California Public Resources Code CHAPTER 3 - Powers and Duties Generally

• Section 6201.
  The commission may from time-to-time classify any or all state land for its different possible uses, and, when it is deemed advisable, may require the...
• Section 6201.5.
  The commission shall prepare a master plan for all school and lieu lands under its jurisdiction. Such plan shall include a recreational element which requires,...
• Section 6202.
  The commission may make surveys and subdivisions of lands belonging to the state to be sold, leased, or to have the boundary established, and the...
• Section 6203.
  On or before the first Monday in March in each year, the commission shall make out and transmit to the assessor of each county where...
• Section 6204.
  The commission shall, when required, survey and mark the boundary lines of counties and cities.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
• Section 6205.
  The commission shall, after the survey of any township by the United States, obtain from the United States Land Office a statement, showing whether or...
• Section 6206.
  The commission shall provide the necessary record books and cause all lists or patents for lands from the United States to be recorded therein.(Added by...
• Section 6206.5.
  The commission is hereby empowered to apply to the United States Department of the Interior for patents to the numbered school sections in place and...
• Section 6207.
  The commission shall keep separate accounts and records in relation to each class of lands to which the State is entitled, which shall show:(a) The number...
• Section 6208.
  The commission shall also keep plats of such lands, upon which all approved locations and surveys shall be designated by their numbers.(Added by Stats. 1941,...
• Section 6209.
  When certificates of purchase or patents are issued, the fact shall be noted on the plats.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
• Section 6210.
  The commission shall represent the State in all contests between it and the United States in relation to public lands.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
• Section 6210.1.
  When the commission desires to take testimony under the provisions of the act of Congress to quiet land titles in California, passed July 23, 1866,...
• Section 6210.2.
  The commission may withdraw from sale any of the public lands belonging to the State and may restore any or all public lands so withdrawn,...
• Section 6210.3.
  The commission may grant easements and rights-of-way to the Department of Transportation to or over any of the public lands of the state for the...
• Section 6210.4.
  No lands owned by the State which lands front upon or are near to any lake, navigable stream or other body of navigable water, convenient...
• Section 6210.4a.
  All conveyances by the State of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, or lands acquired in lieu thereof, or of swamp and overflowed lands shall be...
• Section 6210.5.
  No lands owned by the State, which lands provide the only convenient means of access to other lands owned by the State, shall ever be...
• Section 6210.7.
  The commission may amend or terminate any lease, easement, or contract under its jurisdiction, with the consent of the other party thereto.(Added by renumbering Section...
• Section 6210.8.
  Whenever a navigable river or slough becomes abandoned and is no longer useful for navigation, the commission may sell, for cash, or exchange for lands...
• Section 6210.9.
  If the commission has public land, including school land, tide or submerged lands, and lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries,...
• Section 6211.
  (a) Whenever a parcel of timbered land under the jurisdiction of the commission is totally surrounded by, or is contiguous to, a national forest or a...
• Section 6212.
  (a) Upon appropriation of moneys by the Legislature for the purposes of this section, the commission shall, within two years, administer a coastal hazard and legacy...
• Section 6212.2.
  The commission may, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, issue permits for the taking of cores or other samples by means of...
• Section 6212.3.
  (a) The commission may authorize, by permit, the conduct of geophysical surveys on state lands under its jurisdiction, including granted and ungranted tidelands and submerged lands...
• Section 6213.
  Whenever it appears by final decree of any court of competent jurisdiction that title to any land subject to sale by the State was obtained,...
• Section 6213.5.
  (a) (1) The commission shall consult, and enter into any necessary negotiations, with the owners of the property known as Martins Beach, consisting of two parcels of...
• Section 6214.
  Fees shall be charged and collected by the commission pursuant to its rules and regulations for the following:(a) Certificates of purchase or duplicates thereof,(b) Patents and certified...
• Section 6215.
  As to lands heretofore sold by this State with a reservation to the State of a one-sixteenth interest in the oil and gas or other...
• Section 6216.
  This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the State Lands...
• Section 6216.1.
  The commission may remove or cause to be removed any manmade structures or obstructions from ungranted lands under its jurisdiction if the commission determines that...
• Section 6216.5.
  The commission may prescribe such rules and regulations for the noncommercial hobby collection of minerals from state lands as are in the best interests of...
• Section 6217.
  With the exception of revenue derived from state school lands and from sources described in Sections 6217.6, 6301.5, 6301.6, 6855, and Sections 8551 to 8558,...
• Section 6217.1.
  (a) This section and the process described in this section governs the expenditure of any funds received by the State of California from the federal government...
• Section 6217.2.
  Notwithstanding Section 16304.1 of the Government Code, a disbursement in liquidation of an encumbrance for a project funded pursuant to the Coastal Watershed Salmon Habitat...
• Section 6217.3.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of...
• Section 6217.5.
  Except for the revenues distributed pursuant to Section 3826, all net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the use of school lands and lieu lands shall...
• Section 6217.6.
  All rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission...
• Section 6217.6.1.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:(1) “Account” means the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement Account created pursuant...
• Section 6217.7.
  All net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the sale of school lands and lieu lands shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit...
• Section 6217.8.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “fund” means the Oil Trust Fund established pursuant to subdivision (b).(b) The Oil Trust Fund is hereby established in the State...
• Section 6218.
  The commission may charge and collect reasonable fees for services performed by it, not exceeding the actual cost to the state of such services. In...
• Section 6219.
  The commission may, if it determines it is in the best interests of the state, accept on behalf of the state any gift, devise, grant,...
• Section 6220.
  Whenever authority is not vested in another officer, agency or commission to accept quitclaim deeds on behalf of the State, the authority is vested in...
• Section 6221.
  Any instrumentality, district, agency, or political subdivision of the state occupying or using, pursuant to law, lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction...
• Section 6222.
  No county, city, district, political subdivision, agency or officer of the State shall request or make application to have any lands owned or controlled by...
• Section 6223.
  Applications for purchase, or lease of state lands shall be given the priority of time of filing; except that applications filed by any county, city,...
• Section 6224.
  The commission may adopt rules and regulations which provide for the payment of either a penalty or interest, or both, by any person who fails...
• Section 6224.1.
  Any person who trespasses upon any lands owned or controlled by the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 6224.2.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), any person who appropriates or converts any mineral deposits reserved to, or owned by, the state and under...
• Section 6224.3.
  (a) A person shall not construct, place, maintain, own, use, or possess a structure or facility on land that is under the commission’s jurisdiction and that...
• Section 6224.4.
  (a) Before the commission considers whether to pursue a remedy provided under Section 6224.3, the commission shall first provide a written notice to the person against...
• Section 6224.5.
  (a) If, as of January 1, 2013, a person is in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 6224.3, that person shall not be subject to a...
• Section 6225.
  (a) The commission shall conduct research, investigations, and title searches on the real property in this state of the beaches of Lake Tahoe which is dedicated...

Last modified: October 22, 2018