California Harbors and Navigation Code ARTICLE 1 - General

• Section 6890.
  Any district created pursuant to this part is a public corporation created for municipal purposes.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6891.
  It has perpetual succession.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6892.
  It may sue and be sued.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6893.
  It may adopt a seal.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6894.
  It may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease or otherwise acquire and hold and enjoy and lease or dispose of, real and personal...
• Section 6894.1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6894, the board of the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not do any of the following:(a) Sell or dismantle the Deepwater Channel...
• Section 6894.2.
  (a) Moneys in the Riverfront Enhancement Fund, created by the Joint Port Governance Agreement dated January 15, 2006, shall be expended exclusively on projects related to...
• Section 6895.
  A district may acquire, purchase, takeover, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering facilities, cold storage facilities, belt railroads, floating...
• Section 6896.
  It may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to carry out any of its purposes.(Amended by Stats. 1975,...
• Section 6897.
  It may incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for its purposes, and if any bonds issued for port improvement purposes by...
• Section 6898.
  It may levy and collect or cause to be levied or collected taxes as in this part provided.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6899.
  It has exclusive jurisdiction over, and it may provide for and supervise pilots and the pilotage of sea-going vessels from the end of jurisdiction of...
• Section 6900.
  It may contribute money to the Federal or the State government or to any county in which the district is located or to any city...
• Section 6901.
  A district may do any work or make any improvement within or without the territorial limits of the district, if the doing of the work...
• Section 6901.1.
  It may by resolution hold and save harmless the State of California, the Reclamation Board of the State of California, and the Sacramento and San...
• Section 6902.
  A district may enact necessary police regulations providing for control of any waterway project of the United States, entering the district, and it may adopt...
• Section 6903.
  A district may provide for the opening and laying out of streets leading to the waterfront.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 27.)
• Section 6904.
  A district may regulate and control the construction, maintenance, and operation, or use, of all wharves, warehouses, structures, improvements, or appliances used in connection with...
• Section 6905.
  It may fix, regulate, and collect the rates or charges for the use of wharves, warehouses, vessels, railroads and other facilities, structures and appliances owned,...
• Section 6906.
  It may lay out, plan and establish the general plan and system of harbor and harbor district improvements and modify such plan and prescribe the...
• Section 6907.
  It may act as warehousemen, stevedores, lighterers, reconditioners, shippers and reshippers of properties of all kinds.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6908.
  It may manage the business of the district and promote the maritime and commercial interests by proper advertisement of its advantages, and by the solicitation...
• Section 6908.5.
  Upon a four-fifths vote of all the members of the board, it may issue negotiable promissory notes bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding...
• Section 6909.
  Notwithstanding the enumeration and specific statement herein of particular powers, the district may do and perform all acts and things necessary and appropriate to carry...
• Section 6910.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Sacramento-Yolo Port District shall not exercise the power of eminent domain in the County of Sacramento, the City...

Last modified: October 22, 2018