Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

The commission may grant easements and rights-of-way to the Department of Transportation to or over any of the public lands of the state for the purposes of rights-of-way for highways and for use in protecting highways from damage or destruction by natural forces. (Amended by Sta…

No lands owned by the State which lands front upon or are near to any lake, navigable stream or other body of navigable water, convenient access to which is not provided by public road or roads, or otherwise, shall ever be sold, leased or rented, without reserving to the people o…

All conveyances by the State of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, or lands acquired in lieu thereof, or of swamp and overflowed lands shall be made subject to any existing easements or rights-of-way issued by the State prior to the time of conveyance. (Amended by Stats. 19…

No lands owned by the State, which lands provide the only convenient means of access to other lands owned by the State, shall ever be sold, leased or rented without reserving therefrom to the State and its successors in interest in the other lands, an easement for convenient acce…

Notwithstanding Section 6210.5, the commission is not required to reserve an easement on school lands if it determines that selling the school lands without the easement is in the best interests of the state. (Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 715, Sec. 3. (AB 1390) Effective January 1, …

The commission may amend or terminate any lease, easement, or contract under its jurisdiction, with the consent of the other party thereto. (Added by renumbering Section 6210.6 by Stats. 1951, Ch. 332.)

Whenever a navigable river or slough becomes abandoned and is no longer useful for navigation, the commission may sell, for cash, or exchange for lands having equal or greater value, such abandoned river or slough channel to the abutting property owners or to anyone having an equ…

If the commission has public land, including school land, tide or submerged lands, and lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, to which there is no access available, it may, in the name of the state, acquire by purchase, lease, gift, exchange, o…

(a) Whenever a parcel of timbered land under the jurisdiction of the commission is totally surrounded by, or is contiguous to, a national forest or a state forest, the commission may, if it is in the best interests of the state to do so, and after 10 days’ prior notice to the Sec…

(a) Upon appropriation of moneys by the Legislature for the purposes of this section, the commission shall, within two years, administer a coastal hazard and legacy oil and gas well removal and remediation program to do all of the following: (1) Complete an assessment of legacy o…

The commission may, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, issue permits for the taking of cores or other samples by means of drilling operations or other methods on or under any lands under the jurisdiction of the commission for the purpose of obtaining geological…

(a) The commission may authorize, by permit, the conduct of geophysical surveys on state lands under its jurisdiction, including granted and ungranted tidelands and submerged lands and the beds of navigable waterways, subject to terms and conditions as the commission shall specif…

Whenever it appears by final decree of any court of competent jurisdiction that title to any land subject to sale by the State was obtained, or sought to be obtained, by fraudulent means, or in any manner contrary to the laws of this State relating to the acquisition of its publi…

(a) (1) The commission shall consult, and enter into any necessary negotiations, with the owners of the property known as Martins Beach, consisting of two parcels of land, APN: 066-330-230 and APN: 066-330-240, in the unincorporated area of the County of San Mateo, to acquire a r…

Fees shall be charged and collected by the commission pursuant to its rules and regulations for the following: (a) Certificates of purchase or duplicates thereof, (b) Patents and certified copies of records thereof, (c) For certifying a contested case to superior court, (d) For c…

As to lands heretofore sold by this State with a reservation to the State of a one-sixteenth interest in the oil and gas or other minerals therein, pursuant to Chapter 303 of the Statutes of 1921, and where it appears that there are or may be deposits of oil and gas in such lands…

This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission, but nothing herein shall be construed as limiting any power, duty, purpose, responsibility or jurisdiction h…

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 the Attorney General advises that there is no legal recourse to compel other res…

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. Nothing in this section shall prevent other state agencies from setting more definitive limits on hobby collectin…

With the exception of revenue derived from state school lands and from sources described in Sections 6217.6, 6301.5, 6301.6, 6855, and Sections 8551 to 8558, inclusive, and Section 6404 (insofar as the proceeds are from property that has been distributed or escheated to the state…

(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 trout conservation and restoration, the expenditure of funds authorized for the…

Notwithstanding Section 16304.1 of the Government Code, a disbursement in liquidation of an encumbrance for a project funded pursuant to the Coastal Watershed Salmon Habitat Program, as identified in Section 6217.1, may be made before or during the four years following the last d…

(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 by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, makes availa…

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 credit of the Teachers’ Retirement Fund and shall be expended pursuant to Section 24…

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 Treasury to the credit of the General Fund, except as follows: (a) Income from stat…

(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. (2) “Compact” means the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact. (3) “Resources agency” means…

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. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 879, Sec. 2.)

(a) For purposes of this section, “fund” means the Oil Trust Fund established pursuant to subdivision (b). (b) The Oil Trust Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, and the moneys in the fund are hereby appropriated to the commission in accordance with this section. (c)…

The commission may charge and collect reasonable fees for services performed by it, not exceeding the actual cost to the state of such services. In any case where the commission, either pursuant to law or rule of the commission, requires the publication of advertisements for bids…

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 property. Such land, when acquired, shall be examined for significant environment…

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. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 641.)

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 with the provisions of this division, and the commission shall issue a permit for o…

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 settlement, location, sale, entry or other forms of disposal under federal law …

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 all other applications regardless of time of filing. Priorities between cities, c…

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 lease or agreement. The rules and regulations may provide for the assessment, nonass…

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 rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, inlets, or straits, or any school land…

(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, including, but not limited to, oil and gas, other gases (including, but not limited …

(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 obtaining all necessary easements, leases, or permits from the commission that authoriz…

(a) Before the commission considers whether to pursue a remedy provided under Section 6224.3, the commission shall first provide a written notice to the person against whom the commission seeks to impose the penalty. The notice shall include an opportunity for a hearing before th…

(a) If, as of January 1, 2013, a person is in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 6224.3, that person shall not be subject to a penalty pursuant to that section, if the person, on or before July 1, 2013, remedies the violation or submits to the commission a completed lease ap…

(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 findings which shall be open for public inspection. For the purpose of this sec…

(a) On or before January 1, 1995, the secretary shall establish an administrative process which may be used, at the request of a permit applicant for a project pursuant to Section 71021, for the designation of a consolidated permit agency for the project. (b) That administrative …

(a) A permit applicant for a project may request the secretary to designate a consolidated permit agency to administer the processing and issuance of a consolidated permit for the project pursuant to this division. The secretary, in accordance with the guidelines and procedures a…

(a) Within 15 working days of the date that the consolidated permit agency is designated, the consolidated permit agency shall convene a meeting with the permit applicant for the project and the participating permit agencies. The meeting agenda shall include at least all of the f…

(a) The permit applicant may withdraw from the consolidated permit process by submitting to the consolidated permit agency a written request that the process be terminated. Upon receipt of the request, the consolidated permit agency shall notify the secretary and each participati…