § 6310 — Whenever tide and submerged lands granted in trust to a county by the Legislature are included within a city’s boundaries as the result of that city’s incorporation, trust title to such lands shall pa
• § 6311 — It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that any grant of tidelands or submerged lands made after January 1, 1971, within an area which has been designated by the Division of Boating and
• § 6311.5 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Local trustee” means a local trustee of granted public trust lands that is a county, city, or district
• § 6312 — Neither the state, nor any political subdivision thereof, shall take possession of lawful improvements on validly granted or patented tidelands or submerged lands without the tender of a fair and just
• § 6313 — (a) The title to all abandoned shipwrecks and all archaeological sites and historic resources on or in the tide and submerged lands of California is vested in the state.
• § 6314 — (a) A person who removes, without authorization from the commission, or a person who destroys or damages an archaeological site or a historic resource, that is located on or in the submerged lands of,
• § 6321 — The commission may, upon written application of the littoral owner, grant authority to any such owner to construct, alter or maintain, groins, jetties, sea walls, breakwaters, and bulkheads, or any on
• § 6321.2 — In addition to the fees provided in Section 6321, the commission may fix and collect reasonable charges or rentals for the use of lands upon which any of the structures authorized under Section 6321 a
• § 6322 — The commission may also remove or require to be removed, repaired or altered, and may regulate the type, character, design, size, and maintenance of, such structures existing on August 14, 1931, and,
• § 6323 — If accretions are caused or occasioned by any such structure authorized hereunder, no fence, building or other structure of any kind, other than the structure so authorized and appliances for the prot
• § 6324 — If by reason of any grant to any municipality, political subdivision, or district, or by reason of any charter of any city or county, any of the powers and duties which are granted to or imposed upon
• § 6325 — The authority granted under this chapter does not obviate the necessity for the applicant to obtain permisssion from the proper federal agencies to construct, alter, or maintain the structures herein
• § 6326 — Nothing in this chapter abridges any right of the State to erect, maintain, or remove the protective structures herein mentioned, upon, across, or over any of the swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide or sub
• § 6327 — The commission may, upon written application, grant a permit for the use and occupancy of state lands under the jurisdiction of the commission for the installation of facilities for procurement of fre
• § 6331 — As used in this article: (a) “Ungranted tidelands” means the tide and submerged lands owned by the State of California which have not been granted in trust to any local agency or to the United States
• § 6331.5 — The commission shall make an inventory to ascertain and describe by metes and bounds the location and extent of all ungranted tidelands.
• § 6332 — The commission shall: (a) Adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this article in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 6333 — The commission shall prepare and adopt, on or before March 31, 1989, a “Preliminary Map of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries in California” based on the inventory and survey required by this article and s
• § 6334 — After completing the “Preliminary Map of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries in California,” the commission shall adopt and prepare a “Preliminary Description of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries” for each parc
• § 6335 — On or before December 31, 1989, any local agency or other interested person affected by boundaries described by the “Preliminary Description of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries” may file a protest, verif
• § 6336 — The commission may negotiate with any person or local agency having or claiming an interest in any land affected by boundaries described by the “Preliminary Description of Ungranted Tideland Boundarie
• § 6337 — Before adopting the Master Map of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries in California and a Description of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries pursuant to Section 6338, the commission shall consider all evidence su
• § 6338 — On or before December 31, 1992, the commission shall prepare, certify, adopt, and publish in final form a “Master Map of Ungranted Tideland Boundaries in California,” and a “Description of Ungranted T
• § 6339 — (a) Boundaries established by boundary agreements entered into and recorded pursuant to Section 6336, as to all parties thereto, shall be fixed and permanent without change by reason of fluctuation du
• § 6340 — The inventory required by this article shall not extend to, or have any bearing upon, the determination of the seaward boundary separating lands belonging to the state and lands belonging to the Unite
• § 6341 — Any boundary line agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6336 or 6357, or any consent recorded pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 6339, or any exchange of land made pursuant to Section 6307, s
• § 6342 — The commission may enter into boundary line agreements with any person or public entity, describing and defining the boundary line between ungranted tidelands and adjacent uplands owned by such person
• § 6357 — The commission may establish the ordinary high-water mark or the ordinary low-water mark of any of the swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide, or submerged lands of this State, by agreement, arbitration, or a
• § 6358 — On receipt of a request from the legislative body of a county, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the State, to which a legislative grant of tide and submerged lands has been or may be
• § 6359 — Whenever by legislative enactment tide or submerged lands of the State are granted or conveyed or authorized to be granted or conveyed or whenever a previous enactment is amended, and no prior survey
• § 6360 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the boundary line of land lying within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (as defined in Section 12220 of the Water Code) bordering upon tidal waters or upon
• § 6370 — The commission, acting in concert with the Resources Agency and the Office of Planning and Research, and in cooperation with other appropriate state, federal, and local agencies, shall inventory uncon
• § 6370.1 — The Office of Planning and Research shall, for purposes of Section 6370, define “significant environmental values”, which definition shall include, but not be limited to, the criteria developed pursua
• § 6370.2 — The commission shall submit a final report to the Legislature by January 15, 1975, which identifies those lands determined by the commission to possess significant environmental values and sets forth
• § 6371 — Until submission of the report required in Section 6370.
