California Fish and Game Code ARTICLE 2 - California Wildlife Protection

• Section 2785.
  The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter:(a) “Acquisition” includes but is not limited to, gifts, purchases, leases, easements, the exercise of eminent domain if...
• Section 2786.
  Except as otherwise expressly provided in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 2787, the money in the Habitat Conservation Fund, which is hereby created,...
• Section 2787.
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the fund is continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, as follows:(a) To the Department of...
• Section 2788.
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the fund is continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board.This section shall...
• Section 2789.
  In areas where habitats are or may become isolated or fragmented, preference shall be given by the agencies expending money from the fund to projects...
• Section 2790.
  Each agency receiving money from the fund pursuant to Section 2787 shall report to the board on or before July 1 of each year the...
• Section 2791.
  The board shall expend the money appropriated to it from the fund subject to the following conditions:(a) Not more than one and one-half (11/2) percent shall...
• Section 2792.
  If any agency designated in Section 2787 ceases to exist, or is otherwise unable to expend the funds appropriated by Section 2787 to that agency...
• Section 2793.
  The board and any other state or local agency that expends any funds appropriated from the fund on environmental enhancement, restoration, or improvement projects shall...
• Section 2794.
  In implementing this chapter, the state or local agency that manages lands acquired with funds appropriated from the fund shall prepare, with full public participation,...
• Section 2795.
  (a) The Controller shall annually transfer 10 percent of the funds in the Unallocated Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund to the Habitat...
• Section 2796.
  (a) The Controller shall annually transfer the sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) from the General Fund to the Habitat Conservation Fund, less any amount transferred...
• Section 2797.
  (a) The people find it necessary to acquire, restore, and improve the rapidly disappearing wildlife habitat of southern California in the quickest and most efficient manner...
• Section 2798.
  Acquisitions of real property made pursuant to this chapter shall be done in compliance with the land acquisition law as existing or as hereafter amended...
• Section 2799.
  Every expenditure made pursuant to this chapter shall comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources...
• Section 2799.5.
  Reasonable public access to lands acquired in fee with funds made available pursuant to this chapter shall be provided except when that access may interfere...
• Section 2799.6.
  Only those amounts of money which are transferred to the fund from the General Fund pursuant to Section 2796 may be reappropriated for purposes of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018