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• California Public Resources Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Public Resources Code.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• California Public Resources Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• California Public Resources Code Section 5
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Public Resources Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 7
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, an administrative power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required by this...
• California Public Resources Code Section 9
  Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all...
• California Public Resources Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned.
• California Public Resources Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future the present.
• California Public Resources Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Public Resources Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Public Resources Code Section 14
  "County" includes "city and county."
• California Public Resources Code Section 15
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Public Resources Code Section 16
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 17
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 18
  If any provison of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid the remainder of the code, and the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 500
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the Department of Parks and Recreation and "director" means the Director of Parks and Recreation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 501
  There is in the Resources Agency, the Department of Parks and Recreation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known...
• California Public Resources Code Section 503
  The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural Resources or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 504
  The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration...
• California Public Resources Code Section 505
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 506
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director. The director...
• California Public Resources Code Section 507
  There shall be one Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 507.1
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor in the manner he deems necessary to segregate...
• California Public Resources Code Section 508
  The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the department federal grants for the purposes for which the department...
• California Public Resources Code Section 508.5
  Notwithstanding Section 14, or any other provision of law, the City and County of San Francisco shall be considered both a city and a county...
• California Public Resources Code Section 509
  Whenever the department has received and deposited any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund in an excessive amount or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 510
  The department may adopt, alter, change or amend any state master plan of shoreline development.
• California Public Resources Code Section 511
  The department, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may procure insurance on vessels owned or operated by the department against the usual...
• California Public Resources Code Section 512
  For the purpose of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the department may issue publications, construct and maintain exhibits, and perform...
• California Public Resources Code Section 513
  The department, as a means of furthering the interpretive and educational functions of the state park system, may enter into agreements to act cooperatively with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 513.1
  The department may provide space and facilities for schools to use for environmental education purposes within units of the state park system.
• California Public Resources Code Section 514
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 530
  There is in the department the State Park and Recreation Commission consisting of nine members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate....
• California Public Resources Code Section 531
  The members of the commission shall be selected from areas distributed throughout the state and because of their interest in park, recreation, and conservation matters...
• California Public Resources Code Section 533
  In case of any vacancy, the appointment shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term. All appointments of members made when the Legislature is...
• California Public Resources Code Section 534
  The commission shall elect a chairman from their number who shall serve as chairman for one year and until his successor is elected.
• California Public Resources Code Section 534.5
  The Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation shall act as secretary of the commission and shall appoint such assistants as are necessary to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 535
  The commission shall report annually to the Governor, through the director, on existing and operating recreational facilities, programs and activities of the state park system,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 536
  The members of the commission may receive a salary for their services in an amount of fifty dollars ($50) for each day, up to a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 538
  The commission may designate, delete, or modify state marine reserves, state marine parks, state marine conservation areas, state marine cultural preservation areas, and state marine...
• California Public Resources Code Section 539
  The commission shall establish general policies for the guidance of the director in the administration, protection and development of the state park system.
• California Public Resources Code Section 540
  (a) The commission shall cause to be studied and shall consider the whole problem of recreation of the people of the State of California as...
• California Public Resources Code Section 541
  In accordance with the general policies established by the commission, and as requested by the director, the Department of Parks and Recreation shall: (a) Assist...
• California Public Resources Code Section 542
  The department may encourage and render assistance in the promotion of training programs for volunteer and professional recreation leaders in cooperation with other agencies, organizations...
• California Public Resources Code Section 543
  The department may assist every department, commission, board, agency and officer of the state in rendering recreational services in conformity with their respective authorized powers...
• California Public Resources Code Section 546
  The director may authorize any employee of the department to exercise any power granted to, or to perform any duty imposed upon, the director.
• California Public Resources Code Section 560
  The department may participate or contract with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the County of San Luis Obispo, or the City of Pismo...
• California Public Resources Code Section 561
  The department shall permit the United States, if it agrees to accomplish all or part of the work, to use the necessary real property, or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 562
  The department, with the approval of the Director of Finance and on terms satisfactory to the department, may advance moneys appropriated for purposes of this...
• California Public Resources Code Section 563
  Notwithstanding Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 65) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of the Harbors and Navigation Code and Part 6 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 600
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the Department of Conservation and "director" means the Director of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 601
  There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Conservation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 603
  The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural Resources or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 603.1
  The director is hereby vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Geologist as Chief of the California Geological Survey...
• California Public Resources Code Section 604
  The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration...
• California Public Resources Code Section 605
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 606
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director. The director...
• California Public Resources Code Section 607
  The work of the department shall be divided into at least the following: (a) California Geological Survey. (b) Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources....
• California Public Resources Code Section 608
  The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the various divisions of the department federal grants for the purposes...
• California Public Resources Code Section 609
  Whenever the department has received and deposited any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund in an excessive amount or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 610
  For the purpose of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the department may issue publications, construct and maintain exhibits, and perform...
• California Public Resources Code Section 611
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 612
  The department shall prepare, update, and maintain Important Farmland Series maps as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 65570 of the Government...
• California Public Resources Code Section 612.5
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is in the state's public interest to have an accurate inventory of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 613
  The department, through the California Resources Information System and as budgetary resources permit, may provide informational assistance to local agencies in the development of geobased...
• California Public Resources Code Section 614
  (a) In order to implement the soil conservation plan which is adopted by the soil conservation committee, the department shall conduct a study and propose...
• California Public Resources Code Section 615
  Grants awarded by the department, including, but not limited to, those awarded pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 9000), Division 10.2 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 660
  There is in the department a State Mining and Geology Board consisting of nine members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
• California Public Resources Code Section 661
  As used in this article, "board" means the State Mining and Geology Board and "division" means the California Geological Survey of the department.
• California Public Resources Code Section 662
  (a) One member of the board shall be a professional geologist with background and experience in mining geology; one member shall be a mining engineer...
• California Public Resources Code Section 663
  (a) No member of the board shall participate in any action of the board or attempt to influence any decision of the board that involves...
• California Public Resources Code Section 663.1
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "ex parte communication" means any oral or written communication between a member of the board and an interested...
• California Public Resources Code Section 663.2
  (a) No board member shall make, participate in making, or in any other way attempt to use his or her official position to influence a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 664
  Each member of the board shall hold office for four years. Vacancies shall be immediately filled by the Governor.
