California Public Resources Code CHAPTER 5 - Reservation of Minerals

  • Section 6401.
    (a) All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in public lands belonging to the state, or which may...
  • Section 6401.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 6401, the commission may sell to a surface property owner, for not less than fair market value, the state’s reserved mineral interest in...
  • Section 6402.
    All applications to purchase state public lands and all sales pursuant thereto shall be subject to and contain a reservation to the State of all...
  • Section 6403.
    This chapter shall not be construed as applicable to the sale or exchange by the State of the following lands:(a) Lands acquired by the State on...
  • Section 6404.
    Any state agency that sells any of the lands listed in Section 6403, other than tax-deeded lands, may, with the approval of the commission, dispose...
  • Section 6405.
    The commission shall have the sole responsibility for and jurisdiction over the administration, management and disposal of all mineral reservations heretofore and hereafter made under...
  • Section 6406.
    The commission is hereby authorized to sell, exchange, rent, lease, or otherwise manage the property represented by all mineral reservations to the State made prior...
  • Section 6407.
    This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the commission and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018