California Fish and Game Code ARTICLE 1 - Generally

• Section 700.
  (a) There is in the Natural Resources Agency a Department of Fish and Wildlife administered through the director.(b) The Department of Fish and Wildlife shall succeed to,...
• Section 701.
  The director shall be appointed by the Governor, and receive the annual salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing at Section 11550) of Part 1...
• Section 701.3.
  There shall be one deputy director of the department who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and serve...
• Section 701.5.
  The director or one or more of his designees may accept the office of director or alternate director of an entity established by a joint...
• Section 702.
  This code shall be administered and enforced through regulations adopted only by the department, except as otherwise specifically provided by this code or where this...
• Section 702.1.
  (a) The department, on or before January 1, 2016, shall prepare and submit to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a feasibility study...
• Section 703.
  (a) General policies for the conduct of the department shall be formulated by the commission. The director shall be guided by those policies and shall be...
• Section 703.3.
  It is the policy of the state that the department and commission use ecosystem-based management informed by credible science in all resource management decisions to...
• Section 703.5.
  It is the policy of the state as follows: (a) That the department and the commission seek to create, foster, and actively participate in effective partnerships...
• Section 704.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director is the appointing power of all employees within the department, and all employees in the department are...
• Section 705.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “eligible renewable energy resources” has the same meaning as in the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article 16 (commencing with...
• Section 706.
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code shall govern and...
• Section 707.
  It is the duty of the attorney for the department to act as counsel in defense of any officer or deputy of the department in...
• Section 709.
  A nonprofit organization designated by the department to assist in the sale of deer, elk, antelope, or bighorn sheep fundraising tags that are sold on...
• Section 710.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the department has in the past not been adequately funded to meet its mandates. The principal causes have been...
• Section 710.5.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department continues to be inadequately funded to meet its mandates. While revenues have been declining, the department’s responsibilities...
• Section 710.7.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The department continues to face serious funding instability due to revenue declines from traditional user fees and...
• Section 711.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure adequate funding from appropriate sources for the department. To this end, the Legislature finds and declares...
• Section 711.1.
  (a) The expenditure of all federal grant moneys made available to the state pursuant to the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 669...
• Section 711.2.
  (a) For purposes of this code, unless the context otherwise requires, “project” has the same meaning as defined in Section 21065 of the Public Resources Code.(b) For...
• Section 711.4.
  (a) The department shall impose and collect a filing fee in the amount prescribed in subdivision (d) to defray the costs of managing and protecting fish...
• Section 711.7.
  (a) The fish and wildlife resources are held in trust for the people of the state by and through the department.(1) Insofar as state wildlife trust resources...
• Section 712.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Finance shall include in the Governor’s Budget sufficient moneys from the General Fund and...
• Section 713.
  (a) The changes in the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services, as published by the United States Department of...
• Section 715.
  (a) The director, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, shall establish a formal program, which may be called the Science Institute, to assist the department...

Last modified: October 22, 2018