Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

The director shall be responsible for planning and for the orderly development and operation of the system. The director shall encourage other public agencies to acquire, develop, and manage segments of the system which are outside of the exterior boundaries of state park system …

(a) The right of eminent domain may not be exercised to acquire property, any interest in property, or use of any property for the trails contemplated pursuant to this article. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section, the director may, pursuant to Se…

The location of a route or complementary facility of the system across lands under the jurisdiction of a federal agency shall be by contractual agreement between the director and the appropriate federal agency. The director may enter into such agreements, and, subject to the prov…

If lands included in the system are outside the boundaries of areas administered by public agencies, the director may enter into agreements with private landowners in order to develop and manage such lands as part of the system. The director may accept fee title, easements, or an…

No funds, whether derived from gift, donation, grant-in-aid, or other source, shall be used by the director for state acquisition of private property in connection with the system unless appropriated by the Budget Bill. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 522, Sec. 9. (AB 1789) Effectiv…

In specifying criteria and standards for the design and construction of trail routes and complementary facilities as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 5071.3, the director shall include the following: (a) The following routes shall be given priority in the allocatio…

No adjoining property owner is liable for any actions of any type resulting from, or caused by, trail users trespassing on adjoining property, and no adjoining property owner is liable for any actions of any type started on, or taking place within, the boundaries of the trail ari…

The director shall prepare a guidebook or guidebooks, including trail maps, describing the system. The guidebook, or guidebooks, shall include information regarding the responsibility of trail users and shall specify rules and regulations for trail use, including measures designe…

Each study of potential trail routes for inclusion in the system shall include an evaluation of the impact of the proposed trail route on adjacent landowners. In conducting studies of potential trail routes for inclusion in the system, the director shall give priority to the foll…

(a) The department may convene a planning task force in order to facilitate the development of a comprehensive plan for the San Joaquin River Parkway. The task force shall include, but not be limited to, a representative of the following entities: (1) State Lands Commission. (2) …

In developing the open-space element of a general plan as specified in subdivision (e) of Section 65302 of the Government Code, every city and county shall consider demands for trail-oriented recreational use and shall consider such demands in developing specific open-space progr…

In addition to utilizing criteria and standards for the design, interpretation, and implementation of heritage corridor routes and complementary facilities, as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 5071.3 and paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) of subdivision (a) of Secti…

(a) Because of California’s unique potential to encourage initial stages of a nationwide heritage network, the following northern California portions of an eventual nationwide heritage network are hereby designated as heritage corridors: (1) The California Pioneer and Goldrush He…

Because of its clear function as the interpretive highway of the Gold Rush, and because of outstanding efforts of public agencies and the private sector to increase accessibility to physically disabled persons along parts of its route, State Highway Route 49 is hereby designated …

Because of the unique beauty and natural resources of the northern California coast, the desire of many Californians to visit the area, the heavy dependence of the area on the recreation and tourism economy, the recent improvements in access for disabled persons by state and loca…

In order to promote disability access along the heritage corridors, the director shall recognize the South Yuba Independence Trail South Yuba Project as one of California’s primary wheelchair wilderness and backpacking trails. (Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1495, Sec. 6.)

The charges directed to be levied by this article are necessary in the exercise of the police power of the State and to provide a means by which to supervise and protect deposits of oil and gas within the State, in which deposits the people of the State have a primary and supreme…

(a) The proceeds of charges levied, assessed, and collected pursuant to this article upon the properties of every person operating or owning an interest in the production of a well shall be used exclusively for the support and maintenance of the department charged with the superv…

There shall annually be imposed upon the person operating each oil well in this state, or owning royalty or other interests in respect to the production from the well, a charge which shall be payable to the Treasurer and which shall be computed at a uniform rate per barrel of oil…

There shall annually be imposed upon the person operating each gas well in this state, or owning royalty or other interests with respect to the production from the well, a charge, which shall be payable to the Treasurer, based upon the amount of gas produced in the preceding cale…

(a) The Legislature finds that there are underground storage facilities for gas that utilize depleted or partially depleted oil or gas reservoirs. Purchased gas, usually from out of state, is injected for storage and withdrawn during peak load periods. The supervisor is required …

(a) For the purposes of this section, “gravity-based energy storage well” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 3190. (b) To support the regulatory effort of the supervisor, there shall be imposed an annual charge on operators of gravity-based energy storage wells to defra…

The charges authorized by this article are in addition to any and all charges, taxes, assessments, or licenses of any kind or nature paid by or upon the properties assessed hereunder. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)

The department shall prescribe the form and contents of all reports for making the charge or for other purposes to carry out the intent and provisions of this article. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 1002, Sec. 8. (AB 218) Effective September 30, 2024.)

