California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration and Control Generally

• Section 6301.
  The commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the State, and of the beds of navigable rivers, streams, lakes,...
• Section 6301.2.
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1969 for the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of California State Government,...
• Section 6301.5.
  The commission may act in behalf of the State of California pursuant to Section 7 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, an Act of...
• Section 6301.6.
  If any funds are impounded pursuant to Section 6301.5 under the custody and control of the State of California, such impounded funds may be invested...
• Section 6301.7.
  The commission may negotiate with, and with the approval of the Governor may enter into agreements with, the United States, or any official, agency, licensee,...
• Section 6302.
  The commission may eject from any tide and submerged lands, beds of navigable channels, streams, rivers, creeks, lakes, bays, and inlets under its jurisdiction, any...
• Section 6302.1.
  (a) (1) The commission may take immediate action, without notice, to remove from areas under its jurisdiction a vessel that is left unattended and is moored, docked,...
• Section 6302.3.
  (a)  The commission, at a properly noticed commission hearing, may take title to an abandoned vessel subject to disposal pursuant to Section 6302.1 for the...
• Section 6302.4.
  (a) At the request of the commission, an employee or agent of the commission or a peace officer of the federal or state government or a...
• Section 6303.
  The commission may grant the privilege of depositing material upon or removing or extracting material from swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide or submerged lands, beds of...
• Section 6303.1.
  Any person who knowingly and willfully fills, dredges, or reclaims any state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the commission underlying any navigable waters, or who...
• Section 6304.
  The commission may cooperate with the Coastal Engineering Research Board of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and may expend such moneys as are...
• Section 6305.
  The powers granted by this chapter to the commission as to leasing or granting of rights or privileges with relation to the lands owned by...
• Section 6306.
  (a) For purposes of this division, “local trustee of granted public trust lands” means a county, city, or district, including a water, sanitary, regional park, port,...
• Section 6306.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Lands Commission and the City of Los Angeles, acting by and through its Board of Harbor Commissioners,...
• Section 6306.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to mitigate the effects of the project which is the subject of the Department of the Army...
• Section 6307.
  (a) The commission may enter into an exchange, with any person or any private or public entity, of filled or reclaimed tide and submerged lands or...
• Section 6307.1.
  (a) This section applies only to land in which California has a sovereign interest that lies within the boundaries of the State of Arizona and land...
• Section 6308.
  If an action or proceeding is commenced by or against a county, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the state involving the title...
• Section 6309.
  (a) The commission shall administer the Shipwreck and Historic Maritime Resources Program, which consists of the activities of the commission pursuant to this section and Sections...
• Section 6310.
  Whenever tide and submerged lands granted in trust to a county by the Legislature are included within a city’s boundaries as the result of that...
• Section 6311.
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that any grant of tidelands or submerged lands made after January 1, 1971, within...
• Section 6311.5.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:(1) “Local trustee” means a local trustee of granted public trust lands that...
• Section 6312.
  Neither the state, nor any political subdivision thereof, shall take possession of lawful improvements on validly granted or patented tidelands or submerged lands without the...
• Section 6313.
  (a) The title to all abandoned shipwrecks and all archaeological sites and historic resources on or in the tide and submerged lands of California is vested...
• Section 6314.
  (a) A person who removes, without authorization from the commission, or a person who destroys or damages an archaeological site or a historic resource, that is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018