California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 1 - Organization and General Powers

• Section 600.
  As used in this chapter, “department” means the Department of Conservation and “director” means the Director of Conservation.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
• Section 601.
  There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Conservation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the...
• Section 603.
  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 603.1.
  The director is hereby vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Geologist as Chief of the California Geological Survey...
• Section 604.
  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 605.
  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 606.
  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 607.
  The work of the department shall be divided into at least the following:(a) California Geological Survey.(b) Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources.(c) Division of Land Resource Protection.(d) Division...
• Section 608.
  The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the various divisions of the department federal grants for the purposes...
• Section 609.
  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 610.
  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 611.
  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...
• Section 612.
  The department shall prepare, update, and maintain Important Farmland Series maps as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 65560 of the Government Code and other...
• Section 612.5.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(1) It is in the state’s public interest to have an accurate inventory of the state’s soil...
• Section 613.
  The department, through the California Resources Information System and as budgetary resources permit, may provide informational assistance to local agencies in the development of geobased...
• Section 614.
  (a) In order to implement the soil conservation plan which is adopted by the soil conservation committee, the department shall conduct a study and propose an...
• Section 615.
  Grants awarded by the department, including, but not limited to, those awarded pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 9000), Division 10.2 (commencing with Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018