Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

The purpose of this article is to establish a program for integrated watershed management to improve water quality, protect and restore habitat and fisheries, reduce flooding, control erosion and sedimentation, and improve local water supply reliability through better groundwater…

The California Environmental Protection Agency shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Resources Agency to ensure that the program established under this chapter is coordinated with other programs administered by those agencies, including, but not limited to, the …

(a) The Integrated Watershed Management Program is hereby established. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, funds allocated to the program may be used by the board, subject to the terms of the memorandum of understanding executed pursuant to Section 30946 to award grants to pub…

Consistent with Section 30947, the board shall establish an accelerated selection and contracting procedure for projects that meet all of the following criteria: (a) The project is part of an approved watershed management plan consistent with Section 30947. (b) The project is ful…

No more than 50 percent of the funds made available to the board for the purposes of this article shall be used for the purposes of Section 30948. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 727, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The board shall administer this chapter. For organizational purposes, the board may create a new division, bureau, office, or unit to administer this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 817, Sec. 5.)

In addition to any other regulations which the board is required by statute to adopt, the board may adopt any other rules and regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code which the board determines m…

The board may prepare, publish, or issue printed pamphlets, which the board determines to be necessary, for the dissemination of information concerning the activities of the board pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 817, Sec. 5.)

In carrying out this chapter, the board may solicit and use any and all expertise available in other state agencies, including, but not limited to, the State Board of Equalization, and, where an existing state agency performs functions of a similar nature to the board’s functions…

The board shall maintain access to a toll-free telephone number which is to be used for the purpose of informing callers of the following: (a) The permissible methods of recycling or disposing of used oil. (b) Specific establishments located in the area of the caller that have no…

Except for payments made to local governments pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 48653, final approval of applicant and project eligibility standards, scoring and evaluation processes, and awarding of grants under this chapter shall be made in a public meetin…

(a) A legislative body known as the board of directors shall govern every district. The board of directors shall establish policies for the operation of the district. The board of directors shall provide for the faithful implementation of those policies which is the responsibilit…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if on December 31, 2001, a member of the board of directors was elected or appointed as a voter of this state and is an owner of real property within the district, pursuant to the former Section 5783.3, that person may continue to serve…

A board of directors shall meet at least once every three months. Meetings of the board of directors are subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (Repealed and added b…

(a) A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (b) The board of directors shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion. (c) Except as otherwise specifically provided to the contrary in this chapter, a recorded majority vo…

(a) The board of directors may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each of its members may receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for attending each meeting of the board. The board of directors, by ordinance adopted pursuant to Chapter 2 …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single recreation and park district, pursuant to subdivisions (k) and (n) of Section 56886 o…

(a) The term of office of each member of a board of directors who has been elected or appointed to a fixed term is four years. Directors shall take office at noon on the first Friday in December following their election or their appointment to a fixed term. (b) Notwithstanding su…

If a county board of supervisors or a city council has appointed itself as the board of directors, the board of supervisors or city council may delegate any or all of its powers to a recreation and park commission composed of five commissioners. In the case of a district governed…

(a) Within 45 days after their first election and after each general district election or unopposed election, or at the beginning of each new term for members of an appointed board, the board of directors shall meet and elect its officers. (b) The officers of a board of directors…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 5784.7, a district may establish an alternative depositary pursuant to this section. (b) The board of directors may adopt a resolution to designate a bank or a savings and loan association as the depositary of any or all of its funds. The board of dire…

(a) For the purposes of this article, “small community” means a municipality with a population of 20,000 persons or less, a rural county, or a reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality where the segment of the population is 20,000 persons or less, with a …

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), every oil manufacturer shall pay to the board, on or before the last day of the month following each quarter, an amount equal to six and one-half cents ($0.065) for every quart, or twenty-six cents ($0.26) for every gallon, of l…

For the purposes of this chapter, the board may collect the fees pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law (Part 30 (commencing with Section 55001) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code). (Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1101, Sec. 6. Effective September 29, 1992.)