• California Public Resources Code Section 667
  Each member of the board shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day during which the member is engaged in the performance of official...
• California Public Resources Code Section 668
  The board shall maintain its headquarters in Sacramento and shall hold meetings at such times and at such places as shall be determined by it....
• California Public Resources Code Section 669
  The Governor shall designate the chairman of the board from among the members of the board. The person designated as the chairman shall hold such...
• California Public Resources Code Section 670
  The board may appoint an executive officer who shall be exempt from civil service pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 4 of Article XXIV of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 671
  The director shall have no power to amend or repeal any order, ruling, or directive of the board.
• California Public Resources Code Section 672
  The board shall represent the state's interest in the development, utilization, and conservation of the mineral resources of the state and the reclamation of mined...
• California Public Resources Code Section 673
  The board shall also serve as a policy and appeals board for the purposes of Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 2621) of Division 2.
• California Public Resources Code Section 675
  The board may provide for a statewide program of research regarding the technical phases of reclaiming mined lands which may be delegated to it by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 676
  The board shall provide for a public information program on matters involving the state's terrain, mineral resources, mining, the reclamation of mined lands, and the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 677
  The board shall nominate, and the director shall appoint, the State Geologist, who shall either be registered in compliance with the Geologist and Geophysicist Act...
• California Public Resources Code Section 678
  The director may authorize the State Geologist to exercise his power to appoint employees of the division in accordance with the State Civil Service Act....
• California Public Resources Code Section 690
  The Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources shall be in charge of a chief, known as the State Oil and Gas Supervisor.
• California Public Resources Code Section 700
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Board" means the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. (b) "Department" means the Department of Forestry and Fire...
• California Public Resources Code Section 701
  (a) There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is under the control of an executive officer known as...
• California Public Resources Code Section 701.5
  Notwithstanding Section 701, Section 12805 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 1987, the Department of Forestry...
• California Public Resources Code Section 701.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 2007, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection may be referred to, where...
• California Public Resources Code Section 702
  (a) Pursuant to Section 13100 of the Health and Safety Code, there is within the department the Office of the State Fire Marshal. (b) There...
• California Public Resources Code Section 705
  The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration...
• California Public Resources Code Section 706
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property, real or personal,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 707
  Whenever the department has received and deposited any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund in an excessive amount or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 708
  For the purpose of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the department, with the approval of the Department of General Services,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 709
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 6 of Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 710
  The director shall have no power to amend or repeal any order, regulation, ruling, or directive of the board.
• California Public Resources Code Section 711
  The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the department federal grants for the purposes for which the department...
• California Public Resources Code Section 712
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law, and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 713
  The department is responsible for the fire protection, fire prevention, maintenance, and enhancement of the state's forest, range, and brushland resources, contract fire protection, associated...
• California Public Resources Code Section 714
  The department is responsible for all of the following: (a) Providing fire protection, fire prevention, pest control, and forest and range protection and enhancement implements...
• California Public Resources Code Section 715
  The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in cooperation with the Office of Emergency Services, shall develop a program to certify active duty military pilots...
• California Public Resources Code Section 716
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Finance may delegate to the department the right to exercise the same authority granted to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 730
  (a) There is in the department a State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection consisting of nine members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation...
• California Public Resources Code Section 731
  All members of the board shall be appointed and shall be selected and approved for appointment on the basis of their educational and professional qualifications...
• California Public Resources Code Section 731.1
  The Legislature declares that some individuals appointed as members of the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection are required to be chosen from backgrounds...
• California Public Resources Code Section 732
  Each member of the board shall hold office for four years from the expiration of the term of his or her predecessor. Vacancies shall be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 735
  Each member of the board shall receive compensation for each day during which the member engaged in the performance of official duties, except that the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 736
  The board shall maintain its headquarters in Sacramento and shall hold meetings at such times and at such places as shall be determined by it....
• California Public Resources Code Section 737
  (a) No member of the board shall participate in any board action pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 4601) or Article 9 (commencing with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 738
  The Governor shall designate the chairman of the board from among the members of the board. The person designated as the chairman shall hold such...
• California Public Resources Code Section 739
  The board may appoint an executive officer who shall be exempt from civil service pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 4 of Article VII of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 740
  The board shall represent the state's interest in the acquisition and management of state forests as provided by law and in federal land matters pertaining...
• California Public Resources Code Section 741
  (a) The board shall appoint a Range Management Advisory Committee and shall consult with the advisory committee on rangeland resource issues under consideration by the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 743
  State agencies shall submit to the board plans for, and the results of, all investigations that relate to, or have an effect upon, forest resource...
• California Public Resources Code Section 745
  The board shall implement a public information program on matters involving forest management and shall maintain an information file on forest management research and other...
• California Public Resources Code Section 750
  This article may be known and cited as the Professional Foresters Law.
• California Public Resources Code Section 751
  The purpose of this article is to declare the existence of a public interest in the management and treatment of the forest resources and timberlands...
• California Public Resources Code Section 752
  (a) "Professional forester," as used in this article, means a person who, by reason of his or her knowledge of the natural sciences, mathematics, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 753
  "Forestry," as used in this article, refers to the science and practice of managing forested landscapes and the treatment of the forest cover in general,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 754
  "Forested landscapes" means those tree dominated landscapes and their associated vegetation types on which there is growing a significant stand of tree species, or which...
• California Public Resources Code Section 755
  "Person" as used in this article means any natural person.
• California Public Resources Code Section 756
  Nothing in this article prohibits any person from engaging in those activities otherwise restricted to professional foresters, certified specialists, or qualified but exempt certificants, provided...
• California Public Resources Code Section 757
  The provisions of this article do not apply to any landowner who is a natural person and who personally performs services of a professional forester,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 758
  This article shall not be construed to authorize a registered professional forester to practice civil engineering as defined in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 759
  The board may by regulation adopt such rules and regulations pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 760
  The board shall consider matters pertaining to the registration of professional foresters at least once every six months at regular meetings and may, as necessary,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 760.5
  The board may hire the clerical and secretarial employees, technical personnel, and other staff who are necessary and budgeted to properly assist the work of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 761
  The board shall keep a complete record of all applications for registration and certification and the board's action thereon.
