California Fish and Game Code ARTICLE 1 - Generally

• Section 1000.
  The department shall expend funds necessary for biological research and field investigation and for the collection and diffusion of statistics and information that pertain to...
• Section 1000.6.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The commercial fishing industry of the North Coast has been greatly affected by decisions made by federal...
• Section 1001.
  Nothing in this code or any other law shall prohibit the department from taking, for scientific, propagation, public health or safety, prevention or relief of...
• Section 1002.
  (a) The department may issue permits, subject to restrictions and regulations that the department determines are desirable, to take or possess, in any part of the...
• Section 1002.5.
  (a) The department may issue a permit pursuant to Section 1002 to an appropriate public, private, or nonprofit entity, or a person, as determined by the...
• Section 1003.
  Mammals, birds and their nests and eggs, fish and their eggs, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, or any other form of plant or animal life taken...
• Section 1004.
  The department may capture and sell birds and mammals, at prices to be fixed by the commission, to persons engaged in the domestication and sale...
• Section 1005.
  For the purpose of exhibiting fish and game educational material at fairs or sportsmen’s shows and making other public displays, and to make conservation educational...
• Section 1005.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code, the department may accept gifts of personal property if the donor is a county of the state and...
• Section 1006.
  The department may inspect the following:(a) All boats, markets, stores and other buildings, except dwellings, and all receptacles, except the clothing actually worn by a person...
• Section 1007.
  The department may import, propagate, and distribute birds, mammals, or fish.(Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)
• Section 1008.
  The department shall investigate all diseases of, and problems relating to, birds, mammals, or fish, and establish and maintain laboratories to assist in such investigation.(Enacted...
• Section 1009.
  The department may obtain for the State rights of way over private lands for the purpose of furnishing access for the public to lands or...
• Section 1010.
  The department, by and with the approval of the Department of General Services, may sell grazing permits or otherwise dispose of excess vegetation or other...
• Section 1011.
  (a) The department may procure insurance for any of the following purposes:(1) For itself and landowners who agree to permit the department to use their land as...
• Section 1012.
  The department may procure insurance for its employees for injury or death against the liability of the owner or operator of any vessel boarded by...
• Section 1013.
  In any lease, easement, or right-of-way entered into whereby the department leases real property or obtains a grant of easement or right-of-way in real property...
• Section 1014.
  If the Department of Parks and Recreation contracts with the federal government pursuant to Public Law 89-161 for the administration of recreation development or fish...
• Section 1015.
  Whenever the department is required, or provided an opportunity, to assess the adequacy of a project or to provide a detailed environmental impact statement or...
• Section 1016.
  (a) Whenever the department determines that an oil sump, as defined by Section 3780 of the Public Resources Code, is hazardous to wildlife, but does not...
• Section 1017.
  (a) It is the policy of the state to anticipate and resolve potential conflicts between the management, conservation, and protection of fish and wildlife resources and...
• Section 1018.
  The director shall use the department’s resources, to the fullest extent feasible, to coordinate with the federal government to promote the preservation of species, including...
• Section 1019.
  (a) Subject to an appropriation of funds by the Legislature for that purpose, for parcels wholly within its jurisdiction acquired on or after January 1, 2002,...
• Section 1020.
  (a) The department and the commission shall develop a strategic plan to implement proposals arising from any of the following:(1) The strategic vision developed and submitted to...
• Section 1021.
  (a) The department may take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration. These actions may include, but...

Last modified: October 22, 2018