California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes

• Section 6870.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no leases shall be let for the extraction of oil and gas from coastal tidelands or...
• Section 6871.
  Tide and submerged lands and beds of navigable rivers and lakes may be leased by the commission for the extraction of oil and gas in...
• Section 6871.3.
  Whenever it appears to the commission that it is for the best interests of the State to lease lands subject to the provisions of Section...
• Section 6871.4.
  The commission may divide the lands within the area proposed to be leased into parcels of convenient size and shape and shall prepare a form...
• Section 6872.
  (a) If an application for oil and gas development in state waters that is determined to be incomplete by the commission continues to remain incomplete one...
• Section 6872.1.
  Whenever it appears to the commission that oil and gas deposits are known or believed to be contained in any such lands as are described...
• Section 6872.2.
  If the commission determines that any tide and submerged lands belonging to the state in the area hereinafter referred to should be drilled pursuant to...
• Section 6872.5.
  The commission may adjust the boundaries of existing leases to encompass all of a field partially contained within the existing lease subject to both of...
• Section 6873.
  When leasing tide or submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes, the commission shall prepare a form of lease which shall contain, in...
• Section 6873.1.
  Filled lands shall include, but not be limited to, tide or submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes, reclaimed artificially through raising such...
• Section 6873.2.
  In carrying out the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 6873 and the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000)), the commission...
• Section 6873.5.
  (a) In carrying out the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 6873 and the California Environmental Quality Act, the commission shall, prior to the adoption of...
• Section 6874.
  Each bid shall be accompanied by information giving a description of the location or locations, structure or structures, from which the bidder proposes to drill....
• Section 6875.
  If the Legislature has transferred to any city or county the administration of the trust, whether or not limited, under which tide or submerged lands...
• Section 6876.
  Should it appear to the commission that any person, association of persons, or corporation, has drilled, or is making preparation to drill, wells upon or...
• Section 6877.
  All the beds of navigable rivers and lakes belonging to the State may be leased pursuant to Section 6871.3 of this code for the production...
• Section 6878.
  Nothing in this chapter limits the effect of any grant of tide or submerged lands made prior to June 11, 1938, to any city, county...
• Section 6879.
  Whenever tide and submerged lands of the State have been granted to a city, county or city and county by a grant which does not...

Last modified: October 22, 2018