• California Public Resources Code Section 762
  The board may by regulation provide for the issuance of certificates of specialization in such fields of specialization as the board may by regulation establish.
• California Public Resources Code Section 763
  (a) The board shall establish an examining committee of at least seven members composed of the following, who shall be appointed by the board and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 764
  Any person appointed to serve upon the examining committee shall receive, if requested, one hundred dollars ($100) for each day during which he or she...
• California Public Resources Code Section 765
  The examining committee shall adhere to the rules and regulations of the board. Any applicant for a license pursuant to this article who contends that...
• California Public Resources Code Section 766
  On and after July 1, 1973, it shall be unlawful for any person to act in the capacity of, or to use the title of,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 767
  An applicant for a license pursuant to this article shall apply to the board. Such application shall be accompanied by the payment of a fee...
• California Public Resources Code Section 768
  The board shall require an applicant to demonstrate such degree of experience and such general knowledge of the profession of forestry as the board deems...
• California Public Resources Code Section 769
  An applicant shall meet all of the following qualifications: (a) Be of good moral character and have a good reputation for honesty and integrity. (b)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 770
  (a) Examinations shall be given by the board as often as it is deemed necessary, but at least every six months. (b) The examination may...
• California Public Resources Code Section 771
  An applicant failing in an examination may be examined again upon filing a new application and paying the application fee.
• California Public Resources Code Section 772
  Instead of being registered as a professional forester, an applicant may request to be registered as a certified specialist in one or more fields of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 773
  Licenses and specialty certificates issued pursuant to this article shall be valid for two years and shall expire on July 1 of each alternating year.
• California Public Resources Code Section 774
  (a) Issuance of a license may be denied if sufficient evidence is received by the board of the commission or doing by the applicant of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 775
  The board may upon its own motion, and shall upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, cause investigation to be made of the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 776
  Any accusation against a registrant or a certificant shall be filed within five years after the act or omission alleged as the ground for disciplinary...
• California Public Resources Code Section 777
  If the board finds against the registrant, the board, in its decision, may terminate all operations of the registrant during the period fixed by the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 778
  A registrant or certificant is subject to disciplinary action who: (a) Has been convicted of a felony substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties...
• California Public Resources Code Section 778.5
  The board shall develop criteria to determine whether a felony is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a registered professional forester in...
• California Public Resources Code Section 779
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Public Resources Code Section 780
  The fees received pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the Professional Forester Registration Fund in the State Treasury, which fund is hereby created.
• California Public Resources Code Section 781
  All fees received pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be available, when appropriated by the Legislature, for the administration of this article; provided,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 782
  The board shall establish by regulation the amount of fees within the following ranges, and based on a determination by the board of the amount...
• California Public Resources Code Section 783
  In case any person defaults in payment of the renewal fee, his or her registration may be revoked by the board on 60 days' notice...
• California Public Resources Code Section 800
  It is the policy of the State of California that the location and operation of thermal electric powerplants shall enhance public benefits and protect against...
• California Public Resources Code Section 801
  In accordance with state policy, it shall be the responsibility of the Resources Agency to establish a program of research on improved methods of powerplant...
• California Public Resources Code Section 825
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Aquaculture Development Act.
• California Public Resources Code Section 826
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the interest of the people of the state that the practice of aquaculture be encouraged in...
• California Public Resources Code Section 827
  The purpose of this chapter is to establish a policy and program toward improving the science and practice of aquaculture as a means of expanding...
• California Public Resources Code Section 828
  As used in this chapter, "aquaculture" means the culture and husbandry of aquatic organisms, including, but not limited to, fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, kelp, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 829
  As used in this chapter, "director" means the Director of the Department of Fish and Game.
• California Public Resources Code Section 830
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the Department of Fish and Game.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of Division II of this code.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2002
  "Department," in reference to the government of this state, means the Department of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2002.5
  "Director" means the Director of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2003
  "Division," in reference to the government of this state, means the California Geological Survey in the Department of Conservation. Wherever any reference is made to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2004
  "Person" includes any individual, firm, association, corporation, organization, limited liability company, or partnership, or any city, county, district, or the state or any department or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2005
  "Minerals" means any naturally occurring chemical element or compound, or groups of elements and compounds, formed from inorganic processes and organic substances, including, but not...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2006
  "State Geologist" means the individual holding the office created by Section 677.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2007
  "Exploration" or "prospecting" means the search for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical or other techniques, including, but not limited to, sampling, assaying, drilling, or any...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2008
  "Board" means the State Mining and Geology Board.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2009
  "Geologic hazard" means a geologic condition that is a potential danger to life and property. Geologic hazards include, but are not limited to, earthquake shaking,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2010
  "Director" means the Director of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2200
  For the purposes of this chapter, "mine" includes all mineral bearing properties of whatever kind or character, whether underground, or in a quarry or pit,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2200.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, "lead agency" means the city, county, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or the board that has the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2201
  The division shall carry out programs, in cooperation with federal, state, and local government agencies, that will reduce the loss of life and property, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2202
  The director may do any of the following: (a) (1) Make a collection of typical geological and mineralogical specimens, especially those of economic and commercial...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2203
  The State Geologist shall provide all requested and recommended information to the director who shall prepare a report for transmission to the Governor on or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2204
  The director may receive on behalf of this state, for the use and benefit of the division, gifts, bequests, devises, and legacies of real or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2205
  The State Geologist may: (a) Make, facilitate, and encourage special studies of the mineral resources, mineral industries, and geology of the state. (b) Collect statistics...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2205.1
  None of the provisions of Division 1 (commencing with Section 501) or this division shall be construed as abridging the authorized geologic functions of other...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2206
  The State Geologist may prepare a special collection of ores and minerals of California to be sent to or used at any world's fair or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2206.1
  Notwithstanding Section 14670 of the Government Code, subject to the approval of the Director of General Services, the State Geologist may lease, for a period...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2207
  (a) The owner or the operator of a mining operation within the state shall forward to the director annually, not later than a date established...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2207.1
  A manufacturer or processor, at his option, may upon request report to the State Geologist data on consumption or utilization of mineral materials. Such reports...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2208
  The director or a qualified assistant may at any time enter or examine any and all mines, quarries, wells, mills, reduction works, refining works, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2209
  The director may fix a price upon and dispose of to the public all publications of the division, including reports, bulletins, maps, registers, or other...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2210
  All money received by the division from sales of publications issued by the division shall be deposited at least once each month in the State...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2211
