CHAPTER 10. Natural Community Conservation Planning Act
Chapter 10 repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 4, Sec. 2.
§§ 2800–2835 · 19 sections
- § 2800 This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Natural Community Conservation Planning Act.
- § 2801 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The continuing population growth in California will result in increasing demands for dwindling…
- § 2802 The Legislature further finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to conserve, protect, restore, and enhance natural communities. It is the intent…
- § 2805 The definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Adaptive management” means to use the results of new information gathered through…
- § 2809 Any person, or any local, state, or federal agency, independently, or in cooperation with other persons, may undertake natural community conservation planning.
- § 2810 (a) The department may enter into an agreement with any person or public entity for the purpose of preparing a natural community conservation plan, in…
- § 2815 The department shall establish, in cooperation with the parties to the planning agreement, a process for public participation throughout plan development and…
- § 2820 (a) The department shall approve a natural community conservation plan for implementation after making the following findings, based upon substantial evidence…
- § 2821 Concurrent with the approval by the department of a final natural community conservation plan, the department shall do both of the following: (a) Establish a…
- § 2822 The department may seek injunctive relief against any plan participant, person, or entity to enforce this chapter.
- § 2823 The department shall suspend or revoke any permit, in whole or in part, issued for the take of a species subject to Section 2835 if the continued take of the…
- § 2825 The department may adopt regulations for the development and implementation of natural community conservation plans consistent with this chapter.
- § 2826 Nothing in this chapter exempts a project proposed in a natural community conservation planning area from Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the…
- § 2827 To the extent practicable, implementation of natural community conservation plans shall use the services of either the California Conservation Corps or local…
- § 2828 Nothing in this chapter prohibits a local government from exercising any power or authority granted to it pursuant to state law to acquire land or water to…
- § 2829 (a) The department may be compensated for the actual costs incurred in participating in the preparation and implementation of natural community conservation…
- § 2830 Nothing in this chapter prohibits the taking or the incidental take of any identified species if the taking is authorized by the department pursuant to any of…
- § 2831 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, lands designated as of January 1, 2013, as open-space lands in a document entitled “Declaration of the…
- § 2835 At the time of plan approval, the department may authorize by permit the taking of any covered species, including species designated as fully protected species…