California Fish and Game Code CHAPTER 10 - Natural Community Conservation Planning Act

• Section 2800.
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Natural Community Conservation Planning Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 4, Sec. 2....
• Section 2801.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The continuing population growth in California will result in increasing demands for dwindling natural resources and result...
• Section 2802.
  The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to conserve, protect, restore, and enhance natural communities. It is the...
• Section 2805.
  The definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter:(a) “Adaptive management” means to use the results of new information gathered through the monitoring program...
• Section 2809.
  Any person, or any local, state, or federal agency, independently, or in cooperation with other persons, may undertake natural community conservation planning.(Added by Stats. 2002,...
• Section 2810.
  (a) The department may enter into an agreement with any person or public entity for the purpose of preparing a natural community conservation plan, in cooperation...
• Section 2815.
  The department shall establish, in cooperation with the parties to the planning agreement, a process for public participation throughout plan development and review to ensure...
• Section 2820.
  (a) The department shall approve a natural community conservation plan for implementation after making the following findings, based upon substantial evidence in the record:(1) The plan has...
• Section 2821.
  Concurrent with the approval by the department of a final natural community conservation plan, the department shall do both of the following:(a) Establish a list of...
• Section 2822.
  The department may seek injunctive relief against any plan participant, person, or entity to enforce this chapter.(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 4, Sec. 2. Effective...
• Section 2823.
  The department shall suspend or revoke any permit, in whole or in part, issued for the take of a species subject to Section 2835 if...
• Section 2825.
  The department may adopt regulations for the development and implementation of natural community conservation plans consistent with this chapter.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch....
• Section 2826.
  Nothing in this chapter exempts a project proposed in a natural community conservation planning area from Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public...
• Section 2827.
  To the extent practicable, implementation of natural community conservation plans shall use the services of either the California Conservation Corps or local community conservation corps.(Added...
• Section 2828.
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits a local government from exercising any power or authority granted to it pursuant to state law to acquire land or...
• Section 2829.
  (a) The department may be compensated for the actual costs incurred in participating in the preparation and implementation of natural community conservation plans. These costs may...
• Section 2830.
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits the taking or the incidental take of any identified species if the taking is authorized by the department pursuant to...
• Section 2831.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, lands designated as of January 1, 2013, as open-space lands in a document entitled “Declaration of the Dedication of...
• Section 2835.
  At the time of plan approval, the department may authorize by permit the taking of any covered species, including species designated as fully protected species...

Last modified: October 22, 2018