  The department is the primary state agency responsible for geologic hazard review and investigation, including, but not limited to, investigation of geologic hazards that may...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621.5
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by cities and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621.6
  (a) As used in this chapter, "project" means either of the following: (1) Any subdivision of land which is subject to the Subdivision Map Act...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621.7
  This chapter, except Section 2621.9, shall not apply to any of the following: (a) The conversion of an existing apartment complex into a condominium. (b)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621.8
  Notwithstanding Section 818.2 of the Government Code, a city or county which knowingly issues a permit that grants an exemption pursuant to subdivision (e) of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2621.9
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within a delineated earthquake fault zone, or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2622
  (a) In order to assist cities and counties in their planning, zoning, and building-regulation functions, the State Geologist shall delineate, by December 31, 1973, appropriately...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2623
  (a) The approval of a project by a city or county shall be in accordance with policies and criteria established by the State Mining and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2624
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, cities and counties may do any of the following: (1) Establish policies and criteria which are stricter than those...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2625
  (a) Each applicant for approval of a project may be charged a reasonable fee by the city or county having jurisdiction over the project. (b)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2630
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the State Geologist and the board shall be advised by the Seismic Safety Commission.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2650
  (a) It is the continuing policy of the State of California, in the interest of the needs of society for the wise use of mineral...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2690
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2691
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The effects of strong ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, or other ground failure account for approximately...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2692
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a statewide seismic hazard mapping and technical advisory program to assist cities and counties...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2692.1
  The State Geologist may include in maps compiled pursuant to this chapter information on the potential effects of tsunami and seiche when information becomes available...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2693
  As used in this chapter: (a) "City" and "county" includes the City and County of San Francisco. (b) "Geotechnical report" means a report prepared by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2694
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within a seismic hazard zone, as designated...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2695
  (a) On or before January 1, 1992, the board, in consultation with the director and the commission, shall develop all of the following: (1) Guidelines...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2696
  (a) The State Geologist shall compile maps identifying seismic hazard zones, consistent with the requirements of Section 2695. The maps shall be compiled in accordance...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2697
  (a) Cities and counties shall require, prior to the approval of a project located in a seismic hazard zone, a geotechnical report defining and delineating...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2698
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to prevent cities and counties from establishing policies and criteria which are more strict than those established by the
• California Public Resources Code Section 2699
  Each city and county, in preparing the safety element to its general plan pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 65302 of the Government Code, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2699.5
  (a) There is hereby created the Seismic Hazards Identification Fund, as a special fund in the State Treasury. (b) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2699.6
  This chapter shall become operative on April 1, 1991.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2700
  There is hereby established in the State of California a strong-motion instrumentation program for the purpose of administering the program and of acquiring strong-motion instruments...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2701
  The division shall organize and monitor the program with the advice of the Seismic Safety Commission.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2702
  The division shall purchase, install, and maintain instruments in representative structures and geologic environments throughout the state, and shall process the data obtained from such...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2703
  The division shall maintain and service the strong-motion instruments installed, shall collect and interpret all records from the instruments, and shall make the records, record...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2704
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide adequate instrumentation throughout California.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2705
  (a) Counties and cities shall collect a fee from each applicant for a building permit. Each fee shall be equal to a specific amount of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2705.5
  The California Geological Survey shall advise counties and cities as to that portion of the total fees allocated to the Strong-Motion Instrumentation and Seismic Hazards...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2706
  Funds collected pursuant to subdivision (a) and (b) of Section 2705, less the amount retained pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 2705, shall be deposited...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2707
  The division, upon advice of the Seismic Safety Commission, whenever it determines that an adequate instrumentation program has been achieved, may reduce the fee levied...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2709
  Any city or county that has been exempted from the provisions of Section 2705 by Section 2708 may participate in the state strong-motion instrumentation program...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2709.1
  (a) No strong-motion instrumentation shall be installed pursuant to this chapter in the structural types identified in subdivision (b) unless funds proportionate to the construction...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2710
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2711
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the extraction of minerals is essential to the continued economic well-being of the state and to the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2712
  It is the intent of the Legislature to create and maintain an effective and comprehensive surface mining and reclamation policy with regulation of surface mining...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2713
  It is not the intent of the Legislature by the enactment of this chapter to take private property for public use without payment of just...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2714
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following activities: (a) Excavations or grading conducted for farming or the immediate excavation or grading of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2715
  No provision of this chapter or any ruling, requirement, or policy of the board is a limitation on any of the following: (a) On the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2715.5
  (a) The Cache Creek Resource Management Plan, in conjunction with a site specific plan deemed consistent by the lead agency with the Cache Creek Resource...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2716
  (a) Any interested person may commence an action on his or her own behalf against the board, the lead agency, the State Geologist, or the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2717
  (a) The board shall submit to the Legislature on December 1st of each year a report on the actions taken pursuant to this chapter during...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2718
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2719
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the state nor any county, city, district, or other political subdivision shall be exempt from any fee imposed...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2725
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2726
  "Area of regional significance" means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2727
  "Area of statewide significance" means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2727.1
  "Idle" means to curtail for a period of one year or more surface mining operations by more than 90 percent of the operation's previous maximum...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2728
  "Lead agency" means the city, county, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or the board which has the principal responsibility for approving a reclamation...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2729
  "Mined lands" includes the surface, subsurface, and ground water of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2730
  "Mining waste" includes the residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property directly resulting from, or displaced by,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2731
  "Operator" means any person who is engaged in surface mining operations, himself, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his behalf, except a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2732
  "Overburden" means soil, rock, or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between mineral deposits, before or after their removal by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2732.5
  "Permit" means any authorization from, or approval by, a lead agency, the absence of which would preclude surface mining operations.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2733
  "Reclamation" means the combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2734
  "State policy" means the regulations adopted by the board pursuant to Section 2755.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2735
  "Surface mining operations" means all, or any part of, the process involved in the mining of minerals on mined lands by removing overburden and mining...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2740
