California Harbors and Navigation Code ARTICLE 1 - General

• Section 6290.
  A district created under this part is a public corporation created for municipal purposes.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6291.
  It has perpetual succession.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6292.
  It may sue and be sued.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6293.
  It may adopt a seal.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6294.
  It may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease or otherwise acquire and hold and enjoy, and lease or dispose of, real and personal...
• Section 6295.
  A district may acquire, purchase, takeover, construct, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate wharves, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, bunkering facilities, belt railroads, floating plants, lighterage, lands,...
• Section 6296.
  It may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to carry out any of the objects or purposes of the district.(Amended...
• Section 6297.
  It may incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness for its purposes.If any bonds issued for port improvement purposes by any part...
• Section 6298.
  It may levy and collect or cause to be levied or collected taxes as in this part provided.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6299.
  It has exclusive jurisdiction over, and it may provide for and supervise pilots and the pilotage of sea-going vessels from the end of jurisdiction of...
• Section 6300.
  It may contribute money to the Federal or the State Government or to the county in which it is located or to any city within...
• Section 6301.
  A district may do any work or make any improvement within or without the territorial limits of the district, which will aid in the development...
• Section 6302.
  A district may enact necessary police regulations providing for control of any waterway project of the United States, entering the district, and adopt rules and...
• Section 6302.5.
  (a) This section is applicable only within the Santa Cruz Port District. The Legislature finds and declares that this section is necessary to meet a serious...
• Section 6303.
  A district may provide for the opening and laying out of streets leading to the waterfront.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 21.)
• Section 6304.
  A district may regulate and control the construction, maintenance, and operation or use of all wharves, warehouses, structures, improvements, or appliances used in connection with...
• Section 6304.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any port district which has received, or is receiving, money pursuant to the provisions of Division 1 (commencing with...
• Section 6305.
  It may fix, regulate and collect the rates or charges for the use of wharves, warehouses, vessels, railroads and other facilities, structures and appliances owned,...
• Section 6306.
  It may lay out, plan and establish the general plan and system of harbor and harbor district improvements and modify the plan and prescribe the...
• Section 6307.
  It may perform the functions of warehousemen, stevedores, lighterers, reconditioners, shippers and reshippers of properties of all kinds.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 6308.
  It may manage the business of the district and promote the maritime and commercial interests by proper advertisement of its advantages, and by the solicitation...
• Section 6309.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 660, the board may adopt all ordinances necessary for the regulation of the district with respect to the parking...
• Section 6309.2.
  Before any ordinance may be adopted, the ordinance shall be published in its entirety on three separate occasions in a newspaper of general circulation published...
• Section 6309.4.
  Every person who violates any of the provisions of a district ordinance adopted pursuant to Sections 6309 and 6309.2 is guilty of an infraction and...
• Section 6309.6.
  The district’s manager, harbormaster or wharfinger, or any duly authorized representative of one of these persons, shall have the power to issue citations for violation...
• Section 6310.
  Notwithstanding the enumeration and specific statement herein of particular powers, the district may do and perform all acts and things necessary and appropriate to carry...
• Section 6311.
  Upon a four-fifths vote of all the members of the board, it may issue negotiable promissory notes bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding...

Last modified: October 22, 2018