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CHAPTER 1. Refuges and Other Protected Areas [10500. - 10741.]

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.

§§ 10500–10741 · 49 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 10500–10514 · 20 sections
    • § 10500 Except under a permit or specific authorization, it is unlawful to do any of the following: (a) To take or possess a bird or mammal in a game refuge. (b) To…
    • § 10501 Before the commission opens any game refuge for the taking of deer, a public hearing shall be held at which at least one member of the commission shall be in…
    • § 10501.5 (a) It is unlawful to fly any aircraft, including any airplane or helicopter, less than 3,000 feet above water or land over the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, and…
    • § 10502 The commission may: (a) Exercise control over all mammals and birds in a game refuge, and exercise control over all fish in a fish refuge. (b) Authorize the…
    • § 10502.5 The director may appoint the Director of the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge. The Director of the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge may issue a permit to any person under…
    • § 10502.6 (a) The director may appoint a Director of the Dana Point Marine Life Refuge. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no state funds, including, but…
    • § 10502.7 (a) The director may appoint the Director of the Bodega Marine Life Refuge. (b) The Director of the Bodega Marine Life Refuge may authorize any person to enter…
    • § 10502.8 (a) The director may appoint the Director of the Catalina Marine Science Center Marine Life Refuge. (b) The Director of the Catalina Marine Science Center…
    • § 10503 For the purposes of propagating, feeding, and protecting birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, the commission may do all of the following: (a)…
    • § 10504 Any property acquired for game refuges shall be acquired in the name of the State, and shall, at all times, be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed…
    • § 10505 The department shall do all things necessary to secure a valid title in the State to the property acquired for game refuges, but no payment shall be made…
    • § 10506 Nothing in this code prohibits the possession of firearms, BB devices as defined in Section 16250 of the Penal Code, crossbows and bolts, or bows and arrows by…
    • § 10507 It is lawful for a person who has given the notice provided for in Section 10506 to transport a bird or mammal through a game refuge, if lawfully taken outside…
    • § 10508 The department and the district attorney, sheriff, and all peace officers of the county in which any refuge or part thereof is situated, shall enforce all of…
    • § 10509 Any refuge designated as a “fish and game refuge” shall be considered, for the purposes of this division, as both a game refuge and a fish refuge.
    • § 10510 No specification of an open season in any area authorizes the taking of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, or reptile from a refuge within that area from which…
    • § 10511 Except as they may conflict with refuge provisions, the provisions of this code relating to a particular fish and game district shall apply to each refuge…
    • § 10512 The department shall cause to be prepared suitable notices to be posted under its direction on each state game refuge, containing a warning to all persons to…
    • § 10513 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing a person from taking a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, or reptile from or on navigable…
    • § 10514 All state game refuges shall, for all purposes of protecting birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, or reptiles thereon, be under the control and management of the…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Special Provisions for Given Areas §§ 10650–10667 · 20 sections
    • § 10650 In Mt. Tamalpais Game Refuge, the lawful occupant of privately owned land, or the employees of such occupant, may take on such lands, predatory, or destructive…
    • § 10651 In the Mt. Tamalpais Game Refuge firearms may be possessed and used by members of any high school militia while on the grounds of the high school at which time…
    • § 10652 In the Mt. Tamalpais Game Refuge, no threatened, endangered, or fully-protected birds or mammals may be taken under any permit issued by the department. Except…
    • § 10653 In the San Francisco Fish and Game Refuge, birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles legally possessed may be carried openly by persons traveling through…
    • § 10654 Nothing in this division prevents the full use of the land included in the San Francisco Fish and Game Refuge for water supply purposes, nor prohibits any…
    • § 10655 (a) A person involved in oceanographic and scientific research in and around Santa Catalina Island may be authorized by the Director of the Catalina Marine…
    • § 10655.5 (a) Except as expressly provided in this division, it is unlawful to enter the Catalina Marine Science Center Marine Life Refuge for the purpose of taking or…
    • § 10656 (a) Except as expressly provided in this division, it is unlawful to enter the Bodega Marine Life Refuge for the purpose of taking or possessing any fish,…
    • § 10657 (a) A person may be permitted by the Director of the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge to enter the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge under a permit. (b) The Director of the…
    • § 10657.5 Except as expressly provided in this division, it is unlawful to enter the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge for the purpose of taking or possessing any fish or…
    • § 10658 In the San Diego Marine Life Refuge, licensees of the Regents of the University of California and all officers, employees, and students of such university may…
    • § 10659 In the California Sea Otter Game Refuge, the lawful occupant of privately owned land, or the employees of such occupant, may possess firearms and traps and may…
    • § 10660 (a) In the Pacific Grove Marine Gardens Fish Refuge, fish, other than mollusks and crustaceans, may be taken under the authority of a sport fishing license as…
    • § 10661 In the Bodega Marine Life Refuge, licensees of the Regents of the University of California and all officers, employees, and students of such university may…
    • § 10662 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, it shall be unlawful for any person to fire a firearm, but it shall not be unlawful to possess a firearm, in…
    • § 10663 In Fish and Game Refuge 4-D the lawful occupant of privately owned lands or the employees of such occupants may possess firearms without a permit.
    • § 10664 In the Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Point Fermin, South Laguna Beach, Niguel, Irvine Coast, and Doheny Beach Marine Life Refuges, the following fish, mollusks,…
    • § 10665 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in the Johnsville Game Refuge it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge a firearm or other device…
    • § 10666 In the James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, the following fish and mollusks may be taken under the authority of a sport fishing license as authorized by this…
    • § 10667 (a) In the Dana Point Marine Life Refuge below the intertidal zone, the following fish, mollusks, and crustaceans may be taken under the authority of a…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Federal Bird Reservations §§ 10680–10685 · 6 sections
    • § 10680 The people of the State, through their legislative authority, accept the provisions and benefits of the act of Congress known as the “Migratory Bird…
    • § 10681 Prior to such approval by the commission, the legislative body of the county concerned shall have given its written consent to the commission for the proposed…
    • § 10682 If in any year, on lands hereafter acquired, the in lieu payments from the United States to the county, pursuant to the provisions of law, do not equal the…
    • § 10683 The consent of the State to the acquisition by the United States of land, water, or land and water for migratory bird reservations in accordance with this…
    • § 10684 The consent contained in Section 10680 continues only so long as the property continues to belong to the United States and is held by it in accordance and in…
    • § 10685 With the approval of the commission, the people of the State, through their legislative authority, also consent to the declaration, withdrawal, or…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Clam Refuges § 10711 · 1 section
    • § 10711 The commission may close for the taking of clams not less than eight land miles of pismo clam bearing beaches within San Luis Obispo County as a clam refuge,…
  5. ARTICLE 5. Wilderness Areas §§ 10740–10741 · 2 sections
    • § 10740 It is unlawful for any person other than a legally constituted peace officer or officer or employee of the Forest Service of the United States Department of…
    • § 10741 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), nothing in this article prohibits access by a person over a road or trail, in an area described in Section 10740, to…