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the board may establish districts and appoint one or more district technical advisory committees to advise the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2741
  The members of the committee shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2755
  The board shall adopt regulations that establish state policy for the reclamation of mined lands in accordance with Article 1 (commencing with Section 2710) of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2756
  State policy shall apply to the conduct of surface mining operations and shall include, but shall not be limited to, measures to be employed by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2757
  The state policy adopted by the board shall be based upon a study of the factors that significantly affect the present and future condition of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2758
  Such policy shall include objectives and criteria for all of the following: (a) Determining the lead agency pursuant to the provisions of Section 2771. (b)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2759
  The state policy shall be continuously reviewed and may be revised. During the formulation or revision of the policy, the board shall consult with, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2760
  The board shall not adopt or revise the state policy, unless a public hearing is first held respecting its adoption or revision. At least 30...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2761
  (a) On or before January 1, 1977, and, as a minimum, after the completion of each decennial census, the Office of Planning and Research shall...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2762
  (a) Within 12 months of receiving the mineral information described in Section 2761, and also within 12 months of the designation of an area of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2763
  (a) If an area is designated by the board as an area of regional significance, and the lead agency either has designated that area in...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2764
  (a) Upon the request of an operator or other interested person and payment by the requesting person of the estimated cost of processing the request,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2770
  (a) Except as provided in this section, no person shall conduct surface mining operations unless a permit is obtained from, a reclamation plan has been...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2770.5
  Whenever surface mining operations are proposed in the 100-year flood plain for any stream, as shown in Zone A of Flood Insurance Rate Maps issued...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2770.6
  (a) Whenever surface mining operations are proposed within the boundaries of the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority that may penetrate the groundwater, and whenever...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2771
  Whenever a proposed or existing surface mining operation is within the jurisdiction of two or more public agencies, is a permitted use within the agencies,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2772
  (a) The reclamation plan shall be filed with the lead agency, on a form provided by the lead agency, by any person who owns, leases,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2772.5
  (a) A reclamation plan by any person who owns, leases, or otherwise controls or operates on all, or any portion of any, mined lands within...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2772.6
  (a) In addition to meeting the requirements of Section 2773.1, the amount of financial assurances required of a surface mining operation within the boundaries of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2772.7
  A lead agency, upon approval of a reclamation plan or an amendment to a reclamation plan, shall record a "Notice of Reclamation Plan Approval" with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773
  (a) The reclamation plan shall be applicable to a specific piece of property or properties, shall be based upon the character of the surrounding area...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773.1
  (a) Lead agencies shall require financial assurances of each surface mining operation to ensure reclamation is performed in accordance with the surface mining operation's approved...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773.15
  Notwithstanding Section 2773.1, a surety bond that was executed by any personal surety that was approved by the lead agency prior to February 13, 1998,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773.2
  The mineral owner and owner of the surface estate, if legally entitled to do so, shall allow access to the property on which the mining...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773.3
  (a) In addition to other reclamation plan requirements of this chapter and regulations adopted by the board pursuant to this chapter, a lead agency may...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2773.5
  Section 2773.3 does not apply to either of the following: (a) Any surface mining operation in existence on January 1, 2003, for which the lead...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774
  (a) Every lead agency shall adopt ordinances in accordance with state policy that establish procedures for the review and approval of reclamation plans and financial...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i) of Section 2770, if the lead agency or the director determines, based upon an annual inspection pursuant to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774.2
  (a) Within 30 days of the issuance of an order setting administrative penalties under subdivision (c) of Section 2774.1, the operator may petition that legislative...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774.3
  The board shall review lead agency ordinances which establish permit and reclamation procedures to determine whether each ordinance is in accordance with state policy, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774.4
  (a) If the board finds that a lead agency either has (1) approved reclamation plans or financial assurances which are not consistent with this chapter,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2774.5
  (a) If, upon review of an ordinance, the board finds that it is not in accordance with state policy, the board shall communicate the ordinance's...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2775
  (a) An applicant whose request for a permit to conduct surface mining operations in an area of statewide or regional significance has been denied by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2776
  (a) No person who has obtained a vested right to conduct surface mining operations prior to January 1, 1976, shall be required to secure a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2777
  Amendments to an approved reclamation plan may be submitted detailing proposed changes from the original plan. Substantial deviations from the original plan shall not be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2778
  (a) Reclamation plans, reports, applications, and other documents submitted pursuant to this chapter are public records, unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2779
  Whenever one operator succeeds to the interest of another in any incompleted surface mining operation by sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, exchange, or other means, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2790
  After receipt of mineral information from the State Geologist pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 2761, the board may by regulation adopted after a public...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2791
  The board shall seek the recommendations of concerned federal, state, and local agencies, educational institutions, civic and public interest organizations, and private organizations and individuals...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2792
  Neither the designation of an area of regional or statewide significance nor the adoption of any regulations for such an area shall in any way...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2793
  The board may, by regulation adopted after a public hearing, terminate, partially or wholly, the designation of any area of statewide or regional significance on...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2795
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the first two million dollars ($2,000,000) of moneys from mining activities on federal lands disbursed by the United...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2796.5
  (a) The director, with the consultation of appropriate state and local agencies, may remediate or complete reclamation of abandoned mined lands that meet all of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2800
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The state's major metropolitan areas are subject to potentially devastating large magnitude earthquakes and earth...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2801
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Long-term prediction" means a prediction of an earthquake that is expected to occur within a few years up to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2802
  (a) The department shall develop jointly with the United States Geological Survey a prototype earthquake prediction system along the central San Andreas fault near the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2803
  (a) Concurrently with the development of the Parkfield prototype earthquake prediction system, the Office of Emergency Services, in consultation with the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2804
  The department and the Seismic Safety Commission may solicit and receive gifts and grants from other public and private agencies for the state's share of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2805
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Earthquake Education Act of 1984.
• California Public Resources Code Section 2806
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) California has recently experienced and will continue to experience in the foreseeable future damaging earthquakes of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2807
  (a) There is hereby established a project for the implementation of a statewide program of earthquake safety education and preparedness entitled the California Earthquake Education...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2808
  The objectives of the project are all of the following: (a) Developing public awareness regarding the causes of earthquakes, the forces and effects of earthquakes,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2810
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Most of the state's major metropolitan areas are subject to potentially devastating, large magnitude earthquakes....
