California Civil Code CHAPTER 4 - Conservation Easements

• Section 815.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the preservation of land in its natural, scenic, agricultural, historical, forested, or open-space condition is among the most important...
• Section 815.1.
  For the purposes of this chapter, “conservation easement” means any limitation in a deed, will, or other instrument in the form of an easement, restriction,...
• Section 815.2.
  (a) A conservation easement is an interest in real property voluntarily created and freely transferable in whole or in part for the purposes stated in Section...
• Section 815.3.
  Only the following entities or organizations may acquire and hold conservation easements:(a)  A tax-exempt nonprofit organization qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code...
• Section 815.4.
  All interests not transferred and conveyed by the instrument creating the easement shall remain in the grantor of the easement, including the right to engage...
• Section 815.5.
  Instruments creating, assigning, or otherwise transferring conservation easements shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where the land is...
• Section 815.7.
  (a) No conservation easement shall be unenforceable by reason of lack of privity of contract or lack of benefit to particular land or because not expressed...
• Section 815.9.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or conflict with the operation of any law or statute conferring upon any political subdivision the...
• Section 815.10.a.
  A conservation easement granted pursuant to this chapter constitutes an enforceable restriction, for purposes of Section 402.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.(Added by Stats....
• Section 816.
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate the policy and purpose of Section 815.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 179.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018