• § 6373 — At least 10 days before the commission authorizes a conveyance of state lands to a private party or other governmental agency, the commission shall notify, by letter, the chair of the relevant policy
• § 6376 — It is the intent of the Legislature that any inventory prepared pursuant to this chapter shall be solely for informational purposes and not to establish rights of ownership.
• § 6377 — The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to tidelands transferred pursuant to Chapter 1333 of the Statutes of 1968, to tidelands and submerged lands heretofore granted to the City of Long Beach
• § 6378 — The commission shall determine the ownership of all salmon and steelhead spawning areas as designated by Section 1505 of the Fish and Game Code.
• § 6401 — (a) All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in public lands belonging to the state, or which may become the property of the state, are reserved t
• § 6401.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 6401, the commission may sell to a surface property owner, for not less than fair market value, the state’s reserved mineral interest in a parcel of land comprised of 466.
• § 6402 — All applications to purchase state public lands and all sales pursuant thereto shall be subject to and contain a reservation to the State of all oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, sil
• § 6403 — This chapter shall not be construed as applicable to the sale or exchange by the state of the following lands: (a) Lands acquired by the state on sale thereof for delinquent taxes, other than lands th
• § 6404 — Any state agency that sells any of the lands listed in Section 6403, other than tax-deeded lands, may, with the approval of the commission, dispose of oil and gas, other gases, including, but not limi
• § 6405 — The commission shall have the sole responsibility for and jurisdiction over the administration, management and disposal of all mineral reservations heretofore and hereafter made under the provisions o
• § 6406 — The commission is hereby authorized to sell, exchange, rent, lease, or otherwise manage the property represented by all mineral reservations to the State made prior to the effective date of Section 64
• § 6407 — This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the commission and the legislative intent with respect t
• § 6441 — Public lands of the State, situated within the exterior boundaries of a National forest, which in the judgment of the commission are more valuable for timber than for any other purpose, may be exchang
• § 6442 — Public lands of the State, situated within the exterior boundaries of a National park, which in the judgment of the commission are more valuable for timber or recreational uses than for any other purp
• § 6443 — The commission may cooperate with the Secretary of the Interior, may select the lands of this State to be exchanged with the United States under Section 8 of an act of Congress entitled “An act to sto
• § 6444 — Whenever in the judgment of the commission it is to the advantage of the State to exchange any of its public lands, as provided in Sections 6441, 6442 and 6443, the commission shall so certify to the
• § 6445 — No lands shall be accepted in exchange under this article without the approval of the commission.
• § 6461 — Any person or persons claiming any interest in or to real property which is alleged to be claimed by the State of California to be situated in the former bed of a navigable river or stream in this Sta
• § 6462 — Service of summons in a suit shall be upon the chair of the State Lands Commission and the Attorney General and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to represent the state in the suit.