(a) Any person who has made a payment pursuant to Section 48650 on lubricating oil exempted from payment pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 48650, and the payment was made either directly to the board, or indirectly to a vendor from whom it was purchased, by the adding of the…

In any transaction involving a total volume of oil subject to payment pursuant to Section 48650 in excess of 10 gallons, the invoice or other form of accounting of the transaction shall identify the amount of the payment separately from the cost of the oil. (Added by Stats. 1992,…

The board shall pay a recycling incentive pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 48652 to every industrial generator, curbside collection program, and certified used oil collection center, for used lubricating oil collected from the public or generated by the certified used oil c…

(a) Effective January 1, 2013, the board, with regard to promoting the recycling of used lubricating oil into rerefined oil, shall pay a rerefining incentive pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 48652 to a recycling facility for rerefined oil produced from used oil if all of th…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the board shall set the recycling incentive at not less than ten cents ($0.10) per quart. The board may set the amount at an amount higher than ten cents ($0.10) if the board determines that a higher amount is necessary to promote the co…

The board shall deposit all amounts paid pursuant to Section 48650 by manufacturers, civil penalties, and fines paid pursuant to this chapter, and all other revenues received pursuant to this chapter into the California Used Oil Recycling Fund, which is hereby created in the Stat…

The board may enter into a contract with the department that will utilize the resources of the department to provide for greater investigation and enforcement efforts for used lubricating oil handling and storage and transfer facility operations. The department shall assist the b…

After all of the expenditures pursuant to Section 48653 have been made, notwithstanding paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 48653, the balance remaining in the fund shall be available to the board for the following purposes: (a) The implementation of subdivisions (b) and …

The board shall keep accurate books, records, and accounts of all of its dealings, and these books, records, and accounts, and any amounts paid into or from the fund, are subject to an annual audit by an auditing firm selected by the board. The auditing firm or the board shall al…

(a) In the case of a district with an elected board of directors, the directors may be elected: (1) At large. (2) By divisions. (3) From divisions. (b) As used in this article: (1) “By divisions” means the election of each member of the board of directors by voters of the divisio…

(a) In the case of a board of directors elected by divisions or from divisions, the board of directors shall adjust the boundaries of the divisions before November 1 of the year following the year in which each decennial census is taken. If, at any time between each decennial cen…

(a) If a majority of the voters voting on the question at a general district or special district election are in favor, a district that has an appointed board of directors shall have an elected board of directors, or a district that has an elected board of directors shall have an…

(a) Before circulating any petition pursuant to Section 5785 or Section 5785.3, the proponents shall publish a notice of intention that shall include a written statement not to exceed 500 words in length, setting forth the reasons for the proposal. The notice shall be published p…

When a contest arises before the commission concerning the approval of a survey or location, or concerning a certificate of purchase or other evidence of title, the commission may, when the question involved is as to the survey, or one purely of fact, or whether the land applied …

After such order is made, either party may bring an action in the superior court of the county in which the land in question is situated, to determine the conflict, and the production of a certified copy of the entry made by the commission gives the court full and complete jurisd…

Any person, legally qualified to purchase from the State public lands of the same character as the land involved in the action, may, after such order of reference has been made, present to the commission his application, in due form as required by law, to purchase the land, or an…

When any contest arises as provided for in this article there shall be filed with the commission a statement by the contestant of the grounds of contest, and such statement, other than as to matters of record or law, shall be corroborated by the affidavit of some competent person…

When a copy of the final judgment of the court is filed with the commission, it shall approve the survey or location, or issue the certificate of purchase or other evidence of title in accordance with the judgment. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)

Unless the party contestant commences his action within 60 days after the order of reference is made, his rights in the premises and under his application cease. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)

Whenever the commission receives a plat of a survey pursuant to the provisions of Section 27564 of the Government Code, any action by the commission to contest such survey shall be commenced within 90 days from the date of receipt of the plat of the survey. (Added by Stats. 1969,…

(a) No used oil collection center shall be eligible for the payment of recycling incentives until the board has certified that the center is in compliance with the requirements in subdivision (b). Before certification, the board may require the center to submit any information th…

(a) If the board finds that a shipment of used oil from a certified used oil collection center, curbside collection program, or uncertified publicly funded used oil collection center in a small rural county is contaminated by hazardous materials in excess of that which generally …