ARTICLE 1. Generally

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

§§ 700–715 · 26 sections

§ 700 (a) There is in the Natural Resources Agency a Department of Fish and Wildlife administered through the director. (b) The Department of Fish and Wildlife shall…
§ 701 The director shall be appointed by the Governor, and receive the annual salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing at Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3…
§ 701.3 There shall be one deputy director of the department who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and serve at the pleasure of…
§ 701.5 The director or one or more of his designees may accept the office of director or alternate director of an entity established by a joint powers agreement…
§ 702 This code shall be administered and enforced through regulations adopted only by the department, except as otherwise specifically provided by this code or…
§ 702.1 (a) The department, on or before January 1, 2016, shall prepare and submit to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a feasibility study…
§ 703 (a) General policies for the conduct of the department shall be formulated by the commission. The director shall be guided by those policies and shall be…
§ 703.3 It is the policy of the state that the department and commission use ecosystem-based management informed by credible science in all resource management…
§ 703.5 It is the policy of the state as follows: (a) That the department and the commission seek to create, foster, and actively participate in effective partnerships…
§ 704 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director is the appointing power of all employees within the department, and all employees in the…
§ 705 (a) For purposes of this section, “eligible renewable energy resources” has the same meaning as in the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program…
§ 706 The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code shall govern and apply to the conduct of…
§ 707 It is the duty of the attorney for the department to act as counsel in defense of any officer or deputy of the department in any suit for damages brought…
§ 709 A nonprofit organization designated by the department to assist in the sale of deer, elk, antelope, or bighorn sheep fundraising tags that are sold on behalf…
§ 710 The Legislature finds and declares that the department has in the past not been adequately funded to meet its mandates. The principal causes have been the…
§ 710.5 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department continues to be inadequately funded to meet its mandates. While revenues have been declining, the…
§ 710.7 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The department continues to face serious funding instability due to revenue declines from…
§ 711 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure adequate funding from appropriate sources for the department. To this end, the Legislature finds and declares…
§ 711.1 (a) The expenditure of all federal grant moneys made available to the state pursuant to the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 669 et…
§ 711.2 (a) For purposes of this code, unless the context otherwise requires, “project” has the same meaning as defined in Section 21065 of the Public Resources Code.…
§ 711.4 (a) The department shall impose and collect a filing fee in the amount prescribed in subdivision (d) to defray the costs of managing and protecting fish and…
§ 711.7 (a) The fish and wildlife resources are held in trust for the people of the state by and through the department. (1) Insofar as state wildlife trust resources…
§ 712 It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Finance shall include in the Governor’s Budget sufficient moneys from the General Fund and sources…
§ 712.1 (a) (1) The department’s mission is to manage California’s diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their…
§ 713 (a) The changes in the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services, as published by the United States Department of…
§ 715 (a) The director, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, shall establish a formal program, which may be called the Science Institute, to assist the…