• California Public Resources Code Section 2811
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Commission" means the Seismic Safety Commission. (b) "Local jurisdiction" means a city, county, or district. (c) "Office" means the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2812
  (a) The projects authorized by this chapter shall promote voluntary actions by local jurisdictions, volunteer agencies and associations, and private organizations which address all aspects...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2814
  The earthquake preparedness activities established under this chapter shall be carried out by the office. The commission and office shall work together and use appropriate...
• California Public Resources Code Section 2815
  The office may enter into agreements with local, regional, and federal agencies, councils of government, and private organizations and contractors, and may receive and expend...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3000
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this division.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3001
  "Department," in reference to the government of this state, means the Department of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3002
  "Division," in reference to the government of this state, means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation; otherwise "division"...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3003
  "Director" means the Director of Conservation.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3004
  "Supervisor" means the State Oil and Gas Supervisor.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3005
  "Person" includes any individual, firm, association, corporation, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3006
  "Oil" includes petroleum, and "petroleum" includes oil.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3007
  "Gas" means any natural hydrocarbon gas coming from the earth.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3008
  (a) "Well" means any oil or gas well or well for the discovery of oil or gas; any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3009
  "Operator" means any person who, by virtue of ownership, or under the authority of a lease or any other agreement, has the right to drill,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3012
  The provisions of this division apply to any land or well situated within the boundaries of an incorporated city in which the drilling of oil...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3013
  This division shall be liberally construed to meet its purposes, and the director and the supervisor, acting with the approval of the director, shall have...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3014
  "District" means an oil and gas district as provided for in Section 3100.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3015
  For the purpose of implementing Section 503 of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, the supervisor may make the determinations entrusted to state agencies...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3100
  For the purposes of this chapter, the state is divided into six districts, the boundaries of which shall be fixed by the director.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3101
  The supervisor shall appoint one chief deputy and at least one district deputy for each of the districts provided for in this chapter, and shall...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3102
  The Attorney General shall be the legal advisor for the division and shall perform or provide such legal services for the division as it may...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3103
  The chief deputy shall be a competent engineer or geologist, registered in the state, and experienced in the development and production of oil and gas.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3104
  Each district deputy shall be a competent engineer or geologist, preferably registered in the state, and experienced in the development and production of oil and
• California Public Resources Code Section 3105
  An office under the supervision of a district deputy may be maintained in each district. The office shall be conveniently accessible to the oil and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3106
  (a) The supervisor shall so supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3106.5
  Acting with the approval of the director, the supervisor may annually expend, from the amount appropriated to the division, up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3107
  A district deputy in each district, designated by the supervisor, shall collect all necessary information regarding the oil and gas wells in the district, with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3108
  On or before the first day of October of each year the supervisor shall make public, for the benefit of all interested persons, a report...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3109
  The supervisor may publish any publications, reports, maps, or other printed matter relating to oil and gas, for which there may be public demand. If...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3110
  All money paid to the Treasurer pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 3400) shall be deposited to the credit of the Oil, Gas, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3111
  (a) All money received in repayment of repair work done as provided in this chapter shall be returned and credited to the Oil, Gas, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3112
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3200
  Every owner or operator of any well shall designate an agent, giving his or her address, who resides in this state, to receive and accept...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3201
  The operator of any well shall notify the supervisor or the district deputy, in writing, in such form as the supervisor or the district deputy...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3202
  Every person who acquires the right to operate a well, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or other disposition, shall, as soon as it's...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3203
  (a) The operator of any well, before commencing the work of drilling the well, shall file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3204
  Any operator who, on or after January 1, 1999, engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of any...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3205
  Any operator who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of one or more wells at any time,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3205.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3204 and 3205, any person who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of one...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3205.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3204, any person who engages in the operation of a class II commercial wastewater disposal well, as defined in subdivision (d), shall...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3205.5
  In lieu of the indemnity bond required by Sections 3204, 3205, 3205.1, 3205.2, and 3206, a deposit may, with the written approval of the supervisor,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3206
  (a) The operator of any idle well not covered by an indemnity bond provided under Section 3204, subdivision (c) of Section 3205, or subdivision (a)...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3206.5
  (a) Any city or county may request from the supervisor a list of those wells within its jurisdiction which have not continuously produced oil or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3207
  Any individual or blanket indemnity bond issued in compliance with this chapter may be terminated and canceled and the surety be relieved of all obligations...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3208
  For the purposes of Section 3207, a well is properly completed when it has been shown, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, that the manner...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3208.1
  (a) To prevent, as far as possible, damage to life, health, and property, the supervisor or district deputy may order the reabandonment of any previously...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3209
  The provisions of Section 3207 as to termination and cancellation shall also apply to all bonds which have been heretofore filed with the supervisor as...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3210
  The owner or operator of any well shall keep, or cause to be kept, a careful and accurate log, core record, and history of the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3211
  The log shall show the character and depth of the formation passed through or encountered in the drilling of the well. The log shall show...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3212
  The core record shall show the depth, character, and fluid content of cores obtained, so far as determined.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3213
  The history shall show the location and amount of sidetracked casings, tools, or other material, the depth and quantity of cement in cement plugs, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3214
  The log shall be kept in the local office of the owner or operator, and, together with the tour reports of the owner or operator,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3215
  Within 60 days after the date of cessation of drilling, rework, or abandonment operations, or the date of suspension of operations, true copies of the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3216
  The owner or operator of any well, or his local agent, shall file with the supervisor a copy of the log, history, and core record,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3219
  Any person engaged in operating any oil or gas well wherein high pressure gas is known to exist, and any person drilling for oil or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3219.5
  (a) On or before July 1, 2001, the Department of Conservation shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on options for ensuring the existence...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3220
  The owner or operator of any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain oil or gas shall properly case it with water-tight and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3222
  The owner or operator of any well shall, at the request of the supervisor, demonstrate that water from any well is not penetrating oil-bearing or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3223
  The district deputy or an inspector designated by the supervisor may be present at the test for shutoff. If the test is personally witnessed by...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3224
  The supervisor shall order such tests or remedial work as in his judgment are necessary to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources;...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3225