Every person chargeable under this article, shall on or before March 15th of each year, file a report with the department. The report shall show all items of information demanded by the report, which are necessary to carry out this article. The report shall be verified by such pe…

The department may, for good cause shown, by order entered upon its records, extend for not exceeding thirty days, the time for filing any report required by this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)

If the person filing the report required under Section 3406, by error or otherwise fails to include the full amount of oil or gas production in the report, the department shall make an estimate of the deficit, based on the monthly production reports filed by such person under Sec…

(a) If any person chargeable under this article fails or refuses to file with the department, within the time prescribed in this article, the verified report provided for in Section 3406, the department shall note failure or refusal as provided for in Section 3418. (b) The depart…

The department shall, on or before June 15th of each year, acting in conjunction with the Department of Finance, make an estimate of the amount of money which will be required to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including any adjustments for savings or increased expendit…

On or before June 15 of each year, the department shall determine the rate or rates that will produce the sums necessary to be raised as provided in Section 3410. Within the same time, the department shall extend into the proper column of the record of assessments the amount of c…

Between the first of March and the 15th of June in each year, the department shall assess and levy the charges as provided in this article. The assessment shall be made against the person operating the property subject to assessment on the first Monday in March, except that, wher…

The notice shall state: (a) That the assessment of property and levy of charges under this article has been completed. (b) That the records of assessments containing the charges due will be delivered to the State Controller on the first Monday in July. (c) That if any person is d…

(a) The division shall send a notice to each operator subject to a fee pursuant to Section 3206 by April 1 of each year. The notice shall do both of the following: (1) Identify the amount of the annual fee due no later than May 1 of that year. (2) State that if the fee amount in …

The department shall prepare each year a record called the “Record of Assessments and Charges” in which shall be entered each assessment and levy or charge made by it upon the property assessed and charged under this article, describing the property assessed. The assessments may …

On or before the first of July the department shall deliver to the State Controller the record of assessments and charges, certified to by the director, which certificate shall be substantially as follows: “I, ____, Director of Conservation, do hereby certify that between the fir…

(a) (1) No charges shall be levied for assessments on oil and gas production of less than ten dollars ($10). (2) The charges levied for assessments are due and payable on the first of July in each year for assessments of more than ten dollars ($10), but less than five hundred dol…

Every payment on a delinquent charge shall be applied as follows: (a) First, to any interest due on the charge. (b) Second, to any penalty imposed by this part. (c) The balance, if any, to the charge itself. (Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 987, Sec. 3.)

(a) If any person fails to pay any charge or penalty imposed under this chapter at the time that it becomes due and payable, the amount thereof, including penalties and interest, together with any costs in addition thereto, shall thereupon be a perfected and enforceable state tax…

A warrant may be issued by the Controller or his or her duly authorized representative for the collection of any charges, interest and penalties and for the enforcement of any such lien directed to the sheriff and shall have the same effect as a writ of execution. It may and shal…

Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the owner of said land may redeem from any execution sale within a period of three years upon payment of interest, penalties and charges as provided in the case of other sales of real property under execution. (Added by Stats…

The sheriff shall receive, upon the completion of his or her services pursuant to a warrant, and the Controller is authorized to pay to him or her the same fees and commissions and expenses in connection with services pursuant to the warrant as are provided by law for similar ser…

In the event that the lien of the charges, penalties or interest attaches to real property from which the oil or gas is extracted and more than one parcel of property is included within the lien, the Controller may release by certificate pursuant to Section 7174 of the Government…

It is expressly provided that the remedies provided herein of the state shall be cumulative and that no action by the Controller shall be construed to be an election on the part of the state, or of any of its officers, to pursue any remedy hereunder to the exclusion of any other …

All charges assessed and levied shall be paid to the State Treasurer upon the order of the Controller. The Controller shall record the payment of any charge. (Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 529.)

Errors appearing upon the face of any assessment on the record of assessments, or overcharges may be corrected by the Controller, with the consent of the Department of Finance, in such manner as the Controller and the Department of Finance agree upon. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch.…

The Controller shall, on or before the thirtieth day of May next following the delinquency of any charge, bring an action in the name of the people of the State, in the county in which the property assessed is situated, to collect any delinquent charges or assessments, together w…