California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 1 - Organization and General Powers

• Section 500.
  As used in this chapter, “department” means the Department of Parks and Recreation and “director” means the Director of Parks and Recreation.(Added by Stats. 1965,...
• Section 501.
  There is in the Resources Agency, the Department of Parks and Recreation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known...
• Section 503.
  The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural Resources or...
• Section 504.
  The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration...
• Section 505.
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal,...
• Section 506.
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director. The director...
• Section 507.
  There shall be one Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and...
• Section 507.1.
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor in the manner he deems necessary to segregate...
• Section 508.
  The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the department federal grants for the purposes for which the department...
• Section 508.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 14, or any other provision of law, the City and County of San Francisco shall be considered both a city and a county...
• Section 509.
  Whenever the department has received and deposited any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund in an excessive amount or...
• Section 510.
  The department may adopt, alter, change or amend any state master plan of shoreline development.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
• Section 511.
  The department, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may procure insurance on vessels owned or operated by the department against the usual...
• Section 512.
  For the purpose of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the department may issue publications, construct and maintain exhibits, and perform...
• Section 513.
  (a) The department, as a means of furthering the interpretive and educational functions of the state park system, may enter into an agreement to act cooperatively...
• Section 513.1.
  The department may provide space and facilities for schools to use for environmental education purposes within units of the state park system.(Added by Stats. 1972,...
• Section 514.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018