  Whenever the supervisor or a district deputy issues any written order concerning any operation, an appeal may be made from such order pursuant to the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3226
  Within 30 days after service of an order pursuant to Sections 3224 and 3225, or Section 3237, or if there has been an appeal from...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3227
  The owner of any well shall file with the supervisor, on or before the last day of each month, for the last preceding calendar month,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3227.5
  The supervisor shall compile from statements filed pursuant to Section 3227 and publish monthly statistics, within 90 days of the end of each calendar month,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3227.6
  As used in Sections 3227 and 3227.5, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Field" means the same general surface area which is underlain,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3228
  Before abandoning any well in accordance with methods approved by the supervisor or the district deputy, and under his or her direction, the owner or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3229
  Before commencing any work to abandon any well, the owner or operator shall file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3230
  The notice of intention to abandon shall contain the following information: (a) The total depth of the well to be abandoned. (b) The complete casing...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3232
  The supervisor or the district deputy shall, within 10 days after the receipt of a written report of abandonment, furnish the owner or operator with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3233
  (a) The division may develop field rules which establish volumetric thresholds for emergency reporting by the operator of oil discharges to land associated with onshore...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3234
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all the well records, including production reports, of any owner or operator which are filed pursuant...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3235
  The supervisor may upon his own initiative or shall upon receipt of a written complaint from a person owning land or operating wells within a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3236
  Any owner or operator, or employee thereof, who refuses to permit the supervisor or the district deputy, or his inspector, to inspect a well, or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3236.5
  (a) Any person who violates this chapter or any regulation implementing this chapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3237
  (a) (1) The supervisor or district deputy may order the plugging and abandonment of a well that has been deserted whether or not any damage...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3238
  (a) For oil and gas produced in this state from a well that qualifies under Section 3251 or which has been inactive for a period...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3240
  The supervisor, in cooperation with appropriate state and local agencies, shall conduct a study of abandoned oil and gas wells located in those areas of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3241
  The supervisor, in cooperation with appropriate state and local agencies, shall develop a strategy for extracting existing accumulations of methane gas and other hazardous gas...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3250
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that hazardous and certain idle-deserted oil and gas wells, as defined in this article, are public nuisances and that...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3251
  For the purposes of this article, an oil or gas well is a "hazardous well" if the supervisor determines that the well is a potential...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3251.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3251, a well shall be deemed a hazardous well if it has been determined by the supervisor to pose a present danger...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3252
  As used in this article, "natural resources" includes land, water, air, minerals, vegetation, wildlife, historical or aesthetic sites, or any other natural resource which, irrespective...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3253
  If any provisions of this article or the application thereof in any circumstances or to any person or public agency is held invalid, the remainder...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3254
  This article shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its purposes.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3255
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the supervisor may order that any of the following operations be carried out on any property in...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3256
  (a) The division is hereby authorized to accept, and hold for and in the name of the state, by gift, exchange, purchase, negotiation, or eminent...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3257
  To effect the purpose of this article, the division is authorized to enter into agreements with any person, public agency, corporation, or other entity for...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3258
  (a) The division shall not make expenditures pursuant to this article that exceed the following sum in any one fiscal year: (1) One million dollars...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3260
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Account" means the Acute Orphan Well Account established under Section 3261. (b) "Acute orphan well"...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3261
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, including the expenditure limitations of Section 3258, the division shall administer and manage the Acute Orphan Well...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3262
  (a) The Conservation Committee of the California Oil and Gas Producers shall act as an advisory committee, for the purposes of this article only, to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3263
  (a) The division shall establish the following fees, up to a maximum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) annually, and payable to the division, for the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3264
  Notwithstanding the limitations contained in Section 3261 upon appropriation, a maximum of 5 percent of the total annual fees deposited in the account may be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3265
  If the balance in the account exceeds one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) at the start of the fiscal year, the collection of all...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3266
  The division may adopt regulations to implement this article.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3275
  The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves "The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas," and the amendment, extension, and renewal...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3276
  The provisions of the interstate compact referred to in Section 3275 are as follows: AN AGREEMENT TO AMEND, EXTEND AND RENEW THE INTERSTATE COMPACT TO...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3277
  The Governor is hereby designated as the official representative of the State of California on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission provided for in the compact...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3263
  (a) The division shall establish the following fees, up to a maximum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) annually, and payable to the division, for the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3264
  Notwithstanding the limitations contained in Section 3261 upon appropriation, a maximum of 5 percent of the total annual fees deposited in the account may be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3265
  If the balance in the account exceeds one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) at the start of the fiscal year, the collection of all...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3266
  The division may adopt regulations to implement this article.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3300
  The unreasonable waste of natural gas by the act, omission, sufferance, or insistence of the lessor, lessee or operator of any land containing oil or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3301
  Whenever the supervisor finds that it is in the interest of the protection of oil or gas from unreasonable waste, the lessors, lessees, operators or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3302
  Upon complaint being made to the director by any person operating in any oil field that there is occurring or threatened an unreasonable waste of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3303
  Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper printed and published in the county in which...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3304
  The place of hearing shall be in the county or in any of the counties in which the unreasonable waste of gas is alleged to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3305
  At the hearing all persons interested are entitled to be heard and may present testimony either oral or written. All witnesses shall be sworn, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3306
  Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the supervisor shall determine whether or not there is an unreasonable waste of gas in the field, in existence...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3307
  If it appears that gas is being produced from any oil well or wells in quantities exceeding a reasonable proportion to the amount of oil...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3308
  If the waste of gas is found to be unreasonable, an order shall be made by the supervisor directing that the unreasonable waste of gas...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3309
  A copy of the supervisor's order shall be posted in a conspicuous place upon the property affected, and the order shall become final 10 days...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3310
  When the decision of the supervisor that there is an unreasonable waste of gas occurring or threatened has become final, a certified copy thereof shall...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3311
  In those suits, a restraining order shall not be issued ex parte, and a temporary or permanent injunction issued in the proceedings shall not be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3312
  Whenever it appears to the director that the owners, lessors, lessees, or operators of any well or wells producing oil and gas or oil or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3313
  In such suits a restraining order shall not be issued ex parte, and a temporary or permanent injunction issued in such proceedings shall not be...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3314
