California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 2 - Swamp and Overflowed Lands Sold Prior to September 19, 1939

• Section 7521.
  The swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the State were sold prior to September 19, 1939, at the rate of one dollar ($1) an acre....
• Section 7522.
  The commission shall not approve any application nor issue evidence of title for swamp and overflowed land, until six months after the land has been...
• Section 7523.
  No claim shall be made by the State to any land as swamp or overflowed, which has not been returned as such by the United...
• Section 7524.
  Any person desiring to purchase swamp and overflowed lands shall make an affidavit and file it in the office of the commission, that he is...
• Section 7525.
  Any false statement contained in the affidavit defeats the right of the applicant to purchase the land, or to receive any evidence of title thereto,...
• Section 7526.
  If at any time after such affidavit is filed in the office of the commission, and prior to the issuance of a patent for the...
• Section 7527.
  Within 30 days from the date of such order of reference, the party filing the affidavit raising such questions shall commence, in such court, an...
• Section 7528.
  If upon the trial of such action it appears that any of the statements made in the affidavit filed by the person desiring to purchase...
• Section 7529.
  Upon the filing with the commission of a copy of the final judgment of the court, the commission shall, if the judgment of the court...
• Section 7530.
  Any person desiring to purchase lands, as provided in this article, which have been segregated by authority of the United States, but which have not...
• Section 7531.
  All payments shall be made by the purchaser to the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated. The treasurer shall receive...
• Section 7532.
  Upon the first day of July of each year the county treasurer shall prepare a report showing all moneys received for swamp and overflowed and...
• Section 7533.
  These reports shall be forwarded to the commission, and upon receipt thereof the commission shall enter the payment so reported to the credit of the...
• Section 7534.
  The county treasurer shall retain all money arising from the sale of swamp and overflowed lands and place it to the credit of a separate...
• Section 7535.
  If a reclamation district is organized in any county, the board of supervisors of each county in which any portion of the lands of the...
• Section 7536.
  If any expenses pertaining to land in a reclamation district have been paid from the county swamp-land fund including expenses for attorney’s fees in the...
• Section 7537.
  Sections 7535 and 7536 do not apply to districts upon which controller’s warrants are outstanding, until after all of the warrants are paid.(Added by Stats....

Last modified: October 22, 2018