CHAPTER 3. Open-Space Subventions [16140. - 16154.]
Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1066.
§§ 16140–16154 · 12 sections
- § 16140 There is hereby continuously appropriated to the Controller from the General Fund a sum sufficient to make the payments required by this chapter. The payments…
- § 16141 It is the purpose of this chapter to provide replacement revenues to local government by reason of the reduction of the property tax on open-space lands…
- § 16142 (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall direct the Controller to pay annually out of the funds appropriated by Section 16140, to each eligible…
- § 16142.1 (a) In lieu of the payments made pursuant to Section 16142, in a county that has adopted farmland security zones pursuant to Section 51296, the Secretary of…
- § 16142.5 (a) For the fiscal year 1977–78, no payment to a city or county shall increase or reduce the amount which would have been paid to the city or county under the…
- § 16143 Land shall be deemed to be devoted to open-space uses of statewide significance if it: (a) Could be developed as prime agricultural land, or (b) Is open-space…
- § 16144 On or before October 31 each year, the governing body of each county, city, or city and county shall report to the Secretary of the Resources Agency the number…
- § 16145 Funds received by local governments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for county, city, or city and county purposes, as the case may be,…
- § 16146 The Secretary of the Resources Agency may determine, after notice and hearing, that a local government is ineligible to receive state payments pursuant to this…
- § 16147 The Secretary of the Resources Agency may request the Attorney General to bring any action in court necessary to enforce any enforceable restriction as defined…
- § 16148 Zero dollars ($0) is appropriated for the 2010–11 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Controller to make subvention payments to counties pursuant to…
- § 16154 In addition to the report required by Section 16144, the Secretary of the Resources Agency shall require from local government agencies such other information…