  Proceedings to enjoin waste as contemplated by this chapter shall be special proceedings restricted to the single issue whether gas is being produced or is...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3315
  It is hereby found and determined: (a) That the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in arresting and ameliorating...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions and definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this article.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.1
  As used in this article, "person" means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.2
  "Pool" means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.3
  "Field" means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.4
  "Repressuring operations" means gas injection operations, water injection operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other operations intended primarily to arrest or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.5
  "Subsidence" means sinking, lowering, collapsing, compaction or other movement of the land whether covered by water or not.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.6
  "Unit area" means all or part of a pool or pools included within the area embraced by a unit created pursuant to an order of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.7
  "Unit production" means all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of the order of the supervisor...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.8
  "Fieldwide repressuring plan" means a plan based upon a competent engineering study or studies, prepared by a petroleum engineer licensed by the State, of all...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.9
  "Unit agreement" means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement, any unit operating agreement, consent agreement and other agreement entered into in connection with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.10
  "Increased production" means that portion of the oil or gas produced from all wells bottomed within a unit area, or within any other area where...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.11
  "Working interest" means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement or otherwise, under...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.12
  "Working interest owner" means a person owning a working interest.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.13
  "Royalty interest" means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.14
  "Royalty interest owner" means a person owning a royalty interest.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.15
  "Unit operator" means the person or persons designated by the unit agreement or in accordance with subdivisions (g) and (j) of Section 3322 as operator...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3316.16
  "Land" means both surface and mineral rights.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3317
  This article applies only to lands, referred to in Section 3315, overlying or immediately adjacent to a producing pool or pools, when such lands are...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3318
  An order of the supervisor which involves tide or submerged lands which may have been granted to any city, county, or city and county, or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3319
  (a) The supervisor, upon the supervisor's own motion, may, or shall, upon the application of any city, county, or city and county, any part of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3319.1
  Prior to the adoption of a fieldwide repressuring plan and general specifications of the work to be done thereunder, as provided in Section 3319, the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320
  (a) The policy of conducting voluntary repressuring operations in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in order to arrest or ameliorate subsidence, or for...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320.1
  (a) An agreement for the management, development and operation of two or more tracts in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in a field...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320.2
  If the supervisor determines that sufficient of the working interest owners and royalty interest owners to make repressuring operations feasible in any pool or pools,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320.3
  In determining, as required by Section 3320.2, whether the estimated cost of initiating and conducting such repressuring operations will exceed the estimated value of the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320.4
  In order to encourage the initiation and conduct of repressuring operations with the greatest possible speed in a subsidence area, the State, or any city,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3320.5
  No working or royalty interest owner shall be liable for any loss or damage resulting from repressuring or other operations connected with the production of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3321
  (a) Subject to the limitations specified in this article, the supervisor shall have the power to issue a compulsory unit order upon the petition of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3322
  An order of the supervisor requiring unit operation, pursuant to Section 3321, may include lands owned by any person as defined in Section 3316.1, and...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3322.1
  No order of the supervisor creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto shall become effective unless and until the plan of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3323
  Notice of the time and place of any hearing to be held by the supervisor shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3324
  At hearings all persons interested are entitled to be heard and present evidence, both oral and written. All such persons shall be sworn, and a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3325
  The supervisor shall make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this article or to administer or enforce...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3326
  An order requiring unit operation may be amended for good cause by a subsequent order entered by the supervisor, except that no such order or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3327
  Subject to the limitations in this article governing the creation of the unit previously established, the supervisor, by entry of a new order after a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3328
  (a) The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned tract shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been actually produced from such...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3329
  The unit operator shall be authorized on behalf of and for the account of all the respective owners or possessors of the mineral rights within...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3330
  When unit expenses incurred by a unit operator on behalf of the unit have not been paid, the unit operator may, in order to secure...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3331
  Any order issued by the supervisor pursuant to this article, from its effective date, shall be binding upon each person owning or claiming any legal...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3332
  Within 30 days after the written notice of the entry of a final order of the supervisor, or within such further time as the supervisor...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3333
  (a) A final order of the supervisor shall be subject to judicial review by filing a petition for a writ of mandate in accordance with...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3334
  The pendency of actions before the superior court or proceedings for review before any other court of competent jurisdiction of itself shall not stay or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3335
  If an action for judicial review has not been commenced within the time prescribed for such action, or, if filed, the time within which to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3336
  The supervisor upon his own motion may, or shall upon the application of any interested person, hold a public hearing for the purpose of determining...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3337
  The division shall exercise surveillance over all repressuring operations in the state.
• California Public Resources Code Section 3341
  At the termination of oil and gas production from a unit area established or approved pursuant to this article and the abandonment of attempts to...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3342
  To the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this article, and to any order of unitization or other order, rule or...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3343
  (a) Any person who willfully violates any provision of this article or any rule, regulation or order of the supervisor, shall be subject to a...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3344
  (a) Whenever it appears that any person is violating or threatening to violate any provision of this article, or any rule, regulation or order of...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3345
  No finding or determination made by the supervisor under the provisions of this article or by any court in proceedings involving the enforcement or review...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3346
  The provisions of this article shall supersede any conflicting provisions contained in any legislative grant of tide and submerged lands, or in any law amendatory...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3347
  If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence or clause of this article is adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall not affect the validity...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3350
  The lessor, lessee, or any operator or any well owner, or the owner of any rig, derrick, or other operating structure, or his local agent,...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3351
  Immediately upon filing of a notice of appeal, the director shall call for a public hearing upon the appeal. The hearing upon the appeal before...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3352
  Within 10 days from the date of the taking of the appeal, a minimum 20 days notice in writing shall be given to the appellant...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3353
  (a) The director, after hearing, shall affirm, set aside, or modify the order from which the appeal is taken. (b) Within 20 days from the...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3354
  The decision of the director may be reviewed by writ of administrative mandamus from the superior court of the county in which the district is...
• California Public Resources Code Section 3355
  No new or additional evidence shall be introduced in the court, but th