CHAPTER 4. Conservation Easements [815. - 816.]

Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 179.

§§ 815–816 · 10 sections

• § 815 The Legislature finds and declares that the preservation of land in its natural, scenic, agricultural, historical, forested, or open-space condition is among…
• § 815.1 For the purposes of this chapter, “conservation easement” means any limitation in a deed, will, or other instrument in the form of an easement, restriction,…
• § 815.2 (a) A conservation easement is an interest in real property voluntarily created and freely transferable in whole or in part for the purposes stated in Section…
• § 815.3 Only the following entities or organizations may acquire and hold conservation easements: (a) A tax-exempt nonprofit organization qualified under Section…
• § 815.4 All interests not transferred and conveyed by the instrument creating the easement shall remain in the grantor of the easement, including the right to engage…
• § 815.5 Instruments creating, assigning, or otherwise transferring conservation easements shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where…
• § 815.7 (a) No conservation easement shall be unenforceable by reason of lack of privity of contract or lack of benefit to particular land or because not expressed in…
• § 815.9 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or conflict with the operation of any law or statute conferring upon any political subdivision the right…
• § 815.10 A conservation easement granted pursuant to this chapter constitutes an enforceable restriction, for purposes of Section 402.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
• § 816 The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate the policy and purpose of Section 815.