• § 6463 — Any person or persons claiming title under a patent of tideland, issued by the State of California, may bring suit against the State, or against the State with others, in accordance with law in any co
• § 6464 — Any person or persons claiming title to land adjoining tide or submerged land, herein called “adjoining land,” under a patent issued by the United States of America or the State of California, may bri
• § 6465 — The complaint in any action pursuant to this chapter shall, on request, contain a plat of the property to which the action relates which shows the location of the property in relation to a monument in
• § 6475 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “State Teachers’ Retirement Lands Act.
• § 6477 — (a) The commission shall report quarterly to the Teachers’ Retirement Board and annually to the Legislature and the Governor on all of the following: (1) The management of school and lieu lands.
• § 6501 — As used in this chapter, “lease” includes a permit, easement, or license.
• § 6501.1 — Lands owned by the state and which are under the jurisdiction of the commission may be leased for such purpose or purposes as the commission deems advisable, including, but not limited to, grazing lea
• § 6501.2 — The commission shall prepare forms of leases for use under this chapter for such purposes as the commission deems advisable, including grazing leases and leases for commercial, industrial, and recreat
• § 6501.3 — Any interests in lands, or lands in fee simple, acquired by the commission or by any department, board, or other commission, of the State by purchase, donation, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, may,
• § 6502 — Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to lease any of the lands owned by the state, or in which the state may have an interest, and which are under the jurisdiction of the commission, for any purp
• § 6503 — Upon receipt of an application to lease lands under this chapter, the commission shall appraise the lands and fix the annual rent or other consideration therefor.
• § 6503.5 — (a) Consistent with Section 6503, the commission shall charge rent for a private recreational pier constructed on state lands.
• § 6504 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Event” means a competition event that uses lands owned by the state that are under the jurisdiction of the commission.
• § 6505.5 — No grazing or recreational lease shall be for a period longer than 10 years except that when the recreational use is combined and is incidental to residential use on the same parcel, and the lease so
• § 6506 — Possession under any lease authorized by this chapter shall not be held to be adverse to that of any person who becomes an actual settler upon any portion of land described in such lease with intent t
• § 6507 — Any error in the description of any lease may, with the consent of the holder thereof, be corrected or any description amended by the commission when in its judgment it is to the best interests of the
• § 6508 — Any lease for sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections or any portion thereof which are now or may hereafter be included within the exterior boundaries of a national reservation or of a reserve, or within
• § 6509 — If a lease is terminated by reason of the sale of the land, or by the designation of land as a base for indemnity selections, the lessee shall surrender the lease to the commission and receive in exch
• § 660 — There is in the department a State Mining and Geology Board consisting of nine members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
• § 661 — As used in this article, “board” means the State Mining and Geology Board and “division” means the California Geological Survey of the department.
• § 662 — (a) One member of the board shall be a professional geologist with background and experience in mining geology; one member shall be a mining engineer with background and experience in mining minerals
• § 663 — (a) No member of the board shall participate in any action of the board or attempt to influence any decision of the board that involves himself or herself, or any person with whom he or she is connect
• § 663.1 — (a) For the purposes of this section, “ex parte communication” means any oral or written communication between a member of the board and an interested person about a matter within the board’s jurisdic
• § 663.2 — (a) No board member shall make, participate in making, or in any other way attempt to use his or her official position to influence a board decision about which the member has knowingly had an ex part
• § 664 — Each member of the board shall hold office for four years.
• § 667 — Each member of the board shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day during which the member is engaged in the performance of official duties.
• § 668 — The board shall maintain its headquarters in Sacramento and shall hold meetings at such times and at such places as shall be determined by it.
• § 669 — The Governor shall designate the chair of the board from among the members of the board.
• § 670 — The board may appoint an executive officer who shall be exempt from civil service.
• § 6701 — Subject to the provisions of Section 6702, no amendment, modification, or revocation, in whole or in part, of any grant of tide or submerged lands heretofore made or that may be hereafter made by the
• § 6702 — (a) The provisions of Section 6701 shall not apply to any of the following unless the provisions of subdivision (b) are first complied with: (1) Any lease, contract, or other instrument entered into o
• § 6703 — Whenever a lease, contract, or other instrument is submitted to the State Lands Commission pursuant to Section 6702, the costs of any study or investigation, including a reasonable reimbursement for e
• § 6704 — Failure of the State Lands Commission to issue to the legislative grantee a written report making, or declining to make with reasons for so declining, the determinations set forth in Section 6702 with
• § 6705 — This chapter shall not be construed to affect the validity of leases, contracts, or other instruments affecting tide or submerged lands, and there shall be no presumptions raised concerning the validi
• § 6706 — If on the effective date of any revocation of a grant of tide or submerged lands, there are in effect any leases, contracts, or other instruments to which the provisions of Section 6701 are applicable
• § 6707 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that to promote and accommodate public trust uses, including commerce, navigation, and fisheries, proper management of granted public trust lands may require the
• § 671 — The director shall have no power to amend or repeal any order, ruling, or directive of the board.
• § 672 — The board shall represent the state’s interest in the development, utilization, and conservation of the mineral resources of the state and the reclamation of mined lands, as provided by law, and feder
• § 673 — The board shall also serve as a policy and appeals board for the purposes of Chapter 7.
• § 675 — The board may provide for a statewide program of research regarding the technical phases of reclaiming mined lands which may be delegated to it by law and may accept funds from the United States or fr
• § 676 — The board shall provide for a public information program on matters involving the state’s terrain, mineral resources, mining, the reclamation of mined lands, and the seismological and geological aspec
• § 677 — The board shall nominate, and the director shall appoint, the State Geologist, who shall either be registered in compliance with the Geologist and Geophysicist Act (Chapter 12.
• § 678 — The director may authorize the State Geologist to exercise his power to appoint employees of the division in accordance with the State Civil Service Act.
• § 6801 — A lease or prospecting permit under this chapter shall be issued only to and held by: (a) Persons or associations of persons who are citizens of the United States or who have declared their intention
• § 6802 — Any interest held in violation of this chapter shall be forfeited to the State by appropriate proceedings for that purpose brought by the State in the superior court for the county in which the proper
• § 6803 — The commission, in issuing any lease under this chapter, may reserve to the State the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within the lease, in so far as the
• § 6804 — (a) A lease or permit issued under this chapter may be assigned, transferred, or sublet as to all or any part of the leased or permitted lands, and as to either a divided or undivided interest therein
• § 6804.1 — Notwithstanding any provisions of this code to the contrary, a lessee may at any time make and file with the commission a written quitclaim or relinquishment of all rights under any lease or of any po
• § 6805 — The commission shall reserve and may exercise the authority to cancel any prospecting permit or lease upon which a commercially valuable deposit of minerals or geothermal resources other than oil or g
• § 6806 — Any permit or lease under this chapter shall reserve to the commission the right to allow, upon such terms as the commission may determine to be just, the joint or several use of such easements or rig
• § 6807 — The commission, in the name of the State, may purchase or receive by donation or lease any right of way or easement in real property, or any real property in fee simple, necessary or proper for sites
• § 6808 — The commission, if it deems such action for the best interests of the state, may condemn, acquire, and possess in the name of the state any right-of-way or easement, including surface rights, for any
• § 6809 — Any interests in lands, or lands in fee simple, acquired by the commission by purchase, donation, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, may be made available to any lessee of the State for the purposes c
• § 6810 — The provisions of this chapter authorizing the commission to acquire interests in real property include the acquisition of structures and improvements situated on lands sold by the State subject to th
• § 6811 — The commission may, prior to the receipt of any bid for a lease under this chapter, withdraw any offer to receive bids therefor, and it may reject all bids therefor filed pursuant to invitation of the
• § 6812 — Whenever by the terms of this chapter the commission may grant a lease of State lands, the commission may make and execute an easement of surface or subsurface rights, or both, in lieu thereof and upo
• § 6813 — For the purpose of this chapter, the commission may enter into agreements with any person, association of persons, corporation, city, or county, the United States or any agency thereof, or any of them
• § 6814 — The commission, in the name of the people of the State, may bring action to determine the title to oil and gas in land against persons, associations of persons, and corporations claiming the oil and g
• § 6815 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may negotiate and enter into agreements for compensation for drainage or oil and gas leases on state-owned lands, other t
• § 6815.1 — Whenever the commission exercises a right to take oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons in kind pursuant to any lease the commission shall make and enter into contracts or agreements for the disposition and
• § 6815.2 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 6815.
• § 6817 — (a) The Controller shall annually as of June 30 apportion, for the fiscal year ending on that date, to each city or county having within its boundaries ungranted tide and submerged lands or other tide
• § 6818 — All applications made to the commission pursuant to this chapter for erection of any permanent structure on tidelands or submerged lands or for depositing thereon or removal therefrom of any material
• § 6819 — The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to require any person extracting oil or gas or other minerals from lands under the jurisdiction of the commission to remove beach and underwater o
• § 6826 — (a) The commission may permit geological or geophysical surveys on state lands and may grant permits therefor, but the permit shall not give the permittee any preferential right to an oil and gas leas
• § 6826.1 — The State Lands Commission shall not permit the taking of cores or other samples by means of drilling operations on or under the tide and submerged lands described in subdivision (c), (d), or (f) of S
• § 6827 — Leases for the extraction and removal of oil and gas deposits may be made by the commission to the highest qualified bidder, or joint bidders, as provided in this chapter.
• § 6827.1 — Nothing contained in this chapter or any other law shall prevent or prohibit two or more persons who are individually eligible to hold a lease under this chapter from making a joint bid for any lease
• § 6827.2 — In order to prevent the premature abandonment of a lease, notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, if, after the holding of a public hearing, the commission finds that continued production
• § 6827.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 6851), Article 4 (commencing with Section 6870), or any other law, and to the extent not prohibited by federal law, any state agency, department,
• § 6828 — All leases of lands containing oil or gas made or issued under this chapter shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas develop
• § 6829 — Every oil and gas lease executed under this chapter, and any oil and gas lease assigned, transferred, or sublet, pursuant to Section 6804, shall include all of the following: (a) Terms, conditions, an
• § 6829.1 — Every oil and gas lease, including leases of tide and submerged lands, executed under this chapter, shall specify a period of not to exceed three (3) years, as specified by the commission in the invit
• § 6829.2 — The commission, in the interest of increasing the ultimate recovery of oil or gas, the protection of oil or gas from unreasonable waste, the possible arresting or amelioration of land subsidence, or p
• § 6829.3 — (a) The commission shall seek additional infrastructure bonding or other financial assurance, as feasible, under its jurisdiction when a lease term is negotiated or renegotiated for an offshore oil or
• § 6829.4 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Decommission” means any activities up to and including the safe dismantling and removal of a production facility
• § 6830 — All oil and gas leases issued by the commission for lands under its jurisdiction as set forth in Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 1 and in Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 6 of this code shall contain a reserv
• § 6830.1 — It is hereby found and determined by the Legislature of the State of California as follows: (a) That the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in assuring the production
• § 6830.2 — Whenever the holder of an oil and gas lease of state-owned lands proposes to engage in secondary recovery operations within such lease, the commission and the holder of the lease may mutually agree to
• § 6830.3 — In satisfaction of the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6830.
• § 6831 — Rights of way through all State lands may be granted to any lessee by the commission under such regulations as to survey, location, application, and use as may be prescribed by the commission.
• § 6832 — For the purpose of more properly conserving the natural resources of any oil or gas pool or field, or any part thereof, lessees hereunder and their representatives may unite with each other jointly or
• § 6833 — The commission, upon such conditions as the commission shall prescribe, may approve operating, drilling or development contracts made by one or more lessees holding oil or gas leases on State lands wi
• § 6834 — Whenever the commission determines that lands shall be leased for oil and gas as provided in this chapter and when the form of lease therefor has been prepared by the commission, the commission shall
• § 6835 — Each bid (which shall be in the form of a lease prepared in accordance with this chapter) for an oil and gas lease shall be accompanied by a certified or cashier’s check of a responsible bank in Calif
• § 6836 — At the time and place specified in the notice, the commission shall publicly open the sealed bids and shall award the lease for each parcel to the highest qualified bidder, unless in the opinion of th