California Government Code CHAPTER 3 - Open-Space Subventions

• Section 16140.
  There is hereby continuously appropriated to the Controller from the General Fund a sum sufficient to make the payments required by this chapter.The payments provided...
• Section 16141.
  It is the purpose of this chapter to provide replacement revenues to local government by reason of the reduction of the property tax on open-space...
• Section 16142.
  (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall direct the Controller to pay annually out of the funds appropriated by Section 16140, to each eligible...
• Section 16142.1.
  (a) In lieu of the payments made pursuant to Section 16142, in a county that has adopted farmland security zones pursuant to Section 51296, the Secretary...
• Section 16142.5.
  (a) For the fiscal year 1977–78, no payment to a city or county shall increase or reduce the amount which would have been paid to the...
• Section 16143.
  Land shall be deemed to be devoted to open-space uses of statewide significance if it:(a) Could be developed as prime agricultural land, or(b) Is open-space land as...
• Section 16144.
  On or before October 31 each year, the governing body of each county, city, or city and county shall report to the Secretary of the...
• Section 16145.
  Funds received by local governments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for county, city, or city and county purposes, as the...
• Section 16146.
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency may determine, after notice and hearing, that a local government is ineligible to receive state payments pursuant to this...
• Section 16147.
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency may request the Attorney General to bring any action in court necessary to enforce any enforceable restriction as defined...
• Section 16148.
  Zero dollars ($0) is appropriated for the 2010–11 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Controller to make subvention payments to counties pursuant to...
• Section 16154.
  In addition to the report required by Section 16144, the Secretary of the Resources Agency shall require from local government agencies such other information relative...

Last modified